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Kent and Medway School Appeal Outcomes: 2019
This article looks at Year Seven and primary school admission appeals in Kent and Medway, conducted by Kent County Council, Medway Council and a number of private providers. There is a sharp rise in...
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Provisional Kent GCSE Outcomes 2019
GCSE Results for Kent published last week show that Kent schools were below the National Average of -0.03 in the governments key measure Progress 8 at -0.11. However, they were ahead in Attainment 8 at...
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Medway Provisional GCSE Outcomes for 2019
The key measure of GCSE Performance is Progress 8 (full table here) .Under this measure Medway is slightly above the National Average of -0.03; at +0.03 with just one school Well Below Average (Robert...
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Second Sevenoaks Annexe: Consultation from Tunbridge Wells Grammar Boys to go...
Note: This is an update to a previous article, now deletedAt long last it looks as if the second part of the Sevenoaks grammar school annexe buildings will be built and occupied as originally planned,...
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Medway Review 2019 and the Medway Test.
I have now received more data relating to the Medway Test with its pass level of an aggregation of 495 marks across the three tests, following on from my initial article here.It is clear that the...
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Kent and Medway Primary School Outcomes 2018-2019
Headlines:The central headline of the year's Primary School Ofsted outcomes is that academies are considerably outperforming Local Authority schools,showing much stronger improvement. Overall, Kent...
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Kent and Medway School Exclusions 2018-19
'Teacher capacity and skill is (sic) the best antidote there is to exclusion of students'.Folkestone Academy The same five secondary schools feature in the top seven fixed term excluders in every one...
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Kent Catholic Academies Banned from Hosting Kent Test
The Kent Catholic Schools Partnership, an Academy Trust which runs 19 Roman Catholic primary schools, has instructed all these schools not to provide facilities for their children to sit the Kent Test...
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Turner Schools and Folkestone Academy: High Turnover of Teachers, Directors...
The following article may not be of direct interest to families but it identifies the chaos and machinations at the top of Turner Schools and as such I consider it is an important testimony. The...
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Elective Home Education & Children Missing from Education 2018-19: Kent and...
The number of children leaving Kent schools for Elective Home Education (EHE) in 2017-18 continues to increase sharply year on year, now up by 70% to 1310 over the past four years. Medway has seen...
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Candidates for Election in Tunbridge Wells know nothing of local...
I posed the following education question on Radio Kent this morning to the five Tunbridge Wells candidates in the General Election: Plans for a new six form entry non-selective school in TW have...
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Lilac Sky Schools Academy Trust: Progress on Financial Investigation
For those who thought we had seen the last of the dreadful Lilac Sky Schools Academy Trust (LSSAT)I enclose a copy of a letter sent by the Government’s Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA), which...
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Kent & Medway Primary School Performance: 2019 Key Stage 2 Results
Key Stage Two school performance for 2019 tables were published on Friday, with 68% of Kent pupils meeting the expected standard for the second year running, comfortably above the national average...
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New Secondary School in Thanet vetoed at the Last Moment.
In his last action just twenty minutes before standing down as Leader of Kent County Council on October 17th, Paul Carter vetoed the proposal to build a new non-selective school in Thanet on the...
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The 15 Kent and Medway Priority School Building Programmes currently...
In 2015 Government introduced Phase Two of the Priority School Building Programme, to rebuild or refurbish individual blocks of accommodation at 277 schools using capital grant and are scheduled to...
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Folkestone Academy joins the Tough Love Failures, and Other Turner School...
This article considers the consequences of a letter sent out to parents by Seamus Murphy, the new Executive Headteacher of Folkestone Academy. It is a revision of my original article. The letter...
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Progress on 15 Approved New Free Schools in Kent and Medway
The latest published government list of Approved Free Schools in Kent and Medway, up to October 2019 and still in the pre-opening stage, lists the 15 schools below. Most of these have been considered...
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Grammar School Expansion, including Tunbridge Wells Boys, Gravesend and...
Last week, Kent County Council moved a step closer to introducing the proposed Grammar School Annexe of Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys in Sevenoaks. This will parallel the girls annexe on the...
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Academy and Free School News January 2020
This article first looks at the two new Free Schools opened in Dartford in September: Stone Lodge School (secondary) and River Mill Primary. Six schools have become academies: Dartford Community...
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Ofsted Annual Report 2018-19 (1): Kent and Medway 'Stuck Schools'
Update 24th January: Royal Harbour Academy has been found to Require Improvement by Ofsted today, up from 'Requires Significant Improvement. This leaves just Holmesdale School as the only Kent...
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