Before reading, please listen to the clip below: A normal observer would think of these sounds as a series of odd chirps, but for the scientists at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory), these sounds indicated something more significant. On 11 February 2016, the…
With the closing of K’s Path later this year, NES has partnered with a small domestic animal rescue center, Save a Soul. It is managed by ex-NES student Aliss, so we thought it was fitting to support Aliss in her work. Aliss is…
On the last Thursday before the mid-term holiday, NES had its first Health and Fitness day of the year. Health and fitness day is always a favorite of NES students, and for good reason too! Everyone gets to wear their PE kit and…
Struggling with the new academic year? Looking for some extra help to get your mind into gear? Then the New NES Peer-to-Peer tutoring system would be perfect for you! It has been re-launched this year with a new website: https://sites.google.com/neskt.org/nestutors/home. It is a…
NES has associated with the organisation KACCH to take a group of NES volunteers and visit infants in different hospitals and entertain them, during the half term break. So on Wednesday 25th October and Thursday 26th October two groups of our students visited…
How do you celebrate the year 11s and 12s pushing through their IGs and A levels? You throw them a well-deserved Welcome Back dinner! The 20th of September marked an event to welcome fresh 6th formers coming in from year 11, some of these…
Go Green Day: A day we haven’t had in NES for 2 years. Why? Well, we just couldn’t manage to keep our school grounds clean. However, this year we did. We would like to give a very special thanks to Ms. Armstrong who…
Personal Growth and Potential: These are the two core ideas that the Tareq Rajab Docent Programme is all about. What was once but a seedling, has now borne fruit. Thanks to the efforts of Kevin Mathew and his team last year, this programme has…
The NES environmental is no longer just focused on recycling paper, plastic, and cardboard. We now have a new mission: we want to change people’s habits rather than clean up after their bad habits. We want to educate everyone about how THEY can…
Millions of trees are accidentally planted by squirrels who bury their nuts and forget where they put it. The slowest fish in the world is a seahorse, which can travel at about 0.016 km/h. Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backward…
The 2017 hurricane season was one unlike any other we’ve seen in recent history. Three major hurricanes (Category 4+) wreaked havoc across the Caribbean islands and the United States. The total damage is estimated to cost upwards of $250 billion. Hurricane Harvey The…
