18 May 2018
Secondary Newsletter
18 May 2018
Secondary Newsletter
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Southern Entrance
We would like to remind parents and carers that the gate at the southern entrance will be locked at 08:23 each morning. Students arriving after this time should enter via the main entrance in Cricklefield Place.
Safeguarding The welfare and safety of our students is our priority. We do everything possible to ensure our students’ safety, both within the school community and outside of school, including working with relevant agencies to address any issues related to child protection. Students are informed of who they should go to should they have a concern about their own safety or the safety of others. At INA, all staff have regular safeguarding training to ensure that they are able to meet their statutory responsibilities. We also have a number of staff who are designated to respond to any child protection concerns and to liaise with social services: Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) Leanne Abbott-Jones Assistant Principal Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) Tam Broadway Primary Headteacher Sugra Alibhai Head of Sixth Form Designated Child Protection Officers Gabriel Ayerh Patrick Ball (Online safety) Pardeep Chaggar Jody Lapish Gareth Marshall-Jones
Mariam Mayet Amreen Patel Jag Singh David Wilson
You can find the INA Safeguarding policy, Child Protection policy and other related policies and procedures on the Academy’s website.
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Dear Parents and Carers, With INA’s first series of GCSE exams now underway, we are really impressed with how the Year 11s are coping! This is where our BRIDGES programme is so important, as it has taught the Year 11s what to do when they don’t know what to do. I am confident that they will have used skills of resilience and determination to tackle even the most testing questions, to stay focused and to maintain optimism throughout the forthcoming weeks. I would like to praise students in Years 7-10 for their support and understanding in moving around the building quietly when exams are in progress. Next week we welcome Ms Stylianou back from maternity leave. She will be taking over as Pastoral Leader for Year 8. Mr Ball will continue to be involved with Year 8 (and Years 7 & 9) in his Lead Pastoral Leader role. Finally, just to remind you that Monday 4th June is the last Independent Learning Day of the academic year. All secondary students will be expected to use the day to revise at home for their forthcoming exams, except for those who are required to come in for an examination on that day. Further details can be found later in the newsletter. With all best wishes,
Jo Spencer
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Work Experience Information Evening Thursday 24th May 5:30-6:30pm Parents and Year 10 students (in uniform) are expected to attend the work experience information evening in order to ensure their son/ daughter is prepared and ready to complete their placement from 2nd-6th July 2018. Mr Crowther-Green
Women in Computer Science Day: A taster day for Year 10 & 11 girls, Maths Institute, Oxford, Tuesday 22 May 2018 Who the event is for: Year 10 and 11 girls from UK schools who are (planning on) taking Maths A Level, and who are considering taking a Maths/Science related subject at university. The day is designed to raise awareness of what Computer Science is at university level, to meet women (and men) who work in the Computer Science field and find out how they’re changing the world. Find out what Computer Science really is: it’s not just ICT and it certainly isn’t just for boys and geeks. There will be a visit to a college and the chance to meet some current researchers. Students attending should have a flair for Maths. For more information, please visit www.cs.ox.ac.uk/WomeninCS. Bookings are open. Questions to opendays@cs.ox.ac.uk
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Support INA with Work Experience opportunities
Dear Parents,
As you will know all Year 10 students engage in work experience to prepare them for future success. If you are able to support us by offering a placement (Key Requirements: Public Liability Insurance, Health and Safety Policy) from Monday 2nd July to Friday 6th July, please email info@isaacnewtonacademy.org with the following details: Contact name: Industry: Contact address: Contact email: Contact phone number: Many Thanks, Mr Crowther-Green
3D Ami - animation workshops - FREE to London students - Wed 25th July2nd August This is an absolutely brilliant opportunity for any London based 14-18 year olds interested in developing 3D films!  More information on the course and how to apply can be found on their website. www.3dami.org.uk 18 May 2018
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YEAR 11 NEWS GCSE Examination Timetable Summer 2018 Date Mon 14 May
Session
Length
Paper Code
AM
90
70 6G 8520/1
Computer Science COMPUTER SCIENCE PAPER 1
PM
105
10 6G 1RB0 1B
Religious Studies
45
10 6G 1FR0 1
French
LISTENING
60
10 6G 1FR0 3
French
READING
105
70 6G 8461/1
Biology
BIOLOGY PAPER 1
75
70 6G 8464/B/1
60
01 6A A844/01
AM
60
01 6A J587/01
50
70 6G 46451
Urdu
PM
105
10 6G 1RB0 2C
Religious Studies
105
70 6G 8462/1
Chemistry
75
0 6G 8464/C/1
Combined Science COMBINED SCI TRILOGY CHEMISTRY P1
PM
90
70 6G 8520/2
Computer Science COMPUTER SCIENCE PAPER 2
AM
80
10 6G 1FR0 4
AM Tue 15 May
Week 1
PM
Wed 16 May
Thu 17 May
Fri 18 May
Mon 21 May
Week 2
Tue 22 May
AM
Subject
Paper
CHRISTIANITY
Combined Science COMBINED SCI TRILOGY BIOLOGY P1 Turkish
TURKISH: WRITING WRITTEN PAPER
Physical Education PE: PHYSCL FCTR AFFCTNG PERF WTN
French
URDU UNIT 1 ISLAM CHEMISTRY PAPER 1
WRITING
90
01 6A J587/02
90
40 6G C690U30‐1
Drama
Drama Component3 Interpretin Theatre
AM
150
11 6C 6CN0201
Chinese
WRITTEN RESPONSE
PM
50
01 6A A841/01
Turkish
TURKISH: LISTENING WRITTEN
AM
105
10 6G 1ET0 01
English Literature
PM
90
10 6G 1GB0 01
Geography
PM
AM Wed 23 May PM
Thu 24 May
AM
Fri 25 May
AM
6
Physical Education PE: SOCIO‐CTRL ISSUES SPRT PSYCH WTN
SHAKESP.& POST 1914 LIT. GLOBAL GEOG.ISSUES
50
70 6G 46301H
Italian
ITALIAN UNIT 1
50
70 6G 46302H
Italian
ITALIAN UNIT 2
105
70 6G 8463/1
Physics
PHYSICS PAPER 1
75
70 6G 8464/P/1
90
10 6G 1MA1 1
Mathematics
180
10 6G 4HN0 01
Hindi
135
10 6G 1ET0 02
English Literature
Combined Science COMBINED SCI TRILOGY PHYSICS P1
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YEAR 11 NEWS GCSE Examination Timetable Summer 2018 Date Mon 4 Jun
Week 3
Tue 5 Jun
Paper Code
Subject
AM
75
10 6G 1HI0 11
History
AM
105
10 6G 1EN0 01
English Language
PM
90
10 6G 1GB0 02
Geography
45
10 6G 1SP0 1
Spanish
LISTENING
60
10 6G 1SP0 3
Spanish
READING
75
01 6A A843/01
Turkish
TURKISH: READING WRITTEN
75
40 6G C660U30‐1
Music
Music Component 3 Appraising
90
10 6G 1MA1 2
Mathematics
AM
120
10 6G 1EN0 02
English Language
PM
105
10 6G 1HI0 27
History
SUPERPOWER RELATIONS B3/4
105
70 6G 8461/2
Biology
BIOLOGY PAPER 2
75
70 6G 8464/B/2
PM
90
10 6G 1GB0 03
Geography
AM
90
10 6G 1MA1 3
Mathematics
Wed 6 Jun PM
Fri 8 Jun
Mon 11 Jun
Tue 12 Jun
Week 4
Length
AM
Thu 7 Jun
Wed 13 Jun
Thu 14 Jun
Fri 15 Jun
Week 5
Session
AM
AM
PM
MEDICINE IN BRITAIN FICTION & IMAG.WRITING UK GEOGRAPHICAL ISSUES
CALCULATOR NON‐FIC.& TRANS.WRITING
Combined Science COMBINED SCI TRILOGY BIOLOGY P2 PEOPLE & ENVIRON.ISSUES CALCULATOR
80
10 6G 1HI0 33
History
105
70 6G 8462/2
Chemistry
75
70 6G 8464/C/2
AM
80
10 6G 1SP0 4
Spanish
WRITING
PM
45
70 6G 46801H
Panjabi
PANJABI UNIT 1 TIER H
105
70 6G 8463/2
Physics
PHYSICS PAPER 2
AM
AM
Fri 15 Jun
PM
Mon 18 Jun
AM
Wed 20 Jun
AM
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Paper
THE USA CHEMISTRY PAPER 2
Combined Science COMBINED SCI TRILOGY CHEMISTRY P2
75
70 6G 8464/P/2
165
11 6C 6CN0301
Combined Science COMBINED SCI TRILOGY PHYSICS P2 Chinese
50
70 6G 46851
Polish
POLISH UNIT 1
50
70 6G 46802
Panjabi
PANJABI UNIT 2
60
70 6G 46804
Panjabi
PANJABI UNIT 4
60
70 6G 46852
Polish
POLISH UNIT 2
60
70 6G 46854
Polish
POLISH UNIT 4
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Attendance and Punctuality At Isaac Newton Academy every student is expected to maintain 100% attendance. Each form group across each year are competing to ensure they are top of the attendance league table for their year. Please ensure your child catches up with missed learning. Our pastoral and teaching staff are working hard to ensure students are taking responsibility for going to collect missed learning from their classroom teachers. Punctuality All students need to be present on site and ready for line up no later than 8.25am each day and as such we advise students to be through the school gates (side entrance and southern entrance) no later than 8.20am. The form with the highest attendance at the end of every term is awarded the attendance trophy. Each week we will update you with the year to date attendance figures as seen below. Year group and form attendance for week of 6th May 2018 Tutor
Week
Tutor
Week
Tutor
Week
Tutor
Week
Tutor
Week
7A
98.9
8A
93.4
9A
93.8
10A
98.9
11A
94.3
7C
98.9
8C
94.3
9C
95.9
10C
99.4
11E
97.2
7E
99.4
8E
95.6
9E
91.9
10E
91.5
11I
92.3
7I
90.7
8I
94.3
9I
96.4
10I
95.1
11N
90.7
7N
98.4
8N
100
9N
96.4
10N
95.4
11S
96.4
7S
97.1
8S
97.3
9S
96.9
10S
96.7
11T
96.6
7W
96.9
8W
97.3
9T
98.7
10T
99.5
11W
95.5
Total
97.2
Total
96
9W
98.8
Total
96.7
Total
94.7
Total
96.2
If you have any attendance related concerns please do not hesitate to contact myself or your child’s Pastoral Leader to discuss. Ms Lapish Lead Pastoral Leader (KS4)
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‘I want to die today’ never will I say,
‘life is worth living’ I feel
for every day I’m breathing the reality,
‘I will never accomplish anything’ never will I say my attitudes. my emotions, my love,
‘what makes me human?’
every day I question myself the reason why
I’ve never felt so alive. Now read from the poem from the bottom up. Vivek, Irmak, Umaimah, Hamid and Tasseen created this poem in English, which they were massively proud of! Thought I’d share it for you all to read. Ms Aouane 18 May 2018
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M IN
What is Mo
Inspiring yourself to goals. Having the d something.
What is Ind
Being able to live yo or influenced by ot decisions about the achieve your goals. views and actions.
Alex Honnold The beautiful monolith (large rock) in the picture above is El Capitan, which is 914m tall and is in Yosemite National Park in the USA. It is widely considered the hardest rock face to climb in the world. In June 2017 climber Alex Honnold did something extraordinary: he was the first person ever to climb the rock-face solo, without any support, and without any ropes. This took a huge amount of motivation and independence. Although the climb only took him 3 hours 56 minutes, the actual achievement itself was due to over ten years of hard-work and determination. It involved thousands of hours of solo training and Alex pushing himself by trying more and more extreme climbs. Alex commented that his achievement was due to “being motivated to do the hardest thing I thought I could possibly do�. During the climb Alex had to make his own decisions about how he would move up the rock face. Nobody had ever done this before so he was totally reliant on his own judgment. In this case, his life depended on making the right choices. Alex used motivation and independence to climb El Capitan. What can you achieve if you grow your own motivation and independence?
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Behaviours
Making your own c for your actions, be pushing yourself fu your own interests, timetable, reflectin preparation for you Not being swayed b
Students w
Vikram Rancha 11S 18 May 2018
MOTIVATION & NDEPENDENCE
otivation?
o make progress and achieve your drive and enthusiasm to pursue
dependence?
our life without being helped ther people. Making your own e actions you need to take to . Having confidence in your own
s
choices and taking responsibility eing enthusiastic, determined and urther, being able to stimulate , planning your own revision ng on your BRIDGES progress in ur BRIDGES mentoring session. by ‘the crowd’.
TOP TIPS: Students
• Follow your revision timetable without the need for reminders. • Give yourself plenty of time to complete your IL to increase your chances of deep learning. • Keep in touch with what is going on in the world around us by reading the news, and then form your own opinions on issues such as justice and equality. • Set some long-term goals for yourself. What would you like to have achieved by the time you go to university? Use these goals to help motivate you to become who you would like to be. • Prepare your own meals, make your own bed, clean your own clothes – show that you can care for yourself independently. • Plan an outing on your own (with your parent’s permission) and demonstrate your independence. • Decide who motivates you and think about/listen to them when you need to raise your levels of motivation.
Parents
• Encourage your son/daughter to set goals that will motivate them to succeed, this could be made easier by using recent reports or assessment results. • Allow your son/daughter the independence to make decisions for themselves when appropriate. • Discuss family members or friends who have demonstrated drive and enthusiasm in order to reach their goals.
who have shown Motivation and Independence at INA
an
Motivation and independence is very important during examination periods. The following students in Year 11 have shown their independence and motivation by designing a revision timetable and completing additional practice questions for their teachers to mark and hand back to them.
Hazna Heleem 11I 18 May 2018
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Praise and Recognition
At INA, we aim to provide a stimulating, challenging and rewarding learning environment which supports learning, celebrates achievement and encourages everyone. Awarding merits, informal praise in class and the end of term awards assemblies are all part of this. Please speak to your child/children on a regular basis to see how many merits they have and how they are working towards the different awards at school.
Merits Each merit you gain will increase your individual total and also your form’s overall total. So make sure you are keeping up the fantastic work to gain merits!
YEAR 7
TOTAL
YEAR 8
TOTAL
YEAR 9
I N C A S W E
1526 1395 1369 1354 1016 985 978
A E S W N I C
952 805 659 623 525 524 413
T I W S E N A C
TOTAL YEAR 10 TOTAL YEAR 11 TOTAL
476 455 373 328 299 281 192 109
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N C E A T S I
344 258 289 298 221 205 168
W E T N I S A
209 171 141 123 107 81 69
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Ahmed Al-Khafaji Award
(Peer Commendation Award)
Ahmed was well known for being kind, for helping others and for being extremely polite. He was also someone known for his hard work and absorption; the idea, therefore, is that the winner should be someone who encapsulated one of these qualities in that week. Year 7: Sarina Musab 7S Year 8: Ahmed Esmail Khan 8W Year 9: Khadija Ahmed 9N Year 10: Nathan Afsar 10C
Good Deed Feed Every week we ask teachers to nominate students who have been role models by carrying out good deeds for others and the INA community. A big well done for those who have been nominated this week! Bradley Lard 10A for allowing a student in 8E to wear his glasses throughout our entire class assembly which completed the costume in the role play. Many thanks again! - Mr Smith Amir Chergui 12LSE for an excellent whole class presentation in giveback as a TA, which meant I could help students one to one in the lesson. - Ms Priestley Veer Jagdev 8C for his consistently positive contributions in Reading lessons each week, which support the rest of the class. - Ms Priestley Kareem Beckett-Edwards 7S for giving up his time after school to help sort and organise the certificates for all of the Year 7 students from the Spring term. A very helpful gesture – thank you Kareem! - Mr Barber Leah Deane & Maya Imran 8N. There was a student residential for some music students a few weeks ago and Maya and Leah were great supporters of another student as she practised her bravery and grit over the weekend! - Ms Epler
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End of Year Exam Timetable June 2018 AM P1 P2
P3
P4 PM P5
P6
Mon 4th June
Tue 5th June
Wed 6th June
Thu 7th June
Fri 8th June
History Medicine in Britain [75 mins]
English Language Fiction and Imag. Writing [105 mins]
Spanish Listening 45 mins Reading [60 mins]
Mathematics Calculator [90 mins]
English Language Non Fict. And Trans. Writing [120 mins]
Y8 English Non-fiction comparison [60 mins] Y8 Music [60 mins]
Y7 Geography 50 mins
Y9 English Poetry Comparison [75 mins]
Y7 Religious Studies [50 mins]
Y9 Science [90 mins]
Y10 Mathematics Paper 1 [90 mins]
Geography Paper 2 - UK Geographical issues [90 mins]
Music Component 3 appraising [75 mins]
Y10 Science Double Physics [75 mins]
Y7 Music [60 mins]
Y7 History [50 mins]
Turkish
Triple Physics [105 mins]
History Superpower Relations B3/4 [105 mins}
End of Year Exam Timetable June 2018 AM P1
P2
P3
Mon 11th June
Tue 12th June
Wed 13th June
Thu 14th June
Fri 15th June
Biology Paper 2 H [105 mins]
Mathmatics Calculator [90 mins]
Chemistry Paper 2 H [105 mins]
Spanish Writing [80 mins]
Physics Paper 2 H [105 mins]
Comb. Science Biology [75 mins] Y9 Mathematics [90 mins]
Y8 Science [90 mins]
P4 PM P5
P6
Geography Paper 3 – People and Env. Issues [90 mins]
History The USA [80 mins]
Comb. Science Chemistry [75 mins] Y8 Mathematics Calculator [50 mins] Y8 Geography [50 mins]
Y8 Religious Studies [50 mins] Y8 French [60 mins]
Comb. Science Physics [75 mins] Y7 Mathematics Non-Calculator [50 mins] Y7 French [60 mins]
Y10 English Literature [105 mins]
Y10 Science Double Biology [75 mins]
Y10 Maths Paper 2 [90 mins]
Triple Biology [105 mins]
Chinese Polish
Panjabi
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Year 9 BRIDGES Mentors
Next week a group of Year 9 students will be visiting the Primary to help mentor the Year 3 pupils and support them with their BRIDGES development. In preparation, the Secondary students spent time sharing their experiences of BRIDGES mentoring in the Secondary school and then planning some questions that will challenge and help the Year 3 pupils set themselves targets. The Year 3 pupils will be spending time before the session reflecting on how they use their BRIDGES both at and outside of school. Ms Broadway
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These eight exciting titles have been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018 and are now available in the INA library! Wondering which to read first? Let us help you decide! Are you looking for a book that is... ..based on historical events?
Where the World Ends is set in 18th century St. Kilda, a group of men
and boys are put ashore on a remote sea stack to harvest birds for food but no-one returns to collect them. How will they survive storms, starvation and terror when they are imprisoned on every side by the ocean?
After the Fire is based on the siege of US federal agencies on the Seventhday Adventist Church, a protestant group founded in the 1950’s. The central character Moonbeam is starting to doubt everything Father John is telling her is true but how can she find out for sure?
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Beyond the Bright Sea is inspired by events that unfolded on Penikese
island, Massachusetts – once home to a leper colony – in the 1920s. When Crow notices a mysterious fire across the water it triggers an unstoppable chain of events, leading her down a path of discovery and danger.
...based on current events?
The Hate U Give intersperses family with the ethical concerns fuelling the
Black Lives Matter campaign after Starr Carter witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer.
Saint Death follows Faustino who is trying to escape from the gang he’s
been working for in Anapra, one of the poorest neighbourhoods in the Mexican city of Juarez. Twenty metres outside the town lies a fence - and beyond it – America, where Faustino hopes to find safety, if he can ever get there.. ...based on coming-of-age?
Release, by INA favourite Patrick Ness, is based on the author’s experience of growing up gay in a deeply religious family
Rook is the third instalment chronicling the lives and growing pains of
brothers Kenny and Nicky after their mum left and their dad has been in and out of prison. The only people the boys have to raise themselves are each other.
...based on wacky adventures?
Wed Wabbit’s protagonist is Fidge who is joined by three companions in her mission to solve a series of nearly impossible clues after being sucked into the bizarre world of her little sister’s favourite story.’ Ms Johnson-Clarke, Librarian
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Key Dates for the Summer Term 2018 Monday 16th April – Friday 20th July
Half Term: Monday 28th May – Friday 1st June INSET Days: 22nd June, 6th July Wednesday 23rd May Thursday 24th May Monday 28th May – Friday 1st June Monday 4th June Thursday 7th June & Friday 8th June Friday 15th June Thursday 21st June Wednesday 27th June Monday 2nd July – Friday 6th July Monday 2nd July Tuesday 3rd July Thursday 5th July Monday 8th July Thursday 12th July Wednesday 18th July Thursday 19th July Thursday 19th July Thursday 19th July Friday 20th July Monday 23rd & Tuesday 24th July
Year 6 Parents Information Evening Work Experience Evening for Year 10 HALF TERM Independent Learning/Revision Day No school for students Year 7 & 8 Meningitis Jabs Year 11 Leavers Assembly End of Exams Year 10 Sports Day Year 10 Work Experience Week Years 7-9 Sports Day Sixth Form Transition Day Year 9 Battle of the Bands Year 9 Girls HPV Vaccination Summer Concert Year 8 Speaking Competition Year 8 Girls HPV Vaccinations KS3 Graduation Year 11 Graduation ball End of Term Awards Assemblies Uniform Sales
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