Regents Review Spring '18

The Regents Review Spring 2018

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

PE Champions

Year 7 Football Team: Standing : Jack Mullaghy, Jake Allen, Joe Ryan, Lewis Colvin, Ethan Lock, Rory Maclean, Archie O’Donovan Seated : James Knight, Connor Underhill, Bobby Gorman, Joe Stratford, Finlay Totten, Kirk Payne, Henry Geddes

Back Row – Tom Kelly, Klaudia Fiskewycz, Ben Bowyer, Emily Riches, James Tindall, Emily Norton, Ethan Whybrew, Klaudia Reczka, Mason Knight. Front Row – Arwen Patricio, Hannah McArthur, Isaac Maddock, Julia Niemczyk, Ben Crouch, Lydia MacLean, Annalise Foley, Lizzy Davis.

Sociology In GCSE Sociology we have been continuing to challenge our Year 9 and Year 10 students with recent topics, such as issues regarding educational achievement and how research being carried out might not always be ethical. In the ‘Education’ unit, Year 10 have been studying the different types of schooling that children can have, in regards to independent, state and home schooling, as well as the positives and negatives of each. The students have been engaged in a variety of debates relating to these schooling types and how each one may effect, change and vary the educational progress and achievement that is made

by individual pupils. Alongside this, the students have looked at alternative factors, outside of the educational establishment, that may have an effect on achievement. For Year 9, the current topic is ‘Research Methods’, were we have been looking at different types of data and how it is collected. This has prompted may debates about different types of research and how willingly we, as the public, give out information. The ethical side of the debate has also been thoroughly explored, as we have deliberated the moral and ethical background to social medias, such as Facebook. For the research methods unit, we have

also studied different sampling methods, looking at how people of selected to be studied. Looking forward in the course, we have Year 9 exams in the second week back after the Easter break and Year 10 exams at the end of the Summer term. As a joint Sociology and English event, the RPCC Debate club have won themselves a place at the PIXL Edge Up for Debate Regional Championships – where we wish them the best of luck in each of the debating rounds and with the possibility of going through to the National Finals in the summer.

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