Our Governing Board
Aim of the Governing Body
School governing bodies are one of the largest volunteer groups in the country and their main responsibilities are to help set the policies and targets for achieving the schools aims and objectives and to monitor and evaluate the progress the school is making towards achieving these. All governors attend the full governing body meetings that take place at least twice per term and also sit on a number of committees that focus on specific areas of the school such as “Finance and Staffing” or “Buildings, Health and Safety”. Each governor also has a link role which means they take a lead on understanding a particular area of the school improvement plan to ensure it is progressing as expected.
Chair of Governors and
Co-Opted Governor
Richard Lacey
Richard is passionate about the education of children and strongly believes that all children deserve the best opportunities in life. He feels that excellent primary education is vital in fostering our children's natural love of learning and guiding them to seek to be the best they can be. As a parent and a governor, as well as a secondary school leader, he aims to use all his experience and research to challenge and support Loxley Primary to continue the outstanding work they do in supporting our children and parents to 'Aim High Together'. Along with being the Chair of Governors, Richard sits on the Finance and Staffing Committee and his Link Governor role is to ensure pupils progress in the areas of mathematics and time tables.
Co-opted Governor
Stuart Croft
Stuart was born and raised in a little Leicestershire village called Hathern and made his way to Sheffield in 1994 when he came to study genetics at the University. Since graduating with a doctorate in genetics and following a couple of scientific jobs he found a position as a graduate trainee chartered accountant in an accounting practice based in Rotherham and Doncaster. In recent years, this has
provided extensive experience of academy schools as an external auditor producing budget forecasts, statutory accounts and providing technical accounting support for primary and secondary academy schools as well as multi-academy trusts. He is hopeful this experience can assist Loxley Primary School following its conversion into an academy. After 13 years in the same accounting practice where he trained, he has been at a Sheffield- based practice for the last 4 years.
Having moved to Loxley around 16 years ago, he has had an association with Loxley Primary School for 13 of those years, having first had his two children, Ewan and Amber, progress through school followed by serving as a governor since 2018. Ewan now attends Forge Valley (in year 12) whilst Amber is at Bradfield School (in year 10). Several years ago, he was treasurer of the Loxley School Fundraising Association (LSFA) from when it was re-formed for around 5 years. He has now passed this role on and takes great pleasure in seeing the successful events, fundraising and support provided to the school by the great team now running the LSFA.
Outside of work, he lives with his wife, Joanne, and his two children. He can often be seen watching rugby at Dronfield or hockey at Abbeydale where his children play as well as playing in Stannington Brass Band (on cornet) and helping out as an assistant leader at 150th Wadsley scouts.
He hopes that he can contribute to the running of a successful school as part of the hard-working board of governors where all children can achieve their potential.
Parent Governor
Helen Bollands
Helen has been a School Governor since 2015 and has had three children attend Loxley Primary school. She is an Early Years teacher and assistant SENco at Shooters Grove Primary School, with previous experience of owning and running a small, local, family business. This provides her with an insight into the management of finances and staff, as well as having an understanding of the curriculum and education system. Helen also sits on the Health & Safety Committee and her Link Governor role is in both Special Educational Needs and Early Years.
Staff Governor
John Miles
John is the Building Supervisor of the school and is a heating and plumbing engineer by trade. This therefore makes him extremely useful to sit on the Buildings and Health & Safety Committee! John has had two children come through the school and has helped on many residential visits. John sits on the Health & Safety Committee.
Vice- Chair & Co-opted Governor
John Galloway
John has been a governor at Loxley since November 2011, having previously been a governor at Wisewood Secondary School. He was appointed as a Local Authority governor prior to the Academy conversion. He also works full time for a private company and has lived locally in Sheffield for over 25 years.
John is very passionate about children getting the best opportunities in education. He believes Sheffield is a great place to bring up children and, like all the governors, wants the children at Loxley to be in a happy and enriching environment. To achieve this, he believes in all the governors working closely with the Head and staff at Loxley to ensure the school is the best it can be. John sits on the Finance & Staffing Committee and his link Governor role is as Safeguarding lead.
Co-opted Governor
Charlotte Berridge
Charlotte has been on the Governing Body at Loxley for two years. She has a child in KS2. Charlotte has worked at the School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield since 2005. Her current role is Academic Programmes Manager and involves curriculum development; quality assurance and enhancement; programme review and progression monitoring. She initially applied to be on the Governing Body as she felt her skills acquired working in the higher education sector were transferable and could be applied to a primary school setting. Charlotte chairs the Health & Safety Committee and her Link Governor role is to ensure the concept of recall, review and long-term memory is embedded into all year group learning methodologies.
Parent Governor
Kate Chamberlain
Kate is mum to a pupil in KS2. She was born and raised in Hillsborough, experiencing first-hand the advantages and challenges facing the community, therefore is passionate about promoting the local area. As both a senior government lawyer and a parent, she is able to contribute to the school using her expertise, knowledge and experience in these areas.
She hopes to provide a link between the parents at Loxley and the Governing board, and is happy to have open and honest discussions with parents about the issues which concern them. As a lawyer, she is used to helping find solutions to what can seem tricky problems and helping to identify a productive way forward. Kate’s Link Governor role is to ensure the school develops a rich heritage curriculum and that a culture of reading is ingrained across all year groups.
Contacting Governors
Although all governors welcome contact from any parent, generally any preliminary queries and questions should be directed to the class teachers who will be able to help decide if it needs to be taken further with the headteacher, however in some cases it maybe that the Governing Body needs to become involved and if this is the case queries can be directed to the governors via the following email address-
governors@loxley.sheffield.sch.uk