KW-Arts Winter Showcase ‘A Night In The West End’

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The curtain has come down on two truly magnificent performances of ‘A Night in the West End’ from our talented young performers. With songs, dances and scenes from some of the West End’s favourites: Blood Brothers, Matilda, School of Rock, Six the Musical, 9 to 5 just to name a few!
We may be slightly biased as the KW Arts Team, but it was such a good success! It was lovely to see our students work together and support each other and revel in being creative and expressive!
We have a huge pool of talent here at KWS and we cannot wait to see what our students do next in our upcoming productions: Bugsy Malone (May), Music Concert and Shakespeare Festival.
The KW-Arts Team

Christmas Joke Competition

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What a success this has been again this year!
Thank you to all parents/ carers / households and staff who entered some outstanding jokes into this year’s Christmas Joke Competition, it was a challenge to whittle it down to the top 10 best jokes.
It’s been a close vote each day, but here are the students Top 10:
  1. Why are Christmas trees so bad at knitting? They’re always dropping their needles.
  2. I threw a boomerang a few years ago. I now live in constant fear.
  3. We got our son a fridge for his birthday. We can’t wait to see his face light up when he opens it.
  4. What do you call an old snowman?  Water
  5. What do you call a caveman’s fart? A blast from the past.
  6. A gingerbread man went to the doctor complaining of a sore knee. The doctor said “Have you tried icing it?”
  7. A bear walks into a bar and says, “Give me a whiskey……… and a cola”. “Why the big pause?” asks the bartender. The bear shrugged. “I’m not sure. I was born with them.”
  8. Singing in the shower is fun until you get soap in your mouth. Then it’s a soap opera.
  9. I’m about to enter the KWS tightest hat competition.  Just hope I can pull it off.
  10. Why can’t Cinderella play football?   Because she is always running away from the ball!!
After some great deliberation, the KWS Winning joke is…
“We got our son a fridge for his birthday. We can’t wait to see his face light up when he opens it.” – Franklin
Miss Patterson 

House news

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As the house system grows, we want to provide students with further opportunities to get involved behind the scenes with our House development.
This term we have introduced a new strand within our Student Leadership and our current Year 9 and some Year 8 students were able to apply for the new role of House Captain.
The aim of this role is to provide each house with two House Captains, who will support the Head of House Development with creating and leading inter-house and charity competitions throughout the year. All the way from coming up with the ideas to promoting them throughout the school and participating. They will communicate with the younger forms in their houses to create teams and promote house identity and values throughout the school striving to constantly raise participation, through leading and encouraging their house members.
After receiving a number of applications and reading some amazing speeches, our KWS staff were able to vote for two candidates from each house.
I would like to say a huge well done to all students who applied for the role and to also congratulate our successful House captains.
 
Ali
Isobel James
Jessica Howarth
 
Armstrong
Justin Z
Jayden A
Franklin
Jacob T
Tiffany P
Keller
Sofia Miah
Shakhram S
Nightingale
Mabel K
Freddie C
Tesla
Mikhail H
Aaron N
Miss Patterson

Live webinar and Q&A with an Architect

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On Thursday 9th December, we were lucky enough to host a live presentation and Q & A session with architect, Nicola Rutt. We had 92 students sign up to this event and they listened beautifully while Nicola spoke about her creative background, how she got into the profession and all the different aspects of being an architect.

At the end of the session, students were given the opportunity to ask questions (they had lots!) and the feedback that I have had from Nicola was that the questions that she was asked by KWS students were the best that she’s ever been asked by school students! Nicola has participated in many of these talks, so that is high praise indeed!

We thank Nicola for her time and look forward to hosting many more events of this nature.

Miss Phillips

English Super Curriculum

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Our Super Curricular activities are there to take our students beyond what they have studied in the classroom and provide them with a challenge. The English Super Curriculum provides our students with the opportunity to enhance their learning, with lots of suggestions of activities that they can try outside of their lessons. There are a range of activities to choose from. Students can Read, Write, Listen, Research, Watch and Visit for Extra Learning. 

We are incredibly proud of the Super Curricular work our students have produced. Click here to view some of the excellent pieces of work from our year groups.

Mrs Hassan

English Department

E-Scooters

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Hertfordshire Road Safety Partnership want to bring to your attention their concerns over the illegal use of privately owned e-scooters.

E-Scooters are readily available to purchase and sales are expected to increase over the festive period.  However, it is currently against the law to ride a privately owned e-scooter on a public road, cycle path or pavement.  Private e-scooters can only be legally used on private land (with the landowners permission).

Illegal use of e-scooters can lead to a police warning or seizure of the e-scooter.  E-scooter use on pavements, cycle paths or roads can lead to serious injury for pedestrians, scooter riders and other road users.

To help educate parents and pupils, please find a short animation at the link below and an image attached.

E-Scooters-720p-211129 on Vimeo

Youth Speaks Competition

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On Tuesday 7th December, six Year 9 students competed in the 2021/2022 Annual Rotary Youth Speaks Competition. We are so very proud to have been able to take two teams of such a high calibre to a competition.

Students were invited to audition early in the autumn term if they wanted to be part of this exciting competition. Based on making a great first impression, we created the following two teams:

Freddie C,  Cuan P, Becky D

Motion: “Lies do more good than harm”

Annabel S, Harry H, Omari W

Motion: “Adults should go back to school”

Students provided excellent arguments, came up with engaging ideas and delivered fantastic performances! They were also humble and made sure they displayed the best standard of behaviour during our visit to Aldwickbury Golf Club.

We are very proud of the students and the performances they delivered. We look forward to competing in 2022/2023. How exciting!

Mrs Aikman

Student Council

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We are delighted to announce that after reading through well-thought and put together applications, we have ourselves our Student Council for the current academic year: 

Year 7 Student Council:
Erin H
Nissi M
Saskia W
Sofia D
Harrison W
Carter D
Gabriella D
Florence C
Shea M
Mia K
Kayla F-K
Imogen D
Year 8 Student Council:
Ollie T
Akira A
Jayden A
Arissa H
Will E
Sophie K
Kaavy S
Jean N
Hrithik P
Aaron N
Esme G-G
Year 9 Student Council:
Annabel S
Isabel J
Jada O
Neomi Y
Ruairi A
Jacob T
Jordan C
Leigha K
Joshua H-M
Chloe W
Ella H
Max O
Mr Church

 

Celebrating Cell Models

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Year 7 have been busy creating fabulous cell models to help explain the differences between plant and animal cells. The students were tasked with showing as many different organelles (little organs) as possible on their model. We had a fantastic array of models submitted: 3D printed cells, carved pumpkins, clay creations, creative cakes  and even scientifically accurate pizza models! It has been a pleasure to display these models throughout our science classrooms, not only have they brightened up our rooms but they are also really good learning resources. To everyone that created a model you should be thoroughly proud of yourself.

We had so many brilliant entries that it was hard to choose our favourites. However, a special mention for the following students for simply fantastic cell model homework:

7N – Ruqayya A, Rebecca M and Darci M

7K – Finn B and Harry G

7P – Ben M, Alfie P, Lily V and Flo C

The Science Department

Planet Photos

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Following on from the last Newsletter update I managed to snap a great shot of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus on my way out of school last week.

Also, thanks very much to Sam J in Year 8 for sending in his photo too. It doesn’t take an expert or an amazing camera to spot and snap them – they’re pretty unmistakable if you look up at the right time! (Look South to South West between 5pm and 6pm on a clear night to catch all three).

Mrs Creamer

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