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Sue Freestone, the former principal of King’s Ely, has been awarded the OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Mrs Freestone retired at the end of...

Students Billy and Tom have secured places on the National Youth Theatre (NYT) programme.

Published: 3:14 PM April 20, 2021    Ely Cathedral’s Peregrine Falcons can now be viewed 24 hours a day, seven days a week, via a state-of-the-art webcam. - Credit: Ely Cathedral  The pair of rare Peregrine Falcons living high up in the roof of Ely Cathedral can now be watched 24 hours a day, seven days a week, via webcam.   In true Big Brother style, the rare birds – which were first spotted in 2019 – can be viewed by members of the public using the specially installed camera.   ...

Published: 1:05 PM April 14, 2021    King’s Ely housed crew members from Oxford University Boat Club (OUBC) womens crew in the week leading up to The Boat Race. - Credit: KINGS ELY The President of Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club (CUWBC) spoke to students at Kings Ely just days after the crew won The Boat Race on Ely’s River Great Ouse.  Sophie Paine, who has been president of CUWBC since August 2020, visited on April 7 to meet staff and students from King’s Ely Boat Club.  ...

Several Ely school children were privileged to meet and talk to the Duke.  HRH was also happy to meet with a few local well-wishers who were of course happy to meet the Prince. A maple tree was planted to commemorate the special event.  The Duke also unveiled a carved commemorative stone - a tonne of Cumbrian green slate - which had been inscribed by Sutton calligrapher Tom Perkins.   Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Julie Spence, said: "I would like to convey to Her Majesty The Queen, t...

Published: 11:48 AM April 8, 2021    Updated: 2:57 PM April 8, 2021 Members of staff at King’s Ely have raised more than £3,000 for the Athur Rank Hospice charity by completing the ‘Run Everyone 2021’ challenge. - Credit: King’s Ely  Members of staff at King’s Ely school have raised more than £3,000 for a hospice charity by completing a virtual run challenge.   The 23 staff members completed the ‘Run Everyone 2021’ which was launched by the people behind the TTP Cambridge ...

Published: 2:07 PM April 7, 2021    Updated: 2:54 PM April 7, 2021 Ayala Gate (centre) was named intermediate instrumentalist of the year at Kings Elys senior instrumental music festival. Ayala is pictured with judge Sarah James and Neil Porter-Thaw, director of music at Kings Ely. - Credit: Kings Ely Students at a city school battled it out in front of a global audience to see who would reign supreme in their annual music event.  King’s Ely were determined to stage the school’s senior ...

Published: 11:41 AM March 9, 2021    James Foster, Kings Ely Graduate Rowing Coach, cycled the equivalent distance to the Mount Everest summit in one go. It took 10 hours and 48 minutes. - Credit: Kings Ely King’s Ely pupils and staff have climbed the height of the Earth’s highest mountain during lockdown - and raised £11,000 for a suicide prevention charity. The “King’s Ely Mount Everest Challenge” was organised in memory of Captain Sir Tom Moore, to boost morale during lockdown ...

Published: 3:54 PM March 8, 2021    Updated: 5:32 PM March 8, 2021 Wetherspoon had hoped to open in this Grade II listed former boarding house for Kings Ely student. Planners turned them down. - Credit: Google JD Wetherspoon has been refused permission to convert a Grade II listed house in Ely into one of its pubs. The pub chain bought the former King’s Ely boarding house at 24 St Marys Street – East Cambridgeshire District Council has refused its plans to transform the building. It st...

Published: 11:35 AM March 3, 2021    Updated: 11:42 AM March 3, 2021 Ely sixth former Eleanor MacGillivray is one of four UK students chosen to represent the country in an international mathematics competition for girls. - Credit: KINGS ELY A "determined" Ely sixth former is one of four UK students to be chosen to represent the country in an international mathematics competition for girls.  Eleanor MacGillivray, who is in Year 12 at King’s Ely Senior, has just secured her biggest achieve...