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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, 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 It was great to see some of you at the coffee morning this week especially new parents from Reception. Ms Chaggar and Ms Gilley did an amazing job of dressing the tables and preparing the teas and cakes for our special MacMillan event. A big thank you to all the Primary staff who donated the delicious cakes! I spent time talking through some of the events that will be taking place over the coming term and how parents/carers can get involved and support. We raised a fantastic £220 for MacMillan Cancer Support. Thank you so much for your kindness, generosity and support. I would also like to thank G from Khalsa Schoolwear who also came along and generously supported the event by bidding £80 and winning our prize cake! A reminder that school starts 8.35am and finishes 3.35pm (2.50pm Tuesdays); 10 minutes earlier for Year 3, 4 and 5 pupils to help with the number of children on the playground at any given time. It is important therefore that if you have picked your older children up and do not have other younger children to collect, that you leave the playground as promptly as possible at the end of the day. If you do have younger children to collect, it is also important that your older children stay with you and not run free around the playground at this busy time. Thank you for your support and understanding in helping to keep the playground safe for all.
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! Cover Photo: Year 3 visit the Natural History Museum 27 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.
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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
95.3% 96.3% 98.6%
Britten Fitzgerald Glennie
97.4% 97.7% 98.3%
Al-Kashi Fibonacci Pythagoras
95.3% 95.5% 97.3%
Well done and congratulations to Newton Class who are the winners this week with 98.6%.
Key Stage 2 Ellington Nicks Shankar
98.0% 99.0% 97.0%
Lovelace Mirzakhani Ramanujan
96.7% 98.3% 97.3%
Rahman Tailleferre Vivaldi
99.3% 100% 97.3%
Well done and congratulations to Tailleferre Class who are the winners this week with 100% and have earned themselves some extra playtime.
Overall Attendance: 97.5% 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) I have been checking to see how many parents have signed up to Maths with Parents this week and am really pleased to see that in some classes almost every pupil has signed up. The classes with the most pupils signed up are Curie, Maxwell and Shankar, a huge congratulations! I will be checking again soon and really hope to see you all on there! I’m also seeing some fantastic Mathsgots forming.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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Year 3 visit the
Natural History Museum On Thursday 19th September, Year 3 took a trip into London to visit the Natural History Museum. We visited the museum as part of our topic on dinosaurs, and whilst there, we took part in an exciting ‘dino scientists’ workshop. During the workshop, we got to dress up as palaeontologists and wear lab coats around the museum. We then used our newly acquired scientific skills to discover lots of interesting facts about the dinosaurs who roamed the earth many millions of years ago.
We were incredibly excited to get to see the Ichthyosaur and Plesiosaur fossils – both of which were discovered by Mary Anning, who we have
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been learning about during our history lessons. As well as this, we also got to meet an incredibly realistic mechanical dinosaur – who very much reminded us of Protos from our current whole class reading text ‘The Secret Dinosaur’! We had an excellent day on our trip, and were able to learn a lot of new interesting things about dinosaurs and fossils!
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Wonderful Writing Week In the aim of raising the profile of writing across the school we hold a ‘Wonderful Writing Week’ once each half term. This of course does not mean that we would not expect wonderful writing every week but thought it would be great way to encourage the pupils to really show us what they can do. We ask that you encourage and support your child at home during these weeks and get them to do as much writing as possible, this could be in the form of a shopping list, a letter, story writing or instructions for a recipe or game – anything at all. For the Reception pupils we would like them to practise writing their name and some familiar words if possible, using any sounds they have learned. Year 1, we are looking for neat writing and sentences with capital letters and full stops. Year 2 now need to ensure their writing makes full sense and that they are beginning to use a range of punctuation, trying hard to spell more accurately familiar and unfamiliar words. Year 3 upwards need to ensure they are beginning to use a wide range of punctuation, spelling with increased accurately both familiar and unfamiliar words and ensuring their handwriting is clearly and neatly formed. At the end of the week two children from each class will be awarded a certificate in recognition of their hard work and effort. Thank you for your support!
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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 4th October 2019. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Shaurya Tanwar - Curie Annika Taheem - Al-Kashi Parmveer Singh - Shankar Arun Singh - Maxwell Abeera Qazi - Fibonacci Sanam Shah - Lovelace Yaseen Uddin - Newton Anita Uddin - Pythagoras Eesa Vali - Mirzakhani Qirrat Sobia - Britten Arshitha Thelapurath Esa Syed - Ramanujan Ellington Ahmed Syed - Fitzgerald Keerat Teja - Rahman Aina Shah - Nicks Cavin Singh - Glennie Haider Shaikh - Tailleferre Rohan Taheem - Vivaldi
Black Musician of the Week Nina Simone
In recognition and to celebrate Black History Month we will be listening to the music of a different black composer or musician each week. Next week we will be listening to and learning about Nina Simone. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Simone in preparation for the coming week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Simone http://www.ninasimone.com/bio/ 27 September 2019
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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:
Safa Ali – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for settling into reception). Elijah Jahedi – Scholar of the Week (for working hard to improve his pencil grip). Maxwell Class:
Aisha Islam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for playing fairly during exploration time). Amelia Ali – Scholar of the Week (for being a perfect partner during phonics). Newton Class:
Safiyah Motin – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing kindness and helping others at all times). Lamaisah Zahir – Scholar of the Week (for hearing the initial sound in a word during literacy). Britten Class:
Anayah Fahad – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for always showing great empathy towards her peers). Haniya Shaikh – Scholar of the Week (for great partner work during maths lessons). Fitzgerald Class:
Kaysaan Uddin – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for making a conscious effort to do the right thing all the time, including when the teacher isn’t looking). Sufyan Ali – Scholar of the Week (for some wonderful wizard word sentences completely independently written).
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Glennie Class:
Qasim Hussain – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing humility by helping children in the playground). Dilanjot Singh – Scholar of the Week (for trying really hard to use finger spaces). Al-Kashi Class:
Aagia Durhailay – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for always being honest to her class and teacher and setting a great example). Fatima Kashif – Scholar of the Week (for producing a very informative leaflet all about the human body). Fibonacci Class:
Ishaq Rahman – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating humility and fairness in the playground). Medina Islam – Scholar of the Week (for being able to explain why we need a balanced diet). Pythagoras Class:
Araiya Lard – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing great honesty and fairness in our big discussion for reading). Shad Rahman – Scholar of the Week (for working really hard in his maths learning and being a great talk partner). Ellington Class:
Aleena Choudhry - Headteacher's Habits Award (for making sure everyone in her computing group has been given a fair chance to input their ideas). Iman Javed - Scholar of the Week (for writing the importance of what a playscript is and its purpose).
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Nicks Class:
Amanah Ali – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing honesty when discussing the big question in reading). Kiana Benjamin – Scholar of the Week (for applying her understanding of ‘The Secret Dinosaur’ to answer inference questions). Shankar Class:
Alisha Ali – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for consistently demonstrating integrity by being honest and fair; both inside and outside of class). Holly Carless – Scholar of the Week (for showing excellent enthusiasm with her learning and for articulating her answers with clarity and fluency). Lovelace Class
Sohana Hoque – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using her honesty to identify and share gaps in her learning in order to work collaboratively with her class). Ibrahim Rahman – Scholar of the Week (for persevering through maths lessons, building confidence when regrouping 4-digit numbers using the column addition). Mirzakhani Class:
Yusha Master – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating honesty and making positive choices in class). Aryan Lakhani – Scholar of the Week (for making excellent inferences during Whole Class Reading lessons).
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Ramanujan Class:
Cameron Palmer – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating integrity and strong moral principals at all times). Maryam Nawaz – Scholar of the Week (for excellent use of literary devices to chronological report writing). Rahman Class:
Nadia Khan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating honesty at all times within school). Jasmine Gadhia – Scholar of the Week (for demonstrating fantastic improvement during swimming lessons). Tailleferre Class:
Kisa Fatima – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being honest about her learning). Emaan Hassan – Scholar of the Week (for an excellent figurative language poem). Vivaldi Class:
Daniyal Sheikh – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing integrity consistently in his learning). Charan Chaggar – Scholar of the Week (for creating a wonderful bank of figurative language for our shape poems).
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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 30th September 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.
At Home
• 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. 27 September 2019
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Correct as at 12 June 201919
Key Dates for
Autumn Term 2019 Monday 2nd September–Friday 20thDecember 2019 INSET - FRIDAY 4th October 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
Friday 15th November
Lovelace Class Assembly – Year 4 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 15th November
Britten Class Assembly – Year 1 – 10.20 – 10.40am
Monday 18th November
Wonderful Handwriting Week
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