Our Local Advisory Board
As an Academy we do not come under the responsibility of the Local Authority, instead we are part of a Multi Academy Trust that is funded directly by the Department for Education. The Trust (Primary Quest) is responsible for everything: the school buildings and grounds; the employment of staff, and all aspects relating to the education provision for our pupils. Trustees are Directors of what is, in effect, a small sized company. Mr Stephen Dean is the CEO of Primary Quest Trust.
Click here to see the Register of Redmarley Local Advisory Board Business Interests and dates of appointment. The attendance of the local advisors for 22/23 is recorded here. AWAITING 2023-24.
The Trust Board is responsible for Standards and Achievement and Finances. More information can be found on the Primary QuEST website. The Local Advisory Board is responsible for Safeguarding and the implementation of the Curriculum and is responsible to the Trust Board. The Trust Board meets 6 times a year and the Local Advisory Boards meet 5 times a year.
The Trust’s accounts are published in December and are open to public inspection.
Curriculum.
The Local Advisory Board is responsible for monitoring the delivery and organisation of the school’s curriculum; the progress that your children make in their learning, and the standards that are being achieved at key points throughout the time that your children are with us. We use the Trust and School Development Plan to focus in on learning to ensure that our objectives are being achieved in practice as a lived reality.
Additionally, we have responsibility for ensuring that a Christian ethos pervades all that is done in the school.
Health, Safety and Safeguarding
The Local Advisory Board is responsible for ensuring that the Health and Safety procedures are followed and adhered to. This includes reviewing of policies and practice.
Meet our Local Advisory Board
Gemma Flusk- Chair of LAB
Gemma can be contacted via chair@redmarley.gloucs.sch.uk . She is also named Governor for Safeguarding and Early Years. Gemma ensures that all our meetings run as they should do, in line with the Trust Business Plan. She visits school regularly to undertake safeguarding checks, ensuring we are compliant as a school and to check the quality of education in the early years. This helps her to be informed and triangulate what she is hearing in meetings to what is happening in school.
Kay Sharpe - Foundation and Ex Officio
Kay is a Foundation Governor, responsible for ensuring the Christian ethos is maintained in school. She is committed to promoting our home/school values, such as, truth, love and compassion, as well as encouraging the continued close links between the Church and school. Kay is also our SEND and Vulnerable child advisor. She regularly visits school to gain a better understanding of need and how the school support this in practice.
Kay is committed to pray for the school community and everyone involved in helping each child reach their full potential.
Laura Hankins - Head Teacher
Laura is the executive headteacher across Redmarley and Bromesberrow Primary Schools. Both Church of England schools and both part of Primary Quest.
Charlotte Benson - Staff
Charlotte Benson is the staff Local Advisor. She is also Acting Deputy Head.
Derek Partridge- Vice Chair
Derek is also our Health and Safety Local Advisor. He supports this ensuring we are compliant and proactive in tackling health and safety and risk assessment. Derek also takes a keen interest in maths and has this as a focus.
James Burnford
James has a background in secondary education. James has a keen focus on writing and focuses his visits to school on English. This supports his understanding of the English curriculum in school and how this is lived out.
Gareth Rogers-Parent Governor
Gareth comes with a background in secondary school sports and is keen to support and nurture this further at Redmarley.
Clerk to LAB - Geraldine Martin Proclerking clerk@redmarley.gloucs.sch.uk
The Foundation local advisors have a special role in this Voluntary Controlled Church of England School. They are appointed by the Church, and safeguard the interests of the Church as the owner of the school. They bring to the Governing Body an informed regard for the Church nature of the foundation of the school, to ensure that its Christian ethos is preserved and developed and that religious education reflects within a modern curricular context, the requirement of the Trust Deed: – That the school should be used “for the education of children and shall always be in union with and conducted according to the principles of the Established Church”
