Governing Board

The Governing Body is a group of volunteer representatives who, alongside the school's leadership team, set the strategic direction for the school.

Our Governing Body comprises parent, staff, community and local authority representatives.   Should you wish to contact a member of the Governing Body, please do so through the school office.

The current membership is listed below.  

Oyindamola Asekun-Abinusawa, Co-Opted Governor
Term of office: 6 April 2022 - 5 April 2025
Dr. Oyindamola Asekun-Abinusawa is a Director who specialises in Research at WeAccelerate Limited, a management consultancy which supports public and private sector organisations with digital transformation programmes. Drawing on her background in Psychology as well as respective experiences in higher education and industry, she is keen to foster the provision of an exciting learning environment where children are encouraged to think creatively and thrive holistically.
​Declarations of Interest: None

Aparna Belapurkar, Co-opted Governor
Term of office: 1 September 2021 - 31 August 2024
Declarations of Interest: None

Simon Brown, Local Authority Governor
Term of office: 1 September 2023 - 31 August 2026
Simon has a long association with Pinner Park as his children and grandchildren have attended the school.   Simon is a councillor on Harrow Council, representing the Headstone Ward.  He was first elected as a Councillor in May 1986 and was re-elected as a Councillor in May 2014.
Declarations of Interest: None

Claire Edwards, Associate Member
​Term of office: 6 April 2019 - 5 April 2022
Claire has been deputy head at Pinner Park for over 10 years, having previously been deputy head in the Junior School, and now the Primary School. She has taught in Harrow schools since 1997, in varied roles, including assistant headteacher, advanced skills teacher and a secondment to the Borough’s maths advisory team. The favourite part of all her roles has been working with the children to help them develop and be ready for the next stage of their school life. 
Declarations of Interest: None

Dominic English, Staff Governor
Term of office: 6 April 2022 - 5 April 2025
​Dominic is Assistant Headteacher at Pinner Park Primary School.  Dominic has worked in a number of schools in Harrow since 2001 in a range of different roles including assistant headteacher, deputy headteacher and several interim/acting headteacher posts.  Dominic has also been an advanced skills teacher leading the introduction of interactive teaching technologies into Harrow schools.  His favourite thing about working in schools is enriching children's learning experiences so that their learning in memorable.  
​Declarations of Interest: Local Stakeholder Group member Priestmead Primary School and Nursery

Della Herd, Co-Opted Governor
Term of office: 6 April 2022 - 5 April 2025
​Della has enjoyed an extensive career in both the private and public sectors.  Della enjoyed a 25-year career in the hospitality sector, which included teaching food and drink service to 16–18-year-olds at Richmond Upon Thames College.  In recent years, Della moved into business management and enjoyed a varied and interesting career as Director of Business Management which included  business planning, finance, business improvement, human resources, and leadership and management.  
Della also holds additional voluntary roles with other organisations

​Declarations of Interest: None

Janice Howkins, Co-Opted Governor
Term of office: 23 March 2023 - 22 April 2026
Janice is proud to say that both of her children, now 31 and 27, attended Pinner Park. Janice has lived in Harrow for 37 years and would not move anywhere else as she loves our community. Janice served as headteacher for sixteen years in a girls' comprehensive school in Harrow until 2022. She was previously a sponsor of a local primary school and was joint interim headteacher for a year. Her initial teacher training was in primary education. Janice has contributed to national developments in inclusion and for her doctorate carried out research on middle leaders’ contribution to whole school improvement. From 2017 to 2022 she served on the secondary headteacher reference group to the DfE. Janice has been an inspector for Ofsted for twelve years, works as an educational consultant and coach, and highly values working with different schools.  In 2022, Janice received an OBE for services to education.

​Declarations of Interest: Chair of Trustees, Pinner High School

Sukaina Kassam, Parent Governor
Term of office: 19 October 2022 - 18 October 2025
Sukaina is a parent at the school and has a long history of volunteering at this school and in the wider local community.   Sukaina has experience as a governor in a local high school.   Sukaina has a degree in psychology and social science and is passionate about the education and welfare of all children. 
​​Declarations of Interest: None

Ketan Parikh, Parent Governor, Chair of Govenors
Term of office: 23 July 2021 - 22 July 2024​
Ketan was elected as a parent governor of Pinner Park Primary School in September 2021.  Ketan has spent most of his working career in the Education Sector and was keen to use his experience to make a positive contribution to the local community by becoming a governor at a local school. Currently Ketan works in Higher Education as an IT Leader and specialises in Setting strategic direction, service improvement and Innovation.
Declarations of Interest: None

Debroop Sengupta, Co-opted Governor
Term of office: 6 April 2022 - 5 April 2025
​Debroop is an award-winning Senior Digital Transformation Consultant. With a career spanning over 13 years, Debroop has helped large enterprise clients based in the UK & Europe reinvent their business operations with digital technologies. Experienced in problem-solving, analytical diagnostic methods, optimisation techniques, he has a proven track record of delivering successful large-scale business & digital transformation engagements. He received the Consulting Magazine (R) Global Top 25 Consultant Award for consulting excellence. Debroop is an MBA from XLRI, Jamshedpur, and a graduate in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology, Shibpur.
​Declarations of Interest: None

Jamie Shah, Co-opted Governor
​Term of office: 1 September 2021 - 31 August 2024
Jamie is an exam qualified CIPFA Accountant specialising in the public sector and currently work for an inner London local authority in corporate finance with responsibility for financial planning and monitoring. Jamie has extensive experience working in children’s services finance in previous roles and mainly working on early years, schools and children services capital projects. Jamie is a former Pinner Park pupil and has been a resident of Harrow for his entire life. Jamie wants to give back to the community, develop himself professionally and work towards positive change. 
Declarations of Interest: Governor at Elmgrove School

Reena Shah, Co-Opted Govenor
​Term of office: 6 April 2022 - 5 April 2025 (formerly parent governor)
Reena started her career in education in 1998.  She was appointed as Headteacher of a 3 form entry primary school in March 2020. She is an experienced senior leader and has worked at the school since 2008. During this time, she had led in various areas including teacher training and leadership development, curriculum development, assessment and safeguarding. She has worked in schools to support the development of middle leaders. Prior to taking up headship, Reena worked as a primary mathematics consultant for a Local Authority Advisory Service. She is passionate about teaching, learning and the character development of young people to enable them to be the best version of themselves.
Declarations of Interest: Governor at Kingsbury Green Primary School, Trustee at Saracens School

Shivani Shah, Parent Governor
Term of office: 23 July 2021 - 22 July 2024​
​Shivani has joined the governing board as of September 2021, she has roots in the local community and is keen to support the school. 
Shivani’s work involves collaborating with organisations to ensure the patient voice is used to shape and improve services related to healthcare. As part of this she designs engagement events to encourage representation from marginalised groups in the community to make sure healthcare is fair and accessible for everyone. She intends to work with school to make sure each ad every child gets the education they need. 
​Declarations of Interest: None

Quan Sim, Parent Governor
Term of office: 6 April 2022 - 5 April 2025
Quan joined the governing board in April 2022.  His background and experience is Financial Services IT and Product Management and in his job focuses on process improvement, often dealing with a large, varied groups of stakeholders.  He grew up in Greater London but has lived in the local area for the past decade and is looking forward to making a contribution back to the local community in this role.  He is passionate about ensuring that all children get the same opportunities to succeed as much as possible.
Declarations of interest: Member of Bentley Wood (Academy) Trust

Nick Waldron, Headteacher
​Term of office: from 1 September 2019 (ex officio)
​Mr Waldron has been headteacher, and governor, at Pinner Park Primary since September 2019.    He has previously led schools as a headteacher and consultant headteacher in Buckinghamshire.  
Declarations of Interest: None

Former governors 
Bijal Ahmed, Parent Governor (6 April 2019 to July 2021) 
Claire Atogdina, Parent Governor (September 2019 to July 2021) 
Karen James, Associate Member (April 2019 to July 2021) 
Bernadette Mills, Co-opted governor (April 2019 to July 2021) 
Bhavin Savla, Co-opted Governor (April 2019 to September 2020)
Harshini Selvendran, Co-opted governor (April 2019 to July 2021) 
Merowj Taqi, Co-opted Governor (1 September 2021 to 4 January 2022)​
Karen Coxon, Co-opted Governor (6 April 2019 to 5 April 2022)
Sue Flaherty, Co-opted Governor (6 April 2019 to 5 April 2022)
Bhumika Mehta, Co-opted Governor (6 April 2019 to 5 April 2022)
Rahul Sareen, Co-opted Governor (6 April 2019 to 5 April 2022)
Chris Lewis, Staff Governor (6 April 2019 to 5 April 2022)
Rehna Tanna, Parent Governor (6 April 2019 to 5 April 2022)
Philippa Jardine, Associate Member (6 April 2019 - 5 April 2022)
Priya Mehta, Co-opted Governor ( 6 April 2019 - 5 April 2022)
Saurabh Kothari, Local Authority Governor (21 May 2020 - 20 May 2023)
Jayne Rigg, Co-Opted Governor (10 Feb 2022 – 13 Jul 2023)

Structure 
Since September 2022, the Governing Board has moved to new model for meetings.  

Previously, our Governing Board had sub-committees focusing on premises, finance and staffing, and curriculum and standards but, after much discussion, we decided that we would no longer have committees and instead have more regualar full governing board meetings.
Our aims are:

• To avoid repetition between meetings
• To allow decisions to be made immediately rather than having to be passed through several committees
• To reduce the time burden on key governors
• To ensure that every governor had an understanding of the full range of responsibilities, enabling more informed and rounded decisions
• To ensure rapid turnaround of changes and actions generated at meetings

In addition to our full Governing Board, we have a Pay Panel committee which meets annually to assure the governing board that pay decisions reflect performance and the school teachers’ pay and conditions document. Additionally, a small group of governors are appointed to review the performance and pay of the headteacher. 

Associate Members
Associate members are not full governors but are appointed by the governing board to bring expertise and experience in specific areas to committees. They may be appointed for a period of between one and four years. They may attend full Governing board meetings but do not have voting rights.  Associate members may chair committees.

Governor Attendance at Meetings 2021-22

Contacting Governors

Should you wish to contact a member of the Governing Body, please do so through the school office.

Governor Links (links will open in a new window):
The National Governornance Association
Harrow Council School Governor Information