Community Partnerships
Sevenoaks School’s core mission is to develop as
a community school in the fullest sense, working
with Kent state secondary schools, especially
Knole Academy, and many primary schools in the
surrounding area.
Above: The Easter KAN
residential at Sevenoaks.
Royal National Children’s
SpringBoard Foundation
Royal SpringBoard is a charity giving life-transforming
opportunities to disadvantaged and vulnerable
children in the UK. Working with schools they
carefully identify bright young people who would
benefit most from the positive impact of a boarding
environment and its transformational effect.
Sevenoaks School joined the scheme in 2017, and
through the generosity of donors, we were able to
fully fund the first Sixth Form student from 2017-19.
We have been able to increase that support this year
to two Sixth Form students from September 2019.
Right: OS Charlie Higson with
KAN students.
Old Sennockian Bursary Fund
Since 2018, the Kent Academies Network University
Access Programme (KANUAP) has been managed by
Sevenoaks School, and is fully funded by a donor to
the Foundation. The scheme aims to inspire young
people from Kent state schools to go to university,
and gives preference to students on free school meals
or receiving Pupil Premium. Students participate in
the programme for five years from Year 9; they attend
residential courses twice a year and meet-up days,
work with an assigned undergraduate mentor and
have access to online platforms for mentoring and to
research destination options.
Two years ago we launched an Old Sennockian-led
initiative for a bursary fund collectively supported
by Sevenoaks School’s alumni. OS have contributed
a total of £25,000, with further pledges of £10,000,
enabling the first Year 7 recipient of the OS Bursary
from a local primary school to join the school in
September.
These are all remarkable achievements by the school
community and have given us the confidence to
deliver the buildings and bursary programmes of the
future. We seek to foster the continued support of
parents and alumni and their commitment to making
a difference as we move into the next phase of the
school’s development plan, Horizon 2032.
Michael Joyce, Executive Director of Advancement
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