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Kent Test 2020: Initial Results and Comment
Please Note: Still being finalised, but published to be in place for 4 p.m.The Kent Test results have set the pass mark at an aggregate of 332, slightly higher than last year, with a requirement to...
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Kent Test 2020: Initial Results and Comment
I was interviewed on Radio Kent on Friday morning, followed by the KCC Education Cabinet Member, Richard Long who provided some additional data reproduced below. You can find the interview here, 1...
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Sixth Form Courses in Kent and Medway Schools
Three years ago I surveyed the movement of students between some schools to take up 6th Form courses and was surprised how often it happened. There appears limited advice to Year 11 students on what...
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Maidstone Grammar Delays Opening Next Term by Two Days to Manage...
Maidstone Grammar School leaders are delaying opening next term by two days and will provide remote learning for their pupils instead. This is because they can see potential but unpredictable problems...
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Maidstone Grammar Delays Opening Next Term by Two Days to Manage...
Update: 18th December. One can only wonder if the government threatened MGS for planning this before it proposed all secondary schools should be closed for the first week of term and made it...
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'The Secret Headteacher': Second Media Article Denigrating White Working...
I have written a number of times previously about the dreadful period when Ebbsfleet Academy was led by Alison Colwell. The previous occasion was back in April, about a book she has written, to be...
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Medway Review 2020 and Out of County Data for the Medway Test
To no one’s surprise, the Medway Review process has once again failed the children of Medway for 2021 grammar school admissions. Instead of selecting the target figure of 70 Medway state school...
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Coronavirus Jottings
I anticipate further but unpredictable developments in the next few days and will update these as appropriate, with a reference at the beginning of the article (16/12).The BBC has an excellent...
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Failed Stantonbury School to be removed from Griffin Trust by RSC
Although Stantonbury International School is in Buckinghamshire, not Kent or Medway, I have followed its misfortunes for some years, as it is run by the Griffin Schools Trust which had its origins in...
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Website Review of 2020
Unsurprisingly the story of education locally in this extraordinary and memorable year has been dominated by Coronavirus, although I have focused in my coverage on events unfolding in Kent and Medway,...
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Sevenoaks School: Unlawful Selection Testing in School on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The lockdown has forced schools to make radical changes in their procedures and activities, but some are subject to looser rules than others. For example, the private Sevenoaks School has received...
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Kent Test Results by Birth Month 2018-20: Sharp Decline through the Year
Children born in the first quarter of the school year 1 September 2009 and 31 August 2010, have performed much better in the 2020 Kent selection procedure than those born in the fourth quarter between...
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Invicta National Academy: online lessons service
The following article opens with a re-print from the 22nd January Edition of Private Eye, under the heading 'T IS FOR TORY'It has been expanded considerably since first...
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Kent Test and Headteacher Assessment for Entry in September 2021: Further...
This article follows on from my previous: ‘Kent Test 2020, Initial Results and Comment’, published in October and is written in the shadow of issues relating to the coronavirus pandemic. Evidence for...
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The Conversion of the PFI Holmesdale and The North Schools to Academy Status...
Updated here, 8th Feb, drawing on a KCC Education Committee ReportI have covered disputes over the proposed conversion of Kent schools built under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) to become...
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What Schools Needed to Prepare for in Case of a Pandemic, 2007.
Update: You will find a link to the full document below. A fascinating read. School closures in the face of a pandemic may appear to be a new phenomenon, but in 2006 the government published guidance...
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Fairview Primary Parents Exceptionally Win Battle Against Academisation
The governors of Fairview Community Primary School in Gillingham, Medway, have scored a massive own goal by ignoring the wishes of parents in their drive to academise the school within the Westbrook...
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Academy and Free School News, February 2021 (Part One)
Six new Free Schools have opened in Kent and Medway since my previous Academy and Free School article in August: Bearsted Primary Academy, Ebbsfleet Green Primary School, School of Science and...
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School Admission Appeals and late Applications to Secondary School for...
Update 25th February: I have added some 'secret' information regarding late applications to Medway grammar schoolshere. The government has extended last year’s temporary and amended arrangements for...
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Kent Secondary School Allocations for September 2021: Initial Information and...
Kent parents who applied online for secondary school places for their children are scheduled to receive decisions for 5 p.m. on Monday but, because of the large numbers, some usually come through an...
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