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On Thursday 3rd March, the Year 7 Library Teams participated in the Coventry Inspiration Books Awards, “Hooked on Books Quiz 2022”, competing online against other Coventry Secondary and  Primary schools.

In preparation for the Quiz, the students had to read all of the books that were shortlisted in the “Hooked on Books” category of the Coventry Inspiration Book Awards 2022 – a total of 8 books.

Our 2 teams both did really well and after 6 rounds of tough questions, our teams beat all the other Secondary schools and took 3rd and 4th place overall. 

Well done to our Year 7 teams – Junaid Abdirahman-Jaffar, Damilola Olaniran, Mutahira Alijaz, Daniel Killey, Meadow Lawrence, Charlotte Maltby, Ilan Thowfeek Faris, Ryleigh Winterburn and Wen Zheng. 
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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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