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Governors

About School Governance

Governors are volunteers who work closely with the Headteacher and the school’s senior leadership team to ensure that the school provides the best possible education for all children. Governors are generally parents, professionals, and members of the community from all walks of life who bring varied skills and experience to support the school's leadership.

The Governing Body focuses on three core functions:

  1. To ensure the school has a clear vision, ethos and strategic direction.
  2. To hold the Head teacher to account for the school’s educational performance, and the performance management of staff.
  3. To oversee the financial performance of the school and ensure its money is well spent.

We make decisions as a corporate group, so no single Governor is ever solely responsible, and as a body, some of our specific responsibilities include:

  • Setting the strategic vision for the school.

  • Appointing and performance managing the Head teacher.

  • Ensuring the quality of teaching and learning, and therefore pupil achievement in the school, is meeting or exceeding agreed targets.

  • Ensuring that an appropriate curriculum is taught.

  • Celebrating the school’s successes.

  • Ensuring all the school’s results are published each year.

  • Inputting to and ratifying school policies.

  • Monitoring the school budget to ensure financial security.

  • Helping to decide priorities for the school, such as new building work or staffing structures.

We meet regularly as a governing body to focus on all key areas, including finance, safeguarding, learning and teaching, standards and leadership. 

We receive the Head teacher’s report termly covering the crucial areas of the school’s work that we are required to monitor against the School Improvement Plan: teaching and learning, curriculum, assessment results, Special Educational Needs (SEN), Pupil Premium activity (how we spend additional funds from Government specifically to support our children in receipt of Free School Meals), how school challenges high achieving pupils, Foundation stage, PE/sport, staffing, budget, premises and more. There’s a lot of ‘business’ to address at each meeting, but children’s safety, happiness and progress are always our priority in all that we do, as they are for everyone at school.

Governors also play an active part in school life and carry out monitoring visits in school on an area of focus, so you and the children should see us around and about at school!

Who can be a school governor? 

You don't have to have children at this school to be a governor. However, you do have to be over 18 and pass a formal suitability check to be within a school.  No specific qualifications are required, but certain expectations apply. 

What's really important is that you have the skills, time, and commitment to drive school improvement, and the passion and ambition to achieve the best possible education for children and young people. 

Our current Governing Body

Name Governors Type

Date of appointment

 

 Terms of Office end Responsibilities

Register of Interests

 

 Relationship to staff

Mr Steven Williams

 

 Headteacher 1.9.16 n/a   None  
Mr Michael Berriman (Chair of Governors) Authority

 

1.9.25

  31.8.29 Safeguarding, Special Educational Needs None Married to Mrs Berriman - Year 2 teacher
Mr Martyn Atkinson Staff  08.04.2026 07.04.28

Mental Health and Well-Being

 None  
Mr Osman Khatri Co-opted 5.12.23 04.12.27 Pupil Premium, Attendance None Married to Mrs Khatri - F1 Teacher
Mrs Pakeeza Miskeen  Co-opted 07.05.26 06.05.30 Special Educational Needs None  
Mrs Sarah Niner (Deputy Head)  n/a   n/a   None  
Mr Yogesh Bulsara Co-opted 27.10.22 26.10.26   None  
Mr Sanjee de Silva Co-opted 27.10.22 26.10.26 Anti-Bullying None  
Ms Emily Hartley Co-opted 16.12.25 15.12. 29   None  
Ms Memuna Mataria Clerk 26.8.25     None  
Mr Uedali Mia Parent 27.3.26 26.3.28   None  
Dr Nazneen Satia Parent 27.3.26 26.3.28   None  

Statutory Guidance for Governing Bodies

Medway Primary School adheres to the statutory guidance from the Department for Education. This means that governing bodies must have regard to it when carrying out duties relating to the constitution of governing bodies in maintained schools. For further information, please view or download the full document below.

Governors Attendance 2025 - 26

Name 3.10.25 16.11.25 16.12.25 5.2.26 27.3.26 7.5.26      
Mr Williams Y Y Y Y Y Y      
Mr Berriman Y Y Y Y Y Y      
Mr Khatri Y Y N Y Y Y      
Mrs Miskeen  N Y N N N Y      
Mr Atkinson Y Y Y Y Y Y      
Mr De Silva Y Y Y Y Y Y      
Mr Bulsara N N N N N N      
Ms Emily Hartley n/a n/a Y N Y N      
Dr Nazneen Satia n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a Y      
Mr Uedali Mia n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a N      

Governors' Attendance Academic Year 2024 - 2025

Name

 Meetings Attended

Mr Williams

 7/7

Mr Berriman

 7/7

Mr Atkinson

 7/7

Mr Khatri

 5/7

Mr Bulsara

 3/7

Mr De Silva

 1/7

Miss Miskeen

 4/7

Mr Alam

 1/7

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