Kingswood Community Supports Key Workers And Local Organisations

During lockdown, the wider Kingswood community have pulled together to help those key workers and local organisations who are most in need of support at this time.

Staff, pupils and parents joined with other local independent schools in a mass effort to produce more protective visors and distribute them around Bath to GPs, care centres and the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

Mr Barney Brown, Head of DT, used 3D printing to make PPE and cut face shields at home in a makeshift workshop, producing in excess of 100 masks with the support of volunteer pupils and staff.

Mrs Emma Brown, Head of English, and Mrs Leigh Page, Accounts Assistant, were both at their sewing machines, making over 200 washbags for NHS staff between them, with Mrs Page also creating scrubs from donated material.

The Science Departments supplied a large number of medical-standard disposable gloves, bibs, overshoes and safety glasses to local surgeries – organised and delivered by technicians from Kingswood.

Kingswood parents have also played a key role in helping the community, with one parent enlisting her company to donate 200 surgical face masks to a large NHS practice in Bristol.

In memory of the first doctor to lose their life to Covid-19, a Year 13 student edited two videos of an original song “Dare We?”, in a project which has raised nearly £2,500 for the NHS.

Year 10 student Brook and his mum have produced over 4,000 PPE masks for hospitals most in need across Thailand.

The PE Department launched a Foundation-wide appeal in aid of specialist bereavement support charity ‘Winston’s Wish’, with the School community raising nearly £600.

Students from Middle House organised a sponsored 1000 mile challenge to commemorate the distance from the D-Day landing beaches in Normandy to Berlin, for the 75th anniversary of VE day - the School community raised nearly £2500 for Help for Heroes and Shine Bright Support.

As a school, Kingswood has continued to support Bath Foodbank by raising awareness in school newsletters and sharing alternative ways of donating.

Kingswood has supported a partner state school with providing food parcels worth £25 each for 23 families who are struggling financially so that they are able to maintain these food parcels throughout the summer holidays.

The School has continued to support the Genesis Trust by publicising fundraising initiatives in the School newsletter and have made efforts to supporting Bath Festivals by advertising their virtual quiz night fundraising initiatives.

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