The Regents Review - Winter 2015

The Regents Review Winter 2015

General News

National Student Celebration Westminster London 23rd September 2015 Once again, Regents Park students were invited to Westminster in London to collect an award for the excellent progress shown in their 2015 exam results. Impressively, across the whole year group, students gained a positive progress score of 0.3; this means that on average, every GCSE grade for every student was a quarter of a grade higher than the national average achieved by students across the country. Over two thirds of students in last year’s Year 11 gained at least 5 higher grade passes at GCSE level or equivalent. Two students who made incredible progress were chosen to represent the year group. Zeynep Gunaydin was predicted C grades based on her Year 6 results, but left Regents Park with 6 Bs and a distinction* in Performing Arts. Zeynep was accompanied by her tutor Miss Jones. Miss Jones was always there to support Zeynep when she needed reassuring and it was that care – as well as academic support – that has helped our students achieve so well. John Salvadico was predicted C/D grades on arrival at Regents Park based on his KS2 levels and even John would have to admit that, at the beginning of Year 10, it looked very unlikely that he would gain five higher grade passes. However with extra help and support especially in English and Mathematics, John went on to get 7 higher grade passes including English and Mathematics and his results placed him in the top 5 highest progress scores in the school.

MacMillan Coffee Morning On the 25th September 2015 the staff at Regents Park Community College supported the MacMillan Coffee Morning. After a day filled with biscuits and cakes, the staff raised £115, which will be donated to MacMillan Cancer Support. Thank you to everyone who supported the event and also to Mrs Tavender for organising the morning.

The guest speaker at the awards was Levi Roots of ‘Reggae Reggae Sauce’ fame. Levi was awarded £50,000 on popular television series ‘Dragon’s Den’ and is now a television star, as well as a famed entrepreneur. His closing inspirational words were: ‘I want to spread the word that if a black Brixtonian Rastafarian can make it with a sauce so can you!’

Outstanding Homework

Homework this term has been of a high standard, as you can see from Mrs Barnes’ ‘Outstanding Homework’ board. Keep up the good work.

Welcome to Schools Direct Trainees A warm welcome to: Faith Alabaster in Art; Matt Game in PE; Emma Grassie in English; Joe Tait in Maths and Imanol Urretavizcaya in MFL, who have all made an excellent start to their teaching careers and are welcome additions to their respective curriculum areas and to the school community.

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