Governing Body

Chair of Governors

Mr Thomas Rose

Appointment start date 08.08.2025  End Date 07.08.2029

Resources Committee

Curriculum and  School Effectiveness Committee (Chair)

Safeguarding, PE, MFL, Art/Design

 Mr Rose is not a governor of any other school and does not have a declared business interest.

VICE CHAIR

Mrs. Alice Helm-Alabaster 

Foundation Governor

(Elected by the PCC of St Mark’s, Dolphinholme)

Appointment start date 22.02.2021   End date 11.03.2029

Resources Committee (Chair)

 Mrs Helm-Alabaster is not a Governor of any other school and does not have a
declared business interest.

REVEREND Canon cINDY RIGNEY, Vicar at St mark’s

Ex-officio

Appointment start date 01.01.2015 End date 31.12.2026

Curriculum and School Effectiveness Committee

Staff Well-being, Music, RE and Worship

Reverend Rigney is also a governor at Quernmore Primary School and does not have a declared business interest.   

Dr Richard Austen-Baker

Foundation Governor

(Elected by the PCC of St Mark’s, Dolphinholme)

Appointment start date 17.05.2018 End date 16.05.2026

Curriculum and School Effectiveness Committee

GDPR Humanities 

Dr Austen-Baker is not a Governor of any other school and does not have a declared business interest. 

Farzaneh Mani

Local Authority Governor

Appointment start date 19.05.2025  End date 18.05.2029

Resources Committee (Chair)

Science

Dr. Mani is not a Governor of any other school and does not have a declared business interest.

 Stephen Baines

Parent Governor

(Elected by the parent body of Dolphinholme CE Primary School)

Appointment start date  24.02.2025 End date 23.02.2029

Curriculum and School Effectiveness Committee 

Mr Baines is not a Governor of any other school and does not have a declared business interest.

Mrs. Emma Kidd

Parent Governor

(Elected by the parent body of Dolphinholme CE Primary School)

Appointment start date  24.02.2025  End date 23.02.2029

Resources Committee

Mrs Kidd is not a Governor of any other school and does not have a declared business interest.

 Mrs. Jane Entwistle

Foundation Governor

(nominated by the Principal Officiating Minister for the parish of St Mark’s, Dolphinholme)

Appointment start date 16.2.2023 End date 15.2.2027

Resources Committee

PSHE

Mrs Entwistle is not a governor of another school and does not have a declared  business interest. 

Mr Paul Cronsaw

Staff Governor

Appointment start date 01.03.22 End date 28.02.26

Resources Committee

Computing

Mr Cronshaw is not a Governor of any other school and does not have a
declared business interest.

Miss Joanne Mather

Headteacher (Ex-officio)

Appointment start date 01.01.2023

Miss Mather is not a governor of another school and does not have a declared business interest.

Dolphinholme CE Primary Governor Attendance 2022/2023

Dolphinholme CE Primary Governor Attendance 2021/2022