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
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 Link role: Finance, Premises, HR |
Co-opted 16/06/22 – 15/06/26 |
Sonal has two children at USH and works for
Lloyds Register. |
None |
|
Jacqui Westbury-Hogg |
Vice Chair of Governors Link roles: SEN (lead), Pupil Premium (lead),
Disadvantaged pupils, Staff and Pupil Wellbeing |
Co-opted 30/11/20 – 29/11/24 |
Jacqui is a lecturer in Social Work and is
currently our longest serving governor. |
None |
|
Chris Sykes |
Ex-officio |
Headteacher USH |
|
None |
|
Sara Babahami |
Link role: Parent Voice & Stakeholder
Engagement |
Co-opted |
Sara is a civil servant in the field of Science
& Engineering |
None |
|
Professor Zheng-Tong Xie |
Link role: Health & Safety |
Co-opted 03/11/21 – 05/02/23 06/02/23 – 05/02/27 |
Tong is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering
and Physical Sciences at Southampton University |
None |
|
Bhavini Goldman |
Link role: Teaching & Learning/Curriculum |
Staff governor 11/11/22 – 10/11/26 |
Bhavini is the Head of English at USH |
None |
|
Michael Roe |
Link role: Safeguarding |
Co-opted 18/01/23 – 17/01/27 |
Mike is a consultant paediatrician at University
Hospital Southampton, and is the hospital lead on safeguarding and child
protection |
None |
|
Paul Webber |
Link role: Careers Education |
Parent governor 06/02/23 – 05/02/27 |
Paul is a secondary school teacher, and has
previously been a governor at Wordsworth Primary school |
None |
|
Laura Starke |
Link role: Disadvantaged (Lead), SEN, PPG |
Parent governor 06/02/23 – 05/02/27 |
Laura is the Head of KS3 and part of the pastoral
team at a special secondary school (SEN MLD). |
None |
|
Robin Doulton |
Link role: Teaching & Learning/Curriculum |
Co-opted 08/03/23 – 07/03/23 |
Robin teaches secondary Science at another
Southampton school. |
None |