Social:East Kent Sudbury School

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Short description: Education community in Deal, Kent
Short description: Home education learning community school in England
East Kent Sudbury
Blue and white logo with swirl design
Location
Rippledown House, Ringwould, Deal, Kent

England
Information
TypeHome education learning community
EstablishedJanuary 2019 (2019-01)
FounderKezia Cantwell-Wright
Websiteeastkentsudburyschool.org.uk

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 school was based in Buckland House, Dover, Kent

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

List of Sudbury schools

References

External links

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