Governors

Foundation Governors

Mrs R Thomas (Chair)

Mrs G Hicks (Vice Chair)

Mrs J Iwobi 

Mrs Angela Maria Amado Erhiahwe

Parent Governors

Mrs Lilian Osu

Staff Governors

Mrs Sandra Power - Headteacher

Ms Marie Ellis

Additional Governors

Miss Carla Moore

Clerk to Governors:

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To find out more about the Governors, please read their biographies:

Mrs Rachel Thomas - Chair 

I feel privileged to have been nominated as a parent governor in March 2018. I am married with 2 children. My son r attends the school. I am a practising Catholic as are both my children and feel the Holy Cross School plays a fundamental role in my children’s faith. Many of my family members are teachers and work in the Education system.  I have worked for many years as a beauty and holistic therapist and achieved an Award in Education and Training where I taught beauty and holistic therapy to students 16 years old plus in an award winning training academy in Essex. When I am not working, I enjoy spending time with my family and friends and am a volunteer for a charity called ‘ The Nystagmus Network’ - people who are partially sighted where I offer support and advice to families whose children are affected with the condition and help the charity with fundraising.

Gael Hicks - Vice Chair

 It is an honour to serve as a foundation governor at Holy Cross Catholic Primary School. In becoming a governor at the school, I hope to bring some of my experience to the board to support the leaders in the school in their aspiration to provide the best Catholic education for the children in their care.

I was headteacher at St Helen’s Catholic School for 20 years, including five years as the Chief Accounting Officer for the Our Lady of Grace Catholic Academy Trust in Newham. For a further two years I worked part time in the role. I have been a governor in Catholic schools for over 30 years, including secondary and independent schools. I am currently working part time as a Catholic School Inspector and undertake some consultancy work in schools.

As a practising Catholic in the Parish of Our Lady of Lourdes in Wanstead I support the parish as a Eucharistic minister, help with baptism preparation, sing in the choir and I am a member of the SVP. I also support an HCPT group taking children to Lourdes on pilgrimage at Easter.

I am married with two grown up sons, who both attended Catholic Primary and Secondary schools in the Diocese. My passions are my faith, my family and friends, reading and travelling.

Mrs Lilian Osu

I volunteered to be a parent governor as I feel it's important to do what one can to give back and support our local community and have a hand in shaping how Holy Cross serves its pupils, and its parents. I'm a mum of two boys and my eldest attends Holy Cross. His experience there has been happy and he is a popular boy he is doing well academically; I don't think it's a coincidence given what I've seen as the dedication of the teachers, the staff, the governors and PTA and the parents. We all have a role to play in making the school the best it can be so that the children can thrive. In my day job I work as a communications director for a pharmaceutical company. I also enjoy my time off and spend as much as I can outdoors on holidays and in the sunshine.

Ms Carla Moore

I am pleased to join the Governing Board as a Parent Governor, and hope my varied experience will be useful. I have two daughters, one of which had the joy of attending Holy Cross from year 3 onwards. I worked in the Civil Service for nearly 20 years, doing everything from administration and finance, through to IT, Premises and Facilities Management. After having children my career took a different path into retail, working at Kiddicare, Lakeside. After that closed I moved into childcare, training as a childminder but actually working for a private nursery in Chafford Hundred. I worked in all stages of early years from 6 months to school age, until my own children required me at school events, plays, fetes etc! After some time off running my own health and wellness business, I found myself back in retail. These days I can mostly be found tidying up clothing in Next, or in Costco handing out free food samples. When I'm not working, I enjoy being at home with my girls, cats and looking after my home aquarium.

Mrs Angela Amado

I am thrilled and grateful to be given the opportunity to serve as Foundation Governor of Holy Cross Catholic Primary School and contribute with my knowledge in child developmental needs to ensure that the school continues to offer every single child the opportunity to reach their full potential regardless their background.

I am passionate about the catholic education and I truly believe that the Holy Cross Catholic Primary  School has a fundamental role to play in our community and  its core values and ethos enable our children to reach their full potential, both academical and spiritual.

I am married and I have two beautiful boys. One attends year 5 and he joined the school since nursery, and the other one has started Reception this academic year.

 I have the grace to have a husband that is also catholic and participates actively in the parish’s affairs and we are part of the readers in the church.

I work with Fr Francis and other  parishioners in the African Project, where we raise money to pay the school fees of children that are identified in catholic schools that otherwise wouldn’t be able to have primary education completed. We also raise funds for poorest widows to enable  them to start their own business and be able  to take care of their families.

In my journey of faith, I have done several work with Jesuits priests in my parish to ensure that disadvantaged children of my community could attend school every day and be protected from exploitation.

Being raised in a catholic family, I learnt about the importance of service and care towards the needs of those less fortunate than me, and this led me to adopt a child when I was just 25 years old.

I have a degree in Social Work and now as a Practice Educator I have the duty to mentor final year students and newly qualified social workers to gain the skills to become Qualified Social Workers!