Anthem Community Council

As part of a multi-academy trust, our school is not restricted to the traditional model of local governance that most people are familiar with. 

Society is changing, and our governance structures needed to change with it. Anthem is leading the way with a completely new kind of governance across its 16 schools with local views, experiences, and expertise at its heart. 

You can find out more about the strategy on the Anthem website.

Our school is part of Anthem Schools Trust and the name for our local layer of governance is Anthem Community Councils (ACCs). Members of our ACCs are known as Anthem Community Council members (ACCms).  The ACC has four delegated areas of responsibility:

  • Community
  • Celebration
  • SEND, inclusion and safeguarding.
  • Panels

Each ACC includes ACCms who are Champions in key areas such as safeguarding, SEND and inclusion, and climate change. Our ACCms ensure the voices of students, parent/carers, staff and the community are heard and considered across the school and trust.

Further details of all the Champion roles can be found here:

 

The current members of our ACC are:

Name

Role

Membership

Date Appointed

Term of Office

Stepped down (where applicable)

Appointed by

Interests declared and date interest began

Sharn Basra

Co Chair

Community  member

27th February 2024

4 years 

 

Executive

None

Vijay Patel

Co Chair

Community member

4th November 2025

4 years

 

Trust

None

Melissa George

ACC member

Parent/carer member

17th July 2020

Reappointed July 2024

4 years 

 

Parent/carers

Children at the school

Ruki Heritage

ACC member

Community

1st September 2021 - reappointed August 2025

4 years

 

Trust

Children at the school

May Thompson

ACC member

Community member

17th November 2022

4 years

 

Trust

None

David Schoon

ACC member

Staff member

25th March  2025

4 years

 

Staff 

Member of staff

 

Our Governance Professional (clerk to the ACC) is Catherine FrewingACC members can be contacted via our Governance Professional at:

A summary table of ACCms' interests and meeting attendance for the last full academic year can be found on:

https://www.anthemtrust.uk/governance

 

Do you want to make a difference?

We currently have Champion role vacancies for ACCms who are passionate about contributing to our school and community.  If you are interested in finding more out about being part of our school’s ACC, we would love to hear from you!   For further details, please click on the link below:

Anthem Community Council Expression of Interest Form

 


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