Regents Review - Spring Edition 2025

The Regents Review Spring 2025

GENERAL NEWS How Are We Doing With Attendance? Whilst we are doing better than the Southampton average, when compared to the national picture (or even our own targets), we are not doing as well as we could be for attendance. We need your help! Despite all the information we have been sharing, our attendance looks as follows:

Curriculum at RPCC At RPCC, students experience a rich and diverse curriculum, which helps to develop them in the widest sense. We have a 3 year KS3, which means all students study a broad curriculum up until the end of Year 9. As well as, the core subjects of English and maths, all students have access to all product design disciplines on a rotation and enjoy lessons in the arts, including weekly music lessons. We offer french and spanish, computing, religious education, history, geography and science – the list goes on! In KS3, additional lessons have been allocated to PE. In Year 7, this helps students adjust to the more formal, structured nature of secondary school learning and develops useful team building skills. In Year 9, all students have an additional PE lesson, where they enhance their leadership skills. Students follow an RPCC sports leadership certificate, which encourages essential leadership and interpersonal skills and also prepares them for the formal sports leadership qualification in KS4, should they wish to take this. KS4: Start to Streamline In KS4, students begin their route through to specialist studies, as they start to streamline their focus in preparation for KS5 – what ever that may be. We have a broad KS4 offer, which also includes tiered qualifications for similar subjects, such as: computer studies and iMedia or business studies and enterprise and marketing. This approach to our KS4 offer means that students can still opt for the same topic of interest, but choose a qualification that best matches their skills and abilities. The current full list of qualifications and courses can be found on our website.

When compared to other Southampton schools, we have fewer appointments during school time (thank you), but our students appear to be having more days off due to illness. Please ensure that wherever possible, your child comes into school. The Welfare Officer will help determine if they are not fit to stay in school and can monitor students as necessary. If you are unsure, please check out this NHS guidance - nhs. uk/live-well/is-my-child-too-ill-for-school/ . Remember, if students aren’t in school – they’re missing out!

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