East Brent and Lympsham CofE Academies Local Governing Body

The Local Governing Body provides strategic leadership and accountability for the school.  It’s role in summary, is as follows:

• To provide focused governance for the school at a local level;
• To offer a useful link between the Trust Board, parents and the school’s community;
• To act as a sounding board and critical friend to the Executive Head or Headteacher;
• To monitor the school’s key performance indicators including those found in the OfSTED framework;
• To assist with the formation and implementation of Trust-wide policies;
• To keep under review all aspects of the school’s impact and provide challenge as appropriate.

The Local Governing Body is constituted as a committee of the Wessex Learning Trust Board of Directors in accordance with the Trust’s Articles of Association.  The Local Governing Bodies of East Brent and Lympsham CofE Academies have combined so that one Local Governing Body now covers the two schools.

Alan Davies  

Chair of Governors

Composition of the Governing Body

The Governing Body  for 2020-21  comprises 15 governors.  Each governor serves a term of office of four years apart from the Headteacher. Please note some  Governors have an end date are no longer on the Governing Body for 2021-22 

The Chair of Governors can be contacted via the school office

All members of the governing body have a statutory duty to disclose any business or personal interests that may affect their position or work as a governor. 

The governing body operates with two committees and a working group.  Responsibilities related to finance and human resources are delegated to the Finance/HR committee and those related to the school curriculum and standards to the Standards committee.  The Ethos and Values Working Group supports the school in maintaining and developing its Christian ethos and promoting important British values in accordance with the school’s Vision and Values.  All three bodies meet jointly and work together with their counterparts from the Governing Body of Lympsham CofE Academy.

The committees comprise the following members.

Finance/HR Committee

• Mr David Harries (Chair)
• Mr Alan Davies
• Mr Kevin Evans
• Mrs Natasha Steele
• Mrs Fiona Robertson
• Mr Roland Smith
• Mr Michael Frost

Standards Committee

• Mr Anthony Barkle (Co-Chair)
• Mr Christian Oliver (Co-Chair)
• Mrs Fiona Robertson
• Mrs Gemma Fryer
• Miss Jo Thyer
• Mrs Katy Turner
• Mrs Rachael Holland
• Mrs Patricia Payton
• Mr Alan Davies
• Mrs Lucy Kelly

Ethos & Values Working Group

• Mrs Gemma Fryer (Chair)
• Mr Anthony Barkle
• Mrs Fiona Robertson
• Mrs Mandy Davies (RE Co-ordinator)
• Parish Priest (Rev Kevin Evans)

The attendance record at full board and committee meetings over the last academic year 2020/21 is given in the table below.