Lindhead School
Community primary school in Scarborough (North Yorkshire).
Location
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Dear Parents, Carers, and anyone else viewing our website, Welcome to Lindhead School's website. We hope that the site gives you a flavour of life at Lindhead as well as a range of useful and statutory information. Our web site is updated continuously to reflect any changes to policy, procedures or our curriculum offer.
If you do not find the information you are looking for, please do get in touch with us. We share important information with parents and carers through the internal "Class Dojo" platform, this website, and through fortnightly, emailed newsletters. These newsletters, and any associated documents are available on the dedicated ' Newsletters ' page.
We try to be a caring, supportive school, and we work hard towards our school aims of enabling our children to be confident, to enjoy learning and to feel safe and happy at school. We want our pupils to become responsible citizens, and successful and active learners.
In the school’s own words, from the school website.
Enrichment
4 activitiesiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Coding
- Computing
- Drama
- Music
Awards
1 awardiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Anti-Bullying CharterRecognised award
Key facts
- URN
- 121362
- Type
- Community school
- Phase
- Primary
- Ages
- 4 to 11
- Gender
- Mixed
- Sixth form
- Does not have a sixth form
- Nursery
- No Nursery Classes
- Local authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby
- Setting
- Smaller rural: Further from a major town or city
Governing body (9 current, 8 former)
Maintained school governing body.
Leadership
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Jenny Hartley | Chair of Governors | Appointed by GB/board | since 2026 · until 2028 |
| Mr Dean Tomlin Former | Chair of Governors | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · term ended 2026 |
| Mr Dean Tomlin Former | Chair of Governors | Parent appointed by GB/board due to no election candidates | since 2021 · term ended 2025 |
Full governing body
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Paula Pillai | Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Mrs Marie Parkins | Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2026 · until 2030 |
| Mrs Lisa Ponter | Governor | Elected by parents | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Mrs Sally Maynard | Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Mrs Lauryn Godfrey | Governor | Elected by parents | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mr Peter Wood | Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mr Stuart Watson | Governor | Appointed by LA | since 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mr Simon England | Governor | Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principal | since 2018 |
| Mr Dean Tomlin Former | Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · term ended 2026 |
| Miss Jenny Hartley Former | Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · term ended 2026 |
| Mrs Janine Lees Former | Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2023 · term ended 2026 |
| Mrs Helen Duck Former | Governor | Elected by parents | since 2023 · term ended 2026 |
| Mrs Jennifer Henshaw Former | Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2022 · term ended 2025 |
| Mrs Marie Parkins Former | Governor | Elected by school staff | since 2021 · term ended 2025 |
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools (governance records, as at 25 October 2026). Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Names are shown as published; there are no addresses or contact details. Current and former are worked out from term end dates when the page loads. Object or ask for removal · Report an issue with this record