clueQuest

In Activities Week, 60 year 10 students visited the clueQuest Escape Rooms in Islington, London.  The escape rooms are themed on Mr. Q’s spy agency and participants take on the role of secret agents tasked with a variety of missions.  For example, in one room, students must identify the double agent, prove that the evil Professor BlackSheep is behind the disappearance of fellow agents and achieve all of that before a security device detonates the agency’s entire facility.   

We were impressed with the way students worked together, helping and encouraging each other to find clues, solve puzzles and ultimately escape from the rooms.  There were a number of successfully completed missions and fortunately no one got locked in and left behind!

When students were not in the escape rooms, they were able to participate in Agent Training challenges and “choose your own adventure” table top games.  It was a busy day which the students seemed to really enjoy and we look forward to visiting clueQuest again next year. 

Miss Wall

This summer, KWS Library would love all students to take part in our Something Summer Reading Challenge. Students are asked to read Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue and to either email us a review of anything they read on library@kwschool.co.uk or post it on Instagram @kwschoollibrary and tag us in. They can complete just one category or as many as they would like! Each review submitted will give the student an entry ticket into a raffle with some great prizes to win including £25 to spend at Waterstones. The more reviews submitted, the more chance there is to win!

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Wednesday concluded the athletics season with our final County meet at Stevenage. In a similar vein to previous meets, all students conducted themselves fantastically well. Miss Mountford and Mr Alexander are very proud of all students who have committed and improved week after week. Lots of the students have tried new events and run, jumped and thrown some impressive times and distances.

Well done to Daniel W, Liam S-B, Aaron N and Theo B in Year 9 stepping into events with guts and determination, as well as Mia and Thea in Year 10 for rushing from work experience to participate well too!

Some other stand-out performances included:

🥇Lucy (800m), Harry (300m)

🥈Belle (1500m), Darci (200m)

🥉 Bailey (100m), Lucy (High Jump), Jessica (300m), Darci (Long Jump), Ali (Hurdles and Triple Jump)

As well as this, a number of students had an excellent day at the Hertfordshire Schools County Championships last Saturday. On a sweltering day, these were some of the highlights🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️:

Darci M finishing 6th in the U15 Girls 300m despite being a year young

Frankie M finishing 3rd in the U13 Boys 800m 

Ethan McD finishing 4th in the U13 Boys 800M 

Ethan H finishing 4th in the U13 Boys 200m

Finally, good luck to Isobel J and Miss Mountford in their game representing Hertfordshire against Kent in the SEESFA U14 Girls’ Final 2022/23 at Hemel Hempstead Town FC on Saturday!

Mr Alexander