Thanet
School | Grammar eligible | Total assessed | Success rate (%) |
Ramsgate Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School | 21 | 27 | 77% |
St Nicholas At Wade Church of England Primary School | 13 | 25 | 52% |
Holy Trinity and St John's Church of England Primary School | 11 | 24 | 45% |
Newlands Primary School | 8 | 18 | 44% |
Garlinge Primary School and Nursery | 11 | 25 | 44% |
Upton Junior School | 46 | 117 | 39% |
Minster Church of England Primary School | 15 | 40 | 37% |
Chilton Academy Primary School | 16 | 45 | 35% |
St Gregory's Catholic Primary School | 10 | 29 | 34% |
Palm Bay Primary School | 16 | 48 | 33% |
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School | 9 | 27 | 33% |
Cliftonville Primary School | 18 | 57 | 31% |
St Peter-in-Thanet Church of England Junior School | 18 | 64 | 28% |
Birchington Church of England Primary School | 10 | 36 | 27% |
Bromstone Primary School | 13 | 51 | 25% |
St Saviour's Church of England Junior School | 16 | 63 | 25% |
Salmestone Primary School | 7 | 32 | 21% |
Drapers Mills Primary Academy | 4 | 19 | 21% |
Christ Church Church of England Junior School | 11 | 54 | 20% |
Newington Community Primary School and Nursery | 7 | 36 | 19% |
Westgate Primary School | 3 | 17 | 17% |
Dame Janet Primary Academy | 6 | 35 | 17% |
St Ethelbert's Catholic Primary School | 4 | 25 | 16% |
St Laurence-in-Thanet Junior Academy | 5 | 32 | 15% |
Northdown Primary School | 0 | 15 | 0% |
Monkton Church of England Primary School | 0 | 9 | 0% |
Some thoughts on the eleven plus also known as the Kent test
and the grammar school system.
The main opposition to the Kent grammar schools as far as I
can see are Kent socialist politicians the majority of whom appear to have been
educated in grammar schools, so the situation isn’t as clear cut as one would
expect.
There is a theory that if you removed the selective system
then you would improve all of the schools. But here in Thanet where we have
very good grammar schools there is also the suspicion that if there was no
selective entry for these good schools, then they would soon become not very
good schools.
What the system was supposed to do back in the day was to separate the students with academic
ability from those with practical ability. By this I mean that the student who
was aiming to be a garage mechanic, went to a secondary modern school followed
technical college.
I think there is an issue here that is related to both the
English class system and developing some sort of situation where the student
who is hopelessly bad at English literature but is hell-bent on becoming a very
good bricklayer can preserve some sort of dignity in a system where A to Cs in
the three Rs is the primary objective.
One way or another the main reason that the Thanet grammar
schools seem to be doing well is that, within the confines of a system directed
at academic achievement, the most disruptive pupils appear to have been removed from them.
Of course whether those pupils would be disruptive if the could learn about something they were good at is another matter.
I am back trying to sort out old websites and this lot are
Addington Street Fair in 2007, here are the links.
Does 10 years ago count as history? I think it does.
This seems to be from around the time I realised that the
best way to publish pictures online was to put some amount on an ordinary
webpage.
What I had been doing was just to take a lot of pictures for
my children, so the could view the day out we had just had and talk about it
and this sort of extended into putting them on the internet.
Sorry I missed the fair this year, but one can’t be in two
places at once
More books in the bookshop here is the link
Much activity with presumably cable laying off Ramsgate
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Wetherspoons seems to be a bit quieter but the schools have just gone back and I would guess there is an element of recovering at home.
Does 10 years ago count as history? I think it does.
More books in the bookshop here is the link
Much activity with presumably cable laying off Ramsgate
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