Dear Parent/Carer,

We are writing to inform you of a vacancy for the role of parent local governor on our Local Governing Body (LGB).

The role of the LGB

The school’s LGB is responsible for providing confident and strategic leadership, and creating robust accountability, oversight and assurance for the school’s educational and financial performance. The LGB is passionate about education and committed to continuous school improvement to ensure the best possible outcomes for our pupils.

The role of a parent local governor

As a parent local governor, you’ll work with the LGB to ensure it effectively carries out the duties referred to above. You’ll also play a vital role in ensuring that the LGB is connected with, and is aware of the views of, parents and the local community.

To be a parent local governor you should have:

• A strong commitment to the role and to improving outcomes for children.
• Good inter-personal skills, curiosity, and a willingness to learn and develop new skills.
• The specific skills required to ensure the governing board delivers effective governance.

Being a parent local governor can be demanding but very rewarding.  All local governors serve a three-year term of office and under usual circumstances, can expect to spend between 10 and 20 days a year on governance duties.  These include:

• attending meetings of the LGB, usually outside of school hours and contributing to LGB business;
• reading reports and papers and keeping up to date on the progress that the school is making; and
• visiting the school from time to time during the school day.

You will have to undergo a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and sign the local governors’ Code of Conduct.  A copy of the Code of Conduct, Role Description and more information about the LGB can be found on LGB’s pages of the school’s website.

We have a supportive induction process which will enable a period of settling into the role.

How to apply

If you’re interested in applying for the role, please email the Governance Professional, Carole Warner by email by 10am Friday 15th December  (carole.warner@318education.co.uk).

You should also include a personal statement (approximate 250 words) to support your application.  We encourage candidates to be succinct when setting out the skills, experience and attributes that they can bring to the LGB to support their application. Nominations of other parents will be accepted, but please seek their prior consent.

Applications/nominations can only be accepted from parents or carers who have children registered at the school on the day that nominations close. If we receive more applications/nominations than there are vacancies, an election will be carried out. We will inform you after the nomination deadline if we have to do this.

If you have any queries about this process or would like to find out more about the role, please contact the Chair of the LGB Mr Dave Jones (dave.jones@318education.co.uk) or the Headteacher, Mr Tom Larkham

Yours sincerely,

Mr Dave Jones                                                      Mr Tom Larkham

Chair of LGB                                                               Headteacher

COLEHAM VOICES CHILDREN ONLY 

We have been invited to sing at two events coming up.

Tuesday 5^th December at Hickory’s Restaurant

We will rehearse after school on Tuesday 5th December and staff will walk to Hickory’s Restaurant in town for a 5.30pm performance.   Our singing slot will be approx. 25mins. You are most welcome to come along as a customer in the bar area and support us.  If your child is attending an ADULT MUST COLLECT YOUR CHILD FROM HICKORYS AT 6 O CLOCK. The children should wear school uniform but Christmas hat/accessories would be great!

Consent Form

Parent/Carer Name…………………………………………………………………………………………….

Child Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

My child will be attending the Hickory’s Event and an Adult will collect them at 6:00pm.

Friday 15^th December at St. Alkmund’s Church Concert

We have been invited to take part in a Christmas concert at St. Alkmund’s Church in town SY1 1UL with Shrewsbury’s Phoenix Singers.

You will need to bring your child to St Alkmunds Church at 5pm for a quick rehearsal, the concert starts at 6pm and will last approx. 1 hour.

If you would like to attend the concert please purchase tickets from the website below:

www.phoenixsingersshrewsbury.co.uk/concerts

If your child is attending an ADULT MUST COLLECT YOUR CHILD FROM ST ALKMUNDS AT 8 O CLOCK.

The children need to be in smart school uniform. This is the last day of term, but a lovely way to celebrate the start of the holidays!

Consent Form

Parent/Carer Name…………………………………………………………………………………………….

Child Name………………………………………………………………………………………………………….

My child will be attending the St Alkmunds Concert and an Adult will collect them at 7:00pm.

Dear Parents/Carers,

The 3-18 Education Trust have created a Parent/Carer Survey for all schools in our trust and they would very much like the views of all parents and carers.  This is a multiple choice, anonymous survey.

It is important that we have a good response rate to collate as many views as possible.

We really hope that all our Parent/Carers can complete this survey-it should only take a couple of minutes of your time.

Please complete the survey below:

TRUST PARENT/CARER SURVEY

Here at Coleham we are always keen to know what we are doing well, and always keen to see where we can improve every aspect of provision.  We would like to give you an opportunity to share more detailed, quality feedback for our School.  There are 2 boxes on the form below: What do we do really well? and What could we improve?

Please complete the survey below:

COLEHAM PARENT/CARER FEEDBACK

The surveys close on Monday 4th December.

We will of course, share the results with you all in the New Year.

Kind Regards,

Tom Larkham

Headteacher