Regents Review Spring 2024

The Regents Review Spring 2024

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Year 9 Food Tech Year 9 have been deepening their understanding of healthy, low cost and food waste conscious recipes. Students have been learning how to budget for a weekly food shop, looking at vegetarian meals and learning how to multi-task in the kitchen. Year 10 The BTEC hospitality and catering cohort, are deep into their coursework this term. Students have been creating some mouth watering recipes such as homemade sausage rolls with pastry from scratch, beef burgers and lentil bolognese.

Year 11 A BIG congratulations to Year 11 hospitality and catering students, for their excellent behaviour during their practical exam. Ms Harvey, Mrs Cooper and the department are extremely proud of your resilience and hard work this term.

Computing & Business Studies

Computer Science – KS4 Year 11 have completed their second mock exams, having sat both papers. Special congratulations go to Hong for scoring grade 9, Ezra - grade 8 and James - grade 7. Students are now revising both units using the Smart Revise platform, to achieve greater understanding and in-depth knowledge, through retrieval practise. Revision materials are available on Smart Revise, Seneca, Tassomai, Python 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. Paper 1 will be on Wednesday 15th May and paper 2 on Tuesday 21st May.

Year 10 started the programming unit and students are enjoying coding in Python and learning new skills, such as selection and iteration. We will also be practising exam style questions, in preparation for their first mock exam in July, which will cover paper 1 topics. Special mention to Andrei, Hikmet and Luca, for always maintaining being above their progress measure and participating in class discussions. Creative iMedia – KS4 Year 11 sat their mock exam for creative iMedia back in January and we would like to congratulate all students in general for their performance. Students are now working on improving their second and final coursework, ready for submission this summer. Special mention goes to

Daniel, Sophie and Salvo, for their excellent progress with current coursework. Year 10 are in the closing stages of completing their first controlled assessment, covering making visual identities and digital graphics about a historical game. These will be sent off this summer, to the exam board. After that, we will be looking at exam skills and making preparation for their next assessment, which will involve creating interactive websites. Special mention goes to Wiktor, Alana and Rayyan for the amazing progress with the first coursework. Computing – KS3 Year 7 have been practicing their computer science skills, by solving algorithms and developing their

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