On Thursday, I visited the LSE for their open day. The site was very modern and easy to navigate, with all the buildings I visited being within walking distance. The first place I visited was the library, and I was impressed by the large spiral staircase in there. I then walked around the site, visiting […]
The school is keen to reward good attendance and has incentives to promote positive attendance. This year, students who had 97 – 99.9% attendance for the school year September – July were entered into a prize draw and five lucky students received a £5 Amazon voucher. Students who have at any point 100% attendance in […]
After many years of playing sports, I had to stop playing in October 2023, due to injuries. I have had a lot of injuries over the years and have been told – many times – that I could not achieve certain things. I have always been someone who likes to prove people wrong, which led […]
Towards the end of June, our year 12 cohort embarked on their week long work experience placements, gaining a valuable glimpse into life beyond KWSixth. From engineering to accountancy, to law firms, to local primary schools, students spent time in a wide range of industries, exploring potential career paths and developing essential workplace skills. Students […]
On Wednesday 2nd July, we were fortunate to host representatives from Parker Hannifin, Coachpath Ltd, Amuma and J9W, who facilitated our Y12 Mock Assessment Centre Day. Year 12 students were put through their paces, with tasks including ice-breakers, creating and delivering presentations, budgeting tasks, and the ‘NASA’ task which requires students to rank items in […]
We are delighted to announce that Daisy W. and Eliyana M., students in 9Op1 Mandarin, have been commended by the judging panel in this year’s Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators, a prestigious national competition hosted by Queen’s College, University of Oxford. This is a remarkable accomplishment – the competition received nearly 5,000 entries from […]
As we approach the end of the academic year, we’d like to politely remind everyone to please return any overdue library books to us. Remember, you can just drop these into the book return box in the library; there’s no need to justify its late return, we’d just be grateful to have it back. We’d […]
U13 Girls County Cricket Winners! It was a great day out for the U13 cricket team in the county finals on Monday. The team had a tough group against Dame Alice Owen’s and John Warner, but prevailed and came out winners. Then they had the semi final against Marlborough, which they won comfortably. The final […]
This week’s library displays cover two nationally recognised events – Refugee week (16th – 22nd June) and Windrush day (22nd June), and we’ve worked hard to curate a set of books to give our students a flavour of the history and reasoning behind each of these celebratory events. Windrush Day marks the anniversary of […]
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