22 June Secondary Newsletter

22 June 2018

Secondary Newsletter

22 June 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. ion S

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Dear Parents and Carers, Our internal exams come to end this week. We have been very impressed with the students’ focus, how hard they have worked and their positive behaviour for learning during the exam period.

We have finished doing Home Visits for the Year 6 students who are starting at INA in September and we have enjoyed meeting and starting to get to know them and their families. Our Transition Day is on Thursday next week when we are looking forward to welcoming them into the INA community.

We have four action-packed weeks until the end of term. We have sports days in both primary and secondary, a trip to Berlin for A level History students and several trips for secondary students, the Year 8 Speaking Competition, the primary summer fayre and music event, the Year 11 Graduation Ball, the Key Stage 3 Graduation evening and, of course, our end of term awards assemblies. Please see the calendar in the newsletter for further details.

And finally, just a reminder that next Friday 6th July is the final INSET day of the year. There will be no school for students on this day.

With all best wishes,

Jo Spencer

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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 beginning 4th June 2018 Tutor Week Tutor Week Tutor Week Tutor Week 7A

100.0

8A

99.0

9A

95.7

10A

99.0

7C

99.0

8C

99.5

9C

92.9

10C

96.0

7E

99.5

8E

89.4

9E

90.1

10E

96.6

7I

86.5

8I

94.3

9I

90.8

10I

94.7

7N

92.1

8N

99.5

9N

95.3

10N

96.0

7S

93.3

8S

96.2

9S

100.0 10S

94.2

7W

95.2

8W

97.1

9T

94.2

10T

91.8

Total

95.0

Total

96.4

9W

95.2

Total

95.5

Total

94.4

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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End of Year Exam Timetable June 2018 AM P1

Mon 25th June

Tue 26th June

Wed 27th June

Geography Paper 3 [90 mins]

History 1 Medicine in Britain [75 mins] Y10 French Listening F [35 mins]

Y10 Drama [70 mins] Y10 Spanish Listening F [35 mins]

P2 P3

Y7 Spanish [60 mins]

P4

Y8 History [50 mins]

Y10 French Listening H [45 mins]

Y10 Spanish Listening H [45 mins]

Y10 Music [75 mins]

Y10 Maths 3 [90 mins]

Y10 French Writing F and H [70 and 80 mins] Finish 4:10

12:50-1:50

PM P5 P6

Thu 28th June

Fri 29th June

Additional exams – Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th April

GDPR update Occasionally we may take photographs/videos of our students to celebrate achievements and showcase exciting learning at Isaac Newton Academy.

Photos and videos may be used as a part of our school displays, newsletter, website/social media, prospectus and press/media. Â This week, as part of the new GDPR requirements, students in Years 7-12 were asked to sign a consent form giving permission to be photographed/videoed. We have explained to the students about their data protection rights under the new regulations.

If you have any questions or would like to speak to somebody about GDPR, please contact the school office.

Mr Crowther-Green Assistant Principal

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Saturday Stretch

Mathematics 16th June 2018

On the 16th of June, INA welcomed Mansi Patel, a Maths, Accounting and Finance undergraduate from Queen Mary University. The session was delivered to ten students across Years 7, 8, and 9.

Mansi started off the session by talking about some cool facts. The middle of a sunflower has a spiral shape which follows the Fibonacci sequence.

The fact that nature can be explained by maths in a variety of instances is what really made Mansi as passionate as she is about mathematics. You don’t typically hear maths to be described as beautiful, but in many ways it is! We also learned that seven out of ten accountants are happy with their career choice and wouldn’t take a different path even if they had the opportunity to go back and try something different.

To get everyone warmed up, the students were given a murder mystery investigation that covered a variety of mathematical concepts. While doing a murder mystery isn’t an exact representation of what it’s like to study maths at a university level, the students did have to defend their answers with strong reasoning skills, which is an important university level skill.

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After solving the murder, students were then challenged with some higher level problems. The room got a bit heated at times as boys and girls competed for a chance at victory and great teamwork was shown. While the girls put up a strong fight, the boys were the winners of the game.

In reality though, everyone was a winner when it came to pushing their comprehension skills and being able to explain their answer.

The last part of the morning session consisted of learning more about what it’s like to study at Queen Mary University. Queen Mary is part of the Russell Group, which is a group of universities that shares a common focus on research and has a strong reputation for academic achievement.

Because of this, eighty five percent of students that graduate from Queen Mary are able to find work or continue their studies within six months.

Mansi then talked about different careers that could be pursued with a maths degree, like being a meteorologist, a software engineer, a statistician, or a data scientist. The INA students that attended found this session to be very useful and felt like they learned a lot about studying maths after high school and Queen Mary.

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What behaviours will you imitate at this year’s World Cup? Ronaldo’s free-kick? Messi’s trickery? Kane’s finishing?

You may be enjoying the football in Russia and trying to imitate some of the best players on the world stage. There is indeed a lot to imitate: they have worked hard, shown great determination, and had to be patient in achieving their goals.

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But what about some of the less-noticed positive behaviours we can all absorb and mimic?

After their opening games the fans of both Senegal and Japan demonstrated their citizenship by tidying up the entire stadium! In doing this the fans are role models to us and we can learn from them. Win, lose or draw these sets of fans always leave the stadium exactly how they found it. A true sign of respect.

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TOP TIPS: Students • Imitate a positive aspect of a role model for the day and analyse the effect.

• Support other students by acting as a positive role model for them.

• Observe other students in class, focus on the types of questions they ask and how they organise their learning.

• Reflect on what you have learned about effective ways to learn from working collaboratively with others.

Parents • Encourage your son/daughter to discuss their role models with you.

• Discuss the positive benefits of imitating others, both at home and at school.

• Discuss with your son/daughter how copying without understanding can lead to problems

who have shown great Imitating skills in their learning: Year 7 Students

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Musa Haque 7C

The Year 7 students are currently completing their first set of end of year exams. Their behaviour in line-up for exams has been excellent, and they have all shown great planning and resilience throughout the revision process. One of the main reasons they have been so successful is because of the role modelling from the older year groups – a great example of imitating.

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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 C N A S E W

1560 1469 1457 1438 1099 1050 985

A E W S I N C

975 872 679 668 589 559 519

T I W N S E A C

TOTAL YEAR 10 TOTAL

534 482 391 358 328 317 192 109

N E A C T S I

344 307 298 258 255 216 170

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: Cara Adams 7C Year 8: Hunsveer Mudhar 8A Year 9: Hammad Patel 9T Year 10: Ekam Sehmbi 10S

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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!

Malik Rashid 10N for helping to bring up the cricket equipment after the rest of the team had left. Thank you. - Mr Marecar Thana Muyanja 7S for really engaging with other students this week and being a good friend. Well done. - Ms Gosden Mr Barber, Pastoral Leader Year 7

SPORTS SHIRT DAY!

Friday 29th June 2018 is non-uniform day for Sports Shirt Day!

All staff at INA would love to see you all wearing your favourite team's sport shirts or a shirt representing your chosen sports team's colours!

Please remember to contribute ÂŁ1.00 at the gates on the day!

Important Reminder: No offensive slogans on clothing No mini-skirts or bare midriffs No jewellery or make-up Ensure you wear sensible footwear

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Key Dates for the Summer Term 2018 Monday 16th April – Friday 20th July INSET Day: 6th July Monday 2nd July – Friday 6th July Monday 2nd July Tuesday 3rd July Thursday 5th July Monday 9th July Monday 9th July Wednesday 18th July Thursday 19th July Thursday 19th July Thursday 19th July Friday 20th July Monday 23rd & Tuesday 24th July

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 Year 10 Sports Day 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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