Laura is the Director of Digital at Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals, where she has worked for the past 18 years. Prior to that, she enjoyed a long stint abroad working as a teacher, teacher trainer and in school leadership for the British Council. She has an MA TEFL from the University of Reading, which provided a solid background in pedagogy and her early career fostered a lifelong interest in the development of children’s learning and life goals. Laura has been in school governance since 2010 when she joined the governing body at Riverbridge in Staines, becoming chair in 2014, when she led the school in joining the Lumen Learning Trust. She is now on the Board of Trustees. She joined the Magna Carta School as a governor in 2017 and took up the role of Chair of the Local Governing Committee in the spring of 2021. Laura is passionate about representing the interests of all children across the local community, and is continually honing her governance skills to be firmly challenging in a supportive manner.