page_title: Kennet School
section_title: "Kennet News"
hierarchical_section_title: Kennet School / Extracurricular activities / "Kennet News"
caption_attribution_description: English: Titles of the Kennet News (1975 at top to 1987+) of Kennet Comprehensive School.
context_page_description: Kennet School is an academy secondary school in Thatcham, Berkshire, England. In 2011, Kennet was the highest achieving state school in West Berkshire using contextual value added results and third-highest using five good GCSEs. The school has an annual income of just over £8.9 million and spends roughly £5,000 per student per year.
  The school opened on 11 September 1957 as a secondary modern, before converting into a comprehensive in 1971 and finally changing to an academy on 1 April 2011. The school has 1,755 pupils on roll in years 7 to 11, 300 pupils attending sixth form with 121 teachers and 78 non-teaching staff. The headmistress is Gemma Piper as of 2018.
  Kennet is one of few schools in England to have three specialisms: in September 2000 the school was given Technology College status. In February 2002 a new technology block was built on the north of the site to replace dispersed classrooms. In March 2005 the school received Arts College status Most recently in April 2006 it was awarded the status of Language College.
context_section_description: The Kennet News school newspaper was first issued in May 1975 at the price of two new pence and ran until the late eighties. Its original slogan was News as it happens – and sometimes before it happens!. It reported the departure of George Hurford and the arrival of Terrence Enright in 1978 and later the arrival and departure of Dr. Nicholas Wheeler-Robinson.
caption: Kennet News' various logos
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