Duke Street Nursery School

Mrs Hellen Hull (Chair of Governors)

Federation of Duke Street & Highfield Nursery School

I have  worked across the spectrum of Lancashire County Council Children Services for over 37 years

I started my career in nurseries and schools as a qualified Nursery Nurse , then worked as an Extended services  Manager at Duke Street Children centre and more recently as a Team Manager for Children and Families Wellbeing service  [ Early help ] .

My career  has spanned the range of birth to 19 years, I believe in supporting young parents or those less confident to develop their strengths for the benefit of their children.

I will be active and available to you as parents, to the staff team and to  undertake visits and engage with your children as they learn.

I am passionate about the Outstanding work undertaken in your Federation of Nurseries  [ Highfield and Duke street ] and I have been part of the journey in maintaining these standards as an active Governor for the last  10 years , and as your Chair of Governors I will continue to guide and support the excellent work and team .

Contact bursar@dukestreet-nur.lancs.sch.uk and your email will be forwarded directly to Hellen Hull.

Mrs Helen Belbin (Governor)

Federation of Duke Street & Highfield Nursery School

Previous experience in the following roles: Headteacher; Senior Adviser for Early Years, Lancashire County Council (LCC)

Extensive experience over career has included:

• provided training for governing bodies, including headteacher appraisal, senior appointments, school self-evaluation, Ofsted;
• managed school budget as a Headteacher, handling complaints, grievances and appeals; formative and summative school data analysis and reporting to parents, governors, senior staff and Ofsted; curriculum leadership overall as Headteacher; experience as SENCo; responsible for statutory assessment as Headteacher; qualified and experienced early years moderator; experienced LCC SATS Monitor, including investigation of allegations of malpractice;
• introduced traded early years services to support responsibility for LCC’s £500k early years budget annually;
• experienced appraiser and bought in as external advice to support Headteacher appraisal annually in schools across North Lancashire; data analysis and reporting LCC’s early years data;
• strategic lead for LCC’s Training Programme and support for early years staff in schools and nursery settings.

Karen Stephens (Vice Chair)

Federation of Duke Street & Highfield Nursery School

Previous experience in the following roles: Headteacher, Head of Children’s Centre, NAHT Union Caseworker

Extensive experience over career has included:

• managed school budget as a Headteacher, handling complaints, grievances and appeals; formative and summative school data analysis and reporting to parents, governors, senior staff and Ofsted; curriculum leadership overall as Headteacher; responsible for statutory assessment as Headteacher.
• Managed Children’s Centre budget, handling complaints, grievances and appeals; oversaw closure of Children’s Centre.
• Chaired LOC, Local Organising Committee for School Games for 6 years; chaired Chorley’s School Sports Partnership, enabling all Chorley schools to buy in top quality provision and school sports competition.
• NAHT Union Caseworker 2018 to date supporting school leaders in Lancashire.

Nominated Governors

 Relationship

 Sue Conron

Head Teacher

Skills Audit

 Member of Staff

(Highfield and Duke Street)

Vacancy

Co-opted Governor

Mrs K Stephens

Vice Chair

Chair of Resources Committee

10/05/2021

Retired; NAHT Lancashire Secretary

 Federation Health and Safety 

Yes

Hellen Hull

Chair of Governors

Co-opted Governor

 Team manager for CFW Hyndburn and Ribble Valley

Private Safeguarding services and supervision

 EYPP

Child Protection/ Safeguarding

Prevent

Skills Audit

Mrs H Belbin

Co-opted Governor

Chair of Curriculum Committe 

05/10/2022 

Achieve Change and Engagement (A.C.E)

Non executive director

Connection (husband) to LASI 

Womens Institute Bolton le Sands

Curriculum (Prime Areas) - HFNS

EYPP

Skills Audit

-

Yes

Mrs L Phillips

Staff Governor

Miss Claire Murray

Co-opted Governor

Member of staff

(Highfield Nursery)

Mrs Natalie Sinclair

 Co-opted Governor

Deputy Head Teacher

(Highfield Nursery)

Yes

Ms C Alston

Co-opted Governor

Curriculum (Prime Areas) - DSNS

Staff Well-being

Skills Audit

Mrs S Macmillan

Parent Governor

Previous Parent at Duke Street /Parent at Highfield

Vacancy

LA Governor 

Vacancy

 Co_opted Governor

Vacancy

Co-opted Governor

Vacancy

Co-opted Governor

Vacancy

Parent Governor