Governance

The Vine Schools Trust is a multi-academy trust and is the accountable body for all twenty three of its schools. Therefore, the overarching responsibility for the governance of the Trust and its schools lies with the Vine Board of Directors. They fulfil the three core functions of governance:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff; and
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.
To enable the Directors to fulfil their responsibility eight regional Local Schools Board’s work on their behalf and undertake delegated local governance of between two and four schools. Community Boards in each school enable local support and provide information to enable good governance.

The key principle is that all three Boards together with Executive Leaders will provide an aspect of governance the other cannot as set out in this chart.

Name	Role	Appointed By	Date of Appointment	Business Declaration	Family Declaration
Mrs T Boothman	Chair of Local Governing Body	Trust	01/01/2021	Self-employed Governance Consultant Trustee of South Essex Academy Trust TiB member at Southminster Primary School LSB member at St Cedd’s Primary School SIB Member at Grange Primary School TiB Member at Belchamps St Paul TiB Member at Tillingham Primary School TiB Member at Rolph Primary School TiB Member at Two Village Primary School SiB Member at Wickford Primary School
Mr D Hardman	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021	None	Children are pupil’s at St Andrew’s
Mrs C Holdaway	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021	None	Children are pupil’s at St Andrew’s
Ms R Everett	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021	None	None
Ms L Dale	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021	None	None
Ms K Siggery	Local Governor	Trust	26/03/2021	None	None
Ms B Fairhead	Local Governor	Trust	26/03/2021	None	None
Ms C Bickersteth	Acting Headteacher	Ex Officio by Vitrue	01/01/2021	None	None
Mrs D Fawcett	Headteacher – St Andrew’s	Ex Officio by Vitrue	01/01/2021	None	None
Mrs K Jones	Headteacher – Great Clacton	Ex Officio by Vitrue	01/01/2021	None	Husband is a member of another Vine Schools Trust LSB

Governors Meeting Attendance January 2021 to August 2021

Name	Role	Date: 07/01/2021	08/02/2021	Date 25/02/21	04/03/2021	24/03/2021
Mrs T Boothman	Chair of Local Governing Body	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Mr D Hardman	Local Governor	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	Attended	Partially Attended	Attended	Partially Attended
Mrs C Holdaway	Local Governor	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	Partially Attended	Apologies	Attended	Attended
Ms R Everett	Local Governor	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	N/A	Attended	Attended	Apologies
Ms L Dale	Local Governor	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	Attended	Attended	Attended	Partially Attended
Ms K Siggery	Local Governor	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms B Fairhead	Local Governor	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms C Bickersteth	Acting Headteacher	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Mrs D Fawcett	Headteacher – St Andrew’s	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	Attended	Apologies	Attended	Attended
Mrs K Jones	Headteacher – Great Clacton	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Mrs L Webb	Business Manager – Rolph and St Andrew’s	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Mrs K Umney	Business Manager – Great Clacton	Postponed – due to lockdown / pandemic	N/A	Attended	Attended	Apologies