Meet the Local Governing Board: Kingsbury
Welcome from the Chair of Governors
From all Governors, WELCOME to the Kingsbury Academy Website. We hope that you find all of the information presented clear and comprehensive.
The Academy Vision and Values, which we fully endorse, are detailed here. The Kingsbury Academy Local Governing Board (LGB) is the guardian of the school Vision. We are working with the Academy Senior Leadership Team (SLT) to ensure that everything they do supports these values.
It is also our role to engage with the SLT to understand what is happening in the school in terms of pupil performance, development and wellbeing, the quality of teaching and learning and effective staff management. We will hold the school to account on behalf of the parents and the Trust.
We strongly consider that the voice of our Parents/Guardians is integral to becoming the school that we all want for the children. We are working with the Kingsbury Fundraising and Community Group and the school to encourage positive engagement. The website will help us all to keep in touch and stay informed.
The LGB is well represented by committed Co-opted, Parent, and Staff Governors. Many have extensive experience, and all are dedicated to continuously improving skills to be an effective governing body.
The Current Chair of the Local Governing Body is: John Darch
Mail can be sent directly to:
John Darch, Kingsbury Academy, Kingsbury Road, Coundon, Coventry, CV6 1PJ.
Alternatively, he can be emailed via:
enquiry@kingsbury.thrive.ac
John Darch - Chair of Governors
John has spent most of his working life in Industry as a Senior Manager. John has been a Governor for 6 years and has had involvement with young people in the past through sports coaching.
John is fully committed to working with parents and staff to create a school environment in which everyone feels they belong and provide the very best for the children.
Nina Tatsiy - Governor
Nina is a regional CIO for Brambles, leading digital transformation and supporting the technology landscape in Europe division.
Nina has 30 years of leadership experience in the consumer manufacturing sector, working in global multinational teams in various countries: US, UK, Germany, Russia and Ukraine.
Nina is passionate about her role as a governor at Kingsbury academy, being a parent of a neurodiverse person and going through a family journey with neurodiversity. Governor
Amanda Perry - Staff Governor
Amanda started at Kingsbury Academy in September 2023 as the Early Years Foundation Stage Lead and class teacher, this year she is using her Special Educational Needs Coordinator skills to support with consultations and Education and Health Care Plans. Amanda is also a class teacher in the Aspire Pathway.
Amanda's career has always been in teaching in Solihull and Birmingham. Amanda was the Early Years Lead in a six-form entry school in Birmingham and then developed her career to become the SENDCO across the school’s three sites. Amanda was able to support many children and their families in this role, she is also trained as a counsellor.
Amanda is passionate about Special Needs Education and providing help and support to families and children to ensure they have the opportunities to reach their potential and lead successful lives.
Carol Head - Parent Governor
Carol is mum of a pupil who attended Kingsbury from 2022- 2024. Carol was amazed by the support her daughter received at Kingsbury and was thrilled to be elected as parent governor. As someone who openly lives with her own neurodivergence's and works in mainstream schools with children with SEN she is able to give a unique insight to matters and a passion to help others receive the best outcomes for themselves.