Monday 25th April. Issue 147
Word on the Street The Newsletter of Bethnal Green Academy and Sixth Form
BGA trip to Seville, Granada and Cordoba
What I enjoyed the most were the Holy Week processions right outside our hotel. These were particularly special on our last day as it was the best ‘goodbye’ to Spain.
Asrima Khatun
After the success of our trip to Pompeii in 2015, our students embarked on an amazing trip to some of Spain’s most beautiful cities in March 2016. They were lucky enough to be there during ‘Semana Santa’ (Easter Holy Week) and saw all the incredible religious celebrations. On Monday 21st March students and teachers from Bethnal Green Academy started out on what was to be an epic trip to the south of Spain, to visit the beautiful cities of Granada, Cordoba and Seville. The first city we visited was Cordoba. As well as the unique mosque-cathedral, Cordoba's treasures include the Alcazar, the Calahorra Fort and the medieval quarter, once the home of the Jewish community, called "La Judería" (The Jewry), a labyrinth of winding, narrow streets, shady flower-filled courtyards and picturesque squares. Next came Granada, where we visited the world-renowned Alhambra palace, set in the mountains overlooking Granada, where students saw the stunning Arabic architecture and gardens of the last Arab fortress in Spain before the Reconquista. The Alhambra of Granada is the most popular monument in Spain, in 2012 it had 3 million visitors, and it became Unesco World Heritage Site in 1984. Another highlight was on our final day when we had a guided tour of 'La Real Maeztranza' bullring. All in all, the BGA trip to the south of Spain brought students’ study of Spanish language and culture to life and was huge success: students were really engaged, always asking questions and most importantly, enjoying learning. I really enjoyed being immersed in a culture that I has previously been unfamiliar with. I thought the Alhambra was a particularly interesting piece of historical architecture.
Theo Gilbert
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Number Day Bethnal Green Academy
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Pi Day @ BGA 2016
On the week commencing 14th of March BGA hosted a week of maths activities to coincide with Pi day and Number day. KS3 students throughout the week did lessons on investigating the properties of pi by measuring the circumference and perimeter of circular objects with string. We also spoke about how everyone's phone number appears in the digits of pi at some point. Well done to Mohamed Ali Mohamed from year 9 who won the "Memorise the digits of pi" competition. He memorised 32 digits by composing a pi-em. Also well done to Rushamba Wright in year 10 who won the "Guess the weight of the pi" competition - she managed to estimate to within 10g of the actual weight! Also Hussain Mahmud Tamim in year 8 won the Number Day activity by getting almost all of the teacher's numbers and answering the related pi questions.
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Duke of Edinburgh Ceremony A huge well done to last year's Duke of Edinburgh participants whose achievements were recognised at the Tower Hamlets Duke of Edinburgh Ceremony on 22nd March, held at Central Foundation Girls School. Deng Yan San, the young Mayor of Tower Hamlets, hosted the event as over 60 of our students (the 3rd most in Tower Hamlets) were acknowledge for achieving both Bronze and Silver awards. Many students were unable to attend as they were on the Spain trip - around 20 students attended and collected their certificates on stage. Completing a Bronze or Silver award is a significant achievement and we are very proud of all those involved. 2014-15 Bronze awards Abdisamid Abdi Noor Muhammad Elijah Marshall Joshua Nyarko Amar Yasir Hafsana Khan Devonte Watson Saiyra Hoque Asiatu Koroma
Adam Bukenya Imran Hussain Harley McGraughran Ashok Oberoi Yoseph Aschalew Zachary Shaw Farheed Chowdhury Abdirahman Sabriye Sol Harter
Babor Karim Mohammad Evana Hoque Emmanuel Johnson Mujahid Miah Oksana Olivia Samiul Basar Abdi Karim Regal Jake Griffin Greer Abdul Rahim Mohamed
2014-15 Silver awards Guled Abdi Adil Ali Muna Ali Hersi Rahima Begum Surma Begum Shanaz Begum Yuwen Chen Simone Denise Nadia Doua
National archives reward trip On the 13th of April 26 BGA students who have shown consistent hard work and enthusiasm in Humanities subjects, took a trip to the National Archives. BGA students learnt about the Battle of The Somme using a range of artefacts and sources. All the students enjoyed the morning workshop and were a credit to the academy. A big well done from the Humanities department!
Daniel Gbadeyan Theo Gilbert Orlando Hall Thorpe Humaira Hoque Yubaidul Hussain Omar Hussain Rebekah Ingram Moriam Khanom Kelvin Lac
Natasha Lam Silvio Marcelo Ahmed Mohamed George Okanyere Maisha Rahman Sami Rahman Hanifa Reema Amadou Sacko Savio Samuel
Salmaan Shirwa Cansu Uslu Sumaya Yasmin Nageerah Choudhury Christopher Comiskey Mohamed Jalloh Shahana Yasmin Khatun Joshua Lindsey Mackley Abdul khabir Mohamed
Sports News from Bethnal Green Academy
Athletics Update Claudimira Landim achieved 3 gold medals and broke the U17 London triple jump record at the Middlesex Indoor Athletics Championship on 20th March. She reached the final and achieved gold in the triple jump, long jump and 60m hurdle events. An outstanding achievement for an extremely promising young athlete. Well Done Claudimira!
Year 7 and 8 kayak and canoe lessons Year 7 and 8 students have been completing a 2 week kayak and canoeing course during their Outdoor Adventure Activities unit in PE. The students have been impressive in their approach to learning new skills and supporting their peers with some excellent teamwork and leadership on display, Well done all!
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