Phoenix High School Governors Biographies

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1 Phoenix High School Governors Biographies Ken Best Chair of Finance & HR Committee Ken Best retired in 1992 after building a successful video production/systems/ facilities company. Ken has been a parent governor at Phoenix High School for seven years, his youngest child is in Year 11 doing his GCSEs. Ken is very involved in assisting the Governing Body and Mr Alan Streeter in creating one of the best schools in London, giving every student a chance to fulfil their personal educational zenith. He is excited at the prospect of Phoenix High School rebuilding the aging school buildings with a purpose built school fit for the 21st century. Lorna Brown Chair of Learning & Teaching Committee Lorna Brown is a parent governor. Her son was at Phoenix from Year 7 to Year 11 and left in the summer to go to college. She teaches English to adults and is very interested in teaching and learning. She has previously been a governor at two local primary schools. Tilly Collins Dr Tilly Collins is both a Senior Teaching Fellow and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Environmental Policy (CEP) of Imperial College London. At the CEP she teaches MSc Research Design and Statistics as well as having a responsibility for Ecology. At undergraduate level Tilly contributes to teaching Natural Resource Management into the Biology Department. She holds the 2010 Rector's Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2012 Rector's Award for Excellence in Pastoral Care. Tilly lives locally, has three school-age children and believes that access to education is very important.

2 Larry Culhane Larry Culhane is a proud former student of Phoenix High School, graduating in He came back to work at the school in 2010 and is currently our non-teaching staff governor (co-opted). Alongside his roles here at Phoenix, Larry is completing an economics degree and, since May 2014, has been serving as a councillor on Hammersmith & Fulham Council for North End ward. Vic Daniels Chair of Governors Vic Daniels is a parent governor and local businessman. He runs his own publishing business and has been involved in school governance for a number of years. Vic is also on the committee of White City Youth Football Club, having recently been promoted to Coach...driver. Safi Farah Joint Chair of Community & Stakeholder Engagement Committee Safi Farah has been a parent governor at Phoenix High School for two years. Safi has been working with the local community for the past ten years carrying out community outreach and family support work. She works with local primary and secondary schools as a link worker establishing positive and constructive working relationships between the schools and parents. Safi s son is in Year 10 at Phoenix and her daughter is in the Sixth Form at William Morris. Rosemary Farrar - Vice Chair of Governors and Joint Chair of Community & Stakeholder Engagement Committee Rosemary Farrar has been a governor of the school for a long time. She lives in the borough and has four children. She is a qualified accountant who works for a large Housing Association based in north London. She is passionate about education and as well as being a governor of Phoenix she is involved in the White City Community and sits on the Board of another housing association and of a local domestic violence charity.

3 Sue Fennimore Sue Fennimore has lived in Hammersmith & Fulham for over 30 years. She has been a governor at Phoenix High School for over six years and is also a governor of a local primary school. Sue was recently elected as a local councillor in the borough where she holds the post of Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion. She is passionate about education and the local community. Sue has two children and lives in Shepherds Bush. Emma Good Emma Good has just entered her thirteenth year of teaching and is currently the Head of English; she has been in post since 2008, after joining Phoenix in 2007 as the Literacy Coordinator. She teaches across all Key Stages in Literacy, English Language and Literature. Further to this, she is currently in the second year of her MA in Leading Innovation and Change at St Mary s University College. She has a keen interest in learning and teaching pedagogy focused on student self-reflection and promoting positive relationships with learning, as well as using data and intervention strategies to effectively bring about positive change. She believes wholeheartedly in our school motto and that we should strive to make our whole school community Ambitious to succeed Inspired to achieve. Wesley Harcourt Wesley Harcourt has been a governor of Phoenix High School for over 20 years. He is an elected Councillor for the local authority and works full time as Senior Development Consultant for a Charity that supports legal advice centres. He is a trustee of the local CAB and Chair of Governors of the Good Shepherd RC Primary School. Paul Hardy Paul Hardy went to St Paul s School in London, spent a gap-year in the Army and then read French at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. He qualified as a barrister in 1992 and practised for eight years, first in criminal law and then in EU and public law. After leaving the Bar he worked abroad as an international lawyer for eight years in Rwanda (trial lawyer), Bosnia (human rights adviser), Geneva (Red Cross lawyer) and Brussels (EU lawyer). He returned to the United Kingdom in 2008 and shortly after began working as the EU legal adviser in the House of Commons. In April 2014 he took up a similar post in the House of Lords, where he advises select committees on the legal aspects of EU policy. Paul is married to Lorraine and they have one son.

4 Tom Howard-Vyse Tom Howard-Vyse is a freelance communications consultant living in Shepherd's Bush. Between 2007 and 2011 he was global head of media at The Climate Group working with business and political leaders from the NGO s international network of corporations, cities, states and regions. Prior to this, Tom has been Director of Communications at HarperCollins Publishers, Head of PR at the British Airways London Eye and a consultant with several international PR companies. Robert Iggulden Robert Iggulden has spent most of his working life in Venture Capital; helping small businesses grow through investment and advice. He has been involved in many different things from the music business [Queen] to fish farming in Ireland. He believes that a good education and personal discipline are the gateway to a rewarding future. Kevin McGrath Chair of Buildings, Facilities and Health & Safety Committee Kevin McGrath is the High Sheriff of Greater London. He is also Chair of the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith; Vice Chair and Co-Founder of The Clink Prison Restaurant Charity, the first and only commercial restaurant to be built inside a working British prison; founder and Chair of the McGrath Charitable Trust; and a Trustee of the Old Vic Theatre Trust. He is Co-Founder and Chair of The Islamix Foundation; Chair of QPR Ladies Football Club; Trustee of The National Education Trust and QPR Sport in the Community Trust. Kevin attended Phoenix High School (then Christopher Wren) from 1974 to He then graduated from the Polytechnic of the South Bank with a BSc in Estate Management. He obtained a Diploma in Property Investment from the College of Estate Management. Kevin is now a Chartered Surveyor who has worked in the property industry for over 30 years and is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors and is a Freeman of the City of London. Kevin was a Labour Party candidate in the 2009 European Parliament Elections; a candidate for the North East Hampshire constituency at the 2005 General Election; for Ealing Council in the 2006 London Council Elections and for the London Assembly in the 2012 London Elections. Kevin served as a Commissioner on the Independent Commission on English Prisons Today under the leadership of Cherie Booth and sat on the Criminal Justice Policy Working Group under the Leadership of the Rt Hon Sadiq Khan MP Shadow Justice Minister and the Addiction Alcohol and Resettlement Commission Chaired by John Podmore. He is also a member of the Shadow Chancellor`s Advisory Group.

5 Alan Streeter Alan Streeter has been Executive Headteacher of Phoenix High School since September 2013 after joining the school in January 2012 as Head of School. Previously Alan worked in Tower Hamlets for nine years as an Assistant Head and Deputy Headteacher. Alan has worked in inner-city London schools for the entirety of his 23 year teaching career. January 2015