Regents Review Spring 2019

REGENTS PARK COMMUNITY COLLEGE NEWSLETTER

SPRING 2019

Rock Challenge

Girls Rugby

World Book Day

Holocaust Memorial Day

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The Regents Review Spring 2019

WELCOME

Headteacher’s Welcome

As we enter the final days of the spring term, it is always a time to get ready for change. For Year 11 students they are studying hard for their summer exams and preparing for their next steps. Year 6 students have had their place at Regents Park confirmed for September and we have already started to prepare them for this exciting educational change. Even the building is in the process of changing with the first phase nearing completion with our new toilets and ICT rooms almost complete. Next term we will embark on the £1 million improvement of our design and technology block, which is part of the £4.2 million improvement work.

As always the spring term is time to recruit new staff ready for our increasing numbers in September. We have had the most successful recruitment process that we have had for many years with new staff joining us across the school and I look forward to introducing them later on in the year. Finally, as the weather changes please continue to support us with ensuring that all students wear our uniform with pride and embrace all aspects of our school ethos.

Mrs Barnes Headteacher

GENERAL NEWS

World Book Day 2019 We celebrated World Book Day on 8th March this year. The theme was Roald Dahl and staff enlivened the corridors with impersonations of characters such as: Mathilda, Miss Trunchball and Fantastic Mr Fox - there was even an Oompla Loompa!

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Rock Challenge As many of you will know it was unclear if Rock Challenge was going to run this year due to the company who usually runs it going into liquidation. Despite this the students and staff continued to prepare. I think all of this added pressure along with the very high quality of entries makes it even more special that...

WE WON!!!!!!!!!!

Well done Team Regents #Green & Proud

Ski Trip

On Saturday 16th March, Regents Park travelled to Risoul in France via Turin airport. The skiing was excellent, there was good snow coverage and the sun shone all week. There were excellent views across the French Alps all week. All students made excellent progress. The French ski teachers commented on how much the students had learnt on the Lordshill dry slope, saving the students 3 days of basic training on the snow. One group managed to ski the 5km Olympic ski run to the village of Vars-Sainte-Marie on day 5. This is the first time the teacher had ever taken a beginners group to this part of the resort and he’s been teaching over 20 years. The evening entertainment included a night out in the local pizzeria, sledging, the luge run and even a folk music concert as well as games in the hotel. All students really enjoyed the visit and experienced being in a mountain environment as well as learning to ski. Regents Park will be running a ski trip in March 2020. Letters will be available with all the details in the summer term. It is an amazing experience to spend a week in the mountains learning to ski!

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GENERAL NEWS Year 7 Year 7 have had a very positive year so far, with many of our students achieving the silver award and even some of our student’s already being awarded the gold certificate for their achievement points. Alongside this, the year group have been a part of a range of different opportunities and events, this included an incredible moment at this year’s Rock Challenge competition where they celebrated first

place and a number of Year 7 students took part in this. Through the input of the Year 7 student voice there are also a variety of different charity events happening across the school, this includes a charity ‘Swimathon’ to raise money, as well as another event ran by the Year 7 students representatives. Mr Stone Head of Year 7

Year 8 Top 20 conduct points 1. Ani Doncheva 998 2. James Riches 956 3. Emily Dunn 922 4. Simone Sopterean 917 5. Alisha Gray-Crook 911 6. Vernessa Cooper 879 7. Erin Docherty 874 8. Molly Langston 852 9. Joy McCombs 849 10. Joshua Day 846 11. George Nott 840 12. Craig Brunsdon 839 13. Dylan Baddams 835 14. Allia Mesa 835 15. Caitlin Wink 831 16. Charlie Williams 830 17. William Crouch 828 18. Jamie Day 828 19. Megan Williams 826 20. Ella Farrelly 824 100% Attendance Alex Ballard

at a later date (girls football team pictures below, left- Julia Pyda, Katie Pitman-Davies, Bethan Rickard, Sophia Rickard and Holly Miles). Miss Cooper Head of Year 8 Our 37 Zero Heroes: 1. Dylan Baddams

Vivian Nomo Katie Pitman-Davies Julia Pyda James Riches Patryk Rurka Daniel Shwani Caitlin Wink Bradley Winteburn

2. Matas Balaj 3. Alex Ballard 4. Leyla Bilgic 5. Georgiana Burghel 6. Josh Charles 7. Szantina Ciwinska 8. Cassie Connell 9. Jamie Day 10. Erin Docherty 11. Ella Farrelly 12. Alisa Filippova 13. Andrea Gilmore 14. Harry Harmer 15.Sarah Khan 16. Mia Kilgour 17. Yanni Kontos 18. Molly Langston 19. Ellie Lyons 20. Erin Maddock 21. Holly Miles 22. Abigail Moore 23. Chloe Moore 24. Maddison Murphy 25. Jacob Murray 26. Georgina Oak 27. Julia Pyda 28. Summer Renault 29. Callum Russell 30. Annalise Ryves 31. Faith Saunders 32. Hayden Smith 33. Simone Sopterean 34. Faith Vine 35.Jessica Ward 36. Charlie Williams 37. Lisa Williams

Year 8 have continued to have a solid second year at Regents Park. I am impressed daily with their hard work, determination and great team work across the year group. It has been an absolute pleasure to watch Year 8 grow and mature into young adults. During the last few weeks Year 8 have had to really show their maturity when making one of the biggest schooling decisions whilst being in Regents Park so far. Your child should have brought their options form home to be signed by you and have returned it back to school. We are aiming to have the options confirmed by 20th March and will hold additional meetings for clashes /subject not running between 21st- 28th March. If all goes well we do hope to have KS4 option choices confirmed by 3rd April. I am very proud to announce that both our Year 8 boys and Year 8 girls have won their 5-a-side City Tournaments in Football against the other schools in Southampton, and may get the chance to represent Southampton

Samuel Bhopale Craig Brunsdon Joshua Day Dia Dishad Ani Doncheva Emily Gammon Malee Hopkins Luke Inder-Puffet Molly Langston Ethan Lock Joy McComb Allia Mesa Ruby Murray

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Year 9 We are now two thirds of the way through Year 9 and I’m sure you will all agree that this year has gone extremely quickly. We are now more than half way through our time at Regents Park and are now concentrating our studies on our GCSE courses. I have taken great pleasure in overseeing the development of all students in their options subjects and also the student’s development in to young adults. It has been a busy term for Year 9 with Parents Evening, Sporting fixtures and tournaments, PSHE Days and an extremely successful Rock Challenge, which we won!! Year 9 Students have been fantastic through all of these events and have been a massive credit to themselves by showing focus, maturity and success across all areas. There are several excellent opportunities available to students at Regents Park and I urge all students to participate in as many of these opportunities as they can. I have great pride in overseeing the development of Year 9 and look forward to carrying on sharing the successes with Year 9 students in to everyone’s favourite term… the summer term. I would also like to celebrate the success of the following students who have either 100% attendance or 0 behaviour points. Congratulations to all! 100% Attendance Abbie Alexander Emma Gill Luke Heath Ashleigh Mpofu Nadia Mucha Jay Pannell Ronald Redmers

Sahanaj Begum Caitlin Blakeman

Leanna Boyd Grace Breen

Amy Brockway Samuel Cartmel Phoebe Davis Maria Dolegowska Louse Dunster Jess George Alex Geistera Eleanor Greenacre Robert Jackson Estera Jasinska Abdel Karoui Hassan Khalil Henry Lock Sophie Maynard Adrian Munteanu Ella New Nikola Niemczyk Jay Pannell Jamie Pitter Ronald Redmers Rachel Scott-Denness Kayleigh Shaw

Dawid Sikora Kacper Solak

Lena Stodolska Bartosz Syrocki Tabbi Thahbir Karolina Waligora Joshua Webb Analisa Zarnescu

Dani Valante Kidest Yossef Zero Heroes (0 Behaviour Points)

Have a wonderful Easter and I look forward to seeing you all and the sun in April!

Tasmin Akter Abbie Alexander Talal Alzahrani Aiela Baig Lydia Barcuka

Mr D Gates Head of Year 9

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GENERAL NEWS Year 10

Wow, where has the time gone? As we look back over the spring term, Year 10 have sat their exams and they were the last ones before the Year 11 mock exams. I am very proud of the students in Year 10 with their attitude and desire to achieve. I asked staff to comment on their thoughts of Year 10: “Year 10 are creative, intelligent, have a thirst for knowledge, want to do well, funny and a joy to teach.” “From doing my duty in the hall, I always appreciate the fact that they tuck the chairs away and usually respect their seating area very well.” “Year 10 are AMAZING and I adore them.” During this term I have launched a monthly reward system. The top four achieving students for each month will receive a letter sent to parents congratulating them on their achievements with a £10 shopping voucher. Students have warmed to this and there seems to be great competition to be in the top four. Congratulations to: Charlie Parnell, Daniel Chester, Karolina Gaudzinska, Ethan Whybrew, Liam Woods, Olivia Bearfield,

Kinga Kruszynska & Lauren Earney for January and February. Student Leadership applications have begun this month, as the current Year 11 Student Leadership Team begin to step down in preparation for their final exams next term. This is an exciting time as students begin to apply for Head Boy/Girl, Deputy Head Boy/Girl and prefect roles. Applications need to be sent to Mr Brown or Miss Reed. Some students are beginning to feel nervous as we approach the final year at Regents Park Community College. I have had numerous conversations with students during this term as we look forward. Please let the school know if your child is feeling the pressure, there is help and support the school can give. I really look forward to the summer term and wonder where all the time has gone. I wish you all a restful Easter holiday. Mr Sinclair Head of Year 10

Year 11 The sun is shining and we are almost there! I feel like I’m forever saying ‘I can’t believe it’, but I really can’t - we are almost there! Exams start straight after Easter holiday. Unfortunately, there no longer is study leave permitted, however all lessons that have finished will be replaced with revision sessions within school. Students will start to leave early as of 12th June and will be released from school on the 19th June. More details to follow after Easter. As we are running towards the finishing line with Year 11 I think it is really important to stop and think about what a journey our students have been on over their time here at Regents Park. I do hope that when they look back on their education, they say that it was a great time with

lots of friends, experiences and enjoyment. We have really enjoyed teaching Year 11 and have enjoyed their different personalities very much. Rock Challenge On the 6th March Regents Park went to Rock Challenge, Year 11 continued to support and plan for Rock Challenge, although we know how hard it has been for Rock Challenge this year and they won! I am immensely proud of Year 11 crew who continued to do well in their lessons and exams alongside working on their production. A real delight to see. Good luck for the finals! Even though Regents Park was struck down with ‘the bug’ in February, we still had 29 students who completed 100% attendance, they are:

Madi Bennett Beth Davies Luke Day Connor Earney

Michael Gammon Marcos Gesteira William Greenacre Gary Hearn Ellie Heath Noah Hunt Azhar Imran Deveena Khela Oliwia Konieczna Callum Linklater

Zara Manning Cathy Owens Evelyn Pybus Aryan Regmi

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Finn Richardson Yazmin Simmons Ajay Singh Edie Smith Kacper Szafraniec Joshua Thomas Ernest Tkaczyk Charlotte Webb Annmarie Wilcox John Winterburn

Jazz Dewison Lilani Draper Emily Fraser

The Leavers Assembly will be taking place on the 19th June at 1:30pm and we really would love it if you were able to join us as we take a look back at Year 11s time at Regents Park. The finale of the celebrations will take place at Rhinefield House on the 27th June for the Year 11 prom! I cannot tell you how excited I am personally for prom. It is always a fantastic celebration evening and I look forward to seeing you all there. As per my email earlier in the term, students will have the opportunity to use a photo booth and have professional photos taken on the night that they can take away. These are priced at £10 per picture. I would like to thank all parents for their ongoing support over the past four years, it has been the most incredible journey and all students have made us so proud of their achievements. They do need to push themselves to ensure that they achieve their potential (or above) in August. Although it is not the last newsletter for Year 11. The next will include pictures of prom and our leavers assembly, so officially for the last time…have a happy, healthy and safe holiday. I will see you in all the upcoming

Emma Frederick Marcos Gesteira Owen Gray William Greenacre Ellie Heath Lauren Hepburn

Nathan Hill Ellie Holmes

Jack Howe Noah Hunt Roberto Ionescu

Jake Jasper Jimmy Judd

Deveena Khela Adam Kosiarski Robyn Langston Zara Manning Robert Mirzescu Lewis Nott Katie Osman Florentina Repede Finn Richardson Anastasija Sarapova Eva Shepherd Yazmin Simmons Edie Smith Kacper Szafraniec Phoebe Underhill Allie Webb Annmarie Wilcox

There have been so many students who have been zero heroes (0 behaviour points) this year, it is incredible. The following students have all achieved this:

Zero Heroes (0 Behaviour Points)

celebrations. Miss Bishop Head of Year 11

Chris Beesley Anisha Begum Samuel Bowyer

Mia Bredon David Brown Cora Byrne

Aimee Cartmel Diana Ciwinska Szarida Ciwinka Emily Curry Luke Day

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Social Media Links Please have a look at our social media pages, where you can find more news and information. @RegentsParkCC Respect Ambassadors Award We are so proud of our Year 7 volunteers who have signed up to complete the Respect Ambassadors Award! This week several of our Ambassadors completed their Physical Challenge when we visited the historic market town of Romsey to complete a photographic treasure hunt! enthusiasm and completed the hunt in record time! It was such a pleasure to accompany impeccably behaved Regents Park students and support them in completing this stage of their Respect Ambassador’s Award. SIMS Parent App Sign up to our great new Parent App! Please visit https://www.regentsparkcollege.org.uk/parents/ news/sims-parent-app/ where you will find the SIMS Parent App letter and reply slip. Please complete the reply slip and hand it in to reception to register. An email invitation will then be sent to you. If you have already handed in your slip and have not received your email, please check your junk/ spam folder as it might appear in there. If you haven’t received it yet, please contact reception and another one will be issued. The students listened intently to Mr Pine’s instructions, accepted the challenge with

Gold Achievement Award

A big congratulations and well done to Ani Doncheva who is the very first student to have earned 900 achievements points and has been awarded the Gold Achievement Award! Who will be our second!?

Hot Chocolate with Mrs Barnes Every Friday, students who had been ‘Caught Being Good’ are invited to have hot chocolate with Mrs Barnes. In order to have a chance at winning this reward, students must try and gain as many raffle tickets as they can in their lessons and then post them in the raffle tickets box outside of Mrs Barnes office.

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Library

Happy World Book Day ! The library had the pleasure of, once again, hosting some smashing activities for World Book Day on Friday 7th March. The theme this year was Roald Dahl characters and students were offered the opportunity to dress up as their favourites in our photobooth. Mrs Highmore was dressed as Miss Spider from James and the Giant Peach. We got a lot of hilarious photos, some of which can be seen below. Students were also asked to vote for their favourite Roald Dahl book and, after a tight competition, The BFG was named the winner! As you may know Roald Dahl’s own favourite is also the BFG, so it seems he would be pleased with the result. At the time of writing this, our book fair is still ongoing, allowing students to buy books with their World Book Day vouchers, this has been very well received so far with over £100 raised. In the spirit of World Book Day we challenge you to name as many Roald Dahl books as you can. Mrs Highmore got a high score of 20.

David Calin and Mason Knight as The Enormous Crocodile and Violet Beauregarde

Joshua Wellman-Bisson and Head Girl Evelyn Pybus as Violet Beauregarde and The Giant Peach

Mrs Highmore getting ready for World Book Day

Oliver Newmier and Grace Breen as Mr Twit and the narrator of The Witches

Photo booth props

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Careers Choices Performance

At the end of March, our Year 10 and 11 students were treated to a production addressing the issues around progression to higher education. It followed the story of Zoe, Alex and Shaun who are all facing decision day and have to decide which subjects to study but each one has a different problem. It highlighted how to overcome pressures from parents, peers and conforming to a certain path and we hope that it raised our students’ confidence and aspirations to pursue their post-16 goals! 2020 Revision Day As we approach the GCSE exams, our Year 11 students were supported in their preparation with a fully funded revision day delivered by TwentyTwenty Learning on Monday 11th March. It was so positive to see the year group in on a staff training day committing to gaining extra revision and skills. Students rotated around Maths, English, Science, Creative Revision and History/Geography lessons taught by external specialists and they also went away with a revision booklet to help them with the final weeks of Year 11. Students were overwhelmingly positive about the day and went away feeling confident for their exams! Big Interview On Friday 8th February, our Year 10 students put their interview skills into practice and took part in mock interviews. They had prepared their CVs in advance and demonstrated their maturity and confidence to our local business people who had come in to deliver the interviews. We had interviewers from Womble Bond Dickinson, Morgan

How useful did you find 2020 Revision Day?

How confident do you feel after today?

Sindall, Capita, Department for Work and Pensions and many more and they were all so impressed with our students and in some cases said they would even like to offer them a job if they could! The students said they found the experience really positive and felt supported by the interviewers. We hope this event gives them the much deserved boost they will need for the work experience in May and interviews for college next year.

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PSHE

Smashed Project

dangers and consequences of underage drinking. The first half of the session was a theatre performance which told the stories of a young group of teenagers and then followed up by an interactive workshop where students were engaged in making

suggestions about the character decisions and watched how they would have played out. The experience equipped the pupils with facts, skills and confidence to make responsible choices around alcohol at a young age.

On Friday 15th February our Year 7 and 8 students took part in the Smashed Live tour in order to explore the

Year 8 & 9 PSHE Day This spring term, our Year 9 and Year 8 students each had their PSHE focus days in January and March respectively. The workshops were predominantly delivered or supported by external specialists in order to ensure the most up to date information is getting across to the students, they included: Yellow Door, MyBnk and the Hampshire Constabulary. During the sessions, they were a credit to the school and worked maturely through some sensitive topics but we hope that this important exploration and discussions will support with their personal development for their time at Regents Park and beyond. Here are the topics that were covered on each day:

Year 8

Year 9

Money Management

Awareness of County Lines

Awareness of Dangerous Relationships

Intro to First Aid

Awareness of Self Harm Dangers of Alcohol & Smoking Head of Year Workshop Consent Mental Health Head of Year Workshop - Health & Nutrition

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English

In English, the Enrichment students have been working with four University students on a range of challenging activities! The students also recently visited the NST City Theatre for a performance of The Shadow Factory. They were brilliant and hugely enjoyed the experience!

We have entered numerous competitions with Young Writers and over 200 students have had the offer of having their work published!

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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Mathematics

Year 11s have been attending mathematics breakfast revision sessions, fondly known as Pi Club during the Spring term. This will help them to prepare for their summer examinations. Hot chocolate, pastries and practice papers are available during these sessions from 7.50am on Thursday mornings. In addition to this extra help available in school, students should be revising regularly at home and reviewing the topics covered over the past four years and two terms. Year 11 have also been attending after school revision covering key topics for students working towards grade 4 and 5. Maths dates to remember for Year 11:

Walking Talking Mock: Tuesday 30th April

Pizza Revision Evening: Wednesday 8th May - 5.00pm to 6.30pm

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Science It has been another busy term in the science department, with a lot of time and effort being spent on aiding the Year 11 students for their up and coming exams. Our Friday after school lesson and Wednesday breakfast club are well attended. It has also been lovely to see some of the Year 10 and Year 9 students taking advantage of these opportunities.

How can you ensure your child is the next winner? Make sure the daily Tassomia goal is achieved as often as possible, remember the best way to use Tassomia is little and often, 10 minutes a day, 6 days a week. Tassomai is a self-quizzing programme that can be used either on the Tassomai website or in the Tassomai app which helps students to revise key concepts. You simply log on and complete 10 minutes’ worth of quizzes each day. This programme has evidence to support a huge impact on student attaining pass grades or higher, claiming that 95% of students who regularly used Tassomai will achieve a grade 5 or above, with 56% of these getting a grade 7 or higher! The software tailors the questions given to students to address gaps in understanding.

lessons all around the concept of journeys. Some looked at the how a hovercraft works and how they have changed over time, they then built their own CD and balloon racing hovercrafts. Other

classes investigated the evolution of life on our planet and the journey that life has taken. All students had British Science week assemblies. In the assemblies, we explored the amazing journeys of some British scientists like Charles Darwin, Rosalind Franklin, Isaac Newton and Stephen Hawking. As part of the journey theme we looked at some of the great British explorers from history. Who knew that Dr David Livingstone survived an attack by a lion!

We have seen great increases in the use of Tassomai this term. We have been rewarding the student with the greatest increase in their percentage, we hope our winners have been spending their love to shop vouchers wisely!

This half term we celebrated British Science Week. The theme for 2019 was journeys. Our Key Stage 3 students (Years 7 and 8) took part in British Science week

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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Creative Arts & DT ‘Mulan’

Year 9 Italian Investigation

Auditions have taken place and rehearsals are now underway for the next musical production Rehearsals are Wednesdays 2.40pm - 3.40pm If you wish to get involved please come along to the drama studio or see Mrs Freeman. Year 9 GCSE Art Textiles Year 9 students are making a fantastic start to their first major GCSE Art textiles project. Students have been researching the four seasons with mood boards, observational drawings and mono prints. They have experimented with various textile techniques such as applique, free machine embroidery, reverse applique and hand stitching. All this research is now being used as inspiration for their creative corset designs. We can’t wait to see their final pieces of work. Well done Year 9 keep up the great work.

The Year 9 Hospitality and Catering group have recently completed an investigation into Italian cuisine. Researching different regions, chefs and culinary flavours from Italy has inspired them to create their own dishes. This is Jack’s creation, a roux sauce pasta bake, filled tortilla pizza wraps and a chocolate fondu sauce with cinnamon toast to dip. Fantastic effort all round, well done Year 9.

Year 10 Hospitality & Catering Inspired by the current series of Masterchef, we have been challenging ourselves within the kitchen brigade of Regents Park. The Year 10 class were set the challenge of ‘Tortilla three ways’ and rose to the challenge by making their own flour tortillas. They then shaped these using different methods and filled them with chosen ingredients. What a challenge, well done Year 10.

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Photography As a Photography group we have entered the National Photography competition with FSE design. The competition is open nationally to all schools and consists of three categories, junior, secondary and further education. Our category was ‘Our Changing World’. We had

many entries of a very high level and we look forward to finding out the results after Easter.

Best of luck to all who entered.

Rotary Technology Challenge

to solve the issue, creating different solutions. It was a tough competition with over 8 different schools represented, regrettably 2 other schools came top in our category. We will be looking to return next year with the aim of securing one of the top spots. Team A: Lily Hayward, Zahara Brandao, Lunlana Jones Team B: Ridley Cooper, Mya Bodycote, Daniel Sharp

At the beginning of March it was a privilege to take a group of my students, who have been attending the design technology club after school on Fridays, off site for a competition. The Rotary Club of Southampton and Romsey run an annual event which presents students with the task of creating a physical product to solve a problem. This year the challenge was to create a crane that could be moved and controlled from a distance to recover a metal object from a “crashed tanker”. Our teams performed well and showed good determination

X Factor Auditions start to find the 10 finalists after Easter half term.

Please see Mr Barron for details.

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ICT Computer Science – KS4 Year 11 students are preparing for their GSCE exam in May practising exam style questions, there will be an opportunity for a revision session in the Easter break and all students are encouraged to attend. They can also use their books and the resources on Google classroom for their own revision. Year 10 students have been practising programming skills in Python to improve their knowledge and have started their NEA.

iMedia – KS4 Year 10 students have been completing their first coursework as part of iMedia. During the Easter break there will be an opportunity for students to come back and make improvements before submitting it after Easter. We will then be ploughing through the next 2 units which will involve creating a website for a travel blogger and an interactive guide for tourists to Southampton. Year 9 have been developing their video and graphical editing skills and are now beginning their first coursework. The topic will be to produce a Sci-Fi themed book cover which demonstrates a range of photo editing skills. KS4 Groups Sessions take place on a Tuesday and Wednesday in room 21 and students who need to catch up or complete work should be attending them. IT – KS3 Year 7 groups have been exploring a range of safety issues and developing their web design skills to create a microsite on that topic offering advice to other students. They have also been developing their skills

with sequencing algorithms and creating flowcharts for different processes. Year 8 groups began the year refining their skills learnt from Year 7 where they started coding using the software Python. This is particularly helpful for students to develop their skills in coding and programming which is the introduction to Computer Science. After half term some classes then started a taster unit for iMedia to help with their options. iMedia involves creating digital graphics for a particular purpose, in this case producing a film poster for a fictional film “Epic Adventure”. They have to choose the plot before identifying assets to use and modifying them using photo editing techniques. After School Clubs We have introduced a coding club on Tuesday after school, this club has been introduced after several students expressed an interest in coding. We are looking at both Scratch and Python software.

Year 9 students have been studying programming

techniques, are learning to write in pseudo code and also using Python software as our choice of programming language.

Year 11 CiDA Students sat their exam in January and the results were good, now they are concentrating on completing their coursework. There will be an opportunity in the Easter break for students to improve their coursework as the deadline is the first week in May.

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Physical Education

Year 7 – 1,224 lengths (15.21 miles) Year 8 – 403 lengths (5 miles) Year 9 – 659 lengths (8.2 miles) Total – 2286 lengths (28.41 miles)

Our 2018/2019 PE Champions hosted their first whole school event of the year on Wednesday 12th December. All students in Year 7, 8 and 9 competed brilliantly to try and come out on top in water polo, football and dodgeball tournaments. The PE Champions were proactive in ensuring everyone was involved and there was a fantastic atmosphere in both tournament areas. The results were: Year 7 Dodgeball Water Polo Football 3rd - Branson 4th - Rowling 3rd - Parks 2nd - Parks 3rd Branson 2 2nd - Rowling 1st - Rowling 2nd - Parks 1st - Branson 1st - Branson 1 1st - Branson Overall: 3rd Parks Overall: 2nd Rowling Overall: 1st Branson Year 8 Dodgeball Water Polo Football 3rd - Rowling 3rd - Rowling 3rd Rowling 2nd - Parks 2nd - Parks 2nd - Parks 1st - Branson 1st - Branson 1st - Branson Overall: 3rd - Rowling Overall: 2nd - Parks Overall: 1st - Branson Year 9 Dodgeball Waterpolo Football 3rd - Parks 1st Rowling, Branson, Parks 3rd - Parks 2nd - Rowling 2nd - Branson 1st - Branson 1st - Rowling Overall: 3rd - Parks Overall: 2nd - Branson Overall: 1st - Rowling The Regents Park Charity Swimming Gala/ Swimathon was held on Thursday 21st March 2019. This was a showcase of our incredibly committed and resilient students. We had a target to complete 1000 lengths in the day (20,000m/12.25 miles), each year group getting 35 minutes to do as many as possible – we may have misjudged our target! We absolutely smashed it. Each year group completed:

A huge well done and thank you to all that took part and the PE Champions who counted all those lengths – well over the distance across the channel to France! We will let you know how much money the students have raised in the summer newsletter. Our PE Champions have also done an amazing job leading primary school table tennis and football tournaments to over 350 primary school children – well done and keep up the fantastic work!

As a department we have again been focussing on maintaining our extra-curricular club attendance and participation across the school (over 250 last term). Through campaigning and encouraging all year groups to attend these clubs with the help of our PE champions, we have seen many students making the most of the opportunities available to them. Some of the feedback gained has been incredibly positive: “So much fun at girls rugby club and the tournament days. I love it.“ - Year 7 student We are still running our extra-curricular programme, the PE Passport, where students collect a stamp for every club that they attend throughout each term. Students who take part are then entered into a prize draw in order to celebrate their engagement and enthusiasm within the programme. This term has continued to be a successful one for our football teams, the Year 8 team are still top of

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number of good team tries. With some coaching between games the girls began to play a touch to tackle game in the afternoon. The girls enjoyed the physical side of the game, but playing against some Year 8s made tackling

the league and in the semi-final of the cup. The Year 7 boys team are currently second and Year 9 boys team are fifth. The Year 7 and 8 girls team are third. Good luck to all teams as the season draws to an end. We are looking forward to competing for the Southampton Rounders League following our success last year. Training will be on Wednesdays after school, all are welcome and matches are on Tuesday’s. We are pleased to say that cage cricket will also be returning after Easter with games scheduled against St Georges and Bitterne. Double Year 8 indoor football success: both our Year 8 boys and girls indoor football teams were crowned champions. They both qualified for the finals after beating tough competition and went on to win the respective leagues at the finals. Congratulations to all involved. Coming up: • Rounders Enrichment Day - Thursday 25th April 2019 • Southampton Swimming Gala - Wednesday 8th May 2019 • Southampton City Athletics Championship - Friday 5th July 2019 • Regents Park Sports Day - Monday 1st July 2019 Sports Day We are pleased to confirm that Sports Day 2019 will take place at Southampton Sports Centre (SO16 7AY) on Monday 1st July 2019. The day will comprise of sporting workshops followed by a variety of competitive tournaments. More information coming soon. Year 7 & 8 Girls Rugby Festival It was a fantastic experience to take a group of girls from Year 7 to play rugby at Winchester Rugby Club. Many of the girls had never played rugby before and it was wonderful to give these students their first opportunity to play. The girls began the day playing touch rugby, learning about creating space whilst passing the ball backwards. The girls quickly grasped the concept and as a result scored a

quite a challenge. All the girls had a fantastic day and I would encourage them to consider joining a rugby club. “I had one of the best

days; I got to have fun with my friends and play a really cool game. Mr Sinclair was really nice when I did things wrong and I really liked it. It was the BEST!” Rosie Pybus - Year 7 “I had fun, great day

playing rugby. I have learnt how to play and met some great teams. It was a fun and amazing day.” Sarah Rek - Year 7 Year 8 Boys Rugby Festival Year 8s attended a rugby festival at Southampton Rugby 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, disciple and sportsmanship. For some students this was the first time they had played, let alone in a competitive situation. Unfortunately we lost all our morning games which meant we were at the bottom of our group. The groups were rearranged in the afternoon and we played the teams from the bottom of other groups. The games in the afternoon were much more competitive and enjoyable. We played some fantastic rugby with some ferocious defending at times. The students had a fantastic time and learnt a lot too. Well done Year 8.

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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Sociology

Firstly, I would like to thank all of the eager Year 8 students and their parents that attended the ‘Options Evening’ and asked many thought provoking questions about Sociology, as well as expressing their interest in choosing the subject as one of their option choices. As Subject Lead for Sociology, this fuels my passion for the subject to see so many young students engaging with challenging ideas and topics. For the current students in Year 9, we have just finished the first of the main four topics within Sociology, the ‘Crime and Deviance’ unit. As previously mentioned in past Regents Reviews’, this unit covers a wide variety of topics including regarding prison systems, crime rates related to gender, age and ethnicity, as well as infamous criminal cases. This unit is a firm favourite of the students and they have successfully just completed their first assessment – a huge well done to the students. We are now moving on to the ‘Research Methods’ unit, where we look at how data is collected, the strengths and weaknesses to different methods and also ethical issues surrounding data collection. In regards to trips for Year 9, we have been lucky enough to organise a trip to the Central Criminal

In Year 10, we have been continuing the ‘Family’ unit after taking a short break. During this time, we have been getting organised with revision cards in preparation for Year 11 and any upcoming exams. With just over a year until their GCSEs begin, the students have been pro-active in their revision by making

cards for key theorists and

key sociological terms for all of the units that we have studied so far. The ‘Family’ unit is the third of four units that we

study, giving us plenty of time in Year 11 for revising and recapping the vast quantity of studies, theories and key terms needed for the exams. With their GCSE exams fast approaching, Year 11 have completed the final unit for the course, ‘Social Stratification’, looking at hierarchies in society, the welfare system and touching on to sections of politics. This is a tricky unit however it ties together all of the ideas that have been studied in Sociology over the period of the course. The Year 11 students will complete a ‘walking talking mock’ next week, where we will explicitly recap exam skills and prepare students to feel confident on how to answer questions and the key ideas to include. This will hopefully give the students a good understanding of the expectations that are required from them in their final GCSE Sociology exams. Revision sessions, that are available to all Year 11 students, continue to run after school on Thursdays (2.40pm - 3.40pm).

Court (formerly The Old Bailey) in London for the second year running. On this trip we will get the opportunity to visit old cellars, as well as viewing a live

trial on the day. In the afternoon, we will be visiting the London School of Economics (LSE) for a tour and lecture from a senior member of the Social Science department. More information will be available to parents shortly.

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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Languages French Jokes Voici quelques blagues en français. Rire, c’est bon pour la santé! - Here are some jokes in French. Laugh, it’s good for your health! Blague 1 Joke 1: Une abeille:   J’ai internet dans ma ruche. L’autre abeille:   Super! Donne- moi ton e-miel! A bee: I have internet in my hive. The other bee: Super! Give me your e-honey! Client: Que me recommandez- vous? (en consultant la carte) Serveur:   Un autre restaurant! In a restaurant ... Client: What do you recommend? (by consulting the map) Server: Another restaurant! Restaurant Competitions Madame Loubier has organised restaurant competitions with her Year 7 classes. For this competition, the students had to organise themselves into groups of 6 maximum. Each group chose a group leader, they then decided what kind of restaurant they wanted to set up. It had to be linked to a French-speaking country. All the props, menus Blague 2 Joke 2: Dans un restaurant...

and food had to follow one same logic in order to win the competition. Moreover, they had to communicate in French to the judges.

complimentary on the prep sessions and how they found the experiment useful and reassuring. Both Year 10 teachers were very proud to see the students’ resilience and good work. Penpal Exchange For some years, Madame Loubier has maintained a penpal exchange with a school in St Lo in France. The French teacher was a French Assistant in the school where Madame Loubier used to teach and they kept in touch for the benefit of children on both sides of the English Channel. On the first of April, English students from Regents Park will get to meet their penpals. They will engage in a dodge ball game and then share a Franco-British snack together. We are all looking forward to this meeting. French Idioms

This task combined research, organisation, linguistic and cooking skills. After the judges decided who had done the best overall, students were allowed to taste each other’s food.

It was a lovely atmosphere and all the students made their teachers very proud. Mock Speaking Exams The MFL department have organised mock speaking exams. The students were very

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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Humanities RE This term Regents Park Community College was awarded a ‘Gold Standard’ for the RE Quality Mark. Regents Park is the only school in Hampshire to have achieved the gold standard. This award has been developed to celebrate good RE in all sectors and phases of education in England, Northern Ireland and Wales. There are three levels to the award and we are proud that the RE team has been awarded the top grade, one of the only schools in Hampshire to have achieved this! Congratulations to the hard work of the RE Team for their effort and their continual success!

RE & English Revision On Monday 8th March the RE and English team joined together for the entire day to support our students in Year 9 and Year 11. Together, we practiced writing exam style questions that they could be faced with in the GCSE style question. These sessions were hugely beneficial and helped all our students to develop their exam answers and were a nice break from our standard lessons! Well done to both teams for their hard work and the students for their effort to succeed! In the afternoon the students were lucky enough to receive a talk from Mr Bryan Huberman. He visited our school again to tell the moving tale of his father’s experiences. The students were very respectful and found his tale very moving. “ I found today really interesting. Finding out what happened to the Jews in their homes not just the camps was really moving ” Phoebe Davis “ Learning about the Angel of Death was very moving. ” Franek Kruczynski “ I have found today very interesting because I have found many facts that I did not know. ” Alex Gesteira “ The thing I found most interesting was learning about Dr Josef Mengele. ” Kayleigh Shaw

Holocaust Memorial Day January 2019 As part of their history education, students in Year 9 undertook a day focused on the sombre events of the Holocaust. Students were in the history department all day and discussed issues surrounding the persecution of the Jews, the experiences in the concentration camps and the legacy of the Holocaust, including more recent genocides. Students found the experience to be very rewarding and informative as it gave them a new view of the event they thought they knew so well.

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DIARY DATES FOR PARENTS Term Dates Term start Summer Term (1st half) 23rd April 2019 Summer Term (2nd half) 3rd June 2019 School Holidays Bank Holiday Monday 6th May 2019 Easter Break 8th April 2019

Term end

24th May 2019 19th July 2019

22nd April 2019 31st May 2019

Half Term

27th May 2019

Inset Days 22nd July 2019 23rd July 2019

Calendar Events 25th April 2019

Year 7 Subject Parents’ Evening Rounders Enrichment Day

25th April 2019 2nd May 2019 2nd May 2019 3rd May 2019 13th May 2019 20th May 2019 24th May 2019 12th June 2019 20th June 2019 27th June 2019 28th June 2019 2nd July 2019 3rd July 2019 8th July 2019 11th July 2019 1st July 2019 13th July 2019 17th July 2019 18th July 2019

Southampton Swim Gala

Year 9 & 10 Work Experience Information Evening

Year 10 PSHE Day

Year 10 Work Experience Week

Year 10 Work Experience Debrief P1-4

Ingestre Hall Art Trip Year 8 Able Linguist Day Parent Voice 6 - 7pm

Year 11 Prom

Year 11 Last Official Day Transition Evening TBC

Transition Day TBC

Berlin & Krakow Trip Departs

Rock Assembly

Sports Day

Berlin & Krakow Trip Returns

PE Reward Trip

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