Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Information

Address — Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School, Abbey Place, Faversham, Kent, ME13 7BQ
Type of school — Mixed grammar school
Head Teacher — Mr David Anderson (2023)
Cost — Free
Pupils in school — 989
Places available in year 7 —  150
Average applicants per place — 8 or more.
Catchment area —  Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School does have a catchment area which is based
on distance from the school. 
Oversubscription policy — Before the application of oversubscription criteria, students with an
Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) which names the school and who have passed the
assessment will be admitted. As a result of this the published admissions number will be reduced
accordingly.
Where qualifying applications for admission exceed the number of places available, places will be
allocated in the following order of priority:
1. Children who are looked after and previously looked after children.
2. Children in receipt of Pupil Premium/Free School Meals.
3. Children with a sibling attending the school at the time of entry to the school.
4. Children of staff, where the member of staff has been employed at Queen Elizabeth’s
Grammar School on a permanent contract for 2 years or more, or has been recruited to fill a post for
which there is a demonstrable skill shortage.
5. Children with Health and Special Access Reasons for applying to the school.
6. Nearness of children’s homes to the school (measured in a straight line using the National
Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG) address point. Distances are measured from a point defined as
within the child’s home to a point defined as within the school as specified by the NLPG.)

School Summary
Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School (known as QE or QEGS) was founded in 1967 when Faversham
Grammar School for Boys, the William Gibbs School for Girls and the Wreights School merged to
form a single school. It is now a co-educational grammar school which became an academy in 2011.
The school specialises in mathematics, computing and languages. QEGS has also been identified as a
high performing school.

The school aims to:

 Provide high quality teaching across a broad range of academic disciplines, allowing for
student choice and specialisation.
 Enable every student to achieve high quality academic qualifications.
 Develop supportive, responsible and productive relationships both within the school and
across the wider community.
 Provide excellent extra-curricular opportunities for all students, encouraging them to
participate in a wide range of activities within and beyond the classroom.
 Foster a sense of engagement in, and enjoyment of, learning.
 Ofsted rated this school as ‘outstanding’ in 2015. Find their reports
(https://reports.ofsted.gov.uk/provider/23/136570).
 Compare this school’s performance with other local schools (https://www.compare-school-
performance.service.gov.uk/school/136570/queen-elizabeth's-grammar-school/secondary).

Exam Information
 Exam style —GL Assessment/The Kent Test
 Exam topic:
o Reasoning
o Verbal, non-verbal and spatial
o English and maths
o Creative writing
 Exam length — 2 x 1 hour exams + a 40-minute writing exercise.
 Pass rate — in 2017, 15,253 applicants took the Kent test; only 6,537 passed.

Other exam information:

 The reasoning, English and maths tests are multiple-choice with a separate answer sheet.
 The first test will be an English and Maths paper. Each section will include a 5 minute
practice exercise followed by a 25 minute test. The English section will involve a
comprehension exercise as well as some additional questions drawn from a set designed to
test literacy skills.
  The second test will be the reasoning paper. It will take about 1 hour, including the practice
sections and questions. It will contain a verbal reasoning section and a non-verbal reasoning
section of roughly the same length. The non-verbal reasoning will be split into short sections,
administered and timed individually.
 Finally, there will also be a writing exercise which will not be marked but may be used by a
local Head Teacher panel as part of the Head Teacher assessment stage of the process. 40
minutes will be allowed for the writing task, including 10 minutes planning time.

Scores:
 Your child will get three standardised scores (one for English, one for maths and one for
reasoning) and a total (aggregate) score.
 Standardisation is a statistical process which compares your child's performance with the
average performance of other children in each test. A slight adjustment is made to take
account of each child's age so that the youngest are not at a disadvantage.

Pass mark:
To qualify, children needed a total score of 332 or more, with no single score lower than 108. Test
scores range from 69 to 141. The highest possible total score is 423.

If your child did not reach this threshold score and their primary school referred their case to the
local Head Teacher Assessment Panel, the panel will have looked at their achievement in school and
examples of their work, including the writing task completed on the day, before a final decision was
made.

Please note that a score of over 332 does NOT mean your child is guaranteed a place at your chosen
school.

Contact information
Website — http://www.queenelizabeths.kent.sch.uk/ 
Contact — http://www.queenelizabeths.kent.sch.uk/6/contact-us 
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Twitter —  https://twitter.com/qegs_faversham  
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