Regents Review Spring '16

The Regents Review Spring 2016

Departmental News

BBC School Report On Thursday 10th March the BBC held their annual School News Report. 8BX took on the role of journalists in their English lessons and researched school, local and national issues to report on. They learned about effective interview techniques, research methods and the importance of giving a balanced story. Some reporters explored the school's interest in ‘Rock Challenge’, while others looked at opinions on changing the time of the school day. One group even covered the topical issue of the EU referendum and were lucky enough to speak to a local MP about their attitudes towards this.

Library news The ‘Accelerated Reading’ programme is going well with the new racing cars up on the board. Each student completes a test to give them a reading level; their names are then allocated to a racing car, reflecting their current reading ability. As they read more books, get better at reading and pass more quizzes, their cars will speed up and their names may overtake their peers as they race to the finish line. The following students are to be 7BX Annalise Foley 7BY Charlie Parnell 7BZ Kacper Czarnecki and Arash Najd 7GX Taylor Brindley-Dymott 7GY Abdulkarim Khan 7GZ Ashley Ali 8BZ Summer Dobbing and Filip Tyszka 8GZ Emily Curry and Anthony Walczak most of the teachers dressed up as book characters. The English Department took on ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ Tutor groups completed a range of activities during the week such as an A-Z book quiz, book Dingbats and discussions on why reading is so important. congratulated on their results Moving up the most levels: World Book Day World Book Day took place on Thursday 3rd March and, to celebrate,

Most number of correct Quizzes passed: 7BX Lydia MacLean 7BY Hannah McArthur Money raised also goes towards buying books and sending helpers to children in hospitals. In addition, we also launched Readathon, where students raise money by reading books for UK charities: CLIC Sargent Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity Together for Short Lives

7BZ Mathilda Parker 7GX Caitlin Murphy 7GY Trinity-Rose Crane

7GZ Klaudia Reczka 8BZ Marcos Gesteira 8GZ Anthony Walczak The Library has a new range of

magazines available. The new titles include Star Wars, Film 2016, Games and The Official Jacqueline Wilson Magazine. Many new books and DVD’s will soon be in stock including ‘I am Malala’ and the latest Hobbit film: ‘The Battle of the Five Armies.’ It is important that students return books to the library on time to allow everyone to enjoy the range of titles available. Sadly there are a large number of books overdue. Please search at home and bring them back as soon as you can. You won’t be charged or penalised in anyway for bringing these books back. Mrs Andrews Librarian

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