28th June 2024

Weekly Letter 28/06/2024

Week Commencing 24th June 2024

It’s been another busy week at NUSA!

We’re keenly preparing for the new academic year; I’ll update you in the next couple of weeks with a plan around any changes we are making.

The biggest piece of information for this week is to draw your attention to the attached information regarding holiday clubs – these don’t involve any NUSA staff but are organised and funded separately, but they can be accessed by students from our school.

In addition, please may I remind you that we return to full school uniform from next week as the weather cools down again (including the NUSA branded skirt for students who are wearing a skirt as their clothing).

 

Have a great weekend when we get there.

Thanks!!!Mr. Turton
Headteacher

 

Coming up at NUSA:

Monday 8th July – Friday 12th July -Year 10 Work Experience

Tuesday 23rd July -Year 9 Talk the Talk Workshop (in school)

https://talkthetalkuk.org/workshops/talk-about-communication/ if you would like further information about this

Thursday 25th July - Last day of term

 

 

Thursday 27th June 2024

Dear Parent/Carer

PARENT LOCAL GOVERNING COMMITTEE MEMBER ELECTION

I am writing to you to invite you to stand for election as a parent local governing committee member, or nominate another parent to do so. In our school we have provision for parent local governing committee member and there is currently a vacancy.

The local governing body, with the Head of School/Headteacher, has overall responsibility for the running of the school. The board of governors have three core functions:

Strategic leadership of the academy within the defined trust vision for high quality and inclusive education in line with the trust’s charitable objects

Accountability and assurance: the local board has robust effective oversight of the operations and performance of the academy, including:

The provision of education o Pupil welfare

Overseeing and ensuring appropriate use of funding

Keeping the estate safe and well-maintained

Engagement: the local board has strategic oversight of relationships with stakeholders

The local board involves parents, schools and communities so that decision-making is supported by meaningful engagement

The local governing committee is delegated certain functions by the Nova Education Trust Board of Directors and these responsibilities are outlined in the trust Governance Scheme of Delegation & Structure available for download at: http://www.novaeducationtrust.net/documents.php.

No special qualifications are needed and the most important thing is to have a keen interest in the school and be prepared to play an active part in the local governing committee’s work. Training is available for all local governors.

The enclosed sheet summarises the circumstances under which someone cannot serve as a local governor. Nominations must be from parents, or individuals exercising parental responsibility, of a child at the academy/one of the academies in the trust.

If you would like to stand for election please complete the online nomination form no later than Friday 12th July 2024. You may also include a short personal statement to support your nomination, which should be no longer than 250 words. Self-nominations will be accepted but if you are nominating another parent, please seek their prior consent.

If there are more nominations than vacancies the election will be by secret ballot. If that is necessary, voting papers will be sent to all parents together with details of the ballot procedure.

Yours faithfully,

Michael Sanderson

Chair of Governors

Qualifications and disqualifications to serve as an academy governor

Reasons for disqualification

A person is disqualified from being a trustee or local governor if they:

Are aged under 18 at the date of their election or appointment

Are a current pupil at an academy in the trust

Have been declared bankrupt or, are the subject of a bankruptcy restrictions order or an interim order

Have had their estate seized for the benefit of creditors and the declaration of seizure hasn’t been discharged, annulled or reduced

Are subject to any of the disqualifying reasons set out in the 'disqualifying reasons table' (see the first section of The Charity Commission Rules re: Automatic disqualification click here for this guidance)

Are disqualified under the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986

Are subject to an order made under section 429 (2) (b) of the Insolvency Act 1986, which is failure to pay under county court administration order

Are disqualified from being a trustee due to any provision in the Companies Act 2006

Are disqualified from acting as a trustee due to section 178 of the Charities Act 2011

Have been removed as a trustee for a charity by an order made by the Charity Commission or the High Court on the grounds of misconduct or mismanagement in administration of the charity

Have been convicted of a serious criminal offence

They can also become disqualified from continuing on as a trustee or local governor if they:

Are incapable by reason of illness or injury of managing or administering their own affairs

Are absent, without the permission of the trustees, from all their meetings held within a period of 6 months, and the trustees resolve that their office be vacated (we explain this in more detail below

These criteria are set out in more detail in articles 68 to 80 of our articles of association.

Disqualification due to non-attendance

The 6-month period for absence begins with the first meeting that the person misses, rather than the last meeting they attend.

Non-attendance refers to meetings of the full governing board only.

Checking for disqualification criteria after appointment

Anyone who becomes disqualified from remaining as a trustee or local governor after they've taken office must inform the clerk in writing, as set out in article 79 of our articles of association.