Governors:

Ex-officio:
Mr Andrew Frolish (headteacher)
The Very Reverend Martin Thrower           

Foundation Governors:
Mrs Claire Woods (Chair) (p)
Mr John Hall (Vice Chair)
Mrs Gloria Powell
Mrs Bernadette White (p)
Mrs Pamela Sanderson (p)
Mr Alastair Fraser
Mr Paul Simon (p)
Mrs Glenys Morris

LEA Governor: Mr David Warner

Elected Teaching Governor: Mr Mark Girling

Elected Non-teaching Governor: Mrs Julie Lee-Smith

Elected Parent Governor: Mr Mark Warner (p)

(p) indicates a Governor is also a parent of a pupil at the school.

To contact the governing body:

By Email (The link will open your default email program) or arrange via the school office.

There is also a box inside the main entrance where you can leave a note or message for either the Chair, the governing body as an entity, or an individual governor.

About the Governing Body

The governing body at St Mary's provides for 14 governors, of different categories. Being a church school, the greater number are appointed by the St Edmundsbury and Ipswich diocese ("Foundation" governors), St Mary's Parochial Church Council appoint others, one represents the County Council education authority, others are elected by, respectively, teaching and non-teaching staff, and the parent governor is elected by parents, but of course several governors in other categories are also parents.

The governing body is responsible for the overall running of the school, monitoring the effectiveness of the education it delivers, the provision and maintenance of its buildings and facilities, its finance and staff levels, and ensuring that the school's various policies are effectively implemented.

The whole governing body usually meet twice in each school term, but smaller groups also meet in sub-committees, dealing with, for example, finance, monitoring standards, personnel, premises, health and safety issues. Individual governors have a monitoring role for specific curriculum subjects, and may liaise with the appropriate teacher and, by arrangement, visit lessons to get an understanding of how the subject is taught.

A leaflet providing more detail, including the roles of individual governors, is available on request at the school office.