Pupil Harry Cordeaux tells us of his first experience of attending an EKST event: On the 12thNovember, me and 12 other year 9s travelled to the Pines Calyx near Dover to take part in the East Kent Schools Together’s first ever Big Explore. We were split into four teams, together with students from St. Anselm’s School and St. Edmund’s. Each…
Read MoreThanks to the team at CCCU for hosting us on 6 November 2019 for a training session ahead of The Big Explore outdoor learning days at The Bay Trust. The briefing was a great success, with Nick Hill and Sian Lloyd (workshop leaders for the event) demonstrating the activities and talking through the day. Looking…
Read MoreWhat a fantastic opportunity for KS5 students from each of our partner schools…. a day at Turner Contemporary, visiting the Turner Prize for an ARTiculation workshop with experts from the learning team. The workshop is designed to develop skills of personal observation, discussion and primary research, encourage students to think independently, analyse information and ask…
Read MoreWe are delighted to have been awarded funding from two grant giving bodies at the start of our third year in operation. These awards are a really fantastic acknowledgement of our work and its success to date and will make a huge difference in the reach of our programme in this coming year. The first…
Read MoreWe all work hard to make the EKST partnership the success that it is but we hardly ever all get in the same room! We did on Wednesday 18 September 2019 and that ‘room’ was in the Bay Trust’s beautiful Pines Calyx building at St Margaret’s Bay.
Read MoreOn 28 June Esther Miles, our fabulous Artist-in-Residence, spent the day displaying 42 unique deckchairs ahead of the arrival of the student artists, their families, teachers, funders, VIP guests and the Mayor of Margate to launch their summer on display on Turner Contemporary’s terrace. The event was a very special occasion, a real celebration of…
Read MoreWell that was fun! Collaborative baking proved to be a great success and we had some incredible results, not just in baking but all who took part noted that working with someone they had never met before was a positive experience. Thanks to our Judges who took the job very seriously and enjoyed the task.…
Read MoreTurner Contemporary will be the home of our fabulous deckchairs from Saturday 29 June 2019 and this is where we were on Friday for the ‘finishing workshop’. Students who have taken part in the collaborative art project were given tours of ‘Seaside Photographed’ and got to know the Gallery whilst finishing their bespoke deckchair sling…
Read MoreEKST Year 10 students from Spires Academy, Herne Bay High School, St Lawrence College and The King’s School had a really special day at Augustine House at CCCU on 13 June. This, the second Enterprise event held by the CCCU Business School for our students, was a huge success and feedback on the day demonstrated…
Read MoreThis event, piloted in 2018, offers year 9 and 10 students the opportunity to engage in an event focusing on business and enterprise. The event aims to raise student’s expectations of their own capability, develop their presenting skills and experience, widen horizons through the collaboration of students from different schools/backgrounds and aspirations will be raised through…
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