Meet the Governors

Mrs Marie Leonard - Co-opted Governor (Chair of Governors)

Responsibilities - Chair of FGB and Strategy Committee. Governor for Safeguarding and Looked After Children, Safer recruitment, Pupil Premium, School trips. Link Governor for English & Modern Foreign Languages

Committee Membership -Member of Finance, Personnel & Resources; Curriculum Progress & Standards and Premises & Health & Safety Committees. 

Relevant Experience - 35 years in Finance in education, including personnel as Finance Officer / Bursar. 13 years as secondary school governor.

Pecuniary Interests: None

Term of Office July 2011 - expires Jan 2023.

Mrs Alison Hodgson - Co-Opted Governor (Vice Chair)

Responsibilities - Self Evaluation and Development & Training Governor (DGT). Link Governor for RE, Science & Assessment.

Committee Membership -Vice Chair of Curriculum, Progress and Standards Committee and member of Strategy; Pay; Dismissal & Appeal Dismissal and Pupil Discipline & Complaints Committees . 

Relevant Experience -science teacher in a secondary school.

Pecuniary Interests: None

Term of Office July 2013 - expires Jan 2023

Ms Lauren Stevens - Co-opted Governor

Mr Paul Woodman - Co-opted Governor

Responsibilities - Lettings Governor and link governor for History.

Committee Membership - Member of Finance, Personnel & Resources;  Pay; Premises, Health & Safety; Dismissals & Appeals; Pupil Discipline & Complaints and Performance Management & Pay Committees.

Relevant Experience: Staff governor at college, college Communications Officer, Marketing Manager and local community member.

Pecuniary Interests: None

Term of Office: May 2011 - expires May 2023

Mr Ian Ryan - Parent Governor

Responsibilities: SEN and parent questionnaire Governor, link governor for Design & Technology & Computing. Chair of Curriculum, Progress & Standards committee, link governor for attendance.

Committee Membership- member of Strategy; Dismissals & Appeals, Pupil Discipline & Complaints and Pay committees

Relevant Experience - was a youth worker in the Portchester area  and is currently working in a special school bringing SEN skills to the governing body. Previously link governor for IT, PSHE and SEND.

Pecuniary interests: none

Term of Office: Nov 2016 - expires Nov 2020

Mr Neil Hoare- Parent Governor

Responsibilities: Link governor for Mathematics and has responsibility for reviewing risk assessments for school trips working closely with the Health and Safety governor. Neil is our representative on the South East Governors’ Forum.

Committee Membership - Vice Chair of Finance, Personnel & Resources Committee & Premises, Health & Safety Committee

Relevant Experience: Neil holds a BSc in Applied Chemistry and PhD in computational drug design from the University of Portsmouth and a postgraduate Diploma in Management from the Open University. For the last 20 years, Neil has worked for AT&T, a major US telecommunications company, in a variety of roles, most recently in its business continuity and disaster recovery group.

Pecuniary Interests: Partner is a member of staff

Term of Office: Nov 2016- expires Nov 2020

Mrs Mandy Maddison - Local Authority Governor

Responsibilities - SEN governor (job share with Ian Ryan) and link governor for RE

Committee Membership - member of Curriculum, Progress & Standards, Pupil Discipline & Complaints and Performance Management & pay committees

Relevant Experience: has served as a governor at other schools and previously Headteacher's PA at a local secondary school.

Pecuniary Interests: spouse employed at school 

Term of Office: Jan 2018 - Jan 2022

Mrs Sally Rogers - Co-opted Governor

Responsibilities- Link governor for Art and collection of governor's voluntary contributions

Committee membership - member of Finance, Personnel & Resources Committee.

Relevant Experience: Has served as a staff governor for many years and on all of the committees during this time. Chairperson of the PTA , Friends of Castle School for many years. Over 25 years experience as learning support assistant in primary phase.

Pecuniary Interests: Hirer of the school hall

Term of Office: Nov 2016- expires Jan 2019

Mr Jonathan Stokes - Co-opted Governor

Responsibilities - Governor Link for Health & Safety and Geography.

Committee Membership -Chair of Premises, Health & Safety and member of Finance, Personnel & Resources; Dismissals & Appeals; Strategy, Pay and Pupil Discipline & Complaints Committees

Relevant Experience - Programme Director for The Tree Council - the UK’s lead charity for urban and rural trees.  There he helped establish The Tree Council’s Tree Warden Network which now has 8000 volunteers . He has written ten books on trees, speaks at national and international conferences on trees and the environment and has regularly appeared on radio and TV.

Pecuniary Interests: Spouse is a member of staff at the school

Term of Office: - 2011 - expires Jan 2023

Mr John Stringer - Parent Governor

Responsibilities: Link Governor for Music and Performing Arts and joint governor link for Assessment.

Committee Membership - member of Curriculum, Progress & Standards Committee.

Relevant Experience: Career exceeding 20 years in information technology. Voluntary experience as a primary school learning support assistant. Recently qualified primary school teacher.

Pecuniary Interests: None

Term of Office: Nov 2016 - expires Nov 2020