Lockdown restrictions have not stopped the music at King Edwards’s Witley, with over 100 pupils participating in an online ‘Together at Home’ music extravaganza.

A Year 9 pupil from King Edward’s Witley is helping to ease the shortage of hand sanitiser in his local community by producing the essential antibacterial cleanser in his back garden.

The International Baccalaureate (IB) is celebrating the 50th IB World School to be authorized in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai International Academy - Al Barsha, which offers the IB’s Diploma Programme (DP). Over the last decade, the IB has gained significant momentum in the UAE, with triple the number of schools now offering an IB programme than in 2010.

Mr David Corran, Deputy Head and Designated Safeguarding Lead at King Edward’s Witley, discusses the difficulties that pupils face during lockdown and shares advice on how the school can best support them.

Q&A with Alvaro Escribano, Director of Carlos III International School (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Live science experiments, a series of debates on Odysseus, online chess tournaments… School may be closed but the learning continues at King Edward’s Witley, thanks to the distance-learning programme - #KESW@Home - launched ahead of the Easter break.