Aspire Academy Trust

Hub Council

Our academies are clustered together in hubs which are grouped according to both strategic and geographical areas. 

Every Aspire academy is accountable to the trust board. A hub council is perfectly positioned to facilitate this and to ensure the academies within it can realistically deliver the trust's requirements and its core purpose of ensuring outstanding pupils outcomes.

Hub councillors, in close partnership with their academies, communicate and work in conjunction with the board, providing a vital link and additional level of accountability.

 

Mid Hub Council

Claire Brewer Indian Queens Community Hub Councillor
Stella Elias Mawgan-in-Pydar Parent Hub Councillor
Liz McKenzie Mawgan-in-Pydar Community Hub Councillor
Rebecca Stott (Chair) Mawgan-in-Pydar Parent Hub Councillor
Sian Kirby Nansledan Parent Hub Councillor
Claire Jones Summercourt Parent Hub Councillor
Holly Hocking Whitemoor Parent Hub Councillor

North Hub Council

Sarah Badham Bude Juniors Community Hub Councillor
Nick Tyrell Bude Infants Parent Hub Councillor
Anna Jenner Delabole & Tintagel Community Hub Councillor
Marianne Tapper Delabole & Tintagel Community Hub Councillor
David Barton (Chair) St Breock Community Hub Councillor
Helen Eustice St Breock Parent Hub Councillor
Matt Hawcroft St Minver Parent Hub Councillor
Simeon Leete Warbstow Parent Hub Councillor

South Hub Council

Jill Ludbrook (Chair) Coverack, Manaccan & St Keverne Community Hub Councillor
Emma Grigson Manaccan Parent Hub Councillor
Jo Foster Nansloe Parent Hub Councillor
Liz Brand Penryn Community Hub Councillor

St Austell Hub Council

Anne Bullock Biscovey Community Hub Councillor
Alexander Allan Biscovey Infants Parent Hub Councillor
Ann Bradley Bugle Community Hub Councillor
Leanne Bawden Sandy Hill Community Hub Councillor
Julie Jago Sandy Hill Community Hub Councillor
Dave Freckleton St Stephen Churchtown Parent Hub Councillor
Lesley Lawther St Stephen Churchtown Community Hub Councillor
Emma Goudge Treverbyn Parent Councillor

Truro Hub Council

Clare Hains Cusgarne Parent Hub Councillor
Sarah Waskett Cusgarne Parent Hub Councillor
Richard Horswell Mount Hawke Parent Hub Councillor
Gemma Martin Probus Parent Hub Councillor
David Bustin Shortlanesend Community Hub Councillor
Alice Pawson Shortlanesend Parent Hub Councillor
Alex Wood St Mawes Community Hub Councillor
Elizabeth Phillips Tregolls Commmunity Hub Councillor
Ben Montgomery Truro Learning Parent Hub Councillor

West Hub Council

Diane Brown Connor Downs Community Hub Councillor
Kevin Gallagher Connor Downs Parent Hub Councillor
Louise Knights Crowan Parent Hub Councillor
Gemma Tregenza-Parker Crowan Parent Hub Councillor
Jane Shipway Grade-Ruan Community Hub Councillor
Victoria Dove St Uny Parent Hub Councilllor
Lee Strickland St Uny Parent Hub Councillor

 

Core Role of a Hub Councillor

  • Focus on consistently improving outcomes for all pupils but especially for disadvantaged pupils. 
  • Provide challenge and support to leaders at all levels in the Hub
  • Monitor the performance and progress of the academies in the Hub, agreeing strategies to achieve continuous improvement and monitoring the Hub Improvement Plan  
  • Strategic oversight of the curriculum
  • Take all aspects of safeguarding and well -being seriously and appoint a designated Safeguarding Council member
  • Conduct an annual self- evaluation of the impact and effectiveness of the Hub Councils and academies improvement activities
  • Promote Trust vision, policies and priorities

Intended Impact of a Hub Councillor

  • Councillors are confident in their evaluations and understanding, and do not shy away from challenging leaders about variations in outcomes for pupil groups, especially between disadvantaged and other pupils 
  • Councillors monitor the effectiveness of the actions leaders take to secure and sustain improvements to teaching, learning and assessment and effectively hold them to account for this.  This is communicated effectively to the Board and the Hub Director through the minutes of the Hub Council meetings 
  • To carry out Safeguarding duties as detailed in the monitoring programme