Our Governors

REAch2 now has 60 primary schools and is organised into 10 clusters. You can find a complete list of the clusters on the REAch2 website. Our school is in Cluster 4.

 

REAch2 Governance

We have three layers of governance in REAch2: local governing bodies which oversee individual schools, cluster boards who oversee each cluster and our Board of Trustees who are ultimately accountable to the Department for Education for the running of the Trust.

 

All our schools share the same governance structure and you can find information about the trust on the REAch2 website at www.reach2.org. The Governance page gives details of how the Trust is organised, including the Articles of Association, the Master Funding Agreement and all the documents which relate to how the Trust was founded and how it runs today. You can also find details of who our trustees are.

 

Our school, like most schools in the Trust, has a local governing body (LGB). There are terms of reference, which detail how the LGB should work and what its responsibilities are. On the REAch2 website, terms of reference are available for all our boards, including the Trust Board. You can also find documents which show how all the different layers communicate and how responsibility and accountability is distributed.

 

Governance at Garden City Academy

The LGB holds meetings during the year in which they help to support the school, its leadership and pupils, whilst challenging to make sure that everyone achieves as much progress as they can and should.

Our school’s LGB is made up of trust-appointed members, who are volunteers, parents, two staff and the headteacher. They can invite other members of staff in to meetings to discuss current issues. You can find out about our governors here. They have to declare that they are working for the school in an open and honest way and so fill in a declarations of interests form.

The LGB also works alongside a cluster board where cluster-wide issues are discussed. The Cluster Board is made up of volunteers, just like an LGB, head teachers and chairs of governors. There is also a central team with officers and business partners who specialise in providing support in areas such as finance, HR, health and safety, estates and governance.

 

Our acting chair of Governors is Joel Primo, if you need to contact them please find there Governor email below:

COG@gardencityacademy.org

 

Governors at Garden City Academy

  • Joel Primo - Appointed Governor and Acting chair of governors
  • Lucy Hopkinson - Staff Governor
  • Shampa Shaha - Staff Governor
  • Elena Pascanu - Parent Governor
  • Martyn Schofield - Parent Governor
  • Ms Simone Payne - Co-Opted Governor

We have to share this information with you about our governors and governance:

Governor Documents

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Below is the attendance at 22/23 Meetings 

Garden City Academy

Attendance

 

 

Y = Attended, N = Apologies Accepted, NA = Apologies not Accepted, NS = No Apologies sent, ? = Attendance Not Marked, Blank = Not Required

 

 

 

 

LGB 1

LGB 2 ( online) 

LGB 3

LGB 4

LGB 5

LGB 6

Governor

Governor Type

21 Sep 2022

14 Dec 2022

01 Feb 2023

22 Mar 2023

24 May 2023

12 Jul 2023

Mr Sean  English

Headteacher

Y

Y

Y

 

 

 

Mrs Lisa Glennon

Staff governor

Y

Y

Y

 

 

 

Clare Kiss

Appointed governor

Y

Y

Y

 

 

 

Mrs Sue Marr

Appointed governor

Y

Y

Y

 

 

 

Paul O'Sullivan

Co-opted governor

N

N

N

 

 

 

Mrs Elena  Pascanu

Parent governor

Y

Y

Y

 

 

 

Mr Joel Primo

Appointed governor

Y

N

N

 

 

 

Martyn Schofield

Parent governor

N

Y

Y

 

 

 

Ms Trisha Sewell

 

Y

Y

Y

 

 

 

Mr Ray Wilson

Appointed governor

N

Y

Y

 

 

 

Christine Woolston

Staff governor

Y

N

Y

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Garden City Academy Attendance

 

Y = Attended, N = Apologies Accepted, NA = Apologies not Accepted, NS = No Apologies sent, ? = Attendance Not Marked, Blank = Not Required, CA = Consent for absence, - = Not applicable

 

 

Garden City Academy

Attendance 2021/22

 

 

 

 

 

 

Y = Attended, N = Apologies Accepted, NA = Apologies not Accepted, NS = No Apologies sent, ? = Attendance Not Marked, Blank = Not Required,

CA = Consent for absence, - = Not applicable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LGB Meeting

LGB Meeting

LGB - Meeting to ratify policies ( 10 mins)

LGB Meeting

LGB Meeting

LGB meeting

LGB Meeting f2f 

Governor

Governor Type

22 Sep 2021

15 Dec 2021

28 Jan 2022

02 Feb 2022

23 Mar 2022

10 Jun 2022

13 Jul 2022

Mr Sean  English

Headteacher

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mrs Lisa Glennon

Staff governor

Y

Y

?

Y

Y

Y

Y

Clare Kiss

Appointed governor

Y

Y

?

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mrs Sue Marr

Appointed governor

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Miss Gemma McIver

 

Y

Y

?

NS

 

 

 

Paul O'Sullivan

Co-opted governor

 

 

 

 

 

Y

Y

Mrs Elena  Pascanu

Parent governor

 

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mr Joel Primo

Appointed governor

NS

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

N

Rhianna  Quenault

 

N

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martyn Schofield

Parent governor

 

Y

?

Y

Y

N

Y

Ms Trisha Sewell

 

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Mr Ray Wilson

Appointed governor

Y

Y

?

Y

Y

Y

Y

Christine Woolston

Staff governor

 

Y

Y

NS

N

NS

Y