KO News

These days, you can find pretty much anything you need on the internet: there are cat videos on TikTok, homecoming dresses on Amazon, and pretty much any semi-famous person’s life story written out in three or four paragraphs if you look long enough on Google. But, there are some things that are not as easily […]

As we reach the halfway point of the winter athletics season, the boys and girls swimming and diving teams are looking to keep their momentum rolling with the New England Championship and the Founders League Championship coming up. Girls Head Coach Kata Baker described the swimming season in three phases. “There’s before winter break, winter […]

To start off the new year, we’ve picked one of our most unique artists so far. Combining her passion for the arts and social justice, senior Chayse Shamleffer has been working in filmmaking since her freshman year at KO. “I used to do photography a lot with my grandpa when I was really young,” she […]

On Friday, Jan. 13, the Kingswood Oxford Mock Trial team traveled to the Waterbury courthouse for their first competition of 2023. Unlike in past years, KO had two separate teams compete in the competition: an A team made up of more experienced students and a B team that welcomed members with no prior experience.  Each […]

On Jan. 8, 2023, “Beetlejuice” played its final performance at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway after 679 performances. With fun singing numbers, lots of dark humor sprinkled throughout, and, at times, very emotional and compelling scenes, I wish this show could have had a longer run on Broadway.  Its honest portrayal of grief and death […]

The Kingswood Oxford Middle School concert band went on a field trip to the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. on a morning in early November. All 28 students in the band attended the field trip. The trip was three hours long, as there was a one-hour bus ride to and back […]