To celebrate the Year of the Tiger, KWS students have been making dumplings and paper cutting.

Dumpling is a symbol of wealth for its shape like ancient Chinese gold money; paper cutting is a symbol of luck and happiness and parents in China put money into the red envelopes for their children. Thank you to Mrs Freeman for all her help in the food tech room. We wish everyone:

The Maths Department would like to say well done to the following students who achieved over 80% on the recent UKMT 25th Anniversary Challenge: Lucas C, Joel D, Henry G, John D, Marco R and Hannah W.

Over 90 of KWS’s Year 7 and 8 mathematicians took part in this challenge and we are very pleased with all of their results.

Well done all!

The Maths Department

It’s been another action packed week on the sporting front. It started with our Year 8 Boy’s rugby team competing in a tournament at Harpenden Rugby Club on Monday 7th February. They held their own in all games played and some impressive performances throughout. Callum S was voted the KWS player of the tournament.

This was then followed by the Year 8 netball team demonstrating the progress they’ve made over the course of the season with a closely fought game against STAGS.

This week has also seen boxercise feature in the PE curriculum for the first time since pre-covid. As part of the wider fitness unit, boxercise has proved a great form of exercise and students have engaged excellently in the physically demanding nature of it. Watch out Katie Taylor and Tyson Fury!

Rugby and football squad training also continue this weekend. Rugby is for all who are interested from 9am – 10am and football training is 9am – 10am for the Year 7 and 8 squads and 10am – 11am for the Year 9 squad.

Lastly, we are also on Twitter, so please follow regular PE updates @KwsSport1.

It’s been a busy few weeks in the PE department. We have seen some excellent work produced in recent Year 8 girls gymnastic lessons.

Our Year 9 netball team also put in a very positive performance against STAGS on Tuesday. Well done to all those involved.

Wednesday saw our Year 8 rugby boys team travel to the home of Saracens, the StoneX Stadium, to participate in a tournament against other schools. They played 3 games – winning 1 comfortably, drawing 1 and losing 1. Special mention goes to Jamil E, Maxton B and Aaron N, who Mr Ellershaw deemed player of the day. However, all boys played very well and did the school proud.

Four of our players have got into the Saracens Player Programme. Congratulations to Jamil E, Kaavy S, Oliver Sh, and Brodie G.

Congratulations to Becky D, Annalisa R, and Pearl P for achieving their red belt in kickboxing during the self defence classes that have been taking place since last year.

Finally, our football season begins this Saturday with fixtures for all year groups against Townsend School. We look forward to this very much!

Mr Alexander