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NACE Challenge Award for excellence awarded to The King’s School, Ely.

The King’s School Ely has become the first independent school in Cambridgeshire and only the fourth in the UK to achieve the prestigious NACE Challenge Award for excellence in provision for able, gifted and talented pupils.

At King’s School, ‘teachers’ subject knowledge is exceptional and pupils are offered challenging contexts for their learning,’ says the report. ‘Parents value highly the extensive range of ways in which a child can excel and the inclusive approach where every child is seen as special.’ In an assessment far more gruelling and demanding than any normal school inspection, pupils were deemed to have very good attitudes to learning and exceptionally high levels of challenge and inference were expected from them. Particular mention was made of the ‘Ely Scheme’ which is used to help the development of pupils’ leadership, entrepreneurial and team-building skills.

Add to that the achievements of a class of 22 Year 11 pupils at King’s who have all achieved A* Grades in GCSE Maths, sitting the exam six months early, the top class acting in the recent Gothic melodrama, ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ and the prodigious achievements of King’s students on display in the outstanding new £3.5m Arts Complex, opened by Lord Browne in March………..and you certainly have ‘a school to be watched’.

King’s is an independent school that offers the complete package: a seamless education for day and boarding pupils aged from 3-18, where staff and students believe in ‘Learning Adventurously’, where school is not a preparation for life, it is life. Boasting a school chapel that happens to be one of England’s most glorious cathedrals, King’s is a school that values tradition whilst embracing and celebrating all that is innovative and forward-looking in education…..as the recent and much-coveted NACE award affirms.

Head of the King’s School Ely, Mrs Sue Freestone, believes that pupils should be provided with ‘the tools to discover and develop confidence in their talents and abilities, however unconventional or unlikely they may be.’

Prospective parents and their children are warmly invited to visit the school at any time to experience the very special atmosphere that sets this school apart.

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