Science Update

July 8, 2022/in Whole School/by Keris McCormick

The Science department welcomed thirty Year 5 students from Sauncey Wood Primary school and their teacher, Ms Gardener, to KWS on Tuesday afternoon for a couple of Science taster sessions.

The students were shown how sound waves can be ‘seen’ in flames with our Rubens tube: we played some excellent Ed Sheeran songs and saw the flames dancing in time to the music!

They also made chromatograms to show how mixtures of ink can be separated when some colours of ink in the mixture are more soluble than others.

The students showed fantastic enthusiasm and were all extremely engaged and well behaved. We had a great time showing off our brilliant labs to them and will look forward to seeing lots of them at Open Day in September!

The Science Team

UK Maths Challenge

July 8, 2022/in Whole School/by Keris McCormick

Well done to John D, Jack F, Lucas C & Joel D for competing in the UKMT Junior Kangaroo round which is the hardest round a Year 7 or 8 can do with the UKMT.

Lucas & Jack earned a Certificate of Qualification and John and Joel earned a Certificate of Merit.

A special mention to Joel who got an incredible 23/25 questions correct, fantastic!

Congratulations to all students who have taken part in any UKMT challenge this year, we look forward to running them again next year.

The Maths Team

Signed Saracens Shirt

July 1, 2022/in News/by Dean Inns

KWS has been given a Saracens Rugby shirt has been signed by all the current first team squad who reached the Rugby Premiership final this month including England stars (and ex Harpenden RFC players) Owen Farrell and Maro Itoje. The shirt was kindly donated by ex Saracens and England sevens player Kevin Barrett. Kevin is currently Head of Academy Strength and Conditioning at Saracens. The donation was arranged by Harpenden Rovers Youth FC who use the KWS facilities on Saturday mornings for training.