Governance

The Vine Schools Trust is a multi-academy trust and is the accountable body for all twenty three of its schools. Therefore, the overarching responsibility for the governance of the Trust and its schools lies with the Vine Board of Directors. They fulfil the three core functions of governance:

Ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the organisation and its pupils, and the effective and efficient performance management of staff;
Overseeing the financial performance of the organisation and making sure its money is well spent.

To enable the Directors to fulfil their responsibility eight regional Local Schools Boards work on their behalf and undertake delegated local governance of between two and four schools. Community Boards in each school enable local support and provide information to enable good governance.

The key principle is that all three Boards together with Executive Leaders will provide an aspect of governance the other cannot as set out in this chart.

This model of governance is undertaken under delegated responsibility. For full details see below.

Tendring Local Schools Board 2020/21

Name	Type Governor	Appointed By	Date of Appointment
Mrs T Boothman	Chair of Tendring Local Schools Board	Trust	01/09/2020
Mr D Hardman	Local Governor	Trust	01/09/2020
Mrs C Holdaway	Local Governor	Elected by Parents	01/09/2020
Ms L Dale	Local Governor	Trust	01/09/2020
Mrs R Everett	Local Governor	Trust	01/01/2021
Ms K Siggery	Local Governor	Trust	26/03/2021
Ms B Fairhead	Local Governor	Trust	26/03/2021
Mrs D Fawcett	Headteacher – St Andrew’s	Ex-officio by virtue	01/09/2019
Mrs K Jones	Headteacher – Great Clacton	Ex-officio by virtue	01/09/2020
Ms C Bickersteth	Headteacher – Rolph	Ex-officio by virtue	01/01/2021

Tendring Local Schools Board Meetings 2020/21

Name	05/10/2020	03/11/2020	16/11/2020	08/02/2021	07/01/2021 delayed to the 25/02/2021 due to pandemic	11/03/2021	24/03/2021
Mrs T Boothman	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Mr D Hardman	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Partially Attended	Attended	Partially Attended
Mrs C Holdaway	Attended	Attended	Attended	Partially Attended	Apologies	Attended	Attended
Ms L Dale	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Partially Attended
Mrs D Fawcett	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Apologies	Attended	Attended
Mrs K Jones	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Ms C Bickersteth	N/A	N/A	N/A	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Ms R Everett	N/A	N/A	N/A	Apologies	Attended	Attended	Apologies
Ms K Siggery	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Ms B Fairhead	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Mrs L Webb – Business Manager	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended	Attended
Mrs K Umney – Business Manager	N/A	Attended	N/A	N/A	Attended	Attended	Apologies

Business Declarations 2020/21

Name	Role	Business Declaration	Family Declaration
Mrs T Boothman	Chair of Local Governing Body	Self-employed Governance Consultant Trustee of South Essex Academy Trust TiB member at Southminster Primary School LSB member at St Cedd’s Primary School SIB Member at Grange Primary School TiB Member at Belchamps St Paul TiB Member at Tillingham Primary School TiB Member at Rolph Primary School TiB Member at Two Village Primary School SiB Member at Wickford Primary School
Mr D Hardman	Local Governor	None	Children are pupils at St Andrews
Mrs C Holdaway	Local Governor	None	Children are pupils at St Andrew’s
Ms L Dale	Local Governor	None	None
Mrs R Everett	Local Governor	None	None
Ms K Siggery	Local Governor	None	None
Ms B Fairhead	Local Governor	None	None
Mrs D Fawcett	Headteacher – St Andrews’s	None	None
Mrs K Jones	Headteacher – Great Clacton	None	Husband is a member of another Vine SchoolsTrust LSB
Ms C Bickersteth	Headteacher – Rolph	None	None
Mrs S Parton – Resigned 06/09/2020	Previous Chair of Local Governing Body	None	Grandchild at Rolph Primary School
Mr C Townsend – Resigned 13/01/2020	Local Governor	None	Child at Rolph
Mrs H Hamer – Resigned 07/09/2020	Local Governor	None	Children at Rolph
Ms K Coulter – Resigned 14/09/2020	Local Governor	Director of FSC Ltd Member of Thorpe Parish Council Trustee of Rolph School Association (charity)	None