In addition to Christmas music to help celebrate the festive season, our Winter Concert showcased our Year 13 soloists, Asia, Arya, Jasmine and Shayna who mesmerised the audience with their playing and singing. We are delighted to share recordings of their performances on the night.
As we are all aware, this winter is going to be a difficult one for many families across the country, especially with the rising cost of living.
To do our bit to help locally in the Reading area, we organised a 'Food Drive Week' collecting food items such as breakfast cereals, UHT milk, eggs, loo rolls, washing up liquid, washing powder, tea, coffee, biscuits, cooking oil, pasta/rice, tinned food such as sweetcorn / fruit / soup / tuna, spreads like honey and jam, toiletries such as shower gel, shampoo, toothbrushes and toothbrushes for the Whitley Community Food Cupboard.
As they were not able to perform at the Winter Concert, our Harp Ensemble have put together this performance with some of the older member of their group. It is called Noel Nouvelet, and it is arranged by Dunstone.
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.
The Kendrick Parents Society (KPS) would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported our Kendrick Celebrates event and helped make it a success. The event was sold out and those attending were treated to fantastic performances of music and dance by the students. There were also plenty of culinary delights to enjoy, as well as face painting and henna.
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.
To celebrate the beginning of Advent this week, the library has been decorated and the festive season has begun.
We have our traditional Kindness Advent calendar focussing on ‘Acts of Kindness’ this year; each morning a bauble is removed to reveal a suggestion to bring a little goodwill into someone’s life. We began by simply trying to make somebody laugh on Thursday😊.
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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.
We are delighted to share with you a letter from the Minister of State for Schools, Rt. Hon Nick Gibb MP, congratulating us on our GCSE MFL entries for Summer 2002.
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.
To celebrate the 145th year of Kendrick School and all its achievements, Kendrick Parents Society (KPS) is organising an end of year extravaganza on Saturday the 3rd of December, 5pm to 8.30pm.
“Kendrick Celebrates” is a whole school event for students and their families to come together for an evening of fun, laughter, and celebration. Funds raised from this event will go towards fulfilling the birthday wish list from the different departments at Kendrick School.
You can get your tickets using this link https://www.trybooking.co.uk/BZOW
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.