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Up your school’s green credentials, is time ticking for analogue clocks?, university offers for Tonbridge’s Upper Sixth, plus apply now for a place at space school


Caroline Knight Top university offers for Tonbridge’s Upper Sixth


Green Action campaign and driven by KCC’s Kent Environment Strategy. So what counts as ‘green action’? Any event or activity that is beneficial to the environment such as making a school wildlife pond, putting up bird boxes, planting trees, making a garden, saving electricity, collecting litter, and much more, naturally. These are all actions that help people connect with their environment whilst protecting wildlife and enhancing the school in a ‘green’ way. Dream up something green, put it into action and tell others all about it using social media, including the hashtag #KentGreenAction. Schools and pupils aged 5-14 years can also join in with Kent Children’s University’s Year of Green Action Challenge. • For more information, visit kentchildrensuniversity.co.uk


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019 is the Kent Year of Green Action, based on the government’s national Year of


Twenty-six boys at Tonbridge School have recently been offered places to study at Oxford or Cambridge. The offers cover a range of subjects including biochemistry, engineering, English, history, mathematics, languages, natural sciences, physics, PPE, theology, religion and philosophy of religion. The talented Upper Sixth cohort at


Tonbridge will be taking up places not only at Oxbridge later this year but also at many of the UK’s other leading universities, including Imperial College, the London School of Economics, Durham, Bristol, Bath and Exeter, while a proportion of Tonbridge leavers also choose to study abroad and progress to leading universities around the world. Recent destinations have included


Harvard, Berkeley, the University of Toronto and Hong Kong University. Other Tonbridge pupils go on to take world-leading degree courses in slightly more unusual subjects, which have a strong career ethos. In recent times boys have gained places studying Yacht and Powercraft Design at Southampton Solent University, Sports Management at the University of Loughborough and Food Marketing at the University of Reading. Another Tonbridge pupil has been accepted at the prestigious Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College, which has application rates of almost 10 students for each place. • Visit Tonbridge-school.co.uk


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