Essential information
Housemaster: Christopher Thompson
Email: christopher.thompson@tonbridge-school.org
Phone: 01732 352066
Address: 2 Dry Hill Park Crescent, Tonbridge, TN10 3BG
House Colours: Blue and yellow
Matron: Lin Sandys
Parkside was purpose-built as a School boarding House in the 1880s and has since been regularly extended and renovated.
First Years share in two or four-person dormitories, before moving into single study bedrooms for the remaining four years. The House benefits from its quiet location on Dry Hill Crescent and from the multiple large common rooms which dominate the ground floor.
Past Parksiders include the best-selling author Frederick Forsyth and Norman Heatley, the scientist who turned the discovery of penicillin into useable medicine.
Christopher Thompson
Lin Sandys
About the Housemaster
Christopher Thompson read History at Christ’s College, Cambridge, culminating in a PhD thesis. He taught at Reigate Grammar School for seven years where he was Oxbridge Co-ordinator and Deputy Head of Sixth Form, before coming to Tonbridge in 2013. He was Head of History and Assistant Housemaster at Hillside before taking on Parkside. He coaches football and ultimate frisbee and has sung in the Chapel Choir. He is married to Rhiannon and they have two children: Zoë and Daniel.
About the Matron
Lin joins Parkside with forty years local youth volunteering in Scouting and Guiding. She gained an MBA from Kent University and has worked in IT for the majority of her professional career. Lin plays the cornet in the East Peckham silver band, is a Last Post bugler and supports the 17th Tonbridge Scout and Guide band as a drill and music instructor. Lin is married to Jon, with two children, Emma (21) and Oli (18) and has two tuxedo cats (Batman and Robin). To keep fit Lin is a keen swimmer and competed in the National Masters Artistic Swimming competition in Sheffield this year with her team from Aquaoaks.
