Humanities

YEAR 7 BOOKMARK COMPETITION

The library ran a Dewey Decimal bookmark design competition in the Autumn term.

The results were really impressive, with lots of brilliant entries, but particular congratulations go to the following winners:

Sophie Laugharne Will Butterworth Sunday Johnston Tanwen Jefferson Sofie in Der Rieden Freddie Hockey Hugo Astin Reuben Crow Annika Gurung Noah Stacey Emmy Toft George Allibone Tom O’Driscoll

Lily Foster, Lexi Nwabueze and Elfriede Wong took part in a Bath Schools’ Spelling Bee at Hayesfield School.

Lily and Elfriede did very well and Lexi just missed out on first place having got through to a ‘sudden death’ final round. He tripped up on the word ‘diarrhoea’ – which is acknowledged to be one of the hardest words to spell in our language!

WORLD BOOK DAY 2022

On Thursday 2 March we celebrated World Book Day!

We were delighted to host Year 6 from KPS for a range of activities including redesigning book covers, matching keywords to books and even a treasure hunt! We also hosted a literary quiz for all our KWS bibliophiles in the afternoon where the teams put their book knowledge to the test with some very tricky questions. The victors went home with their very own trophies and some book-themed prizes.

WESTWOOD CENTURION READING CHALLENGE

Over the Spring term, pupils in Years 7 and 8 read over 200 books as part of the Westwood Centurion Reading Challenge. There were 6 titles to choose from and prizes for reading 2, 3 and 6 books. 93 prizes were given out in total with 10 pupils receiving their pin badges for reading all 6 books.

from Kingswood. The team were awarded 2nd place overall, marginally behind the eventual winners, South Hampstead High School. In the process, Kingswood were able to fend off strong competition from schools including Brighton College, Bristol Grammar School, King’s College Taunton and New Hall School. To finish second in the country is a wonderful achievement!

HUMANITIES

PHILOSOTHON

In March, Kingswood’s team of 10 students participated in the country’s first Philosothon UK National Final, held at Stowe School.

Topics for discussion included: Fast Fashion; Freedom of Speech; Vaccination Conundrums; and Is eating Steak a free choice? Animal Imperialism and Veganism.

Continuing in the spirit of mutual respect and friendliness, critical thinking; questioning; and reflection was aplenty. As expected, the level of discussion and reasoning across the competitors was high, with Kingswood participating fully and impressing across all four discussions. Rubysha Malla, Ivor Branigan, George Cardwell, Orla Reddin, Clemmie Coxen, Freddie Williamson, Lily Saunders, Rory McLeod, James Eayres and Niamh Weldon once again flew the Kingswood flag and engendered praise and admiration from judges and onlookers. The competition concluded with an awards ceremony, which saw another strong, collective performance

GEOGRAPHY TRIP TO GLASGOW

In October, Sixth Form Geography students visited Glasgow to support and enhance their understanding of the A Level course.

They visited the Field Studies Centre in Millport on the Isle of Cumbrae before spending four days exploring a range of geographical themes in the area. The students then visited Glasgow where they were able to explore topics including inequality and the impacts of rebranding. A highlight of this day was gathering primary data from local people which gave students a rich and valuable insight into these topics.