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Comprehensive Future Fails Test on Grammar Schools and Pupil Premium (twice)
Revised 11th JulyThe campaigning organisation Comprehensive Future (CF) has published a lengthy article whose main purpose appears to be to attack me. For the second time, this uses false data they...
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Missed Registration for the Kent and Medway Test; and Illness at the Time of...
Updated annually, most recently July 2020Non Registration for Kent or Medway TestSadly, each year a number of families fail to register their child for the Kent or Medway test in time, for a variety of...
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Education, Health and Care Plans in Kent
This article looks back at provision for children with Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) for the year 2018-19 across Kent, success rates for those appealing against decisions, along with other...
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35 New Government Free Special Schools Announced
The day after I published my recent article on EHCPs the government has announced that it is setting up 35 new special free schools (the Free School is the current model for delivering any new state...
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New Special School in Sheppey for 2022; Sponsor Announced
Kent County Council has announced details of the new Special School to be opened on the Isle of Sheppey in 2022, catering for children with Social, Emotional and Mental Health (SEMH) difficulties,...
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Kent Test Arrangements Confirmed for October
Richard Long, KCC Cabinet Member for Education and Skills, has now decided on the timing and arrangements for the Kent Test this year. A letter to schools sets out as expected that the Kent Test will...
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Government 'Expectation' on Managing Selection Test Arrangements in Kent and...
Hot on the heels of Kent County Council's confirmed arrangements for the Kent Test, as reported in my previous article, the government has now released its formal advice on assessment processes for...
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The Struggling Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey Appoints its Fourth Leader in...
Oasis Academy Trust is trying once again to reverse the inexorable decline in the fortunes of Oasis Academy Isle of Sheppey (OAIOS) by bringing in a new Executive Principal over the head of Tina Lee,...
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The Kent Test 2020: Throwing down the gauntlet
I had an extended interview on Radio Kent last week about the unfairness created towards ‘children of ordinary families’ in the Kent Test for this extraordinary year. At the conclusion, Julia George...
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Comprehensive Future Knowingly Re-Publishes False Data
Two years ago, Comprehensive Future published as a fact that: When asked how many pupils were admitted through these priority policies 80 schools responded, revealing that just 574 disadvantaged pupils...
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Kent and Medway School Transport in September
Government PolicyIt is our plan that all pupils, in all year groups, will return to school full-time from the beginning of the autumn term.I wholeheartedly support the principle and the schools working...
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The A Level and GCSE Assessment Fiascos, Summer 2020
Update evening of 20th August: Cancellation of those BTec results which have been published and those which haven't even been released. See below in blue. It had not been my intention to comment on the...
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The Coronavirus Effect on the 'School Run' in Kent, Part 2
Update 20th August: KCC has released a guide called: Returning to school using transport which summarises much that I have written below. Good news is that the Council: have also been given funding to...
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Coronavirus: 2020 GCSE Fiasco outcomes and Kent and Medway Sixth Form Courses
Update 24th August: I am hearing of various schools and at least one FE College which is trying to bounce qualified students off sixth form and vocational courses. One device is to place them on a...
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Griffin Schools Trust: A Danger for Pupils?
I have followed the misfortunes of the Griffin Schools Trust for many years since it took over four primary schools as academies in Medway, then having Wayfield Primary taken away from it in 2016,...
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Academy and Free School News August 2020
There are just five schools that have converted to become academies in 2020, including the four which came together to be the EKC (East Kent Trust) in March. These are: Briary Primary, Herne Bay;...
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Coronavirus and School Transport in Kent and Medway: Part Three
Following on from the TUI holiday flight incident and the failure of passengers to follow rules, it is relevant to note the following Government statement: 'We do not expect drivers to police pupil...
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Furhter Trauma at St Thomas' Catholic Primary School
The Chair of the Kent Catholic Schools Partnership wrote to parents of St Thomas Catholic Primary School on 17th June to inform them that the headteacher, Mrs Aquilina, was being given ‘special leave...
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The New No Win Thanet Academy
Kent County Council has now applied for Planning Permission for the controversial new secondary school in Thanet, exposing further problems with the project.The background to the new school briefly is...
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Turner Schools: Update
hereFor the last three and a half years, Turner Schools has been one of my most prolific themes for articles on this website, aided and abetted by its CEO and founder Dr Jo Saxton, whose passion for...
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