For many years, fantasy football has been a tradition among both athletes and fans during the NFL season as a way of competition between friends. This season the tradition has continued despite the coronavirus pandemic that unfortunately still rages through our country. Fantasy football is a game where people first draft a team, a combination […]
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With COVID-19 cases rising in Connecticut and an increasing number of schools going online, it’s more important now than ever to make sure that students, along with faculty and staff, are filling in their ASCEND surveys before they get to campus. More so, it’s incredibly important that these surveys are being filled out accurately and […]
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A couple of weeks ago, as we began approaching Thanksgiving break, the KO Community received an email from Head of School Tom Dillow with the news that we would be moving to remote learning for the weeks directly following Thanksgiving and winter break. In addition to this new remote learning news, we also found out […]
Read MoreThe Regionals program for singers and musicians is well-known at KO. Performers from various ensembles come together to audition for a spot in a prestigious group, some auditioning for choir, some for band, and others for orchestra. However, with music rehearsals and performances being a top spreader of COVID-19, extreme precautions were taken this year […]
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On Friday, Nov. 18, a letter from Head of School Tom Dillow outlined upcoming changes to the schedule. KO students found out that in addition to having their Thanksgiving break extended to a full week, the following week, they would begin to learn remotely, which involved the implementation of “asynchronous Wednesdays.” KO students had mixed […]
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KO’s Power of Women is continuing its essential journey of educating and inspiring our community’s female-identifying individuals through sending out newsletters and holding a recent forum on Sunday, Nov. 8 to spark conversations with four incredibly successful guest speakers. “We work to connect women in the KO community with students to develop an authentic and […]
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Throughout the first semester of the new school year, students have experienced immense changes in all facets of school life. Many electives, most notably stagecraft, have been faced with the tough task of completely restructuring their curriculum in order to follow health and safety guidelines. Stagecraft is an elective that is dependent on the annual […]
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With the loss of a fall season, KO class of 2019 alumnus and Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) wide receiver Kyren Petteway is giving it his all on the field, in spite of the limited practices and abnormal schedule. He has taken matters into his own hands and created his own football league and season […]
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Witness Stones is a project employed by many schools to honor and commemorate the memory of enslaved people. Kingswood Oxford are participating in this project again, and all students in regular US history get to take part. “Only by coming to terms with history can we free ourselves to create a more just world,” Drew […]
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This year has truly been a year like no other, and it palpably affected the fall varsity sports season for Kingswood Oxford. Required mask use, maintaining social distancing, shortened practices, and no official games were just some of the many challenges that both coaches and student-athletes faced during the season. Seniors across all sports were […]
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