Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre

Welcome to Homewood School

Thank you for visiting the Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre website. I hope you will find it easy to use and helpful to you in finding the information you are looking for.

Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre is an exciting place to learn for students of all abilities and interests. We are a comprehensive school and we offer a wide range of courses so that students can follow the path which suits them best and allows them to achieve their full potential. Our examination results show that our students do well with us, and if they continue into our 6th form they will be part of one of the highest achieving 6th forms in Kent.

Because the school is large, we work very hard to ensure that every student feels that they are important as an individual and that they are well supported. For Years 7 – 10, the school is divided into “Mini-Schools” with less than 350 students in each Mini-School. So the Heads of Mini-Schools get to know their students really well. With the form tutors, they are responsible for the academic progress and pastoral support of their students. From Year 11 and into the 6th form, students become part of the KS5 Mini-School where they continue to receive personalised academic and pastoral support from the KS5 Team.

All the teaching staff at Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre are well qualified in their subject area, and they provide high quality teaching which enables the students to progress well with their learning. Support for students with Additional Educational Needs is very strong.

We have specialism’s in Performing Arts and Applied Learning. This means that we provide a wide range of courses in these subject areas, and also that we bring the principles of performance and the practical application of learning into all areas of the curriculum.

Since 1 September 2011, we have been an Academy. We are very enthusiastic about the freedoms and opportunities this brings us to step out into the future as the innovative and dynamic centre of learning we have always aimed to be. We are working closely with Sandwich Technology College in a collaborative relationship to support both schools in continuing to raise standards and continue to develop an exciting, successful approach to learning.

Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre has a 55 acre site and its oldest building is the beautiful mansion, which dates from 1766. Our new reception area in the mansion foyer provides a stunning welcome to all our visitors. Buildings across the site date from different decades of the 20th century, but throughout the school you will see 21st century learning supported by 21st century facilities, including the latest in technology. Homewood is proud of its history but has its eye on the future.

We have really good links with the community and love to invite people in to share our wonderful facilities. Our newly refurbished conference facility is available for hire, and we welcome the public into our library (Tuesday and Wednesday evenings), our print centre (open all day every day) and our vocational restaurant (please phone to book). Many of you will also have been to events at the Sinden Theatre – this is our fully equipped theatre facility which is available to local groups to hire and is an excellent performance space.

Homewood School & Sixth Form Centre has so much to offer to young people and to the wider community. I hope you will come and see for yourself and that you will be inspired to join the Homewood Team and be part of our learning adventure.

Sally J Lees

Principal