Regents Review - Spring Edition 2025

The Regents Review Spring 2025

GENERAL NEWS

Additional Qualifications, Certification & Awards In addition to the formal KS4 curriculum, we enrich students’ learning and opportunities to give them the best chances for their future aspirations. For some students, this means taking the additional further maths GCSE, as part of their maths lessons. Others will engage with the extended project qualification, which shows a college or future employer the ability to sustain independent study. More creative students may want to develop their artistic or performance skills and interests by partaking in the arts award. Other additional qualifications, which students can access include the sports leaders award, home language GCSE and Duke of Edinburgh awards. In addition to PSHE and RE, in Year 10 all RPCC students go on a week’s work experience placement. RPCC Students as Future Leaders We encourage students across the year groups, to get involved in our student leadership programmes. This has been praised by many external visitors to the school and described as a strength by our partners. Opportunities are wide and encourage young people to develop interpersonal and leadership skills for the future. Examples include: student panels for staff interviews, Anti-Bullying Ambassadors, ‘This Girl Can’, PE

Alternative Curriculum

Champions, Digital Leaders and Transition Ambassadors. The list really does go on, so for more information please check out the website.

To make sure all students are developed by their curriculum at RPCC, some students are offered some alternatives. Some examples include construction, a range of ASDAN qualifications, including hair and beauty, entry level certificates in English and maths, a formal work experience programme, green gym and boxing. This offer is constantly adapted to meet the needs of different students, with some access a mostly alternative curriculum and others dipping into elements. This ensures that all students can achieve at RPCC. Tutor Curriculum Tutor time is an important part of the day, where tutees receive updates and a tutor can check in on the wellbeing of the students in their group. In addition to this pastoral element, tutor time is also structured with a focus on every day. This is adapted according to year groups but includes a ‘read aloud’ session, numeracy ninjas, GCSE core intervention and SMSC presentations. These bite-sized learning opportunities are crucial for building skills. Full details about different aspects of the RPCC curriculum are on the website and we share a half termly update on each curriculum area on our socials, so please do follow us on our social pages.

Rich CVs & Future

Applications Through our formal KS4 curriculum and additional qualifications, experiences and leadership opportunities, it is our intention that students are educated to the best of their ability, provided with qualifications which open doors to their future and develop their skills in the widest sense to give full CVs and applications for future colleges, universities and employment. Year 9 Options Evening We recently held our Year 9 Options Evening, which presented the curriculum offer to Year 9s and their families. The evening was well attended and it was great to see so many parents taking such an interest in their child’s KS4 choices. To support students in making these important choices, each one gets a personalised meeting with a member of the options team. Later in the year, when choices have been made, Year 9s will have the opportunity to do formal tasters of their choice lessons to check they have made the correct decision.

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