Woodlands Primary School is an academy in the Greenshaw Learning Trust.

The Greenshaw Learning Trust is a charitable company, limited by guarantee, with the sole purpose of maintaining and developing academy schools to provide comprehensive and inclusive education for the public benefit. You can find out more about the governance of the trust on the trust website here.

The Trustees of the Greenshaw Learning Trust have overall legal responsibility for all the schools in the trust, but they delegate powers and responsibilities with respect to the governance of each school to its governing body and headteacher. The governing body is a committee of the Board of Trustees that reports to and is accountable to the Board of Trustees under a Scheme of Delegation of governance functions.

The Governing Body for Woodlands Primary School is the Tyndale & Woodlands Primary Schools Governing Body – which is responsible for the governance of Tyndale Primary School and Woodlands Primary School in Yate. The Governing Body provides strategic leadership of the schools, oversees the schools’ financial and academic performance, and holds the Headteachers and schools’ senior leadership to account. (Prior to June 2021, the governing body for the school was the Woodlands Primary School Governing Body).

Governors are appointed in a number of different ways to reflect the schools' various stakeholders and to bring a range of skills and experience to the governing body:

• Trust governors are appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Greenshaw Learning Trust.
• A parent governor has to be a parent of a pupil at one of the schools at the time of their election and is elected by ballot of all parents and carers of current students
• Community governors are appointed by the governing body to reflect its community and stakeholders.
• A staff governor must be employed by the Trust to work at the schools, and is appointed following a ballot of all staff at the school.
• The Headteachers are governors, ex-officio’

All governors except the Headteachers serve for a term of office of four years, but can be reappointed.

Governors act collectively as the governing body and work closely with the Headteachers and senior leadership team of the schools. Governors exercise their powers in a primarily strategic leadership role; they should not get involved in the day-to-day running of the schools.

As well as attending governing body meetings, take part in governor briefings and development activities, visit the schools and meet school staff attend and engage in a range of schools' activities.

The Headteachers are responsible for the day-to-day running of the schools, including the internal organisation, management and control of the schools and the direction of teaching and the curriculum, and for the implementation of the policies of the Trust and Governing Body.

Details of each governor’s appointment and their roles on the governing body is set out in the document at the bottom of this page.

Join us

We currently have vacancies for parent governors. If you are interested in becoming a governor at Woodlands Primary School or at another school in the trust, please click here.

Governing Body

The current members of the Tyndale & Woodlands Primary Schools Governing Body are shown below:

Name	Category	Appointing body	Term start date	Term end date
Christine Brooks	Trust Governor	Board of Trustees	01/06/2023	31/05/2023
Harrison Gorst	Trust Governor	Board of Trustees	26/09/2023	25/09/2027
Rhiannon Rainbow	Trust Governor	Board of Trustees	26/09/2023	25/09/2027
Vacancy	Trust Governor	Board of Trustees	13/11/2023	tbc
Vacancy	Trust Governor	Board of Trustees	13/11/2023	tbc
Vacancy	Parent Governor - TPS	Ballot of parents	tbc	tbc
Vacancy	Parent Governor - WPS	Ballot of parents	tbc	tbc
Aimee Lett	Staff Governor - TPS	Ballot of staff	06/11/2023	05/11/2023
Hayley Tunnacliffe	Staff Governor - WPS	Ballot of staff	tbc	tbc
Rachel Dean	Headteacher - WPS	Board of Trustees	01/06/2021	Ex-officio
Katie Parkhouse	Headteacher - TPS	Board of Trustees	01/09/2021	Ex-officio

Attendance 

The dates of the Tyndale & Woodlands Primary Schools Governing Body meetings for the year 2023-24:

• Meeting 1 - 2nd October 2023
• Meeting 2 - 27th November 2023
• Meeting 3 - 22nd January 2024
• Meeting 4 - 11th March 2024
• Meeting 5 - 8th May 2024
• Meeting 6 - 24th June 2024

The attendance record of governors at meetings of the governing body can be found below:

Find out more or contact us

For further information or to contact the governing body, please email the clerk to the governing body Nazir Rahman at TWPSGBClerk@greenshawlearningtrust.co.uk.