After a close loss in their first game, the ice hockey team has turned the season around on both offense and defense, and is currently headed for victory, with a current record of 4-1â Ryan Gordon Hockey Night being one of the four. Beginning with a disappointing 3-2 loss at the Portledge School on Dec. […]
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by Austin Perkins â26 As the KO boys swim and dive program enters a key part of the season, the team will continue to look to its seniors, including senior Co-captain Samit Virmani. Virmani has been in the pool since he was only 3 and has been a key contributor for the Wyverns since his […]
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by Austin Perkins â26 Senior Co-captain guard Olivia Pilecki has been instrumental in leading the girls varsity basketball team to a hot start. The Wyverns currently stand at 7â3 on the year, with a lot of marquee matchups awaiting. Pilecki has been a member of the varsity program since her freshman year and has really […]
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On Tuesday, Jan. 13, parents and teachers filled the Community Commons at Kingswood Oxford for the schoolâs first-ever Senior Showcase, a new event designed to spotlight the culminating projects of seniors enrolled in Symposium, IMPACT English electives, or Honors English. Rather than a traditional presentation night, the Showcase invited visitors to circulate freely, engage in […]
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Throughout the first semester, the Kingswood Oxford Mock Trial Team has been hard at work studying their new case. Mock Trial, a program designed for high school and college students, simulates a real courtroom environment and exposes students to courtroom procedures, the practice of law, and the art of thinking on their feet. KO has […]
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From Jan. 15 to Jan. 18, Kingswood Oxford students joined almost 2,000 others from around the world on the campus of Yale University for the 52nd edition of the Yale Model United Nations (YMUN) conference. A delegation of 32 KO students, along with history teachers Micah Duhaime and Steph Sperber, participated in YMUN. The KO […]
Read MoreCitizenship Committee, or CitCo is seemingly a mystery to many students at KO, a looming figure, or a secret society created to maintain discipline and order. CitCo is sadly neither of those, but a group of students and faculty built to teach students.If a student breaks a core value of KO, the two main ones […]
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Upper School English teacher Cathy Schieffelinâs senior English elective, The Art of Watching Film, planned an intricate film festival for the whole community to enjoy a double-feature screening of âMiracleâ and âWhiplash.â The audience was able to compare and contrast the thematic similarities, with the combined slogan âGreatness Takes Grit.â This film festival is a […]
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With the start of a new year, people often take the time to reflect on the year behind them: what they loved and enjoyed, as well as what wasnât so enjoyable and wonât be carried into the year ahead. I am a strong believer that one of the most effective ways to think about personal […]
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As I enter my final semester here at KO, I think of all the memories I have made in my seven years here. Starting in 2019, I was a sixth grader in the pre-COVID era. At that time, there was no Commons, the field house had just been built, and the dress code was much […]
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