Trust and Local Advisory Board
As an Academy we do not come under the responsibility of the Local Authority, instead we are part of a Multi Academy Trust that is funded directly by the Department for Education. The Trust (Primary Quest) is responsible for everything: the school buildings and grounds; the employment of staff, and all aspects relating to the education provision for our pupils. Trustees are Directors of what is, in effect, a small sized company. Mr Stephen Dean is the CEO of Primary Quest Trust.
The Trust Board is responsible for Standards and Achievement and Finances. The Trust Board meets 6 times a year. Further details to be found at https://www.primaryquest.co.uk/governance/trustees
The Local Advisory Board (LAB) is responsible for Safeguarding and the implementation of the Curriculum and is responsible to the Trust Board. Further information of Governance is available at https://www.primaryquest.co.uk/governance. The Local Advisory Boards meet 5 times a year. See below for LAB members details and Attendance.
The Trust’s accounts are published in December and are open to public inspection.
More information can be found on the Primary QuEST website with direct link to documents found here: https://www.primaryquest.co.uk/governance/key-documents
Curriculum
The Local Advisory Board is responsible for monitoring the delivery and organisation of the school’s curriculum; the progress that your children make in their learning, and the standards that are being achieved at key points throughout the time that your children are with us. We use the Trust and School Development Plan to focus in on learning to ensure that our objectives are being achieved in practice as a lived reality.
Additionally, we have responsibility for ensuring that a Christian ethos pervades all that is done in the school.
Health, Safety and Safeguarding
The Local Advisory Board is responsible for ensuring that the Health and Safety procedures are followed and adhered to. This includes reviewing of policies and practice.