1. Diocesan Contacts:
Do you: Diocesan Education Office
The Old Deanery
• care about the education The Cloisters
Exeter EX1 1HS
children receive
• want to make an important (01392) 294950
ccyp@exeter.anglican.org
contribution to your local
Director of Education
community Philip Mantell
• enjoy a challenging and Admissions & Governance Advisers
rewarding role, working as Christina Mabin
christina.mabin@exeter.anglican.org
part of a team Cathy Slow
• want to help strengthen cathy.slow@exeter.anglican.org
the link between schools Diocesan Education Officers Exeter Diocesan Board
Penny Burnside
and their communities, penny.burnside@exeter.anglican.org of Education
including parishes? Rev’d Richard Maudsley
richard.maudsley@exeter.anglican.org
Tatiana Wilson
tatiana.wilson@exeter.anglican.org
Being a
School Improvement & Organisation Manager
Noel Fowler Church of England
noel.fowler@exeter.anglican.org
Foundation Governor
Executive Assistants
Marilyn Pearce/Rachel Guyat
ccyp@exeter.anglican.org
Administrators (Part-time) “Foundation Governors are appointed
Valerie Black (Governance)
valerie.black@exeter.anglican.org
to Church Schools to be part of the
Emma Fraser (Training) formal Christian presence on the
emma.fraser@exeter.anglican.org Governing Body.”

2. There are 131 CofE schools in the Governors are drawn (or should be)
Diocese of Exeter in 3 local from every walk of life and will: There are various types of governors,
authorities, Devon, Plymouth and depending by whom they are
Torbay. • be good listeners appointed or elected, but all with
• ask constructive rather than equal status, e.g. LA (Local Authority),
All governors share the same confrontational questions Parents, Staff, Community (appointed
responsibilities for the school that is • share their wider experience, by the governing body itself).
to provide the best possible knowledge and skills for the
environment for children’s learning benefit of the school as a whole In church schools there are also
and development, maintain and • be discreet, open-minded and Foundation governors, who are
improve the standards of the school, fair appointed by the local church or the
respect and involve parents. • work as part of a team, standing Diocese, and they especially seek to
by collective decisions, even if preserve and develop the Christian
Foundation governors are not agreeing with them character of the school.
representatives of the Church of
• give time to attend meetings (at
England on the Governing Body. Their If you are interested in becoming a
least once a term) and school
role is to ensure that the Christian governor, please do speak to your
occasions
foundation of the school is upheld by local school or see contact details on
• keep up-to-date with local and
endeavouring to cultivate respect for the back of this leaflet.
national developments in
the spiritual and moral beliefs of the
education
Christian tradition and by seeking to
• attend governor training – vital
create a community in which pupils
in “learning the ropes”.
are cared for as individuals. As an
active Christian presence within the
i.e. displaying Christian characteristics
school they are a vital link between
in the role of a school governor.
parish and school, playing a unique
role in strengthening and enriching the
dynamic relationship between school,
church and the wider community.