Kent College Summer 2016 kentcollege.comKent CollegeTimes Excelle nt in every aspect (ISI 2 Canterbury 015) THE KENT COLLEGE FAMILY Dr David Lamper Head Master From The Head Master’s Desk @kentcollegehm Dear Readers range of different primary schools due to have contributed to the school and wish outreach work in many curriculum areas them and their families all the best for ‘The Kent College Family’ which has introduced KC to new families: a bright future and trust that they will Art workshops, an Orchestra Festival keep in touch with us through the Old The weather this June may have been and a Methodist Choir, Sports coaching, Canterburians Club. colder and wetter than usual but this a Maths competition and a Languages has not dampened our enthusiasm for all Day are some of the special events The following teachers will be leaving that the Summer Term brings: Activities undertaken - alongside KC experience Kent College upon completion of short Week and work experience; tea parties, Days for whole classes of Year 5 pupils term contracts: Marcus Harman and picnics and receptions; examinations; when the children have access to Science Marco Gianella and we thank them for trips abroad; district, county and national labs, the Farm, and the Food Technology their contributions to the College. sport competitions and school sports kitchen amongst other exciting activities. days; countless concerts, recitals, plays A number of families are also transferring We also thank: and shows, and the sponsored walk. All to Kent College in Years 8 -10 and for the Alice Bodle - who began as teaching celebrated with Parents’ Day and Speech Sixth Form - some because they felt their assistant in 2013 and has since gained a Days and recorded in another splendid children were not being appropriately degree. She is leaving the Junior School edition of the Kent College Times, edited challenged at grammar schools, others to complete a postgraduate teaching by a new student team. from local independent schools because qualification in Exeter. they prefer the personalised approach at The theme for this edition ‘The Kent KC. Sharon Ainsworth a teacher of Maths at College Family’ not only refers to the the Senior School for 7 years, will retire wonderfully successful Grandparents’ There has also been strong growth across at the end of this academic year, and has Day at the Junior School seen on the all years at our Junior School. Attracted been part of the team that has seen cover but also to the growing group of by the GREAT programme (which allows the department grow from strength to schools associated with KC. At Speech children to develop particular skills) strength; not forgetting that every student Day, I reported the imminent opening of and setting in core subjects designed achieved grade A*-C in the Maths GCSE Kent College Dubai at the end of August. to accelerate progress. Lorenden last summer. The magnificent £30M campus - built to Preparatory School, now also part of the our specifications and fully funded by an Kent College family, is to be congratulated Eleanor Humphreys will leave her post as eminent Emirati family business, is now on being ranked 29th nationally in the Teacher of Business Studies at the end of receiving its final fit out, is fully staffed for Sunday Times Prep School Rankings this academic year after 13 years service. the new term and students are signed up and can also boast greater numbers for Mrs Humphreys was previously the Head in every year from Reception to the Sixth September. of Business Studies and Assistant Head of Form. Sixth Form. We are delighted that she will I expressed my gratitude to colleagues for continue in her role of Housemistress at Back in Canterbury, I was delighted to the quality of their work in the academic the Junior School Boarding House. Mrs report the continued growth in the sphere and beyond and I was also keen Humphreys is going to study for a career student population across the Kent to thank my colleagues on the Senior change as an Educational Psychologist. College family of schools. At the Senior Management Team for their leadership School, day student numbers have of the College and congratulated them Anita Nugent joined as a teaching increased significantly in the last 5 years on winning the national award for Senior assistant at the Junior School in February and we have another record cohort Leadership Team of the Year at the Times 2002. She gained a degree and a teaching joining Year 7 in September: the greatest Educational Supplement Independent qualification and she is leaving to move number since the days of the direct School Awards. into a full time position at King’s. government grant, which ended nearly 20 years ago. Some students have spent their last Lynda Brissenden has been a Teacher of Almost all of the Year 6 group from our summer at Kent College - some have English at the Senior School for 14 years own Junior School will transfer, and more been with us a few terms, others for 14 and during her time has inspired a love than half of Year 7 will come from a wide years. We thank them for all that they of literature in a generation of students. She established a Community Service option during Games and has been a great supporter of dramatic productions and regular in the choir. Lynda will retire HM Tweets at the end of this academic year. Colette Wales will retire from the Junior School after 25 years of teaching strings and presenting ‘Play Togethers’. Colette first joined KC in 1990 as House Parent of School House with her husband Peter. Many of her violin and viola students have matured into fine, award winning players. Kent College is a community which attracts the dedication of those who work here and I am delighted to thank Ann Moyes for 25 years service. Ann has arguably, the most difficult job in school as housekeeper for Mr Carter at the Junior School. Previously Ann worked as a Housekeeper in Austen and pupils and staff alike remember her warmth and generosity. Mary Jones is the House Manager of Austen House, and is also celebrating 25 years service, caring for 40 girls and supporting the House Parent. Mary has a great sense of humour, and a sympathetic ear for her girls, and has nurtured, and prepared them for the next stage of their lives as they move on from Austen House. Collette, Ann and Mary received presentations to mark their long service. A damp but wonderfully busy and exciting Summer Term. My thanks to you all in the Kent College family for supporting such a full educational and enjoyable programme. To keep up with the frequent and impressive achievements of school teams and individuals, please follow me on Twitter at @kentcollegehm. 3 Olivia Clarke 10 Minutes With... Year 10 Mr Burnage concluded that it would be the time that the school and his enthusiasm for his job he played for the Yorkshire U18 Rugby is extremely evident. Team, in Pontypridd, Wales, alongside his brother, against the Welsh U18 Rugby His passions distinctly lie in sport, and, in Team, with 10,000 spectators. particular; rugby. He has had a lifetime of playing rugby, and has coached and He took nine O-Levels, (now referred to selected for the England U16 Team. as GCSEs), and later, four A-Levels; Maths, His own involvement in the sport saw Mr John Burnage is the Head of Sixth Economics, Geography and General him represent both Leeds University, Form and Careers, in addition to Studies. Loughborough University and Roundhay teaching Mathematics, as well as GCSE RVFC, prior to playing professionally for and A Level Physical Education at Kent He earned a Bachelor of Science Joint College. Furthermore, he coaches the Honours degree in Physical Education, U13 Rugby and cricket Teams, having Sports Science and Mathematics from had his fair share of experience with Loughborough University, along with a the sport. He has been employed at the Post Graduate Certificate of Education school for twenty-one years, where he is from Leeds University, where he did his an important and respected member of teacher training. He states that he ‘always the community. wanted to be a teacher, having had a fantastic experience at school and been Mr Burnage was born and raised in so impressed by my PE teachers’. Leeds RLFC. Aside from his interest in Sharlston, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: a rugby, he enjoys most sports, (but not mining village. His father and grandfather In his twenty-one years of teaching at football), travelling and playing golf. were coal miners and his mother Kent College, Mr Burnage has been a housewife. He recollects that his Head of Boys Games, Head of Boarding If Mr Burnage could have dinner with hometown was ‘dominated by the coal House and Head of Middle School, and anyone from history it would be Eddie industry’, with a majority of the villagers is now Head of Sixth Form and Careers. Jones, the current head coach of the working in the mines. He regards himself As Head of these duties, he looks after England national rugby union team. ’a very proud Yorkshireman.’ the academic and pastoral development He would like to ask him about his of students and assists with University management skills, how he improved the He speaks highly of his identical twin applications. Of his valued role in the team and ‘quiz him on his philosophy of brother, with whom he says he is ‘very school, he says that he, ‘enjoys the contact coaching and what he has done to turn close’ and speaks to often, along with his with the students and watching pupils the present England team in to a world older sister.