Mary Howard Local Governing Committee (LGC), was inaugurated 01.09.2024. The committee oversees the strategic work of Mary Howard and is directly responsible to The Staffordshire Schools Multi Academy Trust Board of Directors.

Certain responsibilities have been delegated to the LGC, which are reported to the Board of Directors on a regular basis.

​What the committee members can do:

The committee members are responsible for making sure the school is run so children are encouraged to achieve their full potential.

They are involved in:

  • Supporting the direction, policies and objectives of the school
  • Agreeing the school budget
  • Making sure the curriculum is balanced and broadly based
  • Challenging and supporting the Headteacher

What Committee Members can’t do:

The LGC is a group. Individual members have no powers except where the whole committee has given them a specific job to do.

The LGC make their decisions based on the advice of members that deal with specific issues, such as the school's curriculum, premises or finances. They don’t make decisions individually and they can’t go into schools and make demands of the Headteacher and staff.

To find out more about the LGC, ask any member of the governing team.

Committee Members (Serving for a period of 4 years)

Rachel Mills -

Steve Webb - 

Anna Spencer-Gray -

Rector – Reverend John Grice

My name is Reverend John Grice and I am Serving as Team Rector for the Mease Valley Churches, Tamworth.

I’m from the West Midlands, happily married to my lovely wife Gemma with a young and growing family. We have three children between the ages of eleven and sixteen, they are full of energy and love. We moved to Clifton Campville from Wellington, Telford, a market town in Telford were a served in a parish of two churches. 

Studies - I studied Theology full time at St John’s Theological College for three years Nottingham, really enjoying my studies and the shared community life. 

I enjoy chocolate (fairly traded is best), real Coffee, thought provoking films, and reading in front of the fire. I enjoy walks in the woods with my family and a little nature and landscape photography when time permits. I studied photography for a (BA Hons degree)

My Passion: I have a passion to see and explore what God is doing in the lives of people, and in the places all around me, I get excited when I see people loving and serving one another in their areas of gifting. I want to build bridges and encourage platforms for the Good news of Jesus to travel and to impact lives here and everywhere that reach into eternity.

Ephesians 4.11-13.

The gifts that he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.

Sarah Orgill - 

I have been a teacher for over twenty years and have worked in a variety of schools.  I have held various management positions including English and Maths leader, SENCO and Deputy Headteacher. I am committed to supporting others in their roles and to ultimately provide the best education possible for the children of St Andrew's and Mary Howard.

I live in Lichfield with my husband and two sons.

Kevin Higginson - 

" A Chartered Accountant for 40 years, I have worked mainly in industry as a Finance Director and Chief Executive. Now retired from full time executive roles, I am undertaking a variety of advisory and consulting assignments on a part time basis.

Living in Clifton Campville for over 15 years, I have previously been a Governor at a Junior School, and a Senior School, in Derbyshire, and a group of private schools in Leicestershire. 

I am looking forward to the challenge of supporting the Headteacher and the senior team develop and grow our schools."

Roles / type and responsibilities to be reviewed in total, confirmed and added in.

Link Director S Skelton.