David Whitehead

David has been in school leadership since 2001. In 2007 he became the HeadTeacher of Bredgar CEP School, a small church of England School in Swale. From 2014 David formed the Unitas Collaboration as Executive Head Teacher with Bredgar CEP School along with three other local schools. From 2017 he became the CEO of Potential in Everyone Academy Trust (PIEAT) which was formed from the schools he led as part of the Unitas Collaboration. In 2019 David was approached to be the Interim CEO of the Village Academy Trust (VAT) and as a result, formed a Trust Partnership with PIEAT. Both PIEAT and VAT are church mixed MATS with their partnership work underpinned by a series of service level agreements.

During 2020, as well as leading both Trusts through the global pandemic, David also embarked on a merger project to join the two Trusts together under one single MAT. The Trusts successfully completed the merger on June 1 st 2021 and ‘Our Community Multi-Academy Trust’ (OCMAT) was formed. Most importantly he has lived to tell the tale.