by vinnie walsh | th Nov 2024 | News
Three single-sex grammar schools will start admitting both boys and girls from September 2026. Chatham Grammar, Fort Pitt Grammar School, both currently for girls, and Holcombe Grammar School (for boys) in Medway will become co-educational after the government...
by vinnie walsh | th Nov 2024 | News
The rocketing costs to the tax-payer have been laid bare Kent’s deepening special educational needs (SEN) crisis and the rocketing cost to the tax-payer has been laid bare. New figures show the price tag is rising rapidly as the number of children requiring SEN...
by vinnie walsh | th Nov 2024 | News
Academies body says decisions will make it ‘much more difficult’ for trusts to support schools in need and will leave smaller primaries ‘vulnerable’ The Department for Education will end its grant scheme for schools choosing to become an...
by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2024 | News
Calls for a review of disadvantage measures and support after analysis reveals full scale of challenge for leaders in the toughest schools Schools in the poorest areas struggle to recruit teachers, are forced to spend more money on supply teachers and are having to...
by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2024 | News
Danecourt school are raising money for a great campaign ‘Imagine the impossible’ The Danecourt Desert Divas – Zoe Smith, Lauren Pope, Megan Tutty, Jayne Hehir and Becca Ausher will be trekking the Sahara Desert in Morocco to raise money...
by vinnie walsh | th Oct 2024 | News
Families of children with special education needs and disabilities (Send) have lost confidence in a system that “often falls short” and is failing to improve children’s outcomes, the public-spending watchdog says. Despite funding rising by 58% over...
