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From The Head The weather has been chilly but this has been a good spring term with plenty achieved. It began with good results for Oxbridge entry with nine places offered to KES students in this round of applications. Many students have also received offers from other prestigious universities with economics, medicine and engineering the most popular choices. Much time has also been focused on planning new construction projects at both Stroud School, our prep school, and on the main Hill Lane site. Work has been completed at Wellington Sports Ground on the new pavilion balcony and an additional hospitality room for pupils and parents should be finished by June. Plans are now well advanced for the new theatre, Art Department and expanded concourse to begin in April 2016. As this edition of KonnEctionS makes clear, the School remains extraordinarily busy with a variety of activities offering our students many opportunities. The spring term has a compressed calendar of hockey, netball, football and even sailing at Weston when the ice can be removed from the boats! We have also enjoyed the annual KESPTA Quiz Night, a number of studio drama productions and two musical events including a spring concert at Turner Sims. Students travelled to Berlin, Florence, Vienna and Salamanca over half-term with an expedition planned for Morocco over the spring holiday, as well as the annual visit to Andalucía and the ski trip to the French Alps. Many other students will be involved in Duke of Edinburgh expeditions over Easter. We say goodbye to just one member of staff this term; Mr Cuthbertson leaves the Physics Department and we welcome his replacement, Mrs Mahdavi. This issue also highlights some of the remarkable achievements of individual students at King Edward’s. They remain cheerful and community-minded, whatever the weather, and charitable activity has raised over £5,000. This is a fantastic achievement and a large number of students were even prepared to stay up throughout the night taking part in the 24 hour cycle-a-thon raising money for Southampton’s young carers. We remain very proud of them all! A J Thould Head

King Edward VI School Wilton Road . Southampton . Hampshire SO15 5UQ Telephone: 023 8070 4561

www.kes.hants.sch.uk


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