News – Page 9 – East Kent Schools Together

Supporting and connecting: workouts to keep us all fit

HIIT for beginners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSXr6V9q6rM HITT for Intermediates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEsZITtRiWQ HIIT for those who want a bit more of a challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHfTCd2q-rg These are all a male instructor, if you’d prefer a female instructor you can try the following as recommended by KVB. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyUY2QZe0OI If you enjoy these then there are loads of you tube videos that…
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Supporting and connecting: Mindfulness

The King’s School have made us aware of the Mindfulness in Schools project which is offering a daily sit together. This is a wonderful opportunity for both staff and students. Mindfulness is a wonderful way to re-centre and be in the moment at this time and sit together at what would have been break time…
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Supporting and connecting: remote careers provision and ideas

Higher and Further Education partners have huge resources, and now may have extra time for developing new creative ideas and so we will share these as they arise. Our University partner will be in touch with challenges and information in due course, we hope that this will include: Science experiments – STEM departments Mock Trials –…
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Supporting and connecting: looking after your mental health

This brilliant poster from the World Health Organisation is one to share with staff and student’s alike. There will inevitably times over the coming weeks and months when the stress does take its toll and so we hope that this and other shared resources are useful. WHO coping with stress The charity ‘Mind’ provides trusted and…
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Supporting and connecting: a focus on our students’ mental well-being

We will be focusing our Partnership support closely around our aims of positively impacting on resilience, well-being and our students’ sense of belonging in the coming weeks. To start with we have compiled a list of user friendly and trusted online resources for students to access at this time of disruption: KOOTH is an excellent online…
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STEM home learning resources for parents

Encounter Edu – Live Lessons Encounter Edu designs and delivers sponsored STEM and global learning programs, transforming education inside and outside the classroom. You can sign up for this resource for FREE and join scheduled Live Lessons, broadcast online. There are free downloadable teacher books with lesson plans and resources, as well as opportunities for…
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Sharing resources: Science and Maths

Thank you to our partners for continuing to share good quality resources that can be used by teachers to engage students whilst remote learning is taking place. 2020 Great Bug Hunt – http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/bughunt Science Sparks – https://www.science-sparks.com/science-for-early-years/ Maths – https://www.khanacademy.org/signup Maths – video of Johnny Ball teaching multiplication life skill Maths – https://uk.ixl.com/math/ @MrsSingleton – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-7X2M2QjdSPN6m_4nWjjzMY7dZh7rYIi Resource for teaching PSHE,…
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Supporting and connecting: resources

We hope to support you during this time of remote learning and continue to keep our colleagues and students connected. We will begin this by collating the growing number of online resources for you to use and share. Please do guide colleagues and parents to this news tab for resources which will be updated regularly.…
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Re-thinking how we can support each other

Our partnership is all about getting people together for mutual benefit. With Covid-19 changing the way we do everything we are looking to continue to find ways to support our students and staff as they become increasingly cut off from one another physically. We will be posting here in our News Tab useful resources, guidance,…
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Celebrating Partnerships launch event at the House of Commons

Christina Astin, Executive Chair of EKST and Jon Boyes, Chair of EKST Head’s Group attended a Celebrating Partnerships event hosted by the ISC at the House of Commons. There they were able to were able to talk to other school leaders about the EKST partnership programme and the importance, impact and innovative nature of Independent…
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