A few weeks ago, House Leaders met with House Captains to count last year’s tokens and add them to the final scores. I am delighted to announce that Sidmouth were the winners in what was an extremely close fought contest.
The final scores were as follows:
On Wednesday, 8th October, Team Cascade presented their winning project to other students in school, so they could see the journey that Mridhula, Arzina and Ananya had made in lockdown, from deciding to enter the Schools’s Aerospace Challenge 2020, to researching and submitting their project, and getting through to the shortlist of presentations, to being grilled by judges, and then being awarded £1000 as a winning team. Congratulations to them!
Kendrick School is delighted to announce it will be working as a partner school with Classics for All, the Classics charity that works to bring Classics to all students regardless of educational setting or background.
In the coming years, the Classics Department at Kendrick School will be helping to train teachers in secondaries and primaries across Berkshire to provide Latin, Greek and Classics content in schools.
The recent poetry recitation competition revealed that one particular form has a special talent for recitation, as the winner and runners up all came from 7HES. The runners up were Avika and Saswathi. The winner was Ananyaa, who memorised and recited one of the most challenging and complex poems ever written, ‘The Windhover’, by Gerard Manley Hopkins. This poem is about a kestrel in flight, but also reflects on the surprising beauty that can often be found in quite ordinary things. It was a lovely and sensitive recitation.
From Monday to Wednesday this week 72 students from years 7 and 8 participated in the first house event of the year. House Chess! Students of all chess abilities participated, with some very tense games taking place.
This year our school community chose to creatively express what Kendrick means to them in the form of messages, photographs, poems and pictures. These have been collated into a display in the main school for all to see. Here is a selection of some of the fabulous contributions.
Happy birthday to Kendrick School! We are 143 years old today!
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We are happy to announce an excellent set of GCSE results for our Year 11 students.
On Monday 13th July, we celebrated our first ever virtual sports day. The day began with a live stream of a workout led by Ms Watkins, Mrs Lace and some staff on the front lawn. They were joined by other members of staff and students who tuned in remotely. After a good HIT session, everyone was then invited to complete a challenge to accumulate as many miles as possible for their house.
In order to celebrate Pride month the KSLT proposed the project, ‘Pebbles for Pride’, which consisted of each person finding a stone or pebble, painting a design on said pebble, with the theme of Pride in mind, and placing this out in the wilderness! We intended for this to be both a fun activity and a way to show support for the LGBTQ+ community from wherever we are located. Images of these pebbles were posted to the Kendrick Arts Instagram account, which can be found through this link, which means solidarity for LGBTQ+ individuals was both portrayed online, as well as in the outside world.
A few weeks ago, students were invited to consider why statues should be put up in the first place. The scene was, Kendrick had five empty plinths to put statues of people from history. The challenge was to choose five individuals and to write up to 500 words to justify their choices. They had to think about the individual's achievements, attitudes and actions.
Kendrick School is very proud to have been named the best state-funded secondary school in Reading and Berkshire in this year's Real Schools Guide.
The Real Schools Guide 2020, compiled by Reach's data unit, has been released and it ranks schools on a range of different measures, to show what's really important to students and parents. The guide, now in its eighth year, has been praised by ministers and education experts alike. Former schools minister David Laws called it "public-service journalism in the best tradition".