The Spencer Teaching School hub is part of a national network of 87 centres of excellence for teaching training and development, supporting schools and trusts to invest in their workforce.
Our Governing Body – consisting of a Strategic Board and two Steering Groups who account themselves to the Trust Board – holds us to account to ensure we serve the schools within our area.
The purpose of Spencer Teaching School Hub Strategic Board is to ensure that the Teaching School Hub fulfils its roles and responsibilities as defined in the conditions of designation. The governance provides high quality and ethical challenge. The strategic board acts as a critical friend holding the hub to account for its delivery of Key Performance Indicators as defined by the DfE. It ensures that the Hub has clarity of vision, ethos and strategy.
The collective purpose of the Strategic Board is to build an effective and sustainable partnership to deliver improved outcomes for young people through the development of high-quality teaching and leadership, continually seeking to further school improvement within a school-led, self-improving system. At the heart of this will be shared knowledge and expertise, and the collaboration of key partners.
The Teaching School Hub is a dual designation for both the lead school, Chetwynd Spencer Academy, and the trust, Spencer Academies Trust. The Strategic Board feeds into both of these governance structures to ensure robust accountability.
Lauren Holmes, Chetwynd Primary Academy Local Governing Body, Teaching School Hub Link Governor
Mary Alice Lloyd, Chair, Independent Education Consultant
Tammy Elward, The Derby Research School and Director of the Spencer Teaching School Hub
Derby Local Authority
Sarah Charles, Derby University – ITT Representation
Jane Starbuck, Whole School SEND, Strategic Board Member
Fraser Mitchell, NLE and Spencer Academies Trust Executive Leadership Team
Lorraine Jackson, Principal of Chetwynd Spencer Academy