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1st Boys & Girls Tennis win tournament

Kingswood celebrates their 1st Boys and 1st Girls Tennis players for an undefeated run, and a well-deserved WIN!

The Selborne/Clarendon Singles and Mixed Doubles Tennis Tournament took place in East London from Friday, 4th March to Saturday, 5th March. It is a gruelling competition where the top 6 1st team boys and girls have to play singles and mixed doubles against their opponents – this totals 18 matches per round!

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The Moonlit Market is back!

The Moonlit Market starts at 17h00 on Friday, 25 March on City Lords Field / Wyvern, Kingswood. We look forward to seeing you there!

City Lord’s field will once again be lit-up and play host to the annual KJPA Moonlit Market.

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Ash Wednesday 2022

Today is Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent. It is a 40 day period before Easter where we are invited to examine our hearts and draw closer to God. Traditionally, people fast, pray and give.

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Summer Sunset Concert On Lords

Join us for an afternoon filled with musical magic outdoors on our City Lords field to support a very special cause. The concert is in aid of the extraordinary work done by the Grahamstown and Sunshine Coast Hospice and their dedicated staff and volunteers. There will be music by our Concert Band, Choirs, Strings, Marimbas and a Grand Band finale.

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Foundation Day Weekend 2022

Celebrating the 128 years of Kingswood. Foundation Weekend is a special event in our calendar – it’s a time when all of us, staff, pupils and Old Kingswoodians, can reflect on our shared past and imagine our great future together.

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Launch of Cricket Development Initiative

In a move designed to bring the sport of cricket to as many young learners as possible, an exciting initiative was launched at Kingswood College on Wednesday afternoon. e to many talented young people, especially in the sports arena, but very often this talent cannot be identified, nurtured or taken further, due to a lack of infrastructure and facilities. The Young Warriors Cricket Development Programme is a pilot project and takes the form of a partnership between three local primary schools (George Dickerson, St Mary’s and Grahamstown Primary), Kingswood College, the Rhodes University HKE (Human Kinetics & Ergonomics) Department and the Rhodes Community Engagement Office (RUCE), as well as the Gary Kirsten Foundation.

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Neil Aggett Memorial Lecture 2022: “Standing up against injustice” with Zapiro

We are privileged to be able to have Zapiro as our 2022 speaker at the annual Neil Aggett Memorial Lecture. The theme of this talk is “Standing up against injustice” and the title of Zapiro’s talk is “Makhanda Forever”. Every year Kingswood College hosts a memorial lecture in honour of Neil Aggett, a former pupil who paid the ultimate price during the anti-apartheid struggle for liberation. The lecture is a tribute to all those brave men and women who laid down their lives in the fight for human rights and social justice.