On Friday afternoon we welcomed the Right Honourable Mrs Theresa May, MP for Maidenhead, to Kendrick School on the occasion of our grand opening of the Horizons Building. Mrs May spent one and half hours with us and spoke to the whole school in an assembly about her career and journey in education and politics. Mrs May’s address was engaging and interesting and she talked about being a constituency MP, as well as her time as Prime Minister between 2016-19.

While world leaders have been meeting in Glasgow at COP 26 to discuss climate change and the urgent need for action, 12 Year 12 A level Geography students took part in a mock UN Climate Change Conference organised by InterClimate Network on Wednesday 10th of November. The event took place in Reading’s Council Chamber.

This year’s GCSE Music students have worked together with others across the Upper School and Sixth Form to put together this delightful virtual Chamber Concert for you all. They learned about how to organise, record, programme, edit and put together the entire thing themselves (with a little help from the Music Department) and we are very proud of what they’ve achieved.

Last week, Year 10-13 spent their PSHCE lesson watching a drama performance called “Unacceptable” by the theatre company, AlterEgo. The performance highlighted issues of sexism, sexual harassment, and sexual violence, and particularly pushed the importance of reacting to casual sexism to prevent it progressing into a bigger issue. The show portrayed two students who stage an ‘intervention’ for their mutual friend over sexist comments he has made, and over the 40-minute show they educate him on what it means to be sexist. It isn’t just ‘hating women’, but a variety of different behaviour that the actors explain fall under three different categories: benevolent, hostile and ambivalent sexism. 

We had our very first live house event of the school year on Wednesday: Year 7 House Chess. 52 enthusiastic Year 7 students attended and played matches between different houses, and all received house points for participation. The winning house was…. Sidmouth with 10 wins and 4 points from draws! This was closely followed by Cedars with 10 wins and 2.5 points from draws, with Palmer not far behind with 6 wins and 3.5 points from draws. These house points will all contribute to the house cup.