Fast forward 40 years and while so much has changed in terms of mobile phone use, TV choices and knowledge of the sunken ship, Sam Tomes is still a governor at Wootton Wawen C of E Primary. Sam Tomes is retiring as a governor at Wootton Wawen C of E Primary School after serving for 40 years. Although previous generations of his family went to school in Wootton, his parents lived in Ullenhall and his primary education was there, so his link came later. He added: “It had been tradition that the local vicar was chair, being a C of E school. “In 1985 the school was very much governed by the local education authority.