On Wednesday 15th March Cisco employees Emily, Areek and Hatti came in and delivered a coding session to a group of Year 8 students. The session was interactive and students coded several games using Python. They had a talk regarding Data, 5G, driverless cars, technology use in healthcare and smart cities. At the end of […]
We are delighted to announce that from Easter, we are now able to offer tuition in LAMDA as part of our peripatetic service. LAMDA tuition can take a variety of forms including elocution, public speaking and verse and prose. These sessions are ideal for those wishing to either pursue a career in the performing arts, […]
There has been lots going on in PE over the last few weeks: Year 7s did themselves proud at sports hall athletics, gaining valuable experience ready for the athletics season starting in the summer term. The boys Year 7 / 8 basketball squad claimed their first win of the season with a promising 25-7 win […]
Well done to all 72 Year 9 and Year 10 students who competed in the UK Mathematics Trust Intermediate Maths Challenge on Thursday 2nd February. This challenge is designed to test student’s mathematical ability through problem solving and the challenge is taken by some of KWS’s top mathematicians. We would like to congratulate the following students […]
On the first day back from the half term break, the Year 10’s were visited by Elevate Education as part of a Time Management seminar. The presenter discussed their GCSE experiences and passed their wisdom on to our current Year 10’s in preparations for the upcoming mock examinations. All Year 10’s were provided with a […]
During Children’s Mental Health Week (Monday 6th to the 10th of February), we celebrated the theme of “Let’s Connect.” Throughout the week we ran various activities designed to encourage our students and staff to explore the ways we can make meaningful connections in support of our mental health. All students explored these ideas in both […]
Katherine Warington School English Department welcomed Anthony Glenn’s Shaking Up Shakespeare on Thursday morning this week to perform his one man show of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Year 7. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a 16th century romantic comedy that is all about how “the course of true love never did run smooth”. We […]
We hope that students and parents/carers have been utilising the detailed resources available via the KS4 options web pages following the launch of the process to students and parents/carers. If you were unable to attend the launch, on the evening of Tuesday 7th Feb, all the information and a video can be found at https://kwschool.co.uk/ks4-options/ Year 8 […]
In the English Department, our annual Reading Challenges have come to an end. Congratulations to all students who have embraced the Friday Reads lessons, our wonderful Library and our wonderful Librarian along the way to succeed in reading a book a month this year. This year 160 of our students completed their reading challenge and […]
Last Saturday a group of ten intrepid explorers from across the school went on a trip to London’s Olympia to attend the Young Adult Literature Convention. This was an event that our wonderful Librarian and published Young Adult Author, Miss Rahman, has attended in the past and was attending on Sunday to be part of […]
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