On Monday, Jan. 6, like many instances throughout the school year, KO’s faculty engaged in professional development sessions dedicated to improving their teaching skills, and how to apply those skills to the classroom. On that Monday, the faculty had a professional development day before students came back from winter break. The teachers had department meetings, […]
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On Friday, Jan. 17 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., freshmen and sophomores gathered in the Dining Hall for one last dance with freshman Lucia Gomez. Lucia left her hometown of Madrid, Spain to spend the first semester of her freshman year at Kingswood Oxford. A fluent English speaker and lover of American culture and […]
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Senior Alma Clark recently made an impression on the KO community by playing her trumpet in front of the whole upper school as a member of the Jazz Band. She first started playing the trumpet in sixth grade. “I played for a little while then after some time I joined my middle school jazz band, […]
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We all have something that we feel passionate about. For some it is sports, for others it is art, but for eighth-grader Alex Levin, it happens to be producing music and beats. Alex has been making music for the last two years. He started in Mr. David Zucker’s electronic music class, and immediately fell in […]
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Talk about the coronavirus has taken KO like a plague in the few weeks that school has been in session after winter break. It has become even more serious after a scare at a Model U.N. competition at Yale University over the weekend of Jan. 24-26. On the last day of the event, the end […]
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More than 500 million active users worldwide. The most downloaded app on the app store in 2019. Over one billion videos viewed every day. You may assume that these statistics are for a globally used service, a staple in daily life, but they actually belong to an up and coming streaming app that is taking […]
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A new World War I film called “1917” swept through the Golden Globes and the SAG Awards. Directed, co-written, and produced by Sam Mendes, the movie will keep you holding your breath through the entire film. Starring George MacKay and Dean-Charles Chapman, two young British soldiers during World War I deal with a task of […]
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speaKOut is a monthly column focused on diversity and inclusion, meant to bring new voices into the KO News. Through interviews with students outside of the dominant culture at KO, speaKOut strives to raise awareness for how we can make KO a more supportive community that celebrates our differences. For my first interview I sat […]
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Talented, fun, and fashionable, junior Sadie Margolis has shown her amazing style every day on the KO campus. Sadie loves to shop at several different stores, including Planet Blue, Free People, Lululemon, LF, and Brandy Melville. In these stores, she often shops for several different styles, accessories, and items of clothing. Some accessories she loves […]
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NBA legend Kobe Bryant died on Jan. 26 in a shocking helicopter crash in California. It’s hard to believe that the Lakers superstar of 20 years was taken from us all too soon after such a freak accident. Bryant made an impact on the NBA, as well as on everyone who knew him, or watched […]
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