The Avenue School Governors
SCHOOL GOVERNORS / DIRECTORS OF THE ACADEMY
Clerk to Governors - Sara Pacey - paceys@avenue.reading.sch.uk
Cllr Isobel Ballsdon - Community Governor
Responsibilities: Chair of Governors /Safeguarding Governor / Finance Committee
Term of Office: September 2008 - August 2020
Pecuniary and Business Interests: Employed by Meeting Places Communications; Local Councillor on RBC
Attendance: 2018-19: 6 out of 6
2017-18: 5 out of 5
2016-17 6 out of 6
Jennie Kettell - Parent Governor
Responsibilities: Vice Chair / Acting Chair of Finance Committee
Term of Office: November 2014 - November 2018
March 2019 - March 2023
Pecuniary and Business Interests: Employed by Parenting Special Children
Attendance : 2018 -19: 4 out of 6
2017-18: 5 out of 5
2016-17: 5 out of 6
Symon Cooke - Headteacher
Term of Office : July 2011 on- going
Pecuniary and Business Interests:None
Attendance: 2018-19: 6 out of 6
2017-18: 5 out of 5
2016-17: 2 out of 2
Dominic Geraghty - Teacher Governor
Responsibilities: Teacher Governor
Term of Office: September 2017 -Sept 2021
Pecuniary and Business Interests: None
Attendance: 2018-19: 6 out of 6
2017-18: 5 out of 5
Kate Card - Staff Governor - until Feb 2019
Responsibilities: Non-Staff Governor
Term of Office: September 2017 - February 2019
Pecuniary and Business Interests: None
Attendance: 2017-18: 5 out of 5
Chris Smith - Community Governor - until Jan 2019
Responsibilities: Chair of Finance Committee to Jan 2019
Term of Office: October 2011 - Jan 2019
Pecuniary and Business Interests: Local Councillor on Wokingham
Attendance: 2018 - 19: 0 out of 3
2017-18: 3 out of 5
2016-17: 5 out of 6
Asif Butt - Community Governor - until Sept 2018
Responsibilities: Full Governing Body
Date appointed:
Pecuniary and Business Interests: None
Attendance: 2017-18: 2 out of 5
2016-17: 4 out of 6
Jenny Connick - Co-opted Governor - until June 2019
Responsibilities: Full Governing Body
Term of Office: Jan 2019 - June 2019
Pecuniary and Business Interests: Managing Director of Talentino; Trustee Stubbin Wood Special School
Attendance: 2018-19: 1 out of 3
Beth Reynolds - Associate Governor
Responsibilities: Full Governing Body
Term of Office: Dec 2012 - Jan 2021
Pecuniary and Business Interests: None
Attendance: 2018-19: 5 out of 6
2017-18: 3 out of 5
2016-17: 1 out of 2
Ros Proyart - Co-opted Governor
Responsibilities: Full Governing Body / Support Staff
Term of Office: Jan 2013 - Jan 2021
Pecuniary and Business Interests: None
Attendance: 2018-19: 5 out of 6
2017-18: 5 out of 5
2016-17: 5 out of 6
Tracey Green - Finance Director/ Company Secretary
Term of Office: Feb 2015 to present day
Pecuniary and Business Interests: None
Attendance: 2018-19: 6 out of 6
2017-18: 4 out of 4
2016-17: 5 out of 6
Bhupendra Singh Rajpal - Parent Governor
Responsibilities: Full Governing Body
Term of Office: March 2019 - March 2023
Pecuniary and Business Interests: None
Attendance: 2018-19: 1 out of 3
Mike Loftus - Co-opted Governor
Responsibilities: Full Governing Body
Term of Office: March 2019 - March 2023
Pecuniary and Business Interests:
Attendance: 2018-19: 2 out of 3
Penelope Garden - Co-optedGovernor
Responsibilities: Full Governing Body
Term of Office: March 2019 - 2023
Pecuniary and Business Interests: member/partner of Field Seymour Parkes LLP
Attendance: 2018-19: 2 out of 3
Brad McAvoy - Co-opted Governor
Responsibilities: Full Governing Body/Finance Committee
Term of Office: March 2019 - 2023
Pecuniary and Business Interests: Director, James Cowper Kreston
Attendance: 2018-19: 3 out of 3