Governing Board

The Board of Directors has a key role to play in helping the College provide the best possible education for all its students. The School Standards and Framework Act 1998 strengthens that role by giving governing bodies a specific responsibility for helping to raise standards. The governing body meet regularly and review each aspect of the College. This includes students achievement and progress, teaching and learning, use of resources, and staffing. Committees and panels are formed as required and a finance and premises committee meet during the year to specifically review the best use of the money allocated to the College. The admissions panel meet regularly throughout the year.

The Governors’ vision is that the College including all the students and staff are the “best we can be” and more detail on this can be found by following this link.

The membership of the board, the Chairs and Vice Chairs of each committee is shown below.

All communications to the Directors should be directed in the first instance to the Clerk, Michelle Ferris. Her email address is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Members of the Board

Name	Role	Type of Governor	Term Expires	Attendance 2017 - 18	Committee's	Pecuniary interest
Canon John Cunningham	Chair of Governors	Foundation	31/01/2021	10 out of 12	All	Priest Director of Holy Cross Catholic Primary School Diocesan Trustee
Mrs Liz Barrett	Vice Chair of Governors	Co-opt	10/01/2021	11 out of 12	n/a	Employed by Intel Corporation (UK) Ltd
Mr Terry Aspell	Chair of Finance and Premises committee	Foundation	Resignation effective 31 August 2018	7 out of 12	Finance and Premises Progress	Employed by Hewlett Packard Enterprises Ltd
Mr Chris Lang	Chair of Admissions Panel	Foundation	31/07/2019	24 out of 26	Admissions finance and Premises	None Declared
Mr Andrew Szeliga		Foundation	31/07/2019	13 out of 26	Admissions Finance and Premises	Velox Technologies Ltd (Owner) Director of Holy Family Catholic Academy
Mrs Elaine O'Connell-Prater		Foundation	31/12/2017 No longer a governor	9 out of 11	Admissions	None Declared
Mr Tony Matthews	Vice Chair	Foundation	31/07/2019	12 out of 12	n/a	Employed by RM results Quasair Ltd (Director) (Dormant)
Mrs Jennifer Makamure		Foundation	30/09/2019 - Resigned as of 18/12/2018	11 out of 17		Employed by UK Research and innovation. Child attends the College
Mr Paul Hughes	Executive Principal	E Officio		23 out of 26	All	ASCL
Mr Mark Fleet	Staff Governor	Staff	03/05/2020	9 out of 14		Mother, Mrs Fleet employed by Swindon Music Service Freelance event technician
Mr Andrej Matyla	Staff Governor	Staff	03/05/2020 - Resigned 24/4/2019	7 out of 14		NASUWT Member
Mrs Marie Temple-Richmond	Staff Governor	Staff	02/07/2019	n/a
Mr Aaron Thornton	Chair of Finance Committee	Foundation	20/09/2022	n/a
Mr John Moore	Vice Chair of Finance Committee	Foundation	20/09/2022	n/a
Mr Kevin Burchall		Foundation	20/09/2022	n/a

The Diocese of Clifton appoints the foundation governors. Staff and parent governors are selected following the process as recommended by the national governors association and Department for Education which is then ratified by the governing body and trustee’s. Unless otherwise noted, each Governor servers a term of four years.

Designated Safeguarding Lead: Adrian Stoten
Designated Senior Manager for Allegations & lead contact for Public & Parents: Helen Peace
Link Governor for Safeguarding & Child Protection: Mrs Liz Barrett.

All foundation governors are appointed by Bishop Declan of the Clifton Diocese, staff governors are appointed by election, parent governors are appointed by election and the one additional governor is appointment by the Governing Body as a whole.

The Chair of the Board is Canon John Cunningham who can be contacted at the College address or via the clerk.

For a description of the governing body's activities, please click here

For a summary of governing body meetings, please click on the month below