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Thanet Fes­ti­val Expe­ri­ence

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Cre­ated: Thurs­day, 06 March 2014 11:36
Writ­ten by Molly, Beth, Nicola, Ellie & Jess from 8JR

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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!!!

Read­ing Week at KES

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 19 Feb­ru­ary 2014 15:36
Writ­ten by Mau­reen Igoe

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‘Read­ing is fun and should be enjoyed by all’ is the mantra at King Ethel­bert School and this was never more evi­dent than dur­ing the read­ing week tak­ing place at the school last week. The theme was Sto­ries from Around the World and all stu­dents and staff par­tic­i­pated in the numer­ous activ­i­ties tak­ing place through­out the event.
Each school build­ing was des­ig­nated a world con­ti­nent and books and authors from the con­ti­nent were dis­played through­out the areas. Stu­dents enjoyed many dif­fer­ent read­ing focussed activ­i­ties in all their lessons and there were fun ses­sions at lunchtime and after school. The first com­pe­ti­tion of the week was held on Mon­day with a cake com­pe­ti­tion cel­e­brat­ing stores from around the world. The stu­dent win­ners were Georgina Ander­son and Zoe Humphries and the staff win­ner was Miss Young. Year 10 stu­dents Gaby George and Sophie Lear­mont ran an Anime work­shop at lunchtimes which was hugely pop­u­lar with stu­dents and there were also African dance lessons and the Pin the Tale on the Coun­try com­pe­ti­tion. Per­haps the high­light of the week was the dress­ing up day on Fri­day. Stu­dents dressed as their favourite char­ac­ters out of books they knew and the staff did the same with the Eng­lish teach­ers dress­ing up as Poc­a­hon­tas and Helen of Troy. The win­ners of the stu­dent com­pe­ti­tion were Toby Hand­ford (Lego­las – Lord of the Rings) and Sophie Lear­mont (Ace of Hearts – Alice in Wonderland).
The whole event was coor­di­nated from the Learn­ing Resource Cen­tre by Pat God­den, the LRC Man­ager. She said ‘the idea of read­ing week is to bring books off the page and get every­one to enjoy read­ing.’ Kate Greig, Head­teacher said, ‘the stu­dents really enjoyed the whole week. Read­ing is so essen­tial for suc­cess and we place a huge empha­sis on it at King Ethel­bert. If we can make read­ing fun stu­dents will want to read and we are all winners.’

10y3 Cit­i­zen­ship Project

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 05 Feb­ru­ary 2014 10:17
Writ­ten by Miss L Singleton

LS200210y3 Cit­i­zen­ship class invited Sir Roger Gale MP to watch its dodge­ball match and dance work­shop they organ­ised on 20th January.

The project was to pro­mote sport and a healthy lifestyle to the younger stu­dents. There was a great turn out with over 50 Year 7 and 8 stu­dents giv­ing up their lunchtime to play dodge­ball or dance. Mr Gale then spent time with 10y3 in their les­son talk­ing to them about the work he does and the impor­tance of work­ing as a team to achieve results.

I am really proud of what the stu­dents were able to organ­ise and put together, they should be con­grat­u­lated on a very suc­cess­ful project which con­tributes to their final cit­i­zen­ship con­trolled assessment.

Zoolab

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 29 Jan­u­ary 2014 16:36
Writ­ten by Jacob Mid­dle­ton 8JR

lewellyn150On the 28th of Jan­u­ary year 8 stu­dents took part in a work­shop with Emma from Zoolab. Zoolab over many years, has suc­cess­fully deliv­ered imag­i­na­tive ani­mal han­dling work­shops to chil­dren all across the UK .

The work­shop we attended taught us about the clas­si­fi­ca­tion of dif­fer­ent types of ani­mals. There were hands on expe­ri­ences with snails, cock­roaches and millipede.

The work­shop also helped some of the stu­dents to over­come their fears and pho­bias of snakes and spiders.

Our sci­ence teacher Miss Rebera really wanted us to gain two things from Zoolab, “I wanted you all to realise that sci­ence is some­thing that you encounter and use every day by pro­vid­ing you all with infor­ma­tion about exactly how sci­en­tists group. I also wanted to pro­vide you all with hands on expe­ri­ence of ani­mal clas­si­fi­ca­tion and ulti­mately have fun doing science!”

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Year 11 Jan­u­ary GCSE Results

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Cre­ated: Fri­day, 24 Jan­u­ary 2014 12:27
Writ­ten by Mau­reen Igoe

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Year 11 stu­dents at King Ethel­bert School in Birch­ing­ton are cel­e­brat­ing a record num­ber of GCSE passes already this year, 6 months before the final exam­i­na­tions are taken in June. Many stu­dents were entered early for maths and Eng­lish GCSE and the results were out­stand­ing. 74% of all stu­dents in year 11 have a C or above in Eng­lish and 54% have a C or above in maths. What is even more impres­sive is the num­ber of stu­dents who have made at least expected progress 6 months before the dead­line to meet that tar­get. The stu­dents have already beaten the national aver­ages for expected and above expected progress in Eng­lish and the final results for the sum­mer already look very good indeed. The school made the deci­sion to enter stu­dents in Novem­ber despite gov­ern­ment pres­sure not to. The stu­dents use the bench­mark from early entries to improve on their suc­cess and inspire them on to even bet­ter grades in the sum­mer. Head­teacher Kate Greig said “our stu­dents worked so hard to have excel­lent speak­ing and lis­ten­ing grades in Eng­lish and despite gov­ern­ment changes in Sep­tem­ber, I wanted this work to be recog­nised in their grades. I am also adamant that stu­dents should be entered for exam­i­na­tions when they are ready to find suc­cess; this then raises aspi­ra­tions and moti­vates stu­dents in the most pos­i­tive and rel­e­vant way.”

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