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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: KING'S 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 an arrangement of John Legend’s ‘All of Me’ by Year 13 Barber, Jamie Layfield.   People ...

Published: 12:40 PM February 24, 2021    Updated: 9:19 PM February 25, 2021 King's 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 Associateship of the Royal College of Organists (ARCO) diploma.  The 17-year-old joined King’s Ely Se...

Published: 12:04 PM February 19, 2021    Willow, a King's Ely pupil, has written cheese jokes to care home residents in Norfolk to make them smile. - Credit: King's 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 King's 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 King's Ely pupil, has written cheese jokes to care home residents at Terrington Lodge to make them smile....

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 drama department.  Drama students at King’s Ely Senior took part in a Q&A session with Cambridgeshir...

Published: 3:10 PM January 27, 2021    Updated: 3:13 PM January 27, 2021 Tributes have been paid to King's Ely matron Elizabeth Firek who has died from Covid-19. - Credit: FACEBOOK Tributes have been paid to a King's 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 school's original house matrons: after being matron of School House, she then moved to Wendreda House as matron several years ago. Tributes have been paid to King's Ely matron Elizabeth Firek who has died from Covid-19...