Author: Jane Murray

Celebrating British Science Week 2021

We were delighted to help our 24 Canterbury Primary Partnership Schools to celebrate British Science Week (8th to 13th March) with its exciting theme of Innovating For the Future. As the science week coincided with the start of schools in full session after lockdown, we wanted to support our CPSP schools as much as possible. Looking at ways to help and support the science leads in delivering British Science Week to their schools in the simplest way possible with maximum impact. We provided 8 science subject…
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Fossil Fun at King’s

We were delighted to welcome 32 year 2 children from Sheldwich Primary School to the King’s school for an afternoon of fossil fun. The children visited our geology labs and were shown an amazing array of fantastic fossils and facts about dinosaurs by our Head of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Mike Mawby. They really enjoyed…
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Kent SENDCo Group Day A Huge Success

On 29th November The King’s School Centre for Learning Enhancement hosted a Kent SENDCo Group day at The King’s School, Canterbury. We welcomed over 50 SENDCos and Exam Officers from 29 schools across the south east to a morning presentation from Nick Lait from JCQ who spoke about changes and updates to JCQ access arrangements.…
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Celebrating 5 years of Minilympics

More than 150 Year 5 pupils from 10 local primary schools were treated to a day of team sports at the end of September at The King’s School playing fields to encourage active and healthy lifestyles. Postponed from June due to torrential rain we were rewarded with a bright sunny day for our Minilympics event…
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Student Philosophy Conference A Huge Success

We were delighted to host our second student philosophy conference and teacher CPD in October in conjunction with the University of Kent Philosophy department. We welcomed 90 A level philosophy and RS students from across 7 local schools to join our philosophy students in a busy day of talks and discussion groups. Topics covered by…
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Celebrating 7 Years Of Saturday Smarties

We were delighted to welcome 44 local year 5 and 6 pupils to our first two Saturday Smarties Session this year. Saturday Smarties is our annual series of science masterclasses at The King’s School with 3 sessions of science fun across the year. Each class is taught by our science staff supported by 12 student volunteers.…
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Tea With The Gods

To celebrate the first year of our Exploring Classics project we invited our year 8 Classicists from Spires Academy and their parents/ carers to a tea in the Headmaster’s office. The students have been coming to the King’s School Classics department fortnightly over the past year to learn about ancient Greek and Roman civilizations and…
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Like Ducks to Water…

We were pleased to welcome 12 Spires Academy students who joined 3 of our sailors on Westbere Lake recently for an afternoon learning how to sail. The idea of inviting Spires students to to sail with us was that of Ed Shapcott (6a) who wanted to give Spires students an opportunity to give sailing a go…
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Breakfasting Like Kings!

Every morning during term time a dedicated team of King’s school student volunteers visit St John’s CEP School to help with their breakfast club. Each volunteer is allocated a day and three of them visit each morning eating with the children, helping them to wash up and then reading and playing quiet games with them…
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Fossil Frenzy

Mike Mawby, our Head of Earth and Planetary Sciences, recently ran two fossil workshops for sixty year 3 pupils from Wincheap Foundation Primary School. The pupils walked over from Wincheap to the King’s School and Mr Mawby’s lab. They met some of the resident dinosaurs and had a chance to look at and handle amazing fossils…
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