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Some Outstanding OFSTED Reports: Christ Church Pre-School, Gravesend; The...
This article looks at two OFSTED ‘Outstanding’ Reports close to my heart, for Christ Church Pre-School and The Harvey Grammar School. There is also good cheer for long-suffering Medway as they collect...
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200 homeless Redbridge families to be placed in Canterbury: pressure on...
I was invited on Radio Kent yesterday, to comment on the effects on schools of the decision by Redbridge Council to purchase Howe Barracks in Canterbury to house 208 of the families on their Housing...
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Grammar School Leaders in Trouble: The Rochester Grammar School & Simon...
According to The Times, Denise Shepherd, who is Chief Executive of the Thinking Schools Academy Trust, where she is paid £215,000 a year, was suspended from her post last month. The reason put forward...
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Academy, Free School and UTC News, February 2016.
As I was preparing to publish this article, local academy news is overtaken by the ideological decision to force all schools in England to have converted or started on the route to become academies by...
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Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School:Controversy over Academisation
See new article here, dated 29 MayThe story below is growing and growing. You may wish to consult the Facebook Forum to see developing views, or an article in Kent on Sunday which attempts an analyis...
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Grammar Schools and Social Mobility: Kent County Council Select Committee Report
Kent County Council has published a draft Report on Grammar Schools and Social Mobility, prepared by a Select Committee of County Councillors to be approved at a final Meeting of the Committee on June...
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Grammar School Leaders in Trouble: The Rochester Grammar School & Simon...
Update: See latest article here. Meanwhile the controversy at Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School in Canterbury is spiralling to an almost unbelievable level for any school, certainly a state of open...
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Grammar School Leaders in Trouble, Part 2: Still The Rochester Grammar School...
I make no apology to returning to this subject but events are unfolding so fast it is difficult to keep up. My previous article written just on Saturday, described events at the two grammar schools,...
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Good news for King's Farm Primary School, Gravesend
King’s Farm Primary School in Gravesend has been removed from Special Measures early, OFSTED Inspectors making three ‘Good’ assessments in: The Effectiveness of Leadership and Management; Personal...
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Grammar Schools and Social Mobility: Kent County Council Select Committee Report
For update, go to here.Kent County Council has published a draft Report on Grammar Schools and Social Mobility, prepared by a Select Committee of County Councillors to be approved at a final Meeting of...
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Grammar Schools and Social Mobility: Part 2
A BBC news item last evening (Monday), reporting on the recommendations of the Grammar Schools and Social Mobility Committee of KCC (see previous article), contained the startling opinion that, in...
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Medway Primary Schools: Oversubscription and vacancies for 2016.
I now have detailed figures for Medway’s Primary Reception and Junior School allocations for September 2016, and they confirm the data quoted in my initial article on primary school allocations,...
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An awesome WW1 Research Project: St John’s Catholic Comprehensive, Gravesend
Last Thursday, I had the privilege of attending the launch of Volume Three of the outcomes of St John's Catholic Comprehensive School awesome Historical Project, entitled “The Valour Still Shines”...
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Wayfield Primary School: Surely the worst ever performer in a crowded field...
Several times on the pages of this website, I have written about “the worst ever” OFSTED Report I had read at the time with regard to Kent or Medway schools or academies failing because of incompetent...
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Grammar School Leaders in Trouble, Part 2: Still The Rochester Grammar School...
See more recent comment on Simon Langton here, and on Thinking Schools Academy Trust here. I make no apology to returning to this subject but events are unfolding so fast it is difficult to keep up. My...
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Transfer at 16+ from non-Selective to Grammar Schools.
I wrote in a previous article, back in January, about Sixth Form Staying on Rates into Grammar Schools and expressed my long held view that there needs to be a healthy transition from non-selective to...
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Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School
Events at Simon Langton Girls’ Grammar School continue apace since my previous article at the beginning of last month. See also article on resignation of Chief Executive of Thinking Schools Academy...
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Thinking Schools Academy Trust Chief Executive 'Leaves' the Trust
Following the news last month that Denise Shepherd, The Trust Chief Executive of the Thinking Schools Academy Trust had been suspended, a letter to parents today (Friday), on what is the last day of...
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Lilac Sky Academy Trust: The end of the Road
Update: Several updates below. On Radio Kent Drivetime at 5.10 p.m. and BBC SE at 6.30 p.m.One of the very worst academy chains operating in Kent in my view, as illustrated many times elsewhere on...
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How School Bosses Spend Your Millions
A programme from the Channel Four Dispatches series with the above title, broadcast on Monday evening, focused on leaders of some Academy chains who are taking large sums of money out of the schools...
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