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!

Try Angle Awards 2014

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 30 June 2014 10:09

Writ­ten by Mrs P God­den

2014 is the 20th anniver­sary of the Try Angle Awards. These awards were intro­duced in 1994 to raise the pro­file of young peo­ple in the com­mu­nity who really try, often with lit­tle recog­ni­tion, to do their best!
Yas­min Shaw won the dis­trict Award for ‘Pos­i­tive Inter­ven­tion’
Well Done Yas­min!
A num­ber of King Ethel­bert stu­dents were nom­i­nated and received cer­tifi­cates. They are:
‘Per­sonal Achieve­ment in Sport and Out­door Activ­i­ties’
Year 10 Cit­i­zen­ship Class
’Con­tri­bu­tion made to Com­mu­nity Action’
Jamie Emer­son
Joel Stin­ton
’Spe­cial Achieve­ment in Per­sonal Devel­op­ment’
Jamie Emer­son
Chloe Emer­son
James King
Grant Welch
Jaroslav Tichy
Jes­sica Ward
’Recog­nis­ing Acts of Courage’
Jes­sica Ward

Con­grat­u­la­tions to you all.

Blend Choir

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Cre­ated: Tues­day, 24 June 2014 09:24

Writ­ten by Mr L Gisby

On Sat­ur­day the 14th of June, the Blend Choir hosted an all day singing event to raise money for Demelza, a well-​known children’s char­ity. The event itself was a marathon, the idea being to have con­tin­u­ous singing from 7.30am until 11.00pm, with a huge vari­ety of solo and group singers tak­ing part in half hour slots through­out the day.

KES was asked to par­tic­i­pate by the organ­iser, and there was no short­age of peo­ple who vol­un­teered. In the end, we ended up with a small num­ber of stu­dents who took it on them­selves to pre­pare pieces to sing.

The slot went amaz­ingly, with all of them singing at their best and get­ting a great deal of applause. Not only was it another exam­ple of just how much tal­ent we have at KES, but also a good expe­ri­ence for the stu­dents who, for many, it was a very dif­fer­ent arena from what they are used to.

My sin­cer­est thanks and praise to Gabi George, Ellie Clarke, Alfie Mur­ray, Mol­lie Clarke, Han­nah McGilley, Sophie Brinkman and Jen­nifer Pir­bu­dak for their stun­ning con­tri­bu­tions to the day. They were, as always, outstanding.”

KES Live

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Cre­ated: Tues­day, 20 May 2014 10:07

Writ­ten by Mrs S Gold­ing

This month saw the return of our annual music show KES Live. The per­for­mance show­cased over 50 of our most tal­ented musi­cians and singers over two evenings packed with songs from across the years. The drama stu­dio was trans­formed into an inti­mate gig venue with two stages where the bands and solo artist per­formed songs which reflected their own musi­cal expe­ri­ences and tastes. Both per­for­mances were a huge suc­cess and once again demon­strated the wealth of tal­ent we have here at KES. Thank you to Mr Pala­cios, Mr Gold­ing and Mr Gisby for their expert sup­port and guid­ance. Con­grat­u­la­tions and well done to all the per­form­ers, I can’t wait until next year!