The Board of Directors of Peterborough Diocese Education Trust is the overall governance body and is accountable for theTrust. Local governing bodies, who are called Academy Governance Committees (AGCs), are committees to which the Directors have chosen to delegate some specific responsibilities. AGCs engage with their local community and carry out the following role.
Vision and Values
To monitor and support the academy in:
- pursuance of the Trust’s vision of ‘working together for each child to realise their God given potential to flourish’;
- setting an academy specific vision and values, aligned with the Trust’s and Church of England’s vision; and
- ‘living out’ its specific vision and values.
Meet the AGC Governors
Mr Ashley Bishop - Community governor, Chair of Governors
Mrs Shirley Wong - Clerk
Mrs Rebecca Osborne - Executive Head Teacher
Mrs Kerry Tear - Parent governor, SEND
Mrs Natasha Winsor - Parent governor
Mrs Sam Mead - Community governor, Safeguarding
Ms Olive Edmunds - Church governor
Mr Raph Brown - Staff governor
Mrs Lisa Witheyman – Head of School
For details of what the Academy Governance Committee do, see Information - Governance.
The AGC meets at least once each term.
To contact the Chair of Governors, or the AGC, please contact the school office.
Governor Profiles
Ashley Bishop
Ashley joined as a Foundation Governor in October 2018, becoming Chair of Governors in 2019.
A member of the senior management team at Royal & Derngate Northampton and having worked in the arts and culture sector for the past 9 years he is an advocate of creative learning, ensuring that the arts play an important role in the development of children and young people.