Agenda item

Appointment of Committees and Working Parties, AGBIS Representative and Governor Designated Roles

Report of the Town Clerk.

Minutes:

The Board considered a report of the Town Clerk regarding the appointment of Committees and Working Parties, Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools Representative and Governors’ Designated Roles for the 2021/22 academic year and the following point was made:

 

·         There were a number of vacancies for Governor Designated Roles.  Key roles would be allocated as a matter of priority with any remaining vacancies rolling forward to the next meeting of the Board of Governors when it was anticipated that some additional Governors may have been appointed to the Board. A new Governor Designated Role on Diversity and Inclusion had been established in line with the recommendations of the Race Equality Review. 

 

RESOLVED - That:

 

·         Nicholas Bensted-Smith be appointed the School’s representative to the Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools for the 2021/22 academic year;

 

·         Governor’s Designated Roles for the 2021/22 academic year be agreed as follows:

 

Randall Anderson

Compliance

To be allocated.

Creative Arts

Shravan Joshi

Diversity and Inclusion

Deputy Richard Regan

Extra-curricular

To be allocated.

Fundraising

Shravan Joshi

Diversity and Inclusion

Peter Bennett

Health and Safety

Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia

Humanities

Rehana Ameer

IT

To be allocated.

Modern Foreign Languages

To be allocated.

PE

Elizabeth Phillips

Prep School

Nicholas Bensted-Smith

Safeguarding

Dhruv Patel

SEND

Dr Stephanie Ellington

Sixth Form and Careers

To be allocated.

STEM

To be allocated.

Teacher Recruitment

Alderman Prem Goyal

Wellbeing

 

·         The terms of reference of the Committees and Working Party of the Board be approved, including proposed amendments to the terms of reference of the Governance Committee and Finance and Estates Committee, and the terms of reference and composition of the Teachers’ Pay Panel be noted.

 

·         The following appointments be made to the Committees and Working Parties of the Board:

 

Bursary Committee

Nicholas Bensted-Smith (Chairman)

Peter Bennett (Deputy Chairman)

Randall Anderson

Shravan Joshi

 

Governance Committee

Nicholas Bensted-Smith (Chairman)

Peter Bennett (Deputy Chairman)

Randall Anderson

Alderman Robert Howard

Elizabeth Phillips

 

            Finance and Estates Committee

Peter Bennett (Chairman)

Randall Anderson

Nicholas Bensted-Smith

Mark Bostock

Alderman Prem Goyal

Alderman Robert Howard

Dhruv Patel

 

Academic Working Party

Elizabeth Phillips (Chairman)

Peter Bennett

Nick Bensted-Smith

Dr Stephanie Ellington

Headmistress

Senior Deputy Head (Staff)

Deputy Head (Academic)

Deputy Head (Pastoral)

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