Agenda item

Election of Chairman

To elect a Chairman in accordance with Standing Order No. 29.

 

Subject to the outcome of this election, it may be necessary to conduct an election of Deputy Chairman in accordance with Standing Order No. 30.

Minutes:

Members elected a Chair in accordance with Standing Order 29.

 

RESOLVED, that being the only Member willing to serve, Caroline Haines be

elected as Chair for the ensuing year.

 

As Caroline Haines was previously the Deputy Chair, the Board then moved to elect a Deputy Chairman in accordance with Standing Order 30.

RESOLVED, that – being the only Member willing to serve, Deputy Philip Woodhouse be elected as Deputy Chairman for the ensuing year.

 

RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That - at the conclusion of her four-month term of office as their Chair, Members of the Education Board wish to extend to:

 

ANN HOLMES

 

their sincere thanks and appreciation for the manner in which she has presided over their deliberations as Chair and Deputy Chair and the passion and drive she has shown toward the City’s provision of education.

 

In Ann’s time as Chair, she led the Board in the City’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Addressing the significant impact the virus has had on teaching and learning throughout the City and beyond. Despite the restrictions and barriers to learning in place, Ann has helped to ensure continued delivery of the City’s three fundamental strategies in Education, Cultural and Creative Learning and Skills.

 

Ann has necessarily focussed strategy toward the role of family, parents and carers in children’s learning; with her own passion for the role of music and other creative arts shining through in a lot of the Board’s work.

 

During her time, Ann has helped the City respond to significant changes in the national curriculum within its Family of Schools, not least the transfer to virtual learning platforms. Enabling the re-shaping of lifelong learning and apprenticeships that the City is able to offer its residents, schools, employees and visitors.

 

Ann has performed her role as Chair with great fervour and perseverance.  Her vision has helped support the City through the continually changing landscape of the education and skills sector so that it remains a place that people from the Square Mile and beyond, want to come to learn and teach, be that virtually or otherwise.

 

Finally, Members wish to convey to Ann, their good wishes for her and her family’s future health and happiness.