Regents Review - Summer 2021

The Regents Review Summer 2021

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS English & Media Year 11 Leavers We all miss our Year 11 students a lot. We’d love to take this opportunity to say a big well done for getting through your GCSEs in such tumultuous circumstances. Congratulations! Year 9 Speaking & Listening Our Year 9 students have really impressed us this half term. We have seen them flourish in front of our very eyes through their ‘Spoken Language Endorsement’ – the first stage of their GCSE English Language course. Students select a challenging topic and deliver a speech to the class about it, covering its relevance, counter arguments and statistical evidence to support their view. Not only have they demonstrated wonderful independence and

English Stars of the Term Ani 10BZ

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engagement within their research, but they have also embraced the challenge of speaking in front of their peers and teachers (and even Head of Year, Mr Stone) with such flair and confidence. What an excellent start to your GCSE! Product Design Year 7 have jumped into the world of the entrepreneur this half term with our Product Design unit. While some classes have explored the brand of Cadbury and their guerrilla marketing tactics, others have been comparing tastes and marketing of chocolate and crisps. Yum! All of our Year 7 students are now in the process of designing a new food product, creating its packaging so it is psychologically

appealing and will be pitching in our very own Dragons’ Den! We wonder who will win… but it looks like it’ll be a close race!

Top 10 for Tassomai

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Alana’s Peanut Butter and Jelly Chocolate!

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