Regents Review Summer '16

The Regents Review Summer 2016

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS English

Year 9 Year 9 have been studying their GCSE Shakespeare play: Romeo and Juliet, and this has included lots of fun activities such as: hip-hop or Shakespeare quizzes, mask making for the Capulet ball, designing coat of arms for one of the families; as well as exploring Shakespeare’s use of language and structure. The Young Shakespeare

Year 10 Year 10 have continued preparation for the new

Year 11 The summer term brought Year 11 to the end of their time at Regents Park Community College as they sat their GCSE examinations. The English department were so proud of the students’ attitude to revision and the maturity they demonstrated while sitting their exams. We wish them all the very best of luck with their results and in their futures.

specification GCSE with a focus on 19th century fiction. In class, students have read a range of extracts and short stories, from “The Red Room” by H. G. Wells to “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins

Gilman. To aid their studies, Year 10 were also treated to a visit by The Red Heart Theatre. Students watched the one- man show recite and act out three gothic tales: “The

Company came to RPCC to run a workshop with Year 9 to aid their studies of the play. To end the unit, we also held our annual ‘Shakespeare

Slam’ where students adapted Romeo and Juliet in a form of their choice, for example modern adaptations and turning the play into a rap. One group for each class performed to their cohort and were judged by our head of department, Mr Lucas.

Red Room”, “The Signal Man” and “The Tell Tale Heart”. Each piece was performed in full Victorian costume and was aided by atmospheric lighting and sound effects.

Creative Writing Success! Regents Park Community College is really proud to announce the success we have had with creative writing. This year, a select amount of Year 7 students were entered into the 5th National Short Story Week competition. The theme of this year’s competition was ‘The Lie’; students were given this title and then needed to write a story of up to 1000 words interpreting this title. As a school, we had some amazing entries to sift through to choose the final 10 that we put forward for the competition. Joe Craig, author of “Jimmy Coates”, was this year’s finalist judge. Incredibly, one of our Year 7 students was selected as one of the competition’s runners up: Taylor Thompson. Taylor’s story will now be published in an anthology of the winner’s stories, which will be available to buy in November. Previous anthologies released by the National Short

Story Week competitions have been best sellers on Amazon! All proceeds from the anthology go to Teenage Cancer Trust. Taylor was also presented with a Headteacher’s badge for her fantastic achievement.

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