World Book Day

March 13, 2025/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

World Book Day is one of the highlights of the year for the Library team, and this year was no exception! Our book swap box was very popular, and hopefully every student has received their World Book Day token, to spend on a book of their choice.

The staff went to great efforts to dress up as their favourite book characters, which was quite a surprise for the students when they arrived. With many of the staff team dressing up as Hogwarts’ teachers, the students could almost believe they really were being taught by none other than Professor Dumbledore himself! But, more frighteningly, everyone in school needed to keep an eye out for the dementor that was seen stalking the corridors!

As part of our World Book Day celebrations we were delighted to have been visited by the author Steve Nallon, who did various workshops and sessions with the students over the course of the day. His latest book, The Time They Saved Tomorrow, is the second in the Swidgers series, and is well reviewed, with one reviewer commenting “This book will appeal to readers both young and old, with action and adventure at its heart.” Definitely worth a look!

And as if that wasn’t enough excitement, we’ve also been supporting students to explore texts around the themes of Science, for British Science Week, and also Women’s rights and Women’s history, for International Women’s Day. It’s been a very busy fortnight!

Varied lunch options

March 13, 2025/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

Dear students and families,

This is to remind you of the school dinner menu that is available to all students on a 3-week rotation as per this link: https://kwschool.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Signature-menu_Secondary_A4_Landscape_Katherine_Warington_Digital-2.pdf

Please do take the time to have a look through the menu rotation which is available to all students in addition to the extremely popular Wrap Bar which serves different flavoured chicken including tikka, Argentinian, jerk and others. Other information such as pricing and where we have our ingredients sourced from in the UK have a look at this link: https://kwschool.co.uk/catering/

From an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion perspective, we have a wide variety of different flavours and dishes hailing from all corners of the globe. In addition to this, when all new students with allergies/dietary requirements start our school, I take them down to meet the kitchen team to show them options and reassure them that we have alternatives including vegan and gluten-free as well as serving some halal meat. We have a number of Year 7s with allergies who have stopped bringing in packed lunches and now opt for school dinners and if you wish for your child to be shown these options without the rush of serving times, please let me know so I can arrange this.

For those of you whose children bring in packed lunches everyday/some days, please can I take a moment to remind you that we are a nut-free school and this includes some chocolate spreads such as Nutella and some individually packed chocolate crepes.

Kind regards,

Miss Annie

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Lead

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HfL Maths Challenge Success!

March 13, 2025/in Year 7/by Chrissy Dicks

Congratulations to the Year 7 Maths team (Fraser G, Abigail W, Luke C, Emily C) who competed in the Hertfordshire Team Maths Challenge on 3rd March. Students took part in four rounds testing their mathematical skills and ability to work as a team and completed some very difficult maths questions to a high standard.

A huge well done to the KWS team who won their heat of 22 schools, which included last year’s winning team, Dame Alice Owen school. The team have been invited to the final on the 24th April, fingers crossed for a KWS win!