Regents Review - Summer 2026

The Regents Review Summer 2026

WELCOME Headteacher’s Welcome

As we reach the end of another successful year at Regents Park Community College, a year in which the school joined United Learning, it is time to celebrate our wonderful community. This year has been one of our best and I am extremely grateful to all the staff and students for their commitment to our improvement journey. Raising expectations can be very challenging, but we are determined to offer the very best education in the classroom and beyond. Our students deserve disruption free classrooms, they deserve a wide range of enrichment opportunities, they deserve supportive staff, they deserve high quality teaching and they deserve to feel safe and happy at school. Our students have shown great commitment across many activities this year. It has been inspiring to hear how well our Duke of Edinburgh participants have worked on their expeditions and community service. Once again, our students leaders did the most amazing job during Transition Day, welcoming and supporting our new Year 7 students. Celebrating student success is very important to us. This year we have continued our focus on our ethos badges and our blazers display these achievements every day. I have enjoyed many reward hot chocolates over the year with sport teams, student leaders and many students that have made a positive contribution to our school community. This year we are particularly proud of our students’ success in the poetry competition, where they impressed judges with their creative ideas. As we move into the new academic year, we have some staffing changes to share. We say goodbye to Mrs Cosford, who is looking forward to a well deserved retirement after almost 30 years at Regents Park Community College. Mrs Cosford has been an outstanding English teacher, teaching many students the art of

English language and opening up the wonderful world of English Literature with her passion for the subject. We wish her well and I know she will be thinking about us as she travels around the world. Mr Hearmon has been promoted to Assistant Headteacher and we wish him well in his new post. The Maths department will see Mr Faur and Mrs Becker leave to new posts, but we know that our new Curriculum Leader, Miss Booth will build on their work with the new members of her team. We will also see some changes in the Science team as Mr Maistry and Miss Vincent move onto new challenges. Several members of our wonderful support team are also leaving. Miss Ayres will return to her studies and we wish her well and Miss Staddon has an exciting new post, where we know she will continue to offer both staff and student support. As staff move on to new challenges, we are always pleased to welcome new staff members: Miss Crisell will be joining the Leadership Team as Deputy Headteacher. She brings with her a wealth of knowledge of pastoral leadership. Miss Self will be joining the Humanities department along with Mr Hauser. Miss Noakes will be joining the Social Sciences team. Miss Chen will be joining the Maths team. Miss Matthews will be joining the pastoral support team as Head of Year Support for Year 9. Miss Gibson will join our cover supervisor team. Finally a farewell to our therapy dog, Spencer, who will be retiring after almost nine years at the school. Since joining as a puppy, he has offered many staff and students a ‘Spencer moment’. I know he is going to miss all the attention he gets when he comes to work, as he puts his paws up and enjoys a slower pace of life. He joins me in wishing you all a wonderful and

safe summer. Mrs S Barnes Headteacher

2