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.

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…  

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.

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.

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! 

With nearly half of Year 7 choosing to participate in House Chess this year, we saw victories, losses and incredibly close draws, all from students eager to play chess in their first ever house event as part of Kendrick. Participants joined throughout the lunch break to get involved, some without any chess experience at all, providing competitive and tantalisingly close match ups.