insideKENT Magazine Issue 40 - July 2015 | Page 138

EDUCATION

Getting off to a flying start
The Junior King’s School in Canterbury is a prep
school that mixes tradition and modernity.

King’s Rochester wins
exciting drama opportunity
with the Royal Shakespeare
Company

In 1929, at the opening ceremony of the Junior King’s School in Canterbury,
Rudyard Kipling described it as: “The junior branch of the oldest school in
England”. It was a reference to the school’s connection to the prestigious
King’s School in Canterbury, whose history can be traced back to 597 AD.

King's Rochester is one of only a handful of schools
in the South East that has been successful in bidding
to become part of a three-year Learning and
Performance Network with the Royal Shakespeare
Company (RSC) and The Marlowe Theatre,
Canterbury.
The school will be working in partnership with a cluster of regional schools
to improve young people’s experience of Shakespeare as well as aiming
to establish a sustainable centre of excellence of learning, with and through
theatre and Shakespeare, in Kent and Medway.
Both the RSC and The Marlowe Theatre are dedicated to working with
King’s to help deliver this excellence in learning, which can be applied across
the school curriculum. It will include regular training sessions for Drama and
English teaching staff, as well as a number و^