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    Stour val­ley arts trip

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kews200Year 11 Cit­i­zen­ship are run­ning a cam­paign this week devoted to Men­tal Well-​being. There will be activ­i­ties for stu­dents and staff all though out the week. The aim is to get peo­ple talk­ing about men­tal health issues like stress and anxiety.

Get involved in the ‘Soul Search’ Easter egg hunt on Mon­day. Find out more about your men­tal well-​being http://​www​.mind​.org​.uk/

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12RG a sixth form tutor group organ­ised and ran a char­ity quiz night in aid of Fam­i­lies against Neu­rob­las­toma. The event was solely planned and exe­cuted by the stu­dents and was a great suc­cess, rais­ing a total of £441 for the stu­dents cho­sen char­ity. Fam­i­lies against Neu­rob­las­toma is a char­ity in aid of a form of child­hood can­cer, which sixth form felt pas­sion­ate about sup­port­ing. It was an excel­lent oppor­tu­nity for the stu­dents to work well as a team and develop
skills such as; prob­lem solv­ing, con­flict res­o­lu­tion, organ­i­sa­tion, cus­tomer ser­vice, com­mu­ni­ca­tion, pub­lic speak­ing and inter­ac­tion within the school com­mu­nity. The evening was a great suc­cess and the stu­dents were very proud to raise such a large sum for their cho­sen char­ity. Thank you to every­one that sup­ported the event. Miss Green­street, their Form Tutor com­mented that “…All of the group showed a great level of matu­rity and I was so very proud of each of them for work­ing so hard. The evening went with­out any com­pli­ca­tions and any issues that did arise were dealt with swiftly with no dis­rup­tion to the event. A fun evening was had by all… Well done Form 12RG!”

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science200The BTEC Level 3 Sci­ence stu­dents vis­ited the Kent Resource Cen­tre located on the Kent Sci­ence Park in Sit­ting­bourne. It offered them the oppor­tu­nity to expe­ri­ence the prac­ti­cal tech­niques asso­ci­ated with the the­ory learned in class. Indi­vid­u­ally they car­ried out Aspirin syn­the­sis and dif­fer­ent tech­niques to esti­mate the purity of the Aspirin made. The tech­niques that were used var­ied, these included: pH test­ing, melt­ing point deter­mi­na­tion, High Per­for­mance Liq­uid Chro­matog­ra­phy and Infrared Spec­troscopy. The stu­dents also con­ducted a pater­nity test using gel elec­trophore­sis tech­nique, look­ing at DNA frag­ments from a mother, child and two poten­tial fathers. These prac­ti­cal activ­i­ties gave our stu­dents the oppor­tu­nity to gain first hand expe­ri­ence of using lab­o­ra­tory instru­ments and an insight into the world of prac­ti­cal sci­ence and what it is like to work in a lab­o­ra­tory set­ting. With guid­ance from the lab­o­ra­tory staff at the Resource Cen­tre the stu­dents found this expe­ri­ence invalu­able and helped make the pro­ce­dures easy to under­stand and enjoy­able. Over­all, the day was enjoyed by all and they all gained some expe­ri­ence in this field of work for the future.

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The Year 10 Geog­ra­phy class had a day look­ing at Urban Envi­ron­ments. After a train trip from Birch­ing­ton (which seemed tir­ing enough for some) we first vis­ited the sights, Big Ben and the Houses of Par­lia­ment, No.10, Buck­ing­ham Palace and Trafal­gar Square. From here it was on to Covent Gar­den for a look at the mar­ket and the influ­ence of other cul­tures, plenty of food for sale from all over the World! Then it was on to Leices­ter Square and finally China Town where some local del­i­ca­cies were tested! This gave stu­dents a flavour of the vari­ety of expe­ri­ences Lon­don has to offer as well as a look at dif­fer­ent cul­tural influ­ences. The stu­dents were bril­liant and even the staff had a good time!

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All our rehearsals def­i­nitely paid off!
On the 22nd of Decem­ber, we broke up for the Christ­mas term with scripts in our hands and deter­mi­na­tions in our minds .we were ready. None of us could fore­see how much work and effort would be put into the ‘Mini Dream’ a short extract from A mid­sum­mer night’s dream by Shakespeare.
Christ­mas brought a brief break for our group to learn and go through the script. Our first rehearsal showed us what we had achieved so far and with the help of Miss Spen­ner, we knew what was needed to improve and build on our per­for­mance– mak­ing it the best one yet!
A month till the show and we now focused on our stag­ing and char­ac­ter­i­sa­tion. As soon as we found out we were up against a stage school we strived to hold our title, from pre­vi­ous years.
Days before the show and we were ready. Our per­for­mance hit a blow when a key cast mem­ber unfor­tu­nately was taken ill. We were left with no choice but to drop out until thank­fully a another tal­ented pupil stepped in. we were all amazed at how fast Kallum Myhill learnt his lines to step in as the part of Lysander.
On the stage nobody let nerves get the bet­ter of them and we gave the best per­for­mance we had ever per­formed despite intim­i­dat­ing judges and spectators.
Our rehearsals def­i­nitely paid off when we were given 88 marks and awarded dis­tinc­tion! We would like to take this oppor­tu­nity to thank the par­ents and guardians that sup­ported us by attend­ing the fes­ti­val and help­ing with props.
A sec­ond achieve­ment came when we were awarded best impro­vi­sa­tion piece, we were only given 10 min­utes to pre­pare a piece titled ‘Des­per­ate’. Over­all we gave a humor­ous and con­fi­dent piece of drama that we were proud of.
The whole expe­ri­ence was extremely reward­ing and sat­is­fy­ing – BRING ON NEXT YEAR!!!

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  1. Read­ing Week at KES
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  3. 10y3 Cit­i­zen­ship Project
  4. King Ethel­bert School in part­ner­ship with the Royal Shake­speare Com­pany
  5. Year 11 Jan­u­ary GCSE Results
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