This year was the 7th Movember UK campaign here at KES! 🥸 The month featured a thrilling teachers vs pupils football match, a creative form photo competition, and a bake sale run by the Comic Book Club, all raising awareness and funds for men’s health. 🙌✨ Movember Schools UK

Congratulations to Khai (UM) for winning this year's Christmas Card Competition!🎄🔔 We recently challenged our pupils to get creative and design a festive card for the school. His design will be used by the Development Office to send their best wishes to our alumni. 👏

It’s hard to believe it’s been a week since the incredible Junior Production of Lord of the Flies! 🎭 With a company of 70 talented junior performers and a crew of equally dedicated seniors, they were proud to bring this powerful story to life.🎉 Bravo to everyone involved! 👏

It’s been a week since the KE Community Christmas, and we’re still feeling festive! Old Edwardians 🎅🎄 It was wonderful to see our whole community off pupils, parents, and Old Edwardians, come together to celebrate the season and all things KE! 🤝✨

Congratulations to our U13 Tennis Team, Seb, Oli, Rishi, and Kyle (UMs) on finishing 3rd place at the National Tennis Finals! 🏆🎉 Finishing 3rd out of 500+ teams is an incredible achievement. Well done boys! 💪🎾

What a spectacular three-concert run of KES & KEHS Christmas Concerts 🎶 Thank you to all our talented musicians and choirs for spreading Christmas cheer and to everyone who joined us to celebrate. 🎼✨

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year's Toys4Birmingham collection! 🙌 Led by a group of Divisions pupils – around 50 toys have been collected, which will support over 15,000 families across Birmingham celebrate this festive season. 🐻🎄

Yesterday KES hosted the Two Cities Book Award Ceremony for the third year running! It is a joint venture between KES library and @WGS1512 library, and it is supported by Authors Aloud UK 📖 🎉 Congratulations to Ashley Hickson-Lovance, whose novel Wild East won the award! 👏✨

From Christmas Jumper Day to our Christmas Fayre, KES has been spreading the holiday cheer while supporting St. Chad’s Sanctuary. 🎅🎄 Thank you to everyone who contributed by raising money and donating over 300 bags of non-perishable food and men’s clothing.👏

Don’t miss this inspiring story – tune in at 7PM tonight BBC The One Show

Last week, the BBC The One Show featured the inspiring true story behind Netflix Six Triple Eight, starring Kerry Washington. The 6888 Central Postal Directory Battalion was an all-female, predominantly African-American unit stationed at KES during the WWII. 📨✨ (1/2)

We were also honoured to attend a special preview screening of Netflix’s Six Triple Eight in London, hosted by the US Embassy. 🎥 🇺🇸 Learn more and catch up on the One Show episode by visiting our website! kes.org.uk/news/netflix-m… (2/2)

Looking for something to watch over the Christmas break? 🎥🎄 You're in luck! our Foundation Archivist and Development Office have put together a King Edward VI Foundation Birmingham movie watchlist. Let us know in the comments if you check out any of the recommendations. ✨

This week The Six Triple Eight arrives on Netflix UK & Ireland telling the true story of the only 🇺🇸 Women's Army Corps battalion of color to serve overseas in WWII – stationed at King Edward's School 🇬🇧 - who got the mail moving to the frontlines again, boosting troop morale.

We were thrilled to have been a part of this special event 🙌

Christmas at KES all wrapped up 🎁 We hope you are all enjoying the Christmas break so far! 🎄✨

Merry Christmas! 🎅 Wishing you a joyous Christmas from everyone at KES! 🎄🌟

Welcome back to all of our pupils! 👋 We hope you had a restful break and wish you all the best for the Spring Term! 🎉

Divisions kicked off the term with the Collaborative Science Project, working in teams to tackle real-world problems pursued through the lens of the scientific method.👨‍🔬🧪 Well done to Manvith, Louis, Theo, Yuvraj, and Branav, winners of the Gold Bunsen Prize! 🌟🏆