Kennington CE Academy

Thank you to everyone who attended our art exhibition yesterday – it was wonderful to see so many families celebrating the children's fantastic creations. If you would still like to purchase your child's framed artwork, you can do so until Tuesday 12th May. @AquilaTrustUK

What a busy week! Dance workshops, an author visit, football matches, a brilliant Family Worship and lots of fantastic learning! Our allotment and Forest School are full of life too! @AquilaTrustUK #forestschool #outdoorlearning #growyourown

Year 6 have been enjoying their survival unit in Forest School this term. Today they experimented with how to make clean water through filtering...we are not sure it is quite ready to drink yet! @AquilaTrustUK #forestschool #outdoorlearning #scienceinaction #survivalskills

What a fabulous festive day! From a surprise staff panto, to Christmas dinner, market and café and finishing off with Carols Around the Tree. Thank you to all our parents and carers who joined us today. We hope you are feeling ready for Christmas now!

Two wonderful examples of creativity from our children today. A stunning drawing of The Highwayman from Sophia in Year 6 and a beautiful Christmas tree created by Marcia in Year 5! You would not believe it was made from toilet roll tubes! Well done to them both!

Observing Mitzvah Day also helps us to know about social action in other religions. We sent letters of gratitude to the emergency services and other agencies who help us and we hope our parents enjoyed their paintings and thank-you messages too! #socialaction @CanterburyDio

Mitzvah Day was a huge success last week. We swept up leaves, picked litter in the local area, wrote thank-you letters, and tidied our school grounds. This active approach to community teaches us the importance of environmental stewardship and civic engagement. @AquilaTrustUK

Thank-you for the extremely generous Harvest donations last week. The Foodbank told us you have provided enough to feed 183 families. We will be handing the toiletries to Porchlight when they join us for worship after half-term. Thank you. @AquilaTrustUK #socialaction #harvest

One, two, three - Samba! The wonderful rhythm of samba has taken over the school today as classes enjoy a wonderful percussion workshop with Samba Bamba! Workshops continue tomorrow too! @AquilaTrustUK #samba #musicinschools #enrichment

Look out for exciting news coming from our After School Club soon...there is a buzz in the air!

We were delighted to welcome special guests to our OPAL awards ceremony today. Our thanks to the Mayor of Ashford, Aquila CEO Mrs Wiles and School Improvement Partner, Mrs Beyzade, as well as Grainne from OPAL for sharing this with us. #proudtobeplatinum @AquilaTrustUK @OpalCic

Look at this amazing Viking longship created by A in Year 5 for homework this week! Such wonderful attention to detail! Well done A, we loved seeing your model this afternoon. @AquilaTrustUK

Welcome to the new academic year. We hope you all had a wonderful summer break. The children have returned full of excitement for the year ahead and we are looking forward to achieving, celebrating and succeeding together. @AquilaTrustUK #newyear

Non-uniform day tomorrow! In case you missed it - tomorrow will be an end of term non-uniform day due to class parties and other fun activities. No donations needed. #endofterm #nonuniformday #kenningtoncommunity

Our children raised a phenomenal £760.53 at the recent Charity Fair! An amazing amount of money from stalls and games the children created entirely themselves. The money will be sent to charities nominated by our School Council. @aquilatust #socialaction @BritishRedCross @CR_UK

What a performance! Well done to our amazing Year 6 who staged two performances of their brilliant end of year production yesterday. They also held their Leavers' Service full of memories and inspiring words. What a busy and wonderful day! @AquilaTrustUK #Year6 #schooldays

Year 6 parents, don't forget the Leavers' Service in the hall at 9.15am tomorrow, along with two performances of their brilliant end of year production in the afternoon and evening. Entrance via the car park door. @Aquilatrust #hopetoseeyouthere

Parents of our mini-police cadets - we are looking forward to seeing you for their passing out parade and presentation at 9am tomorrow. Entrance through the School Office. @AquilaTrustUK

Thank you to our incredible Friends of Kennington CE Academy for three great end-of-year discos. We loved welcoming our new Year 2s to the Year 2/3 disco, then seeing our Year 4/5s having such fun and finally our wonderful Year 6 at their leaving party last night! @AquilaTrustUK