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Celebrating British Science Week 2021
We were delighted to help our 24 Canterbury Primary Partnership Schools to celebrate British Science Week (8th to 13th March) with its exciting theme of Innovating For the Future. As the science week coincided with the start of schools in full session after lockdown, we wanted to support our CPSP schools as much as possible. Looking at ways to help and support the science leads in delivering British Science Week to their schools in the simplest way possible with maximum impact. We provided 8 science subject…
Read MoreInspiration and infographics
As the most challenging – 60th and final – term of my career at King’s came to an end, I was reminded how, often, our students inspire us the most. It was the Headmaster’s idea to appoint a ‘Purple’ (as we call prefects at King’s) with a new brief to support Partnerships and Volunteering. The…
Read MoreEKST partnership features in FundEd magazine
We are delighted that East Kent Schools Together features in the cover story in the current issue of FundEd magazine. FundEd approached us as EKST partners to comment on the effectiveness of cross-sector partnerships in sharing costs and enriching what schools are capable of on their own. If we’ve learnt anything from the Covid 19…
Read MoreKing’s volunteer pen pals
As National Volunteer Week came to an end we delivered another batch of letters from King’s pupils to residents at the Chaucer House Care Home in Canterbury. Dozens of pupils came forward to offer to be pen pals and wrote nearly 40 letters between them. Since many of the pupils are boarders living far away from…
Read MoreCelebrating National Volunteer Week
Pupils and staff at the school have given their time to help others in the community for hundreds of years, stretching back to the school’s Augustinian roots in 597 AD. The skills and values that our pupils develop put this at the heart of a King’s education. In this short blog I’d like to reflect…
Read MorePartnerships in Isolation
Our Head of Partnerships Christina Astin chairs the Events Sub-Committee of the Schools Together Group, an organisation she helped to found 4 years ago. It exists to support the work of those with a professional responsibility for school partnerships. Christina writes… Two weeks ago I should have been running around organising the Schools Together Group conference…
Read MoreProtecting our NHS colleagues – a plea for help!
We all applauded the NHS last night but are busy trying to help in a small but practical way too: making face masks to help protect them from Covid-19. These are desperately needed by doctors, nurses, pharmacists, care home workers and many more. Our Head of DT, Matthew Rolison, has adapted a design shared by…
Read MoreKeep calm…and be kind
Running a busy programme of partnership projects at a school is a bit strange at the moment – and changing by the hour. Our work is all about bringing people together, with pupils and colleagues learning from each other and volunteering in the wider Canterbury community – not easy in the current situation! Breaking down…
Read MoreFossil Fun at King’s
We were delighted to welcome 32 year 2 children from Sheldwich Primary School to the King’s school for an afternoon of fossil fun. The children visited our geology labs and were shown an amazing array of fantastic fossils and facts about dinosaurs by our Head of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mike Mawby. They really enjoyed…
Read MoreKent SENDCo Group Day A Huge Success
On 29th November The King’s School Centre for Learning Enhancement hosted a Kent SENDCo Group day at The King’s School, Canterbury. We welcomed over 50 SENDCos and Exam Officers from 29 schools across the south east to a morning presentation from Nick Lait from JCQ who spoke about changes and updates to JCQ access arrangements.…
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