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House charity fortnight.

February 29, 2024/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

The week commencing 4th March will see the start of the KWS house charity fortnight.

There are various activities planned throughout the fortnight to raise money for our school charities which are The Ollie Foundation and Cancer Research UK. Students can contribute using card or cash. House representatives have coordinated various events to support these great causes. 

5th March- Armstrong have arranged a “guess the eggs in the jar” 

6th March- Franklin have arranged a sweet sale in the Courtyard at 3.30pm. 

8th March- Ali have arranged a “dunk the teacher” event. This will be held at lunchtime in the courtyard. 

11th March- Keller have a bake sale in the Hall at lunchtime. 

12th March- Nightingale have a movie screen in Room 41/43 at Lunchtime.

13th March- Tesla have arranged “The great KWS bake off”. All entries will receive achievement points. The deadline for submitting cakes will be 12th March, these will then be judged and winners will be announced. On the 13th March all cakes will be sold in the hall at lunchtime.

 

Miss Fatima

 

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Rothamsted Research careers talk

February 9, 2024/in Year 8/by Chrissy Dicks
Rothamsted Research visited KWS to talk to the Year 8 students about the work that is undertaken at the research centre.  The guest speakers, Susan and Rodrigo, provided an overview of all the fantastic work that is carried out at the centre:  How they are trying to tackle issues such as sustainable farming, and how to manage food production for an ever increasing population.  Rodrigo and Susan also talked to the students about their career path, how they ended up working in research, what a typical day would involve and what they enjoyed about this type of career.
This presentation was an opportunity for the students to gain an insight into the types of roles that are available related to STEM (science, maths, engineering or maths) careers.  We hope that this talk may have inspired some students to consider a STEM career path, particularly at Rothamsted Research, which is a big employer right on our doorstep.
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Celebration of Chinese New Year in Mandarin lessons

February 9, 2024/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

Students across different year groups have enjoyed a cultural lesson on Chinese New Year this week. We held a lantern-making workshop during lunchtime on Tuesday.  龙年快乐🧧

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Safer Internet Day

February 9, 2024/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

This week KWS celebrated Safer Internet Day. The theme this year is “change online”

Students looked at:

  • Young people’s perspective on new and emerging technology
  • Using the internet to make change for the better
  • The changes young people want to see online
  • The things that can influence and change the way young people think, feel and act online and offline.

Here at KWS we think online safety is very important, as a school to keep children safe online Hertfordshire police run Cyber prevent sessions, we have e-safety lessons in PRE and Computing lessons. We communicate with parents about online safety issues. If parents have missed our e-safety parent briefings this year, you can access information and support through our website. 

Here is the latest HFL online safety bulletin. 

Here are a few tips from Safer Internet Day to help you deal with online safety: 

Staying up to date with what children are doing online can feel like a challenge sometimes. However, you don’t have to be an expert in every new app or service. Simply having conversations with your children about their lives online, and what to do if they need help or something goes wrong, is what’s most important. Here are a few simple steps you can take to help bridge the gap.

Talk little and often

Having a regular open dialogue with your children about their favourite apps, the games they enjoy, and their online friends, will help create an environment where chatting about online experiences becomes a normal part of family life.

Stay proactive

As a result of discussions with your children about their online activities, take time to research the apps they’re using, the accounts or channels they’re following, and the games they’re playing, to get a better idea of what they’re experiencing and what your thoughts are towards it.

Seek support

Knowing where to get help is essential. Each app or platform will have its own safety guidelines and reporting features, and having knowledge of how to use these will ensure you can make a report, seek help, and support your child to get the best out of the services they’re using.


Miss Fatima

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Lunar New Year celebrations

February 9, 2024/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

It has been a busy week at KWS marking the upcoming Lunar New Year. Throughout the week students have been enjoying arts and crafts activities alongside an animated film before enjoying a special lunch menu on Thursday organised by our caterers.

As well as making lanterns with Miss Hu and Mrs Kilby, Mrs Chow created some beautiful cut out decorations out of red card (pictured) with hidden messages in Mandarin of Spring.

 

Thank you to Mr Lee who kindly put together traditional envelopes full of chocolate coins that are given out to children at Chinese New Year for our students who attended our film showing.

We at KWS wish all of our families who celebrate the Lunar New Year (also known as Chinese New Year) a prosperous one.

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Sports News (part 2)

February 9, 2024/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks
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Sports News

February 9, 2024/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

There have been lots of positives in PE this week. Our Year 10A netball team had a fantastic 15-9 win against STAGS, with the player of the match identified as Eden A. Great work from our Year 7A netball team on their 7-1 win against STAGS. Some superb passing and interceptions throughout. Sophie K was recognised as the game’s most outstanding player. Meanwhile, our Year 7B team showed great elements of play despite a loss to St Columba’s in a recent league fixture. Sophia D was acknowledged as the most effective KWS player.

After being affected by the weather in previous weeks, we had our first blocked Saturday football fixture of the season for Years 7-10 against Samuel Ryder. All teams equipped themselves well, with Year 7 drawing 2-2, Year 8 winning 3-0 and Year 9 managing to come through a tight game to prevail 3-2. Our Year 10 side, unfortunately suffered a loss, however they can be encouraged by the performance. 

Our Year 11 boys football team had a brilliant 8-0 win in the county cup. They now progress to the quarter finals. Some excellent performances throughout the side but special mention to Jordan C for scoring 4, including a contender for goal of the season. Lewis N in central midfield was everywhere, breaking up play and showing composure when pressurised in possession. 

The Year 8 boys have a county cup quarter final to look forward to on Monday, our Year 9s have a district cup fixture today and our U13 girls also have a district cup game on Monday too.

In basketball, our Year 7 team had a great 20-2 win against Townsend and the Year 8 side won 37-11 against St Albans School. Both teams put in a good team performance at both ends of the court, with excellent rebounding from Marley M and Charlie R. Well done to all of those involved. 

On Thursday this week, 11 Year 9 students attended the Herts county inclusion champions training at Hertfordshire Sports village. The session started with a talk from Steve Frew, an ex team GB gymnast, and two young athlete role models about the importance of inclusion in sport. They then spent an hour experiencing 6 different inclusive activities and discussing different ways they could be adapted to include people with different needs, including wheelchair users and those with visual and hearing impairments. 

Once they had finished the activities, they spent some time working with school games organisers and young athletes to come up with a plan for how they will deliver the various activities within KWS to their peers. Thinking about the who, how and what will it look like and also the implementation and impact this would have. All the students conducted themselves brilliantly throughout the afternoon and demonstrated all the KWS values representing the school fantastically.

Lastly, Year 7s have Sports Hall Athletics team trials before school at 8am in our sports hall on Monday.

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