The Governing Body of Buckland Primary School is responsible for holding the Head Teacher to account and ensuring that the school has a key focus on delivering the best possible outcomes for all of our children.  We are made up of 11 volunteers from many different backgrounds, all actively dedicated to ensuring excellent outcomes for the children that attend Buckland Primary School.

As you will see from this website, our school is a successful and happy place, where everyone is an active learner.

School Governors make collective decisions as part of the Governing Body, the main function of which is to ‘help raise the educational standards and performance of the school by supporting the work of the Headteacher and staff’.

Governors make important decisions on how the school is and will be run, but don’t get involved in the day to day business of the school – this is the work of the leadership team and the staff.

Our  Governing Body

David Chowings – Vice Chair of Governors and Parent Governor

Rebecca Hutton – Headteacher, Staff Governor

Graeme Ross – LA Governor

Diane Purchase – Co-opted Governor 

Rebecca Simpson – Co-opted Governor

Sion Davies- Co-opted Governor

Keith Willshire – Parent Governor

Melissa Sincock – Parent Governor

William Turner – Staff Governor

Peter De Leonardis – Deputy Head, Associate Governor with no voting rights

Governors Work

Our school governors are responsible for and committed to ensuring that the school provides high quality education. They carry out 3 key functions:

• Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction
• Holding the Headteacher to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils
• Overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent

The size of a governing body varies from school to school. Buckland’s governing body consists of a team of 11 members, who come from variety of professional backgrounds and who represent the parents, staff, business expertise and the local community. Our governors are all volunteers.

They meet half termly as a whole governing body and also in smaller working parties that focus on key areas like finance and curriculum. They regularly visit school outside of meetings and governors can always be found at the school’s social.

Should you wish to contact the Governing Body you can do so easily directly via the school (please address your letter to the Chair of Governors) or via email to: info@bucklandprimary.surrey.sch.uk

Governors are part of the biggest volunteer force in the UK – there are 300,000! 

How to become a Governor

If you think you have what it takes to be a school governor there are a number of ways of finding schools that have vacancies:

• You can contact your local school to ask if they need a new governor.
• You can contact the School Governors’ One Stop Shop, which recruits Governors nationally.
• You can contact your local council.

Schools financial benchmarking

You can view your school or academy trust’s financial data, see how it compares with others.  Please click on this link to compare a school or trust’s income and expenditure with similar establishments in England.  

If you have a concern about our school or would like advice who to contact outside of the Headteacher or the Governing Body, please click on the links below