All free schools, like Academies, are governed by not-for-profit charitable trusts, which are closely monitored by the Audit Commission to ensure that they provide good value for the public money with which they are entrusted.
In the case of King’s School, the Governing Body is the Board of the Russell Education Trust (RET), a Government-approved academy sponsor. Information about RET's Trustees can be found on the RET website.
In each of its schools, RET formally delegates a range of its responsibilities to a Local Governing Body representing the community. More information about this structure can be found in the RET Scheme of Delegation and the King’s School Governing Body Standing Orders.
A close, consultative relationship exists between RET and the Local Governing Bodies of its schools and the views of local governors inform all aspects of RET policy.
The King’s School Local Governing Body includes the Headteacher, two elected parent governors and up to ten further governors appointed by the Trust.
Local Governors are appointed/elected for a 4 year term, and are currently as follows:
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Name: |
Appointer / Date: |
Committees / Responsibilities: |
Date stepped down (where applicable) |
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Katherine Laux (Chair) |
RET/Sept 2017 |
SCS, FWC, S&D, FBP |
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Simon Croft |
RET/Sept 2017 |
S&D, FBP |
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Anna Webb |
RET/Sept 2017 |
S&D, FBP |
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Steve Tennant |
RET/Sept 2017 |
SCS, FWC / SRE |
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Lisa Taylor |
RET/Sept 2017 |
SCS, FWC / SFG |
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Tom Hall |
RET/Sept 2017 |
SCS, FWC / SEN |
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Charlotte Flackhill |
RET/Sept 2017 |
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Cathy Colclough |
Elected/Sept 2017 |
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Sarah Price (Headteacher) |
RET/Dec 2014 |
SCS, FWC, S&D, FBP |
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Rick Crockett |
March 2016 |
SCS: Students, Curriculum and Standards Committee
FBP: Finance, Building and Premises Committee
S&D: Staffing & Development
FWC : Faith, Worship and Community
SEN: Special Education Needs monitoring
SRE: Sex and Relationships Education monitoring
SFG: Safeguarding monitoring
Contact should normally through the school administrative office. Further details of how to communicate with the governing body are on our Contact Us page.