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  • THE AURORA MISSION

    Creating opportunity and success for all our pupils

    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