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Saturday, 18 February 2012 21:04
Academy & Free School News February 2012 (belated)
My apologies that this is rather belated - I've been a little busy, and this website is a one man part-time operation! New Kent academies for February are: Mayfield Grammar School (formerly Gravesend Grammar School for Girls); The Folkestone School for Girls; The Maplesdon Noakes School, Maidstone; Milestone Special School in New Ash Green, in federation with the Leigh Academy, Dartford. Just one new Kent academy application for February, reflecting the slow down in the county, possibly because all those seriously interested have already applied. This is Grove Park Community Primary School in Sittingbourne, the town fast becoming a hotbed of academy activity. In Medway, there is Woodlands Primary School in Gillingham. The BBC reports that there are 7…
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Friday, 13 January 2012 22:37
Outstanding OFSTEDs - Oakwood Park Grammar, Bredhurst, Lyminge and Rodmersham Primary
Congratulations to Oakwood Park Grammar School, in Maidstone, which has gained an 'Outstanding' classification from OFSTED. The school, which has to work hard to compete for able students with the more historic Maidstone Grammar School, is summarised thus: "It fulfils its aim of offering students ‘an exceptional learning experience’. The headteacher, governors and senior leaders have established an extremely supportive ethos which enables students to achieve highly in their personal and academic development. All groups of students,......
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Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:44
Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys - Super Selective?
Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys is carrying out a consultation (closing date 15th June) into whether it should join the 'super-selective' club of Kent grammar schools. The proposition is that boys who score over 385 in the Kent Test for grammar school admission and who live within 9 miles of the school are given priority. Currently places are allocated to those boys who pass the test (current pass mark 360), who live closest to the school (for 2011 entry this being 5.157 miles).......
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Saturday, 07 January 2012 18:02
Academy & Free School News January 2012
The move to academy status appears to has slowed righted down in Kent & Medway in recent months, with most secondary schools able to change having made the move, and only a limited number of primary schools seeing change beneficial. There are no new applications from Kent or Medway secondary schools, and just one primary school each from Kent and Medway: ........
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Friday, 16 December 2011 18:13
Academy & Free School News December 2011
There is little progress in either Kent or Medway this month towards new schools applying to become academies, or fresh applications to set up Free Schools. Two schools : Cranbrook School and Chiddingstone Primary.......
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Wednesday, 07 December 2011 12:25
Marlowe Academy
The Marlowe Academy, in Ramsgate, currently a failing school, having been served with a 'Notice to Improve' by OFSTED in October, is evidently in further difficulties. Principal, Ian Johnson, left suddenly last summer, although he enjoyed a high profile as an unofficial spokesman for Academies, and had served as Acting Principal at the Spires academy in Canterbury - a matter of criticism in the Marlowe OFSTED Report because of his absence from his prime role. In May, there was a monitoring Inspection which found satisfactory progress from the 'Notice to Improve' but did not change the status. What was not made known at the time ............
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Friday, 18 November 2011 20:52
Academy & Free School News November 2011
New Kent academies for November are: St George's CofE School, Gravesend; St John's CofE Primary School, Maidstone; Joyden's Wood Infant School, Joyden's Wood Junior School, with Wilmington Primary School in a chain. There are new applications from The Norton Knatchbull School, Ashford; and Hampton Primary School, Herne Bay. In Medway..........
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Friday, 11 November 2011 18:49
Monkton CofE Primary - another Outstanding Kent OFSTED, but....
Congratulations to Monkton CofE Primary School in Thanet which joins a growing list of Outstanding Kent primary schools over the past eigthteen months. The full list now reads: Challock Primary School,......
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