Trick or treat! As an international school with students and teachers from all over the world, King’s celebrates both Chinese and international holidays. At the end of October that means turning KSS into a spooky school to mark many a child’s favourite festival: Halloween!

Beware! Hundreds of Monsters (KSS students) are coming to get you!

On our campus, Halloween is the occasion for much revelry. Our students started the celebrations with a Halloween Parade along our sports track, in which they got to show off their colourful costumes. Among the many creative and creepy outfits on display were witches and wizards, princes and princesses, ghosts and skeletons, superheroes and monsters, knights and soldiers, kings and genies, animals and Pokémon, emojis and art work come to life, athletes and race car drivers, dragons and dinosaurs, nurses and murder victims, cartoon and video game characters, possessed nuns and vampires, biohazard-suited scientists and the Grim Reaper himself. Most terrifying of all was a student who came dressed as an interrupted Wi-Fi signal!

Halloween Games

Parents are a school’s staunchest allies. Our special thanks go out to our newly-established KSS Parent-Teacher Association for organising the Halloween celebrations on campus. Their selfless efforts have made this year’s Halloween celebrations into an immensely enjoyable day.

The KSS sports hall served as the venue for a series of Halloween-themed games, organised and hosted by KSS parent volunteers. Our Prep School students got to play Pass the Parcel (in which they competed amongst fifteen players for a prize), Mummy Wrap (in which they got to turn themselves or their classmates into mummies), and Eyes on the Pumpkin. While playing Pumpkin Toss, they could be heard encouraging each other to earn more candies by tossing them into pumpkins from a distance. They also got to take part in a Halloween team Balloon Race and try their luck at the Mystery Box. Judging by how much laughter could be heard, the games were more fun than frightening. 

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be chased by zombies? Well, just ask our Senior School students. They were tasked with evading capture by a bunch of bloodthirsty undead teachers on the sports pitch. Last student left alive wins!

Our students put their speed and wits to the test in our whole-campus Halloween Candy Hunt. To know where to find the candies, they needed to first figure out each of the clues that would lead them to the right place. Only once they had successfully located all six types of candy could they go and get a special Halloween gift from the sports hall. 

Next Stop, Haunted House!

Halloween would not be complete without a Haunted House. After making their way up a staircase stained with bloody footprints, our Prep School students entered into a fantasy world of lights and shadows, containing ghosts, zombies, and skeletons. Our Senior School students had an even scarier Haunted House of their own, featuring a frightful assortment of cobwebs and spiders, skulls and skeletons in the corners, and a body split in half. Not for the feint-hearted! 

At King’s, the curriculum and co-curriculum blend into a single creative and expressive educational experience full of opportunities. The Senior School Haunted House was organised as part of the KSS Charity CCA (co-curricular activity). Entry tickets cost 25 rmb each, with the proceeds going to charity. Worth the cost for a good scare!