About the Board

The Board exists, as an independent company with its own Constitution, to maintain and extend education in the Christian religion in general and the Church of England in particular, amongst all sections of the community in the Diocese of Rochester. To undertake this task for the school age community, the Board works with approximately 88 schools, of which five are secondary and the remainder within the primary age group. To reach the remainder of 
pre-school children and older youth, it operates through our Advisers on Children's and Youth. The Bishop is the President of the Board and has approves the appointment of the Chair.

Triennial Aims of the RDBE

- To promote a positive understanding of the work of the Board, Church schools and parish education, giving
  confidence to Christians in education

- To work for excellent standards of Christian education and worship across the whole range of the Board’s work

- To develop and promote a strategy of positive discipleship, relating children’s mission to youth mission, and both
   to mission with adults, with suitable progression of recommended courses

- To promote Christian lifestyles, including family relationships, green attitudes and actions, health and wellbeing

- To reach into the non-Church sector of education, through chaplains and deanery schools’ liaison officers