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  1. #generationrestoration Oceans Day Pines Calyx Oct. 23

    EKST received some amazing feedback from students and staff concerning this fantastic day; with many thanks again to The Bay Trust and the Cleary Foundation for all their backing and support to make this happen. Students from Herne Bay High School, Spires Academy and St.Anselm’s were able to support this event. Here is some of…

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  2. Life Drawing Classes- First session 25th Feb 2023

    Many thanks to St. Edmund’s, one of our partner schools, for hosting and facilitating an amazing morning of Life Drawing for EKST students. Feedback: “Really well organised and well taught. It’s fantastic that you provide this opportunity to students within the EKST partnership.” Another wonderful session to follow and photos coming soon! ” Chose to…

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  3. Big Drama Day 2023

    Delighted to be able to run a Big Drama Day for EKST partner schools, kindly hosted by King’s in their amazing space at The Malthouse Theatre. Facilitated by the wonderful Drama department who helped bring all the students to create some fantastic work. We had a number of our schools attend with fantastic feedback on…

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  4. Big Chill 2023

    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…

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  5. ‘Our Shared Isolation’ art collaboration exhibition

    The ‘Our Shared Isolation’ art collaboration project concluded on Friday 25 June 2021 with an amazing exhibition installed at the Daphne Oram centre for Creative Arts at CCCU by Esther and the team at CCCU. The space looked amazing and the works reflected the incredible time, thought and creativity that students had given to this…

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  6. ‘Our Shared Isolation’ art collaboration competition

    We are so delighted to have been able to run this art collaboration in 2021 in response to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Support from the John Swire 1989 Foundation made it possible and the students who have been involved have created some amazingly thoughtful concepts and pieces representing what became important to their…

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  7. Canterbury City Council wellbeing grant funding success

    We are very proud of our ‘Big Sing’ partnership choir. Prior to Covid students from our partnership schools would meet termly to sing together. This impactful initiative boosted wellbeing, built confidence, broke down boundaries and widened horizons. During lockdown we have run Big Sing sessions online that have been really successful. We needed funds to…

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  8. Supporting and connecting: talk for staff by Somi Arian

    Somi Arian’s talk ‘Human Skills for Disruptive Technologies’   focuses on the four critical human skills that need to be brought into the classroom to help students survive and thrive in a 21st century landscape, dominated by AI and automation.  

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  9. Wellbeing activities for students

    Why not head to our EKST YouTube channel to find unwind with some of our wellbeing activities: Click HERE to have take part in our fitness challenges, sing  in the comfort of your own home with Lemon our vocal lead, learn how to approach poetry writing, discover the power of journalling and more. And HERE…

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