Summary
Peter Sharp is an educational consultant and former deputy head with 11 years of senior experience improving teaching, leadership and student outcomes across UK independent schools and international settings. He founded Peter Sharp Education to deliver consultancy, INSET and university application planning, and serves as a reporting and team inspector for the Independent Schools Inspectorate. A trained physicist and examiner of AS/A Level Physics, he combines deep curriculum knowledge with operational leadership roles such as Director of Teaching & Learning at Westminster School. He also runs outdoor education programmes and DofE Gold expeditions, bringing practical resilience and experiential learning into school improvement work. Unusually for a school leader, he pairs classroom and inspection insight with hands-on university admissions strategy and a background in environmental technology and philosophy. Based in London, he is known for turning complex assessment and governance challenges into pragmatic, measurable improvements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Natural Sciences, PHYSICAL SCIENCES, Natural Sciences, PHYSICAL SCIENCES at University of Cambridge
MSc. Environmental Technology, MSc. Environmental Technology at Imperial College London
Philosophy, Philosophy at Birkbeck, University of London
PGCE Secondary Science, PGCE Secondary Science at UCL Institute of Education