SGS Pegasus School Local School Board

Welcome from SGS Pegasus Chair of the Local School Board, Chris Berry.

On behalf of the Local Governing Body at SGS Pegasus School, welcome to our website.

Chris Berry

SGS Pegasus Chair of the Local School Board

On behalf of the Local School Board at SGS Pegasus School, welcome to our website.

As part of a Multi-Academy Trust, the Local School Board is a Committee of the SGS Academy Trust Board of Trustees.

SGS Pegasus School has high expectations for all, we are a committed School Board who both support and challenge the Head Teacher and Senior Management Team through the monitoring of quality activities and engagement with stakeholders of the school.

Pupils are our number one priority and all staff, school board members and trustees work together with a common aim of providing a safe and personalised learning environment in which all learners can reach their potential and have a positive time at school. Parents and carers are very much part of the whole school community and we welcome your input through links with Parent members and involvement with the school.

Do you want to make a difference in the lives of young people?

The Local School Board members are volunteers, playing an important part in raising the standards of achievement for all pupils.

The Local School Board encourages the recruitment of members from all sections of the community and applications are always welcomed from people of all cultural backgrounds, skills and experience. Details about the Roles and Responsibilities of the LSB members, together with current member details including Parent representatives, can be found below.

If you require any further information, please contact our Governance Officer – Jo Allman on Jo.Allman@sgscol.ac.uk.

Our Local School Board Members

Chris Berry

Chair, Local School Board

Chris feels privileged to have been appointed by SGS Academy Trust as a Local School Board member of Pegasus School.

Chris is a solicitor by profession. Until his retirement from private practice in late 2017, he was a partner at a global City law firm specialising in real estate finance. As such, he has first-hand experience of staffing, resourcing and strategic planning for the longer term.

Having relocated with his family to South Gloucestershire, Chris divides his time between working as an independent legal consultant, supporting young carers in the local community and tutoring maths in-school (though on a voluntary basis) to GCSE level. For relaxation, Chris enjoys walking, gardening, reading and cooking.

Nicolette Jones

Local School Board Member

Nicolette has taught children with SEND for over 12 years in a broad spectrum of settings and has worked with autistic children in every single class that she’s taught. She has also worked closely with parents to improve life at home and to inform teaching in school, and this knowledge she now brings to the role of auntie to her nephew.

Nicolette’s most recent experience has been as a primary school SENDCO and Progress/Accreditation lead in a Steiner special school where she was a key part of the school’s self-evaluation process for Ofsted. Her Steiner school experience has brought her a new perspective on what education should be: holistic, rich and full of opportunities to engage with the world around us. She’s also learned that progress is not linear. The pupils she’s taught have exceeded all the expectations of the adults around them.

In all her work with children with special educational needs, it’s been clear that the most successful curriculum is founded in addressing sensory and language needs, something which she is excited to see growing at SGS Pegasus, and is looking forward to utilising her experience of the staff and pupils that she has worked with to the role of LSB member at SGS Pegasus School.

Dr Jane Andrews

Local School Board Member

Jane teaches and researches in a range of areas within the field of education and has a particular interest in multilingualism and learning. She teaches on the undergraduate programmes BA (Hons) Early Childhood and BA (Hons) Education, and supervises doctoral students, jointly leading the UWE EdD programme. Jane’s current research interests include children’s perspectives on being multilingual, researching multilingually and technology and learning.

I am delighted to be a member of the Pegasus LSB, to hear about and contribute to the excellent work taking place.

Debbie Lewis

Parent Local School Board Member

Debbie has a son who has recently joined Pegasus school for its secondary school provision.

Debbie works at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE)in the Department of Applied Sciences (DAS). Having herself graduated from UWE and University of Bristol with an undergraduate degree in biochemistry and a postgraduate degree in molecular microbiology biology, followed by 13 years in microbiology research at various institutions she moved into technical teaching and support of practical classes approx. 8 years ago. This move into the technical team presented opportunities to get involved in supporting and delivering outreach to local schools and developing in-reach activities to support students whilst they study at university.

In recent years Debbie has become the Widening Participation Lead for DAS initiating, developing and evaluating ways to reduce the attainment gap for many of our disadvantaged students. Debbie is looking forward to working with Pegasus School and supporting them in developing pupils who can access higher education and employment opportunities when the time comes. Equally, as a local school board member, I hope to feed back to universities how we can extend our offer of support to our future students, to meet their needs and ensure they succeed if they choose to attend a university.

Jo Allman

Governance Officer

Jo can be contacted on Jo.Allman@sgscol.ac.uk.