KS hopes you all had a wonderful Christmas and a very happy New Year. We’re all looking forward to a very exciting term ahead. We’ve already had lots of 7+, 8+ and 11+ exams, rugby and hockey matches, poetry competitions, parent seminars, theatre trips and football tournaments. It’s been a fun-filled start to the…
What a fantastically festive day we had on Friday. Christmas Jumper Day was an extraordinary success. Almost all staff members and pupils wore their Christmas jumpers, with everyone donating money to the Kensington & Chelsea Foundation Winter Warmth campaign. Our annual Christmas Crafts Fair was equally successful. Brilliantly organised by our KSPA, who consistently go…
The J2’s had an exciting visit from explorer Charlie Walker who embarked on a 4 and a half year adventure around the world on his old bicycle. The children were in awe of his inspiring stories of adventure and overcoming physical and mental challenges. The Junior School are learning all about explorers this term —…
The Junior Choir excelled in front of a public audience during their Christmas Carol performance in the Toy Kingdom at Harrods. Parents and members of the public also took part in a festive encore at the end of the performance. The Junior Choir is going from strength to strength at KS – we look…
Key Skills and Leadership Week was fabulous. Taking place in the first week of half term, we learnt all sorts of new and exciting things thanks to a brilliant array of workshop leaders. The week featured True Deli, who taught us about creating and costing our own breakfast cereal and canapes, Mr Henry from Ogilvy…
Our annual Be Bright, Be Seen Day, in association with DirectGov and the Department for Transport, was potentially our best ever! The school was unbelievably colourful, fantastically bright and dazzlingly neon. Asides from the excitement caused by everyone being dressed so colourfully, much of the day was focused on the importance of road awareness…
All S5 and S6 pupils visited The National Museum of Computing as part of their Digital Technology curriculum topic on programming and computing history. It was an incredibly inspiring day – everyone learnt so much about the history of computing, the pupils were amazed by the historical programming equipment and the talks led…
Congratulations to the S6 Scholars team who finished runners up at the Academic Challenge at St Edward’s. Those involved made KS proud with their enthusiasm, confidence, clear arguments and general knowledge. Our team took part in a four part carousel of activities which required them to think on their feet, use new information, solve problems…
J1 boys and girls hugely enjoyed their first trip of the year to London Zoo. A fun, educational and sometimes quite hair-raising day was had by all! For many, it was their first time seeing animals like penguins and meerkats up close. Whilst everyone agreed they were incredibly cute it was also fascinating to hear…
We’ve had a fantastic two weeks back at KS to kick off the 2016-17 academic year. Everyone arrived refreshed and ready for the challenges ahead and new families were welcomed warmly. We had a wonderful assembly in St Columba’s to celebrate our 10 year anniversary, there have been lots of football and netball matches already…