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Folkestone Academy - Further Troubles
Update: In spite of using the Turner School headhunters, Saxton Bampfylde, the Trust has been unable to appoint an Executive Principal for the Academy. See below. I make no apologies for yet another...
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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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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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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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Medway Test Analysis for 2019 Admission: Review fails Medway children again
The problems with the Medway grammar school selection process just keep recurring, with the Medway Review procedure proving yet again to be not fit for purpose. You will find an analysis of outcomes...
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Meopham School Outstanding Ofsted - And then there is Holmesdale
Swale Academies Trust (SAT) has secured a second Ofsted Outstanding school, after Meopham was found Outstanding in January (published earlier this week). This makes KCC’s decision to block SAT from...
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Kent Secondary School Allocations for September 2019: Initial Information and...
Updated: 4.45 SaturdayThis article is written for March 1st, National Secondary Allocation Day, initially before decisions are sent out. I will update it as I receive further information relating to...
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Medway Secondary School Allocations for September 2019: Initial Information...
The 2019 Medway Council Press Statement on secondary school allocation appears to cover up a large fall in the proportion of pupils offered a place at one of their preferred schools. This is...
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Home Education: Skipping School
Last week, I was part of an invited audience to a private showing and debate on the Channel Four programme, Skipping School, about Home Education issues. This featured Anne Longfield, Children's...
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Turner Schools; Failed Attempt to Counter Negative Publicity
Turner Schools has published a bizarre advertisement in the Folkestone and Hythe Your District Today magazine published by the Local Council, purportedly to answer the question ‘What is Turner...
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Two new Special Schools for Kent in Sittingbourne and Sheppey
Kent County Council has been awarded one of 39 new Special Schools to be opened across the country, following a bid to government. This will be built on the Isle of Sheppey, on land adjacent to the new...
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Medway Council Scraps Testing for Late Applications to Grammar Schools
Some children of families who are amongst the many re-locating to Medway, and local children who are late developers, may be denied grammar school places this year as there is no facility to sit the...
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Radio Kent: Secondary Transfer
I spend an hour on Wednesday evening, at the Radio Kent studio in Tunbridge Wells talking on the Graham Jones show, in company with Sally Lees, Principal of the Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre....
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Oversubscription & Vacancies Kent Non-Selective Secondary Schools 2019
The main themes of 2019 allocations to non-selective secondary schools in Kent are the increased pressure on places following a 4.6% increase in numbers, and the increased polarisation of choices. KCC...
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Oversubscription and Vacancies in Kent Grammar Schools on Allocation for 2019
You will find the parallel article looking at Kent Non-selective schools here. Medway Schools to follow. Please note that the two articles on secondary school allocation in Kent had over 27,000 hits...
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Mother Sues over Daughter's Suicide Attempt in Kent School Isolation Room
Please see Important Update BelowThe Guardian Newspaper has today (03/04/19) published a news item about a girl with mental health problems who was placed in an Isolation Room, on a repeated basis when...
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Oversubscription & Vacancies in Medway Grammar Schools on Allocation 2019
All Medway boys and girls who are grammar qualified will have been offered a place at Chatham Girls or Holcombe if they did not get one elsewhere and applied to one of these two. An example of what I...
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Medway Non-Selective Schools Allocation 2019
Pressure on places in Medway Non-Selective schools continues to be intense, with 80% of pupils being awarded their first choice school. Another 204 children, or 9.3% of the total, received no school of...
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Kent and Medway Primary Allocations: Initial News and Comment
Update: Now with news of record outcome for Medway Reception Year Allocations (5 p.m. Tuesday)Good news for most Kent families applying for reception class places in primary schools as the outcome...
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Lilac Sky: Final Chapter
Trevor Beeson, Founder and CEO of the late Lilac Sky enterprises, has published a defence of his actions called 'Lilac Sky: Final Chapter' on his new website (which does not appear to have a direct...
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