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The student news site of Kingwood Park High School

KP TIMES

The student news site of Kingwood Park High School

KP TIMES

Food bins are strategically placed to help make it easy for students to help donate to the Math NHS food drive.

Food drive runs through Friday

Samantha Head, Staff Writer April 4, 2022

Math NHS is hosting a food drive this week. The drive is accepting any non-perishable items like canned food, pasta, rice and peanut butter. “I think the food drive is huge because we’re looking...

Students in AP Human work on an assignment during class. All students will have the options to take finals in the spring to improve their grades. The tests will not be required.

Relief hits students as finals system remains

Shelby Townsend, Staff Writer April 1, 2022

A system was put in place regarding finals when COVID first hit in 2019 and students went online for school. It was made where finals could only help a student’s grade.  If a student scored higher...

Seniors Sarah Cutrer and Elyse McVey share a scene in "Life with Iris" in November. Both seniors are performing in the UIL One-Act Play and hope to advance past bi-districts on March 25.

Strong performances lead cast into bi-districts

Shelby Townsend, Staff Writer March 22, 2022

Awards at theater competitions are a highlight for many students. Everyone dresses up in formal clothing and screams and yells when someone in their company wins an award. For the company at Kingwood Park,...

Students are expected to wear their ID badges around their neck anytime they are on campus.

Safety continues to be reason behind ID policies

Kennedy Watkins, Staff Writer March 18, 2022

As a safety measure, students are required to wear their IDs to school everyday. Some choose to wear it and others try to get through the day without it. Assistant principal Mack Malone stands at the...

Architecture teacher Missi Taylor works with students on the framework for the bathhouse they are building.

Crew prepares to finalize latest Tiny Home

Emilie Tauzin and Daisy Ramirez March 9, 2022

The Construction Management I & II class, also known as the Tiny Homes team, nears the end of their latest Tiny House build. They started building the year’s house Aug. 11. They not only are building...

Seniors Paige Heyl and Sarah Cutrer sit together on the charter bus headed to an official rehearsal for their UIL competition play on March 1.

Health becomes top priority in UIL preparations

Shelby Townsend, Staff Writer March 1, 2022

COVID-19 has hit the theater department hard more than once this year. They started up rehearsals in January for their UIL competition show, “The Girl in the White Pinafore,” but a spurt of cases took...

Junior Victoria Ramos donates blood in the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center van. HOSA organizes four blood drives each year.

Openings still available for HOSA blood drive

Kathleen Ortiz, Staff Writer February 23, 2022

The second to last blood drive of the school year takes place tomorrow, Feb. 24, at the school. Today is the last day for students under the age of 18 to sign up to donate blood. “Many of us know...

[Video] Student Press Freedom Day important to high school journalists

Maya Ortiz, Design Editor February 21, 2022

Journalism students at Kingwood Park and across the country will be celebrating Student Press Freedom Day on Feb. 24.

Senior Rachel Morris fires up the crowd at a pep rally earlier this year. Once football season ended, the cheerleaders still cheered on the basketball teams but also focused on preparing for their competition season.

Cheer caps off strong return to competition

Jacob Valcarce, Staff Writer February 15, 2022

The cheer competition season came to an end at the national competition in Disney World last weekend. It capped off a strong season that included a 15th place finish at the state competition in Ft. Worth....

More than 13,000 diverse books sit on the shelves in the Kingwood Park library.

Libraries face scrutiny as book protests increase across nation

Daniel Spear, Staff Writer February 11, 2022

A national debate is occurring and hitting close to home as more and more books are banned in school districts.  Humble ISD, unlike other districts around the country, does not outright ban books,...

Cheating became a big topic last year when teachers had to offer every student a 48-hour window to test at home.

Cheating remains a concern, despite return of in-person testing

Kathleen Ortiz, Editor in Chief January 28, 2022

While the majority of teachers have gone back to in-person testing, students and teachers alike are still feeling the repercussions of last year’s 48-hour window, at-home testing policy. “That opened...

[Video] Wordle hooks students and staff

Kathleen Ortiz, Editor-in-Chief January 20, 2022

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