School of the Week Homewood School and 6th Form

Homewood School and Sixth Form College is a large, mixed, foundation comprehensive school with a substantial sixth form, located in Kent. It was awarded the PTI Schools Programme Mark for History and Science in November 2009.

Our trustees

The President of The Prince’s Teaching Institute is HRH The Prince of Wales .

Our Trustees

Harvey McGrathHarvey McGrath (Chairman)

Harvey McGrath is the Chairman of the London Development Agency and Vice Chair of the Mayor of London’s Skills and Employment Board, responsible for the adult skills strategy in London.  He is the former Chairman of Man Group plc, the London based FTSE 100 fund manager.  He retired from the Man Board in November 2007, having been appointed Chairman in March 2000 and previously Chief Executive in 1990.

Prior to taking on the Chair of the London Development Agency he was Chairman of London First, the capital’s influential business campaign group; a director of Gateway to London, the inward investment agency for the Thames Gateway and Chairman of the East London Business Alliance, a partnership of substantial businesses engaged in the social and economic regeneration of East London.  He is a founding donor and trustee of New Philanthropy Capital, a research based charity which gives advice and guidance to donors; a trustee of Charity Technology Trust, which is focused on helping the charitable sector use information technology more effectively; and a trustee of the Royal Anniversary Trust which operates the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.

Picture of Kate PrettyDr Kate Pretty

Dr Kate Pretty is a Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and Principal of Homerton College, which is famous for the education of teachers. She is an archaeologist by profession and has worked at Cambridge for over thirty years. In the University, she has responsibility for external affairs and for all academic services supporting the Faculties. In her College, she has also been instituting academic changes, moving it from a monotechnic (solely teaching education) to take in all the subjects taught at Cambridge. She thus has a practical interest in how to create change within an academic institution.

 

Alan KelseyAlan Kelsey

Alan Kelsey has been Chairman of Nord Anglia Education Ltd since January 2005.  He has over thirty years’ experience in the City and industry, latterly in investment banking at Merrill Lynch and WestLB Panmure. He has been an investment analyst, corporate broker and investment banker and held a number of senior management posts. He was Group Corporate Development Director at National Express Group PLC, where he was one of the executive directors and was a non-executive director at PD Ports PLC where he was the senior independent director. 

 

Sir Michael Wilshaw 2Sir Michael Wilshaw

Sir Michael has been a head teacher for 24 years in inner London secondary schools. From 1985 to 2003 he was head teacher at St Bonaventure’s school in the London borough of Newham. Under his leadership, this voluntary aided Catholic school for 1300 boys became one of the most improved schools in the country with specialist and beacon school status. Sir Michael was knighted in 2000 for services to education. In 2003 he was appointed as the first Principal of Mossbourne Community Academy, on the site of the failed Hackney Downs School. In 2006, OFSTED described Mossbourne as outstanding in each section of the National Inspection Framework. Sir Michael is also the Director of Education at ARK, a charitable education trust developing a number of Academies in London and Birmingham.