On the first night hunters, guides and skinners all sit down to a gala dinner.

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Two of Kent County Council's academies, Isle of Sheppey and Skinners, in Tunbridge Wells, will also go ahead.

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Future Leonard Skinners, as in the Jacksonville gym teacher and coach whose former students bastardized his name into Lynyrd Skynyrd, need not apply.

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Following a request from Kent County Council, The Judd School, in Tonbridge, and The Skinners' School, in Tunbridge Wells, will add an extra Year 7 class.

BBC: Two Kent grammar schools to take extra Year 7 pupils

School Reporters at Skinners' Academy in east London are reporting throughout the day as two teams of 20 pupils go head-to-head in a Children in Need cake sale.

BBC: November Practice News Day as it happened

For example, skinners, or traders in pelts, were by a 14th Century royal decree unable to market their goods "unless on the security of six reputable men of that mistery".

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Two of the school's Enterprise Enrichment Groups (Skinners' International and The Fred Ice Fundraising Group) were challenged to set up two competing businesses and sell their products at break time.

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Major General John Moore-Bick, head teacher of The Skinners' School, said it would ensure there was sufficient classroom space for the extra pupils after governors had concluded "that the greatly prized standards of the school could be upheld".

BBC: Two Kent grammar schools to take extra Year 7 pupils