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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. • • • • • • • •
We expect every child to be in full uniform every day with their top button done up All coats must be plain black Shoes must be plain black – no trainers! If you are not sure about the types of shoes that are part of our uniform policy, please ask. Please label every item of clothing One pair of plain stud earrings can be worn Nail polish is not allowed Jewellery is not permitted Long hair for both boys and girls must be tied back. Hair decorations must be small and plain and match the school uniform
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Schools starts at 8.45am (8.35am for Year 3 & Year 4). 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 & Year 4) every day other than Tuesday when we finish at 3.00pm (2.50pm for Year 3 & Year 4).
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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 It has been a fantastic week welcoming everyone back officially and helping our new cohort of Reception pupils and their families settle in to Isaac Newton Academy Primary. I have been hugely impressed by how quickly all the children have managed to adapt to their new routines this week and especially to the Reception children who have demonstrated their bravery as they have waved their parents goodbye for the day. Reception parents, I am equally proud of your bravery, as you kindly followed our advice and left us to settle the children each morning. Information Topic sheets for each year group are now online under the Primary section of the school website under the Home Learning tab at the bottom. These will give you more information about the learning your child will be doing this half term along with ideas about how you can further support them with their learning at home. The Home Learning for this week can also be found in the same place. If you need any further assistance accessing either, please let your child’s class teacher know.
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.
Enrichment We will be starting our enrichment clubs again from Monday 24th September. Every child is expected to participate in one enrichment club each week; this is an all-though school expectation. Please make sure you have signed up using the Enrichment App. If you are experiences any difficulties, please let the office staff know. 14 September 2018
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Tapestry Workshop (Reception Parents Only) Wednesday 19th September 9am & 6pm
We will be running a Tapestry workshop on Wednesday 30th September for Reception parents. The workshop will be run at 9am and repeated again at 6pm. Please let the office staff if you can attend and if so at which time. Tapestry is an online tool that we use to record stages of your child’s progress and learning development. We are then able to share these stages with you at home. The workshop will show you how you can access Tapestry and how you too can use it at home to record stages of your child’s development towards their learning journey in Reception. We hope to see as many of you as possible. Reception pupils follow the Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum. There are 17 areas of learning and development by which we track your child’s progress. It is expected that Reception pupils will reach a Good Level of Development across the 17 Early Learning Goals (ELGs) by the end of the Reception Year. A detailed breakdown of the 17 Early Learning Goals can be found on INA’s website under the ‘Community’ tab – Resources for Parents – Reception Early Learning Goals. For further information regarding Tapestry please visit the following website: http://tapestry.info/
School Photographer
The school photographer will be in next week on Thursday 27th September, taking individual pupil photos and siblings, which will then be available for you to purchase. Further details on how to purchase these will be sent in due course. Please ensure that your child is in their full uniform and looking extremely smart!
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Primary European Languages Competition Join the competition! To celebrate European Languages Day – Wednesday 26th September – we would like you to draw or design a postcard about praises in as many languages as you can!
You need to bring your postcard to your Spanish lesson by the 28th September. The best two postcards of each year group will be used to decorate the postcards students receive in Languages when they do well, so parents and students will receive your pictures as a prize! Here are some examples to help you…
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Lovely Learning this Week This term in year 1 our topic is ‘Into the Woods’. To introduce the topic, the children role played being teddy bears having a picnic in the woods! The children made their very own sandwiches and enjoyed their time in the ‘woods’.
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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: • •
Manav Ahmed – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave and having a positive attitude to his learning in the morning). Haniah Bilal – Scholar of the Week (for always answering questions at learning time).
Maxwell Class: • •
Viraaj Saini – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave when coming in to school). Hiba Rehan – Scholar of the Week (for being a perfect talk partner on the carpet).
Newton Class: • •
Maximillian Kiborowicz – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing and describing his colour pattern to the whole class). Qasim Hussain – Scholar of the Week (for good handwriting skills when practising writing his name).
Britten Class: • •
Trinethra Kuduva-Kathikeyan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for a super brave start to Year 1). Shad Rahman – Scholar of the Week (for trying hard in all his learning all week).
Fitzgerald Class: • •
Rohith Pradeep Kumar – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for courageously using a really clear and loud and proud voice). Muahid Ahmad – Scholar of the Week (for a great job spotting missing capital letters in sentences)..
Glennie Class: • •
Zaki Adnan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave and settling in well to Isaac Newton Academy). Nidhi Jogia – Scholar of the Week (for having a brilliant attitude towards her learning all week).
Al-Kashi Class: • •
Anna Kiseleva – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing her gymnastics skills to the rest of the class). Hanfil Jameel – Scholar of the Week (for showing amazing skimming and scanning skills in English).
Fibonacci Class: • •
Humza Anwar – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using his bravery skills to settle in to his new classroom and new routines really quickly). Adam Chowdhury – Scholar of the Week (for using excellent adjectives in his information piece of writing).
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Pythagoras Class: • •
Tariq Hamed – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for taking the courage to stand up in front of the whole class and share his maths and English learning). Hafsa Mahmood– Scholar of the Week (for trying very hard with her place value learning this week and partitioning nicely into tens and ones).
Ellington Class: • •
Zara Choudhry – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing bravery when swimming in the deep end of the pool). Ubaid Mueez – Scholar of the Week (for his engagement during English this week).
Nicks Class: • •
Azmain Islam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for having the courage to make the right choice at all times and lead by example). Dua Maisam – Scholar of the Week (for creating an incredible dinosaur project over the summer holiday).
Shankar Class: • •
Prajin Raja – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating excellent leadership by helping others with their new class routines). Emilie Morgan – Scholar of the Week (for putting a huge amount of effort into his English learning and summarising the text wonderfully).
Lovelace Class: • •
Zakariyah Master – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing courage during swimming). Zairah Ali – Scholar of the Week (for making great inferences from a text).
Mirzakhani Class: •
Hamza Omer – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing bravery by working hard during lessons despite feeling unwell).
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Meerab Dar – Scholar of the Week (for demonstrating excellent mathematical understanding).
Ramanujan Class: • •
Sayef Ahmed – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating bravery during the first week in his new class). Aqeel Nazir – Scholar of the Week (for using a range of new tier words in extended sentences during Whole Class Reading).
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Class Ambassadors Every half term we award two children from each class the honour of being the class ambassador. Each class teacher has chosen two children from their class to represent them over the course of the half term. Their role includes helping children in the playground, welcoming visitors to their class and explaining some of their learning to them, along with helping the staff with other special jobs. A purple pin badge will be presented to the children in assembly next week which will need to be worn on their uniform every day. Well done and congratulations to the following pupils for this half term:
Curie Class – Anoop Tilk & Ibrahim Nobi Maxwell Class – Edie Morgan & Yunus Ashraf Newton Class – Tahsin Chakma & Avreet Kaur Britten Class – Aisha Ali & Hamza Ahmed Fitzgerald Class –Aarzoo Ilyas & Yousuf Javed Glennie Class – Sophia Ahmed & Zander Benjamin Al-Kashi Class – Muhaimin Islam & Iman Hameed Fibonacci Class – Leja Kolyciute & Saif Shaikh Pythagoras Class – Alisha Ali & Holly Carless Ellington Class – Srisakthi Velmurugan & Aran Sivananthan Nicks Class – Aysha Islam & Azmain Islam Shankar Class – Prajin Raja & Jeevan Hunjan Lovelace Class – Hammad Mohammed Siddique & Charan Chaggar Mirzakhani Class – Hamza Omer & Meerab Dar Ramanujan Class – Zaara Mubarack Ali & Tay’Shawn Holland
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Headteacher’s Lunch
Well done to the following pupils who have been nominated for the Headteacher’s Lunch for next Friday 21st September. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly:
Brandon Sagar - Curie Elsa Matilda - Curie Nikunj Mittal - Maxwell Isra Shahid - Maxwell Fatima Hussain - Newton Maximillian Kimborowicz - Newton Tyler Fraser Clarke - Britten Liyana Alveena Mubarack Ali - Fitzgerald Jaskaran Dhiman - Glennie Jawad Imran - Pythagoras Eric Vasile - Fibonacci Ayaan Aqeel - Al-Kashi Miriam Mirza - Shankar Maya Ahmed - Ellington Ekam Bains - Nicks Nandini Sharma - Lovelace Saif Hossain - Mirzakhani Zaina Hussain - Ramanujan
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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 17th September 2018
Resourcefulness
Resourcefulness comprises ten dispositions: Questioning Remembering Imitating
Making Connections Transferring Adaptability
Flexibility Reasoning Scavenging Recycling
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It is important that the pupils are able to use and remember their vast phonics, spelling and vocabulary knowledge and apply this information when beginning to write independently. The children imitate familiar stories and characters they know and apply these to their own stories.
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As adults we are acutely aware that we model behaviours for the pupils every day during lunchtime when we eat with our knife and fork or avoid talking when our mouth is full, wash our hands, consider how we dress and present ourselves, how we speak to each other; knowing that the children will imitate the behaviour they see.
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As well as being able to read the sounds and words on pages, the pupils now need to be able to question, reason and comprehend the text they read and explain what is happening and explain their ideas.
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In Maths the children need to apply and transfer their knowledge to different problems and also give reason for the way they have worked out the answers.
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Every classroom has a recycling bin which we encourage the children to use and we also look at how we can use materials around us to incorporate them in pieces of art or other areas of our work before we throw things away.
At Home Encourage your child to use items around the house to create a piece of art or make junk models and re-cycle as many items as possible. Ask questions: What could we use this box for instead of throwing it away? Do you think we could make a car, boat or castle from this large box we have? How can we use some of the things we have around the home and turn them into something more useful? When your child finds reading a word difficult or a maths question challenging, ask them to remember and use the things they do know and apply it to the new word or challenge. Ask your child lots of questions when you listening to them read at home – some obvious to find answers but also so more tricky questions e.g. Why do you think …? Why did the character …? How do you know…? Encourage your child to use their spelling and vocabulary knowledge to extend the level of interest in their writing. Get them to use familiar story characters, settings or plots to base their own stories upon. Perhaps they could scavenge interesting words from stories they read and create their own ‘interesting word dictionary’ to use whenever they are writing independently at home. Remind your child that it is important to adapt their behaviour according to the occasion or place, as parents you will of course role-model how to behave and encourage imitation.
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Composer of the Fortnight Georges Bizet
For the next few weeks we will be listening to and learning about Georges Bizet as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Bizet in preparation for the coming weeks. You can find out some facts and hear some of his music on the following links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Bizet http://www.roh.org.uk/people/georges-bizet
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 for the phase by the end of every week is awarded the attendance trophy during Friday’s Award & Recognition assembly.
Early Years and Key Stage 1 Curie
98.3%
Britten
94.4%
Al-Kashi
96.4%
Maxwell
94.1%
Fitzgerald
98.1%
Fibonacci
98.9%
Newton
97.3%
Glennie
100%
Pythagoras
96.4%
Well done and congratulations to Glennie class who are off to a flying start and are the winners this week with 100% and will receive extra play next week.
Key Stage 2 Ellington
100%
Lovelace
97.8%
Nicks
98.9%
Mirzakhani
96.2%
Shankar
99.3%
Ramanujan
98.9%
Well done and congratulations to Ellington class who are the winners this week with 100% and will receive extra play next week.
Overall Attendance: 97.8% 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 Autumn Term Dates: 3rd September 2018 - 20th December 2018 Tapestry Parent Workshop (Reception Parents only) 9am & 6pm Monday 24th September Enrichment Clubs Begin – 4.00 -5.00pm Tuesday 25th September Parent Coffee Morning 9.00 – 10.00am Wednesday 26th September European Languages Day Thursday 27th September School Photographer Monday 1st October Start of Black History Month Monday 1st October Wonderful Handwriting Week RWI Parent Workshop 9.00am & 6.00pm (Reception Wednesday 10th October and Year 1 Parents only) Friday 12th October Ramanujan Class Assembly – Year 4 - 9.00 – 9.20am Friday 12th October Fibonacci Class Assembly – Year 2 – 10.20 – 10.40am Friday 19th October Multicultural Food Fayre & Traditional Costume Friday 19th October Break up 3.45pm Monday 22nd – Friday 26th October HALF TERM Wednesday 1st November BRIDGES workshop for Parents – 6.00pm Tuesday 19th September
Monday 5th November
Maths Week
Wednesday 7th November
Diwali Reception Information Evening 6.00pm (For September 2019 Intake) Maths Mastery Parent Workshop 9.00am & 6.00pm Home and Family Week (No enrichment clubs)
Wednesday 7th November Thursday 8th November Monday 12th November
More dates to follow...
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