Entries on this page include the OFSTED Grade for each Primary School updated twice a year, also recording change from previous Inspection result, together with some other relevant information below. It is worth using the search engine on the Home Page to pick up other references to individual schools.
You will find advice on Primary school Admissions and Appeals here.
You can read the full Report on each Primary School at OFSTED. Each school is awarded a main Grade: Outstanding, Good, Requires Improvement (previously Satisfactory), and Inadequate (two sub categories - A school that has serious weaknesses is inadequate overall and requires significant improvement but leadership and management are judged to be Grade 3 or better - A school that requires special measures is one where the school is failing to give its pupils an acceptable standard of education and the school’s leaders, managers or governors have not demonstrated that they have the capacity to secure the necessary improvement in the school). Each Report carries a brief description of the school before justifying its decision in more detail. If a school is in Special Measures or Serious Weaknesses, the results of further monitoring visits are noted.
A majority of the schools that have previously had a 'Good' or 'Outstanding' assessment are given a Short Inspection (known as Section 8). These are indicated by 'Good (S). These will be confirmed in their assessment grade. However for some of these schools, the Inspection Team may consider that there are concerns, or in the case of a Good school, grounds for raising the Grade and this can only be done by a full Section Five Grade. These are recorded for example as 'Outstanding (SC) or 'Good (SR).
You will find an analysis of oversubscription and vacancies for Sittingbourne and Sheppey Primary Places for September 2019 Allocations here and here, for 2018 here, for 2017 here, and for 2016 here.
You will find a commercial site providing a comprehensive analysis of different 11 Plus exams, preparation and appeals at 11 Plus Exams.
Reports on Inspections between between September 2019 and February 2020 are in the first table, followed by other tables containing older ones.
(A) Indicates the school is an Academy (2017 onwards)
SITTINGBOURNE AND SHEPPEY
PRIMARY SCHOOL OFSTED REPORTS Sep 2019- Feb 2020
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School |
OFSTED
Grade
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Date | Change |
Milton Court (A) | Good | Sep 19 | Up one |
SITTINGBOURNE AND SHEPPEY
PRIMARY SCHOOL OFSTED REPORTS Sep 18 - Jul 19
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School |
OFSTED
Grade
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Date | Change |
Bapchild & Tonge | Good | Jul 19 | No change |
Eastchurch CofE* | Requires Improvement | Jul 19 | Down one |
Kemsley (A) | Good (S) | Feb 19 | No change |
Lower Halstow | Good | Mar 19 | No change |
Lynsted and Norton (A) | Requires Improvement | Sep 18 | No change |
Newington | Good | May 19 | No change |
Richmond (A) | Requires Improvement | Jan 19 | No change |
St Edward's Catholic (A)** | Good | May 19 | Up two |
St George's CofE Aided (A) | Good (S) | Oct 18 | No change |
Sunny Bank (A)*** | Special Measures | Jun 19 | Down |
Westlands (A) | Good (S) | Jun 19 | No change |
*The small Eastchurch CofE Primary School in Sheppey is spread across two sites in Eastchurch and Leysdown. This has proved very costly, running with two headteachers, and in 2017 whilst KCC were forcing cuts on the school in order to make it viable, both headteachers resigned. The school has been struggling ever since. According to Ofsted: 'Leadership is vulnerable. Both leadership and staffing since the previous inspection have been turbulent, with a number of successive headteachers having been in post.'
**St Edward's Catholic Primary School in Sheppey has been failing for many years, having failed to make progress from being placed in Special Measures in 2013 (see tables below). It has now been academised and is run by Kent Catholic Schools Partnership, which has a good record in turning failed Catholic schools round.
*** Sunny Bank Primary School is run by the Local Authority being formed by the amalgamation of two KCC schools in 2016 and remaining under the control of KCC. Murston Infant School 's most recent Ofsted Report was Good, Murston Junior School Requires Improvement. This proved a disaster, with Ofsted recording: 'Over the past three years, weak and turbulent leadership has prevented the school from improving'. Will surely become an academy.
SITTINGBOURNE AND SHEPPEY
PRIMARY SCHOOL OFSTED REPORTS 2017-18
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School |
OFSTED
Grade
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Date | Change |
Canterbury Road | Good | Jan 18 | No change |
Grove Park | Good | Nov 17 | No change |
Holywell | Good | Nov 17 | No change |
Lansdowne (A) | Good | Sep 17 | No change |
Regis Manor | Good | Mar 18 | No change |
Teynham Parochial CofE | Good | Feb 18 | No change |
Thistle Hill* | Requires Improvement | Jun 18 | 1st Inspection |
*Thistle Hill Academy was the central school of the appalling Lilac Sky Academy Trust which closed amidst poor standards and large debts as money vanished. Transferred to Stour Valley Academy Trust, Ofsted Report shows school improving from poor base.
SITTINGBOURNE AND SHEPPEY
PRIMARY SCHOOL OFSTED REPORTS 2016-17
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School |
OFSTED
Grade
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Date | Change |
Bobbing Village | Outstanding | May 17 | Up one |
Bredgar CofE | Good | Jan 17 | No change |
Hartlip Endowed CofE | Good | Nov 16 | No change |
Iwade (A) | Good | May 17 | No change |
Milstead & Frinsted (A) | Good | Mar 17 | No change |
Milton Court | Requires Improvement | Mar 17 | No change |
Queenborough | Outstanding | Mar 17 | Up one |
Rose Street | Good | Apr 17 | No change |
South Avenue | Good | May 17 | Up Two |
West Minster | Good | Nov 16 | Up one |
SITTINGBOURNE & SHEPPEY PRIMARY SCHOOL OFSTEDS 2015-16 |
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Oaks Community Infant | Good | Jan 16 | No change |
Lynsted and Norton (A) | Requires Improvement | May 16 | No change |
Tunstall CofE (Aided) | Outstanding | Mar 16 | Up one |
SITTINGBOURNE & SHEPPEY PRIMARY SCHOOL OFSTEDS 2014-15 |
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Bapchild & Tonge | Good | Apr 15 | Up one |
Eastchurch CofE | Good | May 15 | Up one |
Halfway Houses, Sheerness | Good | Apr 15 | Up one |
Kemsley Primary Academy | Good | Feb 15 | Up two |
Lower Halstow | Good | Apr 15 | Up one |
Milton Court Primary Academy | Requires Improvement | Jan 15 | No change |
Murston Junior | Requires Improvement | Dec 14 | Down one |
Newington CofE | Good | May 15 | Up one |
St Edward's Catholic, Sheppey | Not enough progress to remove SM | Nov 14 | |
Not enough progress to remove SM | Mar 15 | ||
Requires Improvement | Jun 15 | Up one | |
Westlands (A) | Reasonable progress to removal of SM | Oct 14 | |
Good | May 15 | Up two | |
West Minster, Sheerness | Requires Improvement | Dec 14 | No change |
SITTINGBOURNE & SHEPPEY PRIMARY SCHOOL OFSTEDS 2013-14 |
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School |
OFSTED Grade |
Date | Change |
Lansdowne |
Special Measures |
Oct 13 | Down two |
School Action Plan fit for Purpose
LA Statement of Action fit for purpose
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Jan 14 | ||
Inadequate progress from SM | May 14 | ||
St Edward's Catholic, Sheerness | Insufficient progress for removal of SM | Dec 13 | |
reasonable progress for removal of SM | Mar 14 | ||
Minterne Community Junior | Good | Apr 14 | Down one |
South Avenue Junior | Insuff progress for removal of Serious Weaknesses | Sep 13 | |
Westlands | Serious Weaknesses | Dec 13 | Down one |
The school’s action plan is fit for purpose. |
Apr 14 | ||
St Edward's position is so difficult that KCC have instituted an Interim Executive Board, to replace the Governing Body in preparation for the school being taken over as an a academy.
South Avenue Junior is being taken over by Fulston Manor School as a Sponsored Academy.
SITTINGBOURNE & SHEPPEY PRIMARY SCHOOL OFSTEDS 2012-13 |
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School |
OFSTED Grade |
Date | Change |
Bapchild & Tonge CofE | Satisf prog from NtoI | Sep 12 | |
Requires Improvement | May 2013 | Up one | |
Bobbing Village | Good | Nov 12 | Up one |
Canterbury Road | Good | Sep 12 | Up one |
Eastchurch CofE VC | Requires Improvement | May 13 | Down one |
Grove Park | Good | Jul 13 |
Up one,
1st inspection as academy
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Halfway Houses | Requires Improvement | Apr 13 | No change |
Holywell | Good | Apr 13 | Up one |
Iwade Community | Good | Oct 12 | Up one |
Kemsley | Good progress from SM (see below) | Mar 2013 | |
Lower Halstow | Requires Improvement | May 13 | Down one |
Minster in Sheppey | Good | Dec 12 | Up one |
Murston Infant | Good | Jan 13 | Up one |
Newington CofE | Requires Improvement | May 13 | No change |
Richmond | Satisf Prog from SM | Dec 12 | |
Requires Improvement | Jul 13 | Up one | |
Rose Street | Good | Dec 12 | Up one |
St Edward's Catholic | Special Measures | Mar 13 | Down one |
Inadequate prog from SM | Jul 13 |
LA statement not fit for purpose. |
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St George's CofE (Aided) | Good | Mar 13 | Up one |
South Avenue Junior | Special Measures | Jan 13 | Down One |
First Monitoring
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Mar 13
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LEA statement fit for purpose
School plan not fit for purpose
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Teynham Parochial CofE | Good | May 13 | Up one |
West Minster | Requires Improvement | Dec 12 | No change |
Kemsley Primary School: After its good progress from Special Measures report, Kemsley Primary has still been taken over as a Sponsored Academy in April.
Pre September 2012 Reports
School | Grade | Date | Further Infn |
Bapchild & Tonge CofE Primary | Notice to Improve | Mar 2012 | |
Bredgar CofE Primary | Good | Feb 2012 | |
Hartlip Endowed CofE Primary | Good | Feb 2012 | |
Holywell Primary, Upchurch | Satisfactory | Feb 2011 | |
Iwade Community Primary | Satisfactory | Oct 2010 | |
Kemsley Primary | Special Measures | Jul 2012 | |
Lansdowne Primary | Good | May 2011 | |
Lynsted & Norton Primary | Good | Mar 2011 | |
Milton Court Primary | Special Measures | Nov 2009 |
Inadequate progress May 2010,Satisfactory Progress, Nov 2010, Good Progress Mar 2011 |
Milton Court Primary | Satisfactory | Jun 2011 | |
Milstead & Frinsted CofE Primary | Satisfactory | Jun 2010 | |
Minster in Sheppey Primary | Satisfactory | Jun 2010 | |
Minterne Community Junior | Outstanding | Mar 2011 | |
Murston Infant | Satisfactory | Jun 2011 | |
Newington Primary | Satisfactory | Jul 2011 | |
The Oaks Community Infant | Good | Jun 2011 | |
Queenborough, Sheppey | Good | Nov 2011 | |
Richmond Primary, Sheerness | Notice to Improve | Jul 2010 | Satisfactory Progress, Mar 2011, see below |
Richmond Primary, Sheerness | SpecialMeasures | Oct 2011 | Satisfactory Progress Feb 2012, Mixed prog Jun 2012 |
Rodmersham School | Outstanding | Oct 2011 | |
Rose Street Primary, Sheerness | Satisfactory | Jun 2010 | |
St George's CofE Primary, Minster | Satisfactory | Feb 2011 | |
South Avenue Infant | Good | Jun 2011 | |
South Avenue Junior | Satisfactory | May 2011 | |
Teynham Parochial CofE Primary | Satisfactory | Jun 2011 | |
Tunstall CofE (Aided) Primary | Good | Jul 2011 | |
Westlands Primary, Sittingbourne, |
Satisfactory | Jan 12 | |
West Minster Primary, Sheerness |
Satisfactory | Jun 2010 | |