Category: Community & Charity News
“Why It’s Important For Students to Belong to a Community” – The Independent School Parent
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Winners of the Dukes Charitable Award for 2021
“Our Knightsbridge School (KS) Community is delighted to have won the Dukes Charitable Award for 2021. The KS Education Foundation, the KS Parents Association, the KS Staff and KS Pupils have thrown themselves into the ‘Giving and Sharing’ mantra on the KS Code and have helped the local churches, schools, hospitals, charities and organisations who…
Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Toy Drive
A huge thank you to all our amazing KS Parents and families for your generosity with the new toy donations. Chelsea and Westminster Hospital saw a lot of happy faces today in the paediatric ward and their teams couldn’t believe how generous everyone was. They were so appreciative and grateful!
Wildlife Charity Art Competition
Well done to everyone that submitted an incredible wildlife art work and contributed to charity, we raised £185 for our EYFS Charity, Tusk! This is a progressive conservation charity helping to protect wildlife across the continent of Africa. The pieces are incredibly creative and are being displayed in the KS reception area for all to…
Charity Initiative
Two of our Year 4 students set up a lemonade and snack stand outside their respective homes, over two days, just before Easter. They managed to raise £123 for the RSPCA.
Inclusion and Diversity Talk
Our Pickwicks students took part in a seminar on how to be actively anti-racist with Dublin University. Guest speakers included Ahmed El-Habbash who discussed Islamiphopia and Yemi Adenuga who discussed the importance of difficult conversations and building relationships within communities. She discussed unconscious bias and explained that ‘when you’re feeling good in yourself the only…
KS completed ‘The Big Give Challenge’
A huge well done to everyone in the KS community that took part and contributed miles, we made it!! As a school we raised an incredible £3594 for the Harrow Club. We managed to cycle/run/scooter/walk/ride 1000 miles!! 126 extra miles than the length of the UK! Special mention to Sara F (S6C) who contributed the…
Ashburnham Community School Christmas Delivery
In the last week of the Christmas term KS and our incredible Parents Association sent over book donations, party hampers and teacher presents to Ashburnham Community School (ACS). Mr Ben McMullen, ACS Head response: Words cannot express how overwhelmed we are here. This has been such an incredible end of term- with the books, hampers,…
The Knightsbridge School Cookbook
The cookbook is a 240+ page, hard bound collection of recipes from the Knightsbridge School Community: our KS Chefs, amazing KS Students, KS Teachers, KS Parents and KSPA. The KS Cookbook features beautiful artwork from the children and photos from Birgit Tabbarah. A lovely, and useful keepsake and great item for Christmas gifting. All proceeds…