18 January 2019
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.
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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 It was great to see you all attend the Parent Progress Meetings on Tuesday. As always, we enjoy the opportunity to work in partnership with you and discuss your child’s progress and attainment for the term. I hope you managed to discuss how you can help and support your child at home.
Friends of Isaac Newton Academy Thank you to those of you that have signed up attend and be a part of the INA fundraising committee. Our first meeting with be held in the Primary Dining Hall at 7.00pm on Wednesday 30th January. I look forward to seeing you all then!
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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.
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Breakfast and Afterschool 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.
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. 18 January 2019 Primary Newsletter
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Message from the Reception Team The children have made fabulous progress with their reading in phonics and from Monday 14th January the Reception children will begin guided reading sessions in school. Guided Reading is where a group of children will spend time with the teacher exploring and sharing a reading book. These sessions will support your child’s reading development and comprehension skills. After they have their guided reading session with their teacher, they will take the book home to share with their parents. During the week, we would like you to read your child’s book with them and write a comment with their successes in their yellow reading record book. In the child’s next reading session the teacher will review any comments made in the record book and swap the reading book for another. We will then issue your child with another reading book only when the previous one has been returned.
Please look after the book; we will request a payment from families for any lost or damaged books.
Relationships & Sex Education Information (Year 4 Parents) Year 4 parents are invited to attend an information session on Tuesday 22nd January. The session will run at 9.00am and again at 6.00pm and is aimed at informing you of the schools’ statutory guidance as well as the resources we have chosen to use to teach RSE at Isaac Newton Primary.
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Maths with Parents Workshop (Year 1 & Year 2) It was great to see so many of you at the launch meetings for Maths with Parents. It is really important that you all sign up for the resources and online games that you can do with your child at home to support and complement their learning. Well done to Glennie class who now have every child in the class signed up!!! Please sign up using the following website and six-digit codes. www.mathswithparents.com Once you are on the main page you will need to click to ‘log in’ you will be asked to click on the ‘new parent’ tab. When asked for the six-digit class please add as follows and complete the registration details:
Britten Class
168469
Fitzgerald Class
450066
Glennie
115187
Al-Kashi
274975
Fibonacci
289285
Pythagoras
818417
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Elmer the elephant The Reception children have been inspired by their reading of the book Elmer this week and have enjoyed making their very own Elmer the elephant using milk cartons. They also had the opportunity to explore the book further through drama at the Secondary school. A huge thank you to Ms Watkins from the Drama department for organising and leading the learning.
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Lovely Learning this week This week Mr Marshall-Jones kindly visited Year 1 to talk about toys from the past. The children enjoyed asking questions and finding out more about the toys he used to play with.
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Calling all Actimel Pots! If you drink Actimel, please don’t throw the little bottles away. Bring them into school as we would like to use them to make cane toppers from in readiness for an exciting tree planting event we will be having at the end of March… There will be boxes in Reception and Fitzgerald Class where you can donate any Actimel pots you have. Many thanks, Ms Willcox
SATs Information Workshop – English (Year 2 Parents) Thank you to the Year 2 parents and carers who were able to attend the KS1 English SATs workshop on Wednesday. We received a good turnout for both the morning and evening sessions. The power point presentation is available to view from the ‘Community’ tab on the website and then in ‘Resources for Parents’. We hope that you were able to take lots of practical and ideas away with you, to help you support your child at home. A Maths SATs session will be held on Thursday 31st January at 9.00am and again at 6.00pm.
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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: • Cavin Singh – BRIDGES Habits Award (for being adaptable during learning times and making good choices). • Panthpreet Singh - Scholar of the Week (for working hard during phonics lessons and using his sounds knowledge in his writing). Maxwell Class: • Yunus Ashraf – BRIDGES Habits Award (for adapting his behaviour in different situations). • Musa Malik - Scholar of the Week (for exploring ordinal numbers in maths). Newton Class: • Anabia Nawab – BRIDGES Habits (for focussing and working hard during English lessons). • Abraiz Dar – Scholar of the Week (for showing great enthusiasm during Maths Meetings). Britten Class: • Aisha Ali – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering and retelling the story ‘Lost in the Toy Museum’). • Ranvijay Arora – Scholar of the Week (for working really hard to use neat handwriting in all his books). Fitzgerald Class: • Eisa Ali – BRIDGES Habits Award (for working hard and successfully at adapting his behaviour to come in ready to learn after play). • Jai Pathak – Scholar of the Week (for stretching himself with some tricky ‘time’ challenges).
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Glennie Class: • Eshaan Malik – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering and adapting to the school routine). • Zaki Adnan – Scholar of the Week (for successfully writing an alternative character to a story). Al-Kashi Class: • Shahina Haleem – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering to join her letters when writing). • Arshitha Thelapurath – Scholar of the Week (for remembering key parts of Prophet Muhammad’s story in RE and re-telling the story in her own words). Fibonacci Class: • Parmveer Singh – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using word mats to help and improve his spellings). • Alia Khan - Scholar of the Week (for a great character description using interesting adjectives). Pythagoras Class: • Hanan Khan – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering to use his key vocabulary when telling the time to the nearest 5 minutes and self-checking his answers using the resources around him). • Max Jagdev – Scholar of the Week (for trying very hard to develop and improve his handwriting and using joined writing in all his books). Ellington Class: • Esa Syed – BRIDGES Habits Award (for his detailed report and remembering to include all the key features). • Riya Patel – Scholar of the Week (for her detailed inference answers). Nicks Class: • Nabeeha Ozzul – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using her remembering skills to share research she had carried out about the Romans). • Muhammad Ahmer – Scholar of the Week (for sharing his fantastic ideas for a non-chronological report about the Romans).
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Shankar Class: • Adam Ismail – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using his ‘resourcefulness’ by remembering interesting facts to use in his non-chronological report). • Rohan Sharma - Scholar of the Week (for trying his best to write a great nonchronological report during English). Lovelace Class • Tulsi Jogia – BRIDGES Habits Award (for making connections when exploring equivalent fractions and providing reasoning during talk tasks). • Arjun Bihal - Scholar of the Week (for writing a clear, cohesive set of instructions with brackets and imperative verbs). Mirzakhani Class: • Avneet Chaggar – BRIDGES Habits Award (for demonstrating excellent remembering skills in lessons when answering questions). • Kuljit Aytan – Scholar of the Week (for writing an instructional text with a range of features including fronted adverbials, imperative verbs and brackets). Ramanujan Class: • Kaysha Reid – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using her remembering disposition to recall key literal facts from ‘The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’). • Zaara Mubarak Ali – Scholar of the Week (for demonstrating equivalence between fractions using pictorial representations).
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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 – Ahmad Musa & Nusayba Jalil Maxwell Class – Aadam Dakri & Monira Miah Newton Class – Qasim Hussain & Tripat Kaur Britten Class – Shad Rahman & Fatima Ali Fitzgerald Class – Mubarack Ali & Adrian Kvaraciejus Glennie Class – Jasson Maheshwaran & Silha Omer Al-Kashi Class – Aleena Chowdhury & Gurjas Dhanjal Fibonacci Class – Humza Anwar & Arthi Sivananthan Pythagoras Class – Smaran Nakerekanti & Hafsa Mahmood Ellington Class – Riya Patel & Zayn Miah Nicks Class – Hanad Ali & Harneet Kang Shankar Class – Inshirah Nabeel & Zahir Khan Lovelace Class – Ceylan Warner & Rohan Taheem Mirzakhani Class – Hari Virdee & Ava-Lily Pemberton-Mardenborough Ramanujan Class – Ali Ullah & Inaaya Ijaz
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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
87.7% 94.1% 90.7%
Britten Fitzgerald Glennie
92% 89.8% 98.5%
Al-Kashi Fibonacci Pythagoras
94.1% 99.6% 98.5%
Well done and huge congratulations to Fibonacci class who are the winners this week with a very healthy 99.6%
Key Stage 2 Ellington Nicks Shankar
94.8% 91.9% 91.6%
Lovelace Mirzakhani Ramanujan
98.7% 97.0% 99.3%
Well done and congratulations to Ramanujan class who are the winners this week with 99.3%
Overall Attendance: 95.5% National average attendance for primary schools is 97.1%. Attendance is very low this week which is disappointing – we hope to see everyone back next week feeling healthy and ready to learn!! 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%. 18 January 2019 Primary Newsletter
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Music of the Fortnight Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
For the next few weeks we will be listening to and learning about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Mozart 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/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart http://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/
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Headteacher’s Lunch Well done to the following pupils who have been nominated for the Headteacher’s Lunch for next Friday25th January 2019. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Ahmed Mohiuddin Syed Curie Tabinul Hasan - Curie Alvina Adeel - Maxwell Sufyan Ali - Maxwell Abeera Ahmad - Newton Yusuf Ali - Newton
Wasif Mohammed - Britten Maya Kimborowicz - Ellington Aaronbir Singh Kitaure Katrina Kaur - Nicks Fitzgerald Navneet Matharu - Shankar Silha Omer - Glennie Eesa Hussain - Lovelace Anushka Navarajan - Al-Kashi Miguel Genov - Mirzakhani Devyani Soni - Fibonacci Saismriti Nakerekanti Keira Palmer - Pythagoras 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.
Ibrahim Ijaz Amina Sheikh Danish Tahir Sheikh Muhammad Ahmer Rohith Pradeep-Kumar Zaki Adnan Nicholas Fertrina Aaron Kitaure Huzaifah Iqbal Jardiel Aizah Nawaz Saminderpreet Kaur Ijaz Nazir Rohin Ronson Emilie Morgan Avani Tathgar Ali Ullah Yanis Benjamin Leja Vitauskaite Khalid Ahmed Nirmapreet Durhailay
Nuhitu Hasan Ayaan Hussain Riaz Rohan Taheem Rhea Thirumal Rayaan Vakas
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. Inaaya Ijaz Charan Chaggar Ceylan Warner 18 January 2019 Primary Newsletter
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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 21st January 2019
Integrity
Integrity comprises six dispositions: Citizenship
Justice
Humility
Honesty
Fairness
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.
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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.
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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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Key Dates for
Spring Term 2019 Friday 4th January - Friday 5th April 2019 Half Term: Monday 18th - Friday 22nd February 2019 INSET Days: 11th March 2019 Tuesday 22nd January
Relationships & Sex Education Information – Year 4 Parents – 9.00am & 6.00pm
Friday 25th January
Lovelace Class Assembly – Year 4 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 25th January
Al-Kashi Class Assembly – Year 2 – 10.20 – 10.40am
Monday 28th January
Wonderful Handwriting Week
Wednesday 30th January
FOINA Meeting – 7.00pm
Thursday 31st January
Maths SATs Information – Year 2 Parents - 9.00am & 6.00pm
Wednesday 6th February
Parent Coffee Morning & E-Safety Workshop – 9.00am
Friday 8th February
Ellington Class Assembly – Year 3 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 8th February
Britten Class Assembly – Year 1 – 10.20 – 10.40am
Friday 15th February
Break Up for Half Term – 3.45pm
Monday 18th – Friday 22nd February
HALF TERM
Wednesday 27th February
High Attainers Parent Workshop - 9.00am & 6.00pm
Monday 4th March
Home & Family Week – No enrichment clubs
Monday 4th March
Literature & Wonderful Handwriting Week
Thursday 7st March
World Book Day – (Dress up as a book character)
Monday 11th March
INSET– no school for students
Friday 15th March
Shankar Class Assembly – Year 3 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 15th March
Fitzgerald Class Assembly – Year 1 – 10.20 – 10.40am
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