Trustees and Members

Introduction

Thomas Keble is an Academy School and the Governors of the Academy Trust are known as Trustees. They are supported and overseen by a separate panel of independent Members. The Trustees and Members together are known as the Trust Board.

Trustees

Thomas Keble is an Academy School and the Trustees are the Governors of the Academy Trust and oversee the strategic development of the school, supporting and advising the senior leadership team. They meet six times a year as the Full Trust Board and review all aspects of the school’s work, and at least once a term within various committees, according to their particular expertise or interest, to focus on other specific areas.

Key functions of the Trust Board are to:

• Set the aims and objectives for the school in order to raise standards and secure the health, safety and well-being of pupils
• Set the policies that underpin those aims and objectives
• Set the targets for achieving those aims and objectives
• Monitor and evaluate the progress the school is making towards achievement of its aims and objectives
• Be a source of challenge and support to the Headteacher
• Be accountable for the school’s strategic development.

The Trustees’ committees consist of the following groups:

Trustees’ Declaration of Interests

Declaration of Interests forms are completed annually by all Trustees.  No Trustee at Thomas Keble School has declared a Pecuniary Interest.  Memberships of other organisations have been declared as follows:

• Simon Bernstein (Member): CEO of Longfield Hospice (Local Charity)
• Fiona Gill (Academy Trustee): husband is Trustee of Foodbank Stroud (Voluntary) and employed by The Door Youth Project Stroud

Minutes of meetings

Should you wish to have copies of minutes (non-confidential) of trustee meetings, please email the clerk (Amanda Oxberry) at: aoxberry@thomaskeble.gloucs.sch.uk and she will be happy to send any you wish to see.

Members

Members oversee the Trust’s governance and maintain an awareness of the Trust’s business. We currently have four Members who oversee the Trust’s governance and maintain an awareness of the Trust’s business, but are not expected to attend regular Trust Board meetings.  Members meet with Trustees around twice a year at a Strategy meeting in July and at the Academy’s Annual General Meeting (held in December), and hold three further Members’ only meetings throughout the year.

To contact the Chair of Trustees, email chair@thomaskeble.gloucs.sch.uk.

All Trustees and Members are contactable via the Clerk: aoxberry@thomaskeble.gloucs.sch.uk