The Kendrick Parents' Society (KPS) were delighted to go ahead with the annual tradition of a Movie Night to welcome the new Year 7 students to Kendrick School. This year the students voted for their favourite film (out of a short list of five suggestions) and Sing 2 received the most votes. It proved to be a popular choice as over 115 tickets were sold for the event.
As part of our A-level Biology course, we were given the amazing opportunity to travel to Dale Fort Field Studies Centre in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It was here that we were able to take part in extensive amounts of fieldwork on a number of different and unique shores, gaining practical skills and ecological knowledge from the resident FSC (Field Studies Council) staff.
The MFL trip to Germany could not have been any better. Not only was it a perfect opportunity to practice our speaking skills but also to dive into German culture, especially the cuisine! We were fortunate to have visited beautiful locations like castles, with a lot of walking, but to socialise with our German host families too. This experience was the perfect way for us to step out of our comfort zones even if it meant being corrected by your host family! We thoroughly enjoyed and will cherish the six days with our teachers and our schӧne coach driver, Chris, who even learnt German with us along the way.
After waking up in the early hours of the morning, we embarked on a 12-hour journey, which was the start of our week- long adventure. A fascinating part of the journey was the Eurotunnel Le Shuttle which is a really fast train that transported our coach from England to France. Onboard the shuttle, we could get off the coach and stand in a large room whilst it was moving. It took us around half an hour to get from Dover to Calais which was quicker than we expected.
Kendrick School has made some changes to their admission policies for 2024 entry and, in line with admission guidelines, we are now consulting on these policies.
The key changes are as follows:
It was the first live Upper School and Sixth Form Chamber Concert since the pandemic. Featuring students from Years 10 - 13, organised and led by GCSE Music students with minimal help from the teachers, it allowed them to take on more responsibility and learn about the different aspects of staging a concert. They’ve enjoyed learning about sound and lighting, as well as all the essential roles such as advertising, programming, running rehearsals, stage management and the list goes on…
We have been celebrating all things spooky in the library by highlighting some ghostly books, displaying some ghastly bookish puns and giving students the opportunity to enter our Halloween Quiz. The response was amazing, with about a dozen students getting all the answers correct! (We might have to make next year’s quiz more difficult!)
In order to celebrate National Poetry Day, the Kendrick English Department held a hugely popular and successful ‘Fridge Magnet Poetry’ event for the school, where students were invited to find inspiration for some poems of their own, and enter them into a competition.
Magnetic poetry consists of individual words on cut-out magnetic ‘tiles,’ which, as the name suggests, are stuck onto a metallic surface and rearranged at will to form various sentences. The tiles do not have to be magnetic (ours were not!) but being able to move the words around allows you to experiment with space, order, and structure, often leading to surreal yet potent metaphors which then serve as prompts for further writing.
BookBuzz is a reading programme from BookTrust that aims to help schools inspire a love of reading in 11 to 13-year-olds. Participating schools give their 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. Every year at Kendrick the Kendrick Parents Society (KPS) supports this scheme and allows every one of our Year 7 students to choose a book to take home to keep.
On Sunday 9th October 2 teams of 3 girls from Kendrick competed in the Girls’ Chess Championship Tournament held at St Catherine’s School, Bramley. Started in 2014, this tournament is a dynamic chess competition for young female players. It was a national event where schools from all over the country came together and put their skills to the test.
‘What if you had to defend a murderer?’ This is often one of the first questions posed to prospective Law students who often do not have an answer. Isn’t Law about justice and using the judiciary to ensure innocent people are defended whilst the perpetrators are locked up? On Wednesday 28th September, Lady Justice Andrews gave a talk on her journey into Law whilst answering some of these questions.
To celebrate the amazing world of the biosciences, the Biology Department put together a full schedule of activities to coincide with national Biology Week 2022. This year, our aim was to get as many students involved as possible and to embrace our enthusiasm for the subject. From crocheting red blood cells to Bio Bakes, moth identification and brain dissection, there was plenty to choose from!