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King’s School Rochester

Category: Nursery, Pre-Preparatory, Preparatory, Senior, Sixth Form

Pupils: Co-Education

Type: Day & Boarding

Religious Affiliation: Church of England

Roll: 368 Boys / 239 Girls

Age Range: 3-18 Years

Founded: 604, the second oldest continuously running school in the world

Location Description

King’s Rochester is easily accessible from Kent and the South East and 30 minutes by train from central London. The School has a beautiful location in the heart of the historic town of Rochester.

School Contact Details

Headteacher: Mr Ben Charles, Principal of King's Rochester and Senior School Headmaster

Satis House, Boley Hill, Rochester, Kent

Tel: 01634 888590

Email: admissions@kings-rochester.co.uk

www.kings-rochester.co.uk

Fees

2019/2020.

Day fees. Nursery: from £4875 per annum. Reception – Year 3: £10,605 – £11,505 per annum. Years 4 – 8: £13,770 – £15,630 per annum. All to include lunch.

Years 9 – 13: £20,190 per annum.

Boarding fees. Years 7 – 13: £22,950 – £33,015 per annum.

OPEN DAYS

All visits are welcome, please contact the school

Open Morning: Saturday 8 May 2021 -

For details email smiles@kings-rochester.co.uk

RECENT NEWS

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KING’S ROCHESTER TO HOST Q&A...
As part of the Schools Lockdown Activities Programme, King’s Rochester will be hosting a unique series of live Q&As throughout February. Celebrity Buddhist Emma Slade will be hosting the inaugural event. On Wednesday 3rd January 2021 from 7:00 pm, Emma will be hosting a live talk for pupils focusing on wellbeing. Drawing on tales from...
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KING’S ROCHESTER PUPILS TO ATTEND...
On Tuesday 26th January pupils at King’s Rochester will watch a live webcast with Eve Kugler, BEM. This event, organised by the Holocaust Educational Trust, is part of the commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day on Wednesday 27th January. Eve who was born in Halle an der Saale in Germany has recently celebrated her 90th birthday. When she...
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BBC RADIO KENT PLAY FOR...
Scarlett May (16), a Lower Sixth pupil at King’s Rochester was delighted to have her song played on BBC Radio Kent on Saturday 5th December. Scarlett, from Sevenoaks has been writing her own songs for over two years and cites Dolly Parton, Brandi Carlile and Fleetwood Mac as her top influences. She recorded her first EP...
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KING’S ROCHESTER LAUNCHES “RANDOM ACT...
Pupils at King’s Rochester are challenging everyone at the School and in the wider Medway community to carry out one...
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FAREWELL MRS OPENSHAW – King’s...
Having provided five years of excellent leadership to the Nursery & Pre-Preparatory School, our Headmistress, Catherine Openshaw will be leaving the school at the end of this academic year, in August 2021, to become Headmistress of The Mead School in Tunbridge Wells. Whilst this is a very exciting move for Mrs Openshaw, we will be...
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KING’S ROCHESTER LAUNCHES “BLENDED LEARNING...
King’s Rochester is proud to announce the launch of its ‘Blended Learning Programme’. Should a pupil be unable to attend school due to self-isolating, they will still be able to access their lessons which are now live streamed directly from their classrooms. Teachers across the Pre-Preparatory, Preparatory and Senior Schools are able to seamlessly interact...
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PUPILS DISCUSS UNCONCIOUS BIAS –...
On Wednesday 30th September King’s Rochester welcomed Mrs Jane Winter and Mrs Ethlyn Roy-Johnson from the Diocese of Rochester to lead the first of three Unconscious Bias sessions. Pupils were encouraged to consider what unconscious bias is, its origins and the detrimental effect it is having on society. They discussed race, gender and sexuality as well...
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ANOTHER YEAR OF TOP GCSE...
2020 has been a year like no other. But even against the backdrop of the Covid-19 crisis and cancelled examinations, King’s Rochester pupils are celebrating another year of outstanding GCSE results. When schools were forced to close in March, pupils were able to continue their studies seamlessly using the schools comprehensive Remote Learning Programme and...
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EXCELLENT A LEVEL RESULTS FOR...
Even against the backdrop of the Covid-19 crisis with school closures and cancelled examinations, King’s Rochester pupils are celebrating another set of excellent A Level results, published today. 29% of all results were at grades A* to A, 55% at A* to B and 76% at A* to C. King’s prides itself on the breadth...
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DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION WINNER RECEIVES HIGH...
Theodore Bourgeay, a pupil at King’s Rochester Preparatory School was delighted to be selected as the winner of the English department’s Environmental Short Film competition, by judges from Greenpeace UK. Drawing inspiration from Greenpeace UK’s annual film festival, Year 7 pupils were tasked with creating short films (2-3 minutes) about a particular environmental issue of...
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“THE KING’S EXTEND AWARD” LAUNCHED...
King’s Rochester is delighted to announce a new course which they will introduce for Sixth Form pupils from the start of the new academic year, 2020-2021. From September 2020, King’s Sixth Form pupils will all work towards the new, ‘King’s Extend Award’; an internal qualification which aims to empower pupils for the future by helping...
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SINGER LAURA WINS WOODARD YOUNG...
King’s Rochester pupil Laura West was celebrating over the weekend after being named the winner of the Woodard Schools' Young Musician Competition 2020 on Friday 29th May 2020. Laura, 17, from Rochester, Kent performed Wolf's Das Verlassene Mägdlein and Novello's Waltz of My Heart, pre-recorded in the King’s School Hall earlier this year. Instead of the planned live final...
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MICHAEL METCALFE CYCLES THE LENGTH...
A teacher from King’s Rochester has spent the last seven weeks of term, cycling nearly 20 miles a day on an exercise bike to travel the route from John O’Groats to Lands End to raise money for NHS Charities Together. Mr Metcalfe, the Head of Senco and Housemaster in the boys Boarding House was challenged...
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Bake Off Star Selects Winner...
Pupils at King’s Rochester spent their weekend eagerly waiting to hear who Mr David Atherton winner of Channel 4’s The Great British Bake Off 2019 had chosen as winner of their lockdown baking competition. Pupils in both the Preparatory and Senior Schools were set a baking challenge to produce 12 identical cupcakes over the course...
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PUPILS DISCOVER THE JOY OF...
Each Friday afternoon the Year 2 and Year 3 pupils in King’s Rochester Pre-Preparatory School don their trainers and PE kits and head off around the Cathedral Precinct as they train for a 2.5k Park Run. Led by Deputy Headmistress, Mrs Kellie Crozer and Teaching Assistant Mrs Wendy Black, both keen runners themselves. The after-School...
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Historic changes to Rochester Cathedral...
In an exciting new development, more places for musically talented boys and girls aged between eight and 13 will be on offer in Rochester Cathedral Choir. From September 2020, a mixed treble line with equality for boys and girls will be introduced to the Cathedral Choir. All new Choristers will be offered financially-assisted places at...
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King’s Rochester – A MOVING...
On Friday 20th September 2019, Senior School pupils from King’s Rochester held a special service of reflection in the sunlit...
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TOP RESULTS FOR KING’S ROCHESTER...
King’s Rochester is celebrating another year of excellent GCSE results and outstanding achievements by pupils today. With 26% of all...
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