Any one for a game of (frisbee) golf?

September 29, 2023/in Whole School/by Keris McCormick

Our students are now two weeks into their first block of period 7 choices for the year and enjoying a wide range of opportunities offered by our staff team who go above and beyond to make Period 7 a truly enriching experience. New opportunities this year include Architecture, Cubing, Pokemon, Music Appreciation, Chinese Karaoke, EconoME, MakeCode Arcade, Image Editing, Stage Lighting and Italian. We are also very lucky to be able to offer Criminology sessions, run by a parent volunteer.

Year 9 have been very keen to take up a new sport of frisbee golf – as evidenced here:

Whilst Year 10 and 11 are taking up some actual golf with a lot of enthusiasm, here they are in action:

These all sit alongside seasoned favourites like Poi and mindful colouring. Period 7 blocks last for 9 weeks, so these options will run until 23rd November, with Block 2 starting the following week.

Zoe Coomber

English Entry Level Certificate

September 28, 2023/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

This week, Mr Martin welcomed a group of students and parents to his office to celebrate their passing of an external English qualification called the Level 3 Entry Level Certificate. Students studied for this alongside their normal English curriculum and worked hard to improve their fiction and non-fiction reading and their creative and transactional writing skills. Huge congratulations to all students who passed this exam!

Mrs McPartlin – Head of Key Stage 3 English

KWS Library Update

September 28, 2023/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

Thank you so much to everyone who entered our KWS Library Something Summer Reading Challenge. We loved reading all the reviews and seeing which old, new, borrowed and blue books our students were reading during the holidays! We have now drawn the winners and Ellie B (year 8) will be receiving a £25 Waterstones voucher, with Lucy H and Riley W receiving a £10 voucher each.

We have also had a wonderful week introducing all our new year 7s to the library and can’t wait to share some of our fabulous new books with them.

Follow us on instagram @kwschoollibrary for more news and regular updates about what’s happening in the library.

Year 10 Information Evening

September 21, 2023/in News/by Dean Inns

Year 10 Parents Information Evening 11th September 2023.

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Thank you to all those year 10 parents who attended our information evening to hear key information from Mrs. Stockwell (Head of year), Mrs. Caplin (Head of Maths), Miss Barnard (Head of English), Miss Kaur (Head of Science) and Miss Phillips (Careers Lead and Work experience coordinator). If you could not make the evening, the slides from the presentation are attached. If you need further clarity or explanation please do contact the relevant member of staff.

Many thanks Mr Laing

Period 7 and Lunchtime Clubs start on Monday

September 15, 2023/in Whole School/by Keris McCormick

Our staff team are really excited to begin our super curriculum offer of Period 7 and lunchtime clubs for students from Monday. Period 7 is such a key component of life at KWS, providing our students with a great range of opportunities and experiences.

As always, we work hard to allocate as many students as possible their first choices for Mind, Body and Soul. Where this does not happen, it is either due to high demand (in which case we select students at random) or a clash of days for a student’s choices (we try to minimise this by adjusting mind and soul options across multiple days). For the first half of the year alone we allocate over 4500 period 7s for our students based on their personal choices – it is no small task! Due to the size and complexity of this, changes are not possible once sessions are assigned.

Students should check Arbor and/or ClassCharts over the weekend to view their Period 7s and know where they need to be on each day – punctuality to Period 7 is as important as for any other lesson.

Students should ensure they come to school in their PE kit when they have their body option, as follows:

Monday – Year 7 (and some Year 10 Sports Leaders)
Tuesday – Year 8
Wednesday – Year 9
Thursday – Years 10 and 11

Lunchtime Clubs also start on Monday and we are pleased to have been able to allocate everyone all the clubs they have signed up to, with the exception of the Wellness Centre* which has proved extremely popular and has a restriction on numbers. Students can check which clubs they have signed up to via SOCS. If students have a lunchtime sports club they should come to school in their PE kit.

* For the Wellness centre, we will trial a system where the first 20 students arriving at lunchtime (who have signed up on SOCS to attend that session) can enter. If we get lots of students turning up after this initial 20 we will move to a rota system.

Mrs Coomber

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PE Update

September 15, 2023/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

The start of term has already seen a number of sporting activities take place. The opening weeks of the new school year mark the cross country season. On Tuesday we had the MOB race for our new Year 7s. Encouraging performances by all students, with fantastic runs in particular by Thomas B (4th place) and Lucy H (6th place).

Following on from that, we then had our first league fixture for all year groups on Thursday. On a hot afternoon, everyone acquitted themselves well at Townsend School. Thomas C for the Junior boys got the highest placing with an 8th place finish. We look forward to hosting the league fixture next week.

Beyond cross country, we have already started the process of building squads in rugby, netball, basketball and football for the coming year. The turn out and application to these training sessions has been fantastic so far, meaning that selecting teams over the coming months will prove a real challenge. Please note there is no rugby training this Saturday due to Open Day, but it will return the following week.

Finally, we would like you to join us in congratulating the following year 8 boys on making the district football squad after successful trials: Ed J, Thomas C, Jasper B, Theo W and Max S. It is fantastic to see KWS so well represented.

Mr Alexander

Year 7’s First Day

September 15, 2023/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

Last Tuesday morning, the gates of KWS opened once again to welcome in a new cohort of Year 7 students. Amongst the nerves there was a distinct sense of excitement in the air as SLT and the Transition Team welcomed everybody into the courtyard looking ever so smart in their brand new uniforms.

It was a packed day starting with a welcome assembly by Mr Martin and Head of Year 7 Miss Alexis before some ice-breaker games in form bases as well as taster English and Science lessons. Students also practiced what to do in the event of fire alarms going off, processed fingerprints for dinner payments as well as familiarising themselves with the school grounds during break and lunch times while they had the whole school to themselves on this day.

All staff were thoroughly impressed with the behaviour of our new students and especially impressed with the conscious implementation of the KWS values from some students already!

I’d like to also thank the Year 11 prefects who chose to serve our school on the last day of their summer holidays in order to make the new Year 7’s first day with us more enjoyable.

While I step back from my Transition role now until next Easter, I look forward to seeing the Year 7 students thrive at KWS under the team of Year 7 tutors along with Miss Alexis and Mr Jones (Pastoral Head of KS3).

Miss Annie

KWS Transition and EDI Lead

Any one for a game of (frisbee) golf?

English Entry Level Certificate

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