Sep
22
From the Head of Secondary 23.09.2023
It was wonderful to see so many members of the KIS and wider community in the school hall on Wednesday morning for Open Day. The Secondary presentation was very well attended, with all chairs taken! Mrs Beresford, Mr Bromley, Mrs Colbeck and I spoke about the practicalities of Secondary: how it is structured into three [...]
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Sep
15
From the Head of Secondary 16.09.2023
Meet the Prefect Teams! We have assembled a wonderful selection of Year 11, 12, and 13 students to form our Prefect body this academic year. They have already worked hard to create their job descriptions and define their roles to meet the needs of the school. We have agreed on three teams, the Managing / [...]
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Sep
08
From the Head of Secondary 09.09.2023
This week the student leadership teams have been meeting and allocating their various roles. On Thursday it was the turn of the Charity Committee 2023 – 2024 and I am proud to announce the following: Charity Committee 2023 - 2024 President – Emilia Yam Y12 Vice president – Amanda Yapp Y11 & Benson Tan Y9 [...]
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Sep
01
From the Head of Secondary 02.09.2023
We now have out teacher mentors in place for the Charity Committee [Ms Jing] and the Student Council [Ms Li], and those groups will be having their first official meetings next week. Many thanks to those colleagues for taking on those roles. I am sure we are going to see real commitment from both of [...]
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Aug
25
From the Head of Secondary 26.08.2023
School is now in full swing, with plenty of serious study going on in classrooms, plenty of basketball happening on the court at break and lunchtime, and also, happily, plenty of new student applications being processed. These have certainly kept me occupied this week and it has been wonderful to meet prospective KIS students and [...]
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Aug
17
From the Head of Secondary 19.08.2023
It’s been wonderful to see all of our students returning to school this week! We were all ready to meet and greet them, and parents and there was a genuine buzz of excitement. There is certainly plenty to get excited about, not just all the events which are scattered throughout the academic year, but just [...]
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Jun
22
From the Head of Secondary 24.06.2023
Macbeth! What an amazing end of term it has been, and it’s not over yet! First of all: Macbeth, our first major school production for some years. Anticipation had been building for some months, and we were not disappointed. Amazing fact: a Mr William Shakespeare wrote a play Macbeth in 1607. It was first published [...]
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Jun
16
From the Head of Secondary 17.06.2023
Macbeth…..well, all of the massive anticipation of this major school event was well justified. On Wednesday and Thursday evening about 250 friends, parents and staff were kept enthralled by the action in the hall. This production had everything: atmosphere (the smoke machine was particularly appreciated by the younger members of the audience), super-tense moments which [...]
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