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    • Presentation of the A Level Certificates and Awards Evening

      Published 18/12/19

      One key event this week and an important occasion in our calendar was the Presentation of A Level Certificates to our students who left in the summer. Their achievements were once again excellent and many of them are now at university on courses they chose over a year ago. Some have taken a gap year or a deferment and some are in employment and on training courses. LINK to Destinations. Our guest speaker this year was Jennifer Brace, a former student and now a lawyer at an international firm in Bristol. Her biography is here. Like previous speakers Jennifer spoke about her experiences since leaving Kendrick and then gave the students some advice. Below are some extracts from of her speech.  

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    • Santa Claus Is Coming To Kendrick!

      Published 18/12/19

      On Saturday the library welcomed a very special guest for the first time….

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    • Kendrick Book Club Christmas Party

      Published 18/12/19

      On Friday lunchtime the library hosted the Book Club’s annual Christmas celebration.  The turnout was good considering the germs that have been wiping out students in recent weeks!

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    • Christmas Concert 2019

      Published 13/12/19

      The Christmas Concert last evening was a wonderful evening of traditional and modern Christmas music, performed by the various ensembles, orchestras, with beautiful singing from the choirs and the whole of Year 7.    The staff band, 'No Direction' once again entertained the audience with a performance of ‘It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas’. 

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    • Model UN Climate Conference December 2019

      Published 13/12/19

      While world leaders have been meeting in Madrid, Spain to discuss climate change and the urgent need for action, fifteen Year 12 Geography took part in a mock UN Climate Change Conference organised by InterClimate Network on the afternoon of Friday 6th December. The event took place in Reading’s Council Chamber.

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    • The Joy of Being Perfectly Imperfect

      Published 06/12/19

      Ms Stacey led an assembly this morning to the Sixth Form titled “The Joy of Being Perfectly Imperfect”. Students heard that if ‘perfection’ is the ultimate goal, there is an emotional consequence of heightened stress. However if ‘good enough’ is the ultimate goal, the emotional consequence will be much more positive – better self-esteem, increased self-worth and resilience.

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    • Design Your Future: Careers Fair Event

      Published 04/12/19

      Every two years Kendrick School hosts a prestigious Career Fair, assisted by ‘Learning to Work’. This popular and well-attended event forms one of the key elements of our CEIAG (Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance) programme. On 7th November 2019, we had 65 exhibitors attend who enjoyed the positive interaction with our students who were recognised to be ‘mature’, ‘interested’, ‘inquisitive’ and ‘engaged with the career-finding’ process.

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    • Ashurst Law Trip: '100 Years of Women in Law'

      Published 03/12/19

      Alumna, Eleanor Reeves, invited 5 of our would-be lawyers to attend a prestigious event to commemorate ‘100 years of Women in Law’. At Kendrick School we are very keen to inform our students of opportunities like this as part of our active CEIAG (careers) programme. The high-profile evening was hosted by the central London Ashurst Law firm, where Eleanor works, on Thursday 14th November 2019.

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    • Year 9 Induction To The Careers Library

      Published 03/12/19

      On Tuesday 19th November, Autumn Profiling Day, all the Year 9s had an exciting opportunity to learn more about different careers we may not have even heard of before, using books and websites on the computers from the school’s Careers Library. The Librarians created a fun quiz which allowed us to research and find out some different careers that we hadn’t looked into before. 

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    • Arkwright Engineering Scholarships

      Published 26/11/19

      The Arkwright Engineering Scholarships programme is the most prestigious scholarship scheme of its type in the UK with over 5,000 Scholarships awarded to date.  The aim is to identify, inspire and nurture school-age students to be the country’s future leaders in engineering, computing and technical design. 

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    • Amnesty Youth Conference

      Published 25/11/19

      On Wednesday 20th November, Amnesty Society attended the annual UK Youth Conference hosted in the Amnesty HQ. This year, the theme was the rights of the child as Amnesty were celebrating the UN Convention of the rights of the child. 

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    • GCSE Presentation Evening

      Published 22/11/19
      On Wednesday 20th November we held our GCSE Presentation Event when Year 12 students and their parents joined staff and governors for the presentation of the GCSE certificates and awards. To present the certificates to the students, Kitty G
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