Leventhorpe
Academy converter secondary school in Sawbridgeworth (Hertfordshire).
Location
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Leventhorpe is an exciting place in which to learn and a caring environment where every student is both challenged academically and carefully supported. Staff, parents and students work together to create a community based on secure, shared values of Excellence, Commitment and Respect.
This is at the heart of everything we do here and informs all aspects of the school, from the individual curriculum that enables all students to achieve the highest possible academic standards, to the outstanding pastoral system that ensures that the needs of each student are met fully.
In the school’s own words, from the school website.
Enrichment
10 activitiesiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.- Athletics
- Band
- Choir
- Dance
- Drama
- Football
- Rugby
- Stem
- Swimming
- Accelerated Reader
Key facts
- URN
- 137156
- Type
- Academy converter
- Phase
- Secondary
- Ages
- 11 to 18
- Gender
- Mixed
- Admissions
- Non-selective
- Sixth form
- Has a sixth form
- Local authority
- Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford
- Setting
- Urban: Nearer to a major town or city
- Opened
- 2011
Governing body (16 current, 4 former)
iAcademy trust: local governing body and trust board.16 governors are linked to a profile (15 confirmed, 1 (likely)).
Governors marked “Confirmed same person” have exactly the same forename and surname as the only officer of that name at the school’s own academy trust company on the Companies House register, so we treat them as the same person. The governance record itself comes from DfE.
Leadership
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Emma Bill Confirmed same person | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by GB/board | since 2025 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mr Alfred Church Confirmed same person Former | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by trustees | since 2025 · term ended 2025 |
| Mrs Siobhan Chester Confirmed same person Former | Chair of Local Governing Body | Appointed by GB/board | since 2023 · term ended 2025 |
Full governing body
| Name | Role | How appointed | Term |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mrs Melanie Louisa Firth Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Mr Craig Chisnall Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Elected by parents | since 2025 · until 2029 |
| Ms Zoe Callan Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2024 · until 2028 |
| Mr Alfred Church Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mr Bryan Engwell Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mr Ian Little Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mr David Alexander Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2022 · until 2026 ends 2026 |
| Mrs Ololade Sanusi | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2022 · until 2026 ends 2026 |
| Mrs Ria Weller Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2022 · until 2026 ends 2026 |
| Mr Nicholas Parry (likely) | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2021 · until 2029 |
| Mr Robert Nunn Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2019 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mrs Emma Bill Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by academy members | since 2019 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mrs Lucy Johnson Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by academy members | since 2019 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mr Peter Westbrook Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2010 · until 2030 |
| Mrs Maureen Bray Confirmed same person | Local Governor | Appointed by GB/board | since 2003 · until 2027 ends 2027 |
| Mr Malcolm White Confirmed same person Former | Local Governor | Ex-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principal | since 2018 · term ended 2026 |
| Mrs Siobhan Chester Confirmed same person Former | Local Governor | Appointed by academy members | since 2017 · 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