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Earlscliffe Valedictory Celebration 2024
The annual Earlscliffe Valedictory celebration is much anticipated and is the absolute culmination of the year’s achievements and activities – a time when we welcome families from all over the world into our picturesque seaside town of Folkestone on the Kentish coast. On a warm summer afternoon, our school gardens looked lovely, decorated with traditional…
Earlscliffe School Raises £1300 for Charity with 5km Race for Life
One of Earlscliffe’s core (and possibly most important) values is “community”. This June, our students and staff put this belief into action by participating in the Race for Life. The team of eight runners successfully raised £1300 for cancer research. Most of the team had very little running experience so this 5km race not only…
Earlscliffe Alumni Week
What a week! It felt a little ambitious to hold another alumni event so soon after our big reunion in October 2023. However, the event had been such a success that we wanted to maintain regular contact with the members of our community who have now moved onto university and careers. On May 2, 2024,…
Earlscliffe students celebrate the Lunar New Year with community workshop
Earlscliffe students celebrated the Lunar New Year by hosting a special community workshop near the beautiful Old High Street in the centre of Folkestone. Eight of our international students worked with Mrs Wang to organise and host this vibrant event. They not only led the workshop activities throughout the day but also encouraged members of…
Dukes Education and Earlscliffe host exclusive event at Windsor Castle
On November 28th, Earlscliffe joined a small selection of leading educational institutions from the Dukes Education group to welcome esteemed partners to Windsor Castle. This incredibly auspicious occasion was given to the group via the Chairman Aatif Hassan, who was awarded use of the venue in recognition of his philanthropic contributions. Aatif chose to share…
Chemistry Open Lab
At Earlscliffe we love to engage with our local community in to experience our school. Ultimately there is no better way to do this than to invite them into a lesson. Our Head of Science, Robert Goldmann, ably assisted by our A-Level Chemistry students opened up their lab on Saturday 25 November. This outreach programme…
Ryan Richards guest coaches Earlscliffe Basketball Academy
The Earlscliffe Basketball Academy was pleased to welcome Ryan Richards to a training session on November 8th. The 6,11 foot player originates from Sittingbourne (less than an hour from Folkestone), but left for Spain at 15 years of age to push forward with his basketball career. In 2010, he was drafted by San Antonio Spurs…
The First Four Saturdays
It is important to us that our new students participate in a range of orientation and immersion excursions. Students need to feel a connection with their local area thus they must be able to confidently move around town if they are to feel at home. This year was our biggest intake ever. The challenge was…
Earlscliffe sponsors elite Summer basketball camp
Earlscliffe Basketball Academy sponsors “Jump with Darbi” high performance Basketball Academy, hosted by Bulgaria’s top professional basketball player – Georgi Boyanov. Georgi has been playing professionally for the past 6 years, for teams in Germany, Iceland, Macedonia, and Bulgaria. The basketball academy provides an elite sporting environment for young basketball players that combines 6 hours…
Creative Arts Exhibition
Our Creative Arts Academy exhibition was a wonderful celebration of art and design. Thank you to all who joined us and enjoyed a wonderful Summer’s evening in the gardens of our Art Building. A wide range of Creative Arts were on display, including paintings, illustrations, graphic design, textiles, photography, sculpture and modelling. Earlscliffe Creative Arts…