Monday 1st February. Issue 145
Word on the Street The Newsletter of Bethnal Green Academy and Sixth Form
educate.against.hate Website Launch at BGA On Tuesday 19th January BGA hosted the launch of the Department of Education website educate.against.hate. The website will enable parents, teachers and school leaders to access useful resources that will help to protect children from radical views. The RT Hon Nicky Morgan MP launched the website at BGA and was so impressed by the school that we recieved a letter commending our efforts. (see right)
Topping the charts as BGA hits 90% Thursday 21st January saw the publication of the Department for Education’s Validated KS4 2015 Results.We are delighted to confirm that our class of 2015 achieved record-breaking GCSE results with a phenomenal 90% of students gaining 5+ A*-C grades including English and Maths. We are now on a national platform competing with some of the most successful and outstanding schools across the country. Bethnal Green Academy tops the following charts: • Top • Top • Top • Top • Top
1% 1% 2% 4% 8%
Nationally Nationally Nationally Nationally Nationally
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Value Added (Best 8) Expected Progress in English Expected Progress in Maths 5+ A*-C grades including English and Maths students achieving the EBACC
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Lord Adebowale Sixth Form learn some inspires BGA students Barclays Life skills. On Friday 22nd January Lord Adebowale came to BGA and held an extensive Q&A with our students. He is a highly accomplished individual and is a former CEO of the charity Centrepoint. His passion for social justice struck a chord with our students; the atmosphere in the room was electric. Lord Adebowale was equally impressed and was effusive in his praise of our students.
The students were a deeply impressive bunch and offered some real diamond thoughts. This is the best talk I’ve been involved in and I’ve been doing this a long time. Your students showed some really deep independent thinking from first principles; whatever you’re doing with them keep doing it!
Lord Adebowale CBE
On Wednesday 20th January. Our Year 13 students took part in a lively Barclays Life Skills event that was run in conjunction with Efe Ezekiel, Founder and Youth Mentor of UShine IShine.The workshop was devised to inspire youngpeople to get the skills they need for a better future and the session focused on personal finance with the main aim of preparing our students for the reality of university life and managing their own money sensibly. Students left the workshop buzzing; they felt inspired and motivated to take on the challenges of university life with a newly found knowledge of personal finance and ignited aspirations to realise and fulfil their dreams.
BGA students celebrate Martin Luther King Day.
Don't DIS MY ABILITY
On the evening of the 18th of January BGA students took part in the Journey for Justice Martin Luther King day event at the V&A Museum of Childhood. The night was opened to great acclaim by five BGA students who told the audience about their heroes and sheroes including Martin Luther King and welcomed Journey to Justice to Tower Hamlets. BGA students were described as superb – clear, inspiring and unforgettable. Well done to Farouk Guthmy, Sumaya Hassan, Joseph Parker, Absar Miah and Amina Begum for performing at the event and representing the school brilliantly.
Bethnal Green Academy Presents
22nd-26th FEBRUARY 2016 Find us online at: www.bethnalgreenacademy.co.uk
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