Wealden Times | WT230 | July 2021 | Education supplement inside
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<strong>Education</strong> Supplement sponsored by<br />
Keeping Up Community Spirit<br />
How have schools been maintaining their bonds with the local community<br />
during a very difficult and isolating year? We find out how a pandemic hasn’t<br />
stopped The King’s School and Sevenoaks School staying connected<br />
A brother and sister team from Junior<br />
King’s has raised over £15,000 for the<br />
Evelina London Children’s Hospital<br />
The Charity Commission suggests that The<br />
King’s School, Canterbury is the oldest charity<br />
in the country. King’s, and its prep school<br />
Junior King’s, are therefore very conscious of their<br />
duty to the wider community. The pandemic has made<br />
certain aspects of charitable fundraising difficult but<br />
the pupils have not let this hinder their dedication to<br />
raising money for both local and national causes over<br />
the past year. Indeed, the heightened awareness of the<br />
needs of others has brought about some innovative<br />
and praise-worthy initiatives from both schools.<br />
At Junior King’s Year 7 pupil Luke and his younger<br />
sister Savannah have raised over £15,000 for the Evelina<br />
London Children’s Hospital, which performed life-saving<br />
emergency heart surgery on Luke when he was just five<br />
days old. Together they have completed a 150-length<br />
sponsored swim, run numerous raffles at the local cricket<br />
ground, put on a quiz night, made and sold ceramic<br />
decorations and Mothers’ Day gifts, and more!<br />
Pupils at King’s have equally raised thousands, both<br />
individually and as a collective, for a wide range of worthy<br />
causes including Suicide Prevention Charity Papyrus<br />
UK, the NHS, Farms for City Children, Hospice UK<br />
and Rising Sun, a Canterbury-based charity countering<br />
Domestic Violence and abuse in East Kent. Chair of the<br />
Charity Committee Millie Lark says: “The past year has<br />
been very disrupted for everyone, but as a school we have<br />
continued to make raising money for charities one of our<br />
main goals with a particular aim to support local causes so<br />
that we could help make a difference in our community.”<br />
kings-school.co.uk / junior-kings.co.uk<br />
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