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Katherine Warington School
5 years
And we are in!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
The floor is down in the Sports Hall and we’re on track for handover on the 23rd September!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Thank you once again to families who have come to share in our excitement today! We hope you enjoyed your tour and are looking forward to September...
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Music, Tech and Science can't wait to get their hands on this equipment. Thank you to Mrs Hare for taking such lovely photos for us.
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
What an Incredible day! Thank you to everyone who made it possible!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
The great outdoors!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Wow! Thank you @HegartyTeam for informing us that we are one of your top performing schools! Congratulations to both our students and our Maths department for all of their hard work!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
It is moving week for us at KWS!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
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Katherine Warington School
9 months
Looking forward to welcoming @Mickharford tomorrow to open our 3G pitch! We are raising funds for @ProstateUK as part of the opening ceremony. You can donate here
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
All DofE groups progressing well on Day 1, thankfully the torrential rain in Harpenden didn’t make it to Hemel. The staff team are feeling very proud of them all.
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
TOP SOCIETY AWARD GOES TO TOWN’S NEWEST SCHOOL The Harpenden Society’s prestigious annual Award Plaque for 2020 was presented to the Katherine Warington School on Tuesday Aug 24th.
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
That's a score! Our brand new sports centre is open and available for PE lessons and lunchtime clubs. If a student has PE or a lunchtime club, they should arrive at school in their PE kit that day!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
A thought provoking piece using oil pastels, completed this week by Freya in Y8 for her 'screen-free' wellbeing activity in History. Well done Freya! #ThursdayThoughts #KWSchoolHarpenden #History
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Arrived safely at Camp
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
A BIG THANK YOU to all the staff at KWS for their amazing hard work through this difficult time.
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Hertfordshire County Council
4 years
2020 has been a year like no other, the coronavirus pandemic has had a huge impact on everyone working in education. It’s been tough but we want to thank you for rising to the challenge over the past 9 months. Here’s a thank you from some familiar faces who really appreciate you!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Looking forward to meeting our soon to be Year 7s today at our virtual transition day. Remember to tune in for assembly at 9am and access the live form time session at 9.30am.
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
Thank you to all the Students, Staff and crew involved in Bugsy Malone! Even Mr Smith got splurged! #bugsymalone
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Members of our climate change committee making change! ⁦⁦ @sirjohnlawes ⁩ thank you for inviting us!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Miss Robinson has already made her mark in the Art department!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Our poppy wall is now on display outside the library as a part of the schools Armistice Day remembrance. Each poppy is the story of a WW1 soldier, based on the Y7 study of Private Peaceful written by Michael Morpurgo. #NeverForget #RemembranceDay2020 #LestWeForget
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Fire lighting and fire skills!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Sport is back on!✔️ Clubs will run in 3-4 week blocks with a maximum of 30 students at one time in our sports centre, because it's important to get our students back doing the things they enjoy, COVID-19 safe.
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
Welcoming the KWS sheep! They are currently living in the top field. #KWSchoolHarpenden #harpenden #spring #education
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Proud to have been recognised for our ongoing commitment and achievement in the school games programme. Thank you for our certificate and well done to Miss Anderson and our students.
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Katherine Warington School
5 months
We are delighted to inform you that KWS has achieved a ‘good’ judgement by Ofsted for overall effectiveness, with ‘outstanding’ for personal development, in our first inspection in February 2024. The report can be found here .
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
We’re on the road again! Approx 6 hours to Resort!
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
A fantastic Year 8 trip to see @WickedUK today! Thank you to all the @KWPAherts team who made it happen!
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Katherine Warington School
11 months
Our 3G pitch is coming along nicely!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Due to the hot weather, all students are allowed to wear their school P.E kit for the rest of the week! We want all of our students to be able to focus the best they can, so keep cool, keep hydrated and enjoy the sun!😀
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Katherine Warington School
1 year
Well done to the cast, crew and Performing Arts team on two amazing sold out performances of Shrek the Musical! Good luck for the final two shows today. There are a few tickets still available so don’t miss out.
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Katherine Warington School
1 year
We woke up to blue skies and snow topped mountains. Fantastic breakfast, (no fermented shark though), now off to Thingvellir, the bridge between the continents!
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
Show 1 complete! Thank you to the @KWPAherts team! #bugsymalone
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
DofE Update - All teams have successfully set up camp and spirits are high!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
KWS students playing Rugby at Saracens.
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
We’ve completed Ski Fit, Lunch and are out on the slopes for our first lessons - all in record time! All students happy and well and into hotel rooms.
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
To celebrate #ThankATeacherDay all the staff at KWS had a wonderful 3 course meal this evening cooked by Head Chef Sam and the team at @HCLcatering
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
Year 10 Spanish students boarding the plane at Luton ready for departure!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Well done to our choir - we hope the residents at the Lea Springs Care Home enjoyed our visit.
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
A highlight from the new cycle of Period 7 this week. Thank you to @HornbeamWood for bringing Alan the Hedgehog in!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
As we roll into March our Move for a Month competition has come to an end. Well done to all of the staff that ran and cycled and thank you to everyone who supported our teams and donated to Save the Children. We have managed to reach our goal and raise an amazing £1,086!
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
Good Luck to all our Year 7's and 8's in all their exams this week!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Thanks to parents and carers for supporting our graduation. What a lovely way to end our time at the University!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
BBQ for lunch!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
I am really pleased that I have been able to send over 30 emails to students and their parents congratulating them on achieving 100% in all their Hegarty tasks this week - keep it up! Miss Anderson.
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Great work from Harry in 7Ca today for a great piece of extension work in English. Act 1 Scene 1 from A Midsummer Night's Dream staged and labelled!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
English and Maths have claimed their corridors! Thank you to Miss Anderson and Miss Hassan for getting creative.
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
Looking forward to welcoming everyone tomorrow for our first Open Day on site!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
How we are celebrating Black History Month #BHM at KWS!
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Katherine Warington School
10 months
A massive thank you to all the cast, orchestra, backstage crew, staff/parent volunteers and the KW-Arts team for 4 fantastic sell-out performances of Beauty and the Beast!
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Katherine Warington School
1 year
We’ve enjoyed learning about the Hellisheidi geothermal power station and aluminium smelting, and are looking forward to the long-awaited Glacier walk tomorrow!
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
Ski Trip - Update. We’ve finally passed Passport Security and we’re scheduled to depart on the 7:50am Ferry (11 hours later than planned). Students have been fantastic!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Our very first lunch time netball club!
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Katherine Warington School
1 year
Year 9 DofE: We have officially made it to camp. We have had a special delivery due to the weather.
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Our Choir at their first gig! Thank you to all who came to support at the Batford Christmas Lights event this evening.
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Staff at KWS are learning how to use Promethean boards.
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Merry Christmas to all our Staff, Students and Parents from all at KWS.
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Katherine Warington School
11 months
Year 7 Manor Adventure - all students safe and well and engaged in Activity Session 1 including climbing wall, fencing, axe throwing to name a few!
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
Before half term, students across the school collected items for the St Albans and District Food Bank. We were overwhelmed with the amount of donations, having received hundreds of items for this very worthy cause.
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Developing tone and shape in Art
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Katherine Warington School
1 year
Explosive time at Strokkur Geyser, smelling the sulphur dioxide, but we forgot our traditional eggs for boiling! Maybe next time…
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Katherine Warington School
7 months
Our Year 7 & 8 boys football teams are both district champions! Very proud of all your efforts. Enjoy the moment.
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
Thank you to everyone who took part in our first performance at KWS! The Shakespeare festival this evening was amazing! Pictures to follow! #Shakespeare #performance #KWSevents @KWPAherts
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Katherine Warington School
1 year
Arrived at Keflavik! Now off to the lava tunnel! All in high spirits, appreciating the tundra landscape!
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
We’re now of the Coach in Calais! Students and Staff remain in High Spirits now we’ve had some breakfast! We are now en-route to Alpe D’Huez!
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Katherine Warington School
6 years
Permission to Appeal Denied. Katherine Warington School goes ahead. -
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Katherine Warington School
10 months
The end is in sight!
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
Following a site inspection a short while ago and the conditions on the road this morning. We have made the difficult decision to close. Remote learning will be available for all students on Google Classroom from 9am today. We do apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
The girls had an amazing time playing Rugby at Saracans today! Well done girls!
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Katherine Warington School
7 years
School Name Announced -
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Our Year 7 students have completed 533 hours of Hegarty Maths over the last week, answering 25539 questions between them - WOW! Great work KWS!
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Katherine Warington School
1 year
A great week of Activities so far with the Performing Arts trip in London, Year 8 in Whitby and several day trips including Thorpe Park, Stanborough Lakes and an Escape Room.
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Excited to welcome parents and students to our library
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Thank you Joshua for showing great pride in your school. It is nice to know The Palace is thinking of us at KWS!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
A great performance from our Year 7 rugby team. Another fantastic experience at Saracens.
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
A huge WELL DONE to Isobel who has been commended for her entry into Poetry By Heart's annual poetry competition for her wonderful recital of the poem 'Harriet Tubman' by Eloise Greenfield. The Judges commented on how well she showed the passion and attitude of the poem.
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
Thank you to our wonderful @KWPAherts team for 2 fantastic sold-out nights in the West End earlier this week!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Staff enjoying a training session on @ClassVR presented by @TabletAcademyUK
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Is your child joining us in September? Check out our student transition site here: These pages have been created for students by students and our student transition team will continue to add information in the coming weeks.
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
There is no planet B, that's why all of our food packagings in our canteen is biodegradable, even our cutlery... #1planet #ThursdayThoughts
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Katherine Warington School
7 years
Decision of Hertfordshire CC committee members -
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Jemma in 7 Nitrogen has been super busy! Not only did she complete the Spanish challenge but has also had a go at two of the Science challenges and the Music Challenge. Well done Jemma! 👏👏👏
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
Well done to all teams this morning against Sandringham. Year 9s were much improved, Year 7s scored a well worked decisive goal, Year 8s battled and Year 10s responded in the right way after the disappointment of Thursday with an emphatic attacking display.
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
We look forward to welcoming our new students in September! If you know families who will be joining us please share our social media details with them. We post across Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. #welcometoKWS
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Some red faces after our very first sports fixture! Well done runners!
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
We are hoping for a bigger canteen in the new build! Although this one has served us well...
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
Well done to the 60+ students and staff who took part in the Sleepout last night to raise money for Shelterbox! It’s not too late to donate to this fantastic cause - @ShelterBox #shelterbox #charity #harpenden
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Last half term, our spooky disco raised a fantastic £442.73! Thank you to the parents who organised and supported the event (KWAF) and to the students for making the most of it! SJL also kindly allowed us to use their space.
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Congratulations to all of our students for their hard work towards the well being project. Please take a look at their amazing efforts here:
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
A huge well done to our Head Students and Student Council members that took part in the Bake Sale today at KWS. Thank you to everyone who purchased a cake, we managed to completely sell out of cakes and raise an amazing £62.50 for Save the Children UK. #KWSchoolHarpenden
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
National Trampoline Finals 2023: an incredible day of competition. Will E performed 2 fabulous routines to place him 12th in the year 9-10 boys novice category. The year 7 elite team of Matthew P, Josh P and Riley W were excellent and crowned National Champions👏🏼🏆
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
We just wanted to say a massive thank you to all of the staff that dedicated their time to organising the Bushcraft trip that took place last week and a huge thank you to the staff that gave up their evenings and nights so that Y7 and Y8 could attend the trip! #WoldGratitudeDay
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
The food seems to be going down well too!
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Katherine Warington School
5 years
Our Choir performing at the Winter Showcase this evening!
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Katherine Warington School
3 years
Here are some of the vegetables from our Eco gardens the boys had fun harvesting the carrots, beetroot, turnips and new potatoes this week! #KWSchoolHarpenden
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Our COVID testing is all set up and ready to go as we welcome our students back today. A big thank you to all the members of our COVID testing team giving up their time to help! #MondayMotivation #KWSchoolHarpenden
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Katherine Warington School
2 years
It’s been a busy week of sport. A great effort by all runners as we hosted our first district cross country event. Also, our Yr 10 basketball team had their first game of the season, experiencing a narrow 2 point loss. Lots of positives though.
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Katherine Warington School
10 months
Merry Christmas from everyone at KWS. We look forward to welcoming back our students on 8 January 2024.
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Katherine Warington School
5 months
It was with heavy hearts that we said goodbye to our year 11 students this afternoon. Shirt signing was the order of the morning followed by our leavers’ assembly. Good luck to all our students in the upcoming exams. We wish you every success in the future.
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Katherine Warington School
4 years
Y7 have been studying water distillation in science and Thomas wanted to see if it worked for himself. He set out to turn dirty water clean using a coffee can, copper tubes, his brother's old bicycles inner tube and a hose connection. It worked, well done Thomas! #KWSScience
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