School Governance
The Sherburn Hungate Primary School Governing Body is made up of 7 governors.
All governors, with the exception of the headteacher, are appointed for a four year term. The Clerk to the Governing Body, Caroline Mitchell, supports the governors in an administrative and advisory capacity. When parent governor vacancies arise, details on the nomination process are sent to all parents in the school.
The governing body is responsible for the conduct of our school, and must promote high standards of educational achievement at the school. It is the school’s accountable body and as such:
- provides a strategic view of the school by establishing a vision and setting the purpose and aims of the school within an agreed policy framework. It appoints and performance manages the headteacher, agreeing the school improvement strategy which includes setting statutory targets with supporting budgets and staffing structures;
- monitors and evaluates the work of the school by reviewing the performance of the headteacher, the effectiveness of the policy framework, progress towards targets, and the effectiveness of the school improvement strategy;
- signs off the self evaluation process and responds to STARMAT school improvement services and Ofsted reports as necessary. In addition it holds the headteacher to account for the performance of the school and ensures that parents are involved, consulted and informed as appropriate, with information to the community being made available as required.
- is responsible for financial probity.
Within the STAR Multi Academy Trust, each Academy has a Local Governing Board (LGB) that supports the work of the Trust and the Academy. It has certain delegated authority to oversee the running of the school under the Scheme of Delegation as defined by the Trust Board of the STAR Multi-Academy Trust. The Register of Business Interests is available via the Trust Board website.
Minutes of the LGB for each school are available on request from the School Office or clerktogovs@starmat.uk
Governor Responsibilities
Our Governors take on specific responsibilities relating to the school improvement plan which also doubles as the governor development plan and governor monitoring schedule.
| Area of Responsibility | Governor |
| Acting Chair of Governors | Jane Kent |
| Safeguarding Governor | Jane Kent |
| SEND Governor | Jane Kent |
| Disadvantaged/Equality/Diversity Governor | Jane Kent |
| Health & Safety Governor | Peter Ball |
| Finance Specialist Governor | Peter Ball |
| SIMP 1 | Jane Kent |
| SIMP 2 | Leanne Storey |
| SIMP 3 | Leanne Storey |
| SIMP 4 | Peter Ball |
Board of Trustees
LGB Membership
Governing Body Structure
LGB Structure (Quorum: 50% current membership = 4 governors)
Updating the Summer with pen portraits (August 2025).
Governor Finance/Business Interests
Contacting the Chair of Governors, Martyn Sibley
You can contact our Chair of Governors, Mrs Jane Kent, by telephoning the main school office on 01977 682434. Alternatively you can email cofg@shp.starmat.uk.
Alternatively, you can write to Jane. Her address is:
Chair of Governors, Sherburn Hungate Primary School, North Crescent, Sherburn-in-Elmet, Leeds, LS25 6DD.
