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.
- 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
Related documents:
- Governing Body Details (rev. Jan 2023)
- Annual Report and Audited Accounts (Year Ending August 2023)
- School’s Financial Benchmarking
- Memorandum of association
- Articles of association
- Governing Body Attendance 2021 - 2022 report
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).