20 September 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
Important reminders •
Schools starts at 8.45am (8.35am for Year 3, 4 & Year 5). 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 8.47am.
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School finishes at 3.45pm (3.35pm for Year 3, 4 & Year 5) every day other than Tuesday when we finish at 3.00pm (2.50pm for Year 3, 4 & Year 5).
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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 We have enjoyed another busy week of learning and looking forward to starting our enrichment programme and clubs next week from Monday 23rd September. You should all have received notification of your child’s enrichment club. If you have not received notification, please let the office staff know and we can get this sorted out as soon as possible. If your child is participating in a sports activity they will need suitable PE clothing with them.
Thursday 26th September 9.00am You are all invited to come along to our first Coffee Morning of the academic year on Thursday 26th September at 9.00am in the primary. Unlike other coffee mornings, on this occasion we will be selling tea, coffee, biscuits and cake to raise money for the MacMillan charity. MacMillan Cancer Support is one of the largest British charities providing health care, information and financial support to those affected by cancer. I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible and sharing some great ideas together, don’t forget to bring your wallets and purses along too!
Cover Photo: Enjoying the September sunshine! 20 September 2019
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Message from the Reception Team As part of our topic ‘All about me’ the children will be sharing who is in their family with the rest of their class peers. Please can all the children bring a photograph of their family into school to present to the rest of the class. Help your child at home to practise the names of people in their family, this will support them with their confidence when doing so with the class.
School Photographer The school photographer will be in on Wednesday 2nd October, taking individual pupil photos and siblings, which will then be available for you to purchase. Further details on how to purchase these will be sent in due course. Please ensure that your child is in their full uniform and looking extremely smart!
To help get our growing year off to a great start this autumn, I am looking for a parent/carer volunteer to help in Gardening Club. If you are free 4:00-4:45pm on Thursdays and would like to get involved, I would love to hear from you! Leave a message for me with the office, speak to me at the start/end of the day or drop me an email via primary@ isaacnewtonacademy.org Many thanks. Ms Willcox Year 1 - Fitzgerald Class
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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.
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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
94.8% 94.4% 93.8%
Britten Fitzgerald Glennie
98.2% 98.5% 95.2%
Al-Kashi Fibonacci Pythagoras
98.7% 94.0% 99.3%
Well done and congratulations to Pythagoras Class who are the winners this week with 99.3%.
Key Stage 2 Ellington Nicks Shankar
99.6% 98.9% 97.0%
Lovelace Mirzakhani Ramanujan
99.3% 96.3% 97.0%
Rahman Tailleferre Vivaldi
97.0% 96.7% 97.0%
Well done and congratulations to Ellington Class who are the winners this week with 99.6%.
Overall Attendance: 97.6% 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.
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Maths with Parents Workshop (Reception & Year 1) It was great to see so many of you at the Maths with Parents workshop this week. I hope you have all had a chance to log on to the site and access the games and activities that have been added by your child’s teacher. If you haven’t yet registered your child, then please visit the following website:
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:
Curie
837584
Maxwell
811146
Newton
456489
Britten
747395
Fitzgerald
561856
Glennie
927492
Al-Kashi
603331
Fibonacci
422182
Pythagoras
979169
Ellington
228824
Nicks
633285
Shankar
907071
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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:
Harkirat Kaur – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for reminding her peers to put their milk cartons in the recycle bin). Arfa Aamer – Scholar of the Week (for quickly learning all the routines in Curie class). Maxwell Class:
Gia Kalia – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for concentrating well during learning time). Zayan Ali – Scholar of the Week (for creating a two-part colour pattern in maths). Newton Class:
Arman Islam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for remembering to use the recycling bin in the classroom). Zaiden Dhansay – Scholar of the Week (for trying really hard with his handwriting). Britten Class:
Nihara Jay – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for asking great questions in our topic lessons). Manav Ahmed – Scholar of the Week (for using amazing adjectives and accurate capital letters). Fitzgerald Class:
Zakariyya Rahman – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for remembering wizard words and new facts excellently). Khubaib Shahzad – Scholar of the Week (for working with consistently great focus with his independent learning).
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Glennie Class:
Rajveer Sawali – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being resourceful and remembering words taught during the Whole Class Reading lessons). Haniah Bilal – Scholar of the Week (for using conjunctions correctly in her writing). Al-Kashi Class:
Syzmon Plaskiewicz – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using word mats provided to make his English learning more interesting). Aarzoo Ilyas – Scholar of the Week (for writing an amazing fact file about the human body during English). Fibonacci Class:
Jaskaran Dhiman – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating flexibility when supporting others at Becontree Leisure Centre). Aiza Faheem – Scholar of the Week (for being able to independently edit and improve her sentences). Pythagoras Class:
Zander Benjamin – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for recycling straws to use for his home learning project). Zaki Adnan – Scholar of the Week (for gathering information about the human body). Ellington Class:
Hanan Khan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for remembering the key skills used during a basketball game). Tasnia Anis – Scholar of the Week (for making a great effort on her ‘Tasiosaurus’ poem in English).
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Nicks Class:
Humza Anwar – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for recycling his knowledge from topic lessons in computing). Amina Ali – Scholar of the Week (for showing great dedication to furthering her mathematical understanding). Shankar Class:
Vianna Mahendra – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using absolutely fantastic remembering skills during her learning). Nyla Moses Philips – Scholar of the Week (for putting in a wonderful amount of effort into her learning – both inside and outside of the class). Lovelace Class
Hannah Nakuda – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for making connections in maths, recognising and discussing ‘odd numbers out’ within a sequence). Kallum Bihal – Scholar of the Week (for writing an explanatory text about the Battle of Hastings with adverbials and brackets). Mirzakhani Class:
Abdul Wahab – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for excellent questioning about the events that occurred during the Battle of Hastings). Ryan Abraham – Scholar of the Week (for accurately using brackets to add extra information in his writing). Ramanujan Class:
Nicholas Fertrina Jardiel – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for great questioning and reasoning concerning chronological ordering). Nabeeha Ozzul – Scholar of the Week (for excellent inferential analysis of ‘How to Train Your Dragon’).
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Rahman Class:
Inaaya Islam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using resourcefulness to recycle and reuse materials to create an ancient Egyptian pyramid). Zakariyah Master – Scholar of the Week (for making excellent progress with his handwriting and presentation this week). Tailleferre Class:
Muhammad Aadam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing confidence and not giving up). Zairah Ali – Scholar of the Week (for creative writing, demonstrating fronted adverbials correctly). Vivaldi Class:
Tara Rani Kaur – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being resourceful when researching the Egyptians for her presentation). Musa Malik – Scholar of the Week (for working really hard to improve his handwriting).
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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 23rd September 2019
Integrity
Integrity comprises six dispositions: Citizenship Justice Humility Honesty Fairness Humanity
At School
• 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.
At Home
• 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. • 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. 20 September 2019
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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 27th September 2019. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Ansh Thind - Curie Hong Yip - Al-Kashi Jaskaran Singh - Lovelace Henry Singh-Josan Ishaq Rahman - Fibonacci Srisakthi Velmurugan Maxwell Mirzakhani Leja Vitkauskaite Aariz Zaheer - Newton Pythagoras Ayoola Yekini - Ramanujan Mihrimah Tanvir - Britten Shresta Yeruva - Ellington Maryam Thava - Rahman Kaysaan Uddin - Fitzgerald Rhea Thirumal - Tailleferre Gurnoor Singh Kalkat Nicks Dilanjot Singh - Glennie Hari Virdee - Vivaldi Devyani Soni - Shankar
Music of the Fortnight Antonio Vivaldi
For the next few weeks we will be listening to and learning about Antonio Vivaldi as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Vivaldi 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/Antonio_Vivaldi http://www.classicfm.com/composers/vivaldi/
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Correct as at 12 June 2019
Ark inset days
School inset days
Bank holidays
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School days
Key Dates for
Autumn Term 2019 Monday 2nd September–Friday 20thDecember 2019 INSET - FRIDAY 4th October Monday 23rd September
Enrichment Clubs Begin – 4.00 -4.45pm
Thursday 26th September
Parent Coffee Moring 9.00 – 10.00am
Thursday 26th September
European languages Day
Monday 30th September
Wonderful Handwriting Week
Tuesday 1st October
Start of Black History Month
Wednesday 2nd October
School Photographer
Thursday 3rd October
RWI Parent Workshop 9.00am & 6.00pm (Reception and Year 1 Parents only)
Friday 4th October
INSET Day – School Closed
Thursday 10th October
EExAT Parent Workshop for Reception Parents only 9.00am & 6.00pm
Friday 11th October
Mirzakhani Class Assembly – Year 4 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 11th October
Fitzgerald Class Assembly – Year 1 – 10.20 – 10.40am
Friday 18th October
Multicultural Day
Friday 18th October
Break up 3.45pm
Monday 21st – Friday 25th October
HALF TERM
Monday 4th November
Home and Family Week (No enrichment clubs)
Monday 4th November
Mathemagical Week
Wednesday 13th November
Reception Information Evening 6.00pm (For September 2020 Intake)
Thursday 14th November
Maths Mastery Parent Workshop 9.00am & 6.00pm
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