To get the local boys?! Any insights would be helpful. Is it a no-brainier to go to the local school?? Or is Just better? Academically better? Posted: Wed Oct 30, am. I'd go for Skinners if it was me. My older son is there and loves it, and my younger son will hopefully join him next year, unless he qualifies for St Olave's which is walking distance for us. Skinners is a great school both academically and for sports, and it would be an hour a day sitting in Tunbridge Wells traffic versus ten minutes walking.
Personally, I would go with the school your son prefers as at the end of the day, it should be his decision. The bonus is it's hardly far to either traffic in the mornings is much worse going into T Wells than towards Judd in Tonbridge.
My son is in Year 8 at Judd and loving it. We feel like he has been given a golden ticket going there, but I know many boys who equally happy at Skinners.
My daughter has an equally short commute to TWGGS even though she could have gone to TGS and it means after matches or CCF trips or other stuff she does, she only has a 5 minute walk without worrying about buses or being picked up. And, most of their friends are within walking distance too, which is invaluable now they are teens and I don't have to ferry them all over the county because their friends are commuting large distances.
For context I have a son in Y7 at Skinners' who didn't score high enough for Judd's very high cut-off last year. I think the usual recommendation to choose the school that you prefer is still the right one. The selection criteria for a school don't necessarily mean that student will get a better set of teachers or a better educational experience.
I don't think it's unreasonable to expect that once those slight differences in abilities make their way up to GCSEs and A-levels that a slight gap in scores may open too. All three schools were independent, that is they were free from state interference, and were financed partly by the Company and partly by fee-paying parents. From the s they received some state aid, but it was not until the transforming Education Act of that they became full members of the national system of state education as voluntary aided grammar schools.
The Judd is therefore a key member of a family of five schools, four in West Kent and the other in north London. That still leaves 11 first choices who were unsuccessful. Tunbridge Wells Girls Grammar has seen a sharp fall in first choices this year, down to from in for its places. This means that most appeals unusually are likely to be from girls who have not passed the Kent Test. The Skinners School The Skinners School, Tunbridge Wells, along with The Judd School, both run by the Skinners Company, a London Livery Company, has changed its Admissions Policy for entry, to widen its previous super selective policy of offering all places after those set aside for Looked After Children as required by law to those applicants with the highest aggregate scores.
It has moved to a policy of giving priority to local boys who achieve a benchmark aggregate score of or more in the Kent Test, not dissimilar to those at Maidstone and Simon Langton Boys' grammar schools. This has produced considerable controversy as many families of high scoring boys who would have expected places, especially some who wrongly believed the school when it wrote on its website, ' The qualifying score is virtually the same as before so we expect all in that area getting in the Kent test to get into the school'.
I explore the issues in more detail here , including a look at my assessment of the appeal situation. Last modified on Monday, 30 March Tagged under grammar school admissions kent grammar schools kent school admissions. Secondary School Admissions. Secondary School Appeals. Admissions Appeals Infant Class Legislation. Individual Schools.
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