Creative Writing Period 7

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In Creative Writing P7 this half term we have been writing short stories based on the image below.

This week we celebrated some fantastic story writing skills with a special session where we shared our work aloud, whilst celebrating our collective genius and eating sweets. Special credits go to Lois, Ellie and Amber, Rayan and Oscar for being brave enough to share their stories aloud, which were all of an incredible level for Year 7 students.  If you have a moment, please do have a read of the stories by Oscar B, Rayan N and Jai K attached here.

I promise, you will be blown away!

Mrs McPartlin

Future Heroes Trip

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A group of Year 8 and 9 students, that are interested in a career in health care or medicine, visited the Future Heroes Expo in Hatfield. Students had the opportunity to meet and talk to various professionals from within the NHS and other health care providers. Their discussions encouraged them to find out about aspects of health care that are less well known, as well as what the possible routes are into each profession, including apprenticeships.
As well as visiting the Autism and Dementia experience buses, students also used VR headsets to ‘treat’ a patient and also had the opportunity to use official medical equipment on training manikins. A fun, but very informative morning was had by all!
Miss Phillips 

KWS Trampoline Squad

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Congratulations to the 4 students that competed at their first ever National Finals Schools Trampoline Competition in Northampton on Saturday 18th March. Will E (Year 9) competed 2 excellent routines in the Years 9-10 Novice category and was placed 12th. The Year 7 Elite boys team of Matthew P, Joshua P and Riley W performed well with some new skills and were crowned National Champions in their age category!

A fabulous achievement from all students and a great first year for the KWS Trampoline squad.

Miss Moxham

Advanced Maths Programme Maths Feast

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Well done to the Year 10 mathematicians who competed in the Advanced Maths Programme Maths Feast on Monday. Students competed in four rounds of increasingly difficult team maths challenges and performed excellently against some tough opposition.

We look forward to trying some of the problems during the advanced maths lunch club. Our teams consisted of Team 10 – Poppy S, Fahtima A, Tom M & Tristan H and Team 13 – Freddie C, Finley M, Joanne E & Maanasee N. Well done all.

Miss Anderson 

‘Neurodiversity week and the Umbrella Project.’

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This week, we’ve been celebrating neurodiversity month with a series of whole year assemblies talking about neurodiversity and the amazing things we can achieve when we embrace our differences. The focus was on how everyone is different and that this is a positive thing.
You may have also seen our Umbrella Project display (before it was battered by the wind!). This is part of the ADHD Foundation’s countrywide initiative to raise awareness of neurodiversity through a series of installations. The founding members of the KWS Umbrella Project decorated some of the umbrellas with words representing the positive traits their neurodiversities bring them, alongside their interests and hobbies. Each year, new members will decorate umbrellas until they are all decorated.
Thank you to KWAF for generously funding our involvement with the project.
Mrs Grainger, Mrs Eyley and Ms Rainer

Maths in Action

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Earlier this month, a group of Year 10 students travelled to London to watch an interactive maths show hosted by Maths in Action.  Speakers with backgrounds ranging from Academia and Quantitative Trading to Engineering and Space Science gave a series of fascinating talks designed to enhance mathematical understanding, improve problem solving skills and, above all, to raise awareness of the maths that is all around us.  There was also an Exam Masterclass and even some mathematical poetry.

Questions discussed during the day included:  “Are you more likely to be struck by lightning or win the lottery?”, “How are messages encrypted?” and “How many intelligent alien life forms are searching for us right now?”.  (The answer to that last question is 7 by the way, but there were a few caveats!)

Students conducted themselves extremely well throughout the day and were engaged and courteous.  We hope the trip has inspired them to continue their study of maths to A Level and beyond! 

Mrs Wall

HfL Maths Challenge

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Congratulations to Thomas C, Joie F, Kenny H, Tapiwa M, Ella P, Willow P, Finlay R and Isla W who competed in the Herts for Learning Year 7 Maths Challenge earlier this month.  

This maths challenge is a team event in which students compete virtually with other schools to gain points across four rounds, including an estimation and a memory round. The challenge  certainly brought out the competitive spirit in our Year 7s who were incredibly focussed and resourceful.  Organisers even commended the poster created by one of our teams in the memory round as being one of the best of the day.

Unfortunately, neither of our teams made it to the finals, but we are extremely proud of their efforts and look forward to competing again soon with our year 8 teams.


Mrs Wall

Sports update

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Well done to all sports teams this term. There have been a number of standout teams and also individual performances in gymnastics, basketball, netball and football just to name a few.

Last week marked our Inter-House Sports tournaments in football, netball, benchball (due to the weather) and badminton. It was fantastic to see so many students competing for their house and showcasing sporting talent across the school. After all the scores were counted up for all the different sports, congratulations to Nightingale on winning the overall competition, with Franklin finishing second.

Finally in PE, we celebrated Careers Month this month by asking students to design their own sporting activity before delivering and teaching it to another group of students. This developed key skills such as communication, collaboration and also got students to experience how they might cope with behaviour challenges! All groups produced some fantastic activities and also considered how they could adapt the session to make it easier or more challenging. Well done.

We look forward to athletics, cricket and rounders in the summer term.

Mr Alexander 

HomeRun App

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We are excited to announce that we are partnering with HomeRun App to help parents connect to others living nearby and make journey-sharing easier. The app is a secure, digital platform that will enable you to:
  • Share lifts with nearby families to reduce the time and cost of driving to school
  • Contact other parents securely, sharing personal contact information on a needs-only basis
  • Ensure safer independent travel for your children by arranging travel buddies
  • Receive information promptly about any changes to the arrival times of students returning from trips
  • Receive up to date information on the school’s travel and environmental initiatives

The app also provides the school with anonymised journey information so that we can understand our school commute footprint and view our progress towards more sustainable travel.

We will be launching the app by emailing out a sign-up link after the Easter holidays.

DT Radioactive Meteorite Challenge

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What do scissor-action grabbers, vending machine claws and parachutes all have in common? They are ingenious student inventions for handling a radioactive meteorite (A.K.A. a tennis ball).

Last Wednesday KWS had the privilege of hosting the 23rd annual Rotary Technology Tournament in the sports hall – an inter-school competition for Design and Technology students.

Our students competed against 30 teams from at least 7 local secondary schools to design and build devices to retrieve a ball from within a protective case 1.5 metres away, in under 4 hours – a true engineering challenge.

Congratulations to Thomas R, Will E, Taye L, Lucas C, Dean H and Luke G who, whilst being some of the youngest in their category, dreamed up devices that successfully extracted the meteorite. Such was the energy and enjoyment of the day; we would love to enter more teams next year. If this gets your gears turning come and talk to any of the DT Department to find out more.

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