I am so proud to serve the Whitehawk community, and feel very lucky to work with the wonderful City Academy Whitehawk children every day. I am always so impressed by how creative and hard working our students are. It is a real privilege to be part of such a fantastic, caring school, and to help support our inspirational teaching staff.

Being Headteacher of City Academy Whitehawk is a huge honour for me and I will continue to work hard to do everything I can to support the Whitehawk community. If any families have questions or concerns around behaviour, please do get in touch with me via the School Office, or come and say hello on the school gates before or after school.

I have always loved teaching Maths, and am delighted to be involved with how we deliver it here at CAW. There is lots of great information about maths teaching at the NCETM website, and for anyone with a Times Table Rockstars login, you can challenge me to a 'Rockslam': my TTRS name is Rex Westie!

I have worked in education for over twenty years in the UK and Japan. As well as teaching, I love reading: my current favourite children's book is The Last Bear by Hannah Gold. I also enjoy hanging out with my own children (especially building Lego with them), and going running with our two dogs Socks and Blossom!

I started working at CAW in September 2017 as a Year 2 class teacher and fell in love with the school, staff, children and families immediately. I've got to work with so many wonderful children, staff and families over the years in my different roles. I am so excited to now be Deputy Headteacher, supporting families and colleagues even more closely. My main area of responsibility is Quality Of Education, so if you have any questions about the curriculum, please come to me! 

One of my favourite parts of my job is being CAW's Reading leader! I am incredibly passionate about the power and joy of reading for pleasure and work across the whole school to lead reading as a curriculum subject and as a pastime. 

I'm always keen to speak about reading in all its forms so please get in touch if I can answer any questions. One of my favourite books is When Stars Are Scattered by Victoria Jamieson and Omar Mohammed (which is a graphic novel that beautifully tells the story of a pair of Kenyan refugee brothers and their quest for asylum). I also wholly reccommend the audio book trilogy of Northen Lights.

I'm eternally grateful for the support I get from all my colleagues, especially my year group team, Thomas, Russell and the leadership team. CAW is a special place to work and I look forward to what the future holds (and how many more books I can conceivably fit in our school library!)

Update coming soon.

Hello! I am delighted to be starting as Assistant Headteacher for Inclusion at CAW. I have recently moved to Brighton & Hove, and I am already feeling very welcomed! Prior to this role, I have led and co-ordinated provision for children with special educational needs at another primary school and taught in both special and mainstream schools.

Inclusion has long been a passion of mine. We all think, learn and feel differently. I will aim to work closely with children, parents and staff to identify, understand and remove barriers to learning so that personal success can be achieved by all. It is a privilege to advocate for children and families, and I am very much looking forward to getting to know the CAW community.

Outside of school, I’m a big fan of reading, watching live music and the sea! 

I've been working at the school as the Business Manager since 2009.  My job is to look after the school's finances, staff and buildings and I have seen many changes to the school in my time here.  We are always looking at ways in which we can improve our school to make it a fun and exciting place for children to come and learn.

I consider myself very lucky to work is such a vibrant space with a great staff team and fantastic children.  Many visitors comment on the warm welcome that they receive at the school and the great atmosphere that we have here.  I'm very proud to say that I work at City Academy Whitehawk and enjoy seeing all the wonderful things that our children achieve.

I started at City Academy Whitehawk in 2016 after moving from Canada. Before arriving at CAW, I worked in a variety of schools in both in England (supply teaching throughout Brighton) and Canada (mostly Secondary). When the opportunity to work at CAW came up, I jumped at it! Since then, I have worked in Year 5 and 6, led on History, Geography and Maths and I absolutely love it.

I was really excited in 2020 when an opportunity to become an Assistant Headteacher came up, this role allows me to still be in class while being able to make decisions that influence the whole school. This is a really exceptional school with exceptional children!