Further to their impressive win in the local heat of the Times Spelling Bee the Kenilworth School Year 7 Spelling team travelled to Leicester on Friday 22nd May to compete in the Midlands semi-final.
The quality of the competition, and the difficulty of the words (such as synthesis, tabernacle and bourgeois) were clearly much higher at this level but the students performed really well and remained competitive throughout, finishing in 3rd place.
Congratulations to Sophia Warren, Jessica Smith, Georgia Levens and Monica Shah for their excellent behaviour and coolness under pressure. They were a credit to themselves, and to the school.

Bronze
During the second half of the summer term some 150 Year 10 students completed their practice expedition, walking from the Kenilworth area to Hatton Scout camp and back. They are now completing the Volunteering, Skill and Sport sections, and looking foreward to the Assessed Expedition in September.

Silver

The Silver Practice Expedition took place in the White Peak area of Derbyshire. One group had a rude awakening when a sheep managed to get into their tent. All the students coped well with the hilly terrain.

Gold

The River Wye wa the route followed by the 40 sixth form students for their God Practice travelling by canoe. They will complete the programme next year.

 

This summer the school's String Orchestrata celebrated number of firsts. Its first hip-hop collaboration, its first foray into the world of improvised jazz and its first (and hopefully not last) playing at Symphony Hall in Birmingham.

As part of the Music for Youth festival, the orchestra won the right to play for and be judged by expert musicians at Symphony Hall.

In addition to this, the early part of the day was used to re-invent Greig's 'Hall of the Mountain King' in a hip-hop style, working with an urban producer. The results were ... interesting!

On a sunny morning recently Yr10 Catering and Food Technology students set off for a four day food experience in Cornwall. Arriving some hours later at the Headlands Hotel in Newquay overlooking a sandy beach we were met by the Catering Manager for a tour of the kitchens and the hotel.
Over the next few days the students visited the Eden project to learn how food grows and how they feed thousands of people each week. There was also a tour of a bakery in Padstow where the students made Cornish pasties. We also visited an organic farm and Rick Stein's cookery school where we took part in a cookery lesson creating a range of fish dishes. Evenings were spent bowling, visiting an aquarium and eating out at local restaurants in Newquay where we were staying. A great time was had by all with many students wanting to repeat the experience again next year

We had the use of 3 telescopes, 2 were used to observe the details on the moons surface and the other was used to observe Saturn (after some technical difficulties). 50 people attended and all got a chance to observe objects through each telescope, it was great to have whole families involved and we look forward to seeing more people at Jupiter watch in the Autumn term

The party left from school to drive by coach to La Thuile in Aosta Valley, Northern Italy, arriving at lunch time the following day. The resort look quiet but snow conditions were good. We checked into our apartments at La Planible where we had one bedroom apartments, they were small but had everything we needed. We went to explore the village and have lunch at a local restaurant. The afternoon was taken up with fitting of skis and boots and having a snowball fight.
Ater breakfast the following day we went up the gondola lift with our instructor called Gregor and went off for a days skiing in the shadows of Mont Blanc. The sun was out and ski conditions were excellent.

...canoes and kayaks