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.