KGS Podcast 2021

SERIES 1 OF THE KINGSTON GRAMMAR SCHOOL PODCAST IS AVAILABLE NOW:

EPISODE 1: COVID-19 CONVERSATIONS: THE CHALLENGES FOR SCHOOLS AND RESPONSES AT KGS

Head Master Stephen Lehec, Deputy Head Pastoral Sarah Humphrey and Head of Wellbeing Nick Forsyth discuss how KGS ensured the academic and pastoral well-being of the school community during lockdown and the plans for the future.  

EPISODE 2: PERSONAL TECHNOLOGICAL DEVICES IN SCHOOLS: TOOLS OR TOYS?

In this episode we are speaking to students and senior staff about the use of personal devices such as mobile phones, laptops and tablets at school.  We discuss the policies and ethos surrounding the KGS Acceptable Use Policy and whether mobile devices should be viewed as tools, not toys

EPISODE 3: SIXTH FORM AT KGS: THE WHOLE PACKAGE

Stephen Lehec (Head Master), Maria Robinson (Head of PSHE), Chris Wenham (Head of Upper Sixth) and Anna Edwards (Head of Sixth Form Lecture Programme) together with some of our KGS students discuss the Sixth Form programme at KGS.  Excellent academic results together with essential skills, life experiences, sport and co-curricular activities together with careers and universities preparation are all part of the KGS Sixth Form ‘package’.

EPISODE 4: KGS ALUMNI: LIFELONG KINGSTONIANS

With lockdown finally easing in the UK, we were able to get two effervescent alumni back into KGS for this very special episode.  BBC Sport Presenter Katie Shanahan and Entrepreneur Jeroen Sibia fondly reminisce about their times at school, open up about their career paths and share some secrets of success and how KGS contributed to those.

Find Katie on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook here: @katieshanahan3
Find Jeroen on Instagram @sibsy88 and on LinkedIn if you search for Jeroen Sibia.

EPISODE 5: KGS ALUMNI: TURTLES AND CHOCOLATE

In the final episode of the first series of The Kingston Grammar School we were fortunate to speak with Old Kingstonians Peter Harris and Dr Nathan. J. Robinson.  Peter Harris is one of the co-founders of Hotel Chocolat and a firm believer that life experiences and opportunities that can bring success and happiness.  Dr. Nathan J. Robinson is an accomplished marine biologist with notable experience in conducting innovative viral outreach campaigns for ocean conservation. In 2015, he was filmed removing a plastic straw from a sea turtle’s nose as part of research project near Costa Rica. The video was posted online to highlight the plight of ocean plastics and has subsequently been viewed over 100 million times on YouTube. The success of this video has been acknowledged as a crystallisation moment for many anti-plastic campaigns and has instigated global behavioural change. In 2019, he also recorded the first footage of the giant squid – otherwise known as the fabled ‘kraken’ – in US waters making headlines in over 400 international news sources including the front-page of The New York Times.

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