The Towers School
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The Towers School and Sixth Form Centre is a comprehensive school
in Faversham Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent
. The school has around 1400 students, with a further 400 in sixth form. The current headteacher is Graham Ralph; the first headteacher was Geoff Foster.
The school has 4 learning communities named after notable Ashford residents:
The school houses The Towers Retail Outlet and The LRC. It also houses Ashford Enterprise Centre, Learndirect and Pitman Training.
Comprehensive school
A comprehensive school is a state school that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. This is in contrast to the selective school system, where admission is restricted on the basis of a selection criteria. The term is commonly used in relation to the United...
in Faversham Road, Kennington, Ashford, Kent
Ashford, Kent
Ashford is a town in the borough of Ashford in Kent, England. In 2005 it was voted the fourth best place to live in the United Kingdom. It lies on the Great Stour river, the M20 motorway, and the South Eastern Main Line and High Speed 1 railways. Its agricultural market is one of the most...
. The school has around 1400 students, with a further 400 in sixth form. The current headteacher is Graham Ralph; the first headteacher was Geoff Foster.
The school has 4 learning communities named after notable Ashford residents:
- Barton, named after Elizabeth BartonElizabeth BartonSr. Elizabeth Barton was an English Catholic nun...
, - Furley, named after Sir John Furley,
- Harvey, named after William HarveyWilliam HarveyWilliam Harvey was an English physician who was the first person to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the body by the heart...
, - Weil, named after Simone WeilSimone WeilSimone Weil , was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist.-Biography:Weil was born in Paris to Alsatian agnostic Jewish parents who fled the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine to Germany. She grew up in comfortable circumstances, and her father was a doctor. Her only sibling was...
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The school houses The Towers Retail Outlet and The LRC. It also houses Ashford Enterprise Centre, Learndirect and Pitman Training.
A Block
- Downstairs: Modern Languages, Mathematics, LRC, ICT & TSL (Towers School Learning)
- Upstairs: Science, ICT, Barton & Furley LC Offices.
Other
- Enterprise Centre,
- Learning Zone
- Music Rooms
- Gym
- Main Hall (Which Includes A Stage)
- Sports Hall
- Dance Studio
- 2 Dining Halls
- 5 Mobiles (Small Separate Classrooms Where Mostly History and Sociology Is Taught)
- 2 large fields and an astroturf field for football.