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Demen­tia Diaries

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dementia 200pxOn Fri­day 27 Sep­tem­ber I was invited to the for­mal launch of Demen­tia Diaries. It is a book writ­ten by young peo­ple, pri­mar­ily for young peo­ple but it is an infor­ma­tive read for all ages, to help them cope with a loved one who is suf­fer­ing from demen­tia. The for­mat is easy to read, it is funny and sad in places but it does show the chal­lenges of car­ing for some­one with demen­tia. There is also a YouTube clip called ‘The brain cell boo­gie’ to sup­port the launch of the book.
This book is avail­able in all schools and libraries in Kent. One of our ex-​students Raisa is a main con­trib­u­tor, giv­ing her account of help­ing to care for some­one who has demen­tia. West­gate is becom­ing a demen­tia friendly town.
I was priv­i­leged to have been invited and it was fan­tas­tic to see an ex-​student involved in such a worth­while cause.

Trip to Dover Castle

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castle200pxThe visit was arranged to enable year 11 pupils to gather infor­ma­tion and carry out research that will enable them to answer the three ques­tions that make up their con­trolled assess­ment tasks.
Each pupil was issued with a work­book that encour­aged them to focus on the rel­e­vant fea­tures of the site.
Pupils explored the fol­low­ing phys­i­cal fea­tures of the site: the square stone keep, the fore­build­ing, the Roman Pharos, the Saxon church, the inner cur­tain wall, remains of the pre­his­toric fort, the medieval tun­nels and main entrances to the site. This involved a great deal of walk­ing up stairs and along steep tun­nels. A few com­plaints of aching legs could be heard through­out the day.
On the day of our visit we shared the site with mem­bers of a film crew who were prepar­ing for film­ing scenes from ‘Into the woods’, star­ring Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep, the fol­low­ing day. This pro­vided pupils with an extra inter­est for the day!

Geog­ra­phy trip to Canterbury

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Humanitiestrip200pxThe entire Geog­ra­phy group in Year 11 were taken to Can­ter­bury in order to com­plete their field­work for their con­trolled assess­ment. The groups boarded the bus in high spir­its just after 9 in the morn­ing and enjoyed their jour­ney on the dou­ble decker into the City. Once in place the group were split into two and both got going with their work com­par­ing the White­fri­ars area of the City and that of the West­gate Tow­ers. Mr Sellen and I had the ardu­ous task of ensur­ing they com­pleted all work to the best of their abil­ity, the biggest chal­lenge proved to be to encour­age the ask­ing of sur­veys to the gen­eral pub­lic! The stu­dents did a num­ber of tasks at each site, pedes­trian counts, bipo­lar assess­ments, sketch maps, shop­ping tally charts etc. After lunch the groups swapped over and by now bud­ding with expe­ri­ence com­pleted their sec­ond site in record time. The groups were bril­liant and a credit to the school!!

A taste of mil­i­tary life

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marines200pxYear 11 and 12 sport and pub­lic ser­vices stu­dents spent a morn­ing ses­sion being put through their paces with two Royal Marines. An ener­getic morn­ing, com­plet­ing team build­ing and lead­er­ship chal­lenges, with var­i­ous ‘for­feits’ for the los­ing teams. The pupils ben­e­fited hugely from this expe­ri­ence and our recep­tion­ists were cer­tainly impressed when the Marines arrived in the morning!

Exam­i­na­tion Results August 2013

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y11 results13 150pxKing Ethel­bert School are cel­e­brat­ing record break­ing results this year which has seen GCSE grades soar and indi­vid­ual stu­dents mak­ing excep­tional progress at every level of abil­ity. 53% of the stu­dents achieved 5 A*-C grades includ­ing Eng­lish and Maths which is a 23% increase from last year. 60% achieved an A* — C in Eng­lish, 60% in Maths. As well as the superb head­line fig­ures which have smashed all the gov­ern­ment tar­gets by a long way, the school has also got the high­est ever per­cent­age of the top grades A and A* in all sub­jects. 66% of stu­dents achieved 5 A* — C grades (an increase of 12% from last year) and 91% of stu­dents gained at least 5 GCSE passes.

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