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The Regents Review
Summer 2017
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DEPARTMENTAL NEWS
Languages
Able Linguist Day
On the 7th June, ten Year 8 students were
invited to participate in the Able Linguist Day
at the University of Southampton. During the
first part of the day, students were placed into
their language groups and given the task of
designing a new piece of wearable technology.
Students were then asked to pitch these ideas
in either French or Spanish. The RPCC students
had some fantastic ideas, including gadgets
to help posture and magic gloves! In the
afternoon, they then had the opportunity to
experiment with a new language. For example
Italian, Mandarin or Arabic.
During the final session of the day, they
announced the winners of the French and
Spanish categories, where the creative
students had been very successful winning 1st
and 3rd place in both languages, beating 10
other schools from the South Coast.
We returned to school as very proud linguists
and the students were even treated to a
reward lunch with Mr Archibald!
The MFL department look forward to
maintaining their winning streak at further
events at the University next year.
GCSE Languages
Students who are studying languages in Year 9 will start to follow GCSE themes as part of preparation
towards a GCSE in this subject. At Regents Park, we follow the AQA GCSE course.
This means that the themes we study (in Years 9, 10, 11) are:
You will be assessed on similar skills as in Years 7 and 8 (listening, speaking, reading, writing and also
translation)
French
Spanish
Autumn 1
Au collège (School)
AQA Theme : Current and future
study and employment
De vacaciones (Holidays)
AQA Theme: Local/ National/
Global areas of interest
Autumn 2
Moi (All about me)
AQA Theme: Identity and culture
De paseo por Sevilla (Travel &
tourism) AQA Theme: Local/
National/ Global areas of interest
Spring 1
Mon temps libre (Freetime)
AQA Theme: Identity and culture
A clase (School)
AQA Theme : Current and future
study and employment
Spring 2
Là ou j’habite (Where I live)
AQA Theme: Local/ National/
Global areas of interest
Los trabajos (Work)
AQA Theme : Current and future
study and employment
Summer 1
Allons-y (Leisure outings)
AQA Theme: Identity and culture
¡Perdidos! (Lost!) AQA Theme:
Identity and culture
Summer 2
Film project
Film project