The Regents Review - Winter 2015

The Regents Review Winter 2015

GENERAL NEWS

Innovative Teaching Week In our journey to create truly outstanding teaching and learning at Regents Park, we decided to challenge ourselves with the launch of the ‘Innovative Teaching Week’. This took place on the first week back after the half term holiday and involved trialling new approaches to teaching with the aim of creating more student engagement and enjoyment of learning. The focus of this work was to encourage creativity in teaching and learning and staff development. At some point during ‘Innovative Teaching’ week, each teacher challenged themselves to deliver their lesson, or part of the lesson, in a unique and different way than they had ever done before. It was a fantastic week with lots of students enjoying a wide variety of different approaches, ranging from murder mystery lessons in English to team pursuit in PE – some teachers even dressed up for the occasion! Our thanks go to Mrs Porter, Miss Croud and Miss Cannon who organised the events for the week. Teachers and students alike have had a lot of fun and learnt new things in a new way, which is what we set out to do. We will definitely be running a week like this again! Mr Henderson Deputy Headteacher

The Saints Foundation programme

This term a group of Year 8 students were selected to take part in the ‘Saints Foundation’ programme, aiming to promote literacy and numeracy. Cora Byrne in Year 8 had this to share about her experience so far: ‘This term, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in the ‘Saints Foundation’ programme. Ever since I’ve started the programme, I’ve been excited every week to learn about Southampton Football Club (SFC) and it also helps us improve with English and Mathematics. In the first week, we were lucky enough to tour St Mary’s Stadium and we also learned about teamwork, presentation and communication skills. We designed a new kit for the Saints and gave a presentation on why our kit should be chosen for sponsorship. We also sent a letter to Ralph Krueger, the chairman of SFC. The famous broadcaster Clare Balding was so impressed by the ‘Saints Foundation’, that she came to one of our sessions and we were able to meet her. Many prizes have also been won such as programmes and football t-shirts. In the last week, we’ve been doing a small rapping competition which was very fun. Ever since we’ve been on the programme, I’ve been more engaged in my learning and have learnt so much. I am very grateful to have been included in this opportunity.’

Unity 101 Students continue

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