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The Big Chill ran across 2 days organised by EKST and facilitated by some amazing artists, oracy, wellbeing, and outdoor specialists.  Many thanks too to Pines Calyx- an amazing place. We had some fantastic feedback from students and staff: Feedback from students:” I liked how we could speak about how we liked and disliked about…

The School and College Engagement Team at CCCU are currently delivering a variety of webinars, which students are invited to get involved in over the coming week: https://www.canterbury.ac.uk/campaign/you-can-go-to-university? Do sign up and share

We love our Big Sing and are DELIGHTED they are still singing together Head over to our YouTube channel to see the virtual choir films and enjoy, they are really uplifting A massive shout out to Lemon Otter and Sue Wood for making this a reality

The East Kent Schools Together partnership welcomes an Artist in Residence to engage students across seven schools in a six month long unique art collaboration entitled ‘Rearranging Deckchairs’ to be exhibited this summer at Turner Contemporary, Margate.   The Kent coast has long been the inspiration for local artists. Continuing in this tradition East Kent Schools Together’s…

EKST 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.…

Over the past six weeks, Markus Hunt an intern from Canterbury Christ Church University undertook an impact evaluation of EKST’s first year. The aim of the impact evaluation was to evaluate whether EKST has been achieving their aims. This was achieved by systematically analysing evaluation data collected from eleven student EKST events and twelve teacher events. In addition, focus groups interviews and one-to-one interviews were conducted at each school.

One year ago, six schools and a university in East Kent agreed to do together what we could not do alone.  A year into the partnership and over thirty events later, what have we learned? This article has grown from a talk we gave twice to gratifyingly large audiences at the Schools Together Group conference in York…

The Globalist EKST Poetry in Translation Prize Winners 2018 Well done to all those who took part in the 2018 Poetry in Translation competition. The aim of the competition was to widen the appreciation of poetry and to help see the world from the point of view of others, as well as appreciate the beauty…