Governance 

THPT Governance 

Our model of governance is designed to ensure that all THPT schools are truly bringing out the best of all our children and young people and remain rooted in their local communities. Strong governance is essential in ensuring high educational standards and excellent provision. In line with the statutory responsibilities for multi academy trusts, statutory governance responsibilities are held by the Trust Board, who ultimately govern each of our schools. These responsibilities are delegated to the CEO and in turn executive leaders within the Trust, then to our Principals. These leaders hold responsibility for overall performance, financial viability, legal compliance and statutory duties. 

More information about our Board of Trustees & wider governance can be found here.

Helping us to remain strongly connected to delivering for our communities, our Local Boards (LBs) have an important advisory role. They receive regular updates on school life and engage closely with stakeholders, particularly our children and young people, parents and our staff. LBs do not however represent statutory governance and have no statutory responsibilities. 

More information about this school’s LB can be found below. 

In order to remain at the forefront of professional practice, our Heads of Phase, on behalf of the CEO, line manage our school Principals and have responsibility for academy target setting and monitoring progress towards addressing improvement priorities as well as ensuring an effective culture of safeguarding.  

More information about THPT’s executive leaders can be found here.  

The St Lawrence Local Governance Board (LB) is responsible for working with the Head, Executive Head and other school staff to promote high standards of educational achievement. The LB at St Lawrence is accountable to the Board of Trustees at The Howard Partnership Trust.

Our role is to support the school in its ongoing success, as well as to continue to challenge how things could be done better for the benefit of all the children at our school.

The table below shows the members of our LB for 2025-2026 with their roles and responsibilities: 

*Attendance is expressed as attended over expected

Local Board Members who have stepped down in the past 12 months/previous academic year: 

If you would like to find out more about becoming a Local Board Member, please email contact@thpt.org.uk 

Register of interests

Register of interest information for Local Board Members who have stepped down in the last year:

For further information, please see the The Howard Partnership Trust