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“The trust board, which is the executive level of governance, is very effective in holding leaders to account. Its ambition and high expectations have been instrumental in raising standards throughout the school.”
“Trustees evaluate the impact of their support rigorously. They work in close partnership with the headteacher to raise standards.”
Chief Executive Transform Trust and Teaching School Alliance
Rebecca is an experienced proven Head, National Leader of Education (NLE) and CEO with over 15 years’ experience of providing the vision and leadership required to ensure high quality outstanding education for all children. Rebecca is an ambitious and imaginative leader constantly striving for improvement with success for the whole school community.
Rebecca arrived at Sneinton as Head in 2002 when the school was in Special Measures and took it on an improvement journey to Outstanding. Building from this, Rebecca founded the Transform Teaching School with initially 10 member schools in Nottingham City, her aim to share and develop school to school support across like minded professionals. Transform Trust was then founded in 2013, based on the sharing principles of the Teaching School. Rebecca has a proven track record of successfully leading and managing people & resources to improve educational outcomes where the child is at the centre of the provision. It remains Rebecca’s commitment to deliver to the child an enriched broad based education as an enabler to achieving their full potential.
Prior to becoming Chair of Trustees, Peter became a Governor at Brocklewood Junior School in 2011. He then became Chair of Governors of the new Governing Body when Brocklewood Primary School was created from the existing Infant and Junior Schools in September 2012. Before retirement and becoming a Governor, Peter was a teacher and Headteacher in primary schools in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire and his final post was as Headteacher of a large infant and nursery school in Ilkeston. For Peter, to be a primary Headteacher was the best possible job. The joys always outweighed the hassle!
Brocklewood’s partnership with Transform began after an Ofsted judgement of serious weaknesses in April 2014. Governors chose to work with Transform because of the clear commitment to work with the current school leadership and to recognise that the school identity would not be lost or diluted.
Peter moved from being a Trust Chair of Governors to join the Board as a Trustee and was later elected as Chair of the Board. He continues to keep a rigorous focus to ensure the Transform ethos, values and expertise are lived out to achieve the best possible outcomes for children, school staff, parents and carers in the Transform family.
Sam is the Deputy Diocesan Director of Education for Southwell and Nottingham. Sam supports Church of England Schools and Academies across Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire. Working with both primary and secondary partners Sam provides support in all areas such as leadership, school improvement, safeguarding, governance and Christian distinctiveness. Previously she was the headteacher of a VC school in North Warwickshire. Sam has also worked in Church of England Schools, and the ethos and culture in these schools is something she feelsprivileged to be able to promote.
Sam has been involved in school governance for about 18 years, and until last year was the Chair of Trustees for a small trust local to her home – Sam remains a Member of this trust. She is currently a governor at a Church Academy in Newark which is needing rapid improvement. Her role involves a substantial amount of governor support and includes an induction programme for foundation governors to Southwell & NottinghamChurch of England Schools.
Sam is a deacon in the Diocese of Derby and will be ordained as a priest in the Summer of 2022.
Dennis is a former Nottingham City Councillor and was previously a Lecturer in Further Education for 30 years before taking on the role of Examinations Officer at Oakwood Academy in 2003.
In 1983, Dennis became a School Governor and was appointed Chair of Governors at Parkdale Primary School from 2012 to 2019 and is now Chair of Governors at Highbank Primary School. He is also a GCSE and GCE Examination Inspector of the Joint Qualifications Council.
Roger is Direct Diocesan appointee to Trustees and has extensive governance experience in education, having been Chair of governors at South Wilford (primary) and Chair of finance at Emmanuel (secondary). He also oversaw the building of Emmanuel school which was a £20m project.
Although he originally trained as a science teacher at The Institute of Education in London, Roger worked for multi-national corporations in the technology sector (Mitel, GEC, Plessey Telecom, Marconi and Ericsson) which included managing major financial budgets. Since retirement, Roger has also undertaken the role of Director of SNMAT (Diocesan MAT).
Toby is Professor of Education in the School of Education, University of Nottingham. Previous roles include: Professor of Leadership and Innovation at UCL’s Institute of Education (UCL IOE) and Executive Director of Leadership at the National College for School Leadership. He has also worked for Design Council, Campaign for Learning and the Cabinet Office. Toby is a Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and sits on a number of research and evaluation advisory groups. In 2005-06 he was Special Adviser to the House of Commons Education and Skills Select Committee.
To date, Toby has written over 50 journal articles, book chapters and reports on issues relating to school and educational leadership. His most recent co-edited book – School leadership and education system reform (2nd edition) – was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Susan is a retired Chief Executive Officer and an education adviser.
Until retirement in August 2017, Susan was the CEO and Trustee of The Spencer Academies Trust, which was then a group of ten primary and secondary schools including the high-performing, outstanding George Spencer Academy.
As a system leader, Department of Education Adviser and National Leader of Education (NLE) she has provided advice to government education departments, regional local authorities and Trust Boards. She was the Chair of the Teaching Schools national network for science leaders and a Senior Partner of Challenge Partners focussing on effective collaboration for school improvement and international benchmarking. She has had a local, national and international impact on primary and secondary education, helping to turn around under-performing schools and supporting others on their school improvement journey. She worked with the Department for Education in Melbourne, Australia and Education Leaders in Kenya.
As a passionate advocate of teaching as a profession, she chaired the Boards of George Spencer’s centre for initial teacher training and the teaching schools alliance. Her commitment to continuous professional development, reflected in her master’s educational research, ensured the school became a license holder for leadership development programmes and she personally helped with the original design and implementation of the programmes.
Susan’s dedicated service to education over 41 years was recognised in January 2016 when she was awarded a Damehood, DBE.
Gemma is an experienced Finance Director with over 20 years post-qualification experience in a range of sectors, including 14 years within the Higher Education Sector. Her current role is Finance Director of PPL PRS Ltd.
After completing a Doctorate in 2015, Gemma developed a keen interest in the impact of primary education on children’s long-term outcomes and social mobility.
Gemma lives in the city of Nottingham with her husband, two daughters and two dogs.
