Meet our Governors
The Governing Body meet regularly to make decisions about the work of the schools. The focus of the Governing Body is on providing a high quality education for all the Blue Coat Infant and Junior pupils. All the schools’ policies, budgets and curriculum are agreed by the Governing Body.
Key Documents
Governing Body Attendance List 2023-24
Blue-Coat-FED-Governors-Attendance-22-23-v2.pdf
Membership of the Governing body
Governors Roles and Business Interests
Governing Body Committee Structure and Terms of Reference
Committees and Members 2022-2023
Who Are The Governors and What Do They Do
These are the members from our community:
Mrs A. Edwards
Chair - Date of appointment: Nov 2017
Mr J. Jones
PCC/Vice Chair - Date of appointment: Oct 2015
Miss D. Buchanan
Trustee/ Chair Emeritus - Date of appointment: Sept 2015
To be added
Foundation - Date of appointment:
Mr A. Orlik
Executive Head - Date of appointment: Sept 2015
To be added
Clerk to the Governors - Date of appointment:
Rev. J. Trood
Rector of St Matthew’s Church - Date of appointment: Feb 2015
Mr D. Smith
Principal Blue Coat Academy - Date of appointment: March 2017
Mrs S Hartshorne
PCC - Date of appointment: Oct 2015
Mrs J. Ridgway
Foundation - Date of appointment: Sept 2018
Mr D. Barker
Associate - Date of appointment: Sept 2015
Mrs D. Hepburn
Parent - Date of appointment: Nov 2019
Mrs A. Barrington
Staff (Infant) - Date of appointment: Sept 2019
Mr J. Short
Parent - Infant - Date of appointment: Oct 2019
Staff - Junior - Date of appointment:
Mrs Huma Rashid
Parent - Infant - Date of appointment: Nov 2021
Mrs S Sargent
Foundation - Date of appointment: Sept 2018
Mrs Zsuzsa Girhiny
Parent - Junior - Date of appointment: Nov 2021
Mrs M. Pearson-Sutherland
Local Authority - Date of appointment: Feb 2018
Mrs N. Francis
Parent - Junior - Date of appointment: Nov 2019
We do not have any governors with relevant business and pecuniary interests.