News from KES
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Thu, 23 Oct 2025Giving Day at KES Bath
Discover how King Edward’s united pupils, staff, parents and alumni for its first Giving Day, raising £126,287 to support bursaries and outdoor learning spaces through community-led challenges, performances and generosity. Read more.
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Mon, 13 Oct 2025Music Week at KES Bath Junior School
Music Week at King Edward’s Junior School in Bath was a vibrant celebration of pupil performances, guest artists and musical activities that showcased a love of Music. Read more.
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Mon, 06 Oct 2025Yondr pouches introduced at KES Bath
King Edward’s introduces Yondr pouches for Years 7–11 to support a phone-free school day, promoting digital wellbeing, focused learning, and healthier habits. Read more.
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Fri, 03 Oct 2025Music in the Air at the Pre-Prep
Year 2 dive into music at the Pre-Prep with a host of new instruments. Read more.
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Tue, 30 Sep 2025KES Student Careers Talk on Linkedin Profile Management
OE Speaker, Sara Cass, hosts a KES Student Careers Talk on managing your online professional identity. Read more.
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Fri, 26 Sep 2025Bath Rugby Pathway News
KES players selected for the 2025/26 Bath Rugby Pathway. Find out more.
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Wed, 24 Sep 2025Mock Elections and Democracy in Action at KES
Mock Elections and Democracy in at action at the Senior School this week. Read more.
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Tue, 23 Sep 2025Sixth Form Careers and University (UCAS) Support at KES Bath
With you every step of the way. Discover how we support Sixth Formers with expert UCAS advice, careers guidance, varied onward pathways, Oxbridge and Medicine preparation and more.
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Tue, 16 Sep 2025A Proud Past and Purposeful Present
A recent Bath Life magazine delves into the history of King Edward's School, Bath. Read more.
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Thu, 11 Sep 2025KES Trip to Formula 1 Team
A Design Technology trip to iconic F1 team, Atlassian Williams Racing, inspired would-be engineers at KES. Find out more.
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Tue, 09 Sep 2025Parent Survey Findings for our Pre-Prep and Junior Schools
Parent survey reveals that KES Pre-Prep and Junior Schools are thriving environments where children are known, nurtured, and inspired to achieve their best. Find out more.
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Tue, 09 Sep 2025Alumni at KES Bath return to inspire the next generation
Alumni returned to KES today to inspire the next generation as they prepare for life beyond school. Read more.
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Thu, 21 Aug 20252025 GCSE Results
KES pupils shine brightly with outstanding GCSE results. Read more.
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Wed, 20 Aug 2025Senior school mobile phone policy
Creating a phone-free environment at our Senior School. Find out more.
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Mon, 18 Aug 20252025 university and pathway destinations
At King Edward’s, this year’s A Level results have once again demonstrated the academic strength of our Sixth Form, with 89% of all entries graded A-B*, including 61% at A/A* and 25% at A*. With a 100% pass rate, these results reflect not only academic excellence but also the School’s commitment to preparing students for a wide range of futures.
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Thu, 14 Aug 20252025 A Level Results at KES Bath
Another year of outstanding A Level success at KES. Read more.
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Tue, 12 Aug 2025KES Rated Very Good Value for Money by The Telegraph
King Edward's School rated 'Very Good' value for money by The Telegraph using its Value for Money Tool that assesses fees, alongside academic performance and other indicators. Read more.
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Tue, 29 Jul 2025Relocation Guide to Bath
If you are thinking of moving to Bath, read our handy guide to relocating to the South West of England.
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Wed, 25 Jun 2025KES Teams Finalists in the cambridge biology challenge
Two teams from KES have qualified for Cambridge Biology Challenge final after finishing among the top 10 schools nationwide. Read more.
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Mon, 23 Jun 2025The final of the PA Raspberry Pi Competition
Just before halt term a Junior School team headed to Google HQ for the final of the PA Raspberry Pi Competition. Read more.
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Thu, 19 Jun 2025Art Exhibition at KES Welcomes Joshua Donkor
Earlier this week our annual Art & Photography Exhibition welcomed local artist, Joshua Donkor as its guest speaker. Read more.
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Fri, 13 Jun 2025Digital Learning at the Pre-Prep
A new bank of iPads and laptops have arrived at the Pre-Prep to inspire our young learners. Find out more.
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Thu, 12 Jun 2025Coding success at the junior school
Many congratulations to our Year 6 Junior School coding superstars who have done fantastically well in the recent BEBRAS Coding Challenge. Read more.
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Mon, 09 Jun 2025Swimming Success at KES
Swimming success for KES Swimmers at the British Junior Para-Swimming Championship and IAPS National Finals. Read more.
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Thu, 05 Jun 2025KES Pupils Secure Prestigious Degree Apprenticeships
Two Year 13 pupils from KES have secured highly sought-after Degree Apprenticeship positions with Deloittes and AstraZeneca. Find out more.
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Wed, 04 Jun 2025KES Podcast Welcomes Special Guest
KES Publica, our popular Classics podcast, recently welcomed renowned scholar, Professor Denis Feeney, as a special guest. Find out more about the ensuing conversation.
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Tue, 03 Jun 2025Meeting Bill Bailey at a DofE event
Luana, a Year 13 pupil and former DofE Youth Ambassador, was recently invited to Buckingham Palace where she met OE, Bill Bailey. Read more.
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Fri, 30 May 2025Science Week at KES
Science Week at the Senior School saw a range of events to inspire our future Scientists. Find out more.
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Mon, 19 May 2025Year 8 Careers Day Explores the Legal World
Year 8 Careers Day offered a fascinating insight into the legal profession. Find out more.
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Thu, 15 May 2025Modern Foreign Languages Careers Day
Year 9 Modern Foreign Languages in Careers Day.
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Thu, 15 May 2025Annual Sports Dinner
Celebrating sporting achievement and ethos at the annual Sports Dinner Awards. Read more.
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Fri, 09 May 2025The Junior School Go Racing
The Junior School go racing in their Greenpower Trust kit-cars built from scratch. Read more.
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Thu, 08 May 2025VE Day Assembly
On VE Day we share the story of OE, John George Llewellyn Thomas, who undertook a mission behind enemy lines during World War II. Read more.
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Tue, 06 May 2025New Senior Prefects Appointed
This term sees the appointment of new Senior Prefects at the Senior School. Read more.
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Fri, 02 May 2025New zero waste tuck shop opens
This term sees the opening of a new zero waste tuck shop at the Senior School, inspired and managed by the Environmental Action Club. Find out more.
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Fri, 25 Apr 2025Junior School Team Finalists in the PA Raspberry Pi Competition
The Junior School has made it four in row as a finalist in the PA Raspberry Pi Competition! Read more.
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Tue, 22 Apr 2025KES CCF Celebrates 125th Anniversary
KES CCF recently celebrated its 125th anniversary with a trip to Scraesdon Fort. Read more.
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Sun, 20 Apr 2025A Superlative Sporting Term
The Spring Term Sporting results have been superlative and include the U18 Rugby Sevens team winning the Vase at Rossly Park National Schools Sevens. Read more.
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Tue, 15 Apr 2025A Bumper Term of Charity Fundraising
KES Charities sprang into term this action, with numerous initiatives and fundraising events. To date we have raised £22,000 for our charity partner, Moving Mountains Trust. Read more.
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Tue, 15 Apr 2025KES Welcomes Iain Mahony and Leo Powell to School
KES welcomes guest speakers, Leo Powell and Iain Mahony to school as part of the Learning for Life programme.
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Tue, 15 Apr 2025Adventures Abroad With The Gilligan Family Travel Award
Adventure beckons for seven Sixth Form pupils in receipt of The Gilligan Family Travel Award.
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Wed, 02 Apr 2025KES U18 Rugby 7s Team Win the Vase at the Rosslyn Park National Schools Sevens Tournament
Last week, King Edward's School stunned the world of school rugby by winning the Rosslyn Park Under 18 Vase: the biggest national sevens tournament going and the pinnacle of the sport. It capped a year where the same team were ranked in the top twenty schools in the Daily Mail Rugby Trophy.
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Mon, 24 Mar 2025World Book Day at the Senior School
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Mon, 24 Mar 2025MUN KES Maintain their model united nations winning streak
KES Model United Nations Team maintain their winning streak by winning best delegation at the Kingswood Model United Nations event.
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Wed, 12 Mar 2025An all singing all dancing Junior School Book Week
Sean Price, Head of the Junior School reflects on Book Wook at KES.
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Wed, 12 Mar 2025KES Pupils become Young Ambassadors for the Children's Hospice South West
A new initiative at KES sees five Year 12 pupils join the Young Ambassadors Scheme run by the Children’s Hospice South West.
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Mon, 10 Mar 2025Year 7 take to the stage in Meet the Ancient Greeks
Sixth Former, Grace, reviews the latest show from KES Drama - Meet the Ancient Greeks by Year 7.
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Fri, 07 Mar 2025KES Launches New Summer Holiday Camp
KES launches a new Summer Holiday Camp for children aged 5-12 years. Book now!
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Wed, 05 Mar 2025Year 13 Attracting Fantastic Early Offers from Higher Institutions
Amid the current Higher Education admissions season, KES pupils are already attracting offers from some of the UK’s leading universities across a broad portfolio of subjects.
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Fri, 28 Feb 2025OE Justin Davies Indoor British Champion
OE Justin Davies (2021) won 800m gold at the 2025 Microplus UK Athletics Indoor Championships held in Birmingham last weekend and has secured his place in the GB team to compete at the European Indoor Championships
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Mon, 10 Feb 2025New Good Schools Guide Review of KES
Just before Christmas the Good Schools Guide (GSG), renowned for their fearlessly frank and unrivalled reviews of more than 1,400 state and independent schools, visited King Edward’s to undertake a new review of the School.
As well as praising King Edward’s ‘top level teaching’ and “great creative and extra-curricular opportunities’, the visiting reviewer found that KES is “proud to remain academically pacy but equally proud that it’s also an enriching and nurturing school in which pupils thrive.”
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Fri, 07 Feb 2025Computing Success at KES
Computing success across our Senior and Junior Schools, as KES pupils do well in the Bebras Challenge and the Cyber Security Competition.
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Tue, 04 Feb 2025Year 12 Careers Mentoring Evening at KES
The inaugural Year 12 Careers Mentoring Event proved to be a memorable evening of insight and inspiration for our Sixth Form students, and Holbeche was buzzing with a sense of professional possibilities and pathways.
More than 40 professionals from a wide range of industries visited the school to share their experiences, top tips and pathways with pupils in intimate pods of conversation. Each Year 12 student was given a tailored programme for the evening, consisting of five bespoke 20-minute sessions that best matched their current passions and future aspirations, making connections and being inspired. -
Thu, 30 Jan 2025A Level Psychology Students Visit Shepton Mallet Prison
As part of their A Level Psychology studies, Sixth Formers recently visited Shepton Mallet Prison, a historic site which offered insights into the minds of criminals and the intricacies of the justice system.
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Fri, 10 Jan 2025Year 9 2025 Holocaust Memorial Day
Yesterday we were honoured to welcome Uri Winterstein BEM to KES to share his story as a Holocaust survivor as part of Year 9's Holocaust Memorial Day.
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Thu, 12 Dec 20242024 Sports Pathway News
Many congratulations to the following KES pupils who through the course of this term have played, or been newly selected for national, academy and regional performance pathways in the various major sports played at KES.
These include two selections to the U16 England Hockey Squads, 15 players within the Bath Rugby, Bristol Bears and County pathways, 12 netballers selected to represent at national level (U17 Wales) through to the Team Bath and Avon County pathways, and 10 cricketers playing at Wiltshire and Somerset County level as well as representing Somerset and Glamorgan EPP programmes.
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Fri, 06 Dec 2024Parent Power 2025
King Edward’s School, Bath has been recognised as the top performing co-educational independent school in the South West for the third year running in the new Sunday Times Parent Power Guide, published on 6 December 2024.
Widely acknowledged as the most authoritative survey of the country’s highest-achieving secondary schools, The Sunday Times Parent Power Guide ranks schools according to their combined 2024 GCSE and A Level results.
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Wed, 20 Nov 2024Junior School Pupil Parliament
A brand-new Pupil Parliament has been launched at the Junior School this term, as part of the School’s new Pupil Voice project to give ownership and empowerment to our younger pupils to influence what their school looks and feels like to them.
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Wed, 20 Nov 2024Anthology 2024 Launch
This year’s Anthology, featuring a collection of pupils’ poems, short stories and non-fiction, together with artwork and photography was launched to great acclaim at a literary event at school last week, to celebrate the creative expression of our talented pupils.
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Thu, 10 Oct 2024KES Joins The Wellbeing Hub
We are delighted to announce that we’ve invested in the The Wellbeing Hub. Supporting the mental health and wellbeing of our parents, pupils, and staff is a top priority for us here at KES and we are delighted to be able to draw on the resources that have been created by mental health and wellbeing experts to build on the existing support already in place for our pupils.
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Mon, 07 Oct 2024Two KES musicians perform in the bath young musician of the year
We wish Indira and Edward the very best of luck as they perform in Bath Young Musician of the Year 2024
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Thu, 03 Oct 2024John Ireland joins king edward's junior school
We are delighted to welcome Mr John Ireland as our new Deputy Head at the Junior School.
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Tue, 01 Oct 2024
Learning for Life at KES
In a world where our pupils are increasingly being drawn towards polarised perspectives on social media, our Learning for Life programme, where pupils can discuss 'the grey', and develop well-informed opinions in a safe environment, is more relevant than ever.
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Thu, 26 Sep 2024KES Chemists Rise to the Challenge
Many congratulations to our Year 13 Chemists, who between them achieved five gold, seven silver, and four copper awards in the Cambridge Chemistry Challenge last year and who recently received their certificates.
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Mon, 16 Sep 2024The Sixth Form at King Edward's School Bath
The Sixth Form is the most exciting culmination of your school life: it is the liminal space between childhood and adulthood, and a time when KES nurtures its young people to be ready for their next adventure.
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Fri, 13 Sep 2024
KES Bath 2024 University Destinations
As many universities start back this weekend our recent leavers and gap year students are heading to some of the UK’s leading universities, with over 90% securing places at their first choice Higher Education institution. Over 50% of students are taking up places at the UK’s top 20 universities* with 70% heading to Russell Group universities.
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Thu, 12 Sep 2024KES Team in Final of Science in Medicine Prize
KES Team in the Final of the Imperial College London's Science in Medicine Prize.
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Tue, 10 Sep 2024
Introducing Our Whole School Purpose and Values
Introducing our whole school Purpose and Values.
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Fri, 06 Sep 2024Mr Luke Benedict Joins KES as Head of Sixth Form
Mr Luke Benedict Joins KES as Head of Sixth Form
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Fri, 06 Sep 2024Mr Alex Smith Joins KES
Alex Smith Joins KES as Deputy Head (Academic) in the Senior School
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Thu, 22 Aug 2024GCSE Results 2024
Year 11 celebrate outstanding GCSE results with 38% of entries at the top 9 grade, 66% at 9/8 and 84% of entries at grade 9-7.
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Thu, 15 Aug 2024A Level Results 2024
Many congratulations to all Year 13 pupils at King Edward's who collected their A Level results today and who have once again done themselves immensely proud. 29% of all grades were at A*, our second highest ever and more than three times the national average, with 61% at A*/A and 81% at A*-B.
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Mon, 08 Jul 2024Dual Classics Competition Success
Many congratulations to Megan Power (Year 12), who has won the 17-18yr category in the Oxford Classics Creative Writing Competition.
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Sat, 06 Jul 2024Charity Fundraising This Summer
What a busy half term this has been for KES Charities. We had a parachute jump, a sponsored walk, cake and doughnut sales, a non-uniform day, a book launch, craft stalls, a Foodbank collection, and a plant sale.
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Fri, 05 Jul 2024Careers News in the summer term
This has been another busy term for the Careers programme at KES, with Year 7 undertaking their first Careers Day, which had a focus on Careers in Science.
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Fri, 07 Jun 2024University Offers 2024
Year 13 pupils at KES are celebrating an impressive range of offers from leading UK and international universities this year, as the 2024 application process draws to a close.
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Fri, 07 Jun 2024Spotlight on the Peer Mentoring Programme at KES
The Peer Mentoring Programme at KES aims to forge connections across year groups and to foster a sense of community at King Edward’s. We also understand that pupils often feel more able to chat freely with those of a similar age.
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Wed, 22 May 2024Oliver Jnr Takes to the Stage!
Dearest Gentle Reader…. As this reviewer lifts her quill to pen her last ever ‘Edwardian’ review, that greater privilege than to cover the sensational showstopping Dickensian music-hall extravaganza that was Oliver Jr!
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Fri, 10 May 2024Year 6 Life Skills Day
Dedication and commitment are key skills and traits that will serve children well as they grow into teenagers and eventually adults. Ultimately, instilling these values is one of the key roles that we have as educators.
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Tue, 30 Apr 2024Works Starts on a New Academic and Pastoral Building
The new Academic & Pastoral Building has been designed by local architects, Mitchell Eley Gould, and is a three-storey building accommodating 14 classrooms with associated pastoral spaces, offices and toilets.
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Mon, 19 Feb 2024Nursery Visit Avon Fire & Rescue Service
Nursery enjoyed a very exciting first day back after half term today, visiting Avon Fire & Rescue Service as part of their 'People Who Look After Us' topic.
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Tue, 26 Sep 2023Headmaster’s Prizegiving Speech 2023
We are delighted to welcome as our Prizegiver and speaker this evening Musidora Jorgensen. As the Chief Sustainability Officer at Microsoft UK and a key member of the Senior Leadership team there.
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Tue, 19 Sep 2023New Look Deli Bar, Lunch Time Menu & Sustainable Food Procurement Policy Launched At School
A £115,000 investment in the catering facility at the Senior School sees a new deli bar open this term, alongside a new lunchtime menu and an enhanced sustainable food procurement and waste policy at KES.
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Mon, 24 Jul 2023Year 11 Celebrate Superb GCSE Results Across The Year Group
Year 11 pupils have today been celebrating some superb GCSE results, with almost 40% at the top 9 grade and nearly two thirds at grade 9 or 8. 84% of grades were at 9-7, well above KES’ already historically high pre-Covid average.
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Mon, 17 Jul 2023King Edward’s pupils celebrate impressive A-Level results
Year 13 pupils at King Edward’s have today been celebrating some wonderful and well-deserved A-Level results. The well-documented return to pre-pandemic grading levels saw similar numbers of top grades awarded nationally to 2019, making KES pupils’ successes even more impressive.
