Kendrick School Leaders have the privilege of being able to award students a white house token. Students can receive a token which goes towards their house points if they meet with the carefully considered criteria as set out below. School leaders are eagerly looking forward to awarding these.
In the last five years, we have seen a rise of movements surrounding periods. From the fight to end the Tampon Tax, to the Free Periods campaign, activists are encouraging us to end the stigma about menstruation and make sure that menstruators of all ages have access to free menstrual products, as well as information about their periods.
We celebrated the School Birthday on Monday 27th September. Each form made a cake that was judged by Ms Kattirtzi and Mrs Cook. The cakes were displayed for everyone to view during 1st break and then shared with the tutor group at lunch time. There were Year Group winners, Key Stage winners and an overall winner.
Cakes were decorated, depicting aspects of Kendrick School life:
Year 7: Cupcakes made into an arrangement on a display board
Years 8 & 9: The ‘Arts’ – Music, Drama, Art
Years 10 & 11: Representing a subject studied
Years 12 & 13: Any aspect reflecting Kendrick life
Despite the pandemic, the GCSE Geography class of 2020 have been on a fieldtrip! On the 15th and 17th of June, we visited 2 sites on the River Chess - Chesham Moor and Scotsbridge Mill. Our aim? To investigate, firsthand, the drainage basin characteristics and flood risks studied in lessons. The Chess is 18km long, falls 60m, and is a chalk based river with an aquifer in Chesham. It is a tributary of the River Colne, which in turn is a tributary of the River Thames. These facts helped to make it an appropriate river to visit, as it is short enough to visit in one day, but long enough to provide contrasting results. In addition, its volume was not too large, making it safe.
Please enter an introduction fOn Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th June 2021, the Year 12 A-Level Geography classes visited Lewes town, and Newhaven and Seaford beaches in East Sussex. This was in preparation for our NEA, an individual investigation each of us will undertake next year as part of our A-Level course to answer a geographical enquiry question on either of these two locations. The purpose of these days was to practise field work techniques, such as beach profiling and flood surveys, which we will use when collecting the data for our investigations next year.
The Cayley Mathematical Olympiad is a follow-on round to the Intermediate Mathematical Challenge. It is a 2-hour Challenge consisting of six problems requiring full written solutions.
The questions featured in the Cayley Olympiad cover a range of mathematical topics and require you to apply your understanding of different areas of mathematics.
On Wednesday 14th July, the Kendrick Poet’s Society launched our first Poetry Anthology. The stunning book is the culmination of the Society’s hard work over the past year, featuring a variety of poems written, and edited, by Kendrick students, with the help of Miss Akcay.
The theme of the anthology was ‘New World,’ which inspired the members to write beautiful poetry about a vast array of different topics and ideas. The anthology spans major world issues, personal struggles and hopes, and everything in between. From the hardships that immigrants face to a fairy tale realm, the poets have truly succeeded in writing a book with something for every reader.
As we draw near to the end of another momentous year, we wanted to celebrate all things creative at Kendrick and invited students and staff to send in items of music, drama, dance, poetry, art and textiles work. We were overwhelmed by the response and thus put together this ‘Summer Showcase’ which illustrates the wide variety of talents at our school.
Last year saw the beginning of a new decade and an opportunity to reflect on the past and form new visions of our future. The last decade, and now including 2020, has seen remarkable national and international events that changed the landscape of the world:
During Earth Week, a very popular event was the seed bomb workshop where many students from different year groups had an opportunity to make seed bombs to plant in their own gardens. The event took place in the Art rooms where students worked on their seed bombs in their own bubbles.
A very popular event that took place during Earth Week was the Meat Free Meal Day on Friday 25th June. Everyone had the option to use phones to take pictures of their meal in order to upload it onto EcoSpot, to help us to reach our target for meat free meals, which we have now reached. There were a number of meat free choices ranging from burgers, cheese and onion pasty, pizza and more. This is a new scheme that we would love to put into place from the beginning of the next academic year, called Monthly Meat-Free Mondays. It allows students to eat delicious, healthy meals while helping the environment.
Early in the summer term, the English department organised Shakespeare competitions and activities in honour of his birth and death day.
The first competition was a quiz, with knowledge about Shakespeare’s life and works; there were very high scores from every entrant! Our joint winners, who both got full marks and then even gavethe same response to the tie-break, are Daisy, year 7 and Mme Pilia-Jones – well done to both.