Regents Review Spring '16

The Regents Review Spring 2016

GENERAL News

• Miss Woodward, Miss Croud, Mr Branford, Mr Makepeace, Miss Jones, Mrs Selfe for general assistance and support leading up to and including our Rock Challenge event.

Year 11 It has been another amazing term for Year 11. The progress and attainment predictions for the year group have continued to improve and, as a school, we are feeling more and more confident and about having some impressive results in August. Part of this confidence has come from the ethos that Year 11 students are currently developing. Everyone can see how hard they’ve been working and how much they want to maximise their potential. It is a credit to each and every one of them as individuals and it makes me very proud. As their GCSEs draw ever closer, students are being made aware of the multitude of options for support. decision. It took over 45 minutes but finally we had the tense moment when we heard the results. No matter what the results were, we were all immensely proud of the piece and the way the students had performed. The reactions from both the other schools during the rehearsal and the audience was amazing and we knew we had represented Regents Park well. We then found out we had won Awards of Excellence in choreography, performance, concept,  drama skills, visual enhancement, entertainment, performance skill and performers choice award which is nominated by all of the other schools and colleges. This was our highest amount of awards ever. set design and function, stage use, stage crew, lighting, video To top off all of these amazing awards we had been awarded 4TH PLACE!

These include: a variety of breakfast clubs before school and revision sessions for all subjects on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays. I would urge students to take all of the support that is on offer as they prioritise what is important over the coming weeks.  Students should be thinking about revision plans and setting aside time for home study and some sacrifices will have to be made. However, it will be worth it in the end when that, all important, Results Day finally arrives in August. In addition to the amazing effort that Year 11 are making with their studies, it is worth congratulating the Senior Prefect Team who are managing their studies as well as doing a fantastic our 50’s style dresses and Miss Flynn for hand making all of our underskirts. Mrs Selfe for making our headpieces; It was a fantastic day and evening and the students of Regents Park did us proud. The staff and students from many other schools were going past our changing room after the show congratulating us and telling us we should have won and when we went outside afterwards lots of parents from other schools were saying the same. Although we were pleased with the place we came it was lovely to know that other people thought so highly of us.  Special thanks this year go to: • The Rotary Club for their generous donation towards our fundraising; • Bramdean Developments for their generous donation of wood for our scenery and Mr R Self and Miss Woodward for giving up their time to build it; • Miss Jones for hand making all of

job of organising other students and events around the school. Recently they delivered the ‘Regents Park Bake-off’, which saw 20 staff competing in a cooking competition. The cakes were sold and the school was offered the opportunity to watch the competition, which was edited and produced by the talented Dominic Green. It was a truly memorable occasion and raised over £260 for their Prom. You can read more about this story in our ‘General News’ section. Well done to you all! It leaves me to wish the whole year- group a fantastic half term holiday and the very best of luck with your studies and revision. Mr Holloway Head of Year 11

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