Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Demelza Charity Run
Category: Events, NewsOn Sunday 10th September, Mrs Cath Shearer, Housemistress of Broughton House, took a group of 13 Broughton girls and her son Dylan to Groombridge Place for the Demelza Run. They ran either 10km or 5km and have raised a total of £750 so far for the Demelza Hospice Care for Children, which provides care and More »
6b trip to the “Land of Fire and Ice”
Category: Events, NewsThe Geography and Geology departments took 23 6b pupils to Iceland immediately after the end of the summer term 2017 to experience 24 hours of sunlight each day, fantastic weather and some incredible scenery. As well as the classic visits to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano; the Gullfoss waterfall; Thingvellir where America meets Europe at the mid-Atlantic More »
Boys walk 110000 metres in just over a day for charity
Category: Events, NewsOn the 16th and 17th of July, 2017, pupils at the King’s school, Canterbury attempted to walk 110km in 26 hours in order to raise money for 3 separate charities that were close to their hearts. George Broxham, Angus Clews and Theo Davies-Jones raised £6043 for Parkinson’s UK, Guy’s Hospital, St Thomas’s Breast Cancer Research More »
A Level & Pre-U Exam Results 2017
Category: NewsThe excellent year group of 2017 leavers achieved strong sets of A Level and Pre-U results. 77 pupils achieved 3 A grades or better (including the equivalent Pre-U grades) 20 pupils achieved 3 A*s or better (including the equivalent Pre-U grades) 10 pupils achieved 4 A*s or better ((including the equivalent Pre-U grades) 72% of More »
Fin-tastic facts!
Category: NewsDr Doreen McVeigh joins The King’s School, Canterbury staff this September and brings a love of sharks with her! Doreen has contributed to the Discovery Channel’s annual ‘Shark Week’ by sharing five facts about the fascinating creatures in an article published in the International Business Times. Focussing her master’s dissertation on the genetics of stingrays found More »
Bioinformatics project
Category: NewsStarting in September 2017, 6a Scientists will begin a project in collaboration with Dr Simon Andrews at the Babraham research institute in Cambridge. The Bioinformatics project will look at large data sets publically available on the NCBI website and investigate whether genes are expressed at different levels in different tissues in the model organism Mus musculus. More »
GCSE/IGCSE Exam Results 2017
Category: NewsThe Fifth Form have achieved strong GCSE and IGCSE results this year. 43.6% of grades awarded were A* 69.5% of grades awarded were A* or A 88.7% of grades awarded were A*, A or B 87% of pupils achieved at least one A* grade 6 pupils gained 11 A* grades 10 pupils gained 10 A* More »
Rugby Tour 2017
Category: News, SportsThis year’s Rugby tour began in Hong Kong with pupils and staff viewing the beautiful Victoria Harbour on their first day. It wasn’t long until the boots were on and everyone took to the pitch for an afternoon and morning training sessions at the King’s Park Rugby pitch and Stanley Ho Sports grounds. The latter More »
East Kent Schools Together
Category: NewsThe King’s School are delighted to announce their membership of an exciting new partnership of schools which launches this September 2017 – East Kent Schools Together (EKST). East Kent presents a diversity of economic, social and educational backgrounds for children. When students and staff collaborate across schools, by sharing resources and exchanging experiences, there can More »
Rentals the right way
Category: NewsAfter paying an extortionately high price for renting a car abroad, former pupil Giles Bones (GL 1984-1989) decided it was time to make some changes. In 2015, Mr Bones was expecting to pay £287 for a rental car in Switzerland but was charged £750 on arrival. Two years later, he is assisting with the expansion of a More »
