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O utreach continued T he F riends of S evenoaks In September 2017 we are launching our Outreach Box initiative. This will start with 14 boxes of resources that will be freely available to schools to borrow for a limited amount of time. These boxes include class sets of 30 virtual reality headsets, robots, electronics kits, hi-tech microscopes and many other items. and runs one of the residentials every year, and a significant number of Sevenoaks staff teach on these courses. This year we celebrated the graduation of the first cohort of students to complete the four- year programme, and we were delighted that a good number of them achieved excellent university offers. IBCP We also continue to support the rollout of the new IB Careers-related Programme (IBCP) to 26 schools Our primary school outreach group developed lesson plans and then delivered them to local schools, to the in Kent. As one of the world’s largest IB schools, with nearly 40 years of experience, we are keen to delight of the children and their teachers. We were share this knowledge and expertise with the Kent inundated with enthusiastic emails from teachers, state schools who have adopted the programme heads, governors, parents and children. We have also run sessions for parents within the Primary Partnership recently. We have hosted a number of events for the IBCP schools, and supported them with marketing, Network. A recent example was a session on online safety for children, which gave parents practical advice academic advice and resources. about how to keep their children safe online. Graeme Lawrie KAN Sevenoaks continues to support the Kent Academies Network Programme (KAN), which links five independent schools with six academy schools. The programme aims to support students from the academies with university applications, and to raise aspirations and encourage social mobility. A number