- start their own business through Young Enterprise
- illustrate and publish (creating their own publishing company to do so) their own children’s book; “The Heart of the Wood”
- Perform on the stage of the Gulbenkian Theatre and National Theatre as winners of the Connexions Nationwide Youth Theatre Festival
- Solve technical problems and overcome challenges; be national finalists and international ambassadors for STEM; Teentech Silver, won Samsung Solve for Tomorrow: Next Gen (first from over 1000 entries from 2357 students!)
- Be Campaign Champions for ‘sendmyfriend’ and help shape international policy and law and contribute, actively, to the 17 SDGs
- Crew and sail a tall ship, TS Thalassa across the English Channel! (Despite being 1 of 5 secondary schools in the district, 6 out of the 13 Shepway students selected were from FSG! All girls were FSG!)
- 3 out of 18 students nationwide on the 2024 JoLT expedition to Vietnam/Cambodia are from FSG.
- join the CCF with all that that involves – including triaging casualties from a helicopter crash, planning a safe evacuation route for those troops and getting them out of there!
- complete Duke of Edinburgh at Bronze, Silver and Gold Award Level!
- debate at the highest levels locally & nationally; complete mock magistrates; Be a part of the Model United Nations.
- Work with Professor Mark Connolly & Dr Helen Brooks (UKC) & Imperial War Museum on ‘Walking with Ghosts’; A new, multi-modal artwork exploring Folkestone’s heritage as a place of journeying to and escaping from conflict; 9.7 million soldiers, 850,000 Red Cross and other workers, and more than 120,000 refugees during the WW1. A ‘ghostly army’ marching along the walls of Folkestone Harbour Arm and out to the channel, using the latest projection mapping techniques and IWM archival footage over an 84-hour performance with contributions from both History students at FSG & our CCF contingent
- Use a Scanning Electron Microscope as part of a project with the Institute for Research in Schools and present to the Royal Society! (one of just 10 schools selected across the country)
- work with industry and academics to design products to make the world a better place through Teentech; win the IET Faraday Challenge
- Teach languages to over 1000 primary students in this past year as part of our Language Ambassador Scheme; be commended for the Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators
- To audition and be selected for the National Youth Theatre & perform and direct in the West End as well as our own school productions
- to compete in sports competitions; to learn self-defence
- To work together to solve problems and escape our Escape Room!
- to meet and make new friends from all over the world – Tanzania, Nepal, Cuba, Morocco, Spain, France, Bangladesh, Lebanon; International School Award. Global School Award
- to present their own radio shows on our award winning radio station (winner - Best Music show at this year's National Young Audio Awards!) or write articles for our in-school magazine, ‘Sea Views’
- write, record and perform their own music; produce and display stunning works of Art; choreograph and perform their own dance pieces; devise and perform their own drama
- Create their own websites
- Achieve Silver Industrial Cadet Award for CANSAT; take part in the Oxford University Computing Challenge; attend a 5-day residential for Cyberfirst Defenders & achieve The Royal Signals Medal for Excellence!
- To take part in a mock-interview programme, meet local and national employers in our careers fayre and learn that ‘all education is careers education’
- To volunteer and support our school community through FSGAmbassadors Scheme or our local community through our Listening Project or Bridging the Gap Scheme
- Complete the prestigious Ivy House Award and find their ‘Inner Rhino’
- Complete National Citizenship Service in summer of Y11/12 – in record numbers!
- Win Try Angle Awards for their ‘Relationship Ambassadors’ project - exploring healthy and unhealthy teen relationships & the signs and support to be aware of in unhealthy or toxic relationships.
- To develop resilience through our whole school approach to emotional well-being – Kent Resilience Award
- be amongst the first schools nationally, post covid, to recommence student exchange/language trips - to both Spain & France. The Spanish Embassy and British Council both using FSG as exemplary practice in their publications.
- To gain self-confidence through climbing, mountain biking, archery, cheer, CoJo,….. as part of our unique character education & personal development programme, The FSGBacc
- To sign up, join in, take part and to STAND OUT
And they have taken part in their droves….
- 400+ Duke of Edinburgh
- 300+ Combined Cadet Force Contingent
- 92% engage regularly with co-curricular activities; 90% of staff help run it!
- National Citizenship Service. (the biggest cohort of any school!) We are a Gold Champion Award School, the no. 1 in fact!
- Across all of Kent 510 students signed up for NCS, 88 of those from FSG!
- 82% have been on a school trip – last year alone!!
- Well over 2000 volunteering hours (nearly 100 days) paid back to our local community through D of E
- Over 1000 primary students taught by our Language Ambassador Programme (All FSG Year 8)
- Made (and won) national finals in STEM competitions
- Made (and won) national finals in Youth Radio
- 1 of just ten schools nationally to have been awarded the loan of a £100k Scanning Electron Microscope.
- Our students have championed the hunger crisis in the horn of Africa addressing MPs in parliament and been invited to attend the party conference season.
- One of our Year 9 students, a Campaign Champion for ‘Send My Friend’, has also been invited to be a speaker at the Results UK Conference at The Human Rights Action Centre in London; she will be one of the youngest speakers at the Conference.
- Our exchange trips to Spain caught the attention of both the Spanish Embassy and the British Council as an example of best practice, who have published articles on the visits and our sponsored bike ride last summer too made the headlines!
- Amongst the talent, that cast of FSG students – on the stage, in the orchestra, backstage, tech…… in The Addams Family were students who achieved straight 9s in their GCSEs, students who present and produce award winning radio shows, students who have won national STEM competitions, students who hold the very highest rank in our CCF contingent, students who have been on national theatre tours, students who are so dedicated to CCF that they slept out at camp each night despite rehearsals and performances and students who represented Scouting UK in South Korea!
And complete our Personal Development and Character Education programme, the FSGBacc...
