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  • THE AURORA MISSION

    Creating opportunity and success for all our pupils

    Westvale Park Primary Academy Local Academy Board

    Governance Information

    Full Name 

    Category/

    Appointing Body

    Term of office

    Date of appointment

    Expiry

    Meetings attended in 2023/24

    Mr Andy Wright

    (Chair)

    Chair – appointed by Trust

    4 years

    first appointed as parent LAB member 10/11/2020

    Term as chair 01/09/2022

    31/08/2026

    4 out of 4

    Mrs Susan Kelly

    Headteacher

    Ex officio

    10/11/2020

     

    5 out of 5

    Nikinder Baller Parent - elected by parents 4 years 01/12/2023 30/11/2027 4 out of 4
    Ms Catherine Collins Parent - elected by parents 4 years 10/11/2024 09/11/2028 n/a
    Mr Ryan Farrant Staff - elected by staff 4 years 02/11/2023 01/11/2027 4 out of 4

    Mr Philip Smith

    Co-opted – appointed by LAB

    4 years

    22/02/2022

    21/02/2026

    4 out of 5

    Ms Ushma Olaitan

    Co-opted – appointed by LAB

    4 years

    14/06/2022

    13/06/2026

    4 out of 5

    LAB members who served in the past 12 months

     

    Full Name 

     

    Category/

    Appointing

    Body

    Term of office

    Date of appointment

    Date stepped down

    Meetings attended in 2023/24
      Mr Mark Siddle   Parent - elected by parents 4 years 10/11/2020 09/11/2024 4 out of 5

    Register of Interests

    Full Name

    Relevant business and pecuniary interests

    Mr Andy Wright

    (Chair)

    Family: Child at the school, from 04/11/2022

    Family: Wife staff member at the school, from 07/06/2022

    Mrs Susan Kelly (Headteacher)

    Family: Child at the school, from 01/09/2023

    Nikinder Baller

    Family: Children at the school, from 01/09/2020

    Employment: Praxis Advisory LLP, from 01/01/2023

    Member of Institute of chartered accountants

    Self-employed business - Sweet and Slice Bakes, from 01/07/2020

    Catherine Collins

    Family:  Two children at the school, from 07/05/2021

    Employment:  Quietroom Ltd, from 03/10/2022

    Ryan Farrant Employed by Aurora Academies Trust

    Mr Mark Siddle (term of office expired 09/11/204)

    Family: Child at the school, from 01/09/2022

    Mr Philip Smith

    Nil return

    Ms Ushma Olaitan

    Business Interest: Manor Avenue Consulting Ltd, from 03/10/2021

    Governance role: Burstow Primary School, from 01/09/2022

    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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