The Regents Review - Winter 2015

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The Regents Review Winter 2015
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GENERAL NEWS
Innovative Teaching Week
In our journey to create truly outstanding teaching and
learning at Regents Park, we decided to challenge
ourselves with the launch of the ‘Innovative Teaching
Week’. This took place on the first week back after the
half term holiday and involved trialling new approaches
to teaching with the aim of creating more student
engagement and enjoyment of learning.
The focus of this work was to encourage creativity in
teaching and learning and staff development. At some
point during ‘Innovative Teaching’ week, each teacher
challenged themselves to deliver their lesson, or part of
the lesson, in a unique and different way than they had
ever done before.
It was a fantastic week with lots of students enjoying a
wide variety of different approaches, ranging from murder
mystery lessons in English to team pursuit in PE – some
teachers even dressed up for the occasion!
Our thanks go to Mrs Porter, Miss Croud and Miss Cannon
who organised the events for the week. Teachers and
students alike have had a lot of fun and learnt new things
in a new way, which is what we set out to do. We will
definitely be running a week like this again!
Mr Henderson
Deputy Headteacher
The Saints Foundation
programme
This term a group of Year 8 students were selected
to take part in the ‘Saints Foundation’ programme,
aiming to promote literacy and numeracy. Cora Byrne
in Year 8 had this to share about her experience so far:
‘This term, I’ve been lucky enough to be involved in
the ‘Saints Foundation’ programme. Ever since I’ve
started the programme, I’ve been excited every week
to learn about Southampton Football Club (SFC) and it
also helps us improve with English and Mathematics.
In the first week, we were lucky enough to tour St
Mary’s Stadium and we also learned about teamwork,
presentation and communication skills. We designed a
new kit for the Saints and gave a presentation on why
our kit should be chosen for sponsorship. We also
sent a letter to Ralph Krueger, the chairman of SFC.
The famous broadcaster Clare Balding was so
impressed by the ‘Saints Foundation’, that she came
to one of our sessions and we were able to meet her.
Many prizes have also been won such as programmes
and football t-shirts. In the last week, we’ve been
doing a small rapping competition which was very fun.
Ever since we’ve been on the programme, I’ve been
more engaged in my learning and have learnt so
much. I am very grateful to have been included in this
opportunity.’
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