11 Plus Results for the Thanet Schools and Addington Street Fair 2007 pictures and videos

Thanet 11 Plus results

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.

 http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/addington

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/Addington/id3.htm

http://www.michaelsbookshop.com/Addington/id4.htm

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.