Merry Christ­mas KES

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Cre­ated: Fri­day, 19 Decem­ber 2014 10:17

Writ­ten by Ms K Greig Head­teacher

Another year has flown by and what a good one it has been for King Ethel­bert School. I am increas­ingly proud of our stu­dents and what they achieve both in the class­room and beyond. This term has seen the major­ity of our stu­dents make excel­lent progress in their lessons and their enthu­si­asm for learn­ing is extremely evi­dent as our vis­i­tors’ notice as they walk around our school.

This time of year always brings out the very best in our young peo­ple and a whole host of char­ity events have taken place which have raised con­sid­er­able amounts of money for all sorts of peo­ple in need of our help both locally and abroad. All of our stu­dents are so good at think­ing about oth­ers and their care and sup­port of oth­ers is some­thing that I am always enor­mously proud of.

I wish all stu­dents, staff, par­ents, car­ers, gov­er­nors, friends and the com­mu­nity of Birch­ing­ton a very happy time over the fes­tive sea­son and look for­ward to another year of great achieve­ments and suc­cess in 2015.

A Day in the Life

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Cre­ated: Thurs­day, 18 Decem­ber 2014 10:15

Writ­ten by Miss Rouse Mr O’Hanlon

Year 9 stu­dents have been pre­sent­ing their lat­est Home­work Projects. “A Day in the Life” is a His­tory and Food Tech­nol­ogy Project where stu­dents com­pare their lives in the present day with the life of a post WWII child liv­ing in the 1950’s, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on food. Stu­dents show­cased their projects in the school hall and fam­ily and friends were invited to attend. Many stu­dents pro­duced projects of a high stan­dard; many had baked prod­ucts using 1950’s recipes which we all enjoyed sam­pling! There were also many authen­tic pho­tographs, ration books and other mem­o­ra­bilia that stu­dents had bor­rowed from grand­par­ents and friends. The qual­ity of many of the writ­ten projects and visual dis­plays was of a very high stan­dard and there was much pos­i­tive feed­back from vis­i­tors, other stu­dents and staff. Well done year 9!

Where Eng­lish and PE Collide!

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 10 Decem­ber 2014 09:59

Writ­ten by Mrs C O’Shea Mr C Franks

Wow! What a fan­tas­tic turn out for Year 8! The PE and Eng­lish home­work projects this year were stun­ning. It was a real chal­lenge to chose win­ners from such a strong field.

Colour for Connor

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 10 Decem­ber 2014 10:57

Writ­ten by Miss S Wade

Over the last week in Novem­ber 9SWD ran assem­blies rais­ing aware­ness for the Car­ing for Con­nor Campaign.

Con­nor is a local boy who suf­fers from DMD (Duchenne Mus­cu­lar Dys­tro­phy). Mem­bers of 9SWD sold nearly 300 Car­ing for Con­nor Bands in the run up to Colour for Con­nor and asked all tutor groups for a dona­tion so that they could wear an item of colour. We set our­selves a tar­get of £500
We were absolutely blown away by the response from pupils at King Ethel­bert. On Fri­day 28th Novem­ber the school was awash with colour! Colour­ful socks, ties, hair­bands, train­ers, shoes. Some stu­dents and tutor groups also did their own fundrais­ing activ­i­ties and 23 out of 25 tutor groups donated well over the 50p per per­son we had sug­gested. 7JRB raised nearly £100, as did 9SWD. As mem­bers of 9SWD counted up the money we were moved to tears.

Stu­dents and staff at King Ethel­bert had raised over £1060 pounds for Car­ing for Con­nor and a dona­tion of £100 from a local com­pany took our total to £1160.

On Fri­day 5th Con­nor came into the school with his Mum and Dad to col­lect the cheque and meet 9SWD, who gave him a Christ­mas present. He waved at lessons and popped in to see a few too!
Thank you so much to all staff, stu­dents, par­ents and fam­ily who sup­ported this. It will be a yearly event for us as we try to raise aware­ness and money to help fight for a cure for DMD.

Thank you

The Great Thanet Cookbook

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 26 Novem­ber 2014 12:34

Writ­ten by Nicola Sal­is­bury 13GJ

13 Year 13 stu­dents held their Ser­vice learn­ing project at Quex Barn on the 23rd Novem­ber, with rag­ing suc­cess they are pleased to say they have so far raised over £200 for the char­ity Porchlight.

They did this with the cre­ation of “The Great Thanet Cook­book” which was sold at £5 each at the barn. As well as the book launch there was gin­ger­bread men dec­o­rat­ing, a raf­fle and also deli­cious tasters from the cook­book itself.

The IBCC enti­tles the stu­dents to pro­vide a ser­vice to the com­mu­nity and with what was achieved on Sun­day they have been able to ful­fil their mis­sion state­ment “Embrac­ing cul­tural diver­sity to strengthen com­mu­nity ties whilst inspir­ing gen­er­a­tions through a show­case of what Thanet can accom­plish by shar­ing recipes and stories”,

All thanks to those who turned up. If you would like a book they are still on sale at £5 each just email This email address is being pro­tected from spam­bots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more infor­ma­tion, or drop into the school to talk to one of us. Thank you for the sup­port, we hope to raise more money for Porch­light over the com­ing weeks.