Governing Body

The Governing Body of The Archbishop’s School is made up of a group of volunteers who are committed to the school’s Christian vision and values, and to working to help the school live out its ethos in everything it does.

Our group includes parents/carers, staff, people nominated by the Diocese of Canterbury as we are a Foundation school, people nominated by the Local Authority, and people ‘co-opted’ (chosen) by the school, specifically for the skills they bring to the Governing Board. You can read a bit more about each of us individually in our pen portraits.

We have strategic oversight of everything the school does, which is a great privilege and responsibility. This includes employing the Headteacher and the Senior Leadership Team. In doing our work, we have support from the Local Authority, the Diocese, and other education experts and partners. As a Governing Body we are also supported by a governance professional, whose role is to provide procedural advice and clerical support.

As Governors, our purpose is to provide for confident and strong strategic leadership which leads to robust accountability, oversight of and assurance for the school’s educational and financial performance. 

Our core functions are:

• ensuring clarity of vision, ethos and strategic direction;
• holding executive leaders to account for the educational performance of the school and its students, and effective and efficient performance management of staff; and
• overseeing the financial performance of the school and making sure its money is well spent.

Underpinning all this, and at the very heart of the work we undertake as Governors, we strive to develop the distinctive Christian character of The Archbishop’s School.

We seek to develop and improve educational opportunities for long term residents of Canterbury and its surroundings, and to consolidate our role as the school of choice for young people coming into Kent from areas of conflict and fear, who add so much to our community.

To carry out our work we hold regular meetings of the Full Governing Body and of our three committees: the Foundation Committee (which is concerned with our Church Foundation), the Quality of Education Committee, and the Finance, Premises, Health and Safety Committee. In addition, each of us has a monitoring role and makes regular individual visits to the school for this purpose.

If you have any queries for the Governing Board, comments, feedback or other communications, please contact us via our clerk, Mrs A Goodall on agoodall@archbishops.kent.sch.uk. 

Governor Roles

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Clerk to the Governing Body 

Constitution: 

1 Local Authority; 3 Parents / Carers; 1 Headteacher; 4 Co-opted; 3 Foundation (incl Ex Officio); 2 Associate (Advisory; Non-Voting).

Associate Members sit in an advisory capacity only and do not have voting rights.