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Safeguarding Children As part of their curriculum, the children learn how to keep themselves safe. The following website has been set up by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to offer parents and schools advice on how to raise safeguarding awareness with children. There is a notable section called ‘The Underwear Rule’ which is of particular support and guidance to parents. The website also offers advice regarding ‘online safety’ and how to obtain support or advice regarding the safeguarding of children. www.nspcc.org.uk
Uniform Information & School Uniform Purchases The Primary uniform can be purchased through the Khalsa Schoolwear website or can be bought at Khalsa Schoolwear shop in Bethnal Green. To save on the cost of delivery charges, Khalsa Schoolwear does a school delivery once every month. You can find further details of the delivery dates on their website or you can ask the reception office staff. • • • •
Please label every item of clothing One pair of plain stud earrings can be worn Nail polish is not allowed Long hair for both boys and girls must be tied back. Hair decorations must be small and plain
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School starts at 8.45am (8.35am for Year 3). It is important that your child arrives on time every day so that the teachers can start the lesson promptly. The school gate will be open from 8.25am and will close at 8.45am.
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School finishes at 3.45pm (3.35pm for Year 3) every day other than Tuesday when we finish at 3.00pm (2.50pm for Year 3).
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If any of your details have changed e.g. your address or phone number – please ensure you contact the office to inform us, so that we can update our records and contact you in case of an emergency.
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Please ensure your child attends school every day and on time. If your child is sick then you must call the office to let us know by 8.15am. If your child has a medical appointment you must let us know in advance.
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From Tam Broadway – Primary Headteacher As we head into the last week of term please be reminded that we finish school at 12.15pm on Tuesday 17th July for the Parent Progress Meetings. Please ensure you have signed up for a time slot to meet your child’s teacher. You should have a copy of your child’s end of year report; we ask that you detach the last page to hand into the class teacher during your meeting with completed comments from both yourselves and your child. We look forward to seeing many of you at the Summer Fayre on Wednesday 18th July from 4.00pm -6.00pm. School will also finish at 12.15pm on Friday 20th July for the summer break. THERE WILL BE NO ENRICHMENT CLUBS RUNNING IN THE LAST WEEK OF TERM.
A Message from Ms Chaggar Please let the school know in good time if you are sending someone else to collect your child from school. The staff will not send a child home with an adult that has not been authorised by the parents/carers. This is in the interest of safeguarding your children. Thank you for your cooperation.
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Celebration and Awards Assembly At the end of every term the children enjoy the opportunity to share and celebrate some of their learning and achievements with you. Each teacher chooses two children from their class to receive a certificate in the Celebration and Awards Assembly, one in recognition of a child who has demonstrated the habits of all the seven BRIDGES throughout the term, and the other in recognition of a pupil’s outstanding academic effort and achievement. The assemblies start at the following times in the Primary dining hall: Thursday 19th July • 9.15-9.45am – Year 2 (All Year 2 parents are invited to attend) Friday 20th July • 8.45-9.15am – Year 3 (All Year 3 parents are invited to attend) • 9.30-10.00am – Reception (All Reception parents are invited to attend) • 10.15-10.45am – Year 1 (All Year 1 parents are invited to attend)
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INA JUMP OFF All INA students have participating in the JUMP OFF to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. All P.E lessons this week have been dedicated to skipping and raising money for BHF. Wise pay is now open for you to upload your donations. Do not bring money in. Thank you
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Parents Invited for an INA Lunch We enjoyed having more guests for lunch this week, we hoped you enjoyed it!
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Exciting Learning As part of the Year 1 topic ‘Seen and Not Heard’ two classes had the opportunity to visit the Ragged School Museum this week. The children experienced how strict and scary school could be for some Victorian children and appreciate just how fortunate they are to attend such a great school at INA with such lovely staff! Thank you so much to the parent volunteers for helping out and giving up their time, you were all a superb help!
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Exciting Learning The Reception children enjoyed adding animal features to make themselves into animals this week following their recent trip to the farm and also writing about Wimbledon.
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The pupils had fun this week learning how to skip whilst raising money for the British Heart Foundation. Please make sure you child brings their sponsor form back to school and that all sponsor money is paid on WisePay. Thank you for your support!
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Wonderful Writing Week It was great to see so many children bringing in examples of their great handwriting from home and to see so many pupils trying really hard to improve their writing in their lessons last week. I know the teachers found it really hard to choose who to award the certificates to. Well done and congratulations to the following pupils for working hard on their handwriting during the Wonderful Handwriting Week: Curie Class – Yousef Javed & Liyana Mubarak Ali Maxwell Class – Ishaq Rahman & Silha Omer Newton Class – Alizah Bhatti & Zenia Zaidi Britten Class – Tanush Handa & Hafsa Mahmood Fitzgerald Class – Soha Zaidi & Yasin Alom Glennie Class – Shahina Haleem & Isa Ijaz Al-Kashi Class – Abdullah Shahzad & Emile Morgan Fibonacci Class – Nicholas Fetrina Jardiel & Riya Patel Pythagoras Class – Asiyah Ali & Muhammad Ahmer Ellington Class – Inaaya Ijaz & Jeevat Palray Nicks Class – Nuhitu Hasan & Aayan Hussain Shankar Class – Zahra Abbas & Hamza Omer
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Merits The following pupil has received 75 merits since September for making good choices and moving up to gold on the class ‘good choice chart’ – this is fantastic achievement. A special ‘gold’ certificate will be presented during the Celebration and Awards Assembly. Medina Islam Aryan Singh
Aliyah Khan Inaaya Muhammad Zara Daykin
Ibrahim Ijaz Eric Vasile
The following pupil has received 50 merits since September for making good choices and moving up to gold on the class ‘good choice chart’ – this is fantastic achievement. A special ‘silver’ certificate will be presented during the Celebration and Awards Assembly. Adil Usman Jai Pathak Ceylan Warner Hamza Chand Fatiha Majumder Khadija Jamil
Silha Omer Anam Shah Danish Sheikh Diya Napal Tara Rani Kaur Yasin Alom
Nobin Chowdhury Bolarinwa Omotola Hong Yip Amina Sheikh Muahid Ahmad
The following pupil has received 25 merits since September for making good choices and moving up to gold on the class ‘good choice chart’ – this is fantastic achievement. A special ‘bronze’ certificate will be presented during the Celebration and Awards Assembly. Eisa Ali Eesa Hussain Aariz Khan
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Jeevat Palray Kisa Fatima Adam Natha
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Praise and Recognition Every week each teacher chooses two children from their class to receive a certificate in assembly; one is in recognition of a child demonstrating our BRIDGES habit of the week, and the other in recognition of a pupil’s academic effort throughout the week. Well done to the following children, who have been recognised this week:
Curie Class:
• Dylan Vaughan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for remembering, retelling and rewriting a story). • Adrian Kvaraciejus – Scholar of the Week (for independently finding all his number bonds to 5).
Maxwell Class:
• Jasson Maheshwaran – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for focussing to complete number bonds to 5 and 10). • Joshua Adjarho Ethridge – Scholar of the Week (for working with his peers to complete a puzzle ).
Newton Class:
• Ranvi Arora – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating resourcefulness by using a word bank to write key phrases in his own fairy tale). • Emaan Haroon – Scholar of the Week (for trying hard to write well formed letters in her story).
Britten Class:
• Max Jagdev – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for asking and great questions during topic lessons). • Jawad Imran – Scholar of the Week (for writing a fantastic recount about the school trip).
Fitzgerald Class:
• Keyaan Alam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for adapting to his environment and always coming into class from the playground very sensibly). • Arfah Noor – Scholar of the Week (for doing a great job using a range of conjunctions in her Victorian fact file).
Glennie Class:
• Gurjas Dhanjal – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for great remembering of facts about the Victorians). • Kayden Reid – Scholar of the Week (for using amazing adjectives and accurate capital letters in his recount). 12 Primary Newsletter 13 July 2018
Al-Kashi Class:
• Rohan Sharma – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using the resources in maths to support and demonstrate his understanding of place value). • Jeevan Hunjan – Scholar of the Week (for all the effort she has put into developing her handwriting and mathematical understanding).
Fibonacci Class:
• Innaya Islam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being resourceful by asking interesting questions about a character). • Asher Shah – Scholar of the Week (for super work partitioning 3 digit numbers).
Pythagoras Class:
• Ayoola Yekini – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for remembering and following the instructions given in maths and prioritising his 3 digit numbers in lots of different ways). • Yusuf Mahmud – Scholar of the Week (for showing fantastic concentration in all his subjects this week and writing a lovely postcard from the character Sunny to his relatives).
Ellington Class:
• Aqeel Nazir – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for making connections in maths by remembering his number bonds to help him find the change from £5.00). • Zaara Mubarak Ali – Scholar of the Week (for not giving up and showing tremendous resilience when finding dividing by using the halving strategy a challenge).
Nicks Class:
• Nirmalpreet Durhailay – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using a range of writing resources within her letter this week). • Mariam Chowdhury – Scholar of the Week (for using the features of letter writing to create an informal letter).
Shankar Class:
• Aashvi Govil – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using excellent reasoning skills in maths and for questioning lots of ideas in order to further her own learning). • Musa Malik – Scholar of the Week (for making a huge effort to improve both his handwriting and the pace at which he writes).
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BRIDGES in the Primary Phase “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.� Isaac Newton BRIDGES are habits of mind or learning characteristics that develop a pupil's character and learning power and enable him/her to grow into a well-rounded individual and resilient learner. There are seven BRIDGES habits that we will be working on, which will rotate on a weekly cycle throughout the year. The BRIDGES habit of the week will always be introduced at the beginning of the week during the Monday assembly and reinforced throughout the week across the curriculum. Each class teacher will award a certificate to a pupil that they feel has demonstrated the BRIDGES focus for the week. Each week we will update you on the BRIDGES habit that will be introduced in the coming week and offer some top tips on how to reinforce the habit at home too. Please also refer to the Primary BRIDGES wheel below.
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Week commencing 16th July 2018
Integrity
Integrity comprises six dispositions: Citizenship Honesty
Justice Fairness
Humility Humanity
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At school we encourage the pupils to make sure they play in a kind and thoughtful way and ensure that they include others in their games. Games where ‘turn-taking’ is needed are great at helping the children to understand that everyone has fair turn.
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It is also important that the children learn how to win and lose a game graciously and show humility when they win or congratulate the winner and say well done if they lose.
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The children need to learn and understand the importance of telling the truth even when it feels uncomfortable when we have to admit that we have done something wrong. They also need to learn to take responsibility for their actions and not get into a habit of blaming others. It is important that the children have a moral sense of right and wrong.
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Each half term the class teacher chooses two ambassadors to help the pupils develop their citizenship skills and by helping with jobs in their class or at lunchtimes.
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We encourage every child to help keep the school environment clean by clearing away plates or cups after lunch or tidying up their own table place after activities in class.
At Home Talk to your child about how they can be a good citizen within their community, by not dropping litter etc. Talk about what is fair and encourage your child to help out at home with tidying their room or books away so that they develop a sense of responsibility and respect towards theirs and others’ property. Reinforce the message about always telling the truth and why this is important. When you are reading stories together with your child, discuss characters, their behaviour and moral decision and whether they are good or bad characters and why. What should the character have done instead etc.
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Breakfast & After School Club Every parent has Wisepay details and a password, which will enable you to book a place for ‘Breakfast Club’ or ‘After School Club’. Payments must be made in advance. If you experience any problems, please contact Ms Chaggar who will be happy to help. Breakfast is available each day from 7.45am and costs just £2.50 per day. The children enjoy a range of cereals, toast and different topping, juice or milk and fruit. Any child attending must be brought to the main reception area by 8.20am at the latest. After School Club runs from 3.45pm – 6.00pm (3.00pm – 6.00pm on Tuesdays) and costs just £5.50 per hour. The children enjoy a range of snacks each evening and a variety of games and activities
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Attendance Regular attendance is a crucial factor in students’ educational development and ability to achieve their full potential. At Isaac Newton Academy every student is set the target of 100% attendance. The class with the highest attendance at the end of every week is awarded the attendance trophy during Friday’s Award & Recognition assembly.
Lower School Curie
92.5%
Britten
97.4%
Maxwell
94.8%
Fitzgerald
97.6%
Newton
97.9%
Glennie
98.3%
Well done and congratulations to Glennie class who are the winners this week with 98.3%.
Upper School Al-Kashi
99.1%
Ellington
97.9%
Fibonacci
100%
Nicks
95.4%
Pythagoras
99.2%
Shankar
95%
Well done and congratulations to Fibonacci who are the winners this week with 100% and will receive extra play next week!
Overall Attendance: 97.1% National average attendance for primary schools is 97.1%. It is important that the children attend school every day and do not miss any learning. Thank you for your support in ensuring your child is at school every day. We always strive for 100%.
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Key Dates Summer Term Dates: 16th April 2018 - 20th July 2018
Tuesday 17th July
Parent Progress Meetings – School Finishes at 12:15pm
Wednesday 18th July
Summer Fayre 4:00pm
Friday 20th July
End of Term Awards Assemblies - Term Ends at 12:15pm
Tuesday 24th July
Primary Uniform Sales
Autumn Term Dates: 3rd September 2018 - 20th December 2018
3rd - 5th September
INSET Days (no school for students)
Thursday 6th September
Meet the Teacher (New Reception Pupils) (no school for other students)
Friday 7th September
Reception Pupils 11:00am -1:00pm Year 1- 4 Pupils 1:30am – 3:30pm
Monday 10th September
All Pupils in at normal time
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