Chaplain’s Blog – Happy New Year
The New Year, much like Christmas, can offer a mix of emotions. Excitement for all that is planned or all that could happen. A hope of a new start, the beginning of new hopes and plans. It can also mark…
Chaplain’s Christmas Blog – December 2018
Be Still and Know the Season of Peace. How do you feel about Christmas? Is it a time of excitement fun and family or is it a time of loneliness and disappointment? Perhaps it’s the first milestone without someone? Perhaps…
Chaplain’s Blog – Remembrance
Our focus this November has inevitably been about remembrance; of course as a school we were part of a number of events with pupils taking part in acts of remembrance both in school and in our local community. For me, as…
Boarding Blog
Welcome to the boarding blog at Kingsley School. As you may be aware we have a number of trips and events that happen in boarding throughout the term. These are posted on the website as an annual calendar. Our trips…
Chaplain’s Blog Summer Term 2018
Climbing Your Mountain to See Life from a Different Perspective This term in our assemblies we have considered a life of outdoor adventure with Jesus. We have explored stories of Jesus picnicking with the 5000, walking on water with no…
Revitalising our approach to SRE
Jon Dickinson, deputy head and designated safeguarding lead at Kingsley School, recently posted on the Independent Schools' Council website to discuss the school's decision to remodel their SRE provision and the measurable impact this has had upon pupils. "It is…
Chaplain’s Blog – What is love?
This term during our assemblies we have considered the question what is love? As I’ve got older I think the biggest thing I have realised is that time spent is the most important thing. When I had to write something…
Chaplain’s Blog – Christmas 2017
Another busy term for the Kingsley family is drawing to a close. It seems but a blink of an eye that we returned to school in September but yet we have been involved in so much. This term in assemblies…
The Inevitability of Change – Chaplain’s Blog, end of summer term 2017
I sat down to write this end of term blog with slight sense of disbelief at the pace at which we have arrived here and that I have now completed my first academic year as Chaplain. I’m sure as parents you…
Chaplain’s Blog 26th May 2017
This busy first half of the term has seen Mrs Last and the “Open the Book” team visit us in Prep School assembly. We have heard from a variety of guest speakers in Senior School; including Chris from Edukid, representatives…