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    School Sport Champions!

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    KES part­ner­ship leads the way in Span­ish lan­guage and cul­tural exchange

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The RSC Project is well under way…

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stratford photo 200On the 2nd Octo­ber, Mrs O’Shea, Mrs Gold­ing and I took a trip to Strat­ford Upon Avon to begin our train­ing with RSC Prac­ti­tion­ers, Miles Tandy and Rachel Gart­side. All extremely excited, we couldn’t wait to arrive at the RSC Clore learn­ing cen­tre early Fri­day morn­ing. The first play we looked at approach­ing was Love’s Labour’s Won(Much Ado About Noth­ing.) The active learn­ing strate­gies were great fun and we loved work­ing with the teach­ers from other Hub schools. On Fri­day evening, we were able to see the pre­view per­for­mance of Love’s Labour’s Won at the RSC The­atre which was set in War­wick­shire in 1918. It was a fan­tas­tic per­for­mance and by see­ing the play live, we devel­oped a much bet­ter under­stand­ing of char­ac­ters, plot and themes. Sat­ur­day morn­ing we begun with review­ing the play that we had seen and dis­cussing the moments we remem­bered, just as stu­dents would do. We then begun to look at ways of approach­ing Two Gen­tle­men of Verona, activ­i­ties included: cre­at­ing tableaus for key quo­ta­tions, lis­ten­ing to music to set the scene, chas­ing a dog around a table and explor­ing themes of the play.

Pride of Britain Award

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On Fri­day 12th Sep­tem­ber ITV Merid­ian news arrived in force at King Ethel­bert School in Birch­ing­ton to award the Pride of Britain award for the fundraiser of the year for the South East of Eng­land to Pat Buck­ley. Pat Buck­ley was short­listed down to the last four with each final­ist being given a slot on Merid­ian news each evening last week. The win­ner was decided by a panel of judges who made their deci­sion after watch­ing the films that had been made about the way they were help­ing change com­mu­ni­ties by their fundrais­ing initiatives.
All 4 final­ists were wor­thy win­ners but Pat Buck­ley, a res­i­dent of Birch­ing­ton and a teacher at King Ethel­bert School for over 38 years, was the man who cap­tured the judges hearts.
Pat has been rais­ing money through the Enjewel India project at King Ethel­bert for over 10 years. Every two years a num­ber of stu­dents from the Enjewel team which heads up the school’s fundrais­ing in order to gather together as much money as they can for the Aids Orphan­age in Goa, India. This year the stu­dents, all year 10 pupils from King Ethel­bert, have raised a stag­ger­ing £30,000 to present to the orphan­age in India to try to give these chil­dren some­thing to make their lives hap­pier and more ful­filled. Over the years Pat has raised nearly £200,000 and has taken over 50 stu­dents from King Ethel­bert to visit these chil­dren and to make a dif­fer­ence to their lives. It is thanks to Pat’s fundrais­ing activ­i­ties that there is now an exten­sion on the orphan­age which bears the plaque ‘With thanks to our friends at King Ethel­bert, Birch­ing­ton, Thanet, Eng­land.’ Pat and his Enjewel teams raise the money by car­ry­ing out a whole range of fundrais­ing activ­i­ties includ­ing zoomba classes, bike rides, jum­ble sales, raf­fles, spon­sored events and any other event that brings the peo­ple of Thanet together to raise money for this wor­thy cause.

GCSE Suc­cess 2014

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For the sec­ond year run­ning, King Ethel­bert School are cel­e­brat­ing extra­or­di­nary GCSE results. 62% of their Year 11 stu­dents gained five GCSEs at C grade or above includ­ing Maths and Eng­lish (74% of stu­dents gained a C or above in Eng­lish and 67% of stu­dents gained a C or above in maths). Last year, the school was the most improved in Kent and the best non selec­tive in Thanet on 54%. This year, the value of voca­tional sub­jects has changed and it has been much harder for stu­dents to gain five good passes. There­fore, King Ethelbert’s suc­cess is even more remark­able given this context.
Stu­dents who achieved par­tic­u­lar suc­cess were:
Georgina Ander­son – 2 x A*, 7 x A, 2 x B, 1 x C
Megan Cather­all – 4 x A*, 2 x A, 5 x B
Kieran Duck­worth – 4 x A, 5 x B, 4 x C
Chanelle Last – 1 x A*, 7 x A, 5 x B,
Emily Last – 3 x A*, 3 x A, 5 x B, 2 x C
Reece Mab­ber­ley – 2 x A, 6 x B, 1 x C
Charli Nichol­son – 2 x A*, 2 x A, 6 x B, 1 x C
Gre­gory Nocen­tini – 2 x A*, 1 x A, 4 x B, 5 x C
Han­nah Scott – 2 x A*, 3 x A, 4 x B, 3 x C
Ellyn Seely – 2 x A*, 2 x A, 8 x B
Reece Ward – 3 x A*, 4 x A, 6 x B

What a Year!

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westgate200It seems unbe­liev­able that yet another school year is over and the sum­mer break is here again. It has been a fan­tas­tic year with so much to cel­e­brate and our posi­tion in Kent as one of its top schools has strength­ened con­sid­er­ably for a num­ber of reasons.

Our exam­i­na­tion results last sum­mer were the best of any non-​selective school in Thanet and the early entry results in Novem­ber were stun­ning, set­ting us on course to have another excel­lent set of exam­i­na­tion results this sum­mer. On July 5th we received the Sixth Form exam­i­na­tion results which were superb. All our stu­dents man­aged to achieve the IBCC Cer­tifi­cate with top grades in all diploma sub­jects as well as the BTEC ele­ment of the course. The stu­dents from Year 13 all have the grades they need to go on to what they want to do in the future with the major­ity going on to Uni­ver­sity to study a wide range of degree subjects.

Boot­camp 2014

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boot200Fol­low­ing the suc­cess of Hey Mr Pro­ducer last year was always going to be a mas­sive chal­lenge. We had cre­ated a show which stu­dents and staff had all loved being part of and were immensely proud of and for months after­wards peo­ple were ask­ing ‘how are you going to top that?’. With this ques­tion in mind, we set out on a quest to find our next big per­for­mance project. Some hours and a few cof­fees later we came up with a crazy idea which would see 60 per­form­ers tak­ing part in an inten­sive 5 day ‘Fame Acad­emy’- style expe­ri­ence. We wanted them to expe­ri­ence all areas of per­form­ing arts and so set about cre­at­ing a huge pro­gramme of events which would involve singers, dancers, actors, musi­cians, tech­ni­cians and film crew! We invited pro­fes­sion­als from all areas of per­for­mance to come and work with the stu­dents inspir­ing them with tasters from Stomp, Wicked, Sweeney Todd, Cats, Cir­cus and steel band skills to name but a few. We even took them all the way to London’s Wes­t­end to ter­rify them with a per­for­mance of Woman in Black!

More Arti­cles …

  1. Yr 7 Home­work Project Grand Final
  2. Thumbs Up Award
  3. Good­bye Year 11
  4. Our Day at the Globe The­atre
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