Meet the Governors

Our role as the Governing Body of Gunness & Burringham C of E Primary School is to ensure that it works effectively and fulfils its aims.  We do this by:

• Working alongside the headteacher as equal partners to provide a strategic view for the school
• Ensuring accountability, which we do through visiting, monitoring and evaluating the implementation of the policies and procedures that have been put in place
• Being a 'critical friend' of the school, asking challenging questions whilst celebrating the school's successes

Chair of Governors

Shelly Wigham 

I first became involved with the school and as a parent governor six years ago. I was elected as the Chair of Governors two years ago,  I have found this to be a hugely satisfying and challenging role.

My driving force is the satisfaction I get from being part of providing the best possible learning environment for our children. I love spending time in school, watching our children flourish and progress within our school environment.

I live within the community with my husband, three children and whole host of pets!

I am a specialist in the child protection field, which is something I am extremely passionate about, this work gives me an enormous sense of pride and brings valuable experience to my role as safeguarding governor within the school.

I always try and make every effort to be in the playground and attend school events as much as possible as It is hugely important to me that parents, staff and senior leaders feel that I am approachable and accessible.

Governor

Julie Dyke

I have been a governor at Gunness and Burringham C of E Primary School since November 2016 when I was approached by the Diocese to see if I would be willing to take up the ex-officio governor post on a 'temporary' basis. I was pleased to be able to accept as I have been in education most of my life as a Secondary School Teacher of Modern Foreign Languages (French and Russian) starting off in Lancashire (where I grew up) before moving to Scunthorpe following my marriage to Kevin. I taught, and was Head of Department, in Grimsby before taking time out to bring up our two boys. Subsequently, I took some temporary posts in some of the Scunthorpe secondary schools and John Leggott College before taking a permanent post in Gainsborough where I remained until 2013 when I left teaching in order to be able to spend time with my husband in his new role as a priest in the Church of England.

Following three years living in Gainsborough, where Kevin was in a training post, we returned to Scunthorpe when he became the Rector of Bottesford with Ashby in April 2016. Since then, I have found myself fully occupied in many different aspects of our church life and in looking after our two young grandchildren. I am really pleased to be able to continue my links with education through this role as I am committed to the progress of all children, wherever they are. I enjoy the occasions when I am able to visit the school and spend time in the classroom.

Governor

Jason Trattles

 

I have been a parent governor for a few years at the school and I am a parent of two children who have special educational needs who currently attend Gunness and Burringham. I have great interests in mathematics and science, language, geometry, art, music (percussion and guitar) and nature and I am always keen to see a varied curriculum in school for the children. My formal education at further and higher levels includes Mathematics, Physics, the Arts and Architecture. I currently work as an Engineering Geologist and Geo-Environmental Consultant where my career often places me in the field of data analysis and interpretive report writing.

I hope to see strong, healthy and maintained links between the community and the school. Modern lifestyle has a tendency to divert people away from communities into an ever more isolated existence on screens and mobile devices with seemingly endless media. The school remains the last well attended community hub where physical attendance is still expected, and this should be celebrated and utilised to the full for the benefit of all.

The Christian ethos of the school is important to me. The objective moral standards provided by Christianity underpin virtually all accepted behaviour in traditional western culture and are the foundation to many of our laws. I feel strongly that children should be armed with a good sense of morality and good knowledge, this in turn will equip and enable them to make best decisions.

Whilst children are in school, I would be keen to see them provided with a good mathematical, scientific and linguistic vocabulary and knowledge, with a view that they may establish robust information assimilation, logic and communication skills that they can use both in school and in the wider world.

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Vice Chair

Liz Jones