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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 Half Marathon.   Members of staff at King’s Ely have raised more than £3,000 for the Athur Rank ...

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 King's Ely's senior instrumental music festival. Ayala is pictured with judge Sarah James and Neil Porter-Thaw, director of music at King's Ely. - Credit: King's 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 instrumental music festival despite Covid-19 restrictions, and the outcome was rather impressive...

Published: 11:41 AM March 9, 2021    James Foster, King's Ely Graduate Rowing Coach, cycled the equivalent distance to the Mount Everest summit in one go. It took 10 hours and 48 minutes. - Credit: King's 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 and to raise money for PAPYRUS, a charity which aims to prevent suicide among young people. A pupi...

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 King's 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 Mary's Street – East Cambridgeshire District Council has refused its plans to transform the building. It stated the size of the extension being proposed was considered “to be disproportionate to the to i...

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: KING'S 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 achievement in a UK Mathematics Trust (UKMT) competition yet.  She is one of only four students chosen to...