Governors

The Governing Board

What does the Governing Board do?

The governing board operates at a strategic level, leaving the school’s senior leadership responsible and accountable for the operational day-today running of the School.

The core strategic functions, as a Governing Board are:

Ensuring clarity of Catholic vision, ethos and strategic direction.
Holding the senior leadership to account for the educational performance and

Catholic character of the School and its pupils; and for the internal organisation, management and control of the School including performance management of staff; and

Overseeing the financial performance of the School and making sure its money is well spent.

The Governing Board at St Margaret Mary’s has twelve members all of whom bring a wide range professional and personal experience to support the work of the school. The board consists of seven foundation governors who are appointed by the Diocese of Salford, two parent governors elected by the parent body, one staff member elected by the staff, a local authority governor nominated by Manchester LA and the headteacher.

In addition to broaden the expertise of the Governing Body there are two associate governors.

The members of Governing Board for 2021/22 are shown below.

Name	Type	Appointed by	Term of office	Role	Additional governance roles
Angela Ager	Foundation	Diocese of Salford	01/09/19 -31/8/23	Chair Pay, HT PM Admissions	Chair of Directors at Romero CAT
Margaret Dolan	Foundation	Diocese of Salford	01/09/19 -31/8/23	Vice Chair, Pay, HT PM Admissions
Emma Doyle	Staff	Staff	09/11/18-08/11/22
Mary Gilmartin	Foundation	Diocese of Salford	01/09/20-31/08/24
Pauline Hamilton	Foundation	Diocese of Salford	01/09/19 -31/8/23	Pay, HT PM Admissions
Myra Knutton	LA	Manchester LA	08/12/20-07/12/24
Fr Andrew Starkie	Foundation	Diocese of Salford	01/09/20-31/08/24
Matt Sutton	Headteacher	Ex officio	01/09/15
David Holland	Parent	Elected by parent body	12/4/22- 11/4/26
Yvonne Ughulu	Foundation	Diocese of Salford	5/4/22-4/4/26

Donna Blackwell and Rachel Walsh. Associate Governors are appointed for one year at a time.

Currently (April 2022), there is a parent governor vacancy and a foundation governor vacancy.

During 2021/22, the governing board has decided that it will meet a minimum of seven times in the year as a full board.

There are separate committees for pay, headteacher’s performance and admissions which each meet annually to deal with these matters.

Governors who left the board in 2021/22

Lindsey Doherty

Debbie Prince

Attendance at Meetings 2020/21

At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, meetings moved to a virtual setting and the governors met as a full group from then until the end of the year. They continued with this for 2021/22.

		Full Governing Board
Name	Type	09/09/2020	14/10/2020	08/12/2020	04/02/2021	17/03/2021	13/05/2021	29/06/2021	15/07/2021
Angela Ager	Foundation	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Donna Blackwell	Parent	P	P	A	A	P	P	P	P
Gerard Broughton	Associate	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Lyndsay Docherty	Foundation	N	N	N	N	N	N	N	N
Margaret Dolan	Foundation	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Emma Doyle	Staff	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Mary Gilmartin	Foundation	P	P	P	P	A	P	P	P
Pauline Hamilton	Foundation	P	P	P	A	A	A	P	P
Myra Knutton	LA	P	N	P	P	A	P	P	P
Debbie Prince	Parent	P	P	A	P	P	P	P	P
Fr Andrew Starkie	Foundation	P	P	P	P	A	P	P	A
Matt Sutton	Headteacher	P	P	P	P	P	P	P	P
Rachel Walsh	Foundation	P	A	A	A	N	P	P	P

Legend

P – present, A – Apologies received, N not present.

Governors who left the board in 2020/21

Gerard Broughton

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