Bishop Ullathorne Catholic School Governors
Governors can be contacted via the Clerk to the Governors, c/o Bishop Ullathorne Catholic School, Leasowes Avenue, Coventry CV3 6BH or by email admin@bishopullathorne.co.uk
The role of the governing body
Governing bodies are the key strategic decision-making body in every school. It is their job to set the school’s strategic framework. This includes ensuring the school has a long-term strategic vision. The governing body agrees the strategic priorities, aims and objectives for the school and the policies, plans and targets for how to achieve them. It checks on progress and reviews the strategic framework for the school in the light of that progress.
Foundation governors, appointed by the Catholic Diocese, have a specific role in preserving and developing the character of the school, including its religious character. They ensure our school is conducted in accordance with the foundations governing documents, including the trust deed relating to the school.
This is a demanding role for our volunteer governors who represent of parents, staff, the local community, the local authority and the Catholic Church. Their role includes:
- understanding their strategic role – building a productive and supportive relationship with the Headteacher while holding them to account for school performance and taking hard strategic decisions in the light of objective data;
- ensuring they have the necessary skills and commitment, including challenging the school to bring about improvement and hold leaders to account for performance;
- appointing an effective Chair to lead and manage the governing body
- evaluating their performance regularly in the light of Ofsted expectations and other good practice; and
- making changes as necessary to improve their effectiveness.
The Governors undertake their duties through a series of meetings which meet half termly.
Vacancies
We currently have vacancies for the following Governor positions:
- Parent Governor
- Foundation Governor
If you are interested in applying, please email
admin@bishopullathorne.co.uk for further information.
Anthony Cawley
Bishop Ullathorne Foundation Governor and Holy Cross MAC Foundation Director and Vice Chair
Tony has worked within a business environment for multi-national companies and small businesses using diverse business skills and experience built over time. He has managed multi disciplined engineering teams and tendering departments completing many multi-million-pound projects. Tony has managed Profit and Loss budgets and has a comprehensive knowledge of working within a commercial business environment.
As vice chair of two governing bodies, Tony has extensive experience of working within an educational environment and determining strategic direction for the schools. As chair of the resources committee, he has challenged and supported the headteacher, business manager and finance team to ensure that budget planning is accurate and realistic particularly when faced with ever changing funding criteria. He led a successful multi vendor tender negotiation across a group of schools to ensure best value contracts. Tony has experience of senior staff recruitment and has been instrumental in this process on a number of occasions including the compilation of marketing material, short listing and interviews.