Berkshire Maestros, in partnership with Windsor Festival and Bradfield College, held a competition for singers to showcase their talent and win prizes alongside others of a similar age. One of our students, Natalia in Year 11, made it through to the Folk category final, having sung ‘She Moves Through the Fair’ – a traditional Irish folk song, to gain a place there.

On Thursday 10th March, Angela Strach, the former Head of Drama at Kendrick School, visited Kendrick to speak to students about the experiences of her father, Eric Strach, and the rest of her family in relation to the Holocaust. During an Enrichment lesson, Mrs Strach spoke to all the Sixth Form, where she gave a truly moving presentation following the life of her father, which enabled us to establish a connection with the lives of those affected. Later in the day, she spoke to interested students from Years 7 - 11 and staff, going into more detail about the items she still possesses to remember her family, such as a prayer book with an inscription inside, and everyone learnt a lot about the importance of reflection and commemoration from this.

Once again here at Kendrick we had a fabulous week celebrating World Book Day – the 25th anniversary of the event.

This year we held a Book Sale on Wednesday, selling books for the Reading branch of the Federation of Children’s Book Groups. It was so successful; we didn’t even get the chance to take a photograph of the busy event! We were sold out before the end of break and raised just over £100.00 for the local charity.

https://fcbg.org.uk/

This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and the theme this year is Growing Together.

Growing Together is about growing emotionally and finding ways to help each other grow. Challenges and setbacks can help us to grow and adapt and trying new things can help us to move beyond our comfort zone into a new realm of possibility and potential. However, emotional growth is often a gradual process that happens over time, and sometimes we might feel a bit ‘stuck’.

We are extremely proud to announce that Sejal from Year 13 won the 2020-2021 Canterbury Tales Competition: Be Careful What You Wish For!

The organisers thanked everyone who entered their competition and reported their best ever number of entries. They also stated that the standard was extremely high, which makes it even more special that one of our Kendrick Students won the senior category for 15-18 year olds. Sejal had to write 300 words describing a character who grants wishes. Here is the winning entry: 

The address is scribed upon heavy parchment

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.  On this annual day of commemoration, we are urged to honour the six million Jews, victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.

This morning Ms Kattirtzi held our first assembly of the year in person to Years 8 and 9 and remotely to the rest of the school community.  We heard from our four Year 12 Holocaust Ambassadors, Izzy, Sanya, Janhavi and Eshal who talked about what they have learnt from the Lessons of Auschwitz programme they are enrolled in.