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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.
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We expect every child to be in full uniform every day with their top button done up and wearing their tie All coats must be plain black Shoes must be plain black – no trainers, plimsolls or boots! 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 With a busy few weeks left this term it is very important that you read all the key dates and messages carefully. Please ask if you unsure about of any of the information included. The Pupil Progress Reports and Parent Progress Meetings will take place in January. The Pupil Progress Reports will be sent out to you on Friday 11th January and the Parent Progress Meetings will take place on Tuesday 15th January. There will still be three Termly Reports sent out over the course of the year and three Parent Progress Meetings. Further details will be sent out in due course.
Friends of Isaac Newton Academy I am hoping to get parents from both Primary and Secondary together who would be interested in setting up a new FOINA (Friends of Isaac Newton Academy) group, with the purpose of planning fundraising events for the school throughout the year. If you are interested and hadn't done so before, in the summer term, I ask that you sign up with either the Primary or Secondary reception. Ms Broadway
Absences immediately before or after a school holiday If your child is absent before or after a school holiday we must see evidence for the absence. This may be medical evidence if your child is unwell, or evidence of flight delays or circumstances beyond your control. We cannot authorise any absences before or after a holiday without this evidence and you risk being issued with a penalty notice. 30 November 2018
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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 – Raya Alam & Ibrahim Nabi Maxwell Class – Aadam Dakri & Aqsa Islam Newton Class – Ayah Singh & Abeera Ahmad Britten Class – Wasif Mohammed & Ekampreet Malik Fitzgerald Class – Georgio Nicosia & Aleeza Arshad Glennie Class – Silha Omer & Hamza Dakri Al-Kashi Class – Rida Alom & Manahil Shaukat Fibonacci Class – Xavier Ambia & Alishba Zahoor Pythagoras Class – Shresta Yeruva & Ryan Charles Ellington Class – Asif Modid & Ubaid Mueez Nicks Class – Katrina Kaur & Aryan Lakhani Shankar Class – Aryan Singh & Shakira Choudhry Lovelace Class – Rhea Thirumal & Ayaan Riaz Hussain Mirzakhani Class – Hari Virdee & Kuljit Aytan Ramanujan Class – Khadijah Bukhari & Fahmid Khan
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End & Start of the School Day Arrangements Please be reminded that Year 3 & 4 children are expected to start their day 10 minutes earlier than other year groups at 8.35am and finish their day 10 minutes earlier at 3.35pm. It is important that this valuable 10 minutes is not lost every day as this soon mounts up to a considerable amount of learning time lost each week. As we are now finding ourselves in the winter months there is an increased chance that it will be raining at the end of the day. Therefore, when we encounter rain, we have put in place the following plan to dismiss the Year 2 and 3 children from the stairwells and hall doors rather than have them lining up on the playground
Year 2 Year 2 will be dismissed at their usual time with Pythagoras exiting from the double doors by the hall. Fibonacci will use the stairwell nearest to the library and Al-Kashi will use the stairwell nearest to the Reception classes.
Years 3 and 4 Year 3 will be dismissed at their usual time with Ellington and Nicks exiting from the stairwell by the reception classes. Shankar and Ramanujan will exit from the stairwell by the library and Lovelace and Mirzakhani exiting by the double doors nearest the hall. This will take longer to give out the children as the teachers will only be able release one child at a time, so we ask that you remain patient while we check everyone goes home safely. Thank you in advance for your support.
Tapestry Support If you need support with your Tapestry account, please contact Ms Young on the email address below. i.tapestry@isaacnewtonacademy.org
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Primary Winter Concerts Year 3 and 4 (including members of the Primary Choir) Primary Winter Concert will be held on Monday 10th December at 2:40pm in the Primary Hall. All pupils will be performing and all families will be issued with a two tickets per child.
Year 1 and 2 Primary Winter Concert will be held on Wednesday 12th December at 3:00pm in the Primary Hall. All pupils will be performing and all families will be issued with two tickets per child. Both concerts will finish in good time for pupils to be picked up at the end of school day as normal.
Reception Nativity Play The Reception pupils will be performing the Nativity play on Wednesday 12th December at 9.15am. Reception parents are invited to attend. Two tickets will be issued per child in due course.
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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:
Wednesday 19th December 8.45-9.15am – Year 4 (All Year 4 parents are invited to attend) 9.30-10.00am – Year 1 (All Year 1 parents are invited to attend)
Thursday 20th December 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 2 (All Year 2 parents are invited to attend)
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Date: Tuesday 11th December 2018 Time: 3pm – 4pm Location: Isaac Newton Academy Who For: Reception & Year 1 We will be talking about: Oral Health Programmes in our school. Looking after our teeth and brushing Diet Visiting the dentist
Parent engagement notice
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Lovely Learning This week in the Year 1 the children used their discovery skills to locate the countries and capital cities of the UK. They thoroughly enjoyed using atlases to help find these places!
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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: •
Ahmed Khan – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing enthusiasm and working hard during maths lesssons).
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Brandon Sagar- Scholar of the Week (for understanding the concept of ‘one fewer than’).
Maxwell Class: •
Taranveer Matharu – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing enthusiasm when he is sharing his ideas).
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Edie Morgan - Scholar of the Week (for supporting her partner during maths).
Newton Class: •
Shayaan Sham – BRIDGES Habits (for showing enthusiasm when learning ‘one less than’).
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Abeera Ahmad – Scholar of the Week (for saying what is ‘one more’ within numbers to 10).
Britten Class: •
Sartaj Singh – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using great discovery this week whilst settling into Isaac Newton Academy).
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Aliza Bhatti – Scholar of the Week (for writing a fantastic letter).
Fitzgerald Class: •
Hong Yip – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing great enthusiasm by completing a Cultural Passport activity at home).
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Abeera Qazi – Scholar of the Week (for using ‘wizard words’ in her writing).
Glennie Class: •
Eshaan Malik – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using great enthusiasm when role playing the Christmas Story in RE).
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Khadija Jamil – Scholar of the Week (for making inferences using evidence in the class story of Katie in London).
Al-Kashi Class: •
Rumaysah Bukhari – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing enthusiasm during English lessons and focussing hard on her writing).
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Nafiu Quddus - Scholar of the Week (for showing motivation during his independent learning and working hard on his writing).
Fibonacci Class: •
Humza Anwar – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using his noticing skills and finding resources on the Learning Wall to aid his learning).
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Zoha Zaidi – Scholar of the Week (for using her skimming and scanning skills during the Whole Class Reading sessions to answer literal questions).
Pythagoras Class: •
Laraib Ul-Haq – BRIDGES Habits Award (for spotting patterns in maths, understanding how multiplications are commutative and writing her own commutative equations).
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Holly Carless – Scholar of the Week (for writing a lovely five-part story this week and including ambitious sentence openers and relative clauses).
Ellington Class: •
Ravi Jethwa – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing curiosity through asking interesting questions and sharing his thoughts during PSHE).
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Hannah Nakhuda – Scholar of the Week (for her level of engagement during maths lessons this week).
Nicks Class: •
Yusha Master – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing fantastic curiosity in topic lessons and learning about the Pre-historic era in his own time).
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Ibrahim Nasiri – Scholar of the Week (for showing excellent computing skills and sharing his knowledge with others).
Shankar Class: •
Yusuf Ahmed – BRIDGES Habits Award (for always demonstrating a wonderful curiosity in his learning and for being fascinated by the world around him).
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Inaaya Muhammad - Scholar of the Week (for trying really hard to use words in their contracted form eg. they’re and you’re).
Lovelace Class: •
Nirmalpreet Durhailay – BRIDGES Habits Award (for always keeping an open mind when approaching challenge).
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J’Shawn Holland - Scholar of the Week (for being able to reason place value when handling decimal numbers).
Mirzakhani Class: •
Amber Carless – BRIDGES Habits Award (for demonstrating creativity when making her kalimba in Design and Technology).
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Kisa Fatima – Scholar of the Week (for always being committed to completing her work to a high standard).
Ramanujan Class: •
Hashim Kamil Ali – BRIDGES Habits Award (for demonstrating curiosity during lessons by asking pertinent and interesting questions).
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Jasmine Gadhia – Scholar of the Week (for taking care and consideration about the presentation of her writing).
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Reception Nativity
Clothing Donations Wanted Do you have any clothes that were used for previous nativity plays and are no longer needed, if so can you drop them off to Maxwell class so that they can be put to good use. Thank you in advance from the Reception team. The Reception pupils will be performing the Nativity play on Wednesday 12th December at 9.15am. Reception parents are invited to attend. Two tickets will be issued per child in due course.
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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Headteacher’s Lunch Well done to the following pupils who have been nominated for the Headteacher’s Lunch for next Friday 7th December. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Ahmed Khan - Curie Ranvijay Arora - Britten Meliah Henry - Shankar Ahmad Musa - Curie Medina Islam - Fitzgerald Nicholas Fetrina Jardiel Ellington Taranveer Matharu - Maxwell Yuvraj Chaggar - Glennie Haroon Ali - Nicks Monira Miah - Maxwell Tariq Hamed - Pythagoras Osman Dean - Lovelace Inayah Kashif - Newton Humza Anwar - Fibonacci Tripatjit Kaur - Newton Aleena Chowdhury - Al-Kashi Avneet Chaggar - Mirzakhani Khadijah Bukhari - Ramanujan
Merits 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. Alishba Zahoor Aarzoo Ilyas Annika Taheem Hamza Ahmed Medina Islam Akbar Hussain Muahid Ahmad Simran Islam 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. Tasnia Anis Aleena Chowdhury 30 November 2018
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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 30th November 2018
Grit Grit comprises six dispositions:
Perseverance
Resilience
Concentration
Managing Distractions
Patience
Determination
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At part of our 6 pillars we continuously stress the importance to the children about managing distractions and concentrating during their learning time. It is essential that from Reception upwards that the children become better at managing distractions and demonstrate that they can work on a task for a sustained period of time. We always encourage a ‘can do’ resilient attitude and talk to the children about the importance of not giving up on a task too easily, even when it presents as a challenge, learning that ‘practice makes perfect’. We discuss that having patience and trying something again, even though we may find it difficult, will lead to success. We also explain that patient can also mean not having what we want instantly and that sometimes we have to wait our turn..
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Encourage your child to try and complete things more independently – when they say they can’t do something – tell your child to have a go and to try a little harder. If then they are still completely stuck with a task, then offer a small amount of help to get them started. Offer encouragement and praise your child’s effort. Talk to your child about how you learned to do things and how hard some things were for you too but through not giving up, being determined and practising you got better.
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Composer of the Fortnight
Thomas Newman
For the next few weeks we will be listening to and learning about Thomas Newman as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Newman 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/Thomas_Newman http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002353/bio
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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 Maxwell Newton
91.2% 89.1% 93.9%
Britten Fitzgerald Glennie
95.4% 93.3% 95.0%
Al-Kashi Fibonacci Pythagoras
85.0% 100% 97.1%
Well done and huge congratulations to Fibonacci class who are the winners this week with 100% and will receive extra play next week.
Key Stage 2 Ellington Nicks Shankar
97.5% 95.8% 95.8%
Lovelace Mirzakhani Ramanujan
96.2% 95.4% 96.7%
Well done and congratulations to Ellington class who are the winners this week with 97.5%.
Overall Attendance: 94.6% The attendance this week is very low; we hope to see classes improve on this next week. 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%. 30 November 2018
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Key Dates for
Autumn Term 2018 Monday 3rd September – Thursday 20th December
Spring Term 2019 Friday 4th January - Friday 5th April 2019 Half Term: Monday 18th - Friday 22nd February 2019 INSET Days: Monday 7th January & 11th March 2019
Wednesday 5th December
Parent Quiz Night – 7.00pm
Monday 10th December
Primary Winter Concert - Year 3 & Year 4 at 2.40pm
Wednesday 12th December
Reception Nativity Play - 9.00am
Wednesday 12th December
Primary Winter Concert - Year 1 & Year 2 at3.00pm
Friday 14th December
Christmas Lunch & Christmas Jumper Day
Thursday 20th December
Awards Assemblies - Term Ends at 12.15pm
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