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Rainham Mark Grammar School celebrated a landmark sporting achievement after clinching their first-ever cricket title. They won the Under-14 Kent Schools Cricket Plate with a memorable victory over ...
England's first "new" grammar school in five decades has opened. Tonbridge's Weald of Kent Grammar School has built a £19m "annexe" in Sevenoaks, 10 miles from its main site, with room for 450 ...
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”, it’s been warned. Education chiefs say demand is fast ...
Grammar schools in Kent have been criticised for having low numbers of pupils from poorer backgrounds. Only 3% of pupils in the county's 39 grammar schools receive free school meals, compared to ...
Grammar school expansion plan threatens to force closure of existing comprehensive, campaigners say Local grammar head among those voicing concerns about Kent County Council proposal for a ...
A bid by a Kent grammar to open a satellite school is nearing approval with the education secretary expected to grant permission, it has emerged.
Campaigners have claimed bids by two schools to build a satellite site in Kent are actually an attempt to circumvent the law and open a new grammar school “by the back door”. Barton Court ...
A Kent grammar school disputed the findings of an Ofsted report which rated it "inadequate" when previously it had been "good" - and tried to get it changed. Chatham and Clarendon Grammar School ...
The first grammar school in 50 years - an extension of an existing grammar in Kent - has been approved by Education Secretary Nicky Morgan. In a written statement, she insisted the decision was ...
The Department for Education is unlikely to publish legal guidance to ministers on the first "new" grammar school in 50 years, the BBC understands.
The annexe of Weald Of Kent Grammar School will open in Sevenoaks in September 2017. This is a victory for parent power, local determination and persistence.