Social:East Kent Sudbury School
| East Kent Sudbury | |
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Rippledown House, Ringwould, Deal, Kent England | |
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| Type | Home education learning community |
| Established | January 2019 |
| Founder | Kezia Cantwell-Wright |
| Website | eastkentsudburyschool |
East Kent Sudbury is a home education learning community in Deal, Kent in the United Kingdom. The community operates on Sudbury school principles, that opened in January 2019[1] and has attracted controversy.[2]
Situation
EKS is now situated in Ringwould nr Deal on a beautiful site developed for outdoor learning. In addition Kent still runs a system of selective education, with secondary modern schools, now called high schools or academies with grammar schools for the minority. London schools are fully comprehensive.[2]
History
Co-Founder, Kezia Cantwell-Wright, who is an alumnus of A.S Neill's Summerhill was already home educating her children and sought a school with the principles of self-direction and democracy. Finding none in the area or indeed the UK she, alongside Kate Coleman and others, then embarked on founding the UK's first Sudbury model school.[2]
Plans
The opening will be gradual, in January 2019 it offered part-time provision for home-schooled children, using rented space in the Cliftonville community centre. It offers a sliding scale fee structure and aims to be as inclusive as possible.[2] In 2020 EKS moved to River, Dover and then in July 2022 settled into their forever home at Rippledown House in Ringwould near Deal.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ "Our Model". https://eastkentsudburyschool.org.uk/model/. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Aitch, Iain (11 December 2018). "Bohemian private school in area of child poverty divides residents". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/dec/11/private-school-area-child-poverty-divides-margate. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
- ↑ "Our location: we're moving". East Kent Sudbury School. https://eastkentsudburyschool.org.uk/our-project/our-location/.
External links
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