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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, The Secondary SLT, along with Gerard Griffin, Chair of Governors, and Rachel Macfarlane, founding Principal, attended the TES School Awards last Friday evening at the Grosvenor House Hotel in central London. As you know, we were short-listed for Secondary School of the Year 2018. In the end, we didn’t win the award – it went to Kensington Aldridge Academy, a secondary school situated at the foot of Grenfell Tower. The whole Kensington Aldridge community has shown tremendous courage and resilience in the face of much adversity and we congratulate them on winning the award. You will see from the picture below that we had a very lovely evening.
On Thursday, we welcomed our new Year 7s for their Transition Day. They had a busy day of activities and getting to know each other; hopefully they all now feel confident about starting here in September. 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 Cover photo: Shakespeare Showcase 28th June 2018 29 June 2018
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SAVE THE DATE! Year 9 - End of Key Stage 3 Awards Ceremony Thursday 19th July 5:00-6:30pm We are holding a special awards ceremony for Year 9 to mark the end of Key Stage 3. Students will go home at the end of the school day and return to school at 5:00pm, dressed formally in their finest outfits. There will be refreshments served between 5:00pm and 5:30pm in the Key Stage 3 Hall, providing students and parents/carers with a chance to mingle and reflect on the three years that have passed. Following this, there will be the formal awards ceremony in the Dining Hall. During the ceremony we will be celebrating progress and success over the entire key stage. Please note that Year 9 students will have an Independent Learning Day on the last day of term (20th July). Ms Spencer, Interim Principal
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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A Warm Invite to
INA’s Awards Assemblies Friday 20th July 2018 On Friday 20th July we will be holding our end of year awards assemblies. This is an important opportunity for the staff, students, governors and parents/carers to formally celebrate our students’ achievements at the end of the academic year. There will be a separate assembly for each year group. Please note the times as follows: 11.05-12.00 Year 7 assembly
Dining Hall
12.00-12.55 Year 8 assembly
KS3 Hall
12.00-12.55 Year 10 assembly
Dining Hall
At the assemblies we will be presenting awards in recognition of students’ academic progress and attainment, personal progress and the development of their BRIDGES dispositions. Excellent attendance and punctuality will also be celebrated. It is also a great opportunity for you to see some examples of the activities and events your child has been participated in this term. We believe that it is important that every student is represented by a parent at the Awards assembly for their year group. If you would like to attend, please ask your son/daughter to collect tickets for the awards assembly from his/her form tutor. Please request your tickets by Monday 9th July. Due to limited capacity, we are unable to accommodate very many additional family members. However, if you would like additional places, please notify the school office and we will do our best to allocate an additional ticket. I look forward to seeing you on 20th July. Mr Ball, Acting Assistant Principal 29 June 2018
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Walton-on-the-Naze Year 10 Field Trip Please check the dates when your class is going.
Wednesday 11th July – 10 EVEREST & 10 AMAZON Thursday 12th July – 10 NILE & 10 PACIFIC You should wear comfortable clothing, be fully equipped for the day and will need to bring the following items: • Old trainers, appropriate clothing for the weather on the day, spare socks • Stationery including calculator, pens, pencils and rubber • Plastic bag to keep worksheets dry • A watch • Water bottles • A camera or a mobile phone for photos Thank you. Ms Gurm, Teacher of Humanities (Lead Geography Teacher)
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Kingsmead School visit INA This Monday a delegation of students and teachers from Kingsmead School in Enfield visited INA to learn about our BRIDGES programme. This trip was made extra special because it was led by students for students. The visit included a BRIDGES presentation by three Year 12s, Kingsmead students observing our BRIDGES lessons and then a student workshop / discussion group with students from across all year groups. The visitors had lots of great questions and the INA students did a fantastic job of communicating just what BRIDGES is and what it means to us. As a school, we also learnt a lot from their students – it was especially interesting to hear about how they structure their independent learning. INA have been invited to Kingsmead in the next academic year to learn about an aspect of their school. A special thanks to the students from INA involved in the visit who were great ambassadors of the school and put a huge about of effort in to preparing for the visit. Malaika Janjua - 8A Theresa Nassar - 8A Juneyed Ahmed - 8I Fatima Jilani – 10A Avinash Desai – 10A
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Nehaal Khandwalla – 10I Toby Summers - 12M Keanna Bhalla - 12S Neha Rajput - 12L
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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 18th June 2018 Tutor Week Tutor Week Tutor Week Tutor Week 7A
98.5
8A
94.5
9A
96.7
10A
99.5
7C
96.5
8C
95.5
9C
92.7
10C
96.5
7E
96.0
8E
94.7
9E
93.1
10E
95.2
7I
98.6
8I
92.5
9I
99.5
10I
95.7
7N
94.4
8N
95.7
9N
92.3
10N
98.0
7S
94.7
8S
97.6
9S
96.2
10S
97.6
7W
93.7
8W
96.6
9T
99.4
10T
97.0
Total
96.0
Total
95.3
9W
95.3
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97.1
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95.7
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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SPORTS DAY! Monday 2nd July 2018 The Athletics programme for the day is as follows:
Year 7: 1.50pm to 3.45pm Year 8: 9.00am to 10.45am Year 9:11.15am to 1.00pm
Important Ticket Information (issued in form time): • No entry into the stadium if you do not have a ticket • Children of all ages require a ticket • You must stay in the allocated area • If you are staying for more than one year group, you must leave the stadium and then present another ticket for the other year group • No photography / video allowed • No walking around the stadium
Important Notices for the day: • All pupils must be in kit • Ensure you bring lots of water • Ensure you have sun cream • Ensure you have a hat to wear • Enrichment is cancelled on sports day 29 June 2018
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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
audhry
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
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975 872 679 668 589 559 519
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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: Shomail Abbas 9W 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! All the Year 10 Historians for being so dedicated and attending additional revision sessions after school with Mr. Smith and Mr Lennox in preparation for EOY exams. Great to see so much energy, focus and commitment to exams, especially in the last week. - Ms Priestley Zainab Limbada 9S and Rhea Virdee 9S for finding another student’s blazer on the astroturf and handing this into Mr Ayerh. - Mr Ayerh Sakib Ahmed 7W for helping out other Year 7 students after school with their student reports and uploading them. Great friendship Sakib! - Mr Barber Mr Barber, Pastoral Leader Year 7
Music Festival 2018 Well done to our 27 students who performed in the Ark Music Festival at Ark Swift Primary last Saturday 23rd June. Every single student in year 7 and 8 auditioned for a place in the band. In the morning students received workshops from New Orleans-style marching band Kinetica Bloco and Junk Percussion Ensemble, Stomp. In the afternoon they put their memory skills to the test and performed songs they only learnt that day. It even inspired Ms Girard to start learning the trombone. The students put in a huge amount of effort and the final performances sounded fantastic. Great job everyone!
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Southbank Centre and Forced Entertainment invite you to come and make a show! We are looking for young performers between 8 and 14 years old to make a production of That Night Follows Day, written by Tim Etchells - Artistic Director of Forced Entertainment. That Night Follows Day is an extraordinary text for performance that explores the ways in which the adult world shapes and defines that of young people. It offers up the full range of advice, facts, white lies and excuses children hear from adults! Working with 16 young people, the piece will be performed at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room between 11th – 15th December 2018. We are looking for young people from all abilities and backgrounds to come and work with us. Some experience of performing would be good but this isn’t 100% necessary, so if this is something that appeals to you then please apply. First auditions will be held Saturday 7th – Sunday 8th July, with the second round taking place in the evening on Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th July. Deadline for applications is 10am Monday 2 July. Please go to our website
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/about/get-involved/forced-entertainment-open-call
for further details about this opportunity and the dates of all rehearsals.
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INA Jump Off All year 7 & 8 students will be
participating in the JUMP OFF to raise money for the British Heart Foundation. All P.E lessons between 9th-13th July will be dedicated to skipping. Please fill out your sponsor forms and bring them to your P.E lesson that week. Please upload your sponsor money onto Wise pay before the lesson. Do not bring money in. The form that raises the most money will receive a prize.
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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
Key Dates for the Autumn Term 2018 Monday 3rd September – Thursday 20th December Monday 3rd September – Wednesday 5th September Thursday 6th September
INSET NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS Year 7 &12 in from 8.25am
Friday 7th September
Years 8-11 & 13 in from 1.30pm All students in from 8.25am for the full day
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