Regents Review - Spring Edition 2025

The Regents Review Spring 2025

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

English Brand New English Ambassadors!

will be growing in the very near future, with students from other year groups. Their first project has been to read with a group of Year 7 students, in order to develop their reading skills, as well as, their love of reading. Kinti, James, Ellie, Cliff, Diana and Ayan have been meeting the Year 7 students in the library during tutor times on Wednesdays, reading either 1 to 1 or in small groups.

This term, we have appointed our first ever English Ambassadors! We have started with a small group of outstanding Year 10 students, but their number

Friday Reading/ Listening

World Book Day On 6th March, RPCC celebrated World Book Day. This day encourages more children and families to discover the fun and enjoyment of reading, as reading for pleasure changes lives. This year, students were able to visit the library and exchange their World Book Day tokens for books. This initiative resulted in over 400 books being distributed to students to promote reading for pleasure. This term, ‘Friday Reading’ has evolved, into ‘Friday Listening!’ For the past two years, the whole school has been coming together to read the same short story, during the same period, on a Friday – this way, the whole school has enjoyed a shared reading experience. In order to keep things fresh, this term, Mr Lucas has been recording himself reading the opening chapters of some of the famous books that appear on the book stairs around the school. Teachers then play these recordings to their classes during the same period on a Friday. The vision is for students to be inspired by these wonderful book openings and go on to borrow the book from either the English department, or the library. So far, Mr Lucas has read The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Hobbit and Noughts & Crosses and Miss Donovan has read 1984.

The library became a hub of activity, featuring emoji book title quizzes, word searches, and various challenges, all designed to engage students actively with reading. During period 1, all students had the opportunity to participate in a 100-word story challenge. As always, our staff dressed up as their favourite characters. They embraced this opportunity and represented characters from various genres and time periods.

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