The school celebrated Biology week during the first week in October with the Biology department organising a range of hands-on Biology fun, from designing Biology T-shirts, brain dissections, moth identification and Biology inspired baking!
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.
Diwali celebrations have been taking place this week and to that end Dr Joshi and Mrs Bharate prepared a four-minute video presentation for the students to explain the purpose, meaning and celebrations involved in Diwali.
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.
This year, we started a Debate Club for the Lower School, at Monday lunchtimes, and we’re really happy with how it’s gone so far, as the progress everyone has made is very evident.
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 are the spark, that will light the fire that will burn so bright that they’ll stop and listen. ”
A student anthology competition was launched, based on the theme, ‘Words and Pictures for your World’ to encourage young people to voice their opinions on important, life-changing issues.
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.
To mark the European Day of Languages, students and staff have been invited to participate in our European Day of Languages Department Bingo! The bingo includes challenges to be completed in order to win house points for a year group e.g. “Bake or cook a typical German or French dish or “Find some good German or French memes”.
Bookbuzz is a reading programme from BookTrust that aims to help schools inspire a love of reading in 11 to 13-year-olds.
Every year here at Kendrick, our generous Kendrick Parents Society (KPS) pays for this opportunity for our Year 7 cohort, allowing us to give these 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.