Governors
The local governing board 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
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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:
Name | Role | Appointment & term of office | Biog. | Register of Interests |
Sonal Mehta | Chair of Governors | Co-opted | Sonal has two children at USH and works for Lloyds Register. | None |
Link role: Finance, Premises, HR | 16/06/22 – 15/06/26 | |||
Jacqui Westbury-Hogg | Vice Chair of Governors | Co-opted | Jacqui is a lecturer in Social Work and is currently our longest serving governor. | None |
Link roles: SEN (lead), Pupil Premium (lead), Disadvantaged pupils, Staff and Pupil Wellbeing | 30/11/20 – 29/11/24 | |||
Chris Sykes | Ex-officio | Headteacher USH | None | |
Tora Mitra Ganguli | Link role: Curriculum | Co-opted 18/10/23 | Tora has worked in STEM around the world and is currently at BAT. Tora is keen to ensure that STEM teaching and curriculums are both informative and stimulating | Governor at Bassett Green Primary School |
Professor Zheng-Tong Xie | Link role: Health & Safety | Co-opted | Tong is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Southampton University | None |
03/11/21 – 05/02/23 | ||||
06/02/23 – 05/02/27 | ||||
Michael Roe | Link role: Safeguarding | Co-opted | Mike is a consultant paediatrician at University Hospital Southampton, and is the hospital lead on safeguarding and child protection | None |
18/01/23 – 17/01/27 | ||||
Paul Webber | Link role: Careers Education | Parent governor | Paul is a secondary school teacher, and has previously been a governor at Wordsworth Primary school | None |
06/02/23 – 05/02/27 | ||||
Laura Starke | Link role: Disadvantaged (Lead), SEN, PPG | Parent governor | Laura is an SEN teacher at another Southampton secondary school | None |
06/02/23 – 05/02/27 | ||||
Robin Doulton | Link role: Teaching & Learning/Curriculum | Co-opted | Robin teaches secondary Science at another Southampton school. | Spouse employed by another Hamwic/JEP school. |
08/03/23 – 07/03/23 | ||||
Saarah Azam | Staff Governor 08/02/24 – 08/02/28 | Saarah is a teaching assistant at USH with a background in primary teaching and tutoring | ||
Sara Babahami | Co-opted | None | ||
25/02/21 Resigned w.e.f. 22/09/23 | ||||
Bhavini Goldman | Link role: Teaching & Learning/Curriculum | Staff governor | None | |
11/11/22 – 31/12/2023 |
GOVERNOR MEETING ATTENDANCE 2022-2023
Upper Shirley High School Local Governing Committee - Declarations of Interest