Dane Court Grammar School A GSG School
- Dane Court Grammar School
Broadstairs Road
Broadstairs
Kent
CT10 2RT - Head: Ms K Greig
- T 01843 864941
- F 01843 608811
- E admin@danecourt.kent.sch.uk
- W www.danecourt.kent.sch.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: 1,160; sixth formers: 288
- Religion: Non-denominational
- Open days: October (year 7 entry), November (year 12 entry)
- Review: View The Good Schools Guide Review
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Ofsted:
- Latest Overall effectiveness Good 1
- 16-19 study programmes Outstanding 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 10th May 2022
- Ofsted report: View the Ofsted report
What The Good Schools Guide says..
Recently established house system is used to entrench a sense of community, and the first thing pupils see as they walk through the front doors is a screen displaying live house point totals. A house cup and book tokens are awarded to top performers. Students who cross the line are dealt with by a restorative justice system. ‘It’s not a punitive approach, we urge people to do the right thing. We talk to them, and we listen to them...
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Curricula
International Baccalaureate: diploma - the diploma is the familiar A-level equivalent.
School associations
State grammar school
What The Good Schools Guide says
Executive Headteacher
Since September 2018, Kate Greig, previously headteacher of King Ethelbert. She has several leadership roles in Kent education and is also an education advisor for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Ms Greig is executive headteacher of King Ethelbert as well as Dane Court Grammar School: these have been federated schools for 10 years. Dane Court is a member of the Coastal Academies Trust, a small group of local primary and secondary schools working together to improve the educational chances of all children in Thanet.
Entrance
There are two grammars in Thanet - this is considered the better one and is oversubscribed. Students come from more than 30 feeder primaries.
School is currently over planned admission numbers in every year group, so joining mid-way depends on a place coming up. Pupils...
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Overall school performance (for comparison or review only)
Results by exam and subject
Subject results
Entry/Exit
Special Education Needs
We are a designated unit for students with visual impairments. We have a team of 7 learning support assistants, 5 of whom are Braille trained. We offer study skills lessons to a small number of students in years 8 & 9, particularly those with dyslexia. We also have a lunch time group targeting students with social communication difficulties. Two of our LSAs have been trained to deal with autism and Asperger's. At present we have 7 students with statements and about 25 at school action plus. Support is given in class to students from years 7 - 11. A few students also have 1-1 support a few times a week.
| Condition | Provision for in school |
|---|---|
| ASD - Autistic Spectrum Disorder | Y |
| Aspergers | Y |
| Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders | Y |
| CReSTeD registered for Dyslexia | |
| Dyscalculia | |
| Dysgraphia | |
| Dyslexia | |
| Dyspraxia | |
| English as an additional language (EAL) | |
| Genetic | |
| Has an entry in the Autism Services Directory | |
| Has SEN unit or class | Y |
| HI - Hearing Impairment | |
| Hospital School | |
| Mental health | |
| MLD - Moderate Learning Difficulty | |
| MSI - Multi-Sensory Impairment | |
| Natspec Specialist Colleges | |
| OTH - Other Difficulty/Disability | |
| Other SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| PD - Physical Disability | |
| PMLD - Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulty | |
| SEMH - Social, Emotional and Mental Health | |
| SLCN - Speech, Language and Communication | |
| SLD - Severe Learning Difficulty | |
| Special facilities for Visually Impaired | Y |
| SpLD - Specific Learning Difficulty | |
| VI - Visual Impairment |
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.
Children get into the school from here:
regularly
most years
quite often
infrequently
sometimes, but not in this year
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