Governors

Our Local Governing Committee (LGC) is drawn from Parents, members of the Community, Diocese and Church and Staff. We are here to support the School and to act as the School's critical friend helping it to achieve it's aim of achieving high professional standards and academic achievement.

We are required to meet three times a year by statute, with another three full, non statutory meetings. Our LGC meets every half term – six times a year and we follow the CDAT governance Planner to set our agenda. In addition to this we have a number of different committees which meet as required – Pay Committee; HT Performance Management; Discipline; Complaints; Appeals.

A copy of published meeting minutes is available upon written request from our school.
Governor Constitution for 2025/26 can be found here.
Governor attendance at meetings over the past school year (2025-26) can be found here.
Governor Register of Interests for 2025/26 can be found here.

If you wish to contact the Chair or any of the Governors please contact the office, either by phone, post or email office@wybunburydelves.co.uk.

If you would like to find out more about the role of the Governing body, wish to bring anything to our attention; or would be interested in future positions on the team, please do let us know! We can be contacted via the School Office . The team is made up of two Parent Governors, CDAT Foundation Governors, one Staff Governor, and the Headteacher. Details of our current Governing Board can be found on the Governor Profile Page .

Further information about CDAT's Governance can be found here.

Each year, the governors write an Annual Report to review the year.

2024-25 Annual Report

Our Govenors

Neil Arnott

Chair of Governor / CDAT Governor

Chair of Governors for the last 10 years, working with the Senior Management Team Neil strives to deliver a school that is inclusive and a place where you would want your children to be educated. When not working, Neil enjoys reading or walking.

Janet Clowes

CDAT Governor / Pupil Premium and Looked After Child Governor

Janet is the Governor representing the LEA on the Governing Board. She is the local councillor for Wybunbury and holds the Adult, Health and Leisure Portfolio for Cheshire East. She is on the standards committee and is a critical friend for teaching and learning.

Kate Hughes

Staff Governor

Kate has worked as Business Manager at Wybunbury Delves School since 2001, since her 2 boys attended many years ago, they have very happy memories of their time at school. She has been support staff governor for 14 years, and is also governor for GDPR/Health and Safety. Kate attends Nantwich Elim church, enjoys running a parent prayer group each Friday morning and also loves reading, travelling, socialising and spending time with her son's 2 goldadors.

Liz Ward

CDAT Governor

Liz has worked at Wybunbury Delves since 2000 and retired in 2026. She coordinated Religious Education and Worship and was instrumental in helping the school achieve "outstanding" in our Church School Inspections in 2012, 2017 and achieving The Church of England RE Quality Mark. She attends St Chad's Church Wybunbury.

Helen Hunter

Vice Chair of Governors / Parent Governor

Helen was originally from Cheshire, but has lived in Scotland and Durham. She returned back to Cheshire 7 years ago. She is a primary school teacher who has experience teaching children in a variety of different settings, across both key stages. She has two children; one who is in year 2 and one that attends preschool.

Penny Williams

CDAT Governor

Penny has lived in Nantwich just one year, moving from Kent at the first easing of lockdown in 2020. She has a background in teaching and is a member of Nantwich Elim church. Previously in Kent, Penny has been a member of her local village church's leadership team and has had a long association with the nearby Assembly of God church. Both of her children have recently become parents; her daughter lives in Nantwich with her family and her son lives in Worcestershire.

Camilla Du Pavey

Parent Governor

Camilla currently has a daughter at Wybunbury Delves with a son hopefully due to start soon! Originally from Oxfordshire, Camilla moved to the North West in 2004 and has made her home here ever since. She started her career in the pharmaceutical industry but is now the director of 2 local businesses. In her downtime, Camilla enjoys all the local countryside has to offer with riding and walking being top of her agenda!

Louise Humber

CDAT Governor

Louise has a background in children's Social Work and now works for Elim International advising over 450 churches about safeguarding. She sits on a Local Authority Fostering panel and Safeguarding Adults Board. She is originally from Stoke on Trent and moved to the area in 2017. Louise attends Nantwich Elim Church with her husband and two children. Her daughter also attends the school.

Kathryn Chesters

Headteacher

A member of staff since September 1999, working as a Teacher in both Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, part of the Senior Leadership team as Senior Teacher and then Deputy Head. She was successful in being appointed by CDAT as Head Teacher for September 2018.

We currently have 1 foundation governor vacancy – please contact school to find out more information.

2026-2027 Named Governor Roles