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About Us

Governing body

List of governors and responsibilities

Principal Catherine Horton-Hale

Chair of Governors Criag Leonard (c.leonard@barnsley.ac.uk)

Vice Chair of Governors Janine Astley (Janine.Astley@barnsley-academy.org)

Link Governors

Craig Leonard - Human resources and recruitment

Craig Leonard - Finance

Janine Astley - Safeguarding children and inclusion and Special Education Needs

Geoff Hopwood-Health and Safety including Premises

Kylie Losper - Curriculum and teaching and learning

The Chair of Governors can be contacted c/o Hunningley Primary School, Hunningley Lane, Barnsley, South Yorkshire S70 3DT

Governance

Hunningley Primary School is a part of United Learning whose Trustees hold the ultimate responsibility for the governance of each United Learning school.

The Department for Education’s governance handbook 2019 identifies the essentials of effective governance as follows:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
Holding the 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.

United Learning’s Trustees delegate certain key roles and responsibilities to the school’s Local Governing Body (LGB) and these are set out clearly in our Scheme of Delegation which can be seen on the United Learning website.

Click here to view the Scheme of Delegation