Regents Review Winter '16

The Regents Review Winter 2016

GENERAL NEWS

Year 9 It has been a very quick term for Year 9. The students are really developing as a team and with the new behaviour scheme students are taking full advantage to support each other within lessons and push each other to achieve their potential. The College Council has new members; Isabella Richardson and Nathan Hill are our new College Council leaders and our representatives for the whole school College Council. Year 9 have been collecting their shoe boxes ready for the Shoe Box Appeal, a massive well done to Mia Breedon who completed the first one on her own.

tried to search each other. Domino’s provided the lunch for free and then the students met an ARV officer, looking through all his weapons. After that a dog handler turned up and we watched him search for people and belongings - it was simply incredible. The students then went into a police van and felt what it was like to be put into the back and locked away.

All of the students were well behaved and really enjoyed their day. It was an honour to be asked to join in with such a fantastic opportunity. Please look at the photos on Twitter from the hashtag #takeoverchallenge. On the 21st November we all enjoyed the careers festival, where students were able to take part in unique lessons to explore their options for next year. Next term we will be starting the options process and I would like to invite you to our Pathways Evening on the 16th February 2017. There will be an opportunity to talk to teachers about courses and decide with your child what options they would like to take next year. I wish you a very happy, healthy break and look forward to welcoming all students back in 2017! Miss Bishop Head of Year 9

On Friday 18th November we took 14 Year 9s to take part in the ‘Child Comissioners Police Take Over Challenge’. The students worked alongside police officers and our school PCSO Lorraine Underwood to find out what happens as a police officer in Southampton. We looked through a real life case study and students gave their thoughts as to how they would be able to deal with the situation. Miss Bishop’s role was to act as a police officer in a ‘stop and search’ situation. The students then

News from Tutor Groups: Parks CCA Well done to William Greenacre, Beth Davies and Nathan Hill for being elected into the College Council and well done to Nathan Hill for being the year rep for Year 9. Well done to Emily Curry, Beth Davies, Connor Earney, William Greenacre, Ellie Heath, Deveena Khal, Shivani Kumar and Robert Mirzescu for achieving 100% attendance up to November. Well done to William Greenacre for becoming a PE Champion. Branson JS We have been working hard at our reading skills and have been enjoying silently reading books every Thursday morning! A special mention goes to both John Winterburn and Konur Bilgic for their achievement points this term. We have also started to collect boxes to send to Africa and are really enjoying the quiz done on Fridays! Special mention goes to Callum Totten for winning the quiz twice in a row (without cheating!) Well done Branson JS! Keep up the great work! Mr Spencer. Parks EG We have been working really hard to attain achievement points within the last few weeks and are doing really well so far. Hannah Grave has shown her support for the week of Remembrance by wearing her Cadet uniform to school and also participated in the parade on the 11th of November. We have also welcomed Jazz Dewison to our tutor group and she has settled in well, making a large number of friends within the group. As a tutor group, we are really enjoying the quiz that we do every Thursday morning. The students work really well as a team to get as many points as possible!

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