Clerking Arrangements
We believe that it is vital that all of our Board and Sub-committee meetings are fully clerked and benefit from the advice and support that an experienced Clerk brings to the table as a governance professional.
What, exactly, is the role of the Clerk?
The Clerk to the Governing Board provides advice and guidance on governance, constitutional and procedural matters. A professional clerk will contribute towards the efficient functioning a governing board and its sub- committees and panels by providing:
Our Clerks
As a Board, we draw on the expertise of two experienced and highly skilled Clerks. Their biographies are set out below.
Rod Woodhouse
Rod is a professional clerk and has been the Clerk to the Board of Governors of Bushey Primary Education Federation since its formation in 2016. Rod was a successful primary school headteacher for more than 12 years until he took early retirement in 2013. Before turning to teaching he spent 20 years in industry working for a number of UK and multinational companies. During his career in education he sat on the National Executive of the National Association of Headteachers and was a member of Hertfordshire’s Primary Heads’ Forum. He now divides his time between being a clerk; a governor of two schools and as a tutor to. trainee teachers for the University of Buckingham. In addition, he is currently supporting the Federation in a leadership capacity. In his spare time, he walks his dog and spends too much time making model tanks.
Allyson Woodhouse
Allyson Woodhouse spent a highly successful career as a classroom teacher and then headteacher at schools in Hertfordshire. Since taking early retirement, she has been an Executive Headteacher at a number of schools in south east England. She and Rod have two grown up children, one of whom is a primary school teacher married to a secondary school teacher. Allyson has been clerking governing boards for over three years and is serving the Federation Board whilst Rod is working as part of the Federation Leadership Team. In her spare time, Allyson also walks the dog, enjoys sewing and spends time volunteering in a local primary school.