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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 On behalf of the FOINA committee – a huge thank you to everyone that was able to attend and support the Summer Fayre. It was an incredible event and great to see so many students and families from the INA community enjoying the day together. We managed to raise approximately £6000 for the school, so a huge well done to everyone and thank you for your support once again. A big shout out to all the helpers on the day and to the FOINA committee that spent many months planning and organising the event behind the scenes to ensure the day was well organised and fun for everyone. A full list of all the companies that donated prizes, food etc. will be added to the final newsletter of the year next week, thanking them all for their kind generosity and supporting the INA community.
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Dear Parents and Carers, On Saturday we held our Summer Fayre. It was an absolutely brilliant day, with hundreds of families coming to spend the afternoon browsing the many and varied stalls, tasting the fabulous food, listening to the students performing music and engaging in lots of fun activities. This day took a huge amount of organisation and hard work. I am indebted to Ms Broadway, Head of Primary, who led on the event and whose passion for working with parents and the school community shone through during the lead up to the fayre and on the day. I would also like to extend my deep gratitude to the members of FOINA (Friends of INA) who worked tirelessly to organise and run the event; their energy and community spirit has been inspiring! To all the parents and local businesses who contributed gifts, raffle prizes and food – many thanks. Many thanks also to all of the staff and students from primary, secondary and sixth form who ran activities and stalls on the day or just came along to help. And finally, thank you to all for coming along and being part of this great community event. I’m delighted to say that, apart from bringing the community together, the summer fayre raised around £6000 for the school! Jo Spencer, Interim Principal
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Pupil Progress Meetings You will have now received your child’s progress report. The Parent Progress Meetings will take place on Tuesday 16th July. School will finish at 12.15pm on Tuesday 16th July as well as the last day of term on Tuesday 23rd July.
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.
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. 6 Primary Newsletter
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Summer Term 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:
Thursday 18th July 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)
Friday 19th July 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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Primary BRIDGES Mentoring – Session 2 On Thursday 4th July students from Year 3 and Year 4 experienced BRIDGES mentoring with 30 volunteer mentors from Year 9. The Year 9s had received mentor training and learnt about different questioning techniques such as how to encourage mentees to expand on their points. The primary students had prepared extremely well and were very confident in sharing their use of the Discovery BRIDGES dispositions. Haris Shaukat, a Year 9 mentor, has reflected on the experience: “We were impressed with how confident the Year 3 and Year 4 students were, for example they knew what all of the dispositions meant and had prepared examples of when they used them inside and outside of school. Even when we asked them tougher questions which they had not pre-prepared they were giving strong answers. The discussions often covered the importance of Discovery in different careers, and one of my mentees was explaining how he will use it in his future job as a palaeontologist. For the Year 9s it was tiring (we did 6 mentoring sessions back-to-back!) but very rewarding. I liked being on the side of the mentoring table. I would recommend other students to take on the role as BRIDGES mentors if they get the chance.” - Haris Shaukat, 9S “The mentoring was excellent because I got to distinguish between each of the dispositions and understand their meanings better. Also the mentors shared their own experiences which gave me a better understanding of the BRIDGES habits.” - Nadia Khan, Year 4 “I enjoyed the BRIDGES mentoring because it helped me heighten my understanding of the different dispositions. For example, the mentors told me how they used open mindedness and how this has helped them and now I know how I can be more open minded.” Ibrahim Ijaz, Year 4
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Sports Day On Wednesday we enjoyed our Sports Day events. I am sure you will all agree when I say that it was a fantastic day! It was great to see so many parents and carers supporting the children and it certainly helped them to feel a sense of audience and purpose as you walked around the events with them. Seeing so many willing parents take part in the races was superb and highlights what great role models you are to the children every day. I know you were all immensely proud of the children and their great sporting attitude throughout the events, I also know that the children were equally proud watching their parents and carers demonstrating their BRIDGES habit too.
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Sports Day The children really demonstrated amazing Grit, Emotional Intelligence and SelfDiscipline with their amazing sportsmanship and support of each other. Well done to them all!
I would like to thank all the staff that supported this great event. In particular, Ms Hutson, the PE department and the Student Leaders for hosting and organising a fabulous event and learning experience for the primary children once again.
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Eco-Ambassador Trip On Tuesday our Eco-Ambassadors stepped into MuRFy’s World, an interactive education centre in Beckton, to discover what really happens to our rubbish. After an informative presentation about the importance of Reducing, Reusing and Recycling, they had fun putting their learning to use practically in a carousel of activities. They used magnets to sort steel from aluminium for correct recycling. They reused scraps of fabric to create personalized bunting. They dressed up and role-played sorting rubbish along a conveyor belt into papers, metals, plastics and compostable food waste and hunted around for ingeniously recycled objects. Among the discoveries they found most fascinating was a pencil case made from a rubber tyre, a pot and jewellery made from newspaper and a bowl made from old keys! Enormous thanks to Mrs Chand, Mrs Master and Mrs Kamothi who kindly lent their support and were a fantastic help on our trip.
Bowl of Keys
Newspaper pot
Pencil case from a rubber tyre
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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 – Ekaterina Ratkova & Kaysaan Uddin Maxwell Class – Mihrimah Tanvir & Alvina Adeel Newton Class – Mahi Ghundiyal & Dilanjot Singh Britten Class – Ayaan Muhammad & Beetaa Bayrami Fitzgerald Class – Rayaan Zeeshan & Fatima Kashif Glennie Class – Zaki Adnan & Jasnoor Kaur Al-Kashi Class – Rasim Balaj & Jashandeep Mehmi Fibonacci Class – Avni Kamothi & Jubear Hossain Pythagoras Class – Ayala Saleem & Amanah Ali Ellington Class – Maya Kimborowicz & Sohana Hoque Nicks Class – Harneet Kang & Aryan Lakhani Shankar Class – Emilie Morgan & Saminder Kaur Lovelace Class – J’shawn Holland & Charan Chaggar Mirzakhani Class - Daniyal Sheikh & Nadia Khan Ramanujan Class – Jasmine Gadhia & Raina Islam
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Potato Competition Results! Enormous congratulations to all our children on the impressive potato harvests they have achieved. And special congratulations to Maxwell in KS1 and Ramanujan in KS2 who grew the most. Have fun with your well-deserved prizes!
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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 Syed – BRIDGES Habits Award (for increasing his concentration during his independent learning). Nubaid Ozzul – Scholar of the Week (for working hard to create and solve his own addition and subtraction equations). Maxwell Class:
Edie Morgan – BRIDGES Habits Award (for using her remembering disposition and bringing in her home learning and guided reading book every week). Musa - Scholar of the Week (for solving addition equations independently). Newton Class:
Amna Nusrat – BRIDGES Habits (for showing her resourcefulness when creating her crown for the music concert). Abdul Rehan - Scholar of the Week (for showing great focus and determination in phonics – well done for remembering how to form your sounds). Britten Class:
Wasif Mohammed – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering lots of interesting facts about the Victorians). Khalid Ahmed – Scholar of the Week (for showing fantastic effort and determination during Sports Day). Fitzgerald Class:
Liyana Mubarak Ali – BRIDGES Habits Award (for some impressive remembering of key vocabulary and facts). Aleeza Arshad – Scholar of the Week (for frequently going the extra mile and bringing in wizard word sentences that she writes from home).
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Glennie Class:
Nidhi Jogia – BRIDGES Habits Award (for being a great and resourceful Eco Ambassador). Aagia Durhailay – Scholar of the Week (for great performance during our Sports Day). Al-Kashi Class:
Kayden Reid – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering key facts and explaining a five-part story in the correct order to the class). Alex Or - Scholar of the Week (for working really hard in maths and showing the value of a 3-digit number in more than one way). Fibonacci Class:
Sara Anna Jilani – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering to bring her reading book and home learning to school every week). Eric Vasile – Scholar of the Week (for always putting in 100% effort into all his learning). Pythagoras Class:
Holly Carless – BRIDGES Habits Award (for being adaptable and flexible during tasks time when helping members of her group). Keira Palmer – Scholar of the Week (for writing such a good recount. Well done!). Ellington Class:
Ubaid Rehman – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering to always use his BRIDGES in his learning). Mohid Asif - Scholar of the Week (for being able to find change from £5, £10 and £20).
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Nicks Class:
Dua Maisam – BRIDGES Habits Award (for remembering to always show a positive attitude during Sports Day). Ali Haroon – Scholar of the Week (for applying maximum effort in all of his lessons this week). Shankar Class:
Meliah Henry – BRIDGES Habits Award (for always aiming to use her ‘remembering’ skills when remembering to incorporate her BRIDGES language). Shakira Choudhry – Scholar of the Week (for producing an excellent letter in English which used subordinate clauses and fantastic vocabulary). Lovelace Class
Riyen Shah – BRIDGES Habits Award (for making connections through inference when discussing character emotions and motives). Nassim Rebhi - Scholar of the Week (for putting extra effort into complete set tasks allowing his written tasks to reflect his amazing ideas). Mirzakhani Class:
Lara Burvill – BRIDGES Habits Award (for demonstrating excellent ‘remembering’ skills when revising previously learnt concepts during Maths Meetings). Eesa Anwar – Scholar of the Week (for using engaging adjectives to describe character emotions during English lessons). Ramanujan Class:
Jeevat Palray – BRIDGES Habits Award (for applying her resourcefulness to creative writing lessons). Jasmine Gadhia – Scholar of the Week (for including excellent examples of emotive language in her descriptive writing).
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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. Aliza Ferdous Laraib Ul-Haq Max Jagdev Raihan Alom Tahsin Salam Nyla Moses-Philips Rajan Mann
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. Tahsinah Begum Zayyan Ali Tabinul Hasan Siddiqa Islam Ekamjot Kaur Inderpreet Singh Anoop Tilk
Hamza Dakri Huzaifah Iqbal Eshaan Malik Anna Kiseleva Hanfil Jameel Nafiu Quddus
Sasha Lard Emaan Adeel Alexis Burvill Ryan Charles Shresta Yeruva Jawad Imran Ayala Saleem
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. Jiya Gill Fatiha Majumder Anya Mirza Silha Omer 12 July 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
100% 99.3% 97.7%
Britten Fitzgerald Glennie
98.3% 98.0% 94.5%
Al-Kashi Fibonacci Pythagoras
95.7% 98.0% 97.7%
Well done and congratulations to Curie Class who are the winners this week with 100% and have earned themselves some extra play next week.
Key Stage 2 Ellington Nicks Shankar
95.2% 98.7% 99.7%
Lovelace Mirzakhani Ramanujan
96.0% 97.3% 98.3%
Well done and congratulations to Shankar Class who are the winners this week with 99.7%.
Overall Attendance: 97.7% 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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Headteacher’s Lunch Well done to the following pupils who have been nominated for the Headteacher’s Lunch for next Friday 19th July 2019. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Siddiqa Islam - Curie Shad Rahman - Britten Priyajanani Pradeep Kumar - Ellington Nusaybah Jalil - Curie Rohith Pradeep Kumar Fitzgerald Aahil Mubarack - Nicks Alisha Islam - Maxwell Sumayya Jamil - Maxwell Fatiha Majumder - Glennie Inshirah Nabeel - Shankar Sarah Master- Al-Kashi Nassim Rebhi - Lovelace Qasim Hussain - Newton Saif Shaikh - Fibonacci Anees Malik - Mirzakhani Nihara Jay - Newton Rajan Mann - Pythagoras Janeefa Khezar Ramanujan
Music of the Fortnight Billy Holliday
For the next few weeks, we will be listening to and learning about Billie Holiday. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Holiday in preparation for the coming weeks. You can find out some facts and hear some of her music on the following links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday https://billieholiday.com/ 12 July 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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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. 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. 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. 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. 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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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. 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. 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. 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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Key Dates for
Summer Term 2019 Tuesday 23rd April–Tuesday 23rd July 2019 Tuesday 16th July
Parent Progress Meeting – School Finishes at 12.15pm
Tuesday 23rd July
End of Term – School Finishes at 12.15pm
Thursday 25th July
Uniform Sale
Autumn Term 2019 Monday 2nd September–Friday 20thDecember 2019 Thursday 5th September
Reception Classes Only – Meet the Teacher
Friday 6th September
Reception Pupils 11.00–1.00 pm Year 1-5 Pupils 1.30–3.30pm
Monday 9th September
All Pupils in at the normal time
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