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Kent Schools A Level Performance Summer 2019
This article looks at A Level outcomes for Kent schools in the summer of 2019, following the release of performance data last week, Medway to follow. Kent schools outperform national outcomes in...
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The Shame of Holy Trinity CE Primary School, Gravesend
This astonishing story was first reported in the Gravesend Messenger last week, and featured an incident that happened three years ago in which a child was repeatedly bullied and subjected to...
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Medway Schools A Level Performance 2019
This article looks at A Level outcomes for Medway schools in the summer of 2019, following the release of performance data last week; you will find an equivalent article for Kent schools here. Medway...
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Medway Final GCSE Outcomes for 2019
Final GCSE Results for Medway schools published last week confirm the provisional results released in November. This article is a minor revision of the November original as I have found no significant...
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Kent Final GCSE Outcomes 2019
Final GCSE Results for Kent published last week confirm the provisional results released in November. This article is a minor revision of the November original as I have found very few variations in...
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Selective School Expansion Fund: Kent Decisions
Government has announced the six grammar schools offered £14.3 million funding from the second round of the Government Grammar School Expansion Fund, out of the 25 that applied. None of the eight Kent...
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Catholic Church Overturns Catholic Trust Ban on Kent Test in school premises.
This article contains copies of redacted sections of Meeting Minutes which I have been sent.Back in November I reported that Catholic primary academies which were members of the Kent Catholic School...
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Annual School Report for Turner Schools: Serious Weaknesses
The Turner Schools Annual Report to Companies House, posted on the final due date, 31st January 2020 suggesting some difficulties in completion, continues the saga of well rewarded underperformance....
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Selective School Expansion Fund: Kent Decisions (2)
Unfortunately an early version of this article went out to subscribers. This is the final article re-circulated.Government has announced the six grammar schools offered £14.3 million funding from 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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Kent Test for Entry in September 2020: Further Analysis
You will find the parallel Medway Test article here. This article follows on from my previous: Kent Test 2019; Initial Results and Comment, published in October. The main change since last year is that...
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Complete Retirement from Advisory Service
I regret to confirm that I have retired completely from my individual advisory service for Kent and Medway families after sixteen years. I continue to be asked if I can make an exception by previous...
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Challenge to Kent Local Tests Backfires
58 out of 140 complaints to The Office of the Schools Adjudicator for the School Year 2018-19 related to the Admission Procedures of 36 grammar schools across the country. Seven were about local...
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Kent Secondary School Allocations for September 2020: Initial Information and...
Amongst other updates below are the cut off scores for all the five Kent super selective schools (3rd March). Grammar qualified children in Thanet not getting either local grammar school, but instead...
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Medway Secondary School Allocations 2020: Initial Information and Advice.
Medway Council has invested an additional £3 million this year to meet a potential shortage of secondary school places for September. This was caused by an increase in numbers, combined with a delay in...
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Another Secondary Headteacher Bites the Dust
There has been a spate of headteachers in recent years losing their jobs at short notice, often 'to pursue other interests', most recently to my knowledge was last year when the head of The...
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More Change in Medway: Delce Academy Re-Brokered and Barnsole Trust to be merged
The children of Delce Academy in Rochester have now hopefully reached a safe haven where they can learn towards a brighter future, after a dreadful time in this school run by the inept Castle Trust....
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School Appeals and Coronavirus
Update: 5th April: Government statement and further analysis here. II have recently given an interview to BBC SE on the subject of GCSE and A Level, in which I found my self saying for the first time...
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The Secret Headteacher
Revised 9th AprilThis is the first of two articles about the Brook Learning Trust, looking at a new book entitled ‘The Secret Headteacher’, to be published in August about one of its schools. The...
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School Appeals and Coronavirus: Part 2
Update 16th April: I have now published a further item on this theme picking up the latest government guidance here. I am pleased to report that government has now released an initial statement on how...
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