Collaborative leadership

Governance, Leadership and Management

Education is seen as a cultural deed within the Threefold Social Order and the organisational structure is arranged to serve this and, for this reason, is seen as an integral part of the education itself.

Governance, Leadership & Management

The Ringwood Waldorf School collaborative leadership and management structure consists of three groups:

The Board of Trustees (BoT)

The School Leadership Team (SLT)

The School Management Team (SMT)

Board of Trustees

Sinead Wilson-Devane - Chair of Trustees, Compliance, Reporting, Parent and Community, Administration, Assessment and Progress Tracking, SEND
Rob Jukes - Health and Safety, Middle School, Diversity, Complaints
Gustav Patrick - Legal
Harry Vekria - Finance, Fundraising
Alistair Walker - Safeguarding, Marketing/PR , visiting students, Assessment and Progress Tracking, SEND, Clerk
Adrian Dunford - Finance, Early childhood, Kindergartens
Steve Crook - Upper School, Estates, HR
Davina Samann - Marketing/PR

Trustee Conflict of Interest Register

School Leadership Team

Geli Patrick - School Lead
Syenna Lister - Deputy School Lead and Early Years Lead
Jenny Drake - Lower School Lead
Marika Bjerström - Upper School Lead

School Management Team

Geli Patrick - Chair
Marika Bjerström
Laura Carvalho
Lucy Cooper
Jenny Drake
Hajnalka Hernadi
Ben Houghton
Syenna Lister
Pankaj Sulodia
Louise Tiley
Liz Tomkins

The Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is responsible for governing the legal aspects of Ringwood Waldorf School in accordance with the laws governing educational institutions in the United Kingdom and the requirements of the Charities Commission. It upholds the ethos of being a Waldorf School as a matter of principle.

The Trustees vet school policies, processes, guidelines and procedures for legal compliance and hear regular reports from various bodies in the school. The Trustees approve the Annual Plan for the school and ratify all staff appointments. The Trustees have a supportive role in the strategic direction of the school. The Trustees are bound by the ethos and social indications given by Rudolf Steiner appropriate to a Waldorf School and the arbiter of this is vested with the School Leadership Team. The Trustees are therefore bound to consult with the School Leadership Team before making any significant decisions.

You can contact members of the Board of Trustees directly by email or via the School Office.

The School Leadership Team

The School Leadership Team (SLT) is accountable and responsible for the overall vision, management and decision making for the school.

The School Lead carries responsibility for the whole school.

Leadership accountabilities in the three phases of the school - Early Years, Lower School, and Upper School - lie with the phase leads. Together with the School Lead, this group is the SLT - School Leadership Team. The leads provide a channel of support and represent their phase in management and strategic decision making. SLT report to the Trustees.