26 April 2019
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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 I hope you all had a fantastic break with family and friends. We have enjoyed a fun-filled first week back and the children are showing their excitement in starting their new topics and enrichment clubs this week. Please ensure you have signed up for the Parent Progress Meetings on Tuesday 30th April: school finishes at 12.15pm on this day. Topic information sheets have been put into your child’s book bag and are also available online under the Home Learning tab and Parent Information. These sheets are designed to help inform you about your child’s learning for the half term as well as give you information regarding any texts they will be using and suggest some ideas on how to support your child at home. The new menus for the term are available online for you to view. The School Council worked very hard last term to ask every class for ideas to input into the new menu. Once all the ideas had been put forward, the School Council then met with Ms Gilley, our chef, to make sure the meals were nutritionally balanced across the fortnight. We are all delighted with the new menu, a huge thank you to the School Council for their suggestions and ideas.
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 n�tice.
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Super Summer Fayre SATURDAY 6TH JULY 12AM - 4PM 1 Cricklefield Place, London, IG1 1FY (Secondary Building)
Penalty Shootout
Ice Cream & Treats
Hot Food
Bouncy Castle Live Performances
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Reception Team Message from the some donations We are looking for no longer used of any dolls that are for sensory or needed at home Reception. We learning and play in e not made of ask that the dolls ar an and good fabric and are in a cle ildren to play condition for the ch in with. Many thanks advance.
Message from the Reception Team
As part of your child’s learning and demonstrating a ‘good level of development’ for their age, they must be able to dress and undress themselves. This will also help them as they move up to Year 1 in September. Next term, on Fridays, the children are expected to come to school in their normal school uniform and will need to bring their PE kit with them to change in to for their afternoon lesson. They will remain in their PE kit for the rest of the day, bringing their school uniform home in their bag. Can you please ensure that every item of clothing is clearly labelled with your child’s name. There is a lost property box in the main reception area for any items found around the school, or for you to drop off any items that your child may have taken home by mistake. In preparation for this transition we suggest that you start getting your child to practise getting dressed and undressed more independently, giving lots of practice to undoing buttons etc.
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Maths with Parents (Year 1 & Year 2) It has been great to hear and see the impact that the Maths with Parents online programme is having on the children’s learning and well families are engaging with the games at home. A series of activities were set for the children to complete over the Easter break. A special well done to the following children who managed to complete all the activities and will receive a special certificate from MWP during the Friday assembly:
Britten
Hamza Ahmed Alizah Bhatti Divyam Gohil Emaan Haroon Bilal Hussain Ayaan Muhammad Robert Opincaru Szymon Plaskiewicz Shad Rahman Zunairah Raja Mariam Shaikh Zenia Zaidi
Fitzgerald
Aleeza Arshad David Bros Aarzoo Ilyas Fatima Kashif Aaronbir Kitaure Giorgio Nicosia Abeera Qazi Annika Taheem Leja Vitkauskaite Hong Yip
Al-Kashi
Alexandra Bale-Orhorha Aleena Chowdhury Isa Ijaz Maria MohamedFaiz Hanfil Mohammed jameel Nafiu Quddus Arshitha Thelapurath
Fibonacci
Emaan Adeel Yasin Alom Adam Chowdhury Avni Kamothi Ekamjot singh Pandher Devyani Soni Avani Tathgar Alishba Zahoor Soha Zaidi
Pythagoras
Alisha Ali Vianna Mahendra Shresta Yeruva
Glennie
Hamza Dakri Anya Mirza Diya Napal Elis Richardson Jasson Sivapalan
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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 – Qirrat Sobia & Manav Ahmed Maxwell Class – Taranveer Matharu & Hiba Rehan Newton Class – Maxi Kimborowicz & Inayah Kashif Britten Class – Alizah Bhatti & Divyam Gohil Fitzgerald Class – Araiya Lard & Ekamjot Singh Glennie Class – Diya Napal & Eshaan Malik Al-Kashi Class – Maidah Hussain Riaz & Kayden Reid Fibonacci Class – Ijaz Nazir & Devyani Soni Pythagoras Class – Max Jagdev & Keira Palmer Ellington Class – Cameron Palmer & Maya Kimborowicz Nicks Class – Abdul Wahab & Ekam Bains Shankar Class – Kallum Bihal & Isra Hussain Lovelace Class – J’shawn Holland & Nandini Sharma Mirzakhani Class – Kayaan Khan & Kuljit Aytan Ramanujan Class – Siya Kamothi & Faheem Ahmedabadi
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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:
Nubaid Ozzul – BRIDGES Habits Award (for working collaboratively and supporting his peers when completing a challenge). Aahil Butt – Scholar of the Week (for working hard during phonics and applying his knowledge when reading). Maxwell Class:
Lucas Petre – BRIDGES Habits Award (for collaborating with his talk partner during maths). Monira Miah - Scholar of the Week (for participating during carpet time discussion). Newton Class:
Tripat Kaur – BRIDGES Habits (for showing great kindness towards her friend by encouraging her to join in her play). Mahi Ghundiyal - Scholar of the Week (for showing excitement and eagerness to join in with her learning and trying to focus on her task, especially her writing tasks). Britten Class:
Mariam Shaikh – BRIDGES Habits Award (for being a kind and helpful friend and classmate). Beetaa Bayrami – Scholar of the Week (for writing fantastic sentences describing African animals). Fitzgerald Class:
David Bros – BRIDGES Habits Award (for always being a very supportive partner). Adrian Kvaraciejus – Scholar of the Week (for writing some super descriptive sentences and finding number bonds to 100 independently).
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Glennie Class:
Elis Richardson – BRIDGES Habits Award (for always collaborating and taking turns during group activities). Saad Bhutawala – Scholar of the Week (for successfully finding one more and one less within 100). Al-Kashi Class:
Iman Hafeez – BRIDGES Habits Award (for always taking turns and showing good listening when working with her partner). Ayaan Aqeel - Scholar of the Week (for applying all of the skills learned in class to his arithmetic assessment). Fibonacci Class:
Hannah Choudhury – BRIDGES Habits Award (for settling into her new class very quickly and making lots of new friends). Anmeek Sood – Scholar of the Week (for trying really hard to manage her distractions and concentrate during her learning). Pythagoras Class:
Tahsin Salam – BRIDGES Habits Award (for working so well with his partner and guiding her to the right thing). Tanush Handa – Scholar of the Week (for working so hard to achieve high standards even though he was unwell). Ellington Class:
Hannah Nakhuda – BRIDGES Habits Award (for collaborating with her partner to create a descriptive paragraph). Kamiah Reid – Scholar of the Week (for her explanation between parallel and perpendicular lines). Nicks Class:
Ayoola Yekini – BRIDGES Habits Award (for collaborating with his partner when swimming). Ibrahim Nasiri - Scholar of the Week (for creating a fantastic Anglo-Saxon settlement). 26 April 2019
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Shankar Class:
Rohan Sharma – BRIDGES Habits Award (for demonstrating excellent collaboration when working with his partner in PE). Tanmanjot Sandhu – Scholar of the Week (for trying really hard to improve her handwriting and sentence structure during English lessons). Lovelace Class
Yanis Benjamin – BRIDGES Habits Award (for working well with others and encouraging his peers to work collaboratively). Rhea Thirumal - Scholar of the Week (for confidently converting mm to cm and reasoning her answers). Mirzakhani Class:
Miguel Genov – BRIDGES Habits Award (for demonstrating collaboration with his peers by sharing ideas). Ibrahim Ijaz – Scholar of the Week (for writing an excellent setting description using powerful adjectives and personification). Ramanujan Class:
Mariam Faheem – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using her collaboration disposition to share ideas during PSHE). Kaysha Reid – Scholar of the Week (for identifying some thought-provoking questions during our history lesson on the Tudors).
Lovely Learning this week! Well done to all the Year 1 children who made their own African animals for their Holiday Home Learning project! (See Front cover for larger photo)
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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 3rd May 2019. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Malak Raggai - Curie Halima Chand - Britten Mohammed Shahed Hussain - Ellington Ekaterina Ratkova - Curie Yousuf Javed - Fitzgerald Zakariya Iqbal - Nicks Yahya Palejwala - Maxwell Aagia Durhailay - Glennie Isra Hussain - Shankar Lucas Petre - Maxwell Gurjas Dhanjal - Al-Kashi Nuhitu Hasan - Lovelace Abdul-Qadir Rajput Nobin Chowdhury Ghiyas Elahi - Mirzakhani Newton Fibonacci Abdul Rehan - Newton Tanush Handa - Pythagoras Tay'Shawn Holland Ramanujan
Music of the Fortnight Sergei Prokofiev
For the next few weeks after half term, we will be listening to and learning about Sergei Prokofiev as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Prokofiev 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/Sergei_Prokofiev http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/0e43fe9d-c472-4b62-be9e-55f971a023e1 26 April 2019
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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
92.9% 97.8% 90.6%
Britten Fitzgerald Glennie
96.7% 99.4% 95.7%
Al-Kashi Fibonacci Pythagoras
94.3% 93.7% 94.3%
Well done and congratulations to Fitzgerald class who are the winners this week with 99.4%.
Key Stage 2 Ellington Nicks Shankar
100% 98.1% 99.5%
Lovelace Mirzakhani Ramanujan
94.8% 94.8% 95.2%
Well done and huge congratulations to Ellington Class who are the winners this week with 100 and have earned themselves some extra playtime.
Overall Attendance: 96.2% 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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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. Ronak Chatha Rayan Zeeshan Hannah Nakhuda Abeera Qazi Sartaj Singh Anmeek Sood
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. Hong Yip - Fit Ishaan Mutha
Rohin Ronson Zara Choudhry Devyani Soni
Hanad Ali Zakariya Iqbal
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. Muahid Ahmad Medina Islam 26 April 2019
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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 29th April 2019
Self Discipline
Self Discipline comprises nine dispositions: Organisation Absorption Revising Prudence Motivation Practising Hard Work Independence Self-Regulation At School •
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We would all like to see the children develop the habits listed above, as they are all essential lifelong skills that are needed for us to successfully manage our way through school, college, and university and certainly throughout our work careers. It is really important that whilst the children are young that we help them develop these habits as quickly as possible – especially organisation, independence and hard work. At school we ensure the pupils understand that every action has a consequence and that when we work hard it can often reap satisfaction and reward. Our pupils work hard day to day to earn their merits for making good choices and demonstrate their efforts. To help the children understand the structure of each day and become better organised, we always start with a visual timetable in Reception. A picture represents each part of the day; this helps the children to understand the daily routines. It is important that that we teach the young people to become more organised and check that they have all of their belongings with them each day.
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At home the children need to practise getting dressed and undressed, managing buttons on shirts and coats etc. and generally become more independent. Helping your child to get organised the night before will help to ensure they have everything they need for their day. It may help to create a visual/pictorial timetable at home to help your child become more organised and to think about when they need their PE kit, home learning, guided reading book etc. This could be displayed in your child’s room or in a central place like the kitchen where you can both check what is needed the night before, ready for the following day. This will allow your child to become more involved in preparing for their learning each day and gaining independence. It is also good to remind your child, as we do in school, to check regularly that they have all of the belongings with them. Congratulate your child’s effort when you see them working hard and for showing an increased motivation with their home learning or reading. Talk to your child about how your own effort to practise and work hard at something led to success and a good feeling of achievement.
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Key Dates for
Summer Term 2019 Tuesday 23rd April–Tuesday 23rd July 2019 Half Term: Monday 27th–Friday 31st May 2019 INSET Days: Friday 21st & Monday 24th June 2019 Monday 29th April
Wonderful Handwriting Week
Tuesday 30th April
Parent Progress Meeting – School Finishes at 12.15pm
Monday 6th May
Bank Holiday – No School
Wednesday 8th May
Reception Parents Meeting 2019 Intake – 6pm
Thursday 9th May
Coffee Evening 6pm
Friday 10th May
Curie Class Assembly – 9am
Monday 13th May
Home and Family Week (No enrichment clubs)
Monday 13th May
Science Week
Friday 17th May
Nicks Class Assembly – 9am
Friday 17th May
Glennie Class Assembly – 10.20am
Thursday 23rd May
Movie Evening – 4.00-5.30pm (Further Information to follow)
Monday 27th– Friday 31st May
Half Term
Monday 3rd June
Pupils return to school
Friday 21st June
Staff Inset Day – no school for students
Monday 24th June
Staff Inset Day – no school for students
Monday 1st July
Wonderful Handwriting Week
Tuesday 2nd July
Coffee Morning 9.00am
Friday 5h July
Newton Class Assembly – 9.00am
Saturday 6th July
Summer Fayre – 12pm -4pm
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