School Governor

Join Us as a Community Governor: Transform Lives and Shape Futures!

Are you ready for a fulfilling role that combines challenge, impact, and community engagement? As a school governor, you'll play a pivotal part in shaping the educational landscape in your local community.

1. Make a Real Difference Your insights and experiences matter. Use your unique perspective to inform crucial conversations about education and student well-being.
2. Board Level Skills Development Step into a board level environment where you'll hone your leadership, decision making, and strategic thinking skills. It's a chance to grow both personally and professionally.
3. Community Contribution Give back to your local community by actively participating in the school's development. Your commitment will directly impact pupils, staff, and families.
4. Support and Challenge Be the voice that drives positive change. Support the school's growth while constructively challenging it to improve. Your input matters!
5. Diverse Perspectives We value diversity. Bring your unique experiences and insights to decision making, ensuring a well rounded approach that benefits everyone.

Governing Boards are skills based and cover a wide variety of areas. Whilst it is advantageous, experience in education is not a necessity, as you will have the opportunity to learn and develop your knowledge base. The most important attributes we are looking for is a Governor who is dedicated and has the time to fulfil the role, is open to learning new things and, most importantly, believes in our vision to transform the life chances of the young people who attend our schools.

• Rewarding Experience Few roles offer such a sense of fulfilment. Witness the impact of your contributions firsthand.
• Professional Growth Develop skills beyond the classroom. Network with like minded professionals and broaden your horizons.
• Community Integration Become an integral part of the wider community, fostering connections that go beyond the school gates.

As a Governor, you can work with school leaders to make positive change for the students in your school and ensure they are receiving the best of what the Trust and Schools have to offer.

Lodestar Academy is a dynamic academy based in Torbay, who have built an impressive reputation within the alternative education provision sector for young people aged 11 to 18. We believe that all young people have the capacity to learn, regardless of their life situation. Our aim is to open the door to learning for those - often with social emotional and mental health needs who have been excluded or marginalised.

Our academy will provide a safe, nurturing environment for 50 secondary age students who have been unable to sustain a place in mainstream education. By prioritising academic achievement and introducing behaviour interventions and therapeutic support where necessary, it will enable them to re integrate at the same key stage as their peers and go on to access opportunities into employment and further education.

Ofsted recently judged Lodestar Academy to be a good school:

"The welfare of people and their families is at the heart of the Lodestar Academy