I am very grateful for having had the opportunity to organise such an incredible event by inviting Dr. Harwin as our guest speaker on Friday the 9th of December.  Dr. Harwin is an Instrument Development Scientist at RAL Space.  Years 11,12, and 13 had the privilege of listening to Dr. Harwin, give a Space Talk.  We learnt about her journey into the space sector, and towards the end of the talk, she shared some career advice, and reassured students that there are numerous routes into the space sector such as data science and space law - not only aerospace engineering and astrophysics.

On Friday 2nd December, we were delighted to welcome former students and staff to our 145th birthday reunion celebration.  It's 145 years since the school started at Watlington House, 95 years since we came to this site.  The School Birthday was introduced in September 2012 to celebrate our school and girls’ education.  It is an opportunity for us to reconnect with former students and gives them an opportunity to visit their old school, seeing familiar and perhaps unfamiliar rooms and buildings.

On Tuesday 29th November, parents and students attended a presentation of GCSE certificates event along with teachers, staff and our guest speaker and presenter of certificates, Sanjana Iyer, one of last year's members of Kendrick Student Leaders.

Ms. Kattirtzi began by congratulating the students for all the amazing work they did throughout the GCSE course.  Faced with the challenges and uncertainty of COVID, Kendrick School, staff and students with sheer determination and hard work produced outstanding results, which resulted in our progress 8 measure at +0.94, placing the progress of our students in the top 2% of the country.

On Remembrance Day, the Geography Department took 14 Year 12 pupils to the Reading Schools Model COP27 conference. It was an incredible opportunity to debate with pupils from local schools about global issues relating to climate change.

The event was organised by InterClimate Network with support by Reading Climate Change Partnership and hosted by Reading Borough Council in their council chambers.  Each group was given a country briefing for prior research, so we were able to deliver pre-prepared opening statements.The event was opened by the Mayor of Reading who urged us to take climate action.  Kendrick represented Egypt (the hosts!), India and the USA, and getting into the mindset of these countries emphasised the international severity of the climate crisis.  

On Thursday the 18th October, seventy Year 12 Biology students travelled to Queen Anne's School in Caversham to attend a lecture on neurology and experience a lamb brain dissection.

The lecture, which was given by Dr Guy Sutton from the University of Nottingham, was split into three parts.