Regents Review Summer 2019

The Regents Review Summer 2019

DEPARTMENTAL NEWS

Dance Showcase On Tuesday 11th June, the Year 10 BTEC dance students performed at Richard Taunton Sixth Form College’s Dance Showcase event at Nuffield Theatre in Southampton. They performed a piece that they had been working on, developed from a workshop run by students from the college. The showcase involved students in their 1st and 2nd years at Richard Taunton, including a few ex- Regents Park students. Our students represented the school in a manner that exceeded expectations and they should be very proud of their performance.

Ingestre Hall On the morning of Friday 24th May at 10.00am, we took 50 students from Years 8, 9 and 10 to Ingestre Hall in Stafford. The journey took 6 hours, but it was well worth it. We arrived at the beautiful venue where we were greeted by the lovely staff and tutors. We walked up the drive way into the Great Hall. Students were shown to their rooms, which was very exciting. Some rooms had as many as eleven beds to a room, each with a beautiful view out into the grounds. Mr Stone had the best room of all, all to himself! Students were shown to their workshops. Art was taking place in a beautiful room, just off the Great Hall, overlooking the front of the gardens, photography took place in many locations, mainly out in the grounds and textiles was taking place in the art studio, again overlooking the beautiful gardens. Dinner was a picnic tea of

sandwiches, sausage rolls, dips, salad and more… Students had time to unpack, then explore the outside whist playing some sport, using table tennis tables, pool tables and chilling with friends.

We were awoken early Saturday morning by the sound of birds

singing. Breakfast was served at 8.30am with a selection of cereal, toast, jams and eggs. Workshops started at 9.30am until lunch with a short break in between. Art developed a drawing from the previous day into a design to transfer onto a silk screen, textiles were learning how to complete a felt piece taken from a drawing from the previous day and photography learnt how about depth of field, rules of third and aperture, and

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