Governors

Chair of Governors

Mrs E Mann 

Clerk to the Governors / Bursar

Mr Ian Barton BSc (Hons), ACA

After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant in 1988, Ian moved to Deloitte, Haskins & Sells for a short period before being seconded and ultimately employed by Norcros plc in 1990.

In 1992, he was appointed group head of taxation for this FTSE250 company and in late 1994 moved to Nortel Networks as Director of European Tax. Nortel was the largest Canadian company and by the summer of 2000 was the eighth largest company as measured by market capitalisation anywhere in the world with total global revenues exceeding US$33bn with US$8.4bn being generated in Europe.

Ian was a Board director for Nortel Networks plc in the UK and also a member of the UK pension fund management committee. After a short spell at KPMG in London as a senior tax consultant, he decided the time was right to run his own business and bought a hotel, bar and restaurant in Yorkshire.

In 2006 he moved with his family to Cornwall after selling the hotel as a development opportunity.

Ian took over the role of Bursar in August 2011 and has helped to make significant changes both in areas of financial control, the fabric of the school buildings and the grounds.

Ian can be contacted on bursar@stjosephscornwall.co.uk

Foundation and Parent Governors

Dr A Doe - Foundation Governor

Alan is a former Headteacher of St Joseph's, now retired from a career in teaching. Together with his wife Carol they live on the Isle of Wight and enjoy coastal living. Alan has had 30 years volunteering with the RNLI at Bembridge serving on both the inshore and offshore boats after which he became a member of the Shore Crew. He is now the Water Safety Officer for the station spreading safety messaging throughout the local community. Alan also volunteers at the RNLI Headquarters at Poole in the Data Analysis Department, running a national water safety campaign for the institution. Alan also has spent 40 years volunteering on the Isle of Wight Steam Railway where he is both a Train Guard and a Signalman. He is also a dedicated member of the Bembridge Heritage Society helping to piece together the history of the village. Alan and Carol have a son and daughter along with five grandchildren. Their daughter is a Yr2 teacher in an Independent School in West Sussex. Alan is a member of the Pastoral and Personal and Academic committees.

Mr P Hicks - Foundation Governor

Paul moved from his home town Camelford to Launceston in 1987. He has worked in insurance all his career, having previously been employed by the Pearl Assurance Co. and farm insurance specialist, Cornish Mutual. In 1993 he gave up the relative comforts of being employed and started his own Insurance Brokers in Launceston, which he ran for over 25 years, before retiring in 2019. Paul is thrilled to be able to spend time with his grandchildren; he also enjoys walking his dog Retriever, Rosco. He is interested in most sports, particularly, football and cricket, having served as secretary of Werrington Cricket Club for fifteen years. Paul joined the Board of Governors in July 2015 and is a member of the Finance Committee.

Mrs L Holmes - Foundation Governor 

Louise has had an exciting and rewarding career in the hospitality and retail sector since leaving full time education.  Primarily she trained as a chef but later specialised in training, development and general HR.  The majority of her employment has been in the London hotel scene, where she was responsible for training all levels of staff to deliver 5 star standards and the development of the business standards of performance.  She went on to set up a training and development department at a London pub company where she wrote and delivered  training programmes designed to empower and support new employees to run successful hotels and pubs within the capital and the Home Counties.  Louise went on to write, deliver and train the Foundation Degree in retail hospitality for those in the pub industry as part of the British Institute of Inn keeping initiative and she is also a registered food safety consultant, trainer and examiner for the Royal Society of Public Health. Louise moved to Launceston in January 2015 with her family from their home town in Bournemouth. She is married to Greg and together they have one son, Harvey, who was a pupil at St Joseph’s. She now runs an award winning, Caravan Club CL site and holiday cottage business, where she puts into practice all that she has trained others to do for the last three decades! Louise is a keen gardener, loves to entertain her friends and where time permits, she enjoys days out with her family. Louise is Vice Chair of the main Board and Chairs the Finance Committee.

Mrs T Kingdon - Foundation Governor 

After completing her further education in Food Science Tracey embarked on a career in the Food Industry, her many roles have included compliance, health and safety, human resources, training, production, hospitality  and operational management progressing over a period of over 30 years to Senior Management positions. Having worked in larger more corporate style manufacturing businesses for a number of years Tracey's current role as Operations Manager for a Food Quality and  Safety inspections company in Wadebridge , Tracey manages a nationwide team of inspectors and auditors gathering data for major retail chains, pub chains as well as major venues like NEC  and RHS.  Tracey has been a parent governor of a local Primary School , Parish Councillor and for the last 4 years has fulfilled a volunteering role as chair of the local community centre comittee. Tracey is a member of the Pastoral and Personal and Marketing committees.

Mrs C Mott - Parent Governor 

Caroline has always had an interest in the well-being of her local community. She was nominated as a school governor for her local primary in Bridestowe and was chair for a number of years. Her role was varied and included the unification of many primary schools into a federation with Okehampton College. From this she went on to be co-opted onto Bridestowe Parish Council where she served for 12 years, the last four as chair. More recently she was appointed to West Devon Borough Council. She feels her experiences will stand her in good stead as a governor to the school.

Mrs L Rickard - Foundation Governor 

Mrs S Rowe - Foundation Governor

Sue is a former Headteacher at St Joseph's School and has recently worked for the Independent Schools Association as their Regional Representative for the South West. This involved visiting schools and supporting Headteachers within ISA schools. Sue has considerable experience of teaching Junior and Senior age groups in both the Independent and State sectors. Sue has three children who all attended St Joseph's and also runs a self-catering holiday business with her husband. Sue was Chair of Governors for 5 years from 2018-2022 and she is currently a member of the Academic, Marketing, Pastoral and Personnel Committees. Sue is also both our whisleblowing Governor and Safeguarding Governor. 

Mr J Scard-Morgan - Parent Governor

Jack has recently retired after 40 years of working in financial services for TP ICAP Plc, a global FTSE 250 electronic market infrastructure and information provider based in the City of London. He held positions of Chief Information Officer, EMEA region Chief Operating Officer and latterly as Group Chief Controls Officer, together with various directorships, board and group committee roles.

Jack was born and raised in Cornwall and read Mathematics/Computer Science at Brunel University. He is married with 3 children, all of whom are, or have been, pupils at St Joseph’s. Jack enjoys riding his horse, skiing and watching rugby & football.

Mr T Watkins - Foundation Governor

Trevor first worked in Launceston 40 years ago and has lived in the town for over 30 years. He joined the Board of Governors as a Foundation governor in 2010 following a 37 year career with HM Revenue and Customs, the later years being spent as a Senior Manager across the South West with responsibility for in excess of 100 staff. Trevor currently on the Finance Committee.