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Yale senior Meghanlata Gupta joined the sophomore class on Wednesday, Feb. 24 in a webinar enlightening people on the Native experience through a presentation entitled “Spaces of Resistance and Hope: Centering Indigenous Stories and Imagining New Futures.” Ms. Gupta is the founder and lead editor of Indigenizing the News, which is a digital newspaper that […]
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During this pandemic winter, Head of School Tom Dillow has only called one snow day but has taken advantage of the school’s familiarity with Zoom and called two remote days due to weather. Students are concerned about whether or not we will have real snow days next year and Mr. Dillow said that this was […]
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Tracy K. Smith will serve as KO’s 2021-2022 Symposium author, and English teacher Mela Frye (next year’s teacher) is working with the rest of the English department as they begin accepting applications from current juniors. Tracy K. Smith was born in Falmouth, Mass. and was raised in Fairfield, Calif., deeply influenced by writers like Mark […]
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Director of College Advising Jami Silver led a Zoom webinar on Monday, Feb. 22, introducing KO sophomores and their families to the college admissions process. Ms. Silver ’96, who has been involved in college admissions for the past 20 years, along with Associate Directors of College Advising Peggy Clark and Matthew Waldman, shared information to […]
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KO held its annual Lunar New Year celebration on Friday, Feb. 12, organized by juniors Charles Zhao and David Shi along with members of the Asian Culture club. The Lunar New Year celebration most famously takes place in China but is celebrated in other countries following the Lunar calendar as well. The Lunar New Year’s […]
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Every year during February, Kingswood Oxford plans activities to inform students of Black history. However, this year KO decided to approach the subject of Black history differently. Instead of only celebrating during February, KO chose to host a series of webinars with local historian and KO alum Allison Kyff ’14. Students will participate in these […]
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After scoring in the top 10 during the first mock trial competition on Friday, Jan. 29, the Kingswood Oxford team did not move on after their most recent competition on Friday, Feb. 26. Every year in September, the team is assigned a case that they have to study. This year’s topic was a murder case […]
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Seventeen seniors were inducted into the KO chapter of the Cum Laude Society on Friday, Jan. 29 during an Upper School assembly that members of the KO Community watched on Zoom during advisee group. This year, the induction ceremony and dinner for students and families took place virtually. The following seniors were inducted: Matt Bzowyckyj, […]
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As departments plan for 2021-2022 school year course options, the history department is proposing two new electives (Humanism and the Italian Renaissance and BIPOC History of Connecticut) as well as a number of electives that have been offered in previous years. Electives that are already approved and have been taught in the past include History […]
Read MoreOn Wednesday, Jan. 6, rioters who supported former President Donald Trump’s attempts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election stormed the United States Capitol. After breaking through multiple Capitol police perimeters, they occupied, vandalized, and ransacked parts of the building for several hours. The following day, Head of School Tom Dillow addressed the […]
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