Boot­camp 2014

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Cre­ated: Thurs­day, 17 July 2014 14:22

Writ­ten by Mrs S Gold­ing

Fol­low­ing 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!

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Yr 7 Home­work Project Grand Final

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 14 July 2014 15:10

Writ­ten by Miss G Jones

Thumbs Up Award

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 14 July 2014 13:10

Writ­ten by Mrs P God­den

Every day, our stu­dents do some­thing to impress us, either help­ing another stu­dent or cheer­ing some­one (staff or another stu­dent) up when they are fit to burst or defus­ing a sit­u­a­tion. Gen­er­ally going the extra mile to help some­one.
The Thumb­sUp Award will be used to recog­nise these stu­dents. Their names will go on the School Web­site and they will receive a certificate.

Thumbs up to Cal­lum Simp­son — vol­un­tar­ily pick­ing up lit­ter from the Hawks House area and putting it into the rub­bish bags on Sports Day & Owen Sherred who helped all the other final­ists present their project smoothly even though he was com­pet­ing against them and finally thumbs up to Elliot Brun­skill for find­ing and hand­ing in some money today!

Good­bye Year 11

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 14 July 2014 10:57

Writ­ten by Miss Var­gova

Year 11 have been a phe­nom­e­nal year group through­out their time at KES and they will be sadly missed by teach­ers and younger pupils alike. Headed by Gail Soal, they have been con­sis­tent in their approach to their stud­ies achiev­ing suc­cess aca­d­e­m­i­cally and voca­tion­ally. This is a credit to them fun­da­men­tally and to all the KES staff who have sup­ported them along their jour­ney.
On Tues­day 24th June Year 11 attended their Leavers Prom at Boughton Golf Club. The boys looked smart and the girls beau­ti­ful. The stu­dents enjoyed them­selves immensely, fine din­ing and the girls danc­ing the night away in chal­leng­ing footwear. The feed­back from the venue was glow­ing and it has to be said that the stu­dents were a credit to them­selves and the school.
Then on Thurs­day 26th June, pupils arrived at the school in var­i­ous modes of trans­port rang­ing from a Mil­i­tary Tank to a Lorry. Once again the pupils were dressed smartly and ele­gantly in prepa­ra­tion for their Leavers Assem­bly. It would be the last time the pupils would sit in the hall together as a Year Group.
The pupils enjoyed and appre­ci­ated the efforts made by their tutors who deliv­ered enter­tain­ing pre­sen­ta­tions to them. There were poems, embar­rass­ing pho­tos and ‘most likely to medals’. There were laughs, hugs, thank you’s and tears. But most obvi­ous was the bond between the pupils and their teach­ers and the under­stand­ing that they will always be a part of the KES fam­ily no mat­ter how much time may pass.
So this is def­i­nitely not a good­bye class of 2014 but a see you later!

Our Day at the Globe Theatre

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 14 July 2014 10:34

Writ­ten by Sha­nia May­head, Geor­gia McGuirk, Cor­ben Faulkner and Tyler Nichol­son

On Wednes­day 25th June, stu­dents from year 7 and 9 went to visit Shakespeare’s Globe, Lon­don.
The day included mul­ti­ple activ­i­ties such as: a Mac­beth work­shop, a live sword fight­ing demon­stra­tion and a guided tour of the stage.
Dur­ing the work­shop we spent time tak­ing part in activ­i­ties about Shakespeare’s play Mac­beth. Even Miss and Sir took part!! We did role play and over­all it was really fun.
The sword fight­ing was amaz­ing; they would rehearse the fights like a dance. They used many dif­fer­ent skills whilst demon­strat­ing! They used a rapier and a dag­ger dur­ing one demon­stra­tion, a long sword in another and finally used long poles with knives on the end. Within the exhi­bi­tion there was a dis­play which showed what men wore (as women char­ac­ters) in the Shake­spearean times and we were able to look at these closely and under­stand how it would have felt under­neath all those layers!

We all enjoyed the trip and would def­i­nitely go again!