Meet the Governors

Brookland Schools' Governors
Creating opportunities, supporting aspiration, striving for excellence

The Role of the Governing Body

The role of the governing body is to support the Headteacher and staff in ensuring that our children receive a high standard of education in a supportive and inclusive environment. In practical terms this means making decisions with regard to a wide range of policies and tracking the progress and direction taken by the schools. The actual day to day running of the school is the responsibility of our headteacher. The full governing body meets twice a term in addition to which all governors are attached to a number of subcommittees which meet one to three times a year.

The main committees are:

Communication and Community Engagement
Curriculum
Finance
Personnel
Premises, Health and Safety
Safeguarding and Personal Development
Strategic (which is made up of all chairs of all other committees)

Brookland Schools’ Governing Body

At Brookland there is one federated (combined) governing body for both the Infant and Junior schools. It is made up of four staff governors (three of who are co-opted); the two head teachers; six parent governors, three from the Infant and Nursery School and three from the Junior School; one local authority governors and five additional co-opted governors. From time to time we may also appoint associate governors to perform specific roles or functions e.g. finance or data analysis.

A photograph sheet of our current governors can be found in each of the playground noticeboards.

Should you wish to contact any of them, please do so via the school office or, in the case of parent governors, feel free to approach them in the playground.

For information on becoming a School Governor, please read the Welcome Pack for New Governors (see link at foot of this page).

List of Current Governors

Below is a list of current governors at Brookland:

Name	Category of Governor	Appointed By	Date of appointment	Term of Office Ends	Committees
Sapna Shah	Local Authority (Vice Chair)	London Borough of Barnet	15/03/2016	15/03/2020	Curriculum, Finance (Chair), Personnel, HT performance
Laura Pincus	Parent (Chair)	Infant Parents	20/04/2016	20/04/2020	HT performance Finance, Safeguarding
James Clare	Co-opted	Governing Body	27/09/2018	27/09/2022	Curriculum, Finance, Personnel (Chair), HT performance
Michael Farhi	Co-opted	Governing Body	27/09/2018	27/09/2022	Finance, Premises
Lisa Weinbrenn	Co-opted	Governing Body	12/02/2019	12/02/2023	Safeguarding (Chair), Communications
Tim Jackson	Co-opted	Governing Body	05/07/2016	05/07//2020	Premises (Chair), Personnel
Claire Rosen	Parent	Junior Parents	09/11/2017	09/11/2021	Premises, Curriculum (Chair), Personnel
Brenda McCafferty	Headteacher	N/A	01/09/2013	Ongoing	Finance, Premises, Communications, Curriculum, Personnel, Safeguarding
Jenny Aylen	Headteacher	N/A	01/09/2014	Ongoing	Finance, Premises, Communications, Curriculum, Personnel, Safeguarding
Jenny Catley	Staff	Infant Staff	15/03/2017	15/03/2021	Safeguarding, Curriculum
Vacancy	Co-opted Staff	Governing Body
Farnoush Bikdeli	Co-opted Staff	Governing Body	28/09/2016	28/09/2020	Communication (Chair), Safeguarding
Emma McCabe	Co-opted Staff	Governing Body	27/09/2018	27/09/2022	Communications, Curriculum
Tony Brand	Co-opted	Governing Body	24/09/2019	23/09/2023	Communications, Curriculum
Katie Attwood	Associate Member	Governing Body	05/07/2016	05/07/2020	Finance (with voting rights)
Carol Frankl	Associate Member	Governing Body	08/02/2019	08/02/2023	Safeguarding (with voting rights)
Harriet Bloom	Associate Member	Governing Body	05/10/2018	5/10/2022	Communications (with voting rights)
Shiv Haria-Shah	Co-opted	Governing Body	27/09/2018	27/09/2022	Personnel, Safeguarding
Chris Rafferty	Co-opted	Governing Body	27/09/2018	27/09/2022	Curriculum, Personnel

List of Governors who were members of the Governing Body during the last 12 months but have now left:

Name	Category of Governors	Appointed By and Date of Appointment	Term of Office Ends	Committees
Simon Greenhouse	Staff Co-opted	27/09/2018	27/09/2022 (left 25/09/19	Curriculum, Premises
Mark Leibling	Co-opted	Governing Body	18/03/2023 (left 23/07/2019)	Curriculum, HT Performance
Anna Black	Co-opted	Governing Body	05/07/2020 (Left 25/10/2018)	Safeguarding, Communications, Personnel

Information on Current Governors:

Name

Relevant Business and Pecuniary Interests

Meetings Attended

2019-2020

Sapna Shah

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Laura Pincus

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Tim Jackson

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Claire Rosen

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Brenda McCafferty

Trustee at 'De Nederlandse Regenboog School'

1 of 1

Jenny Aylen

Governor at 'Christ College'

1 of 1

Farnoush Bikdeli

Governor at 'Christ College'

1 of 1

Emma McCabe

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Katie Attwood

Forest Environmental LTD

Environmental services Asbestos removal

Director since 2008

Finance committee member only

Jenny Catley

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

James Clare

Governor at 'Harris Academy St John's Wood'

1 of 1

Chris Rafferty

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Shiv Haria-Shah

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Michael Farhi

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Harriet Bloom

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Lisa Weinbrenn

Nothing to declare

1 of 1

Carol Frankl

Chair of trustees of 'The Southover Partnership'

0 of 1

Governor Attendance at Committee Meetings

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