Meet Our Local Governors
Local Governance
Over Hall Community School is part of Cheshire Academies Trust (CAT). Governance of the academy is split between those matters decided at Trust Board Level, and those matters delegated to the Interim Development Board.
Governance at local level plays an important role in both challenging and supporting the leadership team on key aspects of the school’s strategy, always with a strategic lens on governance and the safe but dynamic leadership of the school.
The focus of the Interim Development Board is ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction of the school by;
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Holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the school and its pupils, and the performance management of staff;
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Ensuring that other key players with a stake in the organisation get their voices heard.
The board does this this by knowing and understanding the school and the wider educational context, reading meeting paperwork and attending meetings to ask questions to ensure that the best possible decisions are made for the benefit of the children in the school.
Please see information regarding members of the Interim Development Board including terms of office, areas of responsibility and any declarations of interest. Declarations of interest are checked at every Interim Development Board meeting, this page being updated with any changes which may arise.
Meet our Team
Ian Percival, Co-opted/Chair of Governors
Term of Office: 27/03/23-26/03/27
Declaration of Interests: None
Email: ipercival@overhall.cheshire.sch.uk
Janet Myers, Co-opted/Vice Chair of Governors
Term of Office: 13/10/2025 - 12/10/2025
Declaration of Interests: Consultant and Regional Lead, NGA, Director Boughton Applied Consulting, Trustee Oldfield Trust, Trustee, Cheshire Academies Trust, Governor, JH Godwin, Chester, Member, Light Hall School (May 2025), Governor Queens School, Chester,
Helen Hough, Executive Headteacher
Declaration of Interests: None
Bob Barton, Co-opted Governor
Term of Office: 07/07/2023 - 03.07.2027
Declaration of Interests: None
Kath Shephard, Co-opted Governor
Term of Office: 20.09.22 - 19.09.26
Declaration of Interest: None
Jessica Schuettke, Staff Governor
Term of Office: 30.06.25 - 29.06.29
Declaration of Interest: None
Jaime Beveridge, Parent Governor
Term of Office: 03.02.2025 - 02.02.2020
Declaration of Interest: Member of HSA
Steve Ellis, CEO
Declaration of Interest: Governor at Bishops Heber High School
Governors who have left in the previous 12 months:
Jessie Stanley, Staff Governor, Term of Office, 30.06.2025 - 14.11.2025, no declared interests
Charlotte Gibson, Parent Governor, Term of Office, 03.02.2025 - 24.10.2025, Member of the HSA team at Over Hall
Abbey Brookes, Staff Governor, Term of Office, 07.06.24 - 30.06.2025, no declared interests