Regents Review Winter 22-23

The Regents Review Winter 2022

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS English Debate Club This term, debate club has welcomed a huge number of new members who have brought their wide range of opinions to the group! This term we have debated: • Should we eat meat? • Does God exist? • Are online friends better than real life friends? These topics, among many others, have led to brilliantly passionate and perceptive discussions. The students consistently demonstrate their Regents Park, respectful attitudes every week and we are very proud of them! Please see the images of our debaters in action. • Should the voting age be lowered? • Should cloning humans be allowed?

Southampton Schools Writing Competition With the idea to encourage all students to become budding young writers, in November Regents Park delivered Southampton’s first ever city wide writing competition, which was taken up by a huge number of secondary schools in Southampton! The theme of the competition was ‘Southampton Stories: be inspired by your city’, and students were able to enter poetry or prose, up to a 500-word limit. The response was phenomenal, with each school receiving a brilliant number of entries. The quality of entries was extremely high, and Southampton English teachers met at the end of November to choose the winners in each category, who each received £50 7bone vouchers.

BBC100 Share Your Story Back in October, the English department arranged a visit from the BBC. ‘BBC100 Share Your Story’ is part of the BBC’s centenary celebrations, where the BBC plan to visit around 400 secondary schools across the UK. Carefully selected BBC Ambassadors shared their inspirational journeys with students, inspiring them through the power of storytelling. The ambassadors shared their stories in three hour-long sessions to Years 8, 9 and 10. Each session ended with a busy Q&A, during which our amazing students earned prizes by asking some fantastic questions to our visitors!

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