Regents Review Spring 2022

The Regents Review Spring 2022

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Year 8 students have been working hard to create Pinball Games using lots of different pieces of equipment such as: the belt sander, scroll saw, tennon saw and pillar drill.

Year 7 Product Design students have been using recycled pallet wood to create bird boxes.

Business & ICT Students have been looking at the artist Yellena James and creating drawing using Batik and Disperse inks, they will then sew into the paper to create textures and layers. Computer Science – KS4 Year 11 have completed their second mock exams, and the majority of students improved their grades compared to the first mocks. Special congratulations to the top two students: Jack gaining 9 and Yanni, 8. Both boys over achieved their progress grade by 2 or 3 grades. Students have been revising independently using Seneca, Python programming and our own resources available on Google Classroom. There will also be additional papers with mark schemes for students to practise exam style questions. This will help to develop core knowledge to support with final exams, our first paper will be on Monday 16th May. Year 10 started practising their skills in exam style questions and were given the opportunity to sit an exam in exam conditions for some of the units they have completed. Year 9 have started learning programming skills Python, the NEA project is no longer required to be submitted to the exam board, but students still need to make up 20 hours of coding and we have already been working towards completing this.

ICT Creative iMedia – KS4 Year 11 sat their exams early for IT back in January and we would like to congratulate all students in general for their performance, special mention goes to Rihana for achieving the highest grade of level 2 distinction star and to the following students who achieved level 2 distinction: Vernessa, Ani, Alex and Bradley. Students are now working on improving their second and final coursework ready for submission this summer. Year 10 have successfully completed their first controlled assessment and are now developing ideas for websites to promote places in the local area to a chosen target audience. Year 9 have been developing their website skills this term, creating interactive products promoting both the local area and foreign destinations.

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