The Spencer Teaching School hub is part of a national network of 87 centres of excellence for teaching training and development, supporting schools and trusts to invest in their workforce.
Our Governing Body – consisting of a Strategic Board and two Steering Groups who account themselves to the Trust Board – holds us to account to ensure we serve the schools within our area.
The purpose of Spencer Teaching School Hub Strategic Board is to ensure that the Teaching School Hub fulfils its roles and responsibilities as defined in the conditions of designation. The governance provides high quality and ethical challenge. The strategic board acts as a critical friend holding the hub to account for its delivery of Key Performance Indicators as defined by the DfE. It ensures that the Hub has clarity of vision, ethos and strategy.
The collective purpose of the Strategic Board is to build an effective and sustainable partnership to deliver improved outcomes for young people through the development of high-quality teaching and leadership, continually seeking to further school improvement within a school-led, self-improving system. At the heart of this will be shared knowledge and expertise, and the collaboration of key partners.
The Teaching School Hub is a dual designation for both the lead school, Chetwynd Primary Academy, and the trust, Spencer Academies Trust. The Strategic Board feeds into both of these governance structures to ensure robust accountability.
Beneath the Strategic Board, there are two steering groups who report to the Strategic Board via a representation of the TSH leadership team. The outcomes from the strategic board are shared both at Chetwynd’s LGB and the Executive Leadership Team of the Trust, in turn into the Board of Directors for the trust.
Lauren Holmes, Chetwynd Primary Academy Local Governing Body, Teaching School Hub Link Governor
Mary Alice Lloyd, Chair, Independent Education Consultant
Tammy Elward, The Derby Research School and Director of the Spencer Teaching School Hub
Lisa Harrison, Assistant Director of TSH – Director of Leadership Programmes
Jo Ward, Derby Local Authority
Sarah Charles, Derby University – ITT Representation
Jane Starbuck, Whole School SEND, Strategic Board Member
Fraser Mitchell, NLE and Spencer Academies Trust Executive Leadership Team
Lorraine Tonks, Principal of Chetwynd Spencer Academy
Caroline Arnold. Assistant Director of TSH – Director of ITT
Tammy Elward. The Derby Research School
Cara Miles. Chetwynd Primary Academy
Jules Gordon. George Spencer Academy
Shaheen Parekh. Derbyshire Local Authority
Catherine Harris. Derby Local Authority
Sarah Charles. Derby University
Phil Taylor. Nottingham University
Deborah Ouithwaite. DTSA
Tracey Fazekas. Landau Forte SCITT
Becky Underhill. Bluecoat SCITT
Michelle Harris. Archway Trust
Katie Pattinson. DeFerrers Trust
Caroline Arnold. Assistant Director of TSH – Director of ITT
Lisa Harrison. Assistant Director of TSH – Director of Leadership Programmes
Amy Ford. The Derby Research School
Alistair Crawford. Whole School SEND
Kevan Lomas. NLE and Spencer Primaries
Matt Varley. Nottingham Trent University
Anna Upton. Embark Federation
Dave Taylor. Archway Trust
Ian Dewes. The Odyssey
Jane Green. The Harmony Trust
Christine Robinson. Maths Hub