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Post by housesparrow on Mar 29, 2012 21:38:05 GMT
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17534910Of special interest to Patrick and me, I suspect. We lived the "other side" of Sevenoaks so the journey to our nearest grammar involved a bus or walk to the station, a train into Sevenoaks and out again. A Sevenoaks grammar would have been a boon. But we didn't have the comprehensive alternative in those days. Why aren't parents satisfied with those for theor bright children?
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Post by Patrick on Mar 29, 2012 22:44:06 GMT
Finally got the answer I was seeking on this - If you look at this report you'll see the reporter walking through a site where the school is to be built www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-17546311I heard about this on Today this morning - there is an utter balls up of policy going on here. The site the reporter walks through in the above report is my old Comprehensive "The Wildernesse" Here's the convoluted tale of what I've understood to be going on. A few years back (before the election) it was announced that Sevenoaks was to have a new Academy school - this would be built on the site of The Wildernesse and the Boys who went to this school would merge onto the Girls school site whilst this new place was built on the site of the Wildernesse. Anyway - it seems to have happened the other way around - the new school has been built on the Girls site and they're all in there together now. This of course took ages to organise and draw up etc. So. What to do with the site of The Wildernesse? Acres of rolling school fields and a public Sports Centre to boot! Google Earth ViewTo my horror I read it was to be sold to a Christian foundation for another indoctrination school - Luckily this doesn't seem to have come off. What it did cause was another delay whilst that lot tried to sort themselves out. Who'd have thought that they'd get a Grammar school out of it though! Funny to think the site of some of the Thickest kids in town (myself probably included in that) will now be home to the biggest Swots in town! Interesting though that it's been perfectly normal for the kids to commute the half hour to the next town and not the hour stated (probably mean an hour a day) For Donkeys years. If it was so unacceptable why didn't they do it years ago? |
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 30, 2012 7:22:23 GMT
I thought I recognised the school as the Wildernesse, though I had not realised (maybe had forgotten) that it was spelt like that. Some of the boys who went there were scary but not half as terrifying as the gangs from the girls' equivalent (Hatton), who really put the frighteners up people!
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Post by Weyland on Mar 30, 2012 9:41:28 GMT
Some of the boys who went there were scary but not half as terrifying as the gangs from the girls' equivalent (Hatton), who really put the frighteners up people! Perhaps Karren [sic] went there . . .  From an Amazon emailshot for a sale of Kindle books, exactly as they displayed it. Eric Idle would, know what I mean. |
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Post by housesparrow on Mar 30, 2012 12:23:40 GMT
Wiki tells me that Karen attended a convent school before going on to a boys' school. You couldn't make it up.
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Post by Patrick on Mar 30, 2012 22:26:06 GMT
Yes! Hatton! Or 'atton to give it's proper title. Did you know it was the girls from there who smashed up a double decker bus at the end of a term one year? with a flour and water fight.  Scary lot! Looking at Bradbourne Vale road - outside their school, on Street View, I can't believe how overgrown it's become, the whole road was devoid of trees twenty, thirty years ago - we'd walk over and hang around the bridge above the school at lunchtime. Now you couldn't even be seen up there! |
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