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2022 has started with celebrations here at President Kennedy School with our Year 13 Physicists achieving success in one of the most challenging Physics competitions in the world - 
The British Physics Olympiad (Pho). 

The BPhO shows a profound depth of development and skill in physics along with a determination to solve difficult physics problems. This paper is a challenge and is not an A level replica. 

It is a very tall ladder of skill, ability and preparedness, which students climb until they grind to a halt.

Out of 2,300 students from 393 schools and only 170 students achieving Top Gold, we are extremely proud to announce the following results from Round 1:

Kush Patel – Top Gold
Joseph Brew – Bronze II
Joshua Palad - Bronze II
Zak Adams - Bronze II
Robert Sterea - Commendation
Mya Birdee - Commendation 

Well done to all that took part.
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Here at Smart Learner driving school, we are committed to reducing our carbon footprint, hence our Going Green Project! Throughout 2021/2022, we plan to take steps towards becoming a sustainable and eco-friendly company.

Smart Learner Driving School has estimated that we release approximately 10 tons of CO2e into the atmosphere, per instructor.

We currently have 50 instructors, as a result, we emit around 500 tons of CO2e into our atmosphere! In order to combat this and offset our carbon emissions, SmartLearner will plant 10 trees per instructor. This is as a tree absorbs 1 tonne of CO2e per lifetime. 
We are a business that strives for a cleaner, greener, and better future. 

     

List of people in attendance along with Deputy Head of President Kennedy School, Mrs Rooke were:

Tommy Sandhu, Darryn Majury, Rafiel Aguila and Nuneaton Lions Club members 

Thank you to all the colleges that entered a decorated Christmas tree into the Coventry Festival of Christmas Trees, all of which will be on display in Holy Trinity church over the holiday period. Each decorated tree had a specific theme and will be part of a larger display from schools and organisations across Coventry, with the winning tree judged by the Coventry Rotary Club.                                                                                                               Mr Finlayson, Leader of Enrichment

     

    

 

              

This week some of our Year 7 students had the opportunity to see “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” author Jeff Kinney during a live on-line virtual event. Jeff is currently in the UK to promote his new Wimpy Kid book “Big Shot”.

During the event, Jeff talked about how the funny things that happened to him as a child which inspired him to create the character Greg Heffley, and, how a lot of the things Greg does in the books actually happened to him. 

Not only does Jeff write the Wimpy Kid books – but he also draws all of the illustrations himself. He originally wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist, but was told that he wasn’t good enough so he became a writer instead.

The event was a fun experience and Jeff Kinney was very entertaining. At the end of the event the students got to see a sneak peak of the new Disney animated 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' film that will be out soon.

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World Class School Quality Mark are delighted to announce our shortlist for the World Class School Quality Mark School of the Year, sponsored by ClickView. 

All of the schools in the network are World Class.  School of the Year exemplifies and role models what it means to be World Class with typicality and consistency. 

Berkeley Academy, Hounslow primary

Bluecoat Wollaton Academy, Nottingham secondary

Bosworth Academy, Leicester secondary  

Featherstone High School, Ealing secondary

President Kennedy School, Coventry secondary

St Albans Girls’ School, St Albans secondary

The Ashley School, Lowestoft special

Weatherhead High School, Wallasey secondary
Schools that are shortlisted for School of the Year (in adherence with the charity’s mission statement) offer the best education to students in the UK develop the World Class skills, competencies and characteristics which students need to flourish in an emerging global economy give students the confidence to overcome socio-economic barriers to recognise and achieve their potential. 

The schools’ students live the World Class vision.

For secondary schools:
‘We are #worldclass  learners and leaders with a commitment to achieving  the best for our community and our best in the work place, by acquiring a deep knowledge and understanding of our world’

For primary schools:  
‘Because of who we are, what we feel and how we learn we are #worldclass.’

In order to be eligible for shortlisting, the students from each school had to submit a video evidencing why they meet the shortlisting criteria.  

The winner of the World Class School Quality Mark School of the Year All short-listed will be announced at the WCSQM Awards Ceremony 6th December, held at Oxford University’s Sheldonian Theatre by their sponsor ClickView.  

Information on WCSQM

WCSQM is a UK charity working to accredit the best non-selective state schools across the UK with the World Class quality mark accreditation. In order to achieve accreditation primary and secondary schools can subscribe to the WCSQM application, giving their entire cohort of students access to the WCSQM framework designed to help students develop and demonstrate World Class skills and characteristics across areas including learning, leadership, community and the workplace. 

For more information, click here:

WCSQM Awards Ceremony 6th December 2021