Term 3 Y11 after-​school revi­sion

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 20 Decem­ber 2017 10:02

Writ­ten by Mr T Sellen

Con­grat­u­la­tions Con­nor!

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Cre­ated: Fri­day, 15 Decem­ber 2017 13:50

Writ­ten by Mrs K Greig

On Sun­day Con­nor com­peted in the Kent Sportshall Cham­pi­onships in Ash­ford where he took the gold medal in all 4 of his events:- 2 Lap Race, 4 Lap Race, Stand­ing Triple Jump and Ver­ti­cal Jump. Kent County Ath­letcs Asdo­ci­a­tion have noti­fied Con­nor that his 2 Lap Race time of 20.8s is a new County Record! He was also with 0.1s of the record for the 4 Lap Race.

Well Done Connor!

A Clas­sic Night Out.

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Cre­ated: Fri­day, 20 Octo­ber 2017 10:23

Writ­ten by Mr N Knight

Yr 10 stu­dents study­ing BTEC Music enjoyed an evening of cul­ture at The Mar­lowe The­atre as they watched The Phil­har­mo­nia Orches­tra per­form Cop­lands ‘Fan­fare for the Com­mon Man’, Korn­golds ‘Vio­lin Con­certo’ fea­tur­ing Elena Urioste who was stag­ger­ingly bril­liant, and Dvo­raks ‘Sym­phony No.9 from the New World’. This not only pro­vided a won­der­ful evenings enter­tain­ment (fol­lowed by a tasty stop off at KFC on the way home) but also gave the stu­dents an oppor­tu­nity to expe­ri­ence first-​hand a very dif­fer­ent music genre, con­sider the set up of a music venue for such a gig and wit­ness how per­form­ers develop stage pres­ence in order to engage with their audi­ence — which all forms part of their KS4 stud­ies. It was a fab­u­lous night with many of the stu­dents pleas­antly sur­prised as to how much they enjoyed the expe­ri­ence of see­ing a full orches­tra play­ing pieces of music they vaguely recog­nised in places, and also great to hear some won­der­ful con­ver­sa­tions between our stu­dents and some much older mem­bers of the pub­lic sit­ting around us quite intrigued at such a young group attend­ing such a con­cert — exem­plary ambas­sadors for the school.

Pixl Nom­i­na­tion for Calum Simp­son

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Cre­ated: Thurs­day, 12 Octo­ber 2017 14:55

Writ­ten by Mr C Franks

Calum Simp­son who fin­ished his stud­ies with us at the end of last year recently attended the PixL Schools’ cel­e­bra­tion event, held at West­min­ster Cen­tral Hall. The event was attended by over 100 Year 11 pupils from across the coun­try to receive awards, after nom­i­na­tion for their achieve­ments in their GCSE exam­i­na­tions, by their schools.

Calum was nom­i­nated by King Ethel­bert School for the Stephen Bell Spe­cial Award for Determination.

Calum is one of the hard­est work­ing, most deter­mined stu­dents we have ever had at King Ethel­bert School. Like the major­ity of us, he didn’t always find learn­ing easy and he had to study hard but he con­sis­tently achieved the high­est effort grades in our Year 11 data drops through­out the year and this led to him mak­ing the most progress of any stu­dent in his year group.

Sadly, Calum had to deal with some immense per­sonal tragedy dur­ing his GCSE exams, but he never men­tioned this in school and his qui­etly deter­mined atti­tude did not waver. He still attended all of his exams with­out fuss or, indeed, any indi­ca­tion at all of what he was going through.

His utter sto­icism and grit is an exam­ple to us all and we are very proud of him. Calum went on to achieve a fine set of GCSE results that have seen him move on to Can­ter­bury Col­lege to study Pub­lic Ser­vices pro­gress­ing towards enter­ing ser­vice with the Royal Navy.

Mr Franks (Calum’s Tutor) attended the cel­e­bra­tion event along with Calum’s mum and Granddad.

It was truly amaz­ing to see Calum on that stage amongst all the other suc­cesses and tal­ents that were cel­e­brat­ing their suc­cess. Calum has come a long way in his 5 years with us at King Ethel­bert School, a true gen­tle­man in the mak­ing, with remark­able courage and char­ac­ter. He and his fam­ily should be very proud of this young man.

Puf­fin Cross­ing

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Cre­ated: Wednes­day, 13 Sep­tem­ber 2017 11:06

Writ­ten by Ms K Greig

We are absolutely delighted that Kent County Coun­cil has funded and now com­pleted the Puf­fin cross­ing out­side King Ethel­bert School. The dan­ger to children’s lives with the sit­u­a­tion as it was caused a huge worry to our local com­mu­nity every day and thanks to the sup­port of stu­dents, par­ents, friends, KCC and Thanet Dis­trict Coun­cil we have finally got what we deserved. My par­tic­u­lar thanks go to Coun­cil­lor Suzanne Brimm for her relent­less cam­paign­ing, Kelly Gar­rett from Kent County Coun­cil who has been so pro­fes­sional and under­stand­ing in her deal­ings with us all and Adam Solly our own Direc­tor of Houses who has organ­ised school-​wide fund­ing and aware­ness events. Our stu­dents are taught road safety and we will con­tinue to have these vital lessons through­out their time at school but the build­ing of the Puf­fin cross­ing makes it so much eas­ier and safer for us all.”