Regents Review Winter '16

The Regents Review Winter 2016

GENERAL NEWS Emma Vardy attended Regents Park 20 years ago and inspired the audience with her own story of becoming a successful television foreign affairs correspondent for the BBC. Emma managed to find some footage of a video she made whilst she was a student at Regents Park, showing that even back then she harboured media skills! Emma spoke about her determination and her will to succeed. Even when being told several times that there were no jobs available in the competitive world in which Emma wished to work, Emma never gave up. She first worked on a voluntary basis with no contract as a runner in the Sky newsroom. She then went on to be a sports journalist covering two Olympic Games and you can now see her regularly on the BBC as a foreign affairs reporter. I am sure many of our ex and current students will be equally successful if they can show this level of determination and resilience.

Saints Project Year 8 are currently undertaking the Premier League Enterprise Programme. This is to encourage students who may find literacy and numeracy difficult. The opportunity to explore how necessary these skills are in a real life situation. The team attended a celebration event at St Mary’s stadium on Monday 12th December. Year 9 students: Beth Davies; Owen Gray; Jack Howe, Noah Hunt and Joshua Thomas are this year’s group working to represent the school for the Southampton Football Challenge. Students have created a novel way of encouraging support from the USA. The presentation held on 6th December was in front of a panel of 4 specialists, who awarded marks for originality, idea and presentation style; very much like an episode of Dragon’s Den.

Armistice Day At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month - the day which marks the end of the First World War, staff and students observed the two minute silence. Once again, Mr Barron played the ‘Last Post’ to mark the occasion. A group of students came to the school dressed in their Cadet uniforms and took on the role of selling poppies throughout the day to support ‘The Royal British Legion’

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