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Governors Information

Name of Governor/Trustee	Committee	Position held	Curriculum Responsibility
Michael Hennessey	SPD/Curriculum & Progress/Personnel/Finance	Chair of Governors	RE Citizenship
Will Howell	Personnel/Finance	Vice Chair of Governors	ICT
Tim Askham	Finance
Jilly Atherton	Personnel
Kay Bohm	Curriculum/SPD	Curriculum Chair	Art
Stephen Boothroyd	Finance	Finance Chair
Chris Haines	Finance		Science/D&T Resistant Mats
Judith Lukey	SPD/Personnel		Maths/Outreach
Frank O’Gorman	Personnel/Finance	Chair of Personnel	Humanities including Geography
Eric Silk	SPD	Chair of SPD	English/Therapy/Pupil Support

Eth Yates	SPD/Curriculum		English/Therapy/Pupil Support/SEN

Governors responsible for supporting Finance are Tim Askham and Steven Boothroyd.

Staff Governors:

Jan Barlow – School Principal – attends all meetings

Becky Swift – Head of Education – attends Curriculum and SPD and Full Governors meetings

Linda O’Rourke – Head of Admin and HR – attends Personnel and Full Governors meetings

Noel Conreen – School Business Finance Manager – attends Finance and Full Governors meetings

Stephanie Hewitt – Registered Manager – attends SPD and Full Governors meetings

Lilian Oakes – Outreach Manager – attends SPD and Full Governors meetings

Paddy Boyle – Teacher Governor – ICT Teacher and Technology Co-ordinator – attends Curriculum and Full Governors meeting

Louise Cairns – Teacher Governor – Science Teacher – attends SPD and Full Governors meetings

Clerk to the governors is Melissa Burrows.

The Committee meetings are held every term with Finance having two meetings in the Autumn Term and the Spring Term. The Full Governors meetings are held every term.

If you would like to contact Michael Hennessey (Chair of Governors) please use the email address admin@chaigeley.org.uk or alternatively address your correspondence to Michael Hennessey, Chair of Governors, Chaigeley School, Thelwall, Warrington. WA4 2TE

For more information on our Chair of Governors (Michael Hennessey) and our Vice Chair (Will Howell) please click the buttons below.

Michael Hennessey

Name: Michael Hennessey – Chair of Governors

Meetings attended: SPD, Personnel, Finance, Curriculum

Governor responsibility: PSHE, RE & Healthy Schools

I have been a governor since July 2001 and Chair of Governors for some years now! I am a retired teacher and taught at Helsby High School for 29 years before taking (very) early retirement in 2001. I was Assistant Headteacher for the last 17 of the 29 years and I taught Religious Studies and Sociology at A level.

I am an active Quaker, having held a whole range of voluntary positions, both at local and national level. I do quite a lot of adult education with Quakers all over the UK and have contributed to a number of Quaker publications.

I have been a voluntary worker with the (now) Halton, Warrington and Cheshire West Youth Offending Service for the last 12 years, working on and often chairing community panels. I also do voluntary work with Runcorn Food Bank.

I am married and have two married daughters and five lovely grandchildren.

Will Howell

Name: Will Howell – Vice Chair of Governors

Meetings attended: Personnel and Finance

Governor responsibility: ICT

I worked for ICL/Fujitsu for 33 years and have since worked at a small IT company that supply business systems and services for the last 10 years.

My ICT skills are not really technical (though not surprisingly I am pretty well up to date), but more on the business and management side.

My highlights through my reasonably lengthy time at Fujitsu include managing the whole validation and release process for our large computer operating system (like releasing Windows 7 but on a small scale) and then as part of the then start up Internet business managing all our projects and services as we grew a 500 person business from nothing.