District Athletics Championships On Thursday 13th June we took students from Years 7-10 to the District Athletics Championships at Woodside Stadium in Watford. We had some fantastic performances throughout the day and the students represented the school superbly. Special mention to Darci M in 200m, and Lexi F and Harry S in the long jump […]
Look out for the special envelopes arriving next week! On June 27 th at 7pm we will be holding our 2 nd annual Arts Awards Evening. This year our keynote speaker will be Jonny Weldon one of the stars of the hit Netflix show ‘One Day’. With over 60,000 followers on social media, Jonny is […]
The 17th of June marks the start of Refugee Week in the U.K. this year. We were recently very fortunate to have guest speakers Laura come in to speak to our Year 10’s from Herts for Refugees and Charlie with his four legged friend Fowzy representing Mobile Refugee Support. They talked about the vital humanitarian […]
At KWS, all staff are invited to join our book club and we have meetings at the end of each half term. Staff agree on a book to read and meet up in our school library during home learning club to discuss it; this allows students to see us as reading role models and it […]
Friday 22nd March saw KWS open it’s doors to host our first ever Ramadan dinner (iftar) as a collaborative effort with Harpenden Community Circle. As the first Harpenden school to host an iftar, we invited people from the local area as well as a number of KWS families which resulted in us hosting 14 different […]
On Tuesday 19th March KWS welcomed Anthony Glenn, from Shaking Up Shakespeare to perform his fast-paced and fully interactive one man show of Romeo and Juliet to Year 8. Having studied the play earlier in the year, this was a great opportunity to see it as it was meant to be – performed, live, on […]
Huge congratulations to Will E, Matthew P, Josh P and Riley W who travelled up to Telford last weekend to compete in the Schools National Trampoline Finals. It was a great event and all students performed excellently. Will placed 16th in the year 10-14 intermediate category and the team of Matthew, Josh and Riley were […]
World Book Day took place on 7th March and provides a fantastic opportunity to focus on reading for pleasure, support children’s autonomy in book choice, and celebrate the many benefits that reading brings. Every child in full-time education in the UK and the Republic of Ireland is provided with a voucher to spend on books; […]
As a school, we place great importance on attendance and expect that all our students will achieve an attendance level of at least 96% each academic year. Parents have a legal responsibility to ensure their child attends school regularly and punctually. Any student with an attendance figure below 90% is defined nationally as a persistent […]
In the penultimate week before the Christmas holiday, our year 11’s came into school to experience a day as a KWS sixth former. Students arrived in their smart, casual sixth form dress and participated in a full timetable of sixth form lessons. Some highlights included the dissection of a heart in an A level biology […]