Aidan Foy  Chairman, Finance

I am married to Fiona and we have two children.

My daughter Nadia has attended St Thomas Garnet’s since Nursery: she enjoys the School and is progressing very well. My son Liam attended St Thomas Garnet’s Kindergarten; he now attends Corpus Christi as he is a special need child.

I am employed as a Production Manager for a local textile manufacturer, with responsibilities for the total production of nationwide sales. My duties included budgets, stock control, liaison with out-workers and suppliers, Health and Safety, interviewing, and staff appraisals.

I have been involved with St Thomas Garnet’s for the last four years serving on the PTA, where I hold the post of Chairperson. I have been a Trustee and Governor of the School since 2001. I do my utmost to attend the School Masses and most of the School activities throughout the year.

As a Trustee, I feel it is important that Board members support the School, the Head, the Teachers and Staff, and to allow the parents the opportunity to know who is making the day to day decisions.

Yvonne Sabih   Vice Chairman, Kindergarten, Marketing

I am married to Laith and we have three children, Yasmin age 9 and Emile age 6 who both attend St Thomas Garnet’s and Faris who is 6 months old.

My career has included working as a Project Manager for an IT solutions company supporting blue chip organisations and as a new New Products Manager for Revlon Cosmetics, which involved co-ordinating the manufacture and distribution of all new product launches in Europe and the UK for two premium brands. I am now in my most challenging role yet as a full time mother!

I have been on the PTA for the past four years and am currently the PTA Secretary. I was educated at Boscombe Convent School and then St Peter’s, so I have a long-standing knowledge of the community and feel I can put this to good use as a Trustee of the school.

My interests include running and playing golf (time allowing!)

Theresa Slater  Kindergarten

Born 1950 in Wrexham. Attended The Convent of the Cross (one of St Thomas Garnet’s Predecessors) at the age of 8. At 18 I went to St Mary’s College of Education Twickenham and gained a B Ed in History and P.E. in 1972. I returned to teach at Boscombe Convent in 1973.

In 1975 I married Kim and we had two daughters Zoe and Danielle, both of whom attended St Thomas Garnet’s. During this time I formed a lunchtime gym club at the school. In 1979 we started our own business in the catering field and went on to own pubs and restaurants. From 1993 to 1998, I worked as a volunteer at “Life” hostel, which supported unmarried mothers who wished to keep their babies. Wanting to return to teaching, I retrained at King Alfred’s College Winchester, and have been supply teaching at a variety of Bournemouth schools, including St Thomas Garnet’s and Corpus Christi . When I have a little spare time I like to indulge in creative writing, music, reading, dancing and travelling.

Dhanus Ramdharry  Child Protection

Nick Marsden  Health & Safety  

Biog awaited

Lucy Harley  Health & Safety, Child Protection

I was born in 1960 in Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia). We came back to Oxfordshire in 1961 where I was educated at St Kenelm’s Primary School, St Juliana’s Servite Convent School, and Burford School.

In 1978, I started my nurse training at the Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford, after qualifying I worked in elderly care in Oxford, London, and Portsmouth. In 1985, I became a theatre nurse and having worked in all areas I specialised in orthopaedic and trauma surgery working in Portsmouth, Oxford and I now work part-time in Bournemouth orthopaedic theatres.

My two daughters attended St Thomas Garnet’s. Elizabeth, who is now 16, started in Nursery and is now in the sixth form at St Peters and Phoebe, who is now 11, joined in Kindergarten and has left to go to Wentworth College.
I joined the PTA in 2004. My leisure interests are playing tennis, travelling, making cakes, wine appreciation, and reading.

Martin Smith  Buildings, Finance, ICT, Website

A trustee since 2005, married to Janet with one child Adam b1991, obtained an HNC in Building Construction in 1970 at the North East Surrey College of Technology, and went on to work as a senior technical buyer for 2 major building contractors. We moved to Bournemouth in 1986 to start a new career as Hoteliers and built up a very successful business, which we retired from in 2000. Since that time, I ran a small business carrying out general property maintenance. Nowadays you can find me running around in a little van delivering Meals on Wheels to the elderly around the Bournemouth area, a service that I find extremely rewarding.

My involvement with the school has been since Adam attended nursery, being one of its first pupils when it originated.  He is doing very well thanks to his STG education which led him on to Bournemouth School, He is now at University doing a Masters Degree in Electronics at Imperial, London.
I was instrumental in developing the Garnets Gazette magazine from an A4 newsletter into the multipage colour format that now exists I also maintain the Garnets website. My interests include all things ICT, which includes the launching of the first directory of Smokefree Hotels in UK.

Patricia Kilkenny-Browne  Finance
Born & educated in Southern Ireland.  I came to Southampton in 1974 to train as a teacher at La Sainte Union College of Education and Southampton University. In 1978 I stared my teaching career at Boscombe Convent School moved to St Thomas Moore which then became St Peters in 1980. I have 3 children who were all educated at St Thomas Garnets. My subjects are Geography and P.E . Throughout my long teaching career I have had many different responsibilities including being a head of year for 12 years. 
Currently I am responsible for the Sports Leadership Programme and the Schools Sports Coordinator for St Peters School. I am also the link teacher for the International Inspirational Programme whose aim is to promote and develop Sports Programmes in underdeveloped areas of the world. Our twin school is in South Africa.
I especially enjoy meeting new people and spending time with family and friends.