Governors

The local governing committee at Upper Shirley High school is a committee of the Hamwic Education Trust Board and has three key functions: • Helping to set the strategy for the school • Holding school leaders to account for school performance • Stakeholder management, including parents, pupils, staff and the wider community

Details of the constitution of the board and its role are documented in the Hamwic Terms of Reference for Local Governing Committees, and the Scheme of Delegation.

Contact Details: To contact the governing board please email:

chair@ushschool.org or clerk@ushschool.org.

If you wish to raise a complaint, please refer to the school Complaints policy which sets out the process to follow.

Our Governors: 

Current Governors

Role

Appointment

Appointment & term of office

Register of Interests (see following table)

Dr Michael Roe

Chair of Governors

Link role: Safeguarding

Co-opted

18/01/23 – 17/01/27

None

Chris Sykes

Headteacher USH

Ex-officio

None

Rachele Newman

Link role: Curriculum

Co-opted

17/07/24 – 16/07/28

In my role as Director of Initial Teacher Education I work with Upper Shirley High as a partnership school for the Secondary PGCE programme

Peter Holloway

Link Role: Pastoral

Co-opted

25/09/24 – 24/09/28

 

Bruno Duckworth-Russell

Link Role: Data

Staff

19/11/24 – 18/11/28

District/Branch Secretary for the National Education Union

Malky Chaloner

Link Role: Careers Education

Parent

19/11/24 – 18/11/28

 

Simon Crispin

Link Role: TBC

Co-opted

04/12/24 - 03/24/28

Family member employed by HET school

Julie Staunton

Link Role: TBC

Co-opted

26/02/25 - 25/02/29

 

Aimee Hall

Link Role: TBC

Co-opted

26/02/25 - 25/02/29

 

Past governors

 

 

 

 

Laura Starke

 

Parent governor

06/02/23 – 021/07/25

None

Tora Mitra Ganguli

 

Co-opted

18/10/23 – 16/12/24

Governor at Swaythling Primary School

Robin Doulton

 

Co-opted

08/03/23 – 23/10/24

Spouse employed by HET school

Parent Governor Nomination Form

Governor Application Form

Upper Shirley High School - Register of interests

Local Governing Committee Attendance - 2024-25

USH Governor Biographies