Wider Curricular Opportunities
Opportunity & Success on a Global Stage
The King’s Group vision is to create a global community of pupils and staff; broadening horizons, fostering understanding and raising aspirations by connecting our academies with other schools across the world.
At King’s Academy Easthampstead Park, we believe that an internationally minded curriculum builds cultural understanding, improves communication skills, and promotes knowledge and awareness of the wider world. Enrichment activities such as Global Development Day and overseas partnership projects provide unique opportunities for students to explore people and places beyond the limitations of their surroundings.
Coordinating our international work at King’s Academy Easthampstead Park is Allyce Greenshields (allyce.greenshields@kgaeasthampstead.uk). If you are interested in getting involved in our international projects by volunteering knowledge, or sharing your experiences or expertise, please contact us.
For more information on our the KGA International Dimension, please contact International Director, Louisa Perkins. louisa.perkins@kingsacademies.uk
Global Development Day - July 2024
KAEP6 Challenges Abroad Global Citizenship Programme
King’s Academy Easthampstead Park are in their third year of working in partnership with Challenges Abroad and Future Sense Foundation in order to bring the life-changing experience of overseas travel and charitable work to their students. Following a successful trip to Battumbang, Cambodia in 2022, and Northern Thailand in July 2023, students embarked on a 15 day trip to Panama in 2024
The students’ experience in Panama was centred around training on Panamanian culture and etiquette, time spent planning lessons and teaching children at a local school . In addition to this work, they embarked on numerous rich, cultural experiences such as , cooking lessons, kayaking and tree-planting.
Overseas trips offer a multitude of valuable benefits that extend far beyond the classroom. Firstly, they provide an opportunity for cultural immersion and global awareness, exposing young minds to diverse perspectives, traditions, and languages. Such experiences foster tolerance, empathy, and a broader understanding of the world, embodying the meaning of KGA’s promise to provide ‘Opportunity and Success on a Global Stage’.
King’s Group Academies are growing their partnership with Challenges Aboard and wider reaching opportunities for students in KS3 and KS4 will continue this year with trips to Germany, Spain and Poland as well as a 6th Form visit to Peru. Check back for updates on these 2024-2025 trips soon.
Global School Exchange
In 2024 we welcomed 12 pupils from Zhangjiagang No1 Middle School. Each student had a buddy from KAEP who showed them round, took them to lessons, and fully immersed them in life at KAEP. They also went on trips to Windsor, and of course out for a traditional English roast dinner!
International Trips
Every year our students take part in a range of opportunities designed to develop their cultural understanding. Experiences such as Battlefields in Northern France, to Christmas markets in Germany.
KAEP have been awarded the Foundation International Schools Award from the British Council. Here’s what they said about our application…
“This is a strong application for the Foundation level of the International School Award from King’s Academy Easthampstead Park, and I am pleased to say it is approved, well done! The ‘Motivation’ and ‘Summary’ sections of your application are robust, and describe a school, which is part of King’s Group Academies, that has recently developed and embedded the International Dimension in, for example, its curriculum and opportunities for pupils to celebrate world festivals and to address global issues. Activity 1, ‘Global Development Day, in which pupils took part in a range of engaging cross-curricular cultural activities, such as the Indian game ‘Kabaddi’ and creating South African masks, will have brought their learning alive. Activity 2, ‘Thailand Challenges Abroad’, which describes a Turing-funded pupil visit to Thailand, was a wonderful opportunity for the Yr 12 and 13 pupils to experience overseas learning.”
