EKST Student Voice Ambassadors were invited to speak at an event at Canterbury Christ Church University on Tuesday 20th November to mark Universal Children’s Day. Imogen and Matthew, the co-Chairs of the Student Voice, together with Marissa (all in Year 12), spoke about what it means to be a child in the 21st century in…
Read MoreCluster groups are one of the core activities of EKST, enabling colleagues across the partnership to build a local network, learn from each others, share ideas and resources and more. Currently active cluster groups are taking place in the following subject areas: Art, DT, Science, English, Maths, ITT, Computer Science, Pastoral, MFL and a general Support…
Read MoreThe results of the Globalist photography competition are in! A reminder that students were asked to submit a photograph with the theme of Urban and give a caption in a modern foreign language. The winning image is shown here. Well done to all who took part. We hope that the winners enjoy spending…
Read MoreEKST is delighted to announce we have been successful in our grant funding application to the Kent Community Foundation with funds allocated from the Lawson Endowment Fund for Kent. The core funding will make a huge difference in helping us to achieve our aims of raising aspirations and widening horizons of students in East Kent.…
Read MoreFirst and foremost when describing the event – I would like to say that I was happy to be there, I had essentially invited myself aboard when I have no experience of volunteering at King’s. East Kent schools Together, organised and brought together the likes of St. Lawrence College, Herne Bay High, a school whose…
Read MoreThe Teach Meet held at Spires Academy in early October focused on careers with a key note from Dr Anne Chant from CCCU. Thanks to all who gave the punchy four minute presentations.
Read MoreThe King’s School hosted an Introduction to Debating workshop for students from each of the partner schools on Tuesday 9 October. It was a lively and informative session during which students witnessed a British Parliamentary style debate and then had a go themselves. Well done to all who attended and many thanks to Mike Cox…
Read MoreThe inclusion of a University in our EKST partnership makes us unique. These fantastic Outreach Ambassadors worked with our Student Voice yesterday to inspire them in their new roles as ambassadors in their own schools.
Read MoreThe Bake Off Final took place at St Anselm’s RC School on Friday 28 September was a really fantastic afternoon for all involved.
Read MoreWhat a fantastic occasion our year one anniversary was on 20 September 2018. We celebrated the successes of year one, heard from our partnership choir (recently branded ‘The Big Sing’), welcomed funders and supporters, listened to students’ experiences of the partnership and our new Head’s Group Chair, Antony Spencer, closed by summarising what we have to…
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