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King's continues to support The Hygiene Bank

Last call for knitted squares for the King's Scarf! 

To celebrate Red Nose Day this year, the Senior and Pre-Prep Schools invite you to wear something red!

Year One have been enjoying exploring literary book characters

In Nursery we have been learning all about plants.

World Book Day 2021 was celebrated across the school.

Join our fun Easter Quiz.

Beth Ecuyer-Dale Live Q&A - Wednesday 10th March 7.00pm - 8.00pm

Prep School welcomed the YSC for a virtual Hamlet workshop.

The Great Whiston Challenge continues.

Well done Emma on completing her first half marathon.

Read this terms MFL Newsletter online.

King's Senior Choir has been busy recording Stanford's - Beati Quorum Via.

The Music Department warmly invites you to welcome in the weekend with a selection of delightful performances

The Great Whiston Challenge - Week 3 Update

Thursday 25th February is Digital Learning Day.

Prep pupils were thrilled to have a PE lesson delivered by Spider-Man and Lady Thor. 

Pre-Preparatory School are looking forward to celebrating World Book Day

World Book Day on Thursday 4th March

King's hosted a cloud spotting challenge over half term.

The Music Department warmly invites you to welcome in the weekend with a selection of delightful performances

Children in Pre-Prep celebrate Karneval

This week's Cooking with Mr Fish instalment comes with a special challenge:

Year 7 have been busy creating wonderfully varied and exciting adventure stories set in the Elizabethan period.

Year 5 has been learning about the treasure of Sutton Hoo.

To mark Safter Internet Day 2021, King's held a week of events.

The Preparatory School hosted a House Snowman Competition.

Year 7 they were set a challenge of producing an edible cell.

Year 6 has been investigating the famous murder of Saint Thomas Becket

Year 6 pupils were set the task of using nets to create a new 3D figure

We are excited to announce the launch of the King's Rochester Online Escape Room

The Great Whiston Challenge - Week 1 Update

Headmaster of the Preparatory School, Mr Morgan delighted pupils and parents with a joyfully inventive rendition of Winter Wonderland.

The community is raising money to install a memorial bench for Ashwin Arulparam.

Congratulations to the joint winners and runners-up on the completion of the Combined Cadet Force: Come Dine With Me Ration Pack Challenge.

Max is celebrating breaking his own record for the longest distance cycled

Children in Year 3 have been celebrating diversity in their PSHEE lessons.

Senior Games pupils were invited to join Miss Catlett for a live cooking lesson.

King's Senior Choir has been busy recording Eccard's - When Mary to the Temple Went.

Whiston House have set themselves the Great Whiston Lockdown challenge in aid of PAPYRUS.

The Games Department are extending this week's Super Saturday in to a weekend event.

"The Fabulous Fifteen" are raising money for The Evelina London Children's Hospital.

Francophile chefs have whipped up delicious crêpes

Families enjoyed the German Fun Quiz on Saturday 30th January and discovered some interesting facts about Germany.

A huge thank you to Store 104 and all our King's Community Knitters

Mathematicians from the Prep and Pre-Prep School excelled in the Sumdog Kent Math Contest.

Rochester Cathedral is now recruiting Choristers to join the Cathedral Choir.

Reception children have been learning about Dinosaurs

King's is delighted to bring you three special Q&A sessions in February 2021.

King's Senior Choir has been busy recording the vocal parts of Bruckner's Locus Iste.

Year One has been learning about the weather in their Science lessons.

King's will be hosting a fun German Quiz Night on Saturday 30th January.

We are delighted to present the first edition of the 'Young Roffensian Newsletter'.

The Diversity and Inclusivism Alliance have set their aims for 2021.

Pupils will attend a live webcast as part of the commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day.

The King's Knit-athon began earlier this week with members starting to create their own individual squares.

Our photographers have been out and about snapping away, eager to share their latest shots with the Photography Club.

Lewis Bentley (OR) is directing an adapted version of The Odyssey.

Year 5 has been crafting superb peacocks in Maths.

Year 6 enjoyed learning about Wassily Kandinsky

We asked our Sixth Formers to describe King's in three words.

Toby Snoswell (OR), and some of his school friends have launched a fundraising campaign with the aim to raise £15,000 for 3 deserving charities:

Well done to Max who cycled an amazing 8km as part of Super Saturday.

Year 6 has been studying William the Conqueror in History

King's Launches Online Baking Club

King's launches an online photography club

Year 2 has produced some amazing artwork.

The King's Debate Society started the new term with a debate on the US President.

King's launches online sketch club

The Games Department is re-launching Super Saturday's, with the first event taking place on Saturday 16th January.

Nursery children have been focusing on stars and looking at 'The Starry Night' by Vincent van Gogh

King's Launches Online Chess Club

King’s Rochester will be offering Psychology as a subject at A-Level.

 Year One enjoyed making sandwich tutorials.

King's pupils have launched a Random Acts of Kindness challenge during the current lockdown.

Year 2 have been enjoying experiements at home as part of their Remote Learning

The Computer Science Department is delighted to announce that six King's pupils qualified for the Oxford University Computing Challenge.

Upper Sixth musicians are celebrating this week having received offers of a place at some of the UK's leading Music Conservatoires.

Did you know that at King's, no leftover food is ever wasted?

We were delighted to recieve some exceptional Guitar Examintion results over the Winter break.

Gather as a family around the Christmas tree or the fireplace to listen with us as we re-tell this famous Christmas story.

Details of this year's Senior School Carol Service

Details of this year's Preparatory School Carol Service

Details of this year's EYFS Nativity.

This week we the Games department welcomes two guest speakers joining our final Hockey and Rugby Games lessons of the year. Alex Mitchell and Aspen Cumming.

Farewell to our beloved Housekeeper Mrs Alana Foley

The Games department in the Preparatory School launched their 12 Days of Christmas, fitness challenge.

We are delighted to celebrate the achievements and recognize the huge extra effort which our musicians have made to achieve them in spite of the constraints placed on us by the pandemic.

Spanish pupils wrote a letter to Papa Noel.

Year 4 celebrated German Christmas in the Preparatory School.

Year 6 were set the challenge to adapt some of their festive favorites to include the Battle of Hastings.

Children in Reception were set a Christmas Literacy Challenge.

Pupil's in the Preparatory School enjoyed several thrilling rounds of 'House Call My Bluff' this week.

Upper Sixth pupils took part in an online talk on Stress Management

Pupils took part in Christmas Quiz about traditions in Spain and Latin America.

Congratulations to Scarlett who's debut song featured on BBC Radio Kent.

Computer Science to host Q&A with industry experts.

Computer Science pupils scored excellent results in the Bebras UK Computational Thinking Challenge 2020.

Mr Fish challenged the Senior School to a gingerbread competition.

Pupils in the Pre-Preparatory School helped decorate the school Christmas tree.

The Kent Literacy Awards 2020 will be streamed on Friday 11th December. 

A sweet treat was delivered to pupils who supported the virtual events this term.

Homemade Christmas boxes were available at Bob Doubles.

Each year we gift books to children in local nurseries throughout Medway.

Did you know that at King's, no leftover food is ever wasted.

Senior School pupils raised an amazing £800 for Movember. 

King's will be attending the Kent Literacy Awards on Friday 11th December.

Having provided five years of excellent leadership to the Nursery & Pre-Preparatory School, our Headmistress, Catherine Openshaw will be leaving the school at the end of this academic year.

Year 8 will host a sponsored silence to raise money for the RBLI.

Huge congratulations to Toni who has secured a place in the National Youth Training Choir of Great Britain

Congratulations to Samuel for the fantastic bake he completed as part of the Day of the Dead celebrations at King's. 

King’s Rochester is proud to announce the launch of its ‘Blended Learning Programme’.

A-Level physicists attended a virtual lecture series

The Pre-Prep held a home clothes day in aid of The Dog's Trust

Pupils have enjoyed a charitable sweet sale in aid of the Royal British Legion.

Well done to Tom, who won the Martin Billingsley Cricket Trophy.

Pre-Prep children took part in a drama workshop, Fairy Tales & Fables.  

Upper Fifth pupils attended a virtual performance of Dennis Kelly's DNA.

To mark the start of the festive season, Bob Doubles has launched its annual range of Christmas treats.

16th-20th November marked Anti-Bullying Week 2020 at King's.

Pupils in the Preparatory School enjoyed a Macbeth workshop with the Young Shakespeare Company.

There was an array of odd socks in Pre-Prep this week to help raise awareness for Anti-bullying week. 

Our Scholarship at King's event is now LIVE

Our Principal will be hosting a live Q&A on Tuesday 17th November.

Thank you to everyone at King's who took part in the FSCI Shoebox Appeal.

The Senior School Service of Remembrance 2020 is now available to watch online.

Enjoy a Q&A with the Headmistress of the Nursery and Pre-Preparatory School.

Pupils in Year 3 marked Remembrance Day 2020.

Senior School pupils are undertaking the Movember challenge to fundraise for an essential charity.

Our Combined Cadet Force gives a poignant reading of 'For the Fallen' by Laurence Binyon to mark Remembrance Day 2020.

Thank you to all at King’s Pre-Prep School & Nursery for all their donations to their Medway foodbank.

Despite local clubs closing, rowing continues in a safe environment at King’s and it was great to be back out on the water.

We are delighted to have recieved a KM Literacy Award 2020.

To help keep our pupils active and engaged in physical activity, we are offering remote sports clubs on Saturday mornings.

To help keep our pupils active and engaged in physical activity, we are offering remote sports clubs on Saturday mornings.

Enjoy a Q&A with the Headmaster of the Preparatory School.

Enjoy an evening of delightful music with our Scholars Concert.

Enjoy a video tour of our Preparatory School with Mr Morgan.

Remembrance Sunday Service

Pre-Prep are hosting a virtual book fair in collaboration with Scholastic Books.