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On Wednes­day 16th Novem­ber King Ethel­bert School cel­e­brated the suc­cess and achieve­ment of the last aca­d­e­mic year at their annual Pre­sen­ta­tion After­noon at the Win­ter Gar­dens. All stu­dents from the school attend this event to cel­e­brate together what King Ethel­bert School has achieved. Mrs Willis, the Deputy Head­teacher, said “We cel­e­brate suc­cess at every level at our school and every­body is part of the school’s con­tin­ued success”.
Par­ents, spe­cial guests and gov­er­nors of the school joined the stu­dents in what was a very inspir­ing after­noon. Karen Eslea was the guest speaker. Karen is the Head of Learn­ing and Vis­i­tor Expe­ri­ence at the Turner Contemporary.
The Head­teacher, Kate Greig, spoke about the fan­tas­tic year King Ethel­bert had. This was reflected in the 6th form results with the 90% pass rate with top grades in the IBCP pro­gramme. Many stu­dents achieved in excess of 500 UCAS points, with73% going on to Uni­ver­sity. Addi­tion­ally, 63% of the stu­dents from last year’s Year 11 gained 5 A*-C GCSE grades includ­ing Eng­lish and Maths which made King Ethel­bert the high­est achiev­ing non-​selective school in Thanet for the 4th year run­ning. Ms Greig talked of the suc­cess the school has had across the nation with the work being done with the Royal Shake­speare Com­pany includ­ing the school being fea­tured on the BBC Richard Dim­bleby Lec­ture, “this has led to con­tact being made with coun­tries across the world….who have heard the name of King Ethel­bert and want to be part of what we do.” King Ethel­bert was made a world school in May and the suc­cess the school has had this year has just grown and grown. “This year we won the national Busi­ness of Enter­prise com­pe­ti­tion and the Kent Award for the Lit­er­acy School of the year.” said Miss Greig. She also went on to say “I want King Ethel­bert to be a school to be talked about ….because our young peo­ple absolutely deserve it. They rep­re­sent every­thing that is great in the next gen­er­a­tion and we are very proud of them.”
Stu­dents won prizes in all year groups from aca­d­e­mic suc­cess to prizes for endeav­our and courage. The stu­dents also pro­vided the enter­tain­ment with three bril­liant musi­cal per­for­mances from stu­dents across the school. One par­ent com­mented “The per­for­mances were so pro­fes­sional — the singing was amaz­ing and mov­ing — I had a tear in my eye”.
Head Boy Joe Marsh opened the event with the Chair of Gov­er­nors, Dr Vir­ginia Austin, and Head Girl Ellie Jo Corn­wall rounded off the after­noon with a thank you to every­one for mak­ing the event so inspi­ra­tional and so enjoy­able. A num­ber of stu­dents achieved the out­stand­ing aca­d­e­mic achieve­ment award, including:
Ellyn Seely 3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project A = 577 UCAS points
Tamara Anderson3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project B = 572 UCAS points
Leah Coates 3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project A = 550 UCAS points
Rebecca Bul­lock 3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project C = 546 UCAS points
Amy Mott 3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project B = 540 UCAS points
Brooke Haughton3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project B = 524 UCAS points
Charne Welch 3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project B = 524 UCAS points
Louise Kerr 3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project C = 498 UCAS points
Demi Poul­ton 3 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project C = 498 UCAS points
Emily Ken­s­hole 2 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 1 x Dis­tinc­tion + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project C = 494 UCAS points
Conor Boardman1 x Dis­tinc­tion* + 2 x Dis­tinc­tion + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project C = 490 UCAS points
Oliver Marsh 3 x Dis­tinc­tion + 2 x IB Diploma + Reflec­tive Project B = 464 UCAS points
Jamie Wells 11 GCSEs with 9 at A* or A
Jack Midg­ley 11 GCSEs with 8 at A* or A
Joe Fagg 11 GCSEs with 7 at A* or A
Cal­lum Sawkins11 GCSEs with 6 at A* or A
Lloyd Arnold 11 GCSEs with 5 at A* or A
Jack Eas­ton 11 GCSEs with 5 at A* or A
Eloise Baker 11 GCSEs with 5 at A* or A
Chloe Wood-​French10 GCSEs with 5 at A* or A
Bran­don Pressley11 GCSEs with 4 at A* or A
Maisie Har­ris 11 GCSEs with 4 at A* or A

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science 500Last year I was for­tu­nate enough to spend some time at Dane court gram­mar school with a team of staff from google look­ing at how to imple­ment tech­nol­ogy in the class­room. A new pio­neer­ing pro­gram called google expe­di­tion was men­tioned as a future project., I signed KES up and we were for­tu­nate enough to have Stu­art from google in with us for the whole day, tak­ing all of our year 7 and year 8 stu­dents on vir­tual real­ity field trips. Some pupils went inside the human res­pi­ra­tory sys­tem, whilst oth­ers took a jour­ney from the pre­cam­brian era of earth through the pale­o­zoic all the way to late juras­sic period and were quite lit­er­ally walk­ing with dinosaurs. Other stu­dents were lucky enough to spend 20 min­utes on the other side of the earth at the Angkor Wat tem­ple and some went to the extrem­i­ties of our solar sys­tem, all whilst in the com­fort our school hall.
It was an excel­lent day and thanks must be men­tioned to all the staff that helped out. Mr Hen­der­son, Mr Under­wood, Miss Har­ris, Mr O’Hanlon, Mr Payne, Mrs Britnell.

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King Ethel­bert School is intend­ing to make changes to its admis­sion arrange­ments for the aca­d­e­mic year start­ing Sep­tem­ber 2018. The changes being made to the cur­rent arrange­ments are high­lighted on the attached draft admis­sions arrangements.

As per the Admis­sions Code the school is obliged to con­sult on these pro­posed changes for at least 6 weeks. This will run from Mon­day 7th Novem­ber 2016 to Mon­day 19th Decem­ber 2016.

If you wish to make any com­ment on these pro­pos­als please do so via the con­tact addresses below:

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Post: Admis­sions Offi­cer, King Ethel­bert School, Can­ter­bury Road, Birch­ing­ton CT7 9BL

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