Weald of Kent Grammar School is consulting on becoming co-educational. The consultation closes on 21 March.
Just before Christmas, Education Secretary Michael Gove turned down the proposals from Weald of Kent and Invicta Grammar Schools for establishing a Sevenoaks grammar annexe (post of 13 December). A key factor in his thinking was that both were single sex schools, and that it was therefore impossible to see the proposed coeducational facility in Sevenoaks as anything other than establishment of a new school.
Clearly the Weald's consultation, if it leads to the school becoming co-educational, offers a way of answering the Secretary of State's concerns. There is still a long way to go in terms of the Sevenoaks grammar annexe, not least the planning process for the Wildernesse site, but this is nonetheless a very welcome development in the efforts to tackle the shortage of selective places in West Kent and the anomaly of the lack of Sevenoaks provision.
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