Regents Review Summer '18

The Regents Review Summer 2018

GENERAL NEWS

Community Support with Careers

you for no longer than 5 minutes about your work. • We are recruiting 7 judges for our Year 7 Dragon’s Den competition. Students will be coming up with their own product and pitching it. • We have a Post-16 Careers Fair for parents and Years 8-11 to attend, which will feature local colleges and employers. More employers are welcome. Year 10 Big Interview Day - Friday 8th February 2019 Students get the chance to present their CVs and show-off their interview skills with a mock interview with local business leaders and employees. • We are always looking for new interviewers, ideally with previous experience of interviewing. You will be provided with the

students’ CV in advance and a set of questions that they will have prepared for and interview them for 10-15 minutes. Year 10 Work Experience - Monday 13th - Friday 17th May 2019 Spending 1 week in the workplace • Do you own or manage a business that would be able to take one or two students? Or do you think your employer would be able to take one or two students? We are always on the lookout for local placements for our students. If you think you could help with any of the above events or would like any more information, please email Charlotte Smith at: info@regentspark.southampton. sch.uk gaining life experience and developing their skillset.

The 2018-19 careers programme looks to be more exciting than ever before and we would like to encourage further links with local businesses and parents and invite you to take part in our careers events we have coming up: Years 7-11 Careers Festival - Wednesday 10th October 2018 The whole school is off-timetable for the day to explore different career pathways and develop their employability skills with a variety of careers activities. • We are looking for individuals from a variety of jobs to take part in our ‘Year 9 Employer Speed Dating sessions’. Small groups of students would be interviewing

Year 9 First Aid Day On Friday 6th July, Mr Stone kindly delivered a Year 9 first-aid day in school. The students practised CPR and the recovery position on their own ‘Annie’ doll guided by the resources from the British Heart Foundation. We hope that we can make this training an annual Year 9 event, so that virtually all students will leave here with this very important life skill. Students will be issued with certificates on completion of the training, which they can also add to their achievement folders. Jessica Leonard “The CPR coaching was well taught and we were given real life situations and we had to figure out how to react efficiently which helped us learn the process of CPR.”

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