Regents Review Summer '17

The Regents Review Summer 2017

GENERAL NEWS

Year 6 Transition: Biggest and Best?

On July 5th, 168 Year 6 students from over 19 different primary schools spent the day at Regents Park Community College. After a guided tour from the superb Year 9 student ambassadors, Year 6s began a series of special lessons. In science they performed a series of experiments including testing the acidity of various liquids and setting fire to jelly-babies! Collaborative painting was the focus of the art session and in MFL, students had taster lessons in Spanish or French! With the sun shining and the temperatures hitting 25 degrees, it was a perfect day for a dip in the school’s pool! Every group enjoyed a swimming lesson, with many students enthusing that this was their favourite part of the day. The Year 6s made an incredibly positive impression on the staff and current students, leading Assistant Headteacher, responsible for transition, to label this year group the ‘biggest and potentially the best Year 7 yet!’. In the evening, the hall was filled with Year 6 parents who heard the Headteacher, Jonty Archibald, outline the school’s ethos and values of ‘respect, pride, creativity and challenge’. Current Year 7 ‘catwalk models’, Minshal Muneer, Adrian Monteanu, Oskar Lewandowski, Natalia Nych, Chloe Gammon and Khadi Bah, then performed the annual uniform fashion show, before two other Year 7s, Dominic Masters and Emmanuel Egbe, shared student views of the school in their presentation. We look forward to welcoming Year 6s to Regents Park in September. The Teaching & Learning Student Voice team are a dynamic, voracious and pragmatic group of students. The group is comprised of students from a range of abilities and year groups spanning across the school community. These students are confident and progressive-thinking individuals who value the experience of being able to offer insightful and valid contributions to the Teaching & Learning Team’s work at Regents Park Community College. This term they have been leading an initiative that involves communication with their teachers using a range of stickers. Students have rewarded their teachers if they have felt particularly inspired, challenged and/or appreciated in their lessons. The feedback received suggests that teaching staff really value the students’ feedback and the students have enjoyed this variety of dialogue and claim that that they are already noticing the impact on their learning as teachers aim to plan lessons in response to their feedback. We hope to extend the range of stickers we use next term and continue to keep dialogue open between students and teachers.

RPCC Teaching & Learning Team

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