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  • Arts Festival Showcases the Best of the Benenden Community
    Arts Festival Showcases the Best of the Benenden Community 21.07.22

    This year’s four-day Benenden Arts Festival hit new heights in excitement, entertainment and invention, with a boundless assembly of events, activities, performances and visitors. The festival kicked off with a mesmeric performance by Six Two (Year 13) pianist Juno in our…

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  • Letter to the Secretary of State for Education
    Letter to the Secretary of State for Education 20.07.22

    Danny Mortimer wrote to the Education Secretary to share concerns from employers across the NHS on the impact of scrapping BTECs on workforce crisis. Over 100 NHS organisations have told us that they have serious concerns about the government’s policy…

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  • Schools Continue to Announce Closures Due To 40°C Weather
    Schools Continue to Announce Closures Due To 40°C Weather 18.07.22

    Parents are split on whether or not they want their children to be in school during the extreme weather. The heatwave is set to disrupt children’s lessons as headteachers in England continue to announce school closures due to the extreme weather while others plan…

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  • Open Access
    Open Access 11.07.22

    Downe House has a long and proud history of providing an outstanding education for young people. Recently they have partnered with Royal National Children’s SpringBoard Foundation (RNCSF) with the aim to widen their reach to others who would not usually…

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  • Early Years Funding Woes Should Alarm all in Education
    Early Years Funding Woes Should Alarm all in Education 10.07.22

    New data betrays the extent of the problem facing all types of early years settings – from funding to places. That’s something that should worry all in education, including the government, given that it has just set out ambitious learning…

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  • How to Support Year 6 Children in the Last Weeks of Term
    How to Support Year 6 Children in the Last Weeks of Term 08.07.22

    As we approach the holidays, Year 6 teachers need to be focusing on the wider curriculum, emotional wellbeing and transition, says education consultant Aidan Severs. Sats are over and the summer holidays are within touching distance. However, pupils are away…

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  • Daring To Care
    Daring To Care 06.07.22

    Pastoral Conference for education professionals, hosted by Downe House, proves ‘energising and inspiring’ for delegates from schools across the South of England Downe House recently hosted a conference for pastoral and safeguarding professionals in education – ‘Raising Respect’. The School…

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  • Education For All Top Priority: Al Nuaimi
    Education For All Top Priority: Al Nuaimi 06.07.22

    Qatar participated in the Transforming Education PreSummit, held at the headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Paris. Qatar’s delegation was headed by Minister of Education and Higher Education and Chairman of the Qatar National…

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  • Schools’ Soul-destroying Bids To Fix Broken Buildings
    Schools’ Soul-destroying Bids To Fix Broken Buildings 04.07.22

    Hundreds of schools have repeatedly missed out in their applications for funding to repair rundown buildings and are repeatedly facing “soul-destroying” rejections in applying for funding to fix crumbling school buildings, while others have enjoyed much more success. School leaders…

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