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This past year, Middle School art teacher Katherine Nicholson and her students have been hard at work creating a faerie house that will go up at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Conn. Every year in the fall, the Florence Griswold Museum holds an outdoor installation called “The Wee Faerie Village.” Artists create faerie […]
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On Friday, April 26, KO held its annual Stroud Science Symposium. This year’s speaker, Dr. Robert Thorson, delivered a speech with the goal to educate the crowd about the science behind climate change and its many causes using a systematic approach. He was chosen as this year’s Stroud Science Symposium speaker by Upper School science […]
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On Wednesday, May 22, the senior prefects performed the annual prefect skit. The skit was a chance for the senior prefects, with the permission of those being portrayed, to poke fun at some of the teachers and staff at KO. This year, the lineup included senior Nicole Genga as history teacher Tricia Watson, senior Nell […]
Read MoreThis year, the Legal Wyverns have made it farther than ever before in the Mock Trial competition. In the past, they have come up against strong teams early in the competition and been eliminated early on in the season. This changed this year when they received a favorable start, that let them build up enough […]
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This year, the Legal Wyverns made it farther than ever before in the Mock Trial competition. In the past, they have come up against strong teams early in the competition and been eliminated early on in the season. This changed this year when they received a favorable start, that let them build up enough momentum […]
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On Sunday, Feb. 10, the Kingswood Oxford Forensic Union team competed in and hosted the annual public speaking and debate tournament at KO. The team from KO was composed of four members, and their performance in their individual events landed Kingswood Oxford in second place overall. Six schools competed this year, which was more […]
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This past month, the Kingswood Oxford Mock Trial team, the Legal Wyverns, won trial after trial, and worked their way to the semi-finals. On Friday, Feb. 8, the Legal Wyverns participated in the second round of the Mock Trial Competition at Quinnipiac Law School. They were placed in a preliminary trial by random draw after […]
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On Friday, Jan.11, Spanish teacher Lynn Schork’s Spanish 5AP class held their own version of the TV show ‘Shark Tank.’ Ms. Schork created, what her students like to call, Schork Tank when the TV Show first aired and it has developed into a very realistic project. “I have really tweaked and changed it into a […]
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On Thursday, Jan. 20, KO students attended Yale’s annual Model United Nations conference. Model UN advisor Stacey Savin brought along 37 students who participated in various committees. “Yale hosts a 4 day conference every single year, and the Yale students run the whole show,” said Ms. Savin. “1600 students attend from all over the world. […]
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On Nov. 27, at Danbury Superior Court, the Kingswood Oxford Mock Trial team, the Legal Wyverns, partook in the regional rounds of the annual Connecticut High School Mock Trial Tournament sponsored by Civics First, Inc. The team won trials as both plantiff and defense, sending them on to the next round. Every year, 13 […]
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