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Kent and Medway Primary School OFSTED Outcomes 2016-17
A previous article reported on Ofsted Reports up to Easter, this one completes outcomes for the school year 2016-17.It shows Kent Primary schools soaring to dizzy Ofsted heights, with 85% of...
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St John Fisher Catholic School, Chatham: A Motivation too Far
Earlier this evening I was part of an item on BBC SE criticising St John Fisher Catholic School in Chatham, which had put up charts in public view with photographs of all Year 11 pupils on Friday,...
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Financial Crisis in Schools
I was asked by the KMTV online TV station this evening to comment on the letter written by 5000 headteachers to government asking for more funding to meet the current crisis. An article on the BBC News...
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Academy and Free School News: September-November 2017
Another eleven schools have become academies in the past few months, bringing the Kent total to 84% of 100 secondary schools, and 33% of 456 primaries. In Medway 16 out of 17 secondary schools and 58...
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Help Needed: Families of children excluded from a Multi Academy Trust school.
A representative of a responsible national news organisation has approached me looking for a family whose child has been excluded from a Multi Academy Trust school, they consider unfairly. They are...
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Further analysis of Kent test results for Admission September 2018
I have now had further opportunity to look at data relating to the recent Kent Test outcomes for Admission in September 2018, with a summary of the statistics below. This article expands my initial...
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Kent on Sunday: The Sad End of an Influential Award Winning Local Newspaper
Having been away on holiday for the past fortnight, I have previously been unable to comment on the sad closure of Kent on Sunday at the end of November as ‘it was no longer economically viable’. Of...
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Retirement of Mr Patrick Leeson as head of Kent Education & Children's...
Patrick Leeson, Corporate Director of KCC’s Education and Children Services Directorate, retired from his post at the end of November. He has been succeeded in a revised role by Matt Dunckley CBE, who...
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Kent & Medway Primary School Performance: 2017 Key Stage 2 Results
Key Stage Two school performance for 2017 tables were published on Thursday, with 65% of Kent pupils meeting the expected standard for the second year running, well above the national average which was...
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Rochester Grammar proposes changes to admission rules; effect on Holcombe...
The Rochester Grammar School is proposing to make considerable changes to its oversubscription criteria for entry in 2019, giving priority to girls who attend one of the Trust’s four local primary...
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Phil Karnavas: One of the Great Heads Retires
Phil Karnavas who has been one of the great maverick characters of education in Kent for many years, a breed sadly fast declining in the drive towards playing safe, has retired as Executive Principal...
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Provisional GCSE Results for Medway 2017
Last year the long established 5 A*-C GCSE league table including English and maths was scrapped, being replaced by two new assessments, Progress 8 and Attainment 8. Both these are measured by an...
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Phil Karnavas: One of the Great Heads Retires
Phil Karnavas who has been one of the great maverick characters of education in Kent for many years, a breed sadly fast declining in the drive towards playing safe, has retired as Executive Principal...
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Grammar School numbers increase: BBC News Item
The BBC has published an analysis of grammar school pupil numbers, that seeks to show the proportion of pupils in grammar schools rising whilst overall secondary numbers in areas with grammar schools...
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Grammar School numbers increase: BBC News Item
The BBC has published an analysis of grammar school pupil numbers, that seeks to show the proportion of pupils in grammar schools rising whilst overall secondary numbers in areas with grammar schools...
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Proposed Changes in School Admission Rules: Skinners School, the failed...
Schools that operate their own admission rules are now publishing proposals for admission in September 2019 for Consultation, where they are making changes. Details for Kent primary and secondary...
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Elaine Primary Academy, Hundred of Hoo Academy and the Williamson Trust
The Williamson Trust of six academies currently comprises: one grammar school, Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical school (SJWMS) in Rochester; one All Through School - the Hundred of Hoo Academy...
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The Unique Medway Secondary School Admission Lottery
Further update: Holcombe proposal to change to co-ed turned down. Update: Potential issues on the Hoo Peninsula expanded below, along with a different look at the numbers. This is my third article...
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Holcombe Grammar loses its bid to go Co-Ed. An excellent decision by the DfE...
I make no apologies for this being the fourth consecutive news item about Medway on this site but, as my previous articles suggest, the education system in the Authority has become unstable, with...
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Kent GCSE Results Final Outcomes
Medway Outcomes to comeThis is the second year of the new GCSE assessments for measuring schools performance, Progress 8 and Attainment 8, which replace the long established 5 A*-C GCSE league table...
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