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Local Academy Board

Governing Body Composition

The constitution for the Local Academy Board is:

Headteacher, Co-Head of School, 2 parent governors, 1 staff governor, 1 Trust governor and 4 co-opted governors. 

The quorum shall be 3 governors or, where greater, any one-third (rounded up) of the total number of governors of the LAB.

The Local Academy Body of Temple Mill Primary School

Each governor is responsible for the monitoring of a key area of the school. Their responsibilities are listed below.

  • Lisa Lewis (Head of School)
  • Barbara Fincham (Trust Appointed - Chair of Governors)
  • Ashley Butters (Parent)
  • Sue Lamb (Trust Appointed - Vice-Chair of Governors)
  • Patricia Emerick (Trust Appointed)
  • Kirsten Collis (Staff)

Terms of Reference for our Local Academy Board can be found here.

For details of the Members and Directors of The Howard Academy Trust please click here.

Meets

The Local Academy Board will meet at least 3 times a year and otherwise as required.

Members of the Local Academy Board will have at least seven clear days’ notice of the meeting and its agenda, except in the case of an emergency meeting.

The agenda and minutes will be produced by the Clerk to Governors and made available to all members of the Local Academy Board via GovernorHub.

A copy of the minutes, apart from confidential items, will be available in the school office for inspection by parent/carers and staff.

Name Relevant Business & Pecuniary Interests
(including governance roles in other education institutions)
Attendance record at meetings for the academic year ('22-'23)
Mrs Lisa Lewis (Head of School)
Appointed: Ongoing
None Declared 3 of 4
Barbara Fincham (Chair of Governors/Trust Appointed)
Appointed: 01/11/2019
Retired
Robert Napier School: Governor - (Vice Chair, Welfare and SG Lead)
Schools forum Member
Phoenix Primary School: Governor - (SG Lead)
Independent Review Panel and Admission Appeals for KCC
4 of 4
Ashley Butters (Parent)
Appointed: 22/01/2020
None Declared 2 of 4
Sue Lamb (Trust Appointed)
Appointed: 07/06/2022
Medway Early Years Ltd: EYFS Consultant, C/O Crest Infant and Nursery School
Contracts offered - One off First Aid training day for Temple Mill
Paediatric First Aid Level 3 Certificated course
Chattenden: Governing Body
(02/10/2019) - Expires 2023
St Helen C/E: Governing Body
(02/10/2019) - Expires 2023
4 of 4
Patricia Emerick (Trust Appointed)
Appointed: 07/06/2022
Undertake 11 plus invigilation, not for Temple Mill but for other schools
Governor of Robert Napier Secondary School - joined June 2016
3 of 4
Kirsten Collis (Staff)
Appointed: 22/11/2022
Barbara Fincham - family friend 3 of 3
Owen McColgan (Accounting Officer/CEO) Medway Academy of Performing Arts
(Partner from 03/01/2020)
Inspiring Change MAT
(Member from 12/12/2018)
Featherby Infants & Junior School
(Governor from 08/09/2020)
Ofsted Inspector
N/A
Past Governors

Paul Chaplin (Trust Appointed)
Appointed: 20/05/2020
Resigned: 03/02/2022

None Declared N/A

David Bignell (Co-Head of School)
Appointed: 16/07/2020
Retired

Medway Early Years: Spouse is a Manager
(from 01/09/2018)
Medway Mindfulness: Sole Trader
(from 01/01/2018)
N/A

Nicola Caselton (Staff)
Appointed: 10/07/2019
Resigned: 22/11/2022

AHT and SENCO at Temple Mill Primary School
Parent Governor at The Marlborough Centre in Hoo

1 of 1
Rae Brailsford-Hart (Parent)
Appointed: 02/10/2019
Resigned: 03/07/2023
Civil Servant 1 of 3

Wendy Rogers (Trust Appointed)
Appointed: 05/07/2019

Term of office not renewed

Kent County Council: Employee  
(from 1994) 
Rochester Museum: Spouse of Employee 
(from 1998) 
Thomas Aveling: Governor 
(from 2012) 
0 of 4

Last Updated: 1st April 2023 

All correspondence should be directed to Mrs Barbara Fincham, Chair of Governors, c/o Temple Mill Primary School