Academic Awards for Term 1, 2021
Presented at the Academic Awards Assembly held on the 8th February 2021, these reflect the results from Term 3 in 2020. Congratulations to our Honours Award recipients: Colby, Anke, Daniel, Jenna-Rose and Anna!
First Term welcome from the College Head’s desk
Welcome to the first term of 2021. Even though we were hoping to welcome you all back onsite, we are very excited and grateful that we can still continue with our academic year online for the interim.
Honours for Water Polo – Isabella (Izzy) de Bruyn
Isabella (Izzy) de Bruyn gets Honours Awards for Water Polo. The prizes awarded at Awards Ceremonies that are held each term form part of the formal recognition of pupil achievement at Kingswood College.
Dr Fred Oosthuizen Gets Highest Old Kingswoodian Award
At the annual OK Tie Ceremony Held yesterday, Dr Fred Oosthuizen was awarded an Honorary Life Vice-Presidency of the OK Club. Since Kingswood’s founding in 1894, only 33 recipients have been given this award and in this particular case, the decision was a unanimous one…
Women’s Month Series – Dr Sarah Kraus (OK 1999)
Women’s Month Series: “…The bigger your successes, the more likely you are to have big failures. Don’t be afraid of them, they’re important. You will probably learn more from your failures than your successes and they might actually enable you to become successful in a way you did not anticipate…” – Sarah Kraus ‘1999
Women’s Month Series – Dr Bayanda Mbambisa, OK 1992
August is Women’s Month and what better way to truly celebrate it than by touching base with a few notable women in our very own Kingswood family. This is the first profile in our KC Women’s Month Series: Dr Bayanda Mbambisa (OK 1992)
Devotional Series: A Great Cloud Of WitnesseS
[Video] July saw the beginning of a series of devotions for the Senior School entitled COWS (Cloud Of WitnesseS). Watch the interviews done by Rev Tim here!
#ThrowbackThursday: a journey of tech advancements at Kingswood
For this week’s #ThrowbackThursday we look back at some of images that have defined technological advancement at Kingswood College and we fast forward and share some images of our pupils who are utilizing technology during this time.
Second Term In Review
Now, more than ever, we realise that online teaching can never fully replace face-to-face interactions and that classrooms, although the way they operate may change in the future, can never be replaced by full-time online teaching.
K-Day 2020: Four schools, one goal
Striving towards a common goal of trying to see how far in the world we could get by logging km’s for running, cycling or walking, our four schools managed a total of 8300km with over 800 submissions by members from the four schools.