Royal Shake­speare Company

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 06 Novem­ber 2013 13:01

Writ­ten by Miss C Spen­ner

As part of King Ethelbert’s part­ner­ship with the RSC (Royal Shake­speare Com­pany), Andrew Daw­son (from the Mar­lowe The­atre) came in to the school, to deliver a drama work­shop for year 9 stu­dents on Shakespeare’s The Mer­chant of Venice. Stu­dents have been study­ing The Mer­chant of Venice in both Eng­lish and Drama. Each year 9 form group had a 60 minute ses­sion where they devised small scenes from the play to help with their under­stand­ing of char­ac­ters and themes. The aim of the work­shop was to encour­age stu­dents to engage actively with Shakespeare’s work and lan­guage. It also pre­pared stu­dents for the visit to The Mar­lowe to see a per­for­mance of the play. Stu­dents thor­oughly enjoyed their ses­sions and would like to thank Andrew for his fan­tas­tic deliv­ery of the work­shop. This was an excit­ing end to the term for both staff and stu­dents and is just the begin­ning of the many oppor­tu­ni­ties King Ethelbert’s stu­dents will be able to take part in thanks to the RSC partnership.

Cap­tain Phillips

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Cre­ated: Fri­day, 25 Octo­ber 2013 09:13

Writ­ten by Matthew Cow­ell 10SRD

On the 24th Octo­ber, as part of our IGCSE prepa­ra­tion, 10Y1 took a trip to the Carl­ton Cin­ema in West­gate, to see ‘Cap­tain Phillips’, a new film about an Amer­i­can cargo ship that gets hijacked by Somali Pirates. We’ve been using news­pa­per arti­cles from the event to prac­tise skills such as para­phras­ing. It was a nice way to round off the term, as we’ve been work­ing hard on our con­trolled assess­ments. We would all like to thank Miss Spen­ner, Miss Miller­ship and all the other mem­bers of staff for arrang­ing it and book­ing the tickets.

V & A Museum Visit

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 23 Octo­ber 2013 09:58

Writ­ten by Mr R O’Hanlon

With an early start (the Yr 8 stu­dents were strug­gling with 8am to meet up) we embarked on the Human­i­ties trip to the V&A museum in Lon­don. The excite­ment seemed to reach fever pitch well before we actu­ally arrived at the museum with numer­ous sight­ings of famous land­marks and dif­fer­ent places. By the time we arrived the stu­dents were rar­ing to go. They were divided into 3 groups and each on rota­tion looked at dif­fer­ent parts of the museum from dif­fer­ent angles. They saw every­thing from Golden Bud­dhas to Ancient arte­facts, from try­ing on 18th Cen­tury clothes to study­ing Giant Medieval Car­toons and 5 hours flew by! The stu­dents had a great time and got a lot from their experience.

Evening at the Gulkbenkian

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Cre­ated: Tues­day, 15 Octo­ber 2013 09:36

Writ­ten by Mrs S Gold­ing

Year 13 per­form­ing arts stu­dents enjoyed an evening at the Gul­benkian the­atre in Can­ter­bury as part of their A-​Level Drama stud­ies. ‘An Audi­ence with Steven Berkoff’ was a two hour chat show style evening with con­tem­po­rary play­wright and actor Steven Berkoff respon­si­ble for such widely renown play text such as East, Meta­mor­pho­sis and Deca­dence. The stage leg­end enthralled the audi­ence with tales of his career on stage and screen and cer­tainly lived up to his rep­u­ta­tion for being opin­ion­ated and out­spo­ken! It was a once in a life­time oppor­tu­nity for per­form­ing arts stu­dents to see the great man in the flesh, and love him or loathe him, it cer­tainly gave us all some­thing to talk about!

KM Kent cooks com­pe­ti­tion 2013

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 07 Octo­ber 2013 14:26

Writ­ten by Admin­is­tra­tor

Mem­bers of the KM Char­ity team, along with one of the spon­sors of the KM Kent Cooks Com­pe­ti­tion, South­ern Water, vis­ited KES to spend some time talk­ing to some of our year 9 stu­dents about the dan­gers of putting fat down the drain while cook­ing. They are run­ning a cam­paign to raise aware­ness and pro­vid­ing free “fat traps” which they are try­ing to encour­age ‘cooks’ to use in the kitchen to dis­pose of cook­ing fat and oil safely and in an envi­ron­men­tally respon­si­ble way.

For details on the Kent Cooks’ Com­pe­ti­tion please visit www​.kent​cooks​.co​.uk — Miss Rouse, Head of Food Tech­nol­ogy, will be pro­vid­ing more infor­ma­tion and guid­ance to any stu­dents who would like to enter.