East Kent Sudbury School

East Kent Sudbury School
East Kent Sudbury School
Location
	Buckland House, Crabble Hill, Dover, Kent; England
Information
Type	Home education learning community
Established	January 2019
Founder	Kezia Cantwell-Wright
Website	eastkentsudburyschool.org.uk

The East Kent Sudbury School is a home education learning community in Margate, Kent in the United Kingdom. The community operates on Sudbury school principles, that opened in January 2019^[1] and has attracted controversy.^[2]

Situation[]

Margate is the location of Turner Contemporary, whereas the Cliftonville Ward remains the fourth most deprived in England. 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[]

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, decided to embark upon founding a Sudbury model school.^[2]

Plans[]

The school is 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 . The school aims to register with the Department for Education, as an Independent school, making it the UK's first Sudbury model school. It offers a sliding scale fee structure.^[2] In 2020 the school planned to move to River, Dover.^[3]

References[]

^ "Our Model". A Self-Directed, Democratic Setting For Students Aged 5-18. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Aitch, Iain (11 December 2018). "Bohemian private school in area of child poverty divides residents". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
^ "Our location: we're moving". eastkentsudburyschool.org.uk/. East Kent Sudbury School. Retrieved 9 March 2021.