Kidbrooke School opened in 1954 as the first purpose-built comprehensive school in Britain. The school is located in the Kidbrooke area of the London Borough of Greenwich. The school has specialist status as an Arts College A comprehensive school is a secondary school that does not select children on the basis of academic attainment or aptitude. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... Kidbrooke is a place in the London Borough of Greenwich. ... The London Borough of Greenwich is an Inner London borough in south-east London, England. ... Arts Colleges were introduced in 1995 as part of the Specialist Schools Programme in the United Kingdom. ...
Kidbrooke was the focus of TV chef Jamie Oliver's campaign to improve school dinners in Britain as part of his TV series Jamie's School Dinners. Jamie Oliver's campaign was particuarly important at a school like Kidbrooke, where the majority of students receive free school dinners and thus rely on it as their main source of nutrition.[citation needed] Nora, the head cook, had success with her book "Nora's Dinners" and left the school on the 24th May 2007. This article is about the TV chef. ... Jamie Oliver on Jamies School Dinners Jamies School Dinners was a four-episode documentary series broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK from 23 February — 16 March 2005. ...
The Past
Many seem keen to focus on the school's troubled past. On 24 January1997 students from neighbouring school Thomas Tallis attacked and murdered one of the school's pupils, CJ Rickard, 14, with a 17-inch machete. - News Story. is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Thomas Tallis Thomas Tallis (c. ...
The Present
From September 2005, Kidbrooke has been re-designated as a single Specialist Arts College specialising in Media, Drama and Art which will mean significantly more funding and even greater opportunities for students, staff, our family of schools and partner community groups.
A recent Ofsted inspection found Kidbooke to be a "good school".
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The intake was skewed, but Kidbrooke was at least a historic first step towards the eventual ending of the universal 11-plus and the tripartite system of education (grammar schools, technical schools and secondary moderns) that consigned the majority of youngsters to the educational scrapheap.
Kidbrooke was a model school in many ways, offering practical courses that combined work experience and "day release", as well as high standards of teaching in academic subjects through to the sixth form.
A school prospectus stated: "Catering as a career for girls is one which has many channels, along which the trainee may move as she desires, to any of the following posts: as cook, waitress, chambermaid, linen-keeper, house-keeper or receptionist." Every week, the second-year girls produced and served a meal to staff and visitors.
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