Chris Archbold - November 2024

It was with great sadness that Ms E Jones attended Chris Archbold's funeral this week which took place at Fleet Methodist Church on Monday, 4 November.  

Chris joined Calthorpe Park School, relocating from the North-East, in 1970 as Head of RE and he was also a Head of Year.  He served Calthorpe Park faithfully for 30 years in his capacity as a teacher and pastoral leader but he was also instrumental in contributing to creating our Calthorpe Park culture that the school is so well-known for today.  Chris ran huge numbers of educational visits and played a key role in concerts, musical productions and enrichment activities.  

Even after his well-earned retirement he continued to serve the CPS community by coming in to run Holocaust Education.  Chris enjoyed an active retirement and devoted considerable time to his work at the Holocaust Educational Trust.  He worked all over the country highlighting the dangers of extremism and anti-semitism whilst also being part of the Methodist Church's local preacher network. 

He will be remembered very fondly by those that he taught for having great passion, conviction and humour.  He is survived by his devoted wife, son and grandchildren and we would like to extend our condolences to them at this sad time.  Chris was a huge character and there will be many of you in the local community that were taught by him.  We will be creating a book of remembrance for Chris' family.  If you would like to contribute to that please see this link.