Regents Review - Autumn 2024

The Regents Review Autumn 2024

GENERAL NEWS

Exams

Highlights This Term • Tutor Time Interventions: Dedicated English and maths interventions during tutor time have provided students with focused support in these key subjects. Attendance and engagement in these sessions have been excellent and students are making visible progress as a result. • Walking-Talking Mocks: Before sitting their mock exams, students participated in walking talking mocks across various subjects. These sessions allowed students to break down exam questions with guidance, equipping them with strategies to approach their actual exams confidently. Feedback from students has been overwhelmingly positive—they found these sessions both useful and motivating. • Mock Exams: The first round of mock exams is now complete, and we’re proud of the positive attitude and maturity displayed by our Year 11s. Their focus and preparation were evident and they have embraced this opportunity to reflect on their strengths and areas for improvement. • How to Revise: During tutor time, students have been learning valuable revision techniques through dedicated “How to Revise” sessions. Each student has also received a ‘How to Revise’ guidebook, providing them with practical tips and resources to use independently at home.

Supporting Success: News from the Exams Team As we approach the end of a busy term, the exams team would like to commend our Year 11 students for their hard work, dedication and engagement with the range of revision opportunities available to them. The journey towards exams is challenging, but our students are showing resilience and determination every step of the way. Looking Ahead To continue supporting students on their revision journey, we are hosting a ‘How to Support Your Child with Revision’ evening on Tuesday 16th January, from 5:00pm - 6:00pm. This event will provide parents and carers with tools and strategies to help their child succeed during this crucial time, along with feedback from curriculum leads regarding revision in their subjects. We encourage as many families as possible to attend. Once again, well done to Year 11 for their fantastic efforts so far. Let’s keep up this momentum into the new year!

Green Gym We have recently, successfully rolled out a new intervention programme called Green Gym, at the RPCC allotment. Green Gym is tailored to help with school engagement, build self-esteem, resilience, promote team work and hands on work experience, as well as mentoring. During these sessions, students have been involved in a variety of tasks including: growing,

maintenance and repairs of a garden gazebo, general gardening and building equipment needed to facilitate our new produce. These sessions are designed to help students acquire new skills, learn to identify their emotions. Selected tasks, help to self regulate, apply literacy, numeracy and science in real-world context and improve wellbeing and social and academic engagement.

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