King's Ely students with a love for learning languages and experiencing different cultures are to reap the benefits of a new Erasmus+ project. The school has secured funding from the European Commission and British Council to deliver ‘The Village’ – a collaborative project involving King’s Ely and two of its partner schools, IES Andrés Vandelvira in Albacete, Spain and College Chaloupe...
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LIT Radio, a podcast developed by Sixth Form pupils at The Leys School to provide academic enrichment when Covid-19 regulations make it difficult to have visiting lecturers and discussion groups in school, has just been launched. The first episode went out on Friday 13th November. It is being released on Apple Podcasts, making it possible for people to listen in from all over the world. Episodes will...
Autumn sunlight shone over King’s Ely as students and staff commemorated Armistice Day. Instead of hundreds of people gathering inside Ely Cathedral for the school’s usual Act of Remembrance, King’s Ely marked the occasion with five simultaneous, separate, appropriately distanced outdoor services at different locations around the school campus. Earlier, King’s Ely Junior pupils and staff made...
Two Year 10 pupils from The Leys, Cambridge have been selected to join the Royal Yacht Association’s eastern region training squad. This sets them on course for possible selection for UK Sailing’s Youth Squads and, beyond that, Olympic Development programme. Dominic Atherton and George Macfadyen will take part in a series of two-day training camps over the next six months (lockdown...
A King’s Ely student has reached the finals of a prestigious fashion design competition. Namo Sajarattanachote, who is in Year 13, has been named a finalist in this year’s RECO Young Designer Competition, hailed the largest upcycling fashion design contest in Thailand. Sponsored by Indorama Ventures PCL, the competition is organised to raise awareness about how polyester ‘waste’ can be used...
A King's Ely student has been selected to represent the UK in an international mathematics competition. Eleanor MacGillivray is one of only six students from the UK who has been chosen to compete in the 2020 Balkan Mathematical Olympiad (BMO) – a 4.5 hour competition taking place in November. The BMO, now in its 37th year, was due to be held in Romania this year, however it will take place remotely...
An essay by Tonbridge sixth-former Rory Smith has been ranked as ‘Very Highly Commended’ in a prestigious essay competition run by Trinity College, University of Cambridge. Rory took part in Trinity’s 2020 Robson History Prize. An annual contest for Lower Sixth students, the prize is named in memory of renowned historian Robert Robson, who was for many years a Fellow and Tutor at the college,...
An Upper Sixth student at The Leys was awarded the prestigious Dresden Trust scholarship 2020, which took her on a four-week cultural and educational visit to this historic German city. Immy Cheney commented on her visit: “Much of my visit was spent tracing the impacts of the war and evidence of reconciliation. I continue to be deeply moved by the spirit of the people to reclaim the ‘Florenz an...
King's Ely choristers have come together – virtually – to record two wonderful lockdown songs. Missing being able to sing, live and learn together on a daily basis due to Covid-19, members of both the Ely Cathedral’s Girls’ and Boys’ Choirs, all of whom are pupils at King’s Ely, decided to join forces remotely to record two songs which mean a lot to them. The girls have recorded ‘How...
The Ollie Feast Trust, in conjunction with The Leys, has provided sports packs to help families supported by the Red Hen Project. Since 2016, the annual four-day Ollie Feast Activity Camp has taken place every July at The Leys School in Cambridge. The Ollie Feast Trust, set up by Ollie’s father, Steve, was developed as a memorial to Ollie who died in 2015. The event aims to help disadvantaged...
A King's Ely student has won this year’s South East Cambridgeshire Schools Parliamentary Debating Competition. The competition, now in its sixth year, is organised by local MP, Lucy Frazer, and sees secondary school students from across South East Cambridgeshire battling it out. This year’s competition started off as normal with Mrs Frazer visiting schools and hearing students putting their points...
Paige's work Fashion and Textiles students at King’s Ely are celebrating success in two prestigious competitions. Paige Newell, Year 12, and John-Oswald Crichton, Year 11, have both been highly commended in this year’s Young Fashion Designer UK contest. They submitted outstanding fashion design ‘mood boards’ with supporting text, where they explored a decade of design by their chosen fashion...
Musicians at King’s Ely have joined together (virtually!) to record a song in honour of the work being carried out by NHS and frontline workers. Around 60 pupils from King’s Ely Junior and King’s Ely Senior featured in the recording of ‘Like A Rainbow Shining’, a song written by British composer, Will Todd. Students recorded themselves or got a family member to record them singing at home and...
The Leys School, Cambridge, has been named The Sunday Times Parent Power East Anglia Independent Secondary School of the Year. The annual Sunday Times schools guide, Parent Power, lists the 2,000 highest-achieving schools in the UK, based on exam results. Alastair McCall, editor of The Sunday Times Schools Guide, Parent Power, said: “A stellar year academically earns The Leys our East Anglia...
Five pupils at Haberdashers’ Monmouth Schools have been offered places to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities. Old Monmothian, Joshua Kershaw, has had an offer to read Veterinary Medicine at St John’s College, Cambridge. Joshua, who took his A levels at Monmouth School for Boys last summer, is currently in Thailand working in coral conservation. Bella Thomas, 17, who joined the...