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Our Secondary Governance Board is our strategic management group comprised of educational leaders from across the regional education sector who work with us on all aspects of course governance.
We meet formally three times a year, but regularly communicate about course developments and the regional and national educational landscape. Our Secondary Governance Board acts like a school governors board; with a focus on strategic aspects rather than operational ones. We cover a number of different aspects, some of which include (but are not limited to):
Mentor training and development
The ITE curriculum
Safer recruitment and safeguarding processes
Recruitment strategy, including partnership involvement
Strategic leadership
Developments in evidence-informed teaching and learning
Innovations
Secondary Governance Board members
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Dr Catherine Richards
East Norfolk Sixth Form College
Principal
I have taught and being a leader in education for the past 25 years with the vast majority of my work being undertaken in Sixth Form or Further Education. I have a passion for learning and ensuring that young people can achieve their very best regardless of their background. I joined the Secondary Governance Board to help to continually improve the support for trainee and new teachers to focus on high quality education.
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Roger Harris
Taverham High School
Headteacher CEO
I am passionate about education and I believe an amazing education begins with amazing teachers. Teachers not only unlock the secrets of the universe but, nowadays, have to be so much more for our young people. As a former UEA PGCE student myself, I want to support the UEA in continuing to deliver a first-class experience. It is vitally important that we ensure the next generation of amazing teachers are ready for the challenges ahead to ensure that all children, regardless of their starting point, are given the best possible education to unlock their potential.
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Mary Hallett
Northgate High School, Ipswich, Suffolk
Professional Development Tutor
I was asked to join the Secondary Governance Board as an experienced Professional Tutor in a large secondary school in Ipswich, Suffolk, having already been a science mentor to trainees in the past. I am very familiar with the work that schools need to do to make the experience for a trainee both positive and worthwhile and I am able to bring this experience to the Secondary Governance Board meetings. The wider issues that are brought up at Secondary Governance Board meetings demonstrate that the UEA team work together with all partnership schools to ensure that both trainees and schools continue to have excellent support, expertise and care from everyone they work with.
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James Hanner Flegg
High Ormiston Academy
CPL and Induction Manager
I have been working with the UEA PGCE Secondary Partnership for 15 years in various capacities including in the role of Mentor; Professional Tutor; Associate Tutor and Internal Examiner. The links that we have forged with the programme have enriched my own classroom practice and that of countless other colleagues through the sharing of evidence based pedagogy and contributes significantly to our drive to offer the very best in educational experience and outcomes for the young people in our school. The Secondary Governance Board offers the opportunity to support the PGCE programme in continuing to offer the very best in Initial Teacher Training and preparing the next generation of teachers in the region with the core skills they will need in supporting pupils in a range of local contexts. Being part of the Secondary Governance Board offers the opportunity for honest conversations about the future shape and direction of ITT within the region and I value being a part of this discussion.
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Tom Rolfe
Hellesdon High School / Wensum Trust
Principal / Secondary Strategic Lead
At present, I have a dual role within the Wensum Trust. My time is split between the role of Principal at Hellesdon High School, an 11-18 school based in Norwich and the role of Secondary Strategic Lead for the Wensum Trust, providing support across both Acle Academy and Alderman Peel High School. As a keen sportsman, my own personal teaching career started back in 2002 as a student and aspiring teacher on the UEA PGCE Physical Education programme. The quality of training and support I received during that time was outstanding and although, perhaps I did not realise it at the time provided me with an incredible foundation in which to start building my career within the teaching profession. Since then I have always had a strong personal affiliation with the UEA PGCE Partnership and throughout my career I have always vowed to support them with the opportunities that they can provide.
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Jim McAtear
Hartismere Family of Schools
Chief Executive Officer
Jim is the founding Chief Executive of the Hartismere Family of School. He is also Headmaster at Hartismere, England's first academy, and Headteacher at Benjamin Britten Music Academy. Jim has served as a Lead Inspector with Ofsted over many years and has been appointed as a National Leader in Education. He is a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, has served as a Trust Chair and as a member, Director and Trustee in several organisation.
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Dr Simon Fox
East Norfolk Sixth Form College
Deputy Principal
I've been working in education in Norfolk for almost twenty years in a range of leadership and teaching positions, now holding the post of Deputy Principal at East Norfolk Sixth Form College. Since completing my PGCE with UEA in 2003 I've remained connected with the university. Working with a variety of stakeholders, supporting trainees in their placements and participating in delivery to them as part of their programme of study. The opportunity to get involved more formally in the oversight of the UEA PGCE Partnership is fantastic, and one that both as an individual and an organisation we jumped at. I have a strategic and operational role in our own training program and schedule at the College, so the chance to connect and network with individuals focused on this aspect of education as part of the Secondary Governance Board is also a fantastic opportunity.
Dan Keates
Framingham Earl High School
Deputy Headteacher
Dan Keates is Deputy Headteacher at Framingham Earl High School in Norfolk, where previously he was Head of History for 8 years. An experienced history mentor he has presented at UEA to the History PGCE cohort on different topics over several years. He has had the role of Link Tutor for a number of years, working with successive cohorts of trainees from the UEA. He has presented workshops at the Schools History Project Conference, including on the teaching of the GCSE thematic unit looking at migration to Britain through time. He wrote an article on effective teaching of historical Interpretations, and this was published in Teaching History magazine in 2020.
Working with trainees and UEA Tutors has been a highlight of my career. The commitment to learning in education, as well as subject specialism, has always shone through. I have appointed numerous teachers from the programme over my career and worked closely with subject tutors on a range of projects.
Carolyn Ellis-Gage
The Parkside School
Head Teacher
I trained to be a teacher and completed my MA in education at UEA and have been a teacher in Norfolk since 2005. I have always valued the start UEA gave me in my career and as my career developed and I took on leadership positions I have been keen to support UEA trainees. As a Headteacher in a special school I believe I am able to give a different perspective and different ideas supporting new teachers to have inclusion at the heart of their practice.
The partnership with UEA is a great way to keep up to date with current best practice and Parkside benefits with one of our Governors being a UEA teacher training lecturer. We also enjoy having trainees on placement in school, learning from them as they learn from us.
Suzanne Johnson
Diss High School
Assistant Headteacher - Teaching and Learning
Since completing my PGCE at UEA in 2005, I've worked with many trainees as a class teacher, PGCE Mentor and now Professional Tutor. Passionate about all things teaching and learning, it is really important to me that we nurture a passion for education in people entering the profession, and a real drive to pass this on to our students so that they, too, have the desire to be lifelong learners. Being part of the Secondary Governance Board offers the opportunity for me to help support and shape UEA's offer in helping future teachers to achieve these skills.
Our school has worked with the UEA PGCE Partnership since before I even started teaching here in 2005. We have established a really positive working relationship and value the input we have been able to provide both to the overall course structure and subject specific areas. As a school, we regularly invite UEA PGCE students to interview and at one point, our English department was made up of 90% former UEA PGCE students!