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KINGSWOOD IN FOCUS 2018-19 | HOUSES
SCHOOL HOUSE Another year has flown by and School House has much to celebrate!
Katie
Poppy
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e welcomed nine new Lower Sixth boarders into the House, and were delighted to finally move back into School House in October after over a year away in Old Hall House! The boarders were over the moon with the new rooms and facilities and once the teething problems were out of the way you would never think we had been away. House Music got the Autumn term off to a bang and the competition was as fierce as ever. We were unlucky this time but are already planning for next year! We introduced the Big Sister initiative with the Upper Sixth spending some time once a week with Year 9 and 10 pupils in order to get to know them better and to strengthen bonds between the pupils. Thanks to the Upper Sixth for their positive
and sensitive support with this. The boarders have enjoyed many activities including the Bake Off, Lower Sixth Challenge Julia Day, visits to the other boarding houses, shopping trips, International Boarders’ evening, wine tasting for the Upper Sixth and many more! The Inter-House sporting competitions were very close with School House just missing out in the Hockey, but we made up for it in the Netball and Cross Country competitions and did really well in Sports Day with some great team and individual performances. School House has continued with its strong support for charitable events with a number of girls taking part in the Bath Half marathon and everyone baking to raise money for Breast Cancer Care and Cancer Research UK. At the end of the year we thanked and said goodbye to Ms Dreher who was a member of house staff
We introduced the Big Sister initiative in order to strengthen bonds between the pupils. and was with us all too briefly, and to Miss Wilson who moves over to Summerhill, for her support and work in the house as both a tutor and a member of house staff over the past five years. We wish Mrs Mainwaring all the best in her new role as Senior Housemistress of Fonthill. Her tutees and the boarders will miss her hands on approach and her fun tutorials and evening duties.
Miss Una Paver (Senior Housemistress, School House)
AWARDS THE FOLLOWING PUPILS RECEIVED HOUSE COLOURS: Katie Morton, Poppy Hasoon, Julia Reid, Charlotte Chilton, Olivia Patterson, Mia Randolph, Ellie Webster, Emma James, Lexi Hart, Liv Wilson, Harriet Mohr, Patricia Bertran, Jasmin Cameron, Miya Cameron.