Policies & Governance

Ms Kate Richards (Chair)

As Chief Inspector, school improvement advisor, associate vice principal and teacher, Kate has had a wide range of roles and experiences in leading, developing and supporting children, adults and organisations. Currently she offers bespoke consultancy, working with charitable trusts, MATs, individual schools and governing bodies.  She is on the Prince’s Trust Safeguarding Advisory Panel, is a member of the review team for the national Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel and is Chair of Governors for a leading independent school. 

Kate believes passionately in the right of every child and young person to an education which keeps them safe, nurtures, supports and inspires them and which enables each and every one to develop breadth and depth in their skills, knowledge and understanding as individuals and as members of diverse communities.

Anastasia Oyebanji

Anastasia read Law at University of Lincoln before attending Law School at Nottingham Trent University. She has several years of legal experience across family, immigration, and criminal law practice. Being entrepreneurial in nature, she runs her own business in the hospitality sector and is a co-founder of a tech startup company, gratiFLY. She finds joy in her passion, which is to empower and educate children and young adults around the world. Anastasia sits, as a Trustee and Co Sec, on the board of an international charity who are pioneering wellbeing, technology awareness and all-round quality education for children and young adults. Anastasia is married with three children and enjoys travelling, shopping and entertaining people.

Ali Bottom

As an experienced Marketing Director and parent of children attending LMS, I care passionately about its future and want to ensure best practice and excellence sit at the heart of everything we do. I have become a Governor to support the school’s new leadership team, the teachers and all the pupils, to help reach its maximum potential as a high performing, inspiring place to learn, with a thriving reputation in the local community and beyond.

Katherine Jackson

Katherine is a barrister specialising in Intellectual Property. She is also a member of a global non-profit professional organisation, ChIPs, which advances and connects woman in technology, law and policy. Katherine is a parent of a child at the Prep School and has another child due to start next year. She is looking forward to being an active part of LMS life and ethos, and to contributing to the School’s governance.

Richard Thomson

Hello! My name is Richard Thomson, a Year 10 parent at LMS. I am passionate about education and looking forward to supporting LMS in its endeavour to aim high and achieve the best in everyone. My 25 year career to date has been as a teacher and headteacher in both the state and private sectors. I own a childcare and tutoring business and work as an educational consultant.

Stuart Burlton

Stuart is the nominated Governor for Finance at LMS. He is the Managing Director of Make An Entrance, with over 15 years of experience in manufacturing and retailing Stuart is an award-winning entrepreneur, having won the IOD Director of the Year (Midlands), FSB Family Business of the Year, Business Champions Family Business of the Year awards, as well as being awarded the Freedom of the City of London. In addition to running Make An Entrance, Stuart is involved in several other roles and activities that reflect his values and goals. A National Scrutiny Body Member at the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), he oversees and supports the FSB Board of Directors and lends his expertise and time to a leading organisation that advocates for small businesses in the UK. A Welfare Ambassador at the Worshipful Company of Furniture Makers, a Livery company in the City of London for the furniture industry, Stuart helps those people from the industry who have fallen on hard times. 

Sarah Mckimm

Sarah is a lawyer by profession with particular specialism in children, education, safeguarding and special educational needs and disability. She held the post of Head of Legal & Policy at the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) and was also represented ISI at the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Sarah is a recognised expert on the Independent School Standards about which she has authored the only textbook. Brought up in Lincoln, Sarah now lives in London but remains committed to promoting educational excellence in Lincoln.

Mike Neumann

Gregg Davies

I have been involved in education for most of my life, culminating in 18 years of headship at two independent schools. I am currently an Education Director for the Bellevue group of schools and a Reporting Inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate. Two decades ago I was an international rugby referee.

Tania Moonesinghe

Tania is a self-employed education consultant with over 30 years of top class British and international educational experience. Most recently, Tania was in the founding team for Cranleigh Abu Dhabi as Head of Pre-Prep and Sherborne Qatar as Deputy Head Academic. Her interest is music, playing cornet and trumpet in local bands.

Liza Smith

Having attended LMS when it was St Joseph’s Convent, I have always taken a keen interest in the development of the school. Born and bred in Lincoln, with a ten-year hiatus in Macclesfield, I also have a very keen interest in the future of the city and what we can do to help develop and evolve, something LMS pupils will be involved in. My career has been in the finance, working within manufacturing, service, and education. I currently work at the University of Lincoln, with a focus on transformation, efficiencies, and improved processes. My loves outside work are my family, cats, fish, and photography.