Passion, intensity, and positivity are three qualities that any coach needs to possess in order to motivate their players to strive for personal growth. Middle School Girls A Basketball Coach Judy Bailey uses her energetic influence and experience to show her athletes that they can improve with a bit of enthusiasm and hard work. Coach […]
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Although the team started the season 0-3, boys B basketball finished with a 3-1 run. The predominantly sixth-grade squad made massive strides during the season, with each player improving greatly. Head Coach Kyle Chapman said he believed that the team’s slow start was due to a lack of experience. “There was a large group of […]
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By the end of the season, the KO middle school A squash team achieved a record of 5-3, which kept their morale high during the season and gave many players the chance to improve their skills. The team never gave up and always tried their best in whatever skill they were working on at the […]
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The boys A basketball team sped through the winter season with an impressive 7-3 record. “The team this season was a group of kids that worked really well together, and believed in each other,” Head Coach Matthew Kocay said. Eighth-grader guard Cooper Schumacher said he thought this season was fun. “It was a good season. […]
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The Portfolio Prep art class, taught by creative arts teachers Scott McDonald and Greg Scranton, allows form five and six students the freedom to pursue different mediums of art. In addition, all of the finished pieces from the year are documented so they can be sent to colleges. Over the past five years, the class […]
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On Tuesday, March 5, the English 4 Honors students performed their adaptations of “Macbeth” in the Black Box Theatre. This is the first time that English teachers Catherine Schieffelin and William Martino ave organized this project. The inspiration came from a previous school Ms. Schieffelin once taught at, where all the seniors would read “Hamlet” […]
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Senior Coltrane Joseph is a skilled saxophone player in the KO Jazz Band. He has been playing the saxophone for ten years and is even named after John Coltrane, the famous American saxophone player. Every year, the jazz band takes a trip to Boston to compete in the Berklee Jazz Competition hosted by the Berklee […]
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As you may recall, in the January 2019 issue for the KO News, I wrote an article broadly describing the popularity of various genres of music, songs, and artists listened to on the KO campus and compiled a playlist for both newly released hits and great throwbacks. (If you’d still like to hear it, it […]
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Since its founding in 1983, the Warren Baird English Symposium at Kingswood Oxford has maintained a steady stream of outstanding authors, poets, and playwrights, with the likes of Richard Wilbur, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jonathan Safran Foer and, just last year, Colson Whitehead, gracing the Roberts Theater stage. This year’s Symposium author, playwright Sarah Ruhl, is no […]
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Well, this is quite surreal. As an opinions writer at heart, this column has always been a sort of Holy Grail, a clean slate at the front of the paper on which one can convey to the KO community a message they feel passionately about. I’ve been a part of the KO News for just […]
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