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
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.