Regents Review Winter '17

The Regents Review Winter 2017

WELCOME

Headteacher’s Welcome

Eco-Adventurer Visit What do you like to do on a Sunday? Well Julien Moreau, our guest who came in to deliver a conference to our Year 10 geography students on Monday 20th November had caught a ferry from France to Portsmouth, ran over 21 miles from the port to our school, and pitched a tent for the night! This was all to promote ‘eco-schools’ – a programme of raising environmental awareness and improving school environments. Students were also able to find out the different routes that taking geography can lead them on, not to mention eco-adventuring! As mentioned this has been a very long term and I would like to thank staff, students and parents for their support. The community donations to our Trolley Appeal never ceases to amaze me and show what a caring and generous community we live in. I wish all staff, students and their families a very restful Christmas and a Happy New Year. Best wishes, Jonty Archibald Headteacher @regentsparkhead all aspects of students learning. Our staff have also been winners! Miss Kingswell, winning the Teaching Star of the future award and Mrs Reed, the Happiest School Employee award, both at national award ceremonies.

GENERAL NEWS Beyond Recall Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 were lucky enough to take part in an exciting PSHE workshop whereby each year group enjoyed a performance by rock band Beyond Recall! As part of the show, students were treated to a mixture of well-known hits and also a few songs of their own, however there was also a serious side to the session. The artists delivered advice on how to stay safe online, as well as discussing cyber bullying and where to go for help. The band drew from personal experience and this appeared to resonate with our students who listened and got involved in the dialogue. They went away empowered with the knowledge of how to deal safely with their social media lives and beyond. Welcome to the winter 2017 edition of the Regents Review As we move into our last week of 2017, I can reflect on such a busy, successful and long term. Busy, as we welcomed our largest year group to Regents Park for a number of years. We took additional first choice students and I am pleased to say we are again oversubscribed for September 2018. It has been a tremendously successful term as our GCSE summer results put the school in the ‘Well Above’ category on the Department of Education performance tables. This places the school in the top 10% of all schools - again and in the top 3 schools in Hampshire and Southampton – again . What I find most heart-warming is that on top of academic and progress success the school has also achieved the prestigious Artsmark Gold award, which indicates that we are committed to

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