Safety statement here.

Letters are given to students (or sent home electronically) to invite them to attend the various fieldcourses  which are run by the Department for different year groups.  Copies of all these letters may be found below. 

Sixth Form French students here at KES are fortunate to have the opportunity of spending a week with a French student and his/her family when they take part in the exchange in the Autumn Term. This exchange with the Lycée St Martin in Angers has proved to be extremely successful and we hope very much that the trip will continue for a number of years to come. The KES group travels by flybe from Southampton Airport to Nantes or Rennes Airport and during the week our students spend some time in lessons and take part in a number of excursions in the Loire Valley. A level students are strongly encouraged to sign up to this exchange as it offers them a chance to improve their spoken French as they settle down into their AS and A2 courses.

Power Point from the Information Evening.

Angers Sixth Form French Exchange 2013/2014: Letter 1/Pairing Information Form/B15

For the Royal Institute Lectures on Computing - "Hi-tech trek" Click here

BBC video clips - IT and Computing tagged

BBC Click- why apps fail

Turing chatterbot - would it pass the Turing test?

Recent News Stories

Please find below a PDF with suggested reading:

Reading List

SOPHIE JAMES KES Dates 2009-2010 Sophie sings plays the clarinet. She was a leading member of the Choir and Symphony Orchestra at KES and is now reading Music at Bristol University.  

LUCY SMITH KES Dates: 2004 - 2009

Lucy plays French horn and Violin and was leader of the School Symphony Orchestra and String Orchestra. She had a musical gap year performing a horn concerto on tour with the orchestra of Trinity College of Music Junior Department. Lucy is now at the Royal Northern College of Music on the BMus Hons Course. She will be spending part of 2013 studying in Austria on a musical exchange programme.

TEACHERS

Mr Simon Allen BMus LRAM (Jazz saxophone and piano)
Mrs Victoria Andreou BA (Hons) Dip ABRSM Dip HE (Flute/Piano)
Mrs Jane Andrews GRSM, ARCM (Viola/Violin)
Mrs Gill Bolton BA (Hons) LGSM (Piano)
Miss Lucy Braga BA (Hons) PGCert Concert singing (Singing)
Miss Lucille Burns MA (Flute)
Miss Lizzie Collier BA (Hons) PGCert.SLT (Singing)
Mr Graham Cleaver BA (Hons) LGSM (Classical Guitar)
Mr Darrell Cox (Brass)
Mrs Elin Davis BA (Hons) (Singing)
Mrs Anita Felton BA (Hons) (Recorder/Cello)
Mr John Hanchett Cert HE (Mus) LRSM (Trumpet)
Mrs Jo Handy LRAM (Cello)
Mr Harun Kotch (Guitar)
Mr Adam Lamprell BA (Hons)(Guitar)
Mr Richard Lyon ARCM (Brass)
Mr Simon Morgan LTCL, LRAM (Woodwind)
Mr Adrian Osman GRSM (Double Bass)
Miss Tamsin Rowlinson LRAM, GRSM (Bassoon)
Mrs Sarah Salmon BA (Hons) (Oboe/Piano)
Miss Claire Stocker BA (Hons) PGCE LGSM (Flute)

Mr Richard Thompson BA (Hons) (Piano/Violin)
Mr Timothy Warren ARCM (Brass)

Mr Lewis Webb BA (Hons) (Drum Kit)
Mrs Diana Williams BA (Hons) PGCE (Violin)
Mr Paul Williams GRNCM PPRNCM (Percussion)

Ms Fiona Willsher (Piano)

Mr Andrew Worsfold GLCM (Hons) (Woodwind)

 

COST

The current cost (from September 2013) is £16.50 per lesson and parents are billed by the instrumental teachers at the start of each term. Any lessons missed legitimately, for example due to illness, will not be charged for, assuming the teacher has been informed in advance of the absence in accordance with the terms of their agreement with the parents.


LOGISTICS

In the Upper School and 6th Form, students' lessons take place before or after school or during the lunchtime or study periods. In the Lower School, whilst some lessons also take place at these times, the majority of lessons are arranged on a rota basis, where pupils miss a different School lesson each week in order to have their music lesson.

It is important that you contact the instrumental teacher early in the morning if your son or daughter will miss a lesson for any reason. Six weeks' notice is required if a pupil wishes to stop having lessons.

We strongly encourage all students having lessons to participate in one of the many bands, orchestras and choirs in the School. In this way they will develop as musicians and become thoroughly involved in the musical life of the School.

We will do our very best to accommodate all those students who wish to take music lessons. There is sometimes a waiting list operating for certain instruments. If lessons are required on an instrument which is not listed, please let us know so we can try to help.

Pupils are required to provide their own instruments. Arrangements can be made at School for use of percussion and double bass.

Students do not have to take examinations, but they are encouraged to do so if they wish to. The School acts as a centre for Associated Board examinations twice a year, and some teachers help pupils to take examinations with other boards such as Guildhall and Trinity, though these are not taken at School.


ACCOMPANIMENT

The staff in the Department are happy to accompany students for GCSE and A-level performances and instrumental examinations; pupils should see Mrs Cook, Music Administrator, to book accompanying sessions.


AURAL CLASSES

Help with aural work required for the examinations will be offered as part of the music lesson. If students require extra help, they should go to Miss Collier in music room Mu4 to book a place.


MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory classes are available with Mr Morgan. Pupils should go to the Music Administrator to book a place in a theory class, which are graded by ability.


QUESTIONS

If you have any questions about instrumental and vocal lessons, please contact Mrs Priscilla Cook (Music Adminstrator) via email (phc@kes.hants.sch.uk) or by telephone (023 8070 4561).

All expeditions are run dependent upon availability of safety staff, participants successful completion of compulsory training and attendance at DofE meetings.

We do try to meet participants' demands to choose their teams; however, dependent upon numbers on expeditions, it may be necessary to combine or split groups to ensure enough places for all DofE Participants.

Dates for 2012-2013 Academic Year

All expedition teams have paperwork deadlines to meet.  Where this is not acheived, teams may be removed at short notice with loss of expedition fees. 

Past Papers and Mark Schemes

Unit 1:

• Gallery

On Monday 13th May, Third year Music classes began preparations for the Arts Festival with a fun workshop with the group 'JUNK'. Pupils developed performance skills, part singing and drumming using unusual recycled objects. The work will come to fruition in a carnival procession on the last day of the School Arts Festival on 26th June.

• Sailing times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC94C9iNNsI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-48AFNq2a4

http://www.youtube.com/user/monkeyseevideos/videos?query=sailing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2fyhNjY3EA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEcJR-m4cfA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMEw5mY4Ubs

http://www.uksailmakers.com/Education/Rules-Quiz.html

http://www.windguru.cz/int/index.php?sc=28765&sty=m_menu

Directions are available through this link http://www.weston.org.uk/site/about/map.htm

Clearly our day is very much in the hands of the weather gods and so students will need to arrive appropriately prepared for the wind to blow, the sun to shine and the rain to fall. I advise the following is brought:

• Waterproof jacket
• Waterproof trousers
• Warm jumper
• Tracksuit trousers
• Shorts
• T shirt
• Full change of clothes
• Towel
• Sun cream
• Sun hat

• Any sailing clothing your child may already have

NB Please do not buy new clothing especially; we will be able to help clothe sailors appropriately if any of the above suggestions are problematic.

You should send your child equipped with a packed lunch and plenty of water to last the day.

Please find below times for this term. Please note: Sailing is dependant on suitable weather and therefore it is vital that students sign up so than in event of cancellation parents can be contacted.

When weather is doubtful - please check website before leaving.

Would parents please ensure they see the member of staff on duty when they leave and collect  their son/daughter

• Revision Tips

The departmental handbook describes the department's approach to teaching, marking and assessment.

It also includes a table of recent examination results.

• Revision Tips

The Physics Department enjoys excellent facilities for the students.  All seven members of teaching staff are physics specialists. We are housed in five modern, well-equipped and fully supported laboratories and one room dedicated to Sixth Form project work. This allows our students to experience the full breadth of practical physics.

In the International GCSE years we combine an introduction to the basic underlying principles of physics with the concomitant skills required to master this most fascinating subject. We also introduce the pupils to aspects of modern physics that both capture the imagination and have direct relevance to their lives.

In the Sixth Form we follow the Advancing Physics A-level course, endorsed by the Institute of Physics. This builds on the Internatiional GCSE work and also concentrates on a combination of conceptual understanding, practical skills and real-world applications. It is a course which provides an excellent basis for further study of the physical sciences or engineering.

We continue to look for opportunities to extend our students, in addition to offering an optional Astronomy GCSE course, we frequently meet with success in the British Physics Olympiad competitions.

In this section of the website you can the specification for the optional Astronomy Edexcel GCSE course we follow at School.

Astronomy GCSE Specification

Lower School (Yr7&8)...

Computing as a discipline is introduced from Year 1 at King Edwards VI through IT and Computing lessons. Pupils have the opportunity to engage outside of the curriculum in the lunchtime club innovation playground. Within the curriculum pupils will use the Scratch application developed at MIT to create video games. They will also use Lego Mindstorms NXT to work collaboratively to solve problem tasks amongst other practical and enquiry based software tools.

Year 1 SOW     Year 2 SOW

In this section of the website you can find the specification for the OCR Advancing Physics course we follow at School.

In this section of the website you can find both the specification for the Edexcel International GCSE course as well as the scheme of work we follow at School.