The Year 8s had a great trip to Bushcraft, learnt and mastered many skills including making a fire, working together as a team, making use of natural resources and much more!!
We hope that we get more opportunities like this in the future to spend some quality time away from our phones and enjoy the natural beauty of our world.
By Giselle, Ivy, Usmi and Saswathi
BBC Young Dancer is a dance competition open to dancers of all styles from all over the UK providing them an opportunity to showcase their dance skills. I first got to know about this competition in 2017 when I watched the South Asian category final and the main finals on television. I was so inspired by the dancers, I decided to apply in 2021. On the 25th of April 2022, I was awarded the title “BBC Young Dancer 2022”.
This year the theme for the 2022 Holocaust Memorial Day was One Day. One Day could mean a specific day, it could also be One Day in history, One Day when life changed (for better or for worse), One Day at a time or One Day in the future.
The idea for an upcycling competition came from one of the parents who help in the Second Hand Uniform shop. We wanted to raise the profile of the Second Hand Uniform shop, whilst making use of uniform items that for one reason or another weren’t suitable to sell in the shop.
Huge congratulations to Adhya Shastry Year 12 who won BBC Young Dancer of the Year 2022. The grand final for BBC Young Dancer 2022 saw 10 talented dancers between the ages of 17 and 24 compete for the coveted title at London’s iconic Roundhouse.
With a great turnout of over 30 contestants, this year's House Chess on Wednesday 6th May, for Years 10-13 was a great success. Abilities ranged from experienced chess players to complete beginners, but everyone was able to have a go, receiving one house point for participation in this event. A second house point was awarded if a student won their match, and unfinished matches at the end of second break were adjudicated, to determine who won.
For Mental Health Awareness Week this year, we're raising awareness of the impact of loneliness on our mental wellbeing and the practical steps we can take to address it. Loneliness is affecting more and more of us and has had a huge impact on our physical and mental health during the pandemic. Reducing loneliness is a major step towards a mentally healthy society.
As always, there are a number of activities that will take place next week and information will be sent to students about this very important issue that affects everyone’s life.
Before Easter, our very own Frau Mueller gave us an inspiring and insightful presentation on what it means to be truly aware of our periods and how we can harness our menstrual cycle power. This included acknowledging cultural stigmas and taboos on what periods have meant in the past and what they mean today as well as how to prepare for them.
Over the Easter holidays, I attended a training course at the Cadet Centre for Adventurous Training (CCAT); signing up for it was definitely one of the best decisions I've ever made.
On Thursday 7th April, A Level German students from Kendrick School and Reading Boys had the opportunity to attend a German film evening at school, where we watched the film ‘Sonnenallee’. Also known as ‘Sun Alley’, Sonnenallee is the name of a street in Berlin, which was divided in 1961 by the building of the Berlin Wall, with part of the street in Neukoeln split from the section in the east, in the Baumschulenweg neighbourhood.
On Friday 1st April, a group of students from Kendrick and Reading School were able to put on the first Air Ambulance Concert since 2019. Thanks to the enthusiasm and dedication of all the students involved, the concert was a resounding success and helped to raise vital funds for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance.
On Thursday 31st March, two teams of four Year 10 students took part in the Year 10 Maths Feast - a fun educational challenge for students which tests problem-solving and teamwork skills with an all-you-can-eat feast of problems.