Governance

Welcome

Welcome to the Governors section of the John Ball School Website. This is the place you’ll find useful documents about national and local education policy as it relates to our meetings and the decisions we take. You can also find out a bit more about who we are and what we do by following the various links.

The John Ball Governors work together as an executive board to support the school. The governors provide a range of skills and professional experience which are deployed to address the needs of the school in both the short and longer term.

We will endeavour to communicate effectively with parents, and to improve information sharing between us and with others in the school community. We are committed to publishing our meeting minutes, and discussion papers where these are appropriate for sharing.

Please feel free to take a look around, and if you want to talk to any of us about what you’ve read, do feel free to contact me through the school office.  

Nina Hodges

Chair of Governors

What does the Governing Body do and who are the Governors?

Our governing body is established to oversee the running, management and leadership of our school.             

Our governing body includes:

• governors appointed by Lewisham Council
• the Headteacher
• teacher/support staff governors
• community or co-opted governors
• parent governors

Parent governors are elected by the parents of our school and normally serve for four years. Staff governors are elected by staff and normally serve for four years. Co-opted governors are invited onto the governing body, by the governing body, to add areas of expertise and to represent the local community.

The governing body is responsible for many important decisions in the running of the school. These include:

• appointing the Senior Leadership Team and the teaching staff
• agreeing the aims of the school curriculum and ensuring the national curriculum is implemented
• determining how the school’s budget is to be used each year
• deciding how sex education and religious education should be taught in the school
• producing the school prospectus
• deciding what charges should be made for activities outside normal school hours
• dealing with official complaints and exclusions

Governors 2022/2023

Chair: Nina Hodges
Vice Chair: Emma Smillie
Clerk to Governors: Hope Francis
Headteacher: Jacqui Noakes
Barbara Durkin
Nanisha Mitchell
Aoine Wilson
Katie Wampler
Dana Pinto
Lucie Spurr

You can contact the governing body by writing to the Chair of Governors via the school office or by writing to the Clerk to Governors on hope.francis@lewisham.gov.uk.  Our governors are pleased to hear about thoughts, ideas and issues that staff and parents would like discussed by the governing body.  Individual governors can be contacted via the school office.

Full governing body meetings are held once a term in the evening. The agenda for the meeting includes items from the Local Authority, directives and initiatives from the Government and school-based concerns.

REGISTER OF INTERESTS – 2022/2023

GOVERNORS’ ATTENDANCE AT GOVERNING BODY MEETINGS 2021/2022

Key: P= present        A= apologies received

COMMITTEE MEETINGS 2021/2022

Personnel, Co-ordinating and Finance

Curriculum and Standards

MEETING MINUTES

Minutes can be obtained by the school office in both electronic and printed copy.  Please email admin@johnball.lewisham.sch.uk or call 0208 852 1601 where the team will be able to support you. 

If you have any questions about items covered in the minutes, please contact the Chair of Governors, Nina Hodges