V & A Museum Visit

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 23 Octo­ber 2013 09:58

Writ­ten by Mr R O’Hanlon

With an early start (the Yr 8 stu­dents were strug­gling with 8am to meet up) we embarked on the Human­i­ties trip to the V&A museum in Lon­don. The excite­ment seemed to reach fever pitch well before we actu­ally arrived at the museum with numer­ous sight­ings of famous land­marks and dif­fer­ent places. By the time we arrived the stu­dents were rar­ing to go. They were divided into 3 groups and each on rota­tion looked at dif­fer­ent parts of the museum from dif­fer­ent angles. They saw every­thing from Golden Bud­dhas to Ancient arte­facts, from try­ing on 18th Cen­tury clothes to study­ing Giant Medieval Car­toons and 5 hours flew by! The stu­dents had a great time and got a lot from their experience.

Evening at the Gulkbenkian

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Cre­ated: Tues­day, 15 Octo­ber 2013 09:36

Writ­ten by Mrs S Gold­ing

Year 13 per­form­ing arts stu­dents enjoyed an evening at the Gul­benkian the­atre in Can­ter­bury as part of their A-​Level Drama stud­ies. ‘An Audi­ence with Steven Berkoff’ was a two hour chat show style evening with con­tem­po­rary play­wright and actor Steven Berkoff respon­si­ble for such widely renown play text such as East, Meta­mor­pho­sis and Deca­dence. The stage leg­end enthralled the audi­ence with tales of his career on stage and screen and cer­tainly lived up to his rep­u­ta­tion for being opin­ion­ated and out­spo­ken! It was a once in a life­time oppor­tu­nity for per­form­ing arts stu­dents to see the great man in the flesh, and love him or loathe him, it cer­tainly gave us all some­thing to talk about!

KM Kent cooks com­pe­ti­tion 2013

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 07 Octo­ber 2013 14:26

Writ­ten by Admin­is­tra­tor

Mem­bers of the KM Char­ity team, along with one of the spon­sors of the KM Kent Cooks Com­pe­ti­tion, South­ern Water, vis­ited KES to spend some time talk­ing to some of our year 9 stu­dents about the dan­gers of putting fat down the drain while cook­ing. They are run­ning a cam­paign to raise aware­ness and pro­vid­ing free “fat traps” which they are try­ing to encour­age ‘cooks’ to use in the kitchen to dis­pose of cook­ing fat and oil safely and in an envi­ron­men­tally respon­si­ble way.

For details on the Kent Cooks’ Com­pe­ti­tion please visit www​.kent​cooks​.co​.uk — Miss Rouse, Head of Food Tech­nol­ogy, will be pro­vid­ing more infor­ma­tion and guid­ance to any stu­dents who would like to enter.

Stour val­ley arts trip

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Cre­ated: Tues­day, 08 Octo­ber 2013 12:20

Writ­ten by Miss K Sher­man

Last week 48 year 7 stu­dents took part in a day of explo­ration and arts & crafts mak­ing at Kings Wood in Ash­ford. This was an amaz­ing oppor­tu­nity for our pupils to expe­ri­ence art and craft in an out­doors envi­ron­ment. Pupils par­tic­i­pated in an artist led walk, view­ing and expe­ri­enc­ing the sculp­tures within the woods. Pupils then worked in teams to build and cre­ate habi­tats for wood­land crea­tures. It was a fan­tas­tic expe­ri­ence and the pupils par­tic­u­larly enjoyed the ‘cre­at­ing’ activ­ity work­ing in teams to real­ize their ideas.

Our pupils demon­strated their car­ing and thought­ful nature when they were con­fronted with an unex­pected event. Com­ing across an injured dog in the woods, our pupils alerted their guide. The dog, who had been miss­ing for a few days, was soon reunited with its owner.

A great day had by all, well done year 7.

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Duke of Edin­burgh expedition

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Cre­ated: Mon­day, 07 Octo­ber 2013 14:23

Writ­ten by Mr A Jack­son

On the week­end of the 5th and 6th Octo­ber, 35 brave and hardy Year 11 stu­dents suc­cess­fully com­pleted their Duke of Edin­burgh Award Bronze expeditions.They showed excep­tional nav­i­gat­ing skills on the first day to get lost so often and yet still man­age to get to the camp site at Kings­down before night­fall! Day two was much bet­ter and a big thank you to the three asses­sors we had who worked tire­lessly to sup­port the stu­dents. Well done to all the students!