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The Regents Review
Winter 2015
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Departmental News
Are you ready for a challenge?
As a school we are taking on an exciting challenge. We are going to
attempt to ‘Swim to Rio’ in preparation for the 2016 Olympic Games.
If you come along to swim fit sessions on Tuesday and Wednesday
before school, or Thursday after school, we will record how many
lengths you swim. This will then contribute to the school’s total.
If you wish to get involved, you can get details from the PE team of
an app that you can download which will chart our progress against
other schools across the country taking part in the same challenge.
Physical Education
Sports Leaders qualification
This term has seen the introduction of the Sports
Leaders UK Level 1 qualification to 32 budding new
leaders in Years 9 and 10. Students have enjoyed
developing their knowledge of leadership and
expanding their skills through a variety of different
activities in preparation to deliver their own planned
sessions to primary schools in January.
Football
This year has seen an incredibly demanding, yet
successful, start to the Football season for RPCC. The first
rounds of fixtures have been completed and the next
round will commence when the evenings get lighter in
February.
There have been over 70 players regularly attending
Football training led by: UEFA B qualified coach, Mr Game,
Mr Hayward, Mr Makepeace and Mr Branford.
All year groups have made successful starts to their
campaigns. The Year 7 team are currently undefeated
in the league while the Year 8, 9, 10 and 11 teams have
faced stiff competition from their opponents; resulting in
no game being won or lost by more than a goal or two.
Overall, there have been some superb team performances.
In September, 40 students were able to attend the annual
Football Enrichment Day held at Tauntons College, where
Mr Barge (head of their football academy) came out to
see the boys in action. He noted how impressed he was
with their technical ability and dedication. It was another
successful day with a great outcome for all involved.
Inter-tutor tournaments
On 4th December the PE Champions hosted Year 7 and
8 students in their annual inter-tutor group Dodge Ball
and Water Polo tournaments. This involved all students
from each of the tutor groups competing in one or the
other in an ‘all play all’ format.
Gymnastics Gala
On Sunday 6th December, Regents Park was
represented by a team of gymnasts
in the Southampton Gymnastics
Club’s annual Gym Gala at
Southampton Guildhall.
The group practiced very
hard for their performance
and for some of them this was their
first gymnastics display – look out for news
of the results and images from the event in
our next newsletter.