The role of Governors is to address the following:

• Hold the school to account, ensuring it is addressing its key responsibilities including teaching and learning, safeguarding and budgetary responsibility.
• Challenging the Headteacher to ensure the school is rigorous in its strategies towards its key areas of priority as identified in its school development plan and indeed in reference to the Headteacher’s performance management.

If you are interested in becoming a Governor, please contact our Chair of Governors Sally Lindsay-German or the Headteacher Ben Hasan. Both our chair of Governors or Headteacher can be contacted via the school office (0208985 3491) or you can email at: admin@wentworth.hackney.sch.uk

We will organise for you to meet one of our existing Governors who you could talk through your questions, as well as they will share their own thoughts and experiences of being a Governor.

Governor vacancies arise through Governors leaving or if there is an existing vacancy.
For further information about becoming a Governor can be accessed from the Government website: ​https://www.gov.uk/become-school-college-governor.

Below are some comments about why they became a Governor:

​​I became a parent-governor in May 2017 shortly after my youngest son started at Wentworth.  For me, Wentworth is a beacon of educational excellence where staff are both inspired by and provide inspiration to the children who come through the door.  The commitment to every child, and to the wider community, is at the heart of Wentworth’s ethos. This is what inspired me to become a parent-governor.  I see my role as providing supportive challenge to the school and nursery centre so that it continues to go from strength to strength. I greatly enjoy visiting the school to see children learning through play and in engaging with the school’s development through the various governing committees and through other activities, such as the recent Beep Beep Day.

Hannah Gregory

The reasoning behind my wanting to become a parent governor of Wentworth Nursery School and Children’s Centre is that I have seen – first-hand with my son – just how much thought, effort and attention to detail the Wentworth team put into ensuring that the children in their care develop and enjoy their learning experiences on a daily basis. This made me feel obligated to help support them to continue to achieve this level of excellence both for the children and also to do all that I can to try to give back to the invaluable group of people who make up the staff of both the school and the children’s centre. Working on the belief that it takes a village to raise a child; I am extremely honoured to be a part of the Wentworth village.

Gemma Robinson