Monday 8th March is International Women’s Day (IWD), an important day for everyone to appreciate and acknowledge women and their contribution and achievements everywhere. This year’s theme is Choose to Challenge, which encourages everyone to accelerate gender parity through action. Here is a display exploring the theme which can be seen in our library and the Sixth form block.
Last year, the Music Department set out to rename its practice rooms in honour of influential and inspirational women from throughout musical history. We thought it would be fitting to introduce those women to you as part of International Women's Day, celebrating how these women have gone on to be successful in their respective fields and pave the way for future women to do the same.
This year as part of Holocaust Memorial Day we invited students to enter a poetry competition.
Poetry can be incredibly powerful. During the Holocaust and other genocides, those persecuted wrote poetry to express their feelings of loss, suffering and hope.
Survivors wrote poetry afterwards as a response to their experiences.
Writing, reading and sharing poetry can be a creative way to bring people together, even if you are not able to physically join together.
Team Cascade (Mridhula, Arzina and Ananya, all in year 13) were winners in the 2020 School’s Aerospace Challenge, and this was reported in Kendrick news in October 2020 when they were presented with their prize.
After reading about Team Cascade’s success, a parent who works for Rolls Royce got in touch and the Team were invited to present their project and connect with Rolls Royce engineers.
This took place during the February half term week.
Since the Nobel Prize was established in 1895, less than 60 women have been honoured with the prestigious international award. Last October, four women – Louise Glück, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Jennifer A. Doudna, and Andrea M. Ghez were added to that total, triumphing in literature, chemistry, and physics.
This week is Children’s Mental Health Week and the theme this year is ‘Express Yourself’. Expressing yourself is about finding ways to share feelings, thoughts, or ideas, through creativity. It is about finding a way to show who you are, and how you see the world, that can help you feel good about yourself.
Holocaust Memorial Day, 27th January 2021, marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. Remembering the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, we bear witness for those who endured genocide, and honour the survivors and all those whose lives were changed beyond recognition.
Physics students have continued to take part in competitions since the start of the year, despite extra logistics to running them safely.
As You Like It
Kendrick School
Appraised by Bethany Appleton
This December in the library we decided it would be more fitting to have our Window Advent Calendar revealing Acts of Kindness instead of Christmas books etc. Each morning during registration the tutors have been reading out the ‘acts’ as suggestions for us to try. They have been wide ranging from donating to charity to smiling at a stranger. It has been a reminder to us all that a very small kind gesture can make a HUGE impact on the person receiving it. Everyone deserves a little happiness!
In honour of Jane Austen's 245th birthday and the first of our school-wide literary birthday celebrations this year, Mrs Munns from the English department provided some fun and fascinating activities for students, on the attached sheet. As well as the whole school activities, GCSE and A Level students who are studying Austen’s novels also enjoyed seminars on the social and cultural contexts of Jane Austen.
On profiling day, one of our activities was to go to the library and look at some of the career’s resources. I hadn’t looked at them much before, but the library has a wide range of books about choosing careers, what qualifications you need and what careers relate to specific subjects at school.