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The Regents Review Autumn 2025

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

English Team Up This term, 20 of our Year 7 students have had the privilege of working with educational charity Team Up, who provide high-quality literacy tutoring in small groups. The 11 week programme has truly exceptional proven outcomes for those students lucky enough to be involved. Team Up’s latest data shows students make 8 months’ progress over the three months of their programme – whereas students without tuition progress on average by three months!

We are currently at the half way point in the project. Our students have been a credit to the school, coming back for an hour after school on a Monday and applying themselves super-hard during the sessions. Keep it up Year 7!

Paired Reading This term our tutor time paired reading initiative, that supports the reading of Year 8 students, has gone from strength to strength. This year we have a dedicated group of wonderful keen Year 9 and Year 10 students who are reading 1-1 or in small groups with a carefully selected Year 8 students, with the aim of improving reading engagement. Held during tutor times on Friday mornings, our paired reading group are enjoying the chance to read to each other in our calm and welcoming library, supported by our librarian Ms Wooldridge.

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