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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 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, Last night at our Music Recital we were treated to some great musical performances by the Year 11 GCSE and Year 13 A level music students. Many thanks to Ms Zembron for organising it and to the students for their performances. At the end of a very busy first half term, I would like to congratulate everyone for a great start to the new academic year. Staff and students have worked incredibly hard and are, I’m sure, looking forward to a well-deserved rest next week. I hope that students will use some of the time to revise their learning from this half term – we know that regular chunks of revision is the most powerful and effective and helps learning to stick. I also hope that students will carve out some time to relax, to complete an activity for their cultural passport and to get engrossed in a book. Finally, just to remind you that the first week back after half term in secondary is family week. There will be no after school enrichments or interventions during this week. I hope that you have a lovely half term break.
With all best wishes,
Jo Spencer Parent workshop: BRIDGES An opportunity to learn more about the BRIDGES framework and how parents can support their children to grow their BRIDGES dispositions.
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Online Safety & Secret Agent Opportunity Isaac Newton Academy are looking for enthusiastic Year 7 and 8 students to join Mr Dewal after school on a Thursday for two lessons based on the new Johnny English film. The cross-curricular lessons take students on an immersive learning journey through Johnny English’s school for Secret Agents in training. At the start of the programme, Johnny will set a mission for the class to protect their school and personal information from an incoming cyber-attack. Students aged 8 to 12 will then engage with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects, learn about cyber-attacks and how to stay safe online, breaking codes and communicating secretly using science, all whilst developing the necessary skills to become a secret agent during the course of the two lessons before having the opportunity to take part in an exciting design competition. Each lesson is broken up into the following sections: 1. Briefing or Debrief – introduction 2. Mission Prep – development 3. Mission Task – individual or small group work 4. Task Debrief – plenary 5. Field Mission – homework Students that are interested please contact Mr Dewal in G42 to see if you can be accepted on the mission.
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Years 10 and 11 Be sure to purchase a GCSE Science revision guide and workbook Contains revision notes, exam practice Qs, glossary of key words and more
Combined Science students - ÂŁ9 Separate Science students - ÂŁ12
(for three books: Biology, Chemistry and Physics)
Collect books from Mr Golinski (T17) on Thursdays/Fridays after school once purchased
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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 The inter-form merit competition is heating up – with more and more merits being given out each week. 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! Also if you are owed a merit go and collect it and make sure it gets recorded on your form’s spreadsheet!
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YEAR 7
TOTAL
YEAR 8
TOTAL
YEAR 9
7S 7N 7W 7I 7A 7E 7C
447 414 368 278 275 268 260
8N 8S 8C 8E 8E 8I 8A
283 207 207 204 202 181 179
9C 9A 9E 9I 9N 9S 9W
TOTAL YEAR 10 TOTAL YEAR 11 TOTAL
153 133 109 102 74 37 26
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10I 10A 10C 10W 10T 10N 10S
53 40 33 30 16 15 0
11N 11I 11E 11A 11T 11S 11C
92 66 58 51 47 22 20
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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: Arman Ghashgaei 7C Year 8: Nafisa Musab 8E Year 9: Sid Saxena 9A Year 10: Glory Mondua 10T Year 11: Sumayyah Ali 11E
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! Kareem Beckett-Edwards 8S – For returning another students lanyard that he found. - Ms Skyers Luke Bailey 11N and Remeez Saleem 11T - they gave up ten minutes of their lunch time to help set up the classroom with resources. It was a really generous use of their time and they took real pride in the presentation of the room. Thanks. - Mr Ball Mr Athwal Pastoral Leader for Year 11, i/c of Praise and Recognition
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Year 10 History Trip
Battlefields in Ypres, Belgium Purpose of the trip: To enrich student understanding of key aspects of Trench warfare. To enable students to see the sight of Hill 60 where a huge battle took place. This is an integral part of their GCSE History Paper 1.
Dates: 14-15th February 2019 Payment schedule (non-refundable): Date of payment
Amount to paid
29th October 2018
£75
29th November 2018
£50
17th December 2018
£25
17th January 2019
£25
Person to contact: Ms. Priestley
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On Wednesday 3rd October, during Period 5 and 6, the whole of Year 9 were given an incredible opportunity to watch a production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The play was based on the book written by Mark Haddon. It tells the story of Christopher, a fifteen year-old boy, who sets out to solve one crime – the murder or a dog – but ends up discovering another that involves his mum and dad. The adaptation of play to book was stunning. In the performance, there was a chalk-board spread across the whole floor. The use of the chalk-board was extremely effective because it was a representation of Christopher’s – thoughts and feelings, and every time Christopher was trying to figure something out he would pick up a piece of chalk and draw it down. This included maths equations and faces that showed different emotions. There were also multiple white boxes around the whole of the stage, and inside those boxes there were train-tracks, which we often saw Christopher take out and build, so that, as the play went on, we saw the train-track grown in size. I had already read the book during the summer holidays, so seeing the book played out in front of me was really quite exciting. But one thing that made the performance stand out from most other plays is that Siobhan, who plays a teacher at Christopher’s school, is narrating the whole story, which Christopher’s written down for her as part of a school project. This, and the live puppy, made the play rise above a lot of other performances. So, overall, the show was an amazing opportunity offered by the school and was definitely different. Thank you to all of the parents and teachers that helped to make it happen! By Imani Ale 9C
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Rio Hoque Rashid and Awais Seyyad At INA we are very proud of 6th Form students. They have worked very hard to achieve their goals. Great GCSE results came as a result of growing and developing all of their BRIDGES dispositions. Managing distractions is key when it comes to learning in lesson time, completing IL and especially for revising. Shall we hear the top tips from the 6th Formers?
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1. Learn in a calm and quiet environment – find a space you feel comfortable in and one that helps you focus 2. Turn your phone off and do learning in a room away from a television (so you are not even tempted to quickly turn it on!) 3. Make a checklist of the items you want to complete, this will keep you focused on the task at hand 4. Keep quick healthy snacks with you. Secondary Newsletter
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Being focused, listening to teachers or peers even when there are other distractions, being able to learn regardless of personal or emotional distractions, finding the right environment to learn in, starting each day and lesson with a fresh attitude.
TOP TIPS: Students
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Parents • Create a learning space for your son/daughter away from distractions. • Talk to your son/daughter about how you manage your distractions both at home and at work. • Discuss a plan for completing IL – including how long each piece should take and planning for breaks and rests. • Discuss with your son/daughter the strategies he/she can use to become better at managing distractions. • Share how you manage your own distractions.
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These students were top of their entire year group for attitude to learning last term. Why not ask on them the strategies they use to manage distractions? The strategies are clearly working well!
Taznim Hossain 9I
Iraj Khan 8N
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Black History Month 2018 The beginnings of Black History Month go back to 1926 when black historian Carter G. Woodson began what he called “Negro History Week” in the USA. In 1969, the week’s celebration was expanded to a month and in 1976, Black History Month was endorsed by the US government. In the United Kingdom, Black History Month has been celebrated every October since 1987. Black History Month provides us with a focus to celebrate the achievements of Black and Minority Ethnic people from the UK and overseas. The Black community has used this month to share with the rest of the world the contribution that Black people have made to human development. It is a time to demonstrate pride in, and respect for, the creativity, intellectual achievements and sporting prowess of Black and Minority Ethnic people. It is also a time to put a spotlight on little known events or people who have contributed vastly to the advancement of the United Kingdom. One example of this is a little known event that started in the city of Bristol.
The Bristol Bus Boycott The Bristol Bus Boycott of 1963 arose from the refusal of the Bristol bus Company to employ Black or Asian bus crews in the city of Bristol, England, UK. In common with other British cities at the time, there was widespread racial discrimination in housing and employment at that time against “Coloureds”. Black people refused to ride on the buses and asked for drivers to refuse to drive the buses .Led by youth worker Paul Stephenson and the West Indian Development Council, the boycott of the company’s buses by Bristolians lasted for four months until the company backed down and overturned their discriminative colour bar policy (refusing people the right to work because of their race). Students from Bristol University held a protest march to the bus station on 1 May, which attracted heckling from bus crews as they passed through the
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city centre, according to the local press. Local MP Tony Benn contacted then Labour Opposition leader Harold Wilson, who spoke out against the colour bar at an AntiApartheid Movement rally in London.
The boycott drew national attention to racial discrimination in Britain, and the campaign was supported by national politicians, with interventions being made by church groups and the High Commissioner for Trinidad and Tobago. The Bristol Bus Boycott was considered by some to have been influential in the passing of the Race Relations Act 1965 which made “racial discrimination unlawful in public places� and the Race Relations Act 1968, which extended the provisions to employment and housing. The achievements of Paul Stephenson are too often overshadowed by the great successes in the civil rights movements in the USA. Rosa Parks is unquestionably a leading figure to celebrate this month, however it is equally important that we honour the great achievements that Paul Stephenson and his fellow workers. Their contribution to improving race relations in the UK is little-known but has a massive impact on society today.
At Isaac Newton Academy we endeavour to teach a rich variety of topics in our lessons. We encourage students and staff to continue to explore the long and diverse History of the United Kingdom. We encourage everyone to research the hidden Black Heroes in British History and beyond. Humanities Department 19 October 2018 Secondary Newsletter
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INA Attendance and Punctuality Regular attendance is a crucial factor in students’ educational development and success in achieving their full potential. Missing out on education and learning leaves students vulnerable to falling behind, putting them under unnecessary pressure. At Isaac Newton Academy every student is expected to maintain 100% attendance.
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 8.23am.
Reporting of child’s absence In line with INA attendance policy it is the parent/ carers responsibility to phone the school by 8.15am on each day of an absence. If you fail to contact the school to inform us of your child’s absence we may take the necessary steps to ensure your child is safe. Please take the time to familiarise yourself with the INA Attendance policy.
Year group and form attendance for last week Tutor 7A 7C 7E 7I 7N 7S 7W Total
% Tutor % Tutor 98.6 8A 95.3 9A 97.5 8C 97.4 9C 95.3 8E 97.2 9E 98.0 8I 95.1 9I 98.7 8N 96.7 9N 95.3 8S 98.7 9S 98.0 8W 99.1 9W 97.3 Total 97.1 Total
% 95.0 96.0 96.1 93.2 100.0 97.4 96.5 96.3
Tutor 10A 10C 10I 10N 10S 10T 10W Total
% Tutor % 93.3 11A 97.7 96.0 11C 93.3 96.0 11E 94.5 94.7 11I 90.2 94.9 11N 92.9 93.8 11S 95.3 95.1 11T 93.8 94.8 Total 94.0
Ms Lapish Lead Pastoral Leader – KS4
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Years 11, 12 and 13 mock examinations To prepare INA students for their terminal GCSE and A-Level examinations, the mock exams will be held from
Thursday 8th - Fri 23rd November 2018 • • • • • • • •
Students must bring their full exam kit Students must present their ID card and Layard on the exam desk Students must ensure there is no writing on their hands No calculator lids No labels on water bottles No keyrings in pockets (keys are acceptable) No phones, smart watches or communicable devises Watches, water and tissues must be presented on exam desks
The Year 11 Mock examination timetable can be found on page 12.
GCSE Mathematics HA Textbooks The following books are highly recommended for all students doing HIGHER GCSE Mathematics and ideal for revision as we lead up to the mock examinations. The books can be widely found on the internet and follows the same specifications as the exams students will be sitting next year.
ISBN: 0435183354
ISBN: 0435183389
ISBN: 129221371X
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Year 11 Mock GCSE Exam Timetable November 2018 Times unless stated Morning P1 8:35 for 8:40 start Finish 9:40 P2 9:45 start Released at 10:50 P3 11:05 for 11:10 start Finish 12:10 P4 12:50 start (varied finish time) LUNCH Afternoon P5 1:45 for 1:50 start Finish 2:50 P6 2:55 start Released 4:00
Times unless stated Morning P1 8:35 for 8:40 start Finish 9:40 P2 9:45 start Released at 10:50 P3 11:05 for 11:10 start Finish 12:10 P4 LUNCH Afternoon P5 1:45 for 1:50 start Finish 2:50 P6 2:55 start Released 4:00
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Thu 8th Nov
Fri 9th Nov
English Literature Paper 1 105 mins
Start 8:30 English Literature Paper 2
Geography Paper 1 Global Geography 60 mins French Paper 3 Reading Higher 60 mins Foundation 45 mins
French Paper 1 Listening Foundation 40 mins French Paper 1 Listening Higher 50 mins
Drama Component 1 Controlled Assessment (Evaluation) 90 mins
Maths 1 90 mins Students will return to P6
Mon 12th Nov
Tue 13th Nov
Wed 14th Nov
Thu 15th Nov
Fri 16th Nov
Science Biology 1 75 mins combined 105 mins triple
Religious Studies Paper 1 Christianity 105 mins
Science Chemistry 1 75 mins combined 105 mins triple
Religious Studies Paper 2 Islam 105 mins
Science Physics 1 75 mins combined 105 mins triple
Combined students return to P2 Spanish Paper 3 Reading Foundation 45 mins Higher 60 mins
History Paper 1 Medicine in Britain 75 mins Return to P6
Combined students return to P2
French Paper 4 Writing Higher 80 mins Foundation 70 mins
Maths 2 90 mins
3pm finish
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Combined students return to P2
Design Technology Core Content 105 mins
History Paper 2 Superpowers 75 mins Return to P6
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Year 11 Mock GCSE Exam Timetable November 2018 Times unless stated Morning P1 8:35 for 8:40 start Finish 9:40 P2 9:45 start Released at 10:50 P3 P4 LUNCH Afternoon P5 1:45 for 1:50 start Finish 2:50 P6 2:55 start Released 4:00
Mon 19th Nov
Tue 20th Nov
Wed 21st Nov
Thu 22nd Nov
Fri 23rd Nov
Science Biology 2 75 mins combined 105 mins triple
PE Paper 1 60 mins
Science Chemistry 2 75 mins combined 105 mins triple
PE Paper 2 60 mins
Science Physics 2 75 mins combined 105 mins triple
Combined students return to P2
Spanish Paper 3 Writing Foundation 80 mins Higher 70 mins
Spanish Paper1 Listening Foundation 40 mins
Combined students return to P2
Music Listening 75 mins
Maths 3 90 mins
Late finish 3:10
Return to P6
Spanish Paper1 Listening Higher 50 mins
Geography Paper 2 UK Geography 90 mins Return to P6
Return to P6
Combined students return to P2
Drama Component 3 Interpreting Theatre 90 mins Return to P6
Art exams – Thursday 29th November and Friday 30th November. 29 students. S13 and S23 French speaking exams, Paper 2 - 5 days TBC Spanish speaking exams, paper 2 - 5 days TBC
Year 10 Work Experience 1st-5th July 2019
Students were tasked in July 2018 to find a work experience placement that will support their future career plans. Students have received two copies of the placement form but can print out additional copies on the website http://isaacnewtonacademy.org/secondary/year-10-work-experience
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Key Dates for the Autumn Term 2018 Monday 3rd September – Thursday 20th December Half Term: Monday 22nd - Friday 26th October INSET: Monday 26th November Monday 22nd October Friday 26th October Monday 29th October Monday 29th October Friday 2nd November Friday 2nd November Thursday 8th November Friday 23rd November Wednesday 21st November Friday 23rd November Monday 26th November Wednesday 28th November Tuesday 11th December Friday 14th December Monday 17th December Wednesday 19th December Thursday 20th December
HALF TERM Year 10 Geography field trip to Stratford Family Week - No after school events Year 10 Geography field trip to Stratford Year 11, 12 & 13 Mock examinations Ahmed Al-Khafaji Day No school for students Year 10 Skills LONDON trip INSET - No school for students GCSE Presentation Evening Community Party Christmas Jumper Day & Christmas Lunch Year 7 Awards Assembly Winter Concert Years 8-11 Awards Assemblies
Please Note: 10 Amazon and 10 Nile are going to Stratford for geography trip on 29th October 2018 10 Everest are going to Stratford for geography trip on 2nd November 2018
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