Sir Roger Manwood's School A GSG School
- Sir Roger Manwood's School
Manwood Road
Sandwich
Kent
CT13 9JX - Head: Mr Lee Hunter
- T 01304 610200
- F 01304 615336
- E admissions@srms.kent.sch.uk
- W www.manwoods.co.uk/
- A state school for boys and girls aged from 11 to 18.
- Read about the best schools in West Kent and East Kent
- Boarding: No
- Local authority: Kent
- Pupils: 1,016; sixth formers: 232
- Religion: None
- Open days: September (for Year 7); November (for Year 12)
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Good 1
- Outcomes for children and learners Good 1
- Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Good 1
- Personal development, behaviour and welfare Good 1
- Effectiveness of leadership and management Good 1
- 1 Full inspection 27th September 2022
- Previous Ofsted grade: Outstanding on 25th April 2012
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Lots of challenge throughout, say pupils – ‘Don’t settle for an 8 when you can get a 9!’ is a common refrain, apparently. Plenty of hands-on learning, eg year 7 making diagrams of motte and bailey castles in a history lesson. Music is ‘fantastic’, say pupils. ‘You don’t have to be good on an instrument, that’s why I like it,’ said one. Art department has three studios (including an exclusive sixth form space) where some pop art style pieces currently hold court. We saw year 9s embark on work inspired by the Uprising of Madrid painting, surrounded by lots of precise perspective work. Drama is ‘finding its feet’, following a bit of a wobble due to funding issues but faces light up at the mention of CCF – not for the drills, pupils stress, but for the...
What the school says...
Converted to an academy 2011.
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School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Headteacher
Since 2013, Lee Hunter, previously deputy head at Tiffin Girls’ for 16 years where he ‘could have happily stayed forever’, but felt a new challenge and position was a natural next move. Educated at Campion Grammar School, which he attributes to his success at Cambridge where he read natural sciences. PGCE at Durham, followed by his first teaching post in a ‘truly comprehensive comprehensive’ in Durham where his pupils ranged from children of pit workers to the affluent. Thence to a small British School in Milan as head of chemistry for three years, followed by a further three at RGS High Wycombe as assistant head of science.
Quite a sportsman in his day – still chuffed that he competed in the Essex 800m final: ‘I didn’t come anywhere near being...
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Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
We cater for dyslexia, and have a dedicated one to one teacher. We use Touch, Type, Read, Spell. Help is also available for literacy needs and TEFL requirements. The majority of those identified with SEN have low level needs. 10-09
Interpreting catchment maps
The maps show in colour where the pupils at a school came from*. Red = most pupils to Blue = fewest.
Where the map is not coloured we have no record in the previous three years of any pupils being admitted from that location based on the options chosen.
For help and explanation of our catchment maps see: Catchment maps explained
Further reading
If there are more applicants to a school than it has places for, who gets in is determined by which applicants best fulfil the admissions criteria.
Admissions criteria are often complicated, and may change from year to year. The best source of information is usually the relevant local authority website, but once you have set your sights on a school it is a good idea to ask them how they see things panning out for the year that you are interested in.
Many schools admit children based on distance from the school or a fixed catchment area. For such schools, the cut-off distance will vary from year to year, especially if the school give priority to siblings, and the pattern will be of a central core with outliers (who will mostly be siblings). Schools that admit on the basis of academic or religious selection will have a much more scattered pattern.
*The coloured areas outlined in black are Census Output Areas. These are made up of a group of neighbouring postcodes, which accounts for their odd shapes. These provide an indication, but not a precise map, of the school’s catchment: always refer to local authority and school websites for precise information.
The 'hotter' the colour the more children have been admitted.
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