Year 10 Parents Evening

We are delighted to invite you to the Year 10 Parents Evening on Thursday 24th April from 4pm-7pm. This will be an opportunity for you to meet with your child's teachers about their progress this year. You will also be able to meet with the year team to discuss their start to the year more generally. Please visit  SchoolCloud - Beckfoot Thornton to book your appointment slot.

Governance Arrangements

Board of Trustees

The Trust has one Board of Directors/Trustees with a skill-set covering school improvement and commercial effectiveness. 

The Board ensures schools are held to account and realise the benefits of scale that come from working in partnership.

The Beckfoot Trust Board, the Members of the Company and Committees are responsible for ensuring its compliance with Corporate and Charity legislative requirements.  

The governance structure of the Beckfoot Trust is described in our scheme of delegation.

Click here to view the Trust Master Funding Agreement as well as Beckfoot Thornton’s Funding Agreement.

Find out more on the Beckfoot Trust Website

Local School Committee

The main duties of the Local School Committee are to:
  1. Taking responsibility for challenging the Headteacher to account for ensuring the following areas are a priority of school life
  • Educational standards
  • Health and safety audits and key data/information
  • Safeguarding local protocols, audits and data
  • Effective community and family engagement
  • Staff engagement, welfare and wellbeing
  • Student engagement, welfare and wellbeing
  1. Be aware, of understand and advocate for the school’s progress
  2. Consider and monitor the local implementation of Trust policies and protocols