15 June 2018
Primary Newsletter
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 Whilst the lovely weather continues we do want to encourage our children to ensure they stay safe by drinking plenty of water and staying hydrated. Please make sure that your child has their water bottle with them every day, labelled with their name and class on it. We would also suggest that, in cases of hot weather, pupils leave their blazers and jumpers at home. It is also advisable to put 24 hour sun protection cream on your child before he or she comes to school in the morning if it is forecast to be a particularly hot day. Please be reminded that the school will be closed on Friday 22nd June as this is a staff training day. The Pupil Progress Reports will be sent out this term on Friday 13th July. These will include the SATs scores and converted levels for Year 2 pupils and the Phonics Screening Scores for Year 1. The Parent Progress Meetings will take place on Tuesday 17th July; school will finish at 12.15pm on this day as well as the last day of term on Friday 20th July.
Parents Invited for an INA Lunch A day each week has been set-aside for parents to come along and enjoy a lunch with their child. There are still some spaces available so, if you would like to sign up for a lunch over the course of the half term, please given the office staff a call for further details including the dates available and the lunch on offer on particular days. There are limited spaces available so places will be filled on a first come basis.
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Calling all Male Role Models We are inviting any fathers who have some time available to join and help out with our enrichment clubs. If you are available to help out with a particular club every week or can offer a one-off hour over the course of next half term, then please let the office staff know, telling them which day and club you would be available for.
A Message from Ms Palray If you are interested in helping out in any way with the Primary Summer Fayre on Wednesday 18th July, please let Ms Palray 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.
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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Exciting Learning In Year 1 the children have been learning more about Victorians. This week they used their ‘Discovery’ skills to find out facts about the Victorians and then made information posters in groups. The pupils then presented their new knowledge and information about the Victorians to the rest of the class. The children also enjoyed learning about Victorian games and had a fun time playing ‘Oranges and Lemons’ as a class!
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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:
• Leja Vitkauskaite – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for having great perseverance to talk to the whole class about her weekend with the class teddy bear). • Aarzoo Ilyas – Scholar of the Week (for a descriptive ‘Save the Whale’ poster using lots of adjectives).
Maxwell Class:
• Joshua Adjarho – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for managing distractions and focussing on his learning). • Ishaq Rahman – Scholar of the Week (for writing great sentences for a ‘Save the Whale’ poster).
Newton Class:
• Beeta Bayrami – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for the grit shown by concentrating on her transitions in her lessons). • Dimah Al-Johani – Scholar of the Week (for her love of learning and sharing what she has made with the whole class).
Britten Class:
• Ibraheem Nawaz – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for practising his phonics sounds every day and for not giving up). • Maximillian Jagdev – Scholar of the Week (for trying hard in his learning all week and for a great at INA).
Fitzgerald Class:
• Alexis Burvill – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing a great ‘try, try and never give up’ attitude when working through some repeated additions). • Leja Kolyciute – Scholar of the Week (for some thoughtful ideas and questions to ask God in RE).
Glennie Class:
• Alexandra Bale-Orhorha – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for great perseverance when investigating sources). • Muhaimin Islam – Scholar of the Week (for great work using sources to find out about Victorian coal mines). 8 Primary Newsletter 15 June 2018
Al-Kashi Class:
• Kallum Bihal – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for not giving up and persevering when tackling difficult concepts). • Adam Ismail – Scholar of the Week (for trying his best and working hard at solving addition and subtraction calculations with regrouping).
Fibonacci Class:
• Asher Shah – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for trying really hard to manage his distractions this week). • Priyajanani Pradeep Kumar – Scholar of the Week (for an excellent reinvention of the story ‘The Storm Whale’).
Pythagoras Class:
• Aryan Lakhani – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing fantastic grit when writing his re-invention of the Storm Whale this week and using ambitious vocabulary). • Gulle Jannat Zahir – Scholar of the Week (for showing great focus during Maths Meetings this week).
Ellington Class:
• Sabah Akram – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing perseverance in swimming by achieving to swim 25 metres independently). • Inaaya Ijaz – Scholar of the Week (for showing a great understanding of bar modelling through being able to solve multi-step word problems).
Nicks Class:
• Rayaan Vakas – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating grit when faced with learning challenges in class). • Nandini Sharma – Scholar of the Week (for showing a marked improvement with her handwriting).
Shankar Class:
• Amber Carless – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing wonderful grit in her English learning and for encouraging others to persevere). • Malaika Hussain – Scholar of the Week (for putting a glorious amount of effort into her writing and her maths this week). 15 June 2018
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Merits The following pupils have 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. Kallum Bihal Shakira Choudhry Maryam Nawaz Jawad Imran
Keyaan Alam Alishba Zahoor Kayden Reid
The following pupils have 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. Nidhi Jogia Adam Ismail Imran Hussain Asiyah Ali
Ijaz Nazir Nafiu Quddus Gurjas Dhanjal
The following pupils have 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. Raheema Ali Aran Sivananthan Zakariyah Master Rayaan Vakas Sanam Shah
Zaynul Bagwan Raihan Alom Muhamad Amir Bilal Hussain
Ekampreet Malik Wasif Mohammed Musa Syed Arissa Isha-Butt
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Headteacher’s Lunch Well done to the following pupils that have been nominated for the Headteacher’s Lunch on Thursday 21st June, an invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly:
Zara Asim Ijaz - Curie Joshua Adjarho-Ethridge - Maxwell Trinethra K karthikeyan - Newton Bilal Hussain - Newton Holly Carless - Britten Alexis Burvill - Fitzgerald Gurnoor Kalkat - Glennie Saim Rehman - Al-Kashi Raheema Ali - Fibonacci Nabeeha Ozzul - Pythagoras Muhammed Ahmer - Pythagoras Saismriti Nakerkanti - Ellington Anum Imran - Nicks Hamza Omer - Shankar
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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 18th June 2018
Emotional Intelligence Emotional Intelligence comprises seven dispositions: Empathy Listening Sociability
Collaboration Openness
Reflectiveness Understanding
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At school we always remind the children to treat others in the way that they would like to be treated in return. At school we talk about having good listening skills and that we must look at the person who is talking to us to show respect for them and that we are listening to them properly. During every lesson the children are encouraged to develop their sociability by talking to their talk partner, when some children find this hard to do; an adult will sit and help facilitate paired talk. During the course of the year the children will be moved around and will have been encouraged to have different reading partners, maths partners etc. We discuss the importance of working together as one big team or family at school and that we need to take care of everybody – we use the phrase ‘kind hands, kind feet’ to remind children that we do not hurt others. When a child hurts someone or makes a poor behaviour choice, it is important that they reflect on their behaviour and if another person is involved, that they apologise to them. Through wider reading and research the children are able to extend their understanding of the world around them, reflecting on what makes things different and what are the common thread through life. Though reading stories the children can develop their skills of empathy through their comprehension of the characters, their motivations etc.
At Home Having consistent boundaries between home and school is very important. Talk to your child about the importance of not hurting or hitting other children and that we need to treat everyone kindly and respectfully. We know that you have equally high expectations of your child at home as we at school and working in partnership has great strength in supporting your child to make good choices each day.
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Composer of the Fortnight Johann Sebastian Bach
For the next fortnight we will be listening to and learning about Johann Sebastian Bach as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Bach 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/Johann_Sebastian_Bach http://www.biography.com/people/johann-sebastian-bach-9194289
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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
98.3%
Britten
95.6%
Maxwell
99.3%
Fitzgerald
98.3%
Newton
96.6%
Glennie
96%
Well done and congratulations to Maxwell class who are the winners this week with 99.3%.
Upper School Al-Kashi
100%
Ellington
97.3%
Fibonacci
98%
Nicks
95.7%
Pythagoras
97.6%
Shankar
96.7%
Well done and congratulations to Al-Kashi who are the winners this week with 100%!
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 Summer Term Dates: 16th April 2018 - 20th July 2018
Thursday 21st June
Year 2 visit to Southend
Friday 22nd June
Staff Inset Day – no school for students
Wednesday 27th June
Reception Visit to Barleylands
Friday 29th June
Pythagoras Class Assembly – Year 2 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 29th June
Maxwell Class Assembly – Year R – 10.25 – 10.45am
Monday 2nd July
Wonderful Handwriting Week
Tuesday 3rd July
Coffee Morning 9.00am
Tuesday 3rd & Thursday 9th July
Year 1 visit to the Ragged School Museum
Thursday 5th July
Primary Sports Day
Friday 6th July
Staff Inset Day - no school for students
Friday 13th July
Pupil Progress Reports Sent Home
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
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