Trustee

Stratford School Academy offers you the chance to help us maintaining our success, within a supportive environment deploying a professional approach. We are especially keen to bolster our governing team with education expertise. So, if you have substantial relevant experience, or if you’re at a point where a governing role would complement your career aspirations, we hope you’ll consider joining us where the 1,400 students in our non-selective school reflect the diversity of our Forest Gate home.  It’s also where our Progress 8 score is well above the national average, attainment and attendance is better than the local and the national averages and the achievement of our disadvantaged students in the top 3% of schools nationally. 

Our trustees attend five board level meetings on-site each year (four during the evening and a strategy day) and five or six evening committee meetings, held virtually. They undertake an induction and a training programme and, if they have a link role, they come into school about three times each year. They must take on a fair share of panel work, although there has been no need for these for some time. We do expect our trustees to engage with us on-site beyond these formal arrangements, for example, by attending a reasonable number of school events.We can accommodate people who have different expertise but, on this occasion, our team would benefit from knowledge of finance, risk, estates and the secondary curriculum, student progress and attainment.