Athenian vase painting

Category: News, The Arts

The Fifth Form Classical Civilisation class had an enjoyable practical session in the King’s Pottery earlier this Autumn term as part of the preparation for controlled assessment on Athenian vase painting. The pupils designed their own scenes based on one of the ‘Labours of Hercules’ and influenced by ancient Greek vase painters. Students described the session as ‘magnificent‘ and as More »

Fifth Former represents super-county Lacrosse team

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Fifth Form (Year 11) pupil, Bella Whitney (JR), has been selected to represent a super-county team in Lacrosse. Her road to joining the team started with a trial where she was placed into one of three teams to play in a triangular tournament. Bella played with and against approximately 80 other girls from different schools, More »

Sports: Autumn Term Week 8

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Sports Results for Autumn Term Week 8 Further information including fixtures, teams and events can be found via the new Sports Website. More »

Prep school hockey fun

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55 Prep school girls enjoyed an excellent afternoon of hockey at King’s just before the half term break. Pupils from Junior King’s, Saint Ronan’s and Lorenden were treated to some top class coaching from Heads of Hockey Susie Rowe and Jen Wilson. Further expertise was provided by former pupil, James Oates (CY) who is currently England More »

Skydiving for charity

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 Current pupils and twin sisters, Amy (6b, WL) and Lulu (6b, BR) Hinshelwood, spent their half term break taking part in a skydive for charity. They raised some £300 for Pilgrim’s Hospice and described the experience as ‘the best ten minutes of their lives!’ More »

‘Where words fail, music speaks’

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‘Where words fail, music speaks’ – Hans Christian Andersen Half term drew to a musical conclusion with the annual House Song Competition, judged by Paul Smith (Founder of VOCES8) and Spencer Payne (Director of Music at St. Edmund’s School), seeing boys’ boarding house Meister Omers crowned winners for the second, successive year. A wonderful display of More »

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