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Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey: Sudden Departure of Controversial Principal
Mr John Cavadino, Principal of Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey Academy (OAIS), has left his post at short notice after just over 18 difficult months in post.I have written several articles about the...
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Hartsdown Academy: Ofsted 'Requires Improvement'
Hartsdown Academy’s recent OFSTED Report records that the school ‘Requires Improvement’ which, before publication I would have thought generous, because of factors I have identified in previous...
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Medway UTC: Abject Failure -OFSTED
Ofsted has judged the new Medway University Technical College to have failed its Inspection on every count, some of its main criticisms being levelled at the members of the Governing Body who...
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Four Medway Secondary Academies abandon unlawful attempt to set Unfair...
Update: Developments since the article was written are in blue in this introduction. The Rochester Grammar School (RGS) and Holcombe Grammar School who are part of the Thinking Schools Academy Trust...
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Grammar Schools, Faith Schools, and Non-Selective Provision in Tunbridge...
Updated 13th MayThis item covers the government announcement of £50 million to provide new grammar school places and the relaxation of rules for admission to faith schools. The first issue was...
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Turner Schools: Folkestone Academy, Turner Free School, Martello Primary and...
One of the Turner School Visions:We follow Aristotle’s philosophy that educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all, which we interpret as being the whole person.Turner...
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SchoolsCompany Trust - The Goodwin Academy: Founder and CEO resigns
Elias Achilleos, the founder and until recently, CEO of the financially mismanaged SchoolsCompany Trust, responsible for SchoolsCompany Goodwin Academy in Deal and three PRUs in Devon, has at last...
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Oversubscription and Vacancies in Kent Primary Schools, 2018
There has been a fall in pupil numbers taking up places in Kent Primary Reception Classes for the second year. There were also 49 additional permanent and temporary places created in the last year...
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Leigh Academies Trust and The Williamson Trust to explore merger
The Leigh Academies Trust and the Williamson Trust are exploring a merger to take effect by 2019. You will find a joint statement by the two Academy Trusts here. Leigh is considerably the larger of...
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Cedar Federation, Gravesend: Ifield Special and King's Farm Primary Schools...
Ifield School celebrates its third successive Outstanding Ofsted assessment and King's Farm, brought to its knees four years ago by a headteacher now banned from the profession, is now Good in...
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Holcombe Grammar: Another Plan to Change Character?
The 2018 Admission Appeals process is a pointer suggesting Thinking Schools Academy Trust has yet another plan to change the character of Holcombe Grammar School. It is to be changed from a school...
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Phil Karnavas: One of the Great Heads Retires
Phil Karnavas who has been one of the great maverick characters of education in Kent for many years, a breed sadly fast declining in the drive towards playing safe, has retired as Executive Principal...
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Holcombe Grammar: Another Plan to Change Character?
The 2018 Admission Appeals process is a pointer suggesting Thinking Schools Academy Trust has yet another plan to change the character of Holcombe Grammar School. It is to be changed from a school...
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Permanent Exclusion, Home Education and Children Missing from Education in...
I have at last obtained comprehensive data for Permanent Exclusions and numbers leaving schools for Home Education across Kent in the school year 2016-17, in spite of spurious attempts by KCC to keep...
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Grammar Schools and Waiting Lists (2): also Holcombe Grammar School
This article looks at the situation where families have gone to appeal for a grammar school place for a child who was initially non-selective, the child has been found of grammar school ability, but...
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Oversubscription & Vacancies Medway Primary Schools 2018
The proportion of Medway children offered one of their choices in a Medway primary school has risen to 97.6%, the highest proportion for at least six years. This is a result of a reduction of 27 in...
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Turner Schools Revisited
American Guru on short visit to FolkestoneCompares it to American Rust-Belt cities!The Turner Schools relentless PR campaign to promote its Folkestone academies drives on with a lengthy article in the...
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Holcombe Grammar Appeals Still Unresolved
Update Thursday: Medway Council has written to Holcombe Grammar School requiring them to make a decision on the waiting list issue (below). Was/Is Holcombe planning to leave the families in the lurch...
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Holcombe Grammar Appeals Still Unresolved
Update Friday: Holcombe Grammar School has written to the 12 families whose sons were denied places on the waiting list by Medway Council, and invited them to join the list. This is explained in a...
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