• Ruth leads the way in Sevenoaks School's Knole run

  By SevenoaksHol at 20:31 on 19/01/12

  

  The 38th Boys Knole Run and the 16th Girls Knole Run took place in Knole Park on Saturday (14 January). It was a sunny but cold day, almost ideal conditions for the race, though one or two parts of the course were still icy even in the afternoon. The Girls race, which started first at 2.30pm, attracted more than 20 teams and was won by some distance by Ruth Bourne of Sevenoaks School in a new course record with Sevenoaks School...

• Sevenoaks parents prevented from seeing list of failing schools

  By SevenoaksHol at 11:13 on 06/12/11

  

  Parents in Sevenoaks are being kept in the dark over plans for failing schools by KCC's cabinet member for education. Under a new initiative called Kent Challenge, education authority Kent County Council has drawn up a secret list of 132 poorly performing schools in need of urgent treatment. Twenty-three have been identified across Sevenoaks, Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge. But cabinet member for education, Cllr Mike Whiting, has refused...

• Update - schools affected by strike action

  By SevenoaksHol at 14:08 on 29/11/11

  

  Kent County Council has issued the following update (Tuesday 29 November) on schools in the Sevenoaks and surrounding area that will be either be closed, or partially closed, due to the industrial action on 30 November. It advises that if your school is not listed you should contact them direct. Fully closed Sevenoaks and Swanley Anthony Roper Primary School, Eynsford. Hextable Primary School Milestone School Valence School,...

• Sevenoaks schools to be hit by strike

  By SevenoaksHol at 16:52 on 28/11/11

  

  Many schools across the Sevenoaks and surrounding area will be affected on Wednesday as public sector workers strike over proposed changes to pensions and spending cuts. A number of primary and secondary schools will be totally closed for the day with many more being forced to halt lessons for specific year groups. The Government says the cost of funding public sector pensions is "unsustainable" and it wants most workers to...

• Old boys play for new trophy in memory of Pip

  By OaksScoop at 21:00 on 30/09/11

  

  It was a case of past meeting present when football teams from Sackville School and St Thomas' School played in Hildenborough recently. What was meant to be a 'one off' game seven years ago between the current Sackville School side and former pupils from St Thomas' School, which used to occupy the premises in Hildenborough during the 60s and 70s, has now become a tradition at Sackville's annual family day. Sackville ...

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