“I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for everything that you have done for the school, the Governing Board and, most importantly, the girls of Virgo Fidelis. Whilst you were made aware prior to your appointment to the Governing Board of the challenges that lay ahead in your role as Additional Local Authority Governor, the level of time, commitment and dedication that you have wholeheartedly and without reservation invested into your role has been immense and greatly appreciated by the Local Authority and myself.

Your ability to finely balance your role of strategic challenge with the considerable support that you have provided to both the school’s Senior Leadership Team and Governing Board across a range of issues is to be commended, particularly in light of all the challenges that you, and the other Additional Local Authority Governors, have had to contend with over the course of this last year”. (Shelley Davies, Director of Education at the London Borough of Croydon, May 2020)