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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 have a lovely half term break and look forward to seeing everyone back again on Monday 3rd June ready for more fun and challenging learning. During the break please encourage your child to practise for a short time every day, their reading, writing and maths skills. Thank you for your support.
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.
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. 24 May 2019
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Cultural Passport Activity This week in year 3, we were working on one of our Cultural Passport activities: ‘To build a den’. We decided to use our resourcefulness and we worked collaboratively together to make our own bug dens!
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Lovely Learning this week! As part of their topic around the Tudors, Year 4 pupils enjoyed a great day out around the Thames Embankment. They enjoyed hearing all about the Golden Hind, the famous English galleon best known for circumnavigating the globe around 1577 and captained by Sir Francis Drake, then visiting Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. The pupils were treated to a tour of the theatre where they were fortunate to see some actors practising and rehearsing a play.
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Lovely Learning this week!
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uring newsletter club this week, we interview Ms Willcox about her wonderful gardening programme. Ms Willcox has been running this amazing programme for the past couple of years and, along with her eco-ambassadors, has managed to cultivate the most wonderful garden filled with herbs and flowers. Whilst we were conducting our interview, Ms Willcox was kind enough to let us help her with harvesting some parsley and mixed leaf salad!
What do you plant in the garden? I like planting interesting plants; plants that are either interesting because they have an interesting smell, or because they feel interesting, or because you can eat them. So that’s most plants! Also, I like plants that are tough!
Why is gardening your hobby? I like plants because they don’t have legs! So if they don’t like where they are, they have to adapt and grow to their surroundings. I really like that about them; that they’re always learning and growing, they’re amazing. If you chop off a plant, or if a pest eats a leaf of the plant, then it just has to grow another leaf! I think they’ve got great grit! So I like plants for that reason really, and it’s very exciting when they grow.
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24 May 2019 What do you do in your gardening club? It very much depends on the time of year! This term, we’re doing loads of planting. We also collected some lettuce leaves which we made into a little salad and ate with tomatoes and cucumbers. Earlier on in the year in winter, we couldn’t do that much outside so we made bird feeders!
What types of seeds do you need? There are some which are big and some which are small. Everything grows from seeds really! Parsley seeds, basil seeds, coriander seeds. There’s some plants grow through bulbs. Daffodils for example, they come from bulbs.
What plants do you grow? Well, anything that’s pretty tough. If possible, things which have interesting smells and tastes. At the moment, we have some parsley which is nice as you can put it on your dinner! Some of it has been used in your lunches at lunch time! Also at the moment we’ve got lettuce leaves which can be eaten, and we’ve got elephant garlic which we are hoping to make into a type of oil, a garlic flavoured oil. We are hoping that we can plant some radishes later as they’re nice and quick. But also, some coriander and basil too as that’s been asked for by the kitchen!
When did you start liking gardening? Very recently; probably about a couple of years ago. So not very long ago.
How much time do you spend on gardening in total? The eco ambassadors help me in the garden with the watering things like that. I probably spend a few hours each week in the garden doing things like weeding and turning the compost, and then there’s reading about gardening, to find out more about plants and which plants would be good to plant.
Do you have any other hobbies? I like to draw, I like drawing pictures lots!
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When do you plant in your garden? Most planting happens in the spring – so in April, May and possibly a bit of June. Some things you can plant in September though, and the bulbs always get planted in October.
What is your favourite flower or plant? I like marigolds because they’re really good for other plants. If you put tomatoes with marigolds, the slugs will only eat the marigolds, and you will still have your tomatoes at the end. They also look so lovely - they’re bright orange. We will probably plant some marigolds and tomatoes in the greenhouse if it gets fixed later on in the year!
What plants do you grow in spring? Everything starts in spring. We are planting herbs and things like coriander and basil, and also we’ll plant some carrots and spring onions and chives, and lots of lettuce leaves. Also, we will plant some flowers – like marigolds!
What advice would you give to people who wish to start gardening? I would just say have a go and have fun! Nature is very tough and always does a lot of the work for you. So just have a go as you can’t really go wrong with it. Water the plants a bit and see what happens!
Is there anything else that you’d like to tell people about gardening or the eco-ambassadors? Well, the eco-ambassadors do a great job as they help us with composting. They’re also doing a great job with watering the plants at the moment, which is so important in the summer as the weather gets hotter. They’ve also helped a lot with the planting of the potatoes! In the summer fayre, we’re hoping to have a little garden stall selling some things. So we’re going to grow some flowers, and hopefully we can press them and make some cards. We’re also going to try to take some of the rosemary and make flavoured rock salt, as well as the flavoured oil. So they’re the things which are happening at the moment!
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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:
Gurnoor Kang – BRIDGES Habits Award (for being kind and fair to all her peers). Inderpreet Singh – Scholar of the Week (for working independently during literacy). Maxwell Class:
Anaya Fahad – BRIDGES Habits Award (for being thoughtful towards others). Nafiz Hossain Jamal - Scholar of the Week (for reading sentences independently and fluently). Newton Class:
Avreet Kaur – BRIDGES Habits (for always being kind towards her peers). Shaan Bihal - Scholar of the Week (for always trying his best during phonics lessons). Britten Class:
Aliza Ferdous – BRIDGES Habits Award (for being fair and taking turns with her partner). Shanaya Sharma – Scholar of the Week (for writing great sentences using the conjunction ‘but’). Fitzgerald Class:
Hannah Rebhi – BRIDGES Habits Award (for making lots of good choices both in her learning and at play). Bola Omatola – Scholar of the Week (for writing some super descriptive extended sentences compoaring London and Malawi).
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Glennie Class:
Jaskaran Dhiman – BRIDGES Habits Award (for always being fair when taking turns during partner talk). Jasson Maheshwaran – Scholar of the Week (for successfully using the conjunction ‘but’ to extend sentences). Al-Kashi Class:
Jashandeep Singh Mehmi – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using his integrity and being assertive when someone was doing the wrong thing). Iman Hafeez - Scholar of the Week (for showing her working out during her maths reasoning assessment). Fibonacci Class:
Soha Zaidi – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using her fairness when playing games outside). Alia Malik – Scholar of the Week (for trying hard and motivating herself to do well in her maths assessment). Pythagoras Class:
Sana Abbas – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing maturity and taking responsibility for her behaviour by accepting the consequences). Laraib Ul-Haq – Scholar of the Week (for doing so well in her maths and working out here fractions brilliantly). Ellington Class:
Marwa Benaziza – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing her integrity by being honest). Zara Daykin – Scholar of the Week (for her positive attitude towards her learning each and every single day). Nicks Class:
Akbar – BRIDGES Habits Award (for showing integrity when eating his lunch). Katrina Kaur - Scholar of the Week (for writing her best English piece of the year and being brave enough to share it).
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Shankar Class:
Emile Morgan – BRIDGES Habits Award (for demonstrating honesty and fairness each day). Yusuf Ahmed – Scholar of the Week (for trying his best to improve both his handwriting and writing pace and showing excellent progress). Lovelace Class
Aftab Rebecca Hussain – BRIDGES Habits Award (for an excellent improvement in her attitude towards her learning showing humility towards her peers). J’Shawn Holland - Scholar of the Week (for completing all set tasks with a positive attitude and persevering through challenge). Mirzakhani Class:
Eesa Anwar – BRIDGES Habits Award (for demonstrating integrity by being honest at all times). Hari Virdee – Scholar of the Week (for perseverance when solving maths problems on angles). Ramanujan Class:
Bushra Rahman – BRIDGES Habits Award (for always using her listening and reflectiveness dispositions during lessons). Smriti Nakerekanti – Scholar of the Week (for using criticality to analyse the validity of primary and secondary sources).
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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 June 2019. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Anoop Tilk - Curie Farasat Fahmi Heron Sarrinah Mohammed Britten Ellington Kaysaan Uddin - Curie Ibrahim Mohamed Katrina Kaur - Nicks Abdulqadir Sheikh Fitzgerald Maxwell Safwan Khan - Shankar Khadija Jamil Glennie Aayan Hussain - Lovelace Alvina Adeel - Maxwell Maidah Riaz Hussain Malaika Hussain Abeeha Zahir - Newton Al-Kashi Mirzakhani Ayat Zahra - Newton Zara Khan- Fibonacci Arissa Isha-Butt Imaan Javed - Pythagoras Ramanujan
Music of the Fortnight Felix Mendelssohn
For the next few weeks after half term, we will be listening to and learning about Felix Mendelssohn as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Mendelssohn 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/Felix_Mendelssohn http://www.britannica.com/biography/Felix-Mendelssohn
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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
98.5% 96.3% 95.9%
Britten Fitzgerald Glennie
98.0% 98.7% 97.8%
Al-Kashi Fibonacci Pythagoras
97.3% 99.0% 97.3%
Well done and congratulations to Fibonacci class who are the winners again this week with 99%.
Key Stage 2 Ellington Nicks Shankar
98.3% 99.3% 98.7%
Lovelace Mirzakhani Ramanujan
99.0% 99.3% 99.3%
Well done and congratulations to Nicks, Mirzakhani and Ramanujan who are joint winners this week with 99.3%. It was a very close week!
Overall Attendance: 98.2% 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. Ahmed Syed Musa Malik Ronak Chatha Viraaj Saini Keerat Teja Asiyah Ali Zahra Abbas Daniyal Sheikh Maya Ahmed Eesa Anwar
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. Azhan Ishaque Bola Omotola Manahil Shaukat Sarah Master Rida Alam Aleena Chowdhury Aagia Durhailay
Danish Sheikh Silha Omer Shakira Choudhry Nusayba Jalil Nubaid Ozzul Ahmed Khan Gurnoor Kang Aahil Butt
Raya Alam Safa Ahmed Edie Morgan Faheem Ahmedabadi Ali Ullah Aryan Lakhani Aariz Chaudhry
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. Hessan Raja Bibi 24 May 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 3rd June 2019
Discovery
Discovery comprises seven dispositions: Energy Noticing Imagining Enthusiasm Open-Mindedness Creativity Curiosity At School •
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We make our lessons as fun and interactive every day so that every child loves learning and have a sense of enthusiasm with everything they do. Our lessons are very hands on and we ask the children to share their learning with the ‘talk partners’. We talk to the children about looking out for the details on things around them, to look closely at the bugs and the leaves in the playground and what happens to everything as the seasons change. We encourage the children to check their work and try to spot any errors they may have made. Through our topic approach we engender a sense of curiosity and wonder in the children where they are keen to go home and find out more. We talk about human characteristics and traits and what makes us all the same but equally what makes us different and that it is good to have differences and to appreciate them with an open mind. Every area of the curriculum helps the children to become more creative –either through role-play, stories, music and PE – helping the children to use their imaginations.
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Encourage your child to use their imagination by making up stories together, or suggesting ways in which they could change parts of a story they know well , either change the gender of the characters, have them go on a different adventure etc. Pupils love to role play different characters and it is often even more fun when the adults join in too. Play along and have fun! Play games with your child like ‘I spy’ where you can see how many things they can notice beginning with a certain sound or letter they may already know or ask your child to think about an object and describe it using powerful adjectives. Ask questions like ‘I wonder what would happen if…?’ or ‘what do you think might happen if?’ or ‘why do you think…? These types of deeper questions will encourage the children to use their creativity and imagination more fully. Either independently or with help, encourage your child to read or research more information around the topics they have been studying in class. The children could also spend time researching our current composer.
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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 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
Wednesday 10h July
Primary Sports Day
Friday 12th July
Pupil Progress Reports sent home
Tuesday 16th July
Parent Progress Meeting – School Finishes at 12.15pm
Thursday 18th July
Summer Concert - TBC
Tuesday 23rd July
End of Term – School Finishes at 12.15pm
Thursday 25th July
Uniform Sale
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