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BackAcademy 360 is overseen by a Local Governing Body responsible for ensuring the highest standards of teaching and well-being. The Local Governing Board is a ‘critical friend’ to the Academy as well as a champion of pupils, teachers and the wider community.
As the Academy is part of the Laidlaw Schools Trust, there is a board of trustees who are responsible for the work of the Trust, including the running of the academies. Further information is available on the Governance section of the Trust’s website. To support the effective operation of the Trust and the academies, the board has established Local Governing Bodies for each Academy in the Trust.
Diversity is important to our governing boards and we strive to be reflective of the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for school governors from all areas of our school community. If you are interested in becoming a school governor or finding out more, please contact the Clerk to Governors.
The Governance Administrator can be contacted at rebecca.mayo@laidlawschoolstrust.co.uk, Laidlaw Schools Trust, Suite 2, 3rd Floor, St Nicholas Building, St Nicholas’ Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1RF or 0191 662 2416.
Details of the Governors at Academy 360 can be found below:
Peregrine Solly
Chair of Governors
Peregrine worked for two of the North East’s leading Companies: Vickers plc (later BAE Systems plc) and Scottish and Newcastle plc. His role for both companies took him all over the World and gave him a fascinating and unrivalled experience working across different cultures and different organisations. Peregrine still consults for a number of start-up companies, helping them to develop their businesses internationally. Although he has not been directly involved in education before joining the Trust, Peregrine grew up in a school, his brothers both teach and he is married to a teacher. He fully supports the Trust’s aim of improving the opportunities and life-chances of some of the most disadvantaged children and young people in the North East of England.
Christopher Mitchinson
Associate Governor
Rachel Forbister
Local Governor
Lynda Brown
Local Governor
Mrs Brown retired from her role as Head of Education, Early Years and Complex Needs at Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council in 2016. She was previously Head of Standards and Head of Participation at Sunderland City Council, thereby having spent 10 years at Assistant Director level, with responsibility for providing leadership for high quality education for children from the early years through to nineteen. In total, she has 38 years of teaching and management experience in schools and colleges.
Since retirement, Mrs Brown has volunteered, mainly as a trustee, to support schools, colleges and academies to be the best they can for the children and young people who attend them. She has been involved with the Foundation of Light since 2002 and continues this involvement as a member of the Education and Skills Committee of the Foundation.
Clare Teunissen
Local Governor
Dave Archer
Local Governor (Vice Chair)
Dave was appointed as a local governor at Academy 360 in January 2019 and is a Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition at the University of Sunderland. Growing up, he attended an inner-city school in Dublin before attending Trinity College Dublin, receiving his PhD from the University of Aberdeen and lecturing there for several years before moving to the North East. His research includes teaching and learning, nutrition, performance sport and physical activity in schools. Being the first in his extended family to go to university, he firmly believes that education can play a vital role in expanding horizons and providing opportunities for young people to reach their potential.
David Bowen
Local Governor
Josephine Obasohan
Local Governor