News Category: Co-curricular

We are honoured that the renowned James Taylor Quartet will be performing here at Benenden on Saturday night – and we would be delighted if members of the public were able to join us for this special occasion. The concert, part of the Benenden Arts Festival 2019 , begins at 7.00pm with Benenden’s own Lime Ave […]

At the start of Half Term six intrepid girls from Benenden jumped out of a plane solo from 4,000 feet to raise money for Walking With The Wounded and Dare to Live. None of the girls had ever done parachuting before and after a full day of training, which covered how to control and land […]

Since the start of the academic year a group of girls, with help from some staff here, have been building a Caterham Seven 270 car. We are happy to say it has now been completed! The team of Sixth Formers have built the car from scratch, working on it for an evening every week. The […]

Students from Benenden and our partner school, The John Wallis Church of England Academy in Ashford, have been spending a lot of time together recently in events hosted at the respective schools. First of all Benenden hosted 80 Year 11 students from John Wallis for a mentoring session with our Six One. Students went through study skills, revision technique and […]

The annual Two Generation Sports event at Benenden was, as ever, both hugely successful and very enjoyable. Bathed in late summer sunshine, teams of parent and daughter teams competed in Croquet, Badminton, Rounders or Tennis, as well as the Horse Show, introduced at Benenden for the first time. There was a real community feel to […]

Girls have seen 18 months’ of hard work come to fruition as they flew in a light aircraft they built themselves this weekend. A team of pupils have been constructing the microlight one evening each week since September 2016 and they finally took to the skies in the aircraft yesterday (Sunday 1 July). This engineering project has […]