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The Regents Review
Summer 2017
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GENERAL NEWS
On July 5th, 168 Year 6 students from over 19 different primary
schools spent the day at Regents Park Community College.
After a guided tour from the superb Year 9 student ambassadors,
Year 6s began a series of special lessons. In science they performed
a series of experiments including testing the acidity of various
liquids and setting fire to jelly-babies! Collaborative painting was
the focus of the art session and in MFL, students had taster lessons
in Spanish or French!
With the sun shining and the temperatures hitting 25 degrees,
it was a perfect day for a dip in the school’s pool! Every group
enjoyed a swimming lesson, with many students enthusing that this
was their favourite part of the day.
The Year 6s made an incredibly positive impression on the staff and
current students, leading Assistant Headteacher, responsible for
transition, to label this year group the ‘biggest and potentially the
best Year 7 yet!’.
In the evening, the hall was filled with Year 6 parents who heard
the Headteacher, Jonty Archibald, outline the school’s ethos and
values of ‘respect, pride, creativity and challenge’. Current Year
7 ‘catwalk models’, Minshal Muneer, Adrian Monteanu, Oskar
Lewandowski, Natalia Nych, Chloe Gammon and Khadi Bah, then
performed the annual uniform fashion show, before two other Year
7s, Dominic Masters and Emmanuel Egbe, shared student views of
the school in their presentation.
We look forward to welcoming Year 6s to Regents Park in
September.
RPCC Teaching & Learning Team
The Teaching & Learning Student Voice team are a dynamic,
voracious and pragmatic group of students. The group is
comprised of students from a range of abilities and year groups
spanning across the school community. These students are
confident and progressive-thinking individuals who value
the experience of being able to offer insightful and valid
contributions to the Teaching & Learning Team’s work at
Regents Park Community College.
This term they have been leading an initiative that involves
communication with their teachers using a range of stickers.
Students have rewarded their teachers if they have felt
particularly inspired, challenged and/or appreciated in their
lessons.
The feedback received suggests that teaching staff really value
the students’ feedback and the students have enjoyed this
variety of dialogue and claim that that they are already noticing
the impact on their learning as teachers aim to plan lessons in
response to their feedback.
We hope to extend the range of stickers we use next term
and continue to keep dialogue open between students and
teachers.
Year 6 Transition: Biggest and Best?