Sixth form letter-​Winter Gar­dens 17th Novem­ber 2021

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 08 Novem­ber 2021 12:19

Writ­ten by Vicky Willis

Sixth form

Novem­ber 2021

Dear Par­ent /​Carer Sixth Form

On Wednes­day 17th Novem­ber we will be hold­ing our annual Pre­sen­ta­tion after­noon. As in pre­vi­ous years we will be hold­ing the event at the Win­ter Gar­dens, Mar­gate. It is an occa­sion when we can cel­e­brate the suc­cess of our stu­dents, reflect on past achieve­ments and look to the future for the stu­dents of King Ethel­bert School.

Stu­dents receiv­ing awards or help­ing in any capac­ity have already been asked to meet at the Win­ter Gar­dens at 9.00 am. They should go directly to the Win­ter Gar­dens and not come to school first. Stu­dents who are involved in the per­for­mances will also be required to meet at the Win­ter Gar­dens at 9.00 am for rehearsals. These stu­dents will need to remem­ber to bring a packed lunch and drink – stu­dents who are enti­tled to free school meals will be pro­vided with one. All other stu­dents will have nor­mal lessons, peri­ods 1 to 3. Morn­ing school will end at 12.15 pm and sixth form stu­dents will either be trans­ported by coach to the Win­ter Gar­dens, or with your con­sent, make their own way there.

Pre­sen­ta­tion After­noon will com­mence at 2.00 pm and is expected to fin­ish at approx­i­mately 3.15 pm. Stu­dents will be dis­missed from the Win­ter Gar­dens. Stu­dents liv­ing in St Nicholas, Acol, Monk­ton, Min­ster and Sarre will be given a bus pass and will be trans­ported back to school, if they wish, in order to catch their usual bus home.

Par­ents of all other stu­dents are asked to ensure they are able to make their own way home from the Win­ter Gar­dens. If there are any par­tic­u­lar dif­fi­cul­ties with this please tele­phone Mrs Keam, Pupil Ser­vices Man­ager, at the school, on 01843 836366. Parents/​carers of award win­ners have already been invited to the after­noon. All other parents/​carers are also most wel­come to attend this event. We are encour­ag­ing vis­i­tors to wear a mask if they are able to. Please note, how­ever, that in these uncer­tain times, we are con­tin­u­ally mon­i­tor­ing the local Covid sit­u­a­tion and if there are any changes to hold­ing this event face to face we will, of course, inform you of this. I would like to thank you for your co-​operation and sup­port of what is a very impor­tant event for all at King Ethel­bert School.

Yours sin­cerely Mrs V Willis Headteacher

To: Ms J Rebera, King Ethel­bert School – Pre­sen­ta­tion After­noon Stu­dent: _​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​Tutor Group: _​_​_​_​_​

I/​We con­firm that my child can make their own way to the Win­ter Gar­dens on 17/​11/​21

I/​We wish for my/​our child to be trans­ported by coach to the Win­ter Gar­dens on 17/​11/​21

Signed: _​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​Parent/​Carer Date: _​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​_​

Let­ter to Par­ents Octo­ber 2021

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 20 Octo­ber 2021 11:02

Writ­ten by Vicky Willis

Octo­ber 2021

Dear Parents/​Carers

This term seems to have gone so quickly and we are delighted to be back in the swing of some form of ‘nor­mal­ity’. It is a joy to see stu­dents fully access­ing their learn­ing and using spe­cial­ist teach­ing areas again. The atmos­phere around the school is very pos­i­tive and this is reflected in the con­duct, enthu­si­asm and enjoy­ment seen on the faces of our stu­dents and staff.

A warm wel­come to all our new fam­i­lies. I do hope your chil­dren have set­tled in and are enjoy­ing school. I am delighted to share the news that we have a new Head of Year 7 – Amy Bur­ridge. Miss Bur­ridge has taught at KES for a num­ber of years and she has already been heav­ily involved in help­ing year 7 set­tle in suc­cess­fully so I know many year 7 par­ents will already know her. She is pos­i­tive and ambi­tious for the stu­dents — we are lucky to have her and I know she is excited to take on her new role.

In Sep­tem­ber, we opened our doors to wel­come a huge num­ber of vis­i­tors for our Open Events. It was fan­tas­tic to be able to hold these in per­son again and to be able to show so many fam­i­lies our won­der­ful school and all that we have to offer. We have received such lovely feed­back from so many fam­i­lies about how superb the stu­dents were on the evening and how proud they are of their school and the oppor­tu­ni­ties that they are offered. We also had many vis­i­tors through­out the open morn­ing who were able to see first hand the learn­ing in action and the excel­lent engage­ment, cre­ative think­ing and enjoy­ment in lessons.

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Career Days

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Cre­ated: Thurs­day, 23 Sep­tem­ber 2021 10:10

Writ­ten by C Edwards

Sep­tem­ber 2021 Let­ter to Parents

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Cre­ated: Tues­day, 14 Sep­tem­ber 2021 13:41

Writ­ten by V Willis

Septem­ber 2021

Dear Parents/​Carers

I hope you had a rest­ful and enjoy­able sum­mer break and are look­ing for­ward as much as we are to the new year ahead. We hope that you and your fam­i­lies are well. Well done to all of our stu­dents who have started the new aca­d­e­mic year really pos­i­tively. We are so pleased to be back to some degree of nor­mal­ity and we are excited to get crack­ing with them and see how well they can do!

More than ever, stu­dents have to show a good work ethic, resilience and deter­mi­na­tion, as well as receive excel­lent teach­ing, in order to do well in their end of year 11 and year 13 exam­i­na­tions. Amid the con­stant flux and chal­lenge of the last 18 months, stu­dents have shown great tenac­ity and the GCSE and IBCP results were tes­ta­ment to their efforts — we are very proud of them all and wish them lots of luck with the next steps in their jour­neys, wher­ever that may be. We are delighted that the major­ity of our Y11s choose to stay on to study the IBCP in our 6th form; our sixth form has grown sig­nif­i­cantly over the last few years and this year we have approx­i­mately 140 stu­dents tak­ing the IBCP now.

I know many of you saw our Y11 and Y13 results news on our school web­site and thank you to so many who sent in such pos­i­tive com­ments and let­ters about our bril­liant Year 11 and Year 13 stu­dents and our com­mit­ted staff. Of course none of this suc­cess would be pos­si­ble with­out the ded­i­ca­tion and com­mit­ment of our staff team who do absolutely every­thing they can to help our stu­dents suc­ceed. If our stu­dents work hard they will have every oppor­tu­nity in the future to find the suc­cess and ful­fil­ment they absolutely deserve. We know that with your sup­port and back­ing our stu­dents can achieve great things and this makes King Ethel­bert a very excit­ing place to be. It is also sig­nif­i­cant and impor­tant for you to note that at a time of a nation­ally pub­li­cised short­age of teach­ers, King Ethel­bert con­sis­tently receives a wide field of excel­lent appli­ca­tions from teach­ers with the appro­pri­ate aca­d­e­mic qual­i­fi­ca­tions needed for each sub­ject spe­cial­ism when­ever we adver­tise a teach­ing post. King Ethel­bert is a good place to work as well as a happy place to be for everyone.

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Let­ter to Y6 Parents/​Guardians

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Cre­ated: Tues­day, 14 Sep­tem­ber 2021 09:15

Writ­ten by V Willis