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KES Press Results 200King Ethel­bert School is cel­e­brat­ing its best ever exam­i­na­tion results this sum­mer. Kate Greig, the head­teacher said “Once again, for the fourth year in a row, we are the high­est achiev­ing non-​selective school in Thanet by some dis­tance.” 63% of all stu­dents in Year 11 achieved 5A* — C includ­ing Eng­lish and Maths with 82% achiev­ing a C or above in Eng­lish and 70% achiev­ing a C or above in Maths. As well as this head­line fig­ure which has again smashed gov­ern­ment tar­gets the school has a very high per­cent­age of stu­dents achiev­ing the top grades of A and A* in every subject.

Kate Greig said “We are absolutely delighted with these results which are thor­oughly deserved as the stu­dents and staff worked so incred­i­bly hard. What I am par­tic­u­larly pleased with is the amount of progress each stu­dent has made which in most cases is well above national aver­age – quite sim­ply if they come to King Ethel­bert School and they work hard they have a greater chance of achiev­ing suc­cess than if they went to almost any other school in the coun­try. I am enor­mously proud of our young peo­ple who not only work very hard but also are a credit to their school and the local com­mu­nity. They are a won­der­ful set of young peo­ple and we are really proud of them.”
This fab­u­lous set of GCSE exam­i­na­tion results come on the back of the superb IBCP Sixth Form results the school received in July. Vicky Willis, Deputy Head­teacher, said “We are thrilled that so many of our stu­dents have met or exceeded our high expec­ta­tions and the vast major­ity of them are com­ing back to study the IBCP in the Sixth Form.”
Tom Sellen, Deputy Head­teacher, said “Our results are fan­tas­ti­cally good and make us one of the top achiev­ing schools in the coun­try – our aca­d­e­mic record is becom­ing hard to match.”
Indi­vid­ual results show many stu­dents achiev­ing top aca­d­e­mic suc­cess including:
Jamie Wells (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 4 x A*, 5 x A, 2 B grades
Jack Midg­ley (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 2 x A*, 6 x A, 1 x B grades
Joe Fagg (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 3 x A*, 4 x A, 4 x B grades
Cal­lum Sawkins (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 6 x A, 5 x B grades
Lloyd Arnold (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 3 x A*, 2 x A, 5 x B grades
Jack Eas­ton (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 2 x A*, 3 x A, 5 x B grades
Eloise Baker (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 1 x A*, 4 x A, 3 x B grades
Chloe Wood-​French (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 5 x A, 4 x B grades
Bran­dan Press­ley (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 3 x A*, 1 x A, 5 x B grades
Maisie Har­ris (11 GCSEs) includ­ing 4 x A, 6 x B grades

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Stu­dents, staff, par­ents and mem­bers of the gen­eral pub­lic thor­oughly enjoyed a fan­tas­tic array of spec­tac­u­lar per­for­mances of A Mid­sum­mer Night’s Dream Re-​Imagined to cel­e­brate the end of Year 2 of the King Ethel­bert Royal Shake­speare Com­pany Learn­ing and Per­for­mance Net­work on Tues­day, 21st June.
Eight schools took part alto­gether, with pupils rang­ing in age from seven to fif­teen. The eight schools are part of the Learn­ing and Per­for­mance Net­work clus­ter brought together by King Ethel­bert in part­ner­ship with­The Royal Shake­speare Com­pany and The Mar­lowe Theatre.
The event was attended by mem­bers of The Royal Shake­speare Com­pany and attracted great praise for the high qual­ity, enter­tain­ing and pro­fes­sion­ally pol­ished per­for­mances by all the schools. Marvellous!
The schools who per­formed are: King Ethel­bert, Cliftonville Pri­mary, St. Sav­iours Pri­mary, Dame Janet Pri­mary, St. Mary’s Catholic Pri­mary (Whit­stable), High­worth Gram­mar, KIngs Rochester School and The Ash­ford School.
Each school put on its own cre­atively adapted per­for­mance of a scene from A Mid­sum­mer Night’s Dream, per­formed in sequence on midsummer’s day, to mark the 400th anniver­sary year of Shakespeare’s death, link­ing up with national cel­e­bra­tions all over the country.
Par­ents, teach­ers and the local com­mu­nity beamed with pride as they watched, amazed and delighted by the qual­ity and enter­tain­ment value of the per­for­mances, which were staged across out­door venues in Mar­gate, includ­ing The Turner Con­tem­po­rary, the sea steps adja­cent to The Old Town and var­i­ous iconic loca­tions within Dream­land Amuse­ment Park. Audi­ences fol­lowed the per­for­mances to every loca­tion in four per­for­mances in the evening, cul­mi­nat­ing in a joy­ful final flash-​mob event, set to Frank Sinatra’s “Love”.
All thanks go to The Mar­lowe The­atre for a fan­tas­tic job coor­di­nat­ing the event and pro­vid­ing the stun­ning pho­tog­ra­phy, mak­ing the whole day turn out to be what can only be described as an event of total joy, awe and won­der. Thanks also to The Turner Con­tem­po­rary for their sup­port and use of their out­side area for the per­for­mance area which rep­re­sented The Court of Athens as the start of the prom­e­nade performance.
Well done all our per­form­ers from all the schools, and their teach­ers, for bring­ing Shakespeare’s most pop­u­lar play to the heart of Mar­gate, and into the hearts of all the assem­bled audiences!

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A group of year 7 stu­dents were cho­sen to rep­re­sent the school in sup­port­ing the Armed Forces rais­ing of the flag cer­e­mony in Birch­ing­ton square on Mon­day. It was lovely to see the pupils inter­act­ing and show­ing a keen inter­est in the retired ser­vice men that were there. All pupils belong to either scouts, guides, boys brigade or air scouts.

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literacy 200Last night we were hon­oured and priv­i­leged to have received the Kent Lit­er­acy Award for ‘Best use of Shake­speare to Pro­mote Lit­er­acy’ and ’ Over­all Shake­speare Cham­pi­ons’ Our part­ner­ship and col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Royal Shake­speare Com­pany has given pupils, par­ents and staff the con­fi­dence to explore and analyse lan­guage. At King Ethel­bert School we are all teach­ers of lit­er­acy and it is this team approach which enables all our ini­tia­tives to be suc­cess­ful. We have a strong read­ing cul­ture which has had an impact on our results and the aspi­ra­tions of our pupils.

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