Heads to discuss grammar school

By Westerham Chronicle | Thursday, January 12, 2012, 08:00

A SENIOR councillor is to meet with head teachers of schools across West Kent to discuss a plan for a new grammar school in Sevenoaks.

More than 1,500 people have signed a petition for a grammar school in the town.

One of their key arguments for the new facility is that 1,100 pupils – including those from Westerham, Sundridge and Brasted – who have passed the 11-plus travel outside of Sevenoaks every day to get to selective schools in Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells.

The petition has triggered a debate which will take place at Kent County Council on March 29.

In November, the Government introduced a legal change which allows existing grammar schools to expand, meaning a Sevenoaks grammar school would be an annex of an existing one in Tunbridge Wells or Tonbridge and would accept both sexes.

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Surely we do - there are always children who pass the 11 plus who don't get a grammar place, that's not fair. However, stopping children from out of Kent taking up Kent places would be a simpler option, perhaps?

By GaryGee50 at 11:54 on 02/02/12
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Do we really need another Grammar? I don't think we do.

By mikevoice at 12:38 on 01/02/12
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The latest news on the Sevenoaks Grammar School campaign can be found here:-

http://tinyurl.com/7t3fhne

By SGSCampaign at 19:15 on 28/01/12
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