The Board of Governors - Our promise to you
"We will believe in you, inspire you and challenge you within an environment of support, inclusion and optimism".
The Governors and Senior team at the school will lead and inspire an excellent, modern, employer responsive curriculum. Excellent teaching and learning will be at the heart of all our delivery with academic progression, employment and enterprise embedded throughout. We will lead on strategies to enhance teaching and learning including E learning, learning resources and excellent mentoring and enrichment skills.
We will provide leadership and drive to all our professional support services to deliver excellence – efficiently and effectively. The delivery of outstanding financial management and the ability to develop our income diversity are crucial to our investment strategy. We will deliver innovative accommodation, ICT and workforce development strategies to enable the realisation of our ambitions for extending academic progression, employability and enterprise to our learners.
We will drive quality improvement, promote equality and inclusion and ensure all our students and staff receive excellence. We will promote a culture of continuous improvement throughout and beyond the learner journey.
We commit to collaborating effectively and passionately with all of our partners, locally, nationally and internationally.
In all cases we will lead, inspire, motivate and develop our staff and students as they are crucial to the Academy reaching its ambitions.
This is our promise to you all.
Chair of Governors
You can contact Ms Jane Curle, the Chair of Governors at Kingsthorpe College, Boughton Green Road, Northampton, NN2 7HR.
Governors
| Name | Type of Governor | Appointment made by | Appointment Date | Date stepped down | Business and pecuniary interests | 2017/2018 % attendance whilst in office (4 LGB meetings per year) |
2018/2019 % attendance whilst in office (1 LGB meeting this year) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bal Aujla | Co-opted | Governing Board appointment | 01-Sep-16 | None | 25% | 100% | |
| Louise Bailey | Staff | Election | 02-Nov-15 | 30-Jul-18 | Employee of Kingsthorpe College | 75% | - |
| Justin Brown | Parent | Election | 01-Dec-14 | 1st Nov 2018 | None | 50% | 0% |
| Vanessa Bradley | Co-opted | Governing Board appointment | 14-January-19 | Chair of Governors at Chiltern Primary School | - | - | |
| Siobhan Cotter | Parent | Election | 24-Apr-17 | 01-Apr-18 | None | 0% | - |
| Jane Curle (Chair) | Trust | Trust | 01-Sep-16 | None | 100% | 100% | |
| Jennie Giovanelli | Headteacher | – | 13-Mar-17 | Employee of Kingsthorpe College | 100% | 100% | |
| Chris Hilliard | Trust | Trust | 01-Dec-16 | 17-Sep-18 | Collaborative Academies Trust consultant. National Leader of Governance |
100% | 100% |
| Wendy Holderness | Trust | Trust | 01-Sep-16 | None | 25% | 100% | |
| Katie Johns | Parent | Election | 01-Dec-14 | None | 100% | 100% | |
| Deborah Mattock | Co-opted | Governing Body appointment | 23-May-16 | None | 100% | 100% | |
| Helen Noble | Staff | Election | 01-Sep-16 | Employee of Kingsthorpe College | 100% | 100% | |
| Elishia McDermott | Staff | Election | 01-Sep-18 | Employee of Kingsthorpe College | - | 100% | |
| James Thomas (Vice Chair) | Community | Governing Body appointment | 01-Sep-16 | Deputy Headteacher of CE Academy | 100% | 100% |