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Meet the Governors

Welcome to our Governors’ section.

Governor Status

Name

Position

Skill set

Term of office

(end date)

Local Authority Appointed Governor

 

 

Dr Alison Cogger

BA (Hons), PGCE,  MA (Ed),

Ed D

 

 

(Governor 1997 - Chair of Governors 2004 - continuing)

 

Link Governor:

  • Early Years

Academic

 

SFHEA: Senior Fellow

Higher Education Academy

 

Principal Lecturer and Associate Head of the School of Teacher Education, 

Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education. CCCU

 

FSET: Fellow Society for Education & Training

 

CCT: Member Chartered College of Teaching

 

27/03/2025

Co-Opted Governor

 

Dr Kirsty Horsey

LLB PhD PGCHE

Vice Chair of Governors. Chair of Pupil and Personnel Committee.

 

Link Governor:

  • Safeguarding
  • Safer Recruitment
  • SEN & Inclusion
  • Speech & Language
  • Pupil Premium

 

 

Legal – Reader in Law / researcher (law) University of Kent – teaching and learning development

 

31/01/2026

Partnership Governor

 

 

Mark Evans

Chair of Curriculum Committee

 

Link Governor:

  • English
  • Reading
  • Phonics
  • Modern Foreign Languages
  • English as an Additional Language
Academic

Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education (primary phase), Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education. CCCU		27/09/2026

Parent Governor

 

 

Michael Rose

Link Governor:

  • Maths & Computing
Engineering and Project Management

16/05/2026

Co-Opted Governor

 

Philippa Pickford

LLB (Hons)

Link Governor:

  • Geography & History

Economics, legal policy development and strategic thinking. Associate Partner, Wholesale Markets at Ofgem.

 

Member of senior civil service – experience of using wide range of qualitative and quantitative analysis - financial and non to develop policies

 

31/7/2023

Staff Governor

 

Erica Kokle

BA (Hons) French

MA (French) PGCE primary

PGCE Post-Compulsory

 

Deputy head –

staff development, curriculum, Pupil Premium

 

Teaching in primary, Further Education and Skills and Higher Education 

 

31/07/2025

Parent Governor

 

Dr David Gould

Link Governor:

  • Art
  • Music
  • DT
  • PE
  • Forest School

Medical

31/01/2026

Headteacher

Nicola Dawson

 

Headteacher

 

 

Co-Opted Governor

 

Reverend Stephen Carter

PGCE Secondary RE, MEd, MA Theology, Ministry and Mission

Link Governor:

  • RE
  • PSHE
  • SMSC
  • RHSE

Associate Vicar, St Mary Bredin Church

 

Archbishop's School Sixth Form Chaplain

16/05/2026

 

Clerk to the Board of Governors: Jonathan Cane

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