This year’s GCSE Music students have worked together with others across the Upper School and Sixth Form to put together this delightful virtual Chamber Concert for you all. They learned about how to organise, record, programme, edit and put together the entire thing themselves (with a little help from the Music Department) and we are very proud of what they’ve achieved.
This year, we started a Debate Club for the Lower School, at Monday lunchtimes, and we’re really happy with how it’s gone so far, as the progress everyone has made is very evident.
Last week, Year 10-13 spent their PSHCE lesson watching a drama performance called “Unacceptable” by the theatre company, AlterEgo. The performance highlighted issues of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual violence, and particularly pushed the importance of reacting to casual sexism to prevent it progressing into a bigger issue. The show portrayed two students who stage an ‘intervention’ for their mutual friend over sexist comments he has made, and over the 40-minute show they educate him on what it means to be sexist. It isn’t just ‘hating women’, but a variety of different behaviour that the actors explain fall under three different categories: benevolent, hostile and ambivalent sexism.
“We are the spark, that will light the fire that will burn so bright that they’ll stop and listen. ”
A student anthology competition was launched, based on the theme, ‘Words and Pictures for your World’ to encourage young people to voice their opinions on important, life-changing issues.
We had our very first live house event of the school year on Wednesday: Year 7 House Chess. 52 enthusiastic Year 7 students attended and played matches between different houses, and all received house points for participation. The winning house was…. Sidmouth with 10 wins and 4 points from draws! This was closely followed by Cedars with 10 wins and 2.5 points from draws, with Palmer not far behind with 6 wins and 3.5 points from draws. These house points will all contribute to the house cup.
To mark the European Day of Languages, students and staff have been invited to participate in our European Day of Languages Department Bingo! The bingo includes challenges to be completed in order to win house points for a year group e.g. “Bake or cook a typical German or French dish or “Find some good German or French memes”.
Bookbuzz is a reading programme from BookTrust that aims to help schools inspire a love of reading in 11 to 13-year-olds.
Every year here at Kendrick, our generous Kendrick Parents Society (KPS) pays for this opportunity for our Year 7 cohort, allowing us to give these students the opportunity to choose their own book to take home and keep from a list of 17 titles. They are all carefully selected by a panel of experts to ensure quality, suitability and to encourage reading for pleasure.
Kendrick School Leaders have the privilege of being able to award students a white house token. Students can receive a token which goes towards their house points if they meet with the carefully considered criteria as set out below. School leaders are eagerly looking forward to awarding these.
In the last five years, we have seen a rise of movements surrounding periods. From the fight to end the Tampon Tax, to the Free Periods campaign, activists are encouraging us to end the stigma about menstruation and make sure that menstruators of all ages have access to free menstrual products, as well as information about their periods.
We celebrated the School Birthday on Monday 27th September. Each form made a cake that was judged by Ms Kattirtzi and Mrs Cook. The cakes were displayed for everyone to view during 1st break and then shared with the tutor group at lunch time. There were Year Group winners, Key Stage winners and an overall winner.
Cakes were decorated, depicting aspects of Kendrick School life:
Year 7: Cupcakes made into an arrangement on a display board
Years 8 & 9: The ‘Arts’ – Music, Drama, Art
Years 10 & 11: Representing a subject studied
Years 12 & 13: Any aspect reflecting Kendrick life
Despite the pandemic, the GCSE Geography class of 2020 have been on a fieldtrip! On the 15th and 17th of June, we visited 2 sites on the River Chess - Chesham Moor and Scotsbridge Mill. Our aim? To investigate, firsthand, the drainage basin characteristics and flood risks studied in lessons. The Chess is 18km long, falls 60m, and is a chalk based river with an aquifer in Chesham. It is a tributary of the River Colne, which in turn is a tributary of the River Thames. These facts helped to make it an appropriate river to visit, as it is short enough to visit in one day, but long enough to provide contrasting results. In addition, its volume was not too large, making it safe.
Please enter an introduction fOn Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th June 2021, the Year 12 A-Level Geography classes visited Lewes town, and Newhaven and Seaford beaches in East Sussex. This was in preparation for our NEA, an individual investigation each of us will undertake next year as part of our A-Level course to answer a geographical enquiry question on either of these two locations. The purpose of these days was to practise field work techniques, such as beach profiling and flood surveys, which we will use when collecting the data for our investigations next year.