Rainham School for Girls is an 11–18

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secondary school A secondary school describes an institution that provides secondary education and also usually includes the building where this takes place. Some secondary schools provide both '' secondary education, lower secondary education'' (ages 11 to 14) ...

and

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with academy status in Rainham, Gillingham,

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, England. It is next to the all-boys school, The Howard School and is a

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History

It was previously a community school administered by

Medway Council Medway Council is the local authority of Medway in Kent, England. It is a unitary authority, having the powers of a non-metropolitan county and district council combined. The council was created on 1 April 1998 and replaced Rochester-upon-Med ...

; the school converted to academy status on 1 March 2011. Before it converted Ofsted described it as a larger than average secondary school, and a non-selective school in a selective area. It became a technology college in 1996. There were a higher than average number of students with special needs, but fewer with SEN statements. Ofsted found a school that pupils enjoyed and met with parental aspirations, that they deemed satisfactory/ They found good safeguarding, good behaviour and a good focused curriculum. They were critical that in spite of effective action by the staff, external examination results were below the national average, and the pupils were consistently underachieving.

Governance

Managed by

The Kemnal Academies Trust The Kemnal Academies Trust is a multi-academy trust serving a family of schools mainly in Kent and West Sussex. Academies Secondary * Havant Academy * Kemnal Technology College * Orchards Academy * The Academy, Selsey * King Haro ...

, a large

multi-academy trust Multi-Academy Trust (MAT) or school trust is an academy trust that operates more than one academy school. Academy schools are state-funded schools in England which are directly funded by the Department for Education and independent of local autho ...

with 45 schools under its wing. 15 are secondary and 30 primary.

Academics

In 2016, Ofsted rated this as a good school. It now recognises that pupils enter the school with below average levels of achievement, but counting in all their examinations, by the end of Year 11, their outcomes are above national averages. Pupils want to learn, and have good relations with the staff. The staff are knowledgeable and prepare appropriate interesting lessons.

Sport

The school is also the home to the Medway

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League and Junior Netball League. Its large netball centre has eight floodlit courts (which are also suitable for

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

). In 2013, the school football team reached the final of the Npower Football League Girls Cup in

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. They played against a Derby County school. The school also offers lettings to external businesses - such as

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classes for adults - after school hours.

References

External links

* {{authority control Gillingham, Kent Secondary schools in Medway Academies in Medway Girls' schools in Kent