St Thomas Garnets School Bournemouth

	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!)
	Fr Peter Willcocks Raised in a Jesuit parish (St Ignatius , Tottenham) and sent to a Jesuit School (St Ignatius College, Tottenham) where I found myself in Garnet House. Joined the Jesuits straight from school and followed what was then the usual course of training: two years' noviciate, three years philosophy, a degree (in physics) at Campion Hall, Oxford, two years teaching (at Mount St Mary's College, Derbyshire), three years theology, ordination to the priesthood and one year PGCE (at Oxford). I was then sent back to Mount St Mary's until it was time for the tertianship (a final year of spiritual exercises). It was then back to the Mount again as teacher, linemaster (i.e. in charge of year 10 and dormitory master of the boys in that year) and - for a few years - deputy head. I was also superior of the Jesuit Community. In 1987 I was given a sabbatical and when I returned it was not to the Mount but to St Ignatius College which by then had moved to Enfield and had become comprehensive. I was there teaching and again Superior for nine years before being sent back to the Mount as teacher and superior. After some thirty five years of teaching - and having reached the age of 62 - I told the Provincial I had had enough, so for the next five years I acted as full-time chaplain to the school. I then told the Provincial that I had had enough of schools so he sent me down here to help on the parish and in the new Care Home. I have been a governor of the Mount and of St Angela's, a girls' comprehensive in Palmers Green, and during my time at Enfield was clerk to the governors, since as a paid member of staff I could not be a governor. Besides being a life-long supporter of Spurs, I have always been an active games-player: rugby and soccer at school and university, where I also obtained a "blue" for Judo, and coaching rugby at the Mount and soccer at St Ignatius. I ran a Judo club at the Mount and even coached the girl guides at Charlbury when I was studying theology at Heythrop (under the watchful eye of the guider!). I was also scout master of the Charlbury scouts.
	Theresa Gormley-Lord Curriculum, 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.
	Sheila Chennell Health & Safety, Kindergarten My connection with the school started as a pupil many years ago when it was the Convent of The Cross. Later my daughter attended the Convent just before it became St Thomas Garnet’s, and being involved in the birth of a new school was very exciting – even if it did involve being part of the painting workforce to decorate the new Headmaster’s office! The connection has continued as my three grandchildren are now at school in Transition, Reception and Kindergarten. When not helping with the grandchildren I work part-time as an administrator for a theatrical production company
	Dhanus Ramdharry Child Protection Biog awaited
	Jane Freire Kindergarten, Marketing I am married to Joe and I have two children, Matthew & Maria, both my children have attended St Thomas Garnet’s Kindergarten since they were 18 months old. Matthew is now in the main school and Maria is in pre-school. I am a Co-Director for JMF Financial Services, which is based inSouthampton and specialises in corporate financial planning and employee benefits. As my children are still very young I have taken on much more of a support role and my duties include, bookkeeping and accounts, compliance and HR. My background is mainly within the Financial Services Sector and I have worked as a Para-planner and an Underwriter for two large organisations. As a working mother the school has offered me a lot of support by providing a high standard of education as well as physical and emotional support for my children, I am therefore very pleased to be offered the opportunity to return this support to the school as a Trustee.
	Nick Marsden Health & Safety, Buildings Biog awaited

	Lucy McMahon 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 Committee, Website / ICT Born 1949, 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 have been running a small business carrying out general property maintenance. My involvement with the school has been since Adam attended nursery when it first opened. He has now gone on to Bournemouth School where his is doing very well thanks to his STG education. I have always tried to ‘lend a hand’ at school fetes and functions and outings, but my main involvement was to develop the Garnets Gazette magazine into the multipage colour format that now exists and also to build and maintain the STG website. My interests include computers & basic website design, which includes the launching of the first directory of Smokefree Hotels in UK , and the building & racing of high speed remote control cars, at club level, with my Son.
	Jo Henwood Kindergarten Born & educated in Newry, Northern Ireland, I came to Southampton in 1967 to train as a teacher at La Sainte Union College of Education. I am married to Barry and we have four children, all of whom received their Primary Education at St Thomas Garnet's. Four of our grandchildren have attended the Kindergarten to date. My long association with the school began in 1971 when, newly married, I was employed as Preparatory Class teacher by the Handmaids of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in what was then Boscombe Convent Junior School. At the change over in 1980 I was re-employed in the new St Thomas Garnet's and remained there very happily until 2001, latterly as Senior Teacher in the Infant School. Currently I am a director of MLS International College in Bournemouth and work also in a variety of ways in our Parish Community of Corpus Christi, particularly in preparation for Baptism. I especially enjoy meeting new people and spending time with family and friends. It is good to be back at St Thomas Garnet's.

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