Our annual careers event will take place on 23 October. Students and familes are invited to meet employers, advisers, Post 16 and Post 18 providers to gain important advice and guidance about next steps beyond KEVI.
King Edward’s students celebrate exceptional exam success with top grades and exciting next steps.
Students at The King Edward VI School in Morpeth are celebrating after securing great results in the 2025 summer examinations. With 28% of A Level grades at A–A*, and over 58% at A–B*, the results reflect the hard work, dedication, and ambition of this year’s cohort. Seventeen students achieved straight A*–A grades, and more than 74% of Level 3 vocational grades were awarded Distinction or Distinction*.
Headteacher Clare Savage praised the students’ commitment and resilience:
“As a school community we are proud of our students’ efforts and achievements this year. I also want to extend my thanks to all of the teachers, school staff, and parents who have supported our students along the way. Congratulations to all King Edward’s Leavers 2025. We wish all of our students every success in their future endeavours.”
Head of Sixth Form Jack Quinlan expressed his admiration for this year’s cohort:
“The relationships established in Sixth Form continue to be the bedrock for success. It has been incredible to see the support, challenge and encouragement the students have given each other over the last two years and a privilege to share in their success and excitement on their results day.”
Students are progressing onto a wide variety of exciting courses from architecture to aeronautical engineering, interior design to international business management.
A significant number have secured highly competitive degree apprenticeships in fields such as healthcare and uniformed services, while others are taking gap years in the voluntary sector and in the USA.
Mr Quinlan added:
“Whatever their next step, we wish all our students the very best for the future and look forward to hearing about their future endeavours.”
As part of our annual Enrichment Week, students interested in Food took part in the Sugar and Spice activity visiting culinery hotspots; Sachins Newcastle, R Place bakery in North Shields and York’s Chocolate Story.
Bob, the owner and Head Chef at Sachins provided a master class in curray making. Students got to see inside a professional kitchen and made their own naan breads… best of allo they got to taste everything!
Many of our Year 10 students are out of school completing face to face work placements during our Enrichment Week. For those that are in school, the programme is focussing on employer enagement with Northumberland County Council and developing effective transferrable skills that would be useful in the workplace. As part of this we have partnered with Talk the Talk.
Expert trainers from Talk The Talk are in school on 5 June 2025 to work with students. This is to help them prepar for thier presentations at NCC County Hall on Friday.
The Talk About Communication workshop is an exciting and engaging master class developing speaking and listening skills within a creative learning environment. The workshop provides numerous speaking opportunities and students are coached and supported throughout the day to deliver a structured two minute presentation, on a topic for which they have a genuine passion, to their peers.
‘We demonstrate that speaking out should be an experience that we CAN do – and one that is nowhere near as daunting as we might think. One of the keys to the success of the Talk The Talk programme is creating an environment of mutual respect with a supportive ethos so that when students stand up and voice their opinions, share their thoughts and present their ideas – their skills and confidence grow.’
Mike, Talk The Talk
Talk The Talk’s mission is to develop students’ oracy skills and their communication confidence to support positive interaction in all life situations and improved social outcomes. This will be the third occassion KEVI have worked with Talk the Talk and student feedback has always been really positive.
The King Edward VI School Animation Club was delighted to welcome animator Callum Boyd to its meeting this week to share his industry experience with our students.
Callum of Atomhawk, an award winning studio that provides creative support to the games industry, delivered an informative talk where he outlined his route into animation as a career and shared some of the expertise he gained along the way.
Jeff Bridgewood who created the club to kindle creativity in our students commented. “Our hardworking students were delighted to hear first hand from an industry expert and I am excited to see how they will be using his insights to inform their future projects.”
We were delighted, after a rigorous assessment process, to have our Quality in Careers Standard reaffirmed in January. The award recognises our committment to developing students beyond their examined curricula and supporting progression after school; whether at 16 or 18.
Throughout the process we undertook a lengthy self evaluation that was interrogated thoroughly by the assessors. Our assessment day involved a range of students, staff and governors from across the school to ‘test’ and triangualte our self evaluation evidence.
We are extremely proud to continue developing our Careers Education offer and will continue to work with tenacity to support our students’ ambitions.
Year 9 student, Emily has the privilege and responsibility of being elected to the UK Youth Parliament.
In October, Emily attended Warwick University to participate in the annual conference where there were lots of debates. The MYPs were updating their manifesto as part of the conference. As part of the conference, Emily got to meet MYPs from all over the country, sharing their experiences and ideas.
Emily, and her peer peer James, MYP at RGS Sixth Form, have been supported by Ben, the participation lead at Northumberland County Council. Emily will be able to visit the Houses of Commons in February 2025 to debate and discuss the motions they passed in the manifesto that they created at the annual conference in October.
KEVI students get an awful lot of opportunities which they can take advantage of and aspiring Engineer, James, did just that. Students were invited to apply to become part of Northern Powergrid’s Youth Insight panel. Successful appliant James, who is a current Sixth Form student, is enjoying his time learning about different careers and sharing his ideas.
Read more about James’ experience ⇓
https://www.northernpowergrid.com/news/inspiring-an-engineering-generation
Students from A Level Product Design visited FaulknerBrown Architects in Killingworth as part of their course; understanding Design Technology in Commercial Industry.
All students had a studio tour and a workshop tour so they can see what it is like working in a professional environment. There presentations from various staff within FaulknerBrown so they could discover the variety of roles available and they also took part in a design challenge to create a concept for a community pavilion with thought around how to make it inclusive and sustainable. The visit really brought the curriculum to life.
The staff at FaulknerBrown commented on studnets’ excellent behaviour and also their positive and engaged attitude towards the team challenge that they created.
