Vice Chair of Governors

Governor

Hello, my name is Darren McAughtrie and I am a local authority governor. I work for a Southend Borough Council in the Children & Learning Department as the Group Manager responsible for Commissioning. This includes performance management, strategic commissioning, commissioning & quality of children’s centres & early years settings and supporting the work of the Children’s Partnership, in particular the development of the Southend Children & Young people’s Plan and co-ordinating work to reduce child poverty across the Borough.

I am passionate about children's services and strongly believe that every child and young person deserves the best start in life to enable then to grow into well rounded adults who can play an active role in society. I think that communities have a responsibility to ensure children and young people who need support to achieve this get the support they need, whether this be with their health, education, well-being, leisure or care.

Governor

Hello my name is Nicky Brown I was appointed parent governor in July 2011. I was keen to further my involvement in the school and took the opportunity when the vacancy came up.  I now hope to gain a fuller understanding of the ways in which the school environment educates our children as both a parent and parent governor. 

I hope to bring my skills from working within HMRC to support, assist and query where school ways do not seem clear to me.  I have worked in four main areas within HMRC that have covered general admin, project work, in-house video production and my current post within the finance team. 

I am particularly interested in following the combined year 3/4 classes next year and hope to take an active parent governor role within the Curriculum committee.