Regents Review Spring '18

The Regents Review Spring 2018

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Physical Education Rugby Our 2017/2018 PE Champions hosted their first whole school event of the year on 13th December. All students in Year 7, 8 and 9 competed brilliantly to try and come out on top in water polo and dodgeball tournaments. The PE Champions were

It is wonderful to see rugby at Regents Park to become better established as a school sport. Students understanding and enjoyment of the game has developed well over the past few years. Interestingly girls have also approached me in developing a girl’s rugby team which would be amazing. It would be great to develop girl’s rugby at Regents Park and compete against girls in other school. With the success of the Red Roses, the national team, girl’s rugby is on the increase. Year 8 recently attended a tournament held at

proactive in ensuring everyone was involved and there was a fantastic atmosphere in both tournament areas. The results were: Year 7 Overall Results

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Year 8 Overall Results

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Year 9 Overall Results

Southampton Rugby Club where they competed against a number of schools in Hampshire. All students were a credit to the Regents Park displaying many of rugby’s core values of, teamwork, respect enjoyment, discipline and sportsmanship. The students’ attitude and desire to learn and develop was evident as the tournament progressed scoring many more tries in the afternoon. If students wish to continue to play rugby at a

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Branson Branson We look forward to our next event, The RPCC Charity Swimming Gala, which will be taking place on Thursday 29th March 2018. We wish all competitors the very best of luck and look forward to seeing how the teams get on! As a department we have had a large focus on increasing our extra-curricular club attendance and participation across the school. Through campaigning and encouraging all year groups to attend these clubs with the help of our PE champions, we have seen a huge influx in numbers. In order to ensure there are clubs that students want to see offered, we asked for the views. The feedback from across the year groups showed that they wanted more variety in the type of clubs that we offered. As a result, we now have regular attendance for a girls’ football team which have taken part in tournaments against other schools. Additionally, we also have over 70 students regularly attending trampolining, netball and dodgeball clubs. Some of the feedback gained has been incredibly positive: “We love the range of clubs that are offered and have so much fun! “- Year 7 studen t New to our extra-curricular programme is the PE Passport, where students collect a stamp for every club that they attend throughout each term. By doing so enters these students in a prize draw in order to celebrate their engagement and enthusiasm within the programme. With the help of our PE champions we are able to offer more support and coaching throughout these clubs in order to give the most inclusive and positive experience to sport and activity throughout the school. Rowling

club, Millbrook Rugby Club has ties with Regents Park where they are developing a youth rugby team. With regards to girl’s rugby, the nearest club with over 45 girls playing rugby regularly is at Trojans Rugby Club. For further information please see Mr Sinclair. Coming Up: The RPCC Charity Swimming Gala - Thursday 29th March 2018 Rounders Enrichment Day – Wednesday 25th April 2018 Southampton Swimming Gala – Thursday 3rd May 2018 Southampton City Athletics Championship – Thursday 5th July 2018 RPCC Sports Day – Friday 13th July 2018

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