Having won the Regionals late in the Autumn Term, the KES Senior Schools’ Challenge team – Ben Fernando (c), Andrew Macarthur, Yanbo Yin and Nick Wyatt – travelled to the Perse School in Cambridge to play the (single) Inter-Regional round of the competition.
The boys ran out convincing winners, 1010 – 680, with all playing a significant part in the victory.
The National Finals await at the end of April and the team hope to retain the trophy won by the KES champions last year.
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King Edward’s School was inspected in November 2025, meeting standards in all areas and being awarded the rare distinction of a “significant strength” for the way in which pupils develop a strong sense of belonging.
Thinking we were still Christopher Columbus, swimming in a mud-based basin seemed very appealing. Burning my feet on the walk back to the moped was not a part of the plan but after the basin swallowed my flipflops I had few options.
The company also gave it their all to make it the spectacular performance it was written to be, bringing the workhouse, Fagin’s den and the streets of Victorian London to life.
King Edward’s School, Birmingham (KES) has once again been named the highest performing day school for boys, either independent or state, in the West Midlands.
