Knole Academy
school in Kent, UK
Knole Academy is a secondary school in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, with a grammar band and Sixth-Form. Knole opened in September 2010 as a result of the amalgamation of the Wildernesse secondary school in Sevenoaks, Kent and Bradbourne School (for girls) As part of Knole Academy Trust (UID 3664), the school transitioned to Aletheia Academies Trust in 2024.
Previous schools
The Wildernesse School was a single sex high school for boys aged eleven to nineteen. It had Specialist School status for Mathematics and Computing. Other than the English motto taken from a letter to Sir Philip Sidney from his father, the school had a Latin motto: Non Nobis Solum (English: "Not for ourselves alone"). The school closed in July 2010, becoming part of the Knole Academy at the start of the autumn term in September 2010.
The Bradbourne School was a girls' 11–18, high school with a 6th form that hosted about 860 students. It closed in 2010. Bradbourne School had been renamed in 1974, having previously been Sevenoaks School for Girls, and before that, Hatton School. Its original buildings included the house, Maywood, built in 1874, which had previously been called Hatton House and been the home of Lady Fanny Finch-Hatton.
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