@TheRegentCollege Vol 4 Issue 3

@TheRegentCollege VOLUME 4, ISSUE 3 FRIDAY, 25TH SEPTEMBER, 2020 EDITORIAL FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK It’s another weekend of good tidings Greetings from the Regent College online. I am sure our students are on firmer and smooth sailing from TRC. Weekly terrain with their learning processes as we await resumption news. We are hope- tests and assessments have started. ful that with the resumption of Lagos State Schools we would be called in real What is more, our mentorship program soon. has kicked off too. University Preparation We look back with satisfaction and a sense of gratification for the heights Our main goal as a college is all-round preparation for life and academic success. attained so far. Looking forward is We have built into our curricula, key life-skills acquisition processes, academic with a firm resolve to take strides that techniques, and co-curricular activities that ensure we evolve, rounded, responsi- will further launch the school into ble, and internally driven young men and women who will do us, their families, wider horizons of academic excellence. and the nation proud As the term progresses feedback forms will be given to As you turn the pages of our students so they can evaluate lessons and the generated feedback from @TheRegentCollege, the Principal’s these evaluations further guide the teachers in determining new areas of empha- message as well as the HODs’ updates ses. Our unique curricula and their excellent implementation stand our college awaits your reading. Don’t forget to out in Nigeria as observed and commended by our various university partners stop by the medical corner to see from UK, USA, as well as Canada. In light of the above, every student of ours places you must not touch in public receives individual attention and their progress is charted and monitored through places. weekly tests. Support is given where necessary and parents are carried along. Thank you. Aondo-Aver Ajio Editor IN THIS ISSUE: Request for Parents Back-up From The Principal……...………...……….1 We would like to crave your indulgence to please encourage our students to take HOD’s Report……………………....……..2-5 attendance of their classes seriously because of the required 95% percent at- Meet our Pioneer Staff………..….…..6-8 tendance rule, without which a student does not qualify for graduation. Students Teachers in Action……………………..…..9 are expected to give full attention to their academic work so that we can look Learning Resource Center.…….…10-11 forward to desirable outcomes. Assignments and projects will be given as the Exceptional Students of the classes progress, these will help them acquire research skills that will be very Week…………………………….……………..12 useful in their university years. Medical corner …………………………….13 Mentorship Covid-19 Safety Reminder…………….14 Each student has been allocated a mentor teacher and mentorship classes hold online at 11:30AM every Friday. This is a very useful hour for students to get their teacher mentors to help attend to their academic needs and give guidance for their progress. Yours Sincerely, C.I. Ebiai (Principal) Respect Responsibility Resilience

Page 2 HEAD OF DEPARTMENTS REPORT Advanced Level & Advanced Subsidiary Programme Report The AS/A level programme started this week with a reminder of the week’s test scheduled for each sub- ject. The schedule was designed to balance our students daily abilities. All students are scheduled to have at most two subjects test per day. This will enable them to prepare well for their test. So far, the college has had 2 weeks of enriching online class lessons and the students were privileged to give feedback on their class lessons. The College will continue to improve on areas of concern to students and ensure all students receive en- gaging and enriching Cambridge Assessment International Examination (CAIE) curriculum content. Awonusi Babatunde HOD Adanced Subsidiary and Advanced Level Programme. Foundation Programme Report With lessons in top gear, we have started our traditional weekly tests. The weekly tests continue to be one of the major things The College is noted for. Even though it is hectic for both teachers and students, it has continued to be of benefit to Foundation students. Tests schedules have been shared and tests have been held in some subjects already using modern virtual tools such as Google products like Forms, Docs, Classroom and Microsoft products as ap- propriate. A meeting is being planned with Foundation students in the coming days to get feedback from them and also to share some vital information with them. It is worthy of note that the pandemic situation has not scaled down the quality of service - teaching and supervision - for which the outstanding Foundation teachers of the College are known for. Virtual tools deployed in the classes I have visited and tools used for the administration of the department, are indeed clear signs of the fact that, whether virtually or physically, The Regent College Foundation programme re- mains on top of the ladder of sixth form programmes. We have continued to surmount obstacles such as internet connection, which has affected virtually all net- works. Classes have been running smoothly regardless of the fact that they done remotely. It promises to get better. While we thank our ever supportive parents for their continued support, we humbly beg for more and thank you all in advance. Thank you. Michael Monday Business Teacher/Head, University Foundation Programmes. Respect Responsibility Resilience

Page 3 ONTARIO SECONDARY SCHOOL DIPLOMA (OSSD) PROGRAMME Teaching and Learning this Week Classes have continued for OSSD students with teachers taking advantage of a variety of tools at their disposal to deliver engaging lessons. Google Forms have served useful purposes for conducting quizzes, tests or achieving other tasks. Teachers have also employed Google Classroom to share materials ahead of classes for the benefit of students. On their part, students have also shown commendable commitment through consistent and timely class attendance. How We Are Learning Students have continued to experience the uniqueness of learning on the OSSD programme this teaching week. While great teaching and learning generally places learners at the centre, the OSSD programme is deliberately crafted to incorporate unique ways of how this is done. Among a variety of approaches are: think, pare, share, and high order thinking skills (or HOTS for short) The think, pare share approach provides our students the unique opportunities of: engaging with and reflecting on concepts and ideas, first, on their own then joining up (paring) with their colleagues in an interactive and collaborative learning before sharing fine-grained outcomes with the rest of the class. HOTS come in the form of creating, evaluating and analyzing ideas. These are helping to provide our stu- dents with ample opportunities to interact with real word problems with a view to preferring real world solutions. In this way, they are not simplistically accumulating information (which may become obsolete) but are acquiring lifelong skills that will enable them tackle even yet to be discovered problems in the world. The illustration below shoes a peek at how we are learning on the OSSD programme. Respect Responsibility Resilience

Page 4 ONTARIO SECONDARY SCHOOL DIPLOMA (OSSD) PROGRAMME CONTD. Timothy Hyua, HOD, OSSD Programme, English and Lit. in English Teacher Respect Responsibility Resilience

Page 5 CO-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES REPORT The Regent College virtual co-curricular activities are going smoothly as planned. Our students and staff are working tirelessly to match up with the challenges caused by this global pandemic (Covid 19). It is definitely not easy to organise and coordinate most of our co-curricular activities online but with strong determination we are coasting well in victory. Last week, our students in all the three academic programmes being run in the college (A-Levels, Founda- tion and OSSD) were allocated to their mentors who will work with them throughout this academic year. Our mentorship programme is uniquely and carefully designed to help our students succeed in their aca- demic and social journeys with us as they navigate through their university years. Interestingly, the first mentorship meeting was held on Friday 18th September, 2020. This meeting presented opportunity for our students to meet with their mentors officially and set the tone for 2020 academic session. Again, expression of interest (nomination) form for Student Representative Council (SRC) will be made available for collection this week Friday. This will present our students another great opportunity to prac- tise what they are learning from their weekly leadership training in the college. One of our leadership val- ues is service and we sincerely believe that students who are interested in taking on the mantle of leader- ship in this academic year at SRC level will be able to live up to this responsibility. Finally, I will like to encourage students (newly admitted) who are yet to sign up for club activities to kind- ly do so this weekend. Thank you. Mr Ayadi Olusoji Head of Department, Activities Respect Responsibility Resilience







Page 9 TEACHERS IN ACTION: ONLINE TEACHING Respect Responsibility Resilience

Page 10 LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER Providing Services Remotely (TRC) Libraries around the world of all sorts have been working hard to provide access to collections and ser- vices remotely, often investing time and effort in updating websites and computer systems in order to deal with demand. The Regent College Learning Resource Centre has put in place a good number of plat- forms where students can have access to resources (Books, E-books & Audio-visual resources) as seen below. Virtual Library A virtual library was created on the school website, to support teaching and learning by creating a reser- voir of resources on the website and channeling specific resources towards the Faculties. Our vision is to create a vibrant and dynamic learning commons where students can inquire, discover, read, view, listen, collaborate, create and present in a future focused learning environment. The virtual library is packed full with lots of educational resources in different forms. This Platform was introduced to students during the orientation week. Ask A librarian Ask a Librarian is an enquiry based strategy to create reference services for student’s enquiry. This is a collaborative virtual reference service that connects students to librarians with real-time research assis- tance through chats on the School website. This initiative allowed students to connect with their school library. The Librarian is on standby to receive an enquiry from students proffering solution to all their en- quiries. The librarian is always online from of 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Mondays through Fridays. Respect Responsibility Resilience

Page 11 LEARNING RESOURCE CENTER CONTD. James Iyaji, Learning Resources Manager Respect Responsibility Resilience

Page 12 EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS OF THE WEEK As a way of motivating our students to be up and doing, we shall publish names of students, weekly, that put in extra effort in various ways concerning the online learning activities and experiences. Teachers will be made to recommend students in categories like: - Never misses classes - Always punctual - Interactive in class - Always neatly and properly dressed. - Goes beyond and above the required expectations - Others. For this week, the following students below have made the list of exceptional students and thus, should be commended and encouraged to do more: STUDENT NAME PROGRAMME AREA OF COMMENDATION IBRAHIM ABBA BU- FOUNDATION Never misses classes;, Always punctual; Interactive in KAR class. ZULAIKHA EL-YAKUB A LEVELS Always punctual; Interactive in class; Goes beyond and above the required expectations. El-Yakub Zulaikha is SHREYA JINDAL A LEVELS one student whose zeal to studies is quite commenda- ble. She looks at the scheme of work and researches CHINYERE EJIM OSSD on the topic ahead of class and comes in with input that is remarkable. FAUZIYAH GEBI A LEVEL Never misses classes; Always punctual; Interactive in class; Always neatly and properly dressed; Goes be- HALIMA KASHIM- AS yond and above the required expectations; Turns in IMAM Home Work on time. Shreya is an exceptional learner. She is not only civil but also intellectually humble! Her crave for excellence is insatiable. Never misses classes; Always punctual; Interactive in class; Always neatly and properly dressed; Goes be- yond and above the required expectations; Turns in Home Work on time Never misses classes; Always punctual; Interactive in class; Always neatly and properly dressed; Turns in Home Work on time Never misses classes; Always punctual; Always neatly and properly dressed; Turns in Home Work on time. Respect Responsibility Resilience

Page 13 MEDICAL CORNER Don’t Touch That! 7 Places with the Most Germs Worried about what you or your family are picking up in restrooms or while you’re out shopping? Well, you should be: Viruses and bacteria run rampant on the surfaces you touch every day. Touch a germ-infected surface, then rub your nose or mouth, and the next thing you know, microbes are dancing the mambo in your body. With the cold and flu and other bugs crawling about public places all year round, everyone has plenty to worry about. Unfortunately, going anywhere people meet can boost your chances of getting sick. That is because viruses and bacteria live practically every- where — shopping malls, grocery stores, playgrounds, petting zoos, res- taurants. They can survive up to two hours on shopping carts, escalator handrails, even doorknobs before they find their next victim. We encounter about 60,000 types of germs every year, but if you’re healthy, there’s no need to fear go- ing out in public. You can also give your defence system a boost by taking steps to prevent infection; in particular, know- ing the top public places areas with the most germs: 1. The Grocery Store: Shopping cart handles. Customers may sneeze, wipe their noses, and then touch the cart handles. 2. Playgrounds: The swings, jungle gym and other equipment .Playgrounds are germ minefields. 3. Public Toilets and door handles: The toilet seat is not the biggest restroom offender, the sink is. Bacteria swarm on the sink tap or han- dles, because we touch them right after using the toilet. Also, the sink tap is a wet, moist environment, so bacteria can survive there longer. Watch out for soap dispensers, too, because they’re handled by many filthy hands. And use a paper towel to turn the water off. 4. Mobile : Telephones, school desks and computer keyboard. In fact, your desk has 400 times more germs than a toilet seat. Germs find plenty to snack on, on desks and tables. 5. Restaurants: Table surface and high chairs. Contaminated food isn’t the biggest threat at restaurants it’s the rag used to wipe the table “clean.” When the servers wipe down a table or chairs, their dirty rags may be spread- ing a small film of E. coli. The same cloth is used on more than a dozen tables before it is disinfected. 6. Libraries: Countertops and surfaces. Libraries appear to be tidy, but they crawl with as many germs as a fast-food restaurant. Why? Lots of people shuffle through and peruse books, log on to computers and touch coun- tertops. Use hand sanitizer or wash your hands after thumbing through books or touching countertops. 7. Shopping Malls: Escalator handles. How often do you hang onto the escalator handrails while climbing the stairs at a shopping mall or airport? They are filled with germs, the number of people who touch escalator handles makes it a bacteria hot spot. Don’t touch them. But if you do, wash your hands or use hand sanitizer af- terward. Respect Responsibility Resilience