The Board Of Trustees
New Chair and Trustees Sought
The Board is seeking candidates both for new trustees and for a new Chair from this summer when the position becomes vacant. For more details, please see the Interested Candidates page.
Role of the Trustees
The role of the trustees is primarily a strategic one. The trustees decide the purpose and the overall goals of the school and set a framework for their implementation and achievement. Their key responsibilities are to:
- Set suitable aims and objectives
- Set a budget which allows the school to fulfil its purpose
- Appoint the senior leadership team
- Agree policies, targets and priorities
- Monitor and review the performance of the school
Critical Friend
The trustees also act, both individually and as a group, as a critical friend to the senior leadership of the school, providing support and challenge by:
- Giving support and constructive advice
- Being a sounding board and a second opinion for ideas
- Seeking information with which to improve proposals
- Challenging and asking questions
The trustees, together with the senior leadership team, are committed to transparency to parents, staff, and the wider community, to the extent that it is possible without damaging the school’s future. At least once a year, the Board and the senior leadership team will hold an open meeting for parents and staff to discuss the manner in which the school has been, and is to be, conducted.
At least once a year, the Board and the senior leadership team will carry out separate surveys of parents and of staff to obtain views on the way in which the school is perceived to be operating and will publish summarised results of these surveys.
Composition of the Board
The Board consists of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 16 members. It includes the Head of School and a representative of the British Ambassador. The Board seeks an appropriate balance of parents and other members of the international community with specific skills and experience that will benefit the school. Trustees may serve in office for a normal term of 4 years, with a further extension of 2 years on re-election by the Board.The Board elects from its members a Chair, a Vice Chair and a Second Vice Chair, who may serve in office for a normal term of 4 years, with a further extension of 2 years on re-election by the Board.
Decisions regarding the appointment, extension of term of office and removal of a trustee, the Chair or the Vice Chairs are made by a majority of all other trustees.
The Trustees
Anthony Millington (Chair)
Natasha Pope (Vice Chair)(P)
Michael Hancock (Second Vice Chair)
Takako Davison
Duco Delgorge (P)
Katy Dix (P)
David Fitton (Representative of the British Ambassador) (P)
David Hatt (P)
Chris Pook (P)
Mary Saphin
Ben Warner (PP)
David Williams (Head of School)
(P) Parent
(PP) Past Parent
Brief biographical information about the current trustees is set out at the bottom of the Sub-Committees page.
The Chair, Vice Chair and other individual trustees can be contacted through the Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Secretary to the Board of Trustees
Simon Lloyd (Business Director and Bursar) Email: slloyd@bst.ac.jp
Meetings
There are 6 regular meetings of the full Board during the year, two meetings in each term, and normally 2 to 3 additional ad hoc meetings during the year. Sub-committee meetings are held before each regular full Board meeting.