Regents Review Winter '17

The Regents Review Winter 2017

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS Languages

Wonderful students, their parents and our colleagues have shared brilliant accounts of the fantastic work Miss Kingswell does in our MFL team and school. A massive congratulations to Miss Kingswell - a well deserved winner of the award!

Rock Star Awards The Rock Star Awards were founded in 2012 by local recruitment solutions company, Rock Recruitment. Angela Piromalli is the managing director and host of the awards. Angela said, “ I am absolutely delighted to welcome Teachers Building Society to the Rock Star Awards team and to recognise the outstanding talented teachers that we have in our community who are directly European Day of Languages

influencing and supporting our young people’s future and ultimately our economy.” The Rock Star Awards celebrate the success of young people under the age of 26 in Dorset and this year there are a range of new categories - including Teaching Star of the Future, IT Star of the Future and Creative Star of the future. This year we had the pleasure and pride to enter Miss Kingswell.

Year 8 Celebration Day On Monday 13th November, Year 8 students were inspired and engaged by a variety of lessons on the theme of refugees and their contribution to our communities. They also had an assembly with a speaker from the City of Sanctuary charity. Art students created an amazing mural on the theme of peace. In mathematics, students looked at immigration and emigration statistics. In modern foreign languages, students analysed stories about the lives and journeys of two refugees (from Honduras and Syria). Those who had a music lesson on that day analysed styles of folk music influenced by various groups of people. A big “thank you” to all Curriculum Areas who were involved with this event.

European Day of Languages is celebrated on 26th September each year. This year we ran two competitions during the week of European Day of Languages. One competition was for our students to identify a message translated into many languages (European and non-European), these cards were placed around the school. The other competition involved members of staff greeting students in different languages. If their international message was heard by students, their name was put into a hat for a prize draw. Remember for information of what is going on in the Modern Foreign Languages Area, please follow us on: @RPCC_MFL

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