School Governors
Richard Davies, Co-Chair of Governors
Rich was elected to the Local School Committee in December 2018. He works on the management team at Ark – an education charity with a network of 38 schools, as well as curriculum & teacher development programmes. Rich holds masters degrees in Engineering, Business and Education from Oxford and Stanford.
Category | Responsibility | Term of Office | Governance roles in other institutions | Relationship School/Staff | Business/ Pecuniary interests |
Elected
| Standards | until 19.12.22 | Previously School Governor of Ark Oval Primary Academy | Rich has a daughter at the school | Parent Multiverse |
Matt Shute Co-Chair elect
Matt joined the Local School Committee in September 2020 and has three children at the school. Matt works as both a Paramedic and an Emergency Planning and Resilience Officer for the London Ambulance Service. In his role, he helps to ensure the Trust is prepared to respond to a wide range of incidents, operations and events, providing specialist advice if needed to various command roles across the organisation.
Category | Responsibility | Term of Office | Governance roles in other institutions | Relationship School/Staff | Business/ Pecuniary interests |
Co-opted
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| until 23.9.24 | None | Parent | Parent London Ambulance Service NHS Trust |
Joanne Wallace
Joanne joined the LSC in January 2019 and has 2 children at the school. She works at Abbot’s Hill School where she is Phase Leader for Years 1 to 3 and teaches Year 1. She has been teaching for 18 years in a wide variety of schools from North Nottinghamshire ex mining towns, East London, Australia, North London to Hertfordshire.
Category | Responsibility | Term of Office | Governance roles in other institutions | Relationship School/Staff | Business/ Pecuniary interests |
Co-opted
| Behaviour & Well-being | until 19.12.22 | None | Joanne has 1 child at the school | Parent |
Mrs Natasha Scott
Mrs Scott is a class teacher and leads RE at the school.
Category | Responsibility | Term of Office | Governance roles in other institutions | Relationship School/Staff | Business/ Pecuniary interests |
Staff
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| until 22.09.25 | None | Employee of the school |
Employee |
Sarah Edmond
Sarah was previously employed as the School Business Manager at the school. She left her role to spend more time with her family but wanted to continue to offer her support and contribute to the success of the school. She joined the Local School Committee in August 2021.
Category | Responsibility | Term of Office | Governance roles in other institutions | Relationship School/Staff | Business/ Pecuniary interests |
Co-opted
| H&S Premises | until 26.8.25 | None | Previously employed by the school |
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Tamasin Ransome
Category | Responsibility | Term of Office | Governance roles in other institutions | Relationship School/Staff | Business/ Pecuniary interests |
Elected
| Parent, Tamasin has a daughter at the school | Parent |
Attendance at Local School Committee Meetings 2021-2022
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Governor | Governor Type | 07 Oct 2021 | 25 Nov 2021 | 27 Jan 2022 | 17 Mar 2022 | 12 May 2022 | 30 Jun 2022 |
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Cherie Bunney | Staff governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| 6/6 |
Shelley Crawford | Co-opted governor | NS | NS | NS |
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| 0/3 |
Richard Davies | Parent governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y |
| 5/6 |
Sarah Edmond | Co-opted governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
| 5/6 |
Ms Jen Gardner | Other (Deputy Head) |
| Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| 5/5 |
Mrs Alex Lindley | Headteacher | Y | Y | Y | Y | N |
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| 4/5 |
Mr Iain Nettleton | Co-opted governor | Y | Y | N | Y | Y | Y |
| 5/6 |
Mr Matt Shute | Co-opted governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| 6/6 |
Mrs Joanne Wallace | Co-opted governor | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| 6/6 |
Alan Whitmore | Parent governor | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N |
| 4/6 |
Governors who have stepped down in the last 12 months
Category | Responsibility | Term of Office | Governance roles in other institutions | Relationship School/Staff | Business/ Pecuniary interests |
Michael Scott Community
| Health & Safety/ Asset Management | until 22.06.21 | None | None | Addleshaw Goddard Employee |
Shelley Crawford Co-opted
| Community | until 8.11.24 | None | None | Morrison's employee |
Cherie Bunney Staff | Until 05.01.23 | None | Employee of the School | Employee | |
Alan Whitmore Elected | Finance Communications | Until 19.12.22 | None | Alan previously had a daughter at the school | Legal and General |
| Iain Nettleton | Co-Chair | until 15.6.25 | None | Iain has a daughter at the school | Parent BDO LLP Partner |