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 | Co-opted | Sonal has two children at USH and works for Lloyds Register. | None |
Link role: Finance, Premises, HR | 16/06/22 – 15/06/26 | |||
Jacqui Westbury-Hogg | Vice Chair of Governors | Co-opted | Jacqui is a lecturer in Social Work and is currently our longest serving governor. | None |
Link roles: SEN (lead), Pupil Premium (lead), Disadvantaged pupils, Staff and Pupil Wellbeing | 30/11/20 – 29/11/24 | |||
Chris Sykes | Ex-officio | Headteacher USH | None | |
Tora Mitra Ganguli | Link role: Curriculum | Co-opted 18/10/23 | Tora has worked in STEM around the world and is currently at BAT. Tora is keen to ensure that STEM teaching and curriculums are both informative and stimulating | Governor at Bassett Green Primary School |
Professor Zheng-Tong Xie | Link role: Health & Safety | Co-opted | Tong is a professor in the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Southampton University | None |
03/11/21 – 05/02/23 | ||||
06/02/23 – 05/02/27 | ||||
Michael Roe | Link role: Safeguarding | Co-opted | Mike is a consultant paediatrician at University Hospital Southampton, and is the hospital lead on safeguarding and child protection | None |
18/01/23 – 17/01/27 | ||||
Paul Webber | Link role: Careers Education | Parent governor | Paul is a secondary school teacher, and has previously been a governor at Wordsworth Primary school | None |
06/02/23 – 05/02/27 | ||||
Laura Starke | Link role: Disadvantaged (Lead), SEN, PPG | Parent governor | Laura is an SEN teacher at another Southampton secondary school | None |
06/02/23 – 05/02/27 | ||||
Robin Doulton | Link role: Teaching & Learning/Curriculum | Co-opted | Robin teaches secondary Science at another Southampton school. | Spouse employed by another Hamwic/JEP school. |
08/03/23 – 07/03/23 | ||||
Saarah Azam | Staff Governor 08/02/24 – 08/02/28 | Saarah is a teaching assistant at USH with a background in primary teaching and tutoring | ||
Sara Babahami | Co-opted | None | ||
25/02/21 Resigned w.e.f. 22/09/23 | ||||
Bhavini Goldman | Link role: Teaching & Learning/Curriculum | Staff governor | None | |
11/11/22 – 31/12/2023 |
GOVERNOR MEETING ATTENDANCE 2022-2023
Upper Shirley High School Local Governing Committee - Declarations of Interest