Holocaust Memorial Day
Today, 27th January, is Holocaust Memorial Day.
Today, 27th January, is Holocaust Memorial Day.
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, which takes place annually, is a week-long celebration of engineering designed to highlight to young people that engineering is a creative, problem-solving, exciting career that improves the world around us.
Last term two Kendrick students, Sarah and Dhitha took part in Tomorrow’s Engineers Week when it celebrated its 10th year with a new recorded broadcast - Future Minds Live. Around 50 young people were chosen to attend Future Minds Live, where they discussed their ideas for the future of engineering in four key sectors: Entertainment, Sport, Technology and Environment.
As the Christmas holidays fast approached, the school council team wanted to spread some festive joy throughout the school and also help our community through donations and shoeboxes.
Shoeboxes
Every year, we give children who are less fortunate a shoebox full of presents. This year, we chose to make shoeboxes for a charity called the Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain (AUGB), who will give the shoeboxes to Ukrainian children aged 1–15 years old. Each form was delegated a gender and age to make a shoebox for, and the turnout was amazing! We had made more than 30 shoeboxes, ready to be delivered to the Ukrainian community, filled with useful gifts such as gloves and hats all the way to more fun presents like games and sweets!
In the first week of December, a group of students studying German from Years 11, 12 and 13 took part in the German Christmas Market trip, travelling over 700 miles in total.
Day 1 - Thursday 1st December
At 5 o’clock in the evening, we gathered in the school hall to get checked in and make sure we had a list of our groups. We said goodbye to our parents and got onto the coach, leaving at around 6pm. The coach was full of chatty students; all of us were so excited for what was to come! After three hours on the coach, we reached the Port of Dover, went through customs and got onto the ferry. Many of us were very tired, but still enjoyed the ferry ride! We arrived at the Port de Calais, and continued our 12-hour journey to Cologne.
I am pleased and proud to announce that, following a Section 5 OFSTED Inspection that took place in November 2022, Kendrick School has been judged as Outstanding.