Our Governing Body

Members of The Local Academy Council

Ms Lynette Brammah

Role: Chair of Governors

Date Appointed: September 2024

Appointed by: The Governing Body 

Term of Office: 1 year 

Relationships between Governors & Members of Staff, including Spouses, Partners & Relatives: None

Business Interests:

Lynette is a Local Authority Governor and newly appointed chair of governers who began working as a Governor in September 2021. Lynette has 27 years of experience working in Primary Education – as both a teacher and latterly a Headteacher of two Church of England Schools. Having stepped back from full time work Lynette is looking forward to supporting the work of the Governing Board at Sutton in Craven C of E specialising in Safeguarding, Curriculum and teaching and learning

Contact information:  To contact Ms Brammah, or organise a meeting with her, please contact Mrs Jones in the office or use the school admin account.

 

Mrs Wendy Hamilton

Role: Vice Chair of governors, Co-Opted Governor

Date Appointed: November 2022

Appointed by: The Governoring Body 

Term of Office: 1 year

Relationships between Governors & Members of Staff, including Spouses, Partners & Relatives: None

Business Interests:

Wendy Hamilton is a Co-opted Governor who began working as a Governor in November 2022. Wendy has 25 years of experience working in Secondary Education as a History teacher, Head of Year, Head of Department/Faculty, Assistant Head and Headteacher in a variety of schools in the London Borough of Sutton, Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. She has also worked for the local authority in Lincolnshire in their School Improvement Service and has previously been a governor at a primary school in Lincolnshire

 

 

Mr Mark Jobling

Role: Parent Governor

Date Appointed: May 2022

Appointed by: The parent body

Term of Office:

Relationships between Governors & Members of Staff, including Spouses, Partners & Relatives: None

Business Interests:

Mark Jobling is a parent governor who joined in May 2022. He has a son who attends Sutton CE.

Mark works as a Financial Adviser so is well suited to supporting the school as part of its resources committee.

Mark is a firm believer that it’s important for children to have a good foundation in their understanding of Maths, and so is the schools governor linked to Maths

 

 

Mr Jamie Burns 

Role: Foundation Governor

Date Appointed September 2023

Appointed by: The Governing Body

Term of Office:

Relationships between Governors & Members of Staff, including Spouses, Partners & Relatives: None

Business Interests:

 

 

 

Mrs Tracy Felgate

Role: Staff Governor

Date Appointed: November 2024

Appointed by: The Staff Body

Term of Office: 4 years

Relationships between Governors & Members of Staff, including Spouses, Partners & Relatives: None

Business Interests:

Tracy Felgate is a staff governor, She has worked at Sutton CE school for 7 years and loved every minute of it.

She enjoys walking around the Yorkshire Dales, crafting and art when not at school.

 

 

Mrs Orla Gibbons

Role: Headteacher and Governor

Date Appointed: Jan 2020

Appointed by: The Governoring Body

Term of Office: Automatic

Relationships between Governors & Members of Staff, including Spouses, Partners & Relatives: None

Business Interests:

Mrs Orla Gibbons has been Headteacher of Sutton CE since January 2020 but has been a primary school teacher since 2005. She began her career in Leeds and has been teaching in North Yorkshire schools since 2010. She has a passion for supporting all children but in particular, children with Special Educational Needs and achieved her MA in Special Educational Needs in 2007 and has worked as SENCo since 2006.

 

Revd. Suzy McCarter

Role: 

Date Appointed: Spetember 2024

Appointed by: 

Term of Office: 

Relationships between Governors & Members of Staff, including Spouses, Partners & Relatives: None

Business Interests:

 

Miss Colette Jones 

Role: Clerk to Governors

Date Appointed: September 2024

Appointed by: LDLT

Relationships between Governors & Members of Staff, including Spouses, Partners & Relatives: None

Business Interests: