St Benedict's Catholic Academy

In Love we Learn,
In Faith we Grow

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Education Standards Committee (ESC)

Main functions are to:

  1. To provide a strategic overview that ensures the pupils learn most effectively and achieve the highest standards
  2. Act as a “critical friend” of the school by providing the Principal and staff with support, advice, and information by monitoring and evaluating the school’s effectiveness.
  3. To ensure accountability. We are accountable to parents, pupils, the community, the Diocese and Ofsted

It is also responsible for many important decisions in the running of the school. These include:

  1. Involvement in the appointment of teaching staff as appropriate.
  2. Agreeing the aims of the school curriculum and ensuring the national curriculum is implemented
  3. Dealing with official complaints and exclusions

Our Education Standard committee

The staff governor is elected by the staff and normally serves for 4 years.

The parent governors are elected to serve the Education Standards Committee by parents of the school and normally serve for 4 years.

Parent governors are pleased to hear about views and ideas and can be contacted in writing via the school office.

The Foundation governors are appointed by the Diocese and normally serve for 4 years.

The co-opted governors are invited onto the ESC committee, to add areas of expertise and to represent the local community. We use a robust set of skills audits to ascertain the requirements and expertise required by the governing body.

A full list of the governors as well as information about their appointment, committee membership, attendance, and the Register of Business interests is available below.

St Bens ESC (ID 1202)

  • Natalie Anderton
    Foundation Governor

    Natalie Anderton

    I am the Vice Principal at St Thomas More and have worked at STM for 16 years. I teach Maths - please don't hold that against me!! I am incredibly proud to work within our MAC and I am committed to Catholic education and the fundamental role it plays, alongside parents/carers and the Parish, to form our young people. I am delighted to be able to contribute more widely to the MAC by offering my support as an ESC member at St Benedict's Academy. I am really looking forward to getting to know the school and the families it serves in the hope that, along with the rest of the ESC team, we can support the school's leaders in striving for St Benedict's to be an outstanding provider of Catholic Education

  • Judith Finelli
    Staff Governor

    Judith Finelli

  • Nicola Osborne
    Foundation Governor

    Nicola Osborne

    Responsible for Attendance

  • Aaron Owen
    Parent Governor - Chair

    Aaron Owen

    Responsible for Wider Curriculum/HSE

  • Paula Parker
    Head of School

    Paula Parker

  • Gerard McDonald
    Foundation Governor

    Gerard McDonald

    For the past 20 years I have been the owner and Managing Director of a local Engineering Business specialising in the Aerospace and the Automotive industries. I have a broad range of knowledge and experience in management accounting, procurement, purchasing, finance and sales. I am a practicing Roman Catholic at St. Peters parish in Hinckley and my daughter attended Our Lady of the Angels school right through to St Thomas More in Nuneaton before going onto teaching herself. I am looking forward to working alongside fellow governors, staff and team members to help bring the best educational experience to the children in line with the school ethos.

  • Sara Pearman
    Foundation Governor

    Sara Pearman

 

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