Student Leadership Introducing our new Student Reporters Columbia Primary Visit Merit Top 20
Issue #94 - Monday 12 December 2011
End of a Century... Welcome to Issue #94! It’s the end of a calendar year and we’re fast approaching 100 issues since I started writing our school newsletter back in 2008. What better time to introduce some new members of our news team, some new features and of course, when we return in January we will be Bethnal Green Academy. Season’s greetings everyone. See you in the new year.
Team Learning
Cover story
Psychology students visit Columbia Primary. A group of our keen and inquisitive GCSE Psychologists visited Columbia Primary last week to explore the students’ understanding of gender and how it is defined. Stereotyping and gender “roles” are engrained at an early age. Ask yourself, “Who is more likely to be a footballer?” How about a doctor or a teacher? Who does the housework? Are we defined by who we are or what we do?
Team Voice: Council Members
Sounds complicated but it’s something we respond to at a very early age. Our primary school volunteers explored identity through a range of games including decorating masks and gingerbread men and gave our students a valuable insight into perception and child development. Thank you to Miss Clark and everyone at Columbia Primary. I’m sure you would have explained it better than me!
Team Voice: Student Reporters
What’s in a name?
BGTC becomes Bethnal Green Academy. As I am sure you are aware, from January Bethnal Green Technology College (BGTC) will become Bethnal Green Academy. In the short term, it’s business as usual but there are lots of fantastic opportunities ahead including the design of our new school badge, ready for September. We want to see your creative ideas and will be running a range of activities and competitions to come up with our new logo in the new year. Students, staff, parents and carers, we would love for you to all share your ideas with us. Watch this space!
Team Volunteering
Top of the table. Students with the most merits this week are... Student
T/G
Merits
Shapla Aktar Choudhury
8C
9
Donnell Da Costa
7C
8
Saheda Begum
8G
7
Fariha Chowdhury
8C
7
Humaira Hoque
8G
7
Aysha Hussain
7C
7
Benjamin Oluwole
7G
7
Abdur Rahat
11E
7
Rahima Aktar
9T
6
Cyma Akther
7C
6
Meet the team.
Ayesha Aziz
9B
6
Mozuma Begum
8C
6
Student Leadership Programme 2011/2012.
Raveena Begum
7B
6
Congratulations to our newly appointed Student Leadership Team members. Our enthusiastic and able volunteers will take on a range of roles and responsibilities that will support learning, help improve the school and work with our wider community. There will be plenty more information and opportunities to join the team in January.
Surma Begum
8B
6
Munirul Hoque
7E
6
Mohammed Shahib Hussain
10E
6
Musammoth Mawa Khatun Mahima
8B
6
Senior Student Leadership Team
Team Voice: Student Reporters (Communications)
Yash Patel
9T
6
Hanifa Reema
8E
6
Nana Adjeiwah Sufiyan Mohammed Destiny Kelvin Tahmina Begum
Theo Gilbert Ciaran Constable Saheda Begum Moqbul Hussain
Taylor White
9C
6
Team Learning
Team Volunteering
Moshina Chowdhury Theo Barbey Afia Tajrian Rayisa Karim Mahima Khatun Hanifa Reema Gianne Marie
Siddiq Hussain Yilmaz Cam Jamila Hassan Donnell Da Costa Shahib Hussain Mobin Faruque Sumaya Yasmin Ishaq Hamza Imaad Uddin Remon Clarke Mehjebi Choudhury Chris Comiskey Abtahee Rahman
Team Voice: Council Azara Tahira Kelvin Lee Joshua Ngarka Joshua Orakwue Courtney Jefford Nana Adjeiwah
Read all about it! Introducing our Student Voice, News Team.
I am very proud to introduce our new group of Student Reporters that form part of the Student Leadership Programme’s, Team Voice. Theo, Ciaran, Saheda and Moqbul will work alongside Mr. Pedley and I, writing and editing articles for both our school magazine and our website. Look out for some great new features in the new year. Congratulations and welcome to the team!
bethnalgreenacademy.co.uk
Word of the week.
Dot dot dot... Website sneak preview. An early reminder to students, parents and staff that from January we will be migrating to a new web and email address to reflect our Academy status. From the new year, our website www.bethnalgreenacademy.co.uk will go live but don’t worry, our existing site as well as our email addresses will all remain active for the remainder of the academic year to ensure a smooth transition.
valid adjective (of an argument or point) having a sound basis in logic or fact; reasonable or cogent: a valid criticism.
Our Word of the week is sourced from our Focus Words list which is compiled by our teaching staff and is designed to include the sort of keywords, terms and phrases regularly used in their subject areas. The full list, complete with dictionary definition hyperlinks can be found on the Students page of our website.
bethnalgreenacademy.co.uk/students
Riddle me this...
Mr. Pedley’s Puzzle Page is back. We end the term with a puzzle that looks like a crossword but you fill it with numbers. A crossnumber? Whatever you want to call it, it’s never as simple as it appears.