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The Regents Review
Winter 2015
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Departmental News
Creative Arts Department
The ‘Big Draw’ event
For the first time ever, Regents Park
Community College has taken part
in the ‘Big Draw’ event. All students
created their own 8.5 x 8.5cm drawing,
which represented something about
them. This took place in tutor time and the winners
for the first tutor group in Key Stage 3 and 4 to hand in
their drawings were BRANSON KH and ROWLING RJ. A
massive well done to all tutor groups for all their hard
work with this!
On the last week of half term the ‘Big Draw’ event
took place in the hall. Every class and member of staff
was invited down to the hall over a period of 4 days.
Students copied their drawings onto large pieces of
card, divided into a grid, with the school logo hidden
behind. There was a real buzz in the room and calming music was played as
students and staff got engrossed into their piece of art.
As the week progressed the grid began to fill, showing a real community feel,
capturing an insight of each individual. The finished piece is amazing. Well
done to all the students and staff for achieving such a fantastic piece of art, for
display in the hall.
We look forward to continuing with the ‘Big Draw’ next year!
Mrs Selfe and Mrs Flynn
Art ambassadors
On Wednesday 4th November, 12
Year 9 students visited Foundry
Lane Primary school to participate
in a collaborative Art project
between our two schools. This
was an exciting opportunity for
them to extend their artistic and
leadership skills helping support
Year 3 students create Picasso
portraits. Our students were
outstanding ambassadors for our
school and we would like to say
a big thank you and well done to:
Milly Dowse, Elwira Kilichowska,
Kiran Buckle, Vishal Kasba, Mollie
Knight, Mollie Higlett, Bobbie
Miah, Rosie O’Shea, Sukhveer
Kaur, Angel Freeman, Rhiannon
Ford-Bailey, Lauren McAllister.
We look forward to more
opportunities like this.
Innovative Art
Mrs Selfe and Miss Alabaster took
7G2 out into the grounds of school
during Art. The idea was to stretch
students’ ability, imagination and
creativity. They were given a large
piece of card; a pot of water and a
checklist of activities to complete.
Then the fun began!
Students searched for objects to use
to create an image and explored
different mark making techniques,
using mud, leaves and twigs. It was
absolutely fantastic to observe how
the students worked, thinking outside
the box and their final images were
amazing. Well done to all students!
The ‘X Factor’
The last academic year marked the
first ever Regents Park ‘X Factor’
competition. Pupils from across
all year groups took part and the
standard of performances was
very high.
We are proud to announce that
Phoebe Underhill, who is now in Year
8, was the overall winner of the show.
However, everyone who was involved
had a great time and the combined
efforts of staff and students ensured
the performances were a real success.
Thank you to everyone involved in the
process, and make sure to watch out
for the ‘X Factor’ again in June 2016.