All of Year 11 had the chance to see a live production of their GCSE set text Macbeth, at the Globe Theatre as part of a special 'Playing Shakespeare' production for schools, produced in partnership with Deutsche Bank. Students loved the chance to visit Shakespeare's Globe and enjoyed this fast-paced and engaging production, particularly the modern-day military setting and the witches' acrobatics! 

On Tuesday, 18th March, Year 12 students had the privilege of visiting the Hexagon to participate in the 'Maths Inspiration' event. This event featured several talks from professionals in the field. The discussions about maths in our everyday lives were intriguing, and highlighted the versatility of maths. Hosted by Matt Parker who runs a successful maths-related YouTube channel: Stand up Maths, we discovered interesting mathematical concepts. These were introduced with humour and passion, making the experience so much more enjoyable! 

Readathon Club has just completed its latest classic novel, using some of our old copies of English set texts from the Palmer Library. This term we have been working our way through Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations in weekly instalments and meeting to discuss this in the Library each Tuesday breaktime over tea, squash and biscuits. This has been our largest group so far, including students from every single year group from 7-13 as well as quite a few members of staff who have enjoyed reading (or re-reading) along too!

Students from all year groups - and a couple of staff - have been busy memorising poems of their choice, ready to perform them in this year's Poetry by Heart competition. This is a national poetry speaking competition which celebrates the joy of learning and performing poems.  

Many students have taken part in our heats over the last few weeks, performing one pre-1914 and one post-1914 poem. The top twelve performers made it through to our Kendrick grand finals in the Hall, where they had to recite their poems in front of an audience, with marks awarded for voice, understanding, performance and accuracy. We were hugely impressed by the quality of students' performances: they had not just learned these poems word for word, but had really thought deeply about what these poems were about and how they could best communicate this to their audiences. 

On Wednesday 12th March, fifteen Year 11 German students attended an on-campus day at Reading University, organised around the topic of Identity and migration in Germany.

We walked to the University and arrived at around 9:30, just in time for our first talk on Migration in Germany with Professor Schröter, Head of Languages and Cultures, in the Global Study Lounge. We learnt a lot of very interesting information about German identity and history!

Last term, two groups of Geography students at Kendrick were invited to take part in the Innovation Challenge at Reading Boys. 

We were asked to create a solution that balances the need for homes for a growing population with the damage caused to the environment by the construction industry, taking into consideration the current situation and challenges.