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Our Lady’s School Community

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Name: Mr Bailey
Role: Foundation, Link Governor and Online Safety.
Favourite film: Finding Nemo (just about child friendly)
Favourite children’s book: Black Beauty
Favourite food: Fish and chips
Who inspires you: Anyone who invents something that the World actually needs
Favourite quote: “If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?” Abraham Lincoln


Name: Ruth Cronin
Role: Foundation Governor
Favourite film: Billy Elliot
Favourite children's book: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Favourite food: Christmas dinner
Who inspires you: Michelle Obama - I love how she used her “mom-in-chief” platform to fight social injustice and champion greater opportunities in education for children across the world.
Favourite quote: There is Freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask, “What if I fall?” Oh, but my darling, “What if you fly?” Erin Hanson


Name: Joe Davies
Role: Parent Governor
Favourite film: Top Gun
Favourite children's book: Stowaways by Roger McGough
Favourite food: Everything especially Thai food
Who inspires you: My family and all those who never give up.
Favourite quote: “Jack of all trades is a master of none, but often times better than a master of one”


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Name: Canon Peter Hart
Role: Parish Priest / Foundation Governor
Favourite film: Love Actually
Favourite children's book: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
Favourite food: I like all food!
Who inspires you: Jesus Christ, the Way the Truth and the Life
Favourite quote: “Holiness consists in doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well.” St. Theresa of Lisieux


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Name: Mrs Hills
Role: Foundation Governor, Chair of Governors and Safeguarding Governor
Favourite film: Toy Story
Favourite children's book: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Favourite food: Sunday dinner - roast beef and Yorkshire pudding with lots of gravy
Who inspires you: Marie Curie. My best friend Mandy
Favourite quote: “It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.” Nelson Mandela in ‘The long walk to freedom’


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Name: Mrs Hotchkiss
Role: Associate Governor
Favourite film: Twelve Angry Men
Favourite children's book: “The tale Jeremy Fisher” by Beatrix Potter (any of her stories)
Favourite food: Smoked salmon
Who inspires you: My Grandad
Favourite quote: “Without hope! Without witness! Without reward.” The 12th Doctor


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Name: Mrs Needham
Role: Foundation Governor and Equality and Diversity.
Favourite film: The Sound of Music, and still is, a family favourite. I also love Dumbo, both the new and the old version.
Favourite children's book: I loved Carrie’s War by Nina Bawden as a child. I also read and reread Anne Frank’s Diary.
Favourite food: Anything Mediterranean.
Who inspires you: Steve Biko, a peaceful man with a powerful voice.
Favourite quote: Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me and I’ve tried to live so that I can always look squarely back at him.Atticus Finch talking about being a good parent to his son Jem.


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Name: Mr Ormerod
Role: Foundation Governor, Chair of ECM and Prevent.
Favourite film: The Lion King
Favourite children's book: Mrs Frisby and the rats of Nimh
Favourite food: Most of the ones that shouldn’t be
Who inspires you: Eddie Izzard
Favourite quote: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Gandhi



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Name: Mr Smith
Role: Foundation Governor and Chair of Resources Committee
Favourite film: Miracle on 34th Street
Favourite children's book: Swallows and Amazons
Favourite food: Roast beef dinner
Who inspires you: Bob Dylan
Favourite quote: Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: “Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison.” Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.”


Name: Mrs Nel
Role: Staff Governor
Favourite film: The Lion King
Favourite children's book: The Faraway Tree
Favourite food: Fillet Steak
Who inspires you: My family Favourite quote: “Don’t ever forget to love.” St Maximilian Kolbe