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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…
Read MoreFossil 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…
Read MoreWednesday Wonders
We have had another great term working with pupils from Spires Academy with pupils coming for maths, classics lessons and sessions in and around the Cathedral on Wednesday afternnons. The Aspiring Maths sessions, led by Dr Sue Kerridge has a group of 7 Year 10 Spires pupils coming every other week to join King’s pupils for…
Read MoreFamily Fun With Colours, Creatures and Cameras
We were delighted to welcome 35 local primary pupils with their parents/ carers to our third Family Science Day on a bright, sunny Sunday in March. The pupils who attended were in year 5 or 6 from 9 primary schools across the Canterbury area. We were also pleased to be joined by the Lord Mayor…
Read MoreKing’s Join Community Clean Up
17 pupils from The King’s School and King’s International College joined forces with volunteers from the Canterbury community for one of the biggest litter picks and clean ups that the city has ever seen. The clean-up was organised by the Friends of Kingsmead Field and was the first in a series of community litter picks…
Read MoreLab kit for loan – new scheme announced
King’s has teamed up with school equipment suppliers to provide a ‘library’ of science kit for loan to state schools. Kit will be available to borrow free of charge by schools who sign up to the scheme and attend a training session, provisionally calendared for Wednesday 5th June 2-4pm. The library consists of equipment needed…
Read MoreMr Shaha’s Recipes For Wonder
We were delighted to collaborate with the The Beaney House of Art and Knowledge on the first Saturday in Febraury to bring Alom Shaha to Canterbury to run a science workshop for families. Alom is a secondary science teacher as well as an author and his book, Mr Shaha’s Recipes for Wonder, is packed full…
Read MoreMusic for all at King’s
The partnerships programme we have developed here at King’s covers the whole curriculum and enrichment beyond it. However, one area – a particular strength of the school’s – remains relatively untapped: music. We are launching a major project for community music and we’re delighted to announce that we have appointed Julie Evans as Head of Music Partnerships. …
Read MoreMaking Canterbury beautiful again
On Sunday, 13 students from The King’s School and King’s International College joined members of the Canterbury Society at a litter pick organised by Canterbury City Council. The students cheerfully braved grim November weather to clear an area from Northgate and The Borough through to Kingsmead around the river pathways and behind the Leisure Centre.…
Read MoreRainbows, Eyeballs and Fireworks!
We welcomed our first two groups of Saturday Smarties this academic year with a spectacular two hours of science fun. Two groups of pupils from across 17 local primary schools took part in our “rainbows, eyeballs and fireworks” sessions on two consecutive Saturdays. On arrival the children were kitted out in our fantastic new Saturday…
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