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About

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At Holmes Chapel Comprehensive School and Sixth Form College high expectations, excellent teaching, an exciting learning environment, an emphasis on the core purpose of helping students to learn and achieve, combined with a strong, caring support system, ensure that students of all abilities achieve their potential.

Outstanding examination results at GCSE and Advanced Level are consistently amongst the highest within Cheshire and nationally. Teachers, students, support staff, parents and governors work together to nurture the firmly established ethos of challenge, care, consideration and co-operation, which support the schools mission of preparing learners for a changing world .

There is a strong shared belief that children bring their own particular skills and talents and we aim to recognise, acknowledge and build on them. We place the highest priority on meeting the needs of individual students in all fields of endeavour.

In the school’s own words, from the school website.

Enrichment

1 activityiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.
  • Drama

Awards

2 awardsiFound on the school website by WhatSchool. Not verified by Governance Register; the school website is the authority.
  • Duke of EdinburghPersonal development
  • Inclusion Quality MarkInclusion

Key facts

URN
137449
Type
Academy converter
Phase
Secondary
Ages
11 to 18
Gender
Mixed
Admissions
Non-selective
Sixth form
Has a sixth form
Local authority
Cheshire East
Constituency
Congleton
Setting
Larger rural: Nearer to a major town or city
Opened
2011

Governing body (21 current, 5 former)

iAcademy trust: local governing body and trust board.

20 governors are linked to a profile (all confirmed).

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

NameRoleHow appointedTerm
Mrs Christina Burgess Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Tracey Goodwin Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Tracey Goodwin Confirmed same personChair of TrusteesTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2026 · until 2027 ends 2027
Mrs Amanda Jane Maddock Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Lauren MurphyChief Financial OfficerTrust officersince 2026
Mr Denis Oliver Confirmed same personMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2026
Mrs Sarah BoardmanMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2026
Mrs Samantha Crompton Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by school staffsince 2026 · until 2030
Mrs Kate Elizabeth McDermott Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by school staffsince 2025 · until 2029
Mr David James Sebastian Andrews Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2024 · until 2028
Dr Paul Allan Knox Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2024 · until 2028
Mrs Rebecca Cowell Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027
Mrs Jody Nicola Florance Darlington Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027
Mrs Anh Nowottny Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027
Mr Michael Woods Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027
Mrs Kerry Comb Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardAppointed by GB/boardsince 2023 · until 2027 ends 2027
Mrs Sophie Lavin Confirmed same personMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2023
Mr Nigel John Bielby Confirmed same personAccounting OfficerTrust officersince 2020
Mr Nigel John Bielby Confirmed same personTrusteeTrust boardEx-officio by virtue of office as headteacher/principalsince 2020
Mrs Ruth Livingstone Confirmed same personMemberTrust membersOriginal (signatory) memberssince 2011
Mrs Caroline Morgan Confirmed same person FormerTrusteeTrust boardElected by school staffsince 2023 · term ended 2026
Mr James Alexander Hamsphire FormerTrusteeTrust boardElected by parentssince 2022 · term ended 2026
Mrs Caroline Goodchild Confirmed same person FormerMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2019 · term ended 2026
Mr Peter Rottier Confirmed same person FormerMemberTrust membersAppointed by academy memberssince 2019 · term ended 2026
Mr Anthony Halsall Confirmed same person FormerChief Financial OfficerTrust officersince 2014 · term ended 2026

Full governing body

NameRoleHow appointedTerm
Mrs Pauline Ann ChallinorGovernance Professional - Single-Academy Trust (SAT)Governance professionalsince 2012

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