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Oakwood Primary Academy Local Academy Board

Governance Information

Full Name

Category/

Appointing Body

Term of office

Date of appointment

Expiry

Meetings attended in 2022/2023

Anne McWilliams

Chair - appointed by Trust

4 years

01/01/2023

31/08/2027

5 out of 5

David Sharp Acting Head of School Ex-officio 01/09/2024   n/a
Ms Elizabeth Fitzpatrick Co-opted - appointed by LAB 4 years 28/09/2023 27/09/2027 5 out of 5
Ellen Ludford Parent - elected by parents 4 years 06/02/2023 05/02/2027 4 out of 5
Kirsty O'Connell Staff - elected by staff 4 years 12/10/2023 11/10/2027 3 out of 5
Kimberley Westgate Parent - elected by parents 4 years 06/02/2023 05/02/2027 3 out of 5

Governance Information - members who served in the last 12 months

Full Name

Category/

Appointing Body

Term of office

Date of appointment

Date stepped down Meetings attended in 2023-24
Ryan Laker Headteacher ex-officio 01/01/2023 31/08/2024 4 out of 5

Register of Interests

Full Name 

Relevant business and pecuniary interests

Anne McWilliams

LAB Chair at King Offa, from 11/07/2022 to 31/08/2024

David Sharp (Headteacher) Nil return
Ms Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Employment: Atkins, from 03/09/2017

Member: International Council Systems Engineering UK, from 01/11/2017

Visiting Fellow Loughborough University, from 01/11/2022

Member: Institute of Physics, from 01/10/2020

Ellen Ludford

Employment: Willingdon Trees Community Centre

Family: Parent of Pupil

Friend: Is lunchtime worker at the school

Co-chair Oakwood PTFA, from 07/08/2023

Kirsty O'Connell

Aurora Employee

Two children attend OPA

Kimberley Westgate

Employment: Curant Care

Child at the school

Retired LAB members  
Ryan Laker (Headteacher) - resigned 31/08/2024 Nil return

To request minutes of LAB meetings, please contact the Governance Manager ruthali@auroraacademies.org

Everyone on Board 2023

Tackling the democratic deficit of young and diverse governors on school governing boards. Over a third of Inspiring Governance's current governor appointments are from an ethnic minority and nearly half are under 35 years old, yet there is a fast-growing divergence in the wider school system between those making and implementing decisions in our schools and those on the receiving end of those decisions.

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Co-opted LAB member vacancy

Oakwood Local Academy Board Member vacancy