Contact Us

If you require a paper copy of the information held on our website, please contact the main office. 

All enquiries should go via the main office and a member of the administration team will respond within 48 hours during term time. 

Email: tws_admin@swale.at

Telephone: 01227 931300

Option 1 - Attendance
Option 2 - Pupil Admissions
Option 4 - Main Reception

Address: The Whitstable School | Bellevue Road, Whitstable | Kent | CT5 1PX


To report an absence or other attendance enquiries

Email: tws_attendance@swale.at


Headteacher

Mr A Holmes 


Designated Safeguarding Lead

Mr J Brewster


SENDCo 

Mrs L Murphy


Governors

Mr I Fidge (Chair of Governors): contact via clerk


Senior Leadership

Deputy Headteacher (Quality of Education) - Mr D Costley

Deputy Headteacher (Behaviour & Ethos) - Mr S Scales

Senior Assistant Headteacher (Quality of Education) - Mr C Donovan-Bayley

Assistant Headteacher (Quality of Education) - Ms K Girling 

Assistant Headteacher (Behaviour & Ethos) - Ms E Ritchie

Assistant Headteacher (Behaviour & Ethos) Safeguarding Lead - Mr J Brewster 

Assistant Headteacher (Behaviour & Ethos) SENDCo - Miss L Murphy

Assistant Headteacher (Behaviour & Ethos) - Mr R McLeish

Assistant Headteacher (Quality of Education) English - Mr A Duncan

Assistant Headteacher (Quality of Education) Maths - Mr G Yates


Middle Leadership

Head of Sixth Form (Quality of Education) - Miss A Simons 

Raising Standards Lead Yr 7 & 8 (Behaviour & Ethos) - Miss S Brewer

Raising Standards Lead Yr 9 & 10 (Behaviour & Ethos) - Miss S Paddick

Progress Lead Sixth Form (Quality of Education) - Mr B Bills 

Careers Lead (Quality of Education) - Miss K Middleton 

Mental Health Lead (Behaviour & Ethos) - Mr T Walker

Progress Lead Year 11 - Mrs J Wells

Business & IT Subject Lead (Behaviour & Ethos) - Miss C Sawyer 

Director of Technologies - Mrs E Donovan-Bayley


Middle Management Structure - Subject Leads

Business & IT - Miss C Sawyer

Creative Art - Mrs S Connell

Citizenship - Mr M Waters

Dance - Mrs A Payne (From Jan 2025)

Design Technology - Mrs A Newton

Film - Ms C Valentine

Finance - Mr J Bennington

Food Technology - Mrs B Harvey

Geography - Miss C Gilbert

Health & Social Care - Ms T Rawlinson

History - Ms T Coleman (Miss A Bills)

IB Subjects - Miss A Simons

MFL - Ms S Barrett

Performing Arts - Ms A Freeman

Personal Development - Miss N Depta

Physical Education - Mr K Lightfoot

RE/Philosophy Culture Ethics - Mr C Williams

Science - Mr S Baker 

Social Sciences - Miss G Reid-Ward


Swale Academies Trust

Telephone: 01795 905989

Address: Ashdown House | Johnson Road | Sittingbourne | Kent | ME10 1JS