Governance
Free Schools are publicly funded, independently governed schools. Each Free School has a sponsor. The sponsor for King’s Hawthornes is ‘Great Schools Trust’ a charitable company incorporated to oversee the academies it sponsors. The sponsor has a master funding agreement with the Secretary of State for Education. Each school within the multi-academy trust also has an individual supplementary funding agreement with the parent trust.
‘Great Schools Trust’ is the legally responsible governing body for all academies in its network. In practice, the Great Schools Trust board delegates most relevant governance functions to King’s Hawthornes Local Academy Council (LAC). This means that, unlike most maintained governing bodies, the LAC has no statutory responsibilities. This allows governors to concentrate on educational strategy, school outcomes and aspiration.
The King’s Hawthornes LAC is made up as follows:
- Up to nine members are appointed by Great Schools Trust, including the Chair, who are committed to supporting the school. Each appointed member will have a specific area of expertise that will help further develop the school
- King’s Hawthornes Principal
- One elected teacher representitive
- One elected non-teaching representitive
- Two parent representitive
- Up to two more representitive may be appointed to the LGB for limited periods when specific expertise is needed
Governors are appointed/elected for two-year terms, up to a maximum of ten years. Free School staff may not be Chair or Vice Chair of the LGB.
Great Schools Trust aims to create a balanced group that will have the right skills, connections and dynamic for the LAC to work well and support the school in achieving exceptional performance:
The LAC meets six times per year.
The current governors of King’s Hawthornes are:
AS AT AUGUST 2018
CHAIR: Aiden Harper
PRINCIPAL: Peter Gaul
CLERK TO GOVERNORS: Patricia Moore
| GOVERNOR MEMBER | AREA OF RESPONSIBILTY | DATE APPOINTED | GOVERNORS ELSEWHERE |
| Sir Iain Hall | CEO
Ex-Officio Chair |
01.10.14 | King’s Warrington
King’s Liverpool |
| Peter Gaul | Principal
Ex-Officio |
23.06.16 | |
| Hilary Wilcock | Safeguarding & Safer Recruitment
Curriculum Over View Finance Performance |
01.10.14 | King’s Warrington |
| Eileen Davison | Finance and General Purpose | 01.10.14 | King’s Warrington
De Le Salle School |
| Ali Horton | Deputy Chair
Safeguarding Curriculum & Standards Community |
08.12.16 | |
| Kate Hay | Non-teaching Governor
Pupil Premium |
08.12.16 | |
| Aiden Harper | Leadership Development
Curriculum and Standards |
01.10.14 | |
| David Garner | Parent Governor
Finance and General Purpose |
26.06.15 | |
| Monique Prenderville Howard | Community Governor
Community |
06.03.18 | |
| Patricia Moore | Clerk to the Governors |
BUSINESS AND PECUNIARY INTERESTS
| GOVERNOR | REGISTER OF INTERESTS | RELATIONSHIPS TO SCHOOL STAFF |
| Sir Iain Hall | N/A | N/A |
| Peter Gaul | N/A | N/A |
| Hilary Wilcock | N/A | N/A |
| Eileen Davison | N/A | N/A |
| Ali Horton | Ykids – provides services to the school | N/A |
| Kate Hay | N/A | N/A |
| Aiden Harper | TFL – provides services to the school | N/A |
| David Garner | N/A | N/A |
| Monique Prenderville-Howard | N/A | N/A |
| Karien Speariett | N/A | N/A |
ATTENDANCE AT GOVERNORS’ MEETINGS
NOVEMBER 2017 TO DECEMBER 2018
| DATE OF MEETING | I HALL | P GAUL | H WILCOCK | E DAVISON | A THOMAS | K HAY | A HARPER | D GARNER | M PRENDERVILLE HOWARD | K SPEARIETT |
| 22.11.17 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | – | – |
| 06.03.17 | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / | / |
| 19.04.18 | / | / | / | / | X | / | / | / | / | / |
| 03.07.18 | X | / | / | / | / | X | X | X | / | / |
| 20.09.18 | X | / | / | / | / | X | / | x | / | / |
| 10.12.18 | / | / | / | X | / | x | / | / | / | x |