School Governors
Shuna McGregor
Chair of Governors
During a 30 year career with the Thames Valley Probation Services, Mrs Mcgregor managed a number of teams including the Oxfordshire Community Service Team and the East Oxford Offender Management Team. She finished her career as Diversity Manager for the Thames Valley, working on providing better services for staff, victims and offenders. Both her daughters were scholars at Rye and went on to the study sciences at the universities of Cambridge and Durham. Both are now doctoral candidates. Mrs Mcgregor became a Governor 6 years ago and took on the role of Chair in September 2019.
Tim Morton
Rye St Antony Governor
Tim became a Governor at Rye in 1999 , following a spell as Chairman of the Parents’ Committee. His three daughters were all educated at Rye and his association with the school dates back over thirty years.
Tim was a partner in a solicitors’ practice in Thame for thirty four years, having retired in 2006. His interests now include gardening, walking, fly fishing and travelling.
He is involved in two or three local charities in Thame, where he has lived with his wife Anne since they were married in 1972.
When invited to join the Board of Governors, Tim says he had no hesitation in accepting. He hoped that his experience working in the legal profession would be helpful and considered it to be a way in which he could repay the school for the education and life skills which they had provided for his three daughters.
Tim comments “It has been a privilege to have served Rye as a Governor for more than twenty years.”
Carla Stanley
Rye St Antony Governor
Carla has lived on, and been a partner in, an Oxfordshire arable farming business for nearly forty years. Rectory Farm is well known locally for its delicious PYO strawberries often eaten at Rye Sports Day. Off the farm Carla has worked as a Mediator for the Equalities and Human Rights Commission and more recently as a Lay Partner in the Regulation of Healthcare Professionals.
She was invited to become a Governor at Rye following a long absence of involvement in the school. Her three daughters attended Rye between 1997- 2010 and during that period Carla was Chair of the Rye Parents’ Committee for a number of years.
Having recently retired she now has the time to put her energies into being a Governor, a role she had previously held at a local Primary School. Carla has always believed in the Rye ethos of treating every girl as an individual and encouraging the development of her strengths
When not working, Carla can be found in her garden or on the water either sailing or helping to run racing. She is currently Chair of Selectors for the GBR Sailing Team for Tokyo 2020 and, although it might sound glamorous, it more often than not means getting cold and wet on the water, watching sailing in all weathers.
Ray Potts
Rye St Antony Governor
After graduating from Surrey University, Ray joined the Savoy Hotel Ltd as Assistant Group Accountant and subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1979. After two years as a partner in a national firm, he set up his own practice in 1985 and continues to run the practice in partnership with his wife Cathy.
Cathy and Ray moved to Middle Barton in 1981 and Ray was co-opted as a Governor of Middle Barton school to assist with the financial aspects of the Local Management of Schools initiative; he served there for seven years.
Ray’s daughter started at Rye in 1992 and he soon become involved with the Duke of Edinburgh Award. After some sixteen years of involvement with the scheme and many trips to places such as Exmoor, Aran and Skye, he stood down and was promptly invited to be a Governor by Alison Jones in 2013.
Ray is proud of his association with the school, which played a large part in his daughter achieving four A-levels in science and mathematics before going on to graduate from St Andrews University with a Masters degree in Psychology.
When not working he tries to play golf and occasionally fishes, and he and Cathy enjoy travelling.
Sue Hampshire
Rye St Antony Governor
Sean Calnan
Rye St Antony Governor
Dave Parke
Rye St Antony Governor
Andy Rattue
Rye St Antony Governor
Andy has been the Principal of St Clare’s, Oxford since 2017. He has more than twenty years’ experience of leadership in independent education, including eleven years as Head of two other well-known schools: The Royal Grammar School, Worcester and King’s College, Madrid. He was Chairman of HMC (Headmasters and Headmistresses’ Conference) West Division in 2010-11, and a member of the HMC/GSA Universities Committee 2012-14. He is a Governor of Oxfordshire Hospital School and a Trustee of the Alliance Française, Oxford, as well as being an ISI Boarding Team Inspector. He is married with four children.
Andy read English at Brasenose College, Oxford and then did a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at King’s College, London. He also has a master’s degree in Victorian Studies from Birkbeck College, London. He began his teaching career in London (Mill Hill School and Haberdashers’ Aske’s) and became Head of English at Highgate School. After that, he became Deputy Head of The Royal Grammar School, Guildford before moving to Worcester in 2005. Andy has always had a strong impulse to get out of his comfort zone. As well as living and working in Madrid, he also taught in a small international school in Bangkok, Thailand for a year in the early 80’s and was a Fulbright Exchange Teacher at the Greenhill School, Dallas, Texas in 1990-91.
Andy became a Governor of Rye in 2017 and has a family connection in that three of his nieces are Rye girls. He really appreciates Rye’s human scale, good humour and sense of fun and the fact that all pupils are treated as individuals. Few places in Oxford can match the Rye grounds for tranquillity on a summer afternoon….
Tom Czepiel
Rye St Antony Governor
Tom Czepiel gained his DPhil in Music from the University of Oxford in 1991 and held several lectureships and tutorships at Oxford colleges, before becoming Professor of Music History and Analysis at the Royal Military School of Music in London in 1997.
In the same year Tom became a governor at Rye. He has been Chair of the Development Committee for over twenty years and is very proud to have been involved in the planning and development of the school, in particular its Music and Drama block. He is now also one of the Governors responsible for Catholic life at Rye.
Tom was the organist and choirmaster at St Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Headington for over 25 years. More recently he served on the Parish Pastoral Council becoming its first chairperson. He is also a trustee of the Corps of Army Music Trust and the Museum of Army Music in London.
In his spare time Tom composes music for the Catholic liturgy, and loves walking and skiing.
