Executive Board

Name	Role/ Representing	Organisation
Mike White	Headteacher of the Teaching School	Brompton-on-Swale CE Primary School
Jo Mackle	Local Authority Representative - Lead Adviser)	NYCC Education and Skills
Fiona Beevers	Deputy Diocesan Director Education - School Organisation	Diocese of Leeds
Vanessa Jones	Governor of the Teaching School - Chair of School Improvement Sub-Committee	Brompton-on-Swale CE Primary School
Phil Bennington	Strategy Director	Swaledale Alliance
Ian Mottram	Elected Partnership School Headteacher	Le Cateau Primary School
Mary Strode	Principal Consultant for Carnegie Leaders in Learning	Leeds Beckett University
Andrea Offord	Alliance Manager (Clerk)	Swaledale Alliance

Role of the Executive Board

The membership of the Executive board has been constituted to reflect representation from all partnership schools and our Local Authority and Diocesan strategic partners.  The Board will be responsible for:

• Holding the designated Teaching School to account by ensuring that they operate within National College guidelines in implementing the core work of the Teaching School's agenda.
• Having a strategic overview of the work of the Alliance.
• Evaluating the impact of the work of the Alliance to ensure high standards of teaching and learning.
• Monitoring and evaluating the Alliance Development Plan.
• Ensuring that robust quality assurance processes are in place within the Alliance and its outside partners.
• Making strategic decisions with regard to funding and finances and ensuring that financial processes are conducted in a proper and transparent manner.

The Executive Board are scheduled to meet three times a year, once in the Autumn term, once at the beginning of the Summer term and at the end of the Summer term. The focus of these meetings will be strategic development of the work of the Alliance, quality assurance, and financial matters.

All meetings of the Executive Board are held at 13:30, Brompton-on-Swale C of E Primary School.

The dates for the Executive Board are 13th October 2017, 2nd March and the 22rd June 2018.

Minutes of the meetings can be viewed in the members only area for Alliance schools.