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Eaton Bray Academy
Happy, inspired, lifelong learners
pre-school

Academy Trust

Eaton Bray Academy Trust is a single academy trust.

The trust operates as an Academy for pupils aged 4 to 11 and for pre-school children serving a catchment area of Eaton Bray and surrounding villages. It has a pupil capacity of 210 in the main school and 45 in the Pre-School.

Trustees - Governing Body

The Governing Body of Eaton Bray Academy exists to ensure that the school fulfils its aims and objectives and meets statutory requirements. Governors also serve as Trustees of the Academy.

  • All members of the governing body are firmly committed to inclusive education for the whole community.
  • All Governors contribute their time freely.

Governance Structure

Please see a diagram of our governance structure below, and a list of Members and Trust Board members.

The Trust Board have established two Committees. These are listed below along with each Committee’s key purpose and Terms of Reference.

Governance Structure

  • 8 Community Governors
  • 2 Parent Governors
  • 1 LA Governor
  • 1 Principal
  • 3 Staff Governors
  • 3 Co-opted Governors
  • Term of Governors is 4 Years

Finance, Personnel and Premises Committee

Purpose: to ensure that the Trustees and School Business Manager and the academies are operating within the parameters of the Funding Agreements and Academies Financial Handbook with a particular responsibility on Audit and Finance and providing value for money.

Teaching and Learning Committee

Purpose: to consider what is taught in lessons, how it is taught and how all pupils are helped to achieve the best they can, whatever barriers there might be to their learning. They meet with subject leaders to find out about developments in the curriculum and how it is delivered.

Members of Trust

  • Robert McVeigh (Trust Member)
  • Catherine Wendeler (Eaton Bray Academy Trustee Representative)
  • Lois Matthews (Trust Member)
  • Vacancy (Trust Member)
  • Vacancy (Trust Member)

Board of Trustees

Emma Howe

Chair of Governors
Safeguarding Governor
Governor for Mathmatics

Lynne Mercer

Headteacher

Vicki Gray

Staff Governor

Jenny Lyons

Staff Governor

Simon Hardy

Vice-Chair
Chair of Finance, Facilities and Personnel Committee
Governor for Health & Safety and Physical Education

Rebecca Salvatore

Chair of Teaching and Learning Committee
Governor for English, Inclusion and Equality

Owen Venables

Governor for Modern Foreign Languages

Stuart Wright

Vice Chair of Finance, Facilities and Personnel Committee
Governor for Art, DT and Computing

Grace Wilkinson

Governor for Science, PSHE and SEND

Contact

If you wish to contact our trustees you can do this through the chair:

Emma Howe
C/O – Eaton Bray Academy, School Lane, Eaton Bray, LU6 2DT
01525 220468
governors@eba.ec

Minutes of the Trust Board can be obtained by request by emailing the clerk at admin@eba.ec

Register of Business Interests

Our Governors have a statutory obligation to list any relevant business and pecuniary interests recorded in the Statutory Register of Business Interests. This includes governance roles in other educational institutions; any material interests arising from relationships between governors or relationships between governors and school staff (including spouses, partners and close relatives).