Management Committee
The management committee (MC) plays a strategic and advisory role in setting out and maintaining the vision, aims and objectives of Newham PRUs in conjunction with the LA. This is to ensure that all pupils are safe, have their needs met, make appropriate progress and receive a good standard of education.
There are two sub-committees to lead on specific areas of responsibility
Teaching, Learning, Safeguarding and Behaviour
Finance, Staffing and Premises
Meeting Dates
Each sub-committee and the full management committee meet at least three times a year
Autumn Term:
- 29th September 2025 – Management Committee at 3:45pm
- 13th October 2025 – Alphabet at 3:45pm
- 20th October 2025 – Finance at 8:30am
- 17th November 2025 – Management Committee at 3:45pm
- 18th December 2025 – Finance at 8:30am
Spring Term:
- 9th March 2026 – Alphabet at 3:45pm
- 23rd March 2026– Finance at 8:30am
- 30th March 2026 – Management Committee at 3:45pm
Summer Term:
- 18th May 2026 – Alphabet at 3:45pm
- 1st June 2026 – Finance at 8:30am
- 22nd June 2026 – Management Committee at 3:45pm
Membership of the Management Committee
| Name | Employment Status | Company Details | Additional Contracts | Membership | Date Appointed | Term of Office Ends | Sub Committee |
| Lando Du Plooy | Employed | TBC | TBC |
CHAIR Community |
30/09/2024 | 30/09/2028 | Finance Staffing and Premises |
| Carel Efoma | TBC | TBC | TBC | Parent | 01/04/2025 | 01/04/2029 | Finance, Staffing and Premises |
| Katherine Randall Curtis | Employed | London Borough of Islington | No | Community | 20/05/2019 | 19/05/2027 | Teaching, Learning Safeguarding and Behaviour |
| Kirsten MacLeod | Employed | Head Teacher, Newham PRUs, London Borough of Newham | No | Head Teacher | 01/09/2016 | Ex-officio | TLS&B and Finance, Staffing and Premises |
| Liz Shirley | Employed | Strategic Finance and Business Manager, Newham PRUs, London Borough of Newham | No | Community | 27/02/2017 | 22/03/2029 | Finance, Staffing and Premises |
| Sheila Roberts | Employed | Director of Licensing and Regulatory Services, London Borough of Newham | No | Community | 11/07/2022 | 06/11/2026 | Finance, Staffing and Premises |
| Upasana Malhotra | Employed | New Directions, London Borough of Newham | No | Staff | 22/03/2021 | 16/03/2029 | Teaching, Learning Safeguarding and Behaviour |
| James Beckles | TBC | TBC | TBC | Local Authority | 30/09/2024 | 30/09/2028 | Finance, Staffing and premises |
| Eavan McKay | TBC | TBC | TBC | Parent | 10/03/2025 | 10/03/2029 | Teaching, Learning Safeguarding and Behaviour |
| Felicia Lord-Attivor | TBC | TBC | TBC | Community | 10/03/2025 | 10/03/2029 | Teaching, Learning Safeguarding and Behaviour |
What do the management committee do?
The Management Committee is the governing body for all Newham PRUs Provisions. This includes Tunmarsh School and New Directions PRU. Newham PRUs Management Committee plays a strategic and advisory role in exercising statutory functions, including those delegated to them by LBN.
They work closely with LBN in setting a strategic framework for the PRUs.
This strategic framework:
- Sets out appropriate aims and objectives;
- Identifies and includes policies, targets and priorities;
- Sets out arrangements for monitoring and reviewing aims, objectives and whether the policies, targets and priorities are being achieved.
The Management Committee is informed by the Headteacher and Leadership Team before taking their own decisions.
Working strategically, Management Committee members then use monitoring evidence to review and evaluate progress against any targets set to see whether a policy is working or needs changing.
There are 4 meetings of each Committee every Academic Year:
- Full Management Committee - Chair: Robert Turner
- Finance, Staffing and Premises Sub Committee - Chair: Robert Turner
- Teaching, Learning, Safeguarding and Behaviour Sub-Committee - Chair: Jade Dempster
The Management Committee plays a strategic and advisory role in setting out and maintaining the vision, aims and objectives of Newham PRUs on behalf of / in conjunction with LBN.
This is to ensure that all pupils are safe, have their needs met, make appropriate progress and receive a good standard of education.
Statutory functions of the Management Committee include:
- compliance with financial, employment, Health and Safety law etc.
- deciding the curriculum to offer
- deciding the times of school sessions
- overseeing any exclusions.