Regents Review Winter 2019

The Regents Review Winter 2019

GENERAL NEWS

Library Season’s Greetings from the RPCC Library! During this term, the Creative Writer’s Club began with entrants submitting pieces for two Young Writer’s competitions: first person poetry and a short horror story. It’s a pleasure to announce that two of our entrants have been chosen for publication in Through Their Eyes – A Whisper of Words. The Young Writers publication will be released on 14th February 2020 and will be displayed in the National Archives of the British Library and our RPCC Author’s Corner in the school library. After a busy start, this has been followed up with sessions on character development, monologues and we will finish the term on short stories with a winter theme. The new student librarians have been learning how to keep the library in good shape and some have also helped to set up the book stall for the Regents Park Christmas Fair. We have had a meeting to give a welcome to our new recruits and this week we have introduced a new reward system in the library including a new certificate for services to the library. There is a fun, festive feel in the library this year as the decorations are up and students are invited to make snowflakes and paper chains. The season was celebrated in the last week of term when we had a festive theme for our Thursday quiz and we displayed our first after school documentary in the library featuring the story behind the female warriors that helped inspire characters from the Marvel film, Black Panther.

Inspiring Year 8 We were delighted to welcome Duke Harrison- Hunter to school on Wednesday 20th November to address Year 8. His inspirational presentation detailed events in his life which have led to pursue a career working with children in roles such as coaching, mentoring and motivational speaking. Some feedback from Year 8 students: “I like the 5 minute challenge in the morning, I am definitely going to try it.” “It was good to see so many positives for him after the bad things he had gone through.” “I found it REALLY interesting and he gave us good advice.”

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