Course Duration:
2 Years |
Minimum age:
14 |
Entry:
September |
Entry Requirements:
on the basis of interviews and references |
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Year
10 & Year 11
Students join the GCSE department at Regent College
for many reasons, the most common being that parents
feel their son or daughter will benefit from a small,
hard working and supportive environment.
Class sizes are small (the average is nine) and
so tutors are able to focus on the needs of individual
students.
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Another common reason
students join us at 14 or 15 is that they may be under-performing
at school. It is clear that the student has plenty of
academic potential, but it is just not being realised.
Others join us because they have not settled at their
secondary or boarding school.
Our Approach to learning
We see the GCSE years as a vital stepping-stone to a
student’s future personal, academic and professional
success. Our students emerge with a clearer sense of
what they can achieve and can confidently move on to
A levels and beyond.
GCSE students are encouraged to approach their time
at the College as they would paid employment, and certain
standards of attendance, punctuality and hard work are
expected. Students are also able to complete their homework
during a supervised Homework Club so that when they
go home their day’s work is done.
We encourage all Year 10 entrants to have an
open mind about what subjects they will take at GCSE
because it is important that we discover where their
aptitudes and potential lie before decisions
about GCSE subjects are finalised.
The Daily Routine for
GCSE Students:
- All Year 10 and Year 11 students are required to
attend registration at the College at 8.45 a.m.
- Lessons are usually timetabled from 9.00 a.m. to
4.30 p.m, though in some exceptional cases, lessons
may extend to 5.45p.m.
- Each lesson lasts for 1 hour.
- Periods that are not timetabled for specific lessons
are timetabled for study. Students register in the
study room at the beginning of these periods, and
work quietly, under supervision until the end of the
lesson.
- On Wednesday afternoons students finish lessons
early and then spend the rest of the afternoon participating
in sporting activities.
Regent College is a mixed ability school that recruits on the
basis of interviews and references
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