insideKENT Magazine Issue 31 - October 2014 | Page 129

EDUCATION

The Orchard Girls' House

Cross Country Winners 2014

Wellesley House School
The academic year at Wellesley House School began with strong intake of
new pupils, matching its highest in recent years. This full-boarding prep
school is now operating a waiting list for the ever-popular girls’ boarding
house, The Orchard. Boys and girls both benefit from a Monday to Saturday
timetable, in which academic excellence is matched by opportunities for
sport, drama, art and music, as the broad range of scholarships to senior
schools will testify. Meanwhile, the weekends are packed with activity

St Lawrence
College Pupils
Achieve
Top Grades

programmes for full boarders, while day pupils also thrive with two convenient
day bus routes stretching as far as Canterbury and the M2.
Interested parents can join the school for its open morning on Saturday 4th
October, or arrange a private tour.
www.wellesley.kent.sch.uk

Angela's Swim School

St Lawrence College pupils are celebrating a
significant jump in top grades at GCSE, with the
overall percentage of A* and A grades increasing
to 41%, a leap of over 10% compared to last
year. In total, 15 pupils gained at least eight A*/A
grades, with top performers Rudy Hagemichael
and Ben Spencer gaining ten A* grades each.
Principal, Antony
Spencer,
commented: “This
is a large and
talented year group
enjoying great
success across the
whole range of
school life, not least
academically. Our
top 25%
academically
Rudy Hagemichael and
achieved a
Ben Spencer celebrate excellent
remarkable 88%
GCSE results
A*/A grades, which
they have achieved whilst being busy with many
co-curricular opportunities including music, sport
and drama, all of which play a part in preparing
them for future success in life.”
Pupils also celebrated another bumper set of
exam results at A-Level, leading to many pupils
going to their first choice of university to study
courses including Medicine, Music, Law and
Business Economics.

Angela's Swim School encourages people of all
ages and abilities to learn to swim to a high
standard. The unique style of teaching that the
top quality instructors use has proven effective
for thousands of children and adults who have
learned to swim through the programme. Angela's
Swim School offers a wide range of classes, and
prides itself on its ability to accommodate small
groups and private lessons at all of its venues,
believing that this enables swimmers to make
maximum progress in the shortest time possible.
It also runs classes for babies as young as four
months old.
52% of parents do not think their children could
swim to safety if they found themselves in danger
in open water. Angela’s Swim School is working
to make swimming lessons accessible to everyone
in a bid to help reduce this scary statistic. It is
proud to offer the Royal Life Saving Society’s
Rookie Lifeguard Programme; Rookie is a fun

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and exciting lifesaving awards programme that
teaches children water safety, self-rescue,
personal survival and lifesaving sport skills. A
fantastic programme for swimmers as young as
eight years of age, this course plays a vital role
in water safety.
The school is currently taking bookings for its
October crash course.
www.angelasswimschool.co.uk