A higher than average proportion of kids from our school passed the Kent Test, which is great for them. Shame for those who were hoping to and didn't quite make it.
Our boy seems to have had an extraordinarily good result. We saw the results of the Shepway Test first, this was the one that gets him into the local grammar school. This is the one we want him to go to, and he comfortably passed this one, so anything else is just icing on the cake. We did have a fraught couple of hours when we'd heard other people had had their letter and they'd passed, and what if our boy didn't pass??? The letter came, we're in, so all good.
We got the actual Kent Test email too and he's passed that, so good all round. This means he is eligible for any grammar school in Kent, so if we wanted another one in another town we could go there too. This would be daft though, the local one looks good. We'd have to ahve a good reason to put him on the train to Dover each day, and "it looks more like Hogwarts" is not reason enough. Then we logged in to the full Kent Test results where you can see the actual scores and he seems to have done particularly well.
You can look up last year's results online1 and also see how it all works:
Your child will get 3 standardised scores, one for English, one for Maths and one for Reasoning, and a total (aggregate) score.
Standardisation is a statistical process which compares your child's performance with the average performance of other children in each test. A slight adjustment is made to take account of each child's age so that the youngest are not at a disadvantage.
Last year something like 16500 kids took the test and 43 got the absolute top score.
Clare is annoyed at other parents bragging about how their kids did on the facebook. It must be hard for the kids who were hoping to pass and didn't. But as no-one ever reads this I think I'm OK here.
Day two of our "project lounge" hack day and working from home again but been dragged into an insurance fraud issue so I've handed my "how many cups of tea could you have made with the energy that went into loading this web page?" idea over to someone else.
Finishing at four, pick the kids up and race to Portchester!
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