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Published: 9:30 AM February 27, 2021    Virtual singing and a Valentine’s eCard helped The King’s Barbers to raise more than £1,400 for an orphanage in India. - Credit: KINGS ELY Virtual singing and a Valentine’s eCard helped The King’s Barbers to raise more than £1,400 for an orphanage in India.  King’s Ely’s boys’ a cappella group decided to raise funds for their linked charity, the Bethesda Life Centre Boys Orphanage in Goa.  They created audio and video to accompany ...

Published: 12:40 PM February 24, 2021    Updated: 9:19 PM February 25, 2021 Kings Ely Sixth Form student and Ely Cathedral Organ Scholar Miriam Reveley has achieved her Associateship of the Royal College of Organists (ARCO) diploma. - Credit: KINGS ELY An Ely music student is “delighted” to have been awarded a diploma that very few organists achieve while still at school.  Miriam Reveley, who is a King’s Ely Sixth Form student and Ely Cathedral organ scholar, has achieved her Associ...

Published: 12:04 PM February 19, 2021    Willow, a Kings Ely pupil, has written cheese jokes to care home residents in Norfolk to make them smile. - Credit: Kings Ely An eight-year-old girl has been making people laugh and smile after delivering letters filled with cheesy jokes to care home residents in Norfolk. Willow, from Kings Ely Junior, wanted to spread cheer in her local community to encourage people who currently "might not be able to get out and about so easily." Willow, a Kings El...

Published: 2:58 PM February 17, 2021    Drama students at King’s Ely Senior took part in a Q&A session with Cambridgeshire-born Hollywood actor Jeremy Irvine on Microsoft Teams. - Credit: KINGS ELY It’s not every day that you get to fire questions at a Cambridgeshire-born Hollywood actor on Microsoft Teams.  But that’s exactly what a group of King’s Ely Senior students were able to do with Jeremy Irvine just before half term, thanks to an opportunity organised by the school’s dra...

Published: 3:10 PM January 27, 2021    Updated: 3:13 PM January 27, 2021 Tributes have been paid to Kings Ely matron Elizabeth Firek who has died from Covid-19. - Credit: FACEBOOK Tributes have been paid to a Kings Ely matron who has died from Covid-19. Elizabeth Firek, who had been in hospital battling the virus, joined King’s in October 2004.  Mrs Firek was one of the schools original house matrons: after being matron of School House, she then moved to Wendreda House as matron several y...

People will soon be able to keep a birds-eye view on Ely Cathedral's resident Peregrine falcons thanks to a new webcam.

The 18 girls are all boarders at King’s Ely Senior in Years 9 to 13. They come from a wide variety of preparatory schools, including King’s Ely Junior, Exeter Cathedral School, The Durham Chorister School, and Wells Cathedral School. They also appear regularly on BBC Radio 3, most recently on Armistice Day 2020, when they broadcast Evensong live from the cathedral as part of the BBC’s marking of 100 years since the burial of the unknown soldier. The girls choir from Ely Cathedral enjoying...

Choir climbs Ely Cathedral to rehearse festive singing duties Daily Mail Reporter © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Every choir can hit a few high notes – but none so high as these girls singing on the roof of Ely Cathedral yesterday. Sixteen choristers aged ten to 16 climbed more than 100ft above the surrounding Cambridgeshire Fens to the base of the Gothic buildings lantern tower to rehearse for their festive duties.  The acclaimed choir consists of boarding pupil...

Sixteen choristers aged ten to 16 climbed more than 100ft above the Cambridgeshire Fens to the base of the Gothic buildings lantern tower to rehearse for their duties.