Andrew Barker

Co-Opted

Chair of Governors  

I started as a Parent Governor, many years ago, as my two children started and worked their way through Meadow Lane and College House Schools. My career was in telecommunications (Ericsson), but I have now retired. I am a co-opted governor, which like all governing body positions runs for 4 years before coming up for re-election.

Appraisal Governor.

Link Governor Responsibility: Appraisal, GDPR & Behaviour/Safeguarding                                                                        .                          

Pete Wilkes

Head Teacher

I am the headteacher of the The Lanes Primary School and I am an Ex Officio Governor - a governor due to my role in school.

Thomas Herbert

Co-opted Governor

I am a barrister based in Nottingham, specialising in civil litigation including medical negligence, health & safety, inquests, employment and education law. I attended College House Junior School (as it then was) as a child, moving on to Chilwell School. I then read Chemistry at the University of York before returning to Nottingham to study law. As a student, I regularly volunteered at College House. This included helping on residential visits, teaching advanced mathematics to year 6 pupils and producing a number of videos for parents about the transition between Meadow Lane and College House. I have thus seen the school develop and improve over a number of years and now, as a governor, I take a more active role in ensuring that this continues. In what exists of my spare time, my interests include current affairs, food, spending time with family and friends and hiking.

Link Governor Responsibility: Quality Assurance.

Leah Wignell

Co-opted Governor

Since 2012 I have been a teacher at The Lanes and a governor here since 2017.  I began teaching in Oxford prior to moving to Nottingham many years ago and my varied roles have involved working as an advisory teacher as well as teaching children across the nursery to Key Stage 2 age range.  I have 2 children, both of whom are pupils are at The Lanes. My interests involve travel, walking, cycling, running, music and real ale.

Dean Goodbarton

Parent

Governor

Cheryl Heath

Co-opted Governor

I have been a school governor since 2001. Prior to joining The Lanes as a co-opted governor I was a parent governor at a local senior school that my two sons attended.  There I was involved with the amalgamation and subsequent change to a multi school academy. In 2016 I was looking for a new challenge and learnt of the amalgamation of Meadow Lane and College House, two schools that I myself attended as a pupil and was fortunate enough to be accepted as a local authority governor.  I have undertaken many governor roles over the years, but for the majority of these I have been a link governor for Special Educational Needs (SEN).There is no one size fits all education for SEN children, they are all unique and I am passionate that our SEN pupils are enabled to achieve their best outcomes both academically and socially as they move through our school. I have found it a privilege to be a governor at this most welcoming school where challenge and new ideas are embraced.

Link Governor Responsibility: SEND & Pupil Wellbeing

Rob Guyler

Co-opted

Vice Chair of Governors

Link Governor Responsibility: Child Protection & Safeguarding.

Liz Ireland

Staff Governor

Natalie Spink

Parent 

Governor

Jonny Cook

Parent

Governor

Emma Alston

Parent Governor