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Hundreds of extra grammar school places will be needed in Kent by the end of the decade with the cost likely to ‘fall on the taxpayer’,’ been warned.

More sport in school and investment in youth clubs are needed to tackle the number of children regularly missing class, according to a new report.

A school in Kent is planning to make students put their mobile phones in a locked pouch during the day.

The John Wallis Academy in Ashford will introduce the measure in the new year.

Principal Damian McBeath explained that he hoped the rule would limit disruptions in the school and help with safeguarding.

Mr McBeath said he thought the academy would be the first school in Kent to use the pouches.

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Pupils in England could sit some of their GCSE exams digitally within the next few years, under exam board proposals.

Mobile phones could be banned in schools completely under new guidance the government is understood to be considering.

Pupils across Kent will receive their A-levels results today – as grading returns to pre-pandemic standards.

Nigel and Lorraine Trowell farm 27 acres at Willow Farm and for the past year, they have allowed individual children or small school groups to visit the farm and help with the farming activities.

Smaller proportions of children are gaining places at their preferred secondary school in many areas of England, a survey suggests.