On the 17th September, Emily and I toured three lovely ladies around Kendrick who had attended the school in the 1940s. Vivienne, Hilary and Miriam Stock, as they were known when they attended Kendrick, had come back to visit whilst Miriam, who now lives in Sydney, was in the UK.
On Monday 23rd September,we had a super School Birthday celebration starting with a whole school assembly – the first time this term the whole school has assembled in the Hall. As always, every form was asked to bake a cake for the cake competition on a given theme.
On Wednesday 18th September 2019, we got the opportunity to go to RAF Benson to be flown in an aircraft used in the RAF alongside a RAF pilot.
On Friday 20th September, six Kendrick students from year 8,9 and 10 and Frau Mueller attended the Reading German Network Awards Assembly at the University of Reading. In total, seven Kendrick students won prizes, Sana, Isabella, Ananya, Hannah, Elena, Shruthi and Simran.
Kendrick Year 13 debate team qualify for Internationals.
On 16th July 2019, 16 students and two staff embarked on a two week long expedition to Vietnam. This trip was the culmination of 14 months of planning, preparation and fund-raising. As with all these trips we had three main focuses: a trek, a community project and some time to enjoy the sights of Vietnam.
Earlier this year, I was fortunate enough to be given a travel grant of £350 from the Kendrick Trustees, despite no-longer being a student at the school, which was a great help towards funding a university placement I was undertaking in Zambia in Africa.
On the day before the end of the summer term, Thursday 18th July 2019, Year 12 Physics students were able to take part in the KS5 event at RAL called 'Apollo@50'.
To mark exactly 50 years from the launch of Apollo 11 ( 16th July 1969), Year 12 students from Space Society and Engineering Society organised the launch of rockets on the lawn during 2nd break on Tuesday, 16th July.
Earlier this term Y8 enjoyed an afternoon of drama and journalism. Part of the year group presented short plays set on the Titanic, and the rest of the year group took various journalism roles to cover the event. The winners of the drama element of the event have already been published (the article can be found in the Drama Department section of the website). After long deliberation by the judges, the winners of the journalism element can now be announced.
On Thursday 4th July, some of the A-Level Physics students embarked on an exciting adventure to Rutherford and Appleton Lab to look at the Diamond Synchrotron complex and attend an 'Engineer Your Future' event.
A Climate Emergency was declared by Reading Borough Council earlier this year to accelerate their plans to reduce the carbon footprint of Reading to zero by 2030.