General News
Veledictory Celebration
On Saturday evening, we celebraed the achievements of all of our Year 13, UFY and Business Diploma students at our beautiful Valedictory ceremony. Mr Williams gave a beautiful speech explaining the importance of the achievements, and motivating our students to go on and achieve even more in the coming years. The event was held at…
Escape the Science Room…
Earlier this year, Earscliffe Physics students have been designing and building an Escape room that will be located in the town centre. Anyone who wants to take part, will have to challenge themselves to beat the fiendish challenges that our students have created and manage to escape the room and find out what happened to…
Guest Lecture from Tim Fish
Whilst we do have lots of speacilised teachers here at Earlscliffe – we are always very happy to welcome guest speakers and expert in their field. Today was the tuirn of someone who is often at Earlscliffe and who knows the school very well. Tim Fish – Co-Founder, Former Headteacher and Managing Director of Dukes…
Exciting work on Goldschmidt House
Work has begun in earnest on Earlscliffe new boarding house – Goldschmidt House. Renovation and building work is ongoing and 38 bedrooms will be ready for our new and old students arriving in September. The building is going to give us a huge amount of flexibility – giving students a huge new common room, dining…
Canterbury Printing Trip
Last week, Earlscliffe ITY Art students travelled to Canterbury to visit a professional printmaker. They produced beautiful artworks which will be used as part of their GCSE portfolio, whilst also having the opportunity to try new techniques and discover how different types of artwork are produced. The visit also included a trip to the Lilford…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe Community, I hope this finds you well. It is a beautiful spring day here in Folkestone. Whatever the weather is like where you are, I hope you are enjoying your day. I have been away for a couple of days this week at the Boarding Schools Association Head Teachers’ Conference…
Psychology A-level – Loftus Conference in London
On Monday 21st March, all year 12 and year 13 Psychology students attended an A-level Psychology conference at The Emmanuel Centre in Westminster, London. The day consisted of university-style lectures in Psychology with talks such as ‘The Psychology of Success’ by Psychology textbook author Cara Flanagan and ‘Who am I?’ by Dr Phil Banyard. In the…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, I hope this finds you well. If education is a good thing for our students, then I think it ought to be good for all of us: teachers, pastoral staff, support staff, parents, agents, and certainly for me. It would be ridiculous if a teacher looked back at their…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, I hope this finds you well. Our International Transition Year and Year 13 students have been working hard this week, taking mock exams in preparation for their public exams later this summer. We have ensured that they have plenty of experience of exam-style testing before now, to get them…
Head Teacher’s Newsletter
Dear members of the Earlscliffe community, I hope this finds you well. Here in Kent, we are looking forward to a week at a slightly different pace, and many of you will be welcoming your children happily home for a rest, and perhaps a bit of revision. For those families for whom travel home is…