Peter Sharp

Peter works as a governance consultant. He has reviewed governance in multi-academy trusts of different sizes and has also worked with single-academy trusts and maintained schools. Each review ends with a written report and a feedback session with the board. He carries out investigations, and he writes guidance for the National Governance Association. He trains governors, trustees and governance professionals.

Peter has been a trustee of a multi-academy trust since 2022 and its vice-chair since 2026. He chairs its Standards Committee and is its link trustee for cyber security. Before that he was a governor of a Church of England maintained school for more than eight years, and its chair for the last four.

Peter works with schools on teaching and curriculum. Since 2021 he has run training in more than fifteen schools and for national training providers, specialising in stretching the most able pupils and raising boys’ achievement.

For a charity setting up schools in Zambia, he designed the curriculum for its first school and later wrote the framework the charity uses to review the quality of its schools. He has also trained teachers working with displaced students in Lebanon.

Peter spent sixteen years in London schools, teaching physics and later as a senior leader. He led teaching and learning across a senior school and then, as deputy head (academic), was responsible for academic provision across the school. He has also been an A-level physics examiner for two awarding bodies.

He has been a school inspector since 2018 and has led inspection teams since 2023. His inspection work includes special schools for pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs, autism and dyslexia, and since 2026 British schools overseas.

Peter qualified as a mountain leader in 2009 and has led expeditions ever since, including many trips to Scotland to climb Munros and to the Alps, and he has organised challenge walks.

He works as a course director and instructor on Duke of Edinburgh’s Award expeditions for several providers, and assesses at all levels. Since 2023 his expeditions have ranged from the New Forest and the Chilterns to the Brecon Beacons and Snowdonia. He has also spoken at a provider’s instructor conference about working with today’s teenagers.

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