The Interim Executive Board (ID 1060)

• Anne Allison
  Education Consultant and experienced Primary Headteacher (Chair)
  Anne Allison

  Anne was a successful headteacher and executive headteacher for twenty years in

  several primary schools in East Sussex before becoming an education consultant.

  She currently provides external adviser support for a number of schools on behalf of

  East Sussex County Council. She also provides a range of other support for schools

  in the authority: serving on a number of IEBs, including in the role as chair,

  supporting progress groups and advising governing boards in the recruitment of new

  headteachers.

  Anne has been involved in school governance for many years, as a headteacher,

  local authority governor and an additional associate member on behalf of the local

  authority.

  Anne is committed to supporting the development of the leadership skills of all

  members of the school community in order to ensure that pupils thrive and achieve

  the best possible outcomes.

• Jessica Stubbings
  East Sussex County Council Officer
  Jessica Stubbings

  Jessica has been a senior manager within the school improvement service at East

  Sussex County Council for the last 15 years, over this time her role has included: the

  implementation of the Raising of the Participation Age, leading and managing

  Governor Services and lead responsibility for school organisation.
  
  Jessica was a member of the Hastings Opportunity Area Board between 2017 - 2021, a

  Department for Education funded programme to deliver improvements in educational

  outcomes and is currently a member of the Priority Education Investment Area Board

  in Hastings.

• Shaun Jarvis
  Former HMI and school leader with extensive leadership experience in specialist settings
  Shaun Jarvis

  Shaun’s career in education spans twenty years. He has devoted much of this time

  to working with children and young people facing significant disadvantage and

  vulnerabilities. He has particular expertise in safeguarding, inclusion, SEND and AP.

  Shaun holds the National Professional Qualification in Senior Leadership. He has

  held several leadership roles in mainstream and specialist settings, and has worked

  with governors and trustees, providing challenge and support and helping to

  strengthen governance.

  He is a trustee of a multi-academy trust and has previously

  been a governor and the chair of a learning and standards committee. Following a

  successful career as a teacher and school leader, Shaun was privileged to become

  one of Her Majesty’s Inspectors at Ofsted. He led high-quality, often complex,

  inspections of primary and secondary mainstream schools, special and independent

  non-maintained special schools, as well as alternative provision settings. Shaun’s

  exceptional contribution was praised by the then HMCI. He is now director and

  principal consultant of a successful education consultancy, supporting schools and

  local authorities. He continues to lead inspections on behalf of Ofsted.

• Linda Pannell
  Member of the previous governing board
  Linda Pannell

  Linda is an experienced and successful educational leader. She has worked in the primary sector as a teacher and then head teacher in two different schools.

  She also acted as a consultant in nursery education in Harlow, Essex. After retiring she

  became Chair of Governors of a large primary school in Essex for 8 years.

  She was appointed to her second headship role under the Government’s Fresh Start

  programme to take over and re-establish a failing school in a deprived area. This

  involved working with a newly appointed governing body, and the recruitment of a

  completely new staff team. Her passion for excellence in all curriculum areas is

  combined with a deep conviction that staff should be well led by example. They must

  be motivated, supported and trained in order to deliver the best education for the

  children in their care. This approach ensured a successful outcome in just over two

  years. She has subsequently carried the same convictions into her governor roles.

• Janet Bowen
  East Sussex County Council HR Officer (Associate Member)
  Janet Bowen

  Janet has worked with governing bodies, school leaders and senior Children’s Services representatives to support personnel management across the schools’ workforce in East Sussex since 1995.

  Janet is member of the Human Resources and Organisational Development Advisory management team for East Sussex County Council and has extensive experience in employee relations, managing change, TUPE, recruitment and managing complex HR issues. Janet is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development (MCIPD).

• Rose Blaauw
  East Sussex County Council Finance Officer (Associate Member)
  Rose Blaauw

  Rose is a Principal Finance Officer with experience of working within local authority-

  maintained schools as a business manager since 2011. Rose now works within the

  Schools Finance contact team supporting schools and governors with their finance

  systems and finance information. Rose has extensive experience in preparation and

  monitoring of school budgets.

• Theresa Phillips
  Education Consultant and experienced Secondary Headteacher
  Theresa Phillips

  Until recently, Theresa was an External Adviser for a group of secondary schools in East Sussex, providing support and challenge to promote school improvement. During this period, she was a member of the IEB for a special school.
  
  Previously, she worked for Ofsted for six years as HMI leading inspections of primary, secondary and all-through schools. Prior to that, Theresa was a secondary school headteacher in Hastings.

• Mark Bryant
  Director of Surrey for LSEAT and Executive Headteacher of two federated community special schools (Associate Member)
  Mark Bryant

  Mark is currently on a two day per week secondment as the London South East

  Academies Trust (LSEAT) Director of Surrey, leading on the development of a

  Surrey ‘hub’ of specialist schools. His substantive role is as the Executive

  Headteacher of a hard federation of two specialist schools across three sites in the

  North West of Surrey. Until last year Mark was also the chair of the Surrey Specialist

  School Phase Council a representative group of 26 maintained Specialist Schools.