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- 17/07/24
9C English Wins 'Our Class Loves This Book' Award
9C and their English teacher, Mr Dilley, were overjoyed to discover that they were this year's winners of the UK Literacy Association's Our Class Loves This Book award for their work on Manjeet Mann's The Crossing. This prize is awarded jointly to a class and their teacher, and Kendrick...Read Full Story - 16/07/24
The Poets’ Society Launches Its Fourth Anthology
The Poets’ Society, The Poets’ Editorial Team and The Poets’ Communications Team proudly present the fourth poetry anthology! This special launch celebrates the importance of taking writing seriously and this anthology marks how poetry has evolved at Kendrick School over the years...Read Full Story - 16/07/24
Readathon Club Finishes Another Classic Novel
Readathon Club, which includes over 20 students from Year 7 all the way through to Year 12 along with several keen staff members, has just finished making its way through its second classic novel, Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. In Terms 3 & 4 we enjoyed A Tale of Two Cities by Charle...Read Full Story - 10/07/24
Chess Club Report July 2024
Chess has been very popular throughout the year, with the standard of play steadily increasing as students take part in online tournaments as well as a live competition. Throughout the school year there have been 2 online tournaments: ShePlaysToWin: for Girls Schools across the UK, taking plac...Read Full Story - 04/07/24
Year 10 MFL Trip to Germany
On our MFL German trip, we explored many different, lesser known parts of Germany, and we all learnt more about German culture through this experience. We strengthened our language skills and understanding of German culture, while having fun as a group through all the varied activities we did...Read Full Story - 03/07/24
Year 10 MFL Trip to France
A few weeks ago, Year 10 had the pleasure of going on our MFL trips to France and Germany. We went to Tours in France and stayed with our host families, who were extremely welcoming and patient with our French-speaking skills. We set off early on Sunday morning, at 6.00 am, and althoug...Read Full Story - 03/07/24
Poet Luke Wright Visits Kendrick School
On Tuesday 25th and Wednesday 26th June, we were delighted to welcome the award-winning poet Luke Wright to inspire many of our poets. Luke is the author of twelve books and travels the country performing his work – after Reading (where he was also performing with John Cooper Clarke at Reading...Read Full Story - 02/07/24
Music Outreach at The Avenue School
Last week, Mrs Cooper and Mrs Nicholson took twelve very talented Kendrick students from Years 10, 11 and 12 to visit The Avenue School in Reading to perform some music and songs for the students there as part of Kendrick’s outreach work. It was a lovely sunny day and our students were a...Read Full Story - 18/06/24
Chemistry Analyst Competition 2024
On Wednesday 12th June, ten teams of three students each competed in the annual Royal Society of Chemistry Analyst Competition 2024. This Chemistry challenge aims to provide some tasks which are relatively familiar to students, such as titrations and others that are likely to be...Read Full Story - 18/06/24
Grand Clothes Swap
As part of our initiative to reduce waste, one of our key focusses for the Eco Schools Award, we organised a ‘Grand Clothes Swap’. This allowed students to donate pre-loved, second-hand clothing and accessories to either trade them for others or buy some from an array of c...Read Full Story - 14/06/24
'Create A Buzz' at Reading Climate Festival
Eco-committee students participated in the Reading Climate Festival on 13th June this year. Ex-Kendrick student Natalie Penney, founder of Nature-Nurture, organised the event ‘Create a Buzz’ with other volunteers. It started with an audiovisual experience in a human-sized bee-hive, after...Read Full Story - 07/06/24
Author Catherine Bruton's Online Visit
On Friday, 17th May, we were delighted to receive an online visit from award-winning author Catherine Bruton attended by keen readers and writers in Years 7-9. Inaya in Year 7, who was already a big fan of Catherine's books, supplied this report: 'The Catherine Bruton online vi...Read Full Story