Westlands School is a
coeducational
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secondary school and
sixth form
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with
academy status, located in
Sittingbourne
Sittingbourne is an industrial town in Kent, south-east England, from Canterbury and from London, beside the Roman Watling Street, an ancient British trackway used by the Romans and the Anglo-Saxons and next to the Swale, a strip of sea separa ...
in the
English county of
Kent
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.
Previously a
foundation school administered by
Kent County Council, Westlands School converted to academy status on 1 September 2010. Westlands School has specialist status in Mathematics, Computing & Science. The school is now part of the Swale Academies Trust which also includes Westlands Primary School, Regis Manor Primary School,
Meopham School and
The Sittingbourne School.
Westlands School offers
GCSEs
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and
BTECs as programmes of study for pupils, while students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of
A-levels,
City and Guilds
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courses and further BTECs.
It is the largest school in Sittingbourne, with a total of 1,742 students. The school Is adapting new communities which include a separate year 11 group.
References
External links
Westlands School official website
Secondary schools in Kent
Academies in Kent
Sittingbourne
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