Governor Status

Name

Position

Skill set

Term of office

(end date)

Local Authority Appointed Governor

Alison Cogger

BA (Hons), PGCE,  MA (Ed),

Ed D (ongoing)

(Governor 1997 - Chair of Governors 2004 - continuing)

Link Governor:

• Health & Safety
• Pupil Premium
• SEN
• Staff Development

Academic –Senior Lecturer 

Faculty of Education

FSET: Fellow Society for Education & Training

SFHEA: Senior Fellow Higher Education Academy

CCT: Member Chartered College of Teaching

31/7/2021

Partnership  Governor

Dr Marion Stuart Hoyle

PhD

Vice Chair &

Chair of Curriculum

Committee

Link Governor:

• English
• Most Able
• SMSC (Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural)
• PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education)
• FBV (Fundamental British Values)
• Sport

Academic Senior Fellow-Higher Education Academy

Director-Geography, Events, Leisure and Tourism

Principal Lecturer, Tourism

School of Human and Life Sciences 

31/7/2022

Co-opted

Governor

Caroline Cooper

BA (Hons) MTMI

Chair of Finance Committee

Link Governor:

• Art
• Music
• History
• Geography
• MFL (Modern Foreign Languages)
• Arts Mark

Local Government /Legal/Finance

Arts and Culture sector development, strategy, marketing and communications

31/7/2023

Co-opted Governor

Rev Barney De Berry

Link Governor:

• RE
• PE (Dance)

Spiritual

31/7/2023

Parent Governor

Philippa Pickford

LLB (Hons)

Link Governor:

• Science

Economics, legal policy development and strategic thinking. Associate Partner, Wholesale Markets at Ofgem.

Member of senior civil service – experience of using wide range of qualitative and quantitative analysis - financial and non to develop policies

31/7/2023

Staff Governor

Erica Kokle

BA (Hons) French

MA (French) PGCE primary

PGCE Post-Compulsory

Deputy head –

staff development, curriculum, Pupil Premium

Teaching in primary, Further Education and Skills and Higher Education 

31/7/2022

Co-opted Governor

Dr David Simpson

Link Governor:

• Maths
• Computing

Medical

Consultant Clinical Scientist

31/7/2021

Parent Governor

Dr Kirsty Horsey

LLB PhD PGCHE

Chair of Pupil and Personnel Committee.

Link Governor:

• Forest School
• Design & Technology
• Safeguarding
• Attendance
• RSE (Relationships and Sex Education)

Legal – Reader in Law

/researcher (law) University of Kent – teaching and learning development

31/7/2022

Headteacher

Nicola Dawson

Headteacher

Parent Governor

Paul Todd

LLB – Certificate Law Society

Link Governor:

• Well-being

Legal/social welfare

Community relations

Project management and catering and nutrition

31/7/2022

Clerk to the Board of Governors: Jonathan Cane