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Period 7 Zoology – Design an Animal Competition

November 30, 2021/0 Comments/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

Throughout Period 7 Zoology class, we have been looking at what makes animals fit into certain categories: Why are dogs mammals? How do reptiles move compared to mammals? What are owl pellets and are they unique to birds? To conclude this block of Period 7 we decided to design animals. This follows a discussion on […]

Saracens Mavericks Holiday Netball Camps

November 21, 2021/0 Comments/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

Our local Superleague Netball team is Saracens Mavericks and every school holiday they run some fun netball camps for keen ballers in Years 7-9. This Christmas holiday they are at Oaklands College in St Albans on Monday 20th and Wednesday 22nd December. Please see here for more details.

National Literacy Week

November 21, 2021/0 Comments/in English, Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

This week has been KWS Literacy Week. While our wonderful teaching team have been focusing on how we improve literacy skills in the classroom, we have also taken the opportunity to provide all students with a great short story to read in class, a word games focus in our Form Time Quiz, book reviews for […]

Success at the Harpenden Inter-school Geography quiz!

November 19, 2021/0 Comments/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

Well done to all who participated in the Harpenden inter-school Geography quiz; a coming together of the brightest Geography minds in Harpenden. After a few tough rounds of questions, we are congratulating Sophie, Lina and James who won 3rd place for the Year 8 category! It was great to see students in their element, and […]

KWS Climate Change Awareness Week is a roaring success

November 16, 2021/0 Comments/in Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

KWS has just marked Climate Change Awareness Week, from 8th – 12th November, with highlights taking place across the school. Well done to Mabel, Ruairi, Rayan and Jacob who performed a professional debate to answer the statement “This house believes that school should encourage students to strike for climate change.” Each pair argued back and […]

A Haunting Story Competition for Halloween

November 16, 2021/0 Comments/in English, Whole School/by Chrissy Dicks

A few weeks ago, the English team launched the ‘Haunting Story’ competition for Halloween. Our students had to write a description or story that is ghastly, ghoulish and ghostly and at least 300 words long, to be in with a chance of winning vicious vouchers and horrendous horror books! We received fantastic pieces of work. […]