Regents Review Autumn 2023

The Regents Review Autumn 2023

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Social Sciences Remembrance

The Last Post is the bugle call that signifies the end of the day’s activities. It is also sounded at military funerals and services to indicate the soldier has gone to his final rest. Students, that are part of the military cadets, participated in the remembrance parade, which was conducted with such pride and respect. The community of Regents Park have again shown their respect for remembrance and the sacrifices that have been made for us. Lest we remember. Thou shall not grow old.

ultimately lined with the 75th Windrush anniversary and how Britain was rebuilt after World War Two, with the help from over 10,000 Caribbean citizens. In history, students have been focusing on specific soldiers during World War One and Two that gave the ultimate sacrifice in order to be courageous and to protect Britain. On Friday 10th November at 11.00am, we respectfully observed our two-minute silence across the school whilst Mr Barron played the ‘Last Post’ on the bugle. In military tradition,

at Regents Park What does remembrance mean to you? This has been the question posed to all students in light of our remembrance services and activities during November. Our assemblies focused on remembering the fallen but also appreciating the security we have today and how our emergency services work hard to protect us. This created some great discussions of what the fallen soldiers have built and how we have progressed from these wars for our world today. This

Innovative Geography Lessons Over the last term, our Year 10 students have been learning about physical landforms within the UK focusing on rivers. Students have partaken in innovative learning creating waterfalls out of cake and creating the long and cross profile of a river on our RPCC desks. These images are available on the social sciences, ‘X’ (Twitter) page and Regents Park Community College Facebook page. Year 10 have shown resilience with such a difficult content and enjoyed the leftover sweets and cake.

Geography Revision We are extremely proud of our Year 11 students with their continuous dedication to after school revision on Tuesdays with regular numbers exceeding 20 students. This started at the beginning of the year in preparation for their GCSEs in the summer term. We have lots of engaging activities focusing on paper one this term and we will be focusing on paper 2 next term, so please remind your children about this. Miss Gilbert-Twigg and Miss Baillie are super proud of their ongoing commitment to their studies. Year 9 Geography At the beginning of the year, Year 9s started off with learning about weather and climate with students completing the atmospheric circulation system as a memory game on their desks. Students really enjoyed this and really did some outstanding work on it. We have been focusing on India this term, with really great enthusiasm displayed by students in broadening their understanding of the country and its place in the world. We have looked at physical factors and human factors that shape India and addressed misconceptions and perceptions of what India is truly like. This is contributing to creating amazing global citizens.

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