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Pupil Premium Grammar School Expansion: Kent and Medway (revised)
Revision of Previous ArticleKent County Council has been highly pro-active in promoting grammar school opportunities for pupils on Pupil Premium which has no doubt contributed to the fact that over...
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Holmesdale School: Pupils Failed Yet Again
Holmesdale school families have been failed by Kent County Council and the school’s governors and leaders ever since the Ofsted Report of March 2014 found the school to be Good. Since then the school...
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Kent Alternative New Year’s Honours List (Index Magazine)
INDEX, A Lifestyle Magazine which publishes two editions in East and West Kent, has drawn up its own Alternative New Year’s Honours List for ‘Outstanding Men and Women of Kent - unsung heroes who go...
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Kent Test Results 2018, Initial Outcomes and Comment
Update: Important Advice - In response to multiple enquiries you cannot appeal the Kent Test Results; challenge the Head teacher Assessment or arrange a late HTA. What you can do is apply for one or...
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Elective Home Education & Children Missing from Education 2017-18: Kent and...
Channel Four is presenting a documentary about Home Education on February 4th, to which I have made a significant contributionThe number of children leaving Kent schools for Elective Home Education...
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Holmesdale School: Further Revelations
Swale Academies Trust (SAT) has engaged in a series of email exchanges with Kent County Council staff, which have been forwarded to me following a Freedom of Information Request. These culminate in...
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Brexit Guidance for Kent Schools
Update: It has been pleasing to receive thanks from several Medway schools for this information. I think they are trying to tell me something!You will find here KCC's Advice to Schools on possible...
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Turner Schools: What were they trying to hide?
For another point of view try Shepway Vox. The two articles have much in common but there are important differences. I now know why Turner Schools tried to block my FOI asking for School Census...
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GCSE Performance for Kent Schools 2018
Update: This article updates my previous article on provisional performance, in that it now carries the final GCSE outcomes for 2019. Text and ranking will be updated shortly (as I have just advertised...
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GCSE Performance for Kent Schools: 2018
The key measure of GCSE performance is Progress 8 (full table here) which looks at progress from the end of primary school to the end of Year 11, comparing pupils to others nationally, who begin from...
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GCSE Performance for Medway Schools: 2018
The key measure of GCSE Performance is Progress 8 (full table here) .Under this measure Medway is slightly above the National Average of -0.02, at +0.02 (with just one school Well Below Average,...
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A Level Performance: Kent and Medway Schools 2018
This article looks at A Level performance for Kent and Medway schools in the summer of 2018. It is difficult to make comparative judgements at this level as schools vary so much in the pattern of their...
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Skipping School: Invisible Children
The Children’s Commissioner for England (CCE), Anne Longfield, has published a Report entitled‘Skipping School: Invisible Children’. Apart from its dreadful and misleading title, it provides an...
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Maidstone Grammar School Ofsted: Down from Outstanding
Maidstone Grammar School (MGS), one of Kent’s flagship selective schools, has lost its Outstanding Ofsted status following its recent Inspection with Report published yesterday. The Inspection was...
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Leigh Academies Trust: Property Deal Sounds Good Business
Update: See recent article on agreed merger between LAT and the Williamson Trust. An item in Private Eye recently (reproduced below) about a property deal between Leigh Academies Trust and Greenwich...
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Kent Test: Cost of Out of County Applications
Data provided by Kent County Council shows that direct expenditure to provide facilities for out of county candidates for the Kent Test was approximately £100,000 for admission in September 2018. This...
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Closure of Twice Failed Private School: St Christopher’s, Canterbury
Update: See recent development at foot of articleI don’t normally comment on private schools, but the closure of St Christopher’s in Canterbury over the summer surely deserves a mention at a time when...
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Medway UTC put out of its misery
The name Medway UTC will disappear on 1st November to no one's regret as it morphs into a new Waterfront University Technical College sponsored by The Howard Academy Trust, which has supported it for...
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Proposed Community Multi-Academy Trust in Deal comes Under Fire
I was invited to commenton Meridian news yesterday (Wednesday) about the most sensible proposal for a Multi Academy Trust I have come across for a long time. Unfortunately, it may fail through being...
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Leigh Academies Trust and The Williamson Trust - Merger (Takeover) Agreed
Parents of pupils at schools in the Leigh Academies Trust and The Williamson Trust have now been sent a letter outlining details of the agreed 'merger' between the two Trusts. I have written previously...
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