Welcome to issue #105
Weekly news from Bethnal Green Academy. Here’s your weekly update - and it seems we have yet another sporting success to report...
Badminton Best Year Ever! Tower Hamlets Badminton Tournament Bethnal Green Academy hosted the second singles Borough Tournament of 2011/2012 season. We had over 35 entrants from 5 different schools. It was a very exciting competition with 3 of the eight students playing in the final representing Bethnal Green Academy. In a very tight game Duel Ahmed -Year 10 won the competition. This not only makes him doubles Borough Champion but now singles as well. The following three students were taken up in the Tower Hamlets Team to represent the Borough at the Youth Games in June 2012: Duel Ahmed (Year 10), his doubles partner Syed (Year 10) Ahmed and Ujjoll Ahmed (Year 9). Well done Gentlemen! Also a big thank you to all the players that have given up their time to train and compete through out this year. It has been our best year ever!
Sixth Form Information Evening June 26th 2012 Find out how Bethnal Green Academy will prepare you for a top university by: • Giving you significant leadership opportunities. • Developing all the key skills you will need to be a successful student. • Designing a curriculum specific to your needs. Parents/carers encouraged to attend. Look out for more details nearer the time.
You know it, you’re a poet? If you are a you have a talent for writing poetry enter your work into the forthcoming poetry competition with the chance to win a prize! Come along to Creative Writing on Wednesday lunchtimes at 1.30 in the LRC.
Write up your Street!
Issue #105 - Monday 21 May 2012
Have you been to film club this week? Were you a spectator at the the badminton championships? Word on the street would love to publish your film or book review, or your report on a sporting event. If you attend clubs, tell us about them and see your work in print inside Word on the Street.
Word of the week.
Student Voice update Have you voted for the whole school event you would like to see run, if not you have one week left to do so. See you Student Council rep to find out how to vote. Well done to student Leaders Sufiyan Mohammed (9B) Siddeeq Hussain (7B), Joshua Nyarko (7B) and Mohammed Shahib (10E) met with the Police Borough Commander for Tower Hamlets on Wednesday to tell him about the work students at BGA have been doing to improve safety in the local area. They asked him to increase the amount of police officers on the streets during the hours of 3-7 to ensure students going home from school feel safer. Are you volunteering at the moment, in school, at home or in the community? Then why not get recognised for it? Collect a volunteering log from Ms Emmanuel. If you volunteer for 30 hours or more by the end of the year you have the chance to go on a trip.
reliable adjective consistently good in quality or performance; able to be trusted: a reliable source of information.
noun a person or thing with such trustworthy qualities: the supporting cast includes old reliables like Mitchell.
Two Year 7 girls have asked for a Bully Box to be placed in the Street so that, if a student needs help and prefers not to talk to anyone they can post their statement in the box in their own time. We will look at installing a Bully Box as soon as possible.
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.
Student Leadership application forms are in the library.
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Tai Chi Tuesdays Want to clear your mind before school starts? Want to feel fitter and stronger? When: Tuesdays 8.00 - 8.25 Where: in the drama studio (main hall) Dress: school uniform or PE T-shirt instead of shirt See Mr. Morris for more information
Come along to Film Club every Monday Night from 3.30-5.30 with Ms Cradduck and Ms Gill Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/BethnalGreenAc
Word Morph! Can you morph one word into another by just changing one letter at a time? It’s not easy but it will get you thinking!
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Commonyms!
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A commonym is a group of words that have a common trait in the three words. For example: the words; car - tree - elephant. They all have trunks. Give these a try.
Answers to last weeks word morph: port, pout, pour hour
1. Olive - Orange - Fig 2. Doctors - Paintings - Eye 3. Picnic - Pool - Coffee 4. Rose - Potato - Taste 5. Seat - Whoopee - Pin 6. Ice - Sugar - Rubik’s
Answers to last weeks Commonyms: sharks, shoes, coats, metals, filters, they have bulbs