Education for All

This week the school’s Education Society has led Education for Change Week, exploring the relationship between education and change, with a lively and inspiring focus on five themes: education and flourishing, access, inclusion, environmental sustainability and peacebuilding.

To explore these themes, students led activities every day, with contributions from all ages. Tuesday saw our first Education for Change fair with stalls led by students spanning diverse educational projects such as Fuse Schools, the Kent Academies Network, Action for Biodiversity, First Robotics and so many more, with sales of the Syrian Spoon cookbooks created by the Refugee Partnerships Group, in support of Sevenoaks Welcomes Refugees. In the evening, students from across local schools came together for an interactive speaker forum event, followed by discussion groups.

Students in the EDI Action group led an inclusive language workshop, with students also raising awareness of various areas relating to inclusion through tutor group resources and an inter-tutor group Kahoot quiz. Several events were also part of our Black History Month activities, including a screening of Get Out and The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, a Nigerian food festival and an African-Caribbean themed lunch.

Other activities included the annual social entrepreneurship challenge, an allotment open day, a fundraising home clothes day and an art sale in support of the South Africa Partnership charities. We also launched our annual Geography photography competition in support of Education for All, Morocco. 

Thank you to everyone who supported or engaged with this week; we collectively reaffirmed education’s power to create transformative change for us all, and wider society.