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HHS first ever GCSE results The new restaurant Catherine West visits HHS

AUTUMN 2015

MAGAZINE


S SCHOOL MATTERS

EFFORT

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ACHIEVEMENT

CONTENTS 3

Welcome from the Head

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Attendence

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Mathematics

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EAL

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English

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Literacy

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Citizenship & Sociology

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Geography

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Humanities

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Explore

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Business

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Arts

18

Black History Month

22

Design & Technology

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Catherine West

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Restaurant

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Physical Education

28

Computing

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SEND

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The Library

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Beyond Words

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SEARCH Days

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Dates for your Diary

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RESTAURANT

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HIGH ASPIRATIONS

GCSEs

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WELCOME FROM THE HEAD

I

am very proud to be writing my

the school play, Year 11 Mocks and AFA day.

first introduction to the SUCCESS

All offering different sides to school life; the

magazine!

arts, the academic and the pastoral.

This

magazine

is

a

All

celebration of all the amazing things

crucial in building our partnership with you

going on at Heartlands both in and out of

and ensuring we create a culture for learning

the classroom, and it is wonderful to be

to support the SEARCH ethos.

able to see this all in one place! Throughout the pages to follow you will see One of my proudest moments in teaching

our students and staff at their best embodying

came this year when I had the privilege of

the schools SEARCH ethos. In all we do we try

watching our first cohort of Year 11s open

to show School matters, we put in maximum

a brilliant set of results in August! They had

Effort, we aim to Achieve our best, we take

worked so hard not only in the run up to the

Responsibility, we are good citizens and

exams but in their five years here! We have

we have the Highest of aspirations. I hope

the highest of aspirations, and recently when

you enjoy what you see; we are incredibly

some students returned from an Alumni

pleased to be able to share it with you.

event, many commented on how prepared they were for academic life after school,

Best wishes

which is great to hear. The Winter term sees some of the most

Elen Roberts

important events in the Heartlands calander;

Head of School

W

Welcome to the first edition

The Autumn edition of our magazine is a

of the Success Magazine for

wonderful opportunity to celebrate the many

2015-2016. It is here that we

successes of our young people. I hope you

try to capture what is best

like what you read.

about the Heartlands High School. Under the leadership of Ms Roberts, students have

Best wishes

made a great start to the new Academic Year, and as always the start to term is always extremely busy. Simon Garrill Heartlands High School is growing from strength to strength. With a good set of

Executive Headteacher

results under our belt we are looking forward to building on that success and ensuring the very best for the young people in our care. The new school for autism is progressing well and we are to moving forward on finalised locations for site and building. Mrs Santi is excited about the prospect of taking the new school forward and we will be announcing dates for consultations and discussions soon.

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HEARTLANDS HIGH SCHOOL PRESENTS

WEDNESDAY 3RD FEBRUARY 2016

SAVE THE DATE

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected for the key roles! Audrey - Beatrice Bishop Seymour - Kyle Osborne Orin - Ella Vanson Audrey II - Tila Lawton Mr Musnik - Annie Donlon Crystal - Tijana Uludag & Rushya Lawrence Chiffon - Darya Laksari & Melisa Karatas Ronnette - Klea Kojko & Hana Relmy Bernstein - Jake Lawless Patrick Martin - Zariel Konadu 5


ATTENDENCE AIMING FOR OUTSANDING ATTENDANCE

A

ttendance: It has been a really positive start to our attendance this year with the current figure at

Attendance Diamond Green Group 96% - 100%

94.9% and a number of students

earning their Bronze Award for having 100% attendance in the last half-term. Every half-

Yellow Group 92% - 95.9%

term we start afresh, so even if your child was absent prior to the half-term, they can still earn their award for these certificates between now and Christmas.

AmberGroup 85% - 91.9%

Please note that 81% of students with attendance at 96%+ achieve their five GCSE’s at grade C or above, including English and Maths. This figure drops significantly to just 18% for students with 80% attendance, proving it really does pay to be in school every single day, even when we are feeling a little poorly.

No Concern Concern Risk of Underachievement Severe Risk of Underachievement Extreme Concern

Pink Group 70% - 84.9%

Red Group 0% - 69.9%

HOUSE ATTENDANCE Scorpiuz - 94.21%

Cygnus - 95.22%

Pegasus - 95.33%

Aquila - 94%

Lacerta - 94.93%

Well done to House Pegasus with 95.33%! 6


MATHEMATICS A SUCCESSFUL TERM IN THE MATHS DEPARTMENT

T

he end of term is upon us and

in Further Maths, and around 14 students

subject for less than six months!), we moved

it has been a successful term in

have attended lessons after school since

on to the factor theorem, as you can see in

Maths. Firstly, a huge well done to

January. After some pleasing AFA4 results in

the picture!

all the Year 7s who have settled in

June (despite having only been studying the

fantastically here at Heartlands and

The first round of AFAs are now

are enjoying their maths lesson.

complete and as a department we are really pleased with the commitment

Secondly, Year 11 have returned

that students have shown towards

with a very mature attitude towards

their progress. Results to be returned

their maths studies and are showing

to you after half-term.

great focus in the classroom and in intervention. Don’t forget Year 11,

Search Day 1 is now complete and a

every Monday is Maths intervention!!!!

tremendous thank you to all of the Year 9 students who produced some

Current Year 11 students were offered

absolutely outstanding presentations

the opportunity to sit and study

about the Rugby World Cup and the

towards the AQA Level 2 certificate

teams participating in the tournament.

A reminder for KS3 students that Miss Hassan’s maths STRETCH club has now started - students completing a variety of challenging maths problems and games to develop their mathematical creativity and problem solving skills. STRETCH club runs on Tuesdays week A from 3.15-4.00 in S4.6.

If you are interested,

please come along!

OPEN EVENING Another successful open evening in the Maths Department. Here are two of our student volunteers with the tetrahedron built with the help of some of our Year 5 visitors.

@HHSMathematics

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EAL ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE AT HEARTLANDS Our new EAL students had a fantastic SEARCH day learning English through music, movie trailers and drama activities, among other things. They also reflected on their start at HHS; have a look at some of their comments!

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ENGLISH BALI RAI VISITS HEARTLANDS Author Bali Rai took assemblies for pupils on the theme of ‘Diversity in UK publishing’ and about how he deals with controversial topics in his own stories. He also stayed to sign copies of his books. His books have been very popular in the library since his visit. We encourage students to try them out, but parents should note that a few of his books do contain mature language or themes, which we would suggest are not suitable for all readers. These are clearly labelled with yellow stickers.

@EnglishHHS

ENGLISH GCSE On the Wednesday 4th November the English

using the new grading system at Heartlands.

department, along with the Mathematics

Practical advice and resources were shared with

department, hosted a GCSE Event. At this event

parents, so that current year 10s can effectively

parents were given information about the GCSE

prepare for their GCSE examinations and achieve

changes to the curriculum and how we will be

success!

LITERACY YEAR 9 SEARCH TRIP TO BBC BROADCASTING HOUSE

L

iteracy students from Year 9 visited BBC Broadcasting House in central London as part of a unit of work they were studying centred on the

BBC show ‘The Apprentice’. Students were taken on a tour of the BBC and shown how radio and television programmes are made. They were able to take part in a number of informative and engaging activities and enjoyed the experience immensely.

Year 9 students on the set of BBC’s ‘The

HHS student Zack Ahmed doing a weather

One Show’

report

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CITIZENSHIP & SOCIOLOGY THE ROYAL COURTS OF JUSTICE

Y

ear 9 had a fantastic time on their

case where students took on roles of Judges,

recent SEARCH day trip to the Royal

Appellants and Respondents battling out their

Courts of Justice in central London.

arguments in a real court room. Students

The Royal Courts of Justice is a court

were also lucky enough to receive a guided

building in London which houses both the

tour around the Royal Courts of Justice. It

High Court and Court of Appeal of England and

was a great opportunity for students to learn

Wales. As part of the trip students took part

more about the law through interactive and

in a mock trial of a ‘Joint Enterprise’ appeal

thought-provoking activities.

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award empowers

young people (ages 14-25) to Make A Difference while exploring their potential, taking on new challenges, giving back to the community, and achieving success. Participants develop self-confidence, motivation, and lifelong friendships. The Award can be personalised and customised to the individual participant. So, what are you waiting for?

Do the Award today!

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

for more information contact Ms Shank at Heartlands 10


GEOGRAPHY YEAR 8

I

n geography we, Year 8, have been learning about Extreme Environments, places where you have to adjust to your surroundings to be able to survive like in a desert or somewhere extremely cold.

YEAR 9

W

YEAR 10

e have been learning about the

plates

boundaries,

composition of the earth and how tsunamis, earthquakes and volcanoes form. This was

I

n Year 10 we have been learning about deserts, particularly the Sahara desert. Also, I’ve learned how to draw and annotate maps and graphs. Our teacher

taught us how to be independent and also

Moreover, we sketched and studied maps of

all explained in great detail and in a way that

she makes us answer exam questions most

the continent Africa. Furthermore, we were

everyone could’ve understood it. We have

of the time to improve our geography skills.

comparing sources and were discussing why

also looked at a case study from Japan and

I also really enjoy geography with Ms Jouhal.

or how a place has turned into a desert or

completed a booklet about it. Furthermore,

by Dilan Ceylan

what kind of desert it is.

we completed 6-10 mark questions and looked at Ritcher and Mercalli scales.

YEAR 11

And lastly we drew graphs of the climate change through out the year in Africa and how

I particularly enjoyed the case study from

much rainfall there was in Africa compared to

Japan as we were allowed to research it on

England.

our own. I also enjoyed the lessons where we

by Gabriella Lilova

complete exam questions as it was made very clear on what we had to do to get full marks.

T

his year we have learnt about migration and population. It has been a very interesting subject and I have learnt so much about

how people migrate to other countries

It was also easy to understand for everyone.

for different reasons including social,

The lessons were made fun and interesting

environmental, economical and political

- we got to make storyboards showing how

reasons. For example, people may migrate to

tsunamis are formed. We used colouring

London because it’s very socially acceptable

pencils to show that we have met the success

here to be who you are (same-sex marriage

criteria.

could come into play with this) or someone

by Zuzanna Szelag

may migrate to another country because there has been a natural disaster (e.g. earthquakes). I’ve always loved geography but this year I’ve really found how much admiration I have for it. I’ve enjoyed working with Miss Jouhal who has really helped me throughout these past months. I hope to even go to college with all the geographical skills I’ve learnt. by Dorothea Doukanaris

80 BOOKS AROUND THE WORLD!

G

eography and the Library are working together to promote reading around the world! Students can fill in a bookmark passport when they read a book from, or set, in another country. Travelling to five different countries earns 20 merits! There is a huge display in the Library of 80 books from around the world to get you started on

your journey. Bookmarks & quiz sheets can be collected from Mr Amer or from the Library.

AROUND THE WORLD IN

80

BOOKS

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PREVENT

SPOT THE SIGNS

WHAT IS PREVENT?

CONTACT

You may be in a position to identify and support someone who may be vulnerable to becoming involved in extremism or terrorism.

Prevent aims to stop people becoming terrorists or supporitng terrorism

For all contact information please see below, or speak to Mr Nagle

If you have concerns about someone that you think may be a t risk of radicalitstion or about anything to do with violent extremism, please speak to Mr Nagle

WHY MIGHT I BE WORRIED?

KEEPING SAFE - WHAT CAN I DO?

If you notice any of the following behaviours in your friends, family, local people:

If you have any concerns about yours or others safety you can contact:

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.

1. Prevent Coordinator at School: Mr Nagle (or any teacher you feel comfortable talking to) 2. Police: 999 3. Crimestoppers (anonymous): 0800 555 111 4. Haringey Council’s Children and Young People’s Service: 020 8489 1000 5. Anti Terrorist Hotline: 0800 789 321 6. Online: www.ceop.gov.uk www.bbc.co.uk/webwise www.childline.org.uk

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Changes or out of character dress / clothing Strange / different behaviours Changing peer relationships / friendships Secretive behaviour Losing interest in friends and activities Showing sympathy for extremist causes Glorifying violence Possessing or sharing of illegal or extremist literature


HUMANITIES KS4

Y

ear 11 GCSE History students are

are

and

exams covering topics recently studied such

currently working hard completing

historical interpretations (such as the images

as population and settlement in Geography,

their

sources

below) of the event to make a judgement

crime and deviance in Sociology and Nazi

on the short- and long-term impact the bus

Germany in History. Students were dedicated

Montgomery Bus Boycott. As you may know,

boycott had on the Civil Rights Movement.

throughout and we look forward to seeing

the Montgomery Bus Boycott was instigated

The Controlled Assessment makes up 25%

how they have done.

by Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat on

of students’ final GCSE grade, and we wish

a segregated bus service in Montgomery. The

them the best of luck.

the

Assessments

different

the

on

Controlled

comparing

significance

of

Well done to all GCSE Humanities students

event made international news in 1955-1956

and keep up the good work.

and led to the prominent rise of Civil Rights

All Humanities GCSE students have just

leaders such as Martin Luther King. Students

finished their exams for AFA1. Students sat

Mr Hicks (Head of Humanities)

Front Page of the Montgomery Advertiser ‘5,000 at Meeting Outline Boycott; Bullet Clips Bus’ Rosa Parks having her arrest on 1st December, 1955

6th December,1955

EXPLORE FIELDWORK IN THE LOCAL AREA

A

ll Year 7 classes have been out

environment. All of this work has

and about in the local area

been analysed in class to develop

collecting data as part of their

their geographical investigation

field studies for Explore. Students

skills and forms an important

worked together to complete

element of their AFA1 assessment.

Environmental Quality Surveys of four sites,

Student behaviour was excellent

making judgements on appearance and the

and they were all ambassadors for

role of each site for the community.

the school.

Students also used their artistic skills to complete field sketches and a traffic survey to ascertain the impact of vehicles on the

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BUSINESS ENTREPRENEURS

SEARCH DAY

Over the past few weeks, students in Year 9

As part of Black History Month the business

have been busy learning about entrepreneurs,

This half term sees the beginning of the

department has also been encouraging

such as why they have been so successful?

third Heartlands Apprentice. Last year Jodie

our students to research successful black

What risks have they taken? What qualities

Bulmer won this event which has allowed

entrepreneurs. We have looked at local

do they have? They have produced a range

her to develop her entrepreneurial skills and

London examples and also some high profile

of resources that exhibit the knowledge they

organise events throughout the school year.

successful overseas entrepreneurs. These

have gained from their research.

lessons have helped us to celebrate their This year however, 10 candidates will be

successes and help generate new ideas for

selected to take part in 5 challenges over

our students in the future.

5 weeks from Year 10. This will run up to Christmas when one student will win the

Work Experience

grand prize. This competition runs similar to

This term sees some exciting events happening

the TV show with Lord Sugar where students

within the business department. Over the

are given tasks and compete against each

next few weeks students in year 10 will be

other to be crowned the overall winner. This

experiencing some work experience events

event will be launched in early November.

during our SEARCH DAY program. This will allow them to research about their potential careers but also to practice conducting Mock interviews to prepare them for the real world. This event helps our students prepare for their real work experience which takes place in March next year.

This year I am delighted to announce that we are once again taking part in the Jack Petchey Speak out Challenge. This is a public speaking competition that students within schools across London compete against each other. The grand prize is £3000 for the winner who will be determined at the grand final in central London in June. However in December of this year we will be holding our school finals. This will allow students to receive training on what makes a good public speaker. Following this

Item

Price

Sharpener

£0.20

Eraser

£0.25

chance of going to the grand finale to win the

Ruler

£0.50

grand prize.

Heartlands Pen

£0.50

Blue Pen

£0.15

Pencil Case

£1

Pencil

£0.10

Heartlands Pencil

£0.20

Maths Set

£1

training event, 2 students will be selected to represent the school in the Borough Final. If we are successful there, then we have a

I am looking forward to December to see how the Year 10’s will do and we then await the Borough final in January.

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HEARTLANDS INK


SCIENCE

MS MENSAH A GREAT START BACK AND FOUR NEW MR FACES! BIMPIRIS It has been a great start back to Science. We have four new

teachers within Science; we have Mr Benfetouha who is our KS3 Science coordinator and Mr Bimpiris, Ms Mensah and Ms Perin who are our three new science teachers. Please give them a warm welcome to HHS!

Q: What is your favourite aspect of HHS? A: The fact the school nurtures the citizenship of pupils

MR BIMPIRIS

MS MENSAH

The Science Department are selling excellent study resources for students on parent pay:

SEARCH 1 was a great success with Year 8 pupils exploring different food and calories!

KS4 Core and Additional revision guide and workbook: our price £11.00 retail price £21.80 KS4 Triple Science revision guide and workbook: our price £16.50 retail price £32.70 KS3 Workbook and revision guides: our price £8.00 retail price £14.90

Mr Kane and Ms Betiku preparing students for their GCSEs with an engaging after-school intervention

See Ms Tawil in F5.20 for any revision guide queries

HHS TO GROW SEEDS FROM SPACE Students at Heartlands High School are

weeks. The students won’t know which seed

British ESA astronaut Tim Peake’s Principia

preparing to become space biologists and

packet contains which seeds until all results

mission to the ISS and inspire young people

embark on a voyage of discovery by growing

have been collected by the RHS Campaign

to look into careers in STEM (science,

seeds that have been into space.

for School Gardening and analysed by

technology, engineering and maths) subjects,

professional biostatisticians.

including horticulture. Follow the project on

In September, 2kg of rocket seeds were flown

Twitter: @RHSSchools #RocketScience

to the International Space Station (ISS) on

The

out-of-this-world,

nationwide

Soyuz 44S where they will spend several

science experiment will enable the

months in microgravity before returning to

students to think more about how we

Earth in March 2016. The seeds have been

could preserve human life on another

sent as part of Rocket Science, an educational

planet in the future, what astronauts

project launched by the RHS Campaign for

need to survive long-term missions in

School Gardening and the UK Space Agency.

space and the difficulties surrounding growing fresh food in challenging

Heartlands High School will be one of up to

climates.

10,000 schools to receive a packet of 100 seeds from space, which they will grow

Rocket Science is just one educational

alongside seeds that haven’t been to space

project from a programme developed

and measure the differences over seven

by the UK Space Agency to celebrate

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ARTS On this page you can see the impressive range of images created by Year 10 students for their coursework projects.

Royem Toyam

Berfin Sesen

Hussein Abdilleh

STUDENT GALLERY

Lydia Velikic

Wahiad Abdul

Safa Jawad

Dimitra Tona

Serhan Akbulut Matthew Gruszewski

Herbie Doyle

Codie Sapla

Reina Jawad

YEAR 10 Dennis Shequeri

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Sarah Hepting


NEW MURAL Thank you to all the students who took part in our art workshops on Rewards Day in July. Students used mixed media and paint to represent their houses but also came up with designs to celebrate Art, Music and Drama. We’re really excited to have this new Mural up in the arts corridor, welcoming people to our creative Faculty. Follow @artheartlands on twitter to see more examples of student creativity.

@ArtHeartlands

TATE MODERN

W

e were thrilled to take our first trip out this term, with 14 students from Y7-10 to see ‘The World Goes Pop’ at the Tate Modern. It was a beautiful day for walking from St Paul’s

Cathedral over the river to the Tate, and the students enjoyed seeing many iconic buildings. The exhibition itself was very exciting; Zaykov, Year 7 enjoyed the colourful 3D artworks best, while Manal, Year 10 was interested in how artists used witty Pop art to communicate serious messages. It was a great afternoon and we look forward to leading further trips to galleries next half-term and beyond. Keep an eye on @ artheartlands on twitter for further news and opportunities.

@ArtHeartlands

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH

B

lack History Month was developed

reflect on the current debate about whether

in the USA and has been celebrated

or not Britain should pay reparations for their

BUSINESS

across the UK since 1987. This year

role in the Transatlantic slave trade.

As part of Black History Month the business

we decided to focus on the stories

which have been far too often neglected.

department has also been encouraging This

the

our students to research successful black

relationship between past and present and

asked

students

to

consider

entrepreneurs. We have looked at local

I set a challenge to the teachers at HHS to find

to engage in a debate about the responsibility

London examples and also some high profile

their own ‘Untold Stories’ and share them with

that Britain should take today. Our Year 8

successful oversea entrepreneurs. These

the school. Teachers around the school have

History students have been learning about

lessons have helped us to celebrate their

put their ‘Untold Story’ on their classroom

the history of Africa before the Trans-Atlantic

successes and help generate new ideas from

door and have used them as starters in their

slave trade. They have completed home

our students in the future.

lessons. The aim of this

learning research projects

was to encourage us as a

to explore an aspect of the

community to research and

history of Africa and have

discuss the experiences of

been working with Ms

people of African descent

Kensous to create a display.

that we find inspiring. Ms Obeng has organised A

week

of

assemblies

brilliant

‘Empowering

launched our focus for

black

women

through

BHM 2015 and extended

History’ workshop sessions

the challenge to students.

every week this month.

Year 11 prefects Raijona Grant, Amira Ibrahim

Ishanda (Year 10) says that “We have been

and Tafara Masonza presented their own

focusing on how the role of black women has

favourite ‘Untold Stories’ and encouraged

been portrayed throughout history. I found

other students to do the same. There were

the story of Sarah Baartman particularly

fascinating contributions from a range of

interesting because it made me think about

teachers including: Mr Lloyd who shared his

how perceptions and representations of black

research about the ‘Harlem Hellfighters’; Ms

women’s bodies have changed over time.”

Collins who taught us about the achievements

We plan for these sessions to continue after

of Steve McQueen; and Ms Hall who urged

BHM. The month will end with a poetry and

us to look into the work of artist Chris Ofili.

performance celebration event led by Mr Bola

Ms Collins created a Citizenship session for

on Thursday 22nd October.

vertical tutor time which asked students to

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH As it was Black History Month I was asked to interview teachers about their ‘Untold Story’ and what they thought BHM represented. I interviewed Ms Roberts and Mr Nagle.

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THE RESULTS

W

e were delighted with our

schools nationally from Summer 2016. In

Art, Photography, Triple Science, Business

first set of exam results

this measure, the school also performed

Studies and Computing. These examination

this summer, which were a

very well.

Zero represents the national

results enabled every Heartlands student to

testimony to the hard work of

average but students at Heartlands achieved

go onto a suitable Post 16 course of study and

staff and students. 59% of students achieved

a Progress 8 score of +0.41. This is equivalent

we are proud of the wide range of courses

five GCSEs at grades A*-C, including English

to every student in the school achieving one

and quality of sixth form institutions our

and Maths. This is 6% above the national

grade higher than national expectation across

students have progressed to.

average for this measure and places us fourth

four of their GCSE subjects.

in the ranking of all Haringey secondary

We know that outstanding outcomes for 1030

schools. What this statistic doesn’t reveal is the exceptional progress made by students

our students change their life chances and

1020

Heartlands

school with levels which were significantly

1010

National Ave

below national average and left with

1000

here. This cohort of students arrived at the

provide them with a wealth of opportunities for the next stage of their education. So despite the success of our first set of results, we are determined to use these as a platform

qualifications which comfortably exceeded

to improve further.

This term, Mr Garrill,

national expectations. Consequently, our

990

Ms Roberts and I met with each Head of

progress data is excellent. Our exam results

980

Faculty to analyse results and put in place

are significantly higher than any school in

0

the borough with a similar ability intake. The grid opposite illustrates the progress

tangible, strategic plans to raise achievement Best 8 Value Added

further. Our current Year 11s have made an excellent start to the year and are working

score our students achieved across their

We are particularly proud of our results

hard in lessons and after school to develop

best eight GCSE grades in comparison to

in English and Maths with 78% and 72%

their knowledge and skills. As always, we

national average progress scores.

respectively achieving good GCSE passes in

emphasise to students the importance of

these critical subjects.

Progress in these

giving their ‘best effort’ as we recognise

The new progress score for schools, ‘Progress

subjects was also excellent, a testimony to the

that success looks different for each and

8’, assesses the progress students make

effectiveness of our intervention programmes

every student, but commitment and hard

in English, Maths, Science, Humanities,

in Literacy and Numeracy and the quality

work are universal traits which are critical to

Languages and three other subjects. This

of teaching across these core subjects.

accomplishing any goal.

will be the key performance measure for all

Outstanding results were also achieved in

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GCSEs

% A*-C in English Language

78%

% A*-C in Maths

72%

% 5+ A*-C incl. English and Maths

58%

% 5+ A*-C grades

61%

% 3+ A*-A grades

28%

% English Baccalaureate

31%

Projected Value Added (1000 represents national average progress)

1026

Projected Progress 8 score (0.0 represents national average)

+0.36


THE RESULTS

Mattia Hendrick Grade A* x 4 Grade A x 5 Grade B x 1

Darlene Benner Grade A* x 4 Grade A x 5

Jordan Charles Grade A* x 2 Grade A x 4 Grade B x 3

Kamiylah Charles Grade A* x 4 Grade A x 5 Grade B x 1

Petrit Jupoli Grade A* x 3 Grade A x 5 Grade B x 3

Mayowa Akinyemi Grade A* x 3 Grade A x 7

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DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY GRAPHICS Students are loving the new Graphics project where they design their very own breakfast cereal packaging. This year in Technology, the Year 7s have embarked

on

designing

and

making

innovative cereal packaging, a graphic project to promote healthy eating amongst teenagers. They came up with different creative ideas that are aesthetically pleasing with attractive cartoon characters.

They

studied the importance of good packaging and employed the use of the different graphic elements required for the development of the cereal package.

RESISTANT MATERIALS Mr Scullion writes:

During the project they have learned how

I truly think this is going to be the best year

The Year 7’s who have studied Resistant

to safely use all the tools and machines in

group Heartlands have had in its short history!

Materials have made a fantastic start. I have

the workshop. They have

been overawed by their enthusiasm and

studied

dedication in both practical and theory lessons.

types and utilised their

different

timber

math skills by marking and The students have spent the last seven weeks designing and making a maze game.

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measuring different joints.


DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY CATERING

I

n Catering, students are really enjoying

Miss Ali writes:

Students learnt that very few ingredients and

the lessons delivered by Miss Ali and the

‘Year 9, lesson on sustainability, using

little time is required to make fresh pasta,

there has been a plethora of activities

ingredients in the cupboard to make fresh

and all students could give reasons as to why

happening in the Catering Department

pasta and using up your scraps to make a

sustainability is good for the environment,

delicious pasta sauce!!’

and saving money and no pasta machinery is

since September. Here is a snapshot of some of the learning that has been taking place in

required’

Year 9.

CATHERINE WEST

O

n Friday 2nd October Heartlands

When asked what

High School were proud to host

she thought young

a visit from local MP; newly

people could do to

elected Catherine West.

Ms

support Haringey

West met with a range of students from

she spoke of the

the Junior Leadership Team to discuss local

need for young

issues, educational concerns and the future

people to remain

of Haringey and London.

studious and work

They prepared a range of questions and entered into a spirited debate around affordable housing, the London Mayoral election, Labour Party Leadership and the profile of politics and young people. Catherine answered questions from students honestly and spoke of her drive to trying to improve housing in the local area and the difficulties around affordability and London property.

hard to become active,

educated

citizens.

We are

delighted to have had our first visit from

Ms

West

and look forward to

welcoming

her

back

to

Heartlands.

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RESTAURANT

G

CATERING GOES IN-HOUSE!

C

I

t’s been a very busy term back in the HHS Kitchen and Restaurant. The school has made the bold step of moving “in-house” with its catering provision. This means

that the school can now offer a much larger range of dishes, ingredients and fresh food. One of the changes we have brought in is “Meat Free Monday”. You will find a piece about this campaign in another article in the magazine. We listened to a lot of feedback from parents/ carers regarding knowing what was on offer for their child on a day-to-day basis. The menus are therefore now available to view on the school’s website. Look out for the short questionnaire we will be sending out to pupils. We look forward to receiving helpful feedback and any suggestions they may have for future menus.

HHS RESTAURANT

Please fill in HHS RESTAURANT. like about the new what you do / don’t feedback box. We really want to know the card back in the commments, then put any us give and the form below

ABOUT YOU

Student

Are you:

Adult

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HHS RESTAURANT

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RESTAURANT MEAT FREE MONDAYS - THE SUSTAINABLE APPROACH.

A

new initiative has been launched

power for processing and land for production.

In addition, it provides an opportunity to try

at HHS to give one whole day

It also gives us all an opportunity to think

a variety of different, delicious dishes. Please

over to a meat free menu. Meat

about a sustainable approach to the future

support this initiative by encouraging your

Free Mondays is a not-for-profit

of our planet; meeting the needs of the

son or daughter to try the new food options

campaign launched by Paul, Mary and

present, without compromising the ability of

now available on a Monday.

Stella McCartney in 2009. This aims to raise

future generations to meet their own needs.

awareness of the environmental impact of eating meat, and to encourage people to help slow climate change, preserve precious natural resources and improve their health by having at least one meat free day each week. By having this day on the menu we, as a school community, can all do our bit to reduce our individual impact on the the world’s resources. We reduce our consumption of meat directly - which indirectly reduces consumption of water, fuel for transport,

Every morning in the Sports Hall from 7.30-8.20am Meet at the front gates. Open to all years. Bring your Heartlands P.E kit.

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION NETBALL

Year 7 netball squad had a fantastic start to the season winning their first match 18-3.

Year 8 netball squad won 9-4; another great performance.

EXCITING NEWS FOR TABLE TENNIS LOVERS!

T

he PE Department have been

Heartlands High School has been granted

and funding for training staff and student

successful in another bid to

over ÂŁ4,000 in funding to provide four new

leaders. Watch this space for more news!

the Tottenham Grammar Fund.

table tennis tables, new bats and balls as

In this bid, led by Ms Mudd,

well as equipment to run tournaments,

U16 TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONS

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION EAST MERSEA RESIDENTIAL 2015

T

wenty-nine students went on a

activities: climbing, caving, archery, kit karts

residential to East Mersea, an island

and many more over the weekend. Students

in Essex. It was fantastic weather

were fantastic ambassadors for the school,

and the place was perfect for

receiving very positive feedback from all staff.

outdoor education. Students did a range of

We look forward to our trip next year.

rience, ing expe z a m a n a to “It was portunity t the op e g u o y n’t and you would ies that it iv t c a y o d ore, ou Furtherm l. o o h c s be do in ekend to whole we d m get the nd do in riends a f r u o y with ctivities” blowing a

“You mu st definit ely go there, it is one of the best experien ces you w il l love it all, ever ything a bout the trip is amazin g!”

NETBALL CLUB Mondays in the sports hall

(girls only)

t that s, I learn k is r e k to ta I thought “I learnt scary as s a t o n re t I should insects a fun. Tha d a h I , not e and re often they wer ilities mo b a y m need to believe in s. I also k is r e k a to t rk skills” be afraid team wo y m n o improve

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COMPUTING YEAR 8 (A & R) COMPUTING SEARCH TRIP THE CENTRE FOR COMPUTING HISTORY, CAMBRIDGE

T

his year all our Year 8 students are visiting the Centre for Computing History

in

Cambridge

(TCCH),

and on Tuesday 22nd September,

learning groups A & R visited. TCCH is an educational charity whose core purpose is to increase understanding of developments in computing over the past 60 years. TCCH has an internationally significant collection of vintage computers, memorabilia, artefacts, documents and hands-on displays – in total about 24,000 items. Our students were given a tour of the museum by the curator, learnt how to program a computer using the BBC BASIC language, and played on over 200 different games consoles spanning the past 40 years. Even the teachers enjoyed learning about how computer technology has developed over time, and it brought back fond memories for Mr Matthews who reminisced about the good old days.

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COMPUTING Year 10 - GCSE Computer Science For his motivation and persistence; he never gives up and keeps trying until he understands a programming concept.

Year 11 - GCSE

Ekin Dil (CHA)

Year 10 - GCSE ICT For exceptional class and home learning, and for his commitment to the subject, especially his continuing contributions in lessons.

Tia Thomas (PWE)

Computing For demonstrating an amazing level of focus and dedication to achieve highly in her controlled assessments.

Year 7 - Computing

OUR COMPUTING STARS Remaire Shand (SSO)

Hisen Kara (PWE)

Year 9 - Computing For a huge improvement in his attitude to learning and for showing a real commitment to developing his programming skills.

For an amazing scratch game developed independently; Remaire has been a real star in lessons and has made exceptional progress so far this year.

Year 8 Computing For his hard work and resilience when creating his fantastic control system. Rokan is continuing to work well above his target level. Aldrin Marshall

Rokan Kaya (CTA)

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SEND

I

n the Learning Support Faculty we have

teacher in primary to approximately 10 in

With our second cohort of students due

started the year at breakneck speed with

Secondary is a confusing time!

to take their GCSEs in Summer 2016, a lot

the Year 6- 7 transition of our students

of work has already been undertaken to

from their primary schools into the

This year we continue to work closely with

ensure that all our students who require it,

big world of Seconday School. All of our

our literacy specialist and she is a great asset

have been given appropriate and fair access

students have had a smooth transition and

to our faculty. Students with barriers to their

arrangements, which may include extra time,

this has been helped by the support of

learning need specific understanding and

a reader or a scribe. Our Learning Support

all the staff, becoming familiar with each

Mary’s input is invaluable. We are planning

assistants have had specific time training in

student and understanding their particular

for the coming half-term a parents’ meeting

order to optimise their time supporting our

needs and how to get the very best from

with Mary Dowson, our Literacy Specialist,

students, not only througout the exam period

them in lessons. We have various ways to do

and Mandy Carr, our Dramatherapist. Higher

but day to day in their lessons.

this, including assigning specific students a

up the school, our work with transition into

key worker, and a lead teacher, ensuring that

6th Form has already begun and individual

There are many more plans for all our

we all share our best practice with some of

parents’ meetings with students with EHC

students this year, including our annual

the most vulnerable students by our Subject

Plans in particular have already taken place,

residential to Rand Farm in Lincolnshire,

Teacher around the Child meetings which

in order to ensure the best chance of a good

SEARCH day trips and an up and coming

are held most Fridays before school.

placement moving up into Year 12. We have

visit to Alexandra Palace for the Christmas

also had an evening meeting with parents of

pantomime of Cinderella. We will be sure to

Some students have visual timetables to

Statemented/EHC Plan students in Year 7 to

keep you posted on all our future plans.

support their independence around school;

familiarise them with the school systems and

some students have Tiger Mats that help

to reassure them of our day-to-day support

them to settle in class. Moving from 1 class

for their children.

y graph photo g in paint re tu p l u sc

comp ut stage ers fash design ion

THE ART CLUB Every Friday N5.9 3.15 - 4.15

Competitions Prices and trips

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SEND

T

he

Alternative

course comes to a close this year, the group

Curriculum has got off to a flying start

Key

Stage

4

will be expected to know and practise safe

this year with Year 11s attending

handling of food and food hygiene, whilst

Southgate College for their final

being independent in working and using

year of Catering and Motor Mechanics. The

the kitchen to produce high quality food.

Mechanics boys have being working on their

Last week, the group completed their first

spot welding skills at the start of this term,

practical assessment making focaccia, and all

and taking brakes apart to understand how

passed with flying colours and really showed

they work and how to repair them when

the skills they have accumulated over the

things go wrong! The boys are becoming

past year, including making dough from

more confident and independent in their

scratch, weighing ingredients, and timing

skills, and it is clear from their portfolios

cooking times to perfection.

that they are on track and achieving well for the end of the year.

All our students involved in the alternative curriculum have made an excellent start,

As for the Catering team, it is the time of

and there is no doubt that this will continue

year for theory work and assessments. As the

throughout the year.

ASPIRE

I

n Aspire this term the children’s focus in Asdan was animal care. They were able to understand the responsibilities of taking care of different animals. In

particular, George and Norman who take up residency in S4.9.

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THE LIBRARY PUPIL LIBRARIAN OF THE YEAR

T

his year we nominated three of our longest standing Student Librarians for the first ever national award which recognises the hard work

and contribution Student Librarians make

Students: Tia Thomas Megan Boothman Lydia Velikic

to the success of their school libraries. The award is run by national organisations The School Library Association (SLA): and The Chartered Institute of Library & Information Professionals (CILIP). Our students were not taken through to the final stages but were recognised as nominees and sent certificates and congratulations “to recognise the contribution made by pupils who work in their school libraries, to acknowledge the skills gained and to give them the recognition they deserve, both within and outside their school community.�

Photos from a recent trip to Foyles Bookshop to buy books for the library.

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THE LIBRARY @POETRYDAYUK #NATIONALPOETRYDAY

W

e celebrated National Poetry

We discovered some great new Year 7 poets

this year with Michelle and seeing your work

Day in style with the first

as well as hearing from some seasoned

in a real book! You can find out more about

Poetry Slam of the year.

performers. There was a wonderful mix of

First Story here www.firststory.org.uk and on

Pupils and staff performed

poetry too – some funny, some poignant,

Twitter @FirstStory. You can find out more

either their own poems, or some of their

some clever. We also learnt

about Michelle Madsen http://

favourites, and were judged in categories by

some Poetry Slam jargon

michellemadsenpoet.com/

our scoring judges and an avid audience. Our

such as ‘score creep’ where

and on Twitter @mishmadsen

wonderful host poet, Michelle Madsen, kept

judges get more enthusiastic

things running smoothly and performed her

as a slam goes on (that’s why

own poetry too.

you have several judges and

Winners in each different category won prize bundles including a poetry book. All

discount the top and bottom scores).

Mr Bola is our secret Poet in Residence. By day he is one of our Engage Officers; by night, a world-class poet. You can find our more about

participants in the event (judges, scorers,

Michelle

our

his poetry here: www.jjbola.

performers and audience members) received

current Poet in Residence,

com or on Twitter @JJ_Bola

in-house merits and certificates. Merits were

running the First Story creative

matched to scores for some high stake rewards!

writing club with pupils for

Category 1: First Story poets Category 2: Performers reading favourite poems Category 3: Performers reading own created poetry

Madsen

is

the second year in a row. Make sure you tell Mr Lloyd if you would like to take part

@LibraryHHS

in creating stories and poems

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BEYOND WORDS

B

eyond Words is our whole school

Participation: 83% of the school have taken a quiz

reading programme that creates

Engaged time: 16 minutes

responsible, resilient and reflective

Year group with highest engaged time: Year 7 with 27

readers.

minutes Books read: 3,402

Students have been reading books within their

Words read: 68,417,206

ZPD level and taking quizzes to check their understanding, and we have already made

@hhsbeyondwords

some fantastic progress.

Your BEYOND WORDS Targets READING TO SUCCEED

Engaged Time

Quiz Score

20 minutes per day

Average percentage correct - 85%

iSEARCH Be independent

STAR READERS WALL OF FAME Amazingly, 197 students met their Points Target this half-term and received certificates. Congratulations in particular to the following students who exceeded all of their targets:

Name

Number of quizzes

Average % correct

Engaged time (minutes per day)

Points earned

Melisa Karatas

10

89

110

50

Zara Cek

7

99

133

66

Mohamed Hassan

8

95

149

68

Denizcan Selvi

10

85

127

73

Floarea Putan

10

85

278

75

Mayela Bassega

12

85

100

81

Sara Zahed

7

99

119

88

Raychelle Baffo

12

88

109

106

Phoebe Willars

36

89

177

130

Jude Apcher

15

91

232

152

James Miller

23

92

217

160

Harry Ewing

33

85

348

171

Myfanwy Greene

46

85

199

193

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BEYOND WORDS RENAISSANCE HOME CONNECT You can keep informed of your child’s

If you’d like to receive emails showing your

progress with their reading by logging

child’s quiz or test results, click the Email

in to Home Connect. Just visit the

Setup link and follow the directions. If you

website

http://Ukhosted48.renlearn.

have questions about Renaissance Home

co.uk/3274022/HomeConnect or tinyurl.

Connect, please don’t hesitate to email me at

com/heartlandshomeconnect

hannah.tall@heartlands.haringey.sch.uk.

and

login

using your child’s username and password.

MILLIONAIRE CLUB Some students have reached the impressive milestone of reading over 1,000,000 words. Congratulations to: Michael Culley - 1,506,291 words Harry Ewing - 1,356,100 words

HHS Accelerated

Myfanwy Greene - 1,275,012 words Thant Aung - 1,272,044 words

Reader

Hana Relmy - 1,207,382 words James Miller - 1,102,381 words Sonia Paul - 1,041,310 words Jude Apcher - 1,017,070 words

PARTICIPATION COMPETITION This half-term we ran a competition to see

Congratulations to ALD, CSE, LAL, PAK and

And well done Aquila for being the house

which forms in each house could reach 100%

SKN, who were the first form in their house

with the highest participation so far at 89.1%!

participation first - that’s every student

to achieve this. And to CWN, AAA, AMN and

taking a quiz on a book or article they’ve

AEL who also reached our target of 100%

read. The prize was a pizza party.

soon after.

CSE enjoying their Pizza Party after reaching 100% first!

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SEARCH DAYS

S

EARCH days will continue this

questions about the topic at home, or you

academic year for all years. Every

might want to take the opportunity to talk to

half-term there will be a SEARCH

your child about issues such as those above,

day, in which students will take

before the work is covered in school.

part in project learning. This will mean investigations, visits, special events, target setting and other ways of learning that build on what has been achieved in class. SEARCH days are drop-down curriculum days that

If you have any queries about the content of the programme or resources used, please do not hesitate to contact me: heather.denny@ heartlands.haringey.sch.uk.

include PSHE (personal, social, health and economic), SMSE (spiritual, social, moral and cultural) and the character curriculum. The SEARCH days for the first term are as follows: SEARCH day 4 - Monday 30th November From Years 7-11 and within SEARCH days, we teach PHSE curriculum where our students learn about sex education. Sex education is only a small part of our entire PHSE programme which is followed throughout the school. During their time at the school, the students have already had a broad programme about healthy living, hygiene, diet,

e-safety,

relationships,

Character,

SEARCH, British values and extremism. We have now run this programme at Heartlands for more than five years. Past experience has shown us that our students are very mature and ask good questions. You may find that your child starts asking

SCHOOL NURSE The School Nurse is available for ALL students. You can speak or discuss any of the following issues:

Confidential advice and guidance given

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No Appointment Required – just turn up and knock on the door

Wednesdays 12.30-14.00 N4:2


AQUILA Aquila have started the new term brilliantly. We have made a flying start to the Beyond Words programme, with students completing many quizzes and showing a great deal of engagement whilst increasing their reading ages. We have also re-introduced the Duolog programme. It has been great to see a whole host of Aquilans supporting each other with their reading and sharing a love of books. Beyond Words is an excellent programme that helps to improve the academic potential of our students. Please continue to support this programme by signing your child’s bookmark in their planner and having

regular learning conversations about this on a weekly basis. This term’s focus has been on resilience. The collective worship assemblies have asked students to consider how they react under challenging circumstances. We encourage all students to take well considered ‘risks’ in their learning, and to enable them to reap

MERITS Top 20 Merit winners To honour our top twenty merit winners we have listed them in the table below. We are currently winning the Inter-house merit race! Well done to all of you and keep up the good work!

the academic benefits of attempting tasks more than once. Congratulations to Krasimir, who successfully completed the resilience bucket and ball challenge, after a number of attempts and a little bit of support from Mr Lloyd. That chocolate must taste good! Aquilans are obviously following these messages and showing lots of resilience among other things; we are still top of the merit ladder. Let’s keep this up!

Aquila Question Time: With Mr Adekunle What activities/hobbies do you do? Running/athletics and reading. What is your favourite book? Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan.

What is your favourite animal? Lions - I like how fierce and courageous they

MERITS TABLE

are. Plus I recently went to see Lion King in Year

Form

Merit Total

Konadu Zariel

Year 8

AMN

975

What attracted you to teaching?

Pipi Honour

Year 8

AKU

635

I had amazing teachers whilst at school

Phillips Tareeq

Year 9

AKU

551

who helped me both in and outside the

Gochev Hristo

Year 10

ACE

548

classroom (I was not the easiest child to

Williams Amber

Year 7

AKU

539

deal with!). Plus I’ve always loved English

Djaboub Mouhamed

Year 7

AKU

538

as a subject.

Patel Ravi

Year 7

AMN

512

theatre and loved every minute of it! And the Eagle, obviously!

Name

Ali Khaled

Year 11

AKU

507

What is your favourite motivational quote?

Gilgil Mehmet

Year 10

AMN

500

My favourite motivational quote is ‘‘Kites

Omar Mohamed

Year 9

AMN

481

rise highest against the wind, not with it”

Morrison Jaheem

Year 8

ASG

461

— Winston S. Churchill

Stoyanova Viktoria

Year 7

AKU

456

Napier Tyler

Year 10

ASG

451

Harriott Karla

Year 8

AKU

445

Naushen Ishrat

Year 8

AAE

444

Cooper Lauren

Year 9

AKU

436

Miah Darnell

Year 8

AKU

432

Spencer Daniel

Year 7

AKU

425

Tweddell Lotte

Year 8

AMN

422

Anderson Rochelle

Year 11

AMN

415

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CYGNUS This term Mr Fox set Cygnus a target of reaching over 200 merits

by mid October. To his surprise, over 40 students in the house exceeded this target!

MERITS Top 20 Merit winners We are currently joint third in the merit race with pegasus - lets keep working hard, achieveing and getting those merits and next term we can be striding ahead of all the other houses. Well done to all the top twenty merit winners of the house, you’re doing great! keep it up! GO CYGNUS!!!

Adam Dawkins

Jamie McCarron-

Adam has made a huge improvement in his attitude to learning this year, reflected in his fantastic total of nearly 400 merits. He has gained very few demerits, all the more fantastic when compared to the total of 158 he had last year. He has taken on his responsibility of entering y10 and being a positive role model with great integrity. For her continous efforts in following all routines for SUCCESS. She is a polite and enthusiatic member of the form and always willing to help out! She is truly an asset to the Cygnus house.

Ella has made a great start to life at Heartlands, she is fantastic to have in tutor time, always prepared adn polite. A pleasure to teach! Ella MacdonaldBoyle

Gamez

Harry is a polite, diligent and conscientious student. He was one of the biggest borrowers last term from the library, and he contributes to all discussions during tutor time. Harry Ewing

Bleron Azemaj

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MERITS TABLE

Viki Hadzhieva Bleron has made a fantastic start to year 7, becoming one of the top merit earners of Cygnus. He is always engaged with Beyonds Words in and outside school, and takes part in lots of after school sports

For outstanding progress across all her subjects and increasing her merit total through positive contributions and volunteer work. Her confidence her really increased and this is reflected in her contribution merits

Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Greene Myfanwy

Year 7

CMR

464

Matheou Kiris

Year 10

CSE

416

Ozdemir Eray

Year 10

CMR

402

Chemlal Raneem

Year 7

CMY

400

Kilic Selina

Year 8

CMY

397

Bolikango Godiva

Year 11

CSE

392

Noriega Castro Michael

Year 8

CWN

392

Eren Ezo

Year 7

CTA

384

Yilmaz Nil

Year 10

CJL

381

Frewin Leah

Year 7

CAM

380

Cheik Aya

Year 8

CWN

371

Campbell Roial

Year 8

CMR

368

Gruszewski Matthew

Year 11

CSE

361

Butler Kate

Year 9

CWN

357

Callis Constance

Year 8

CSE

357

Vella Andreas

Year 10

CAM

357

Kurt Haci

Year 11

CMY

348

Meresz Laszlo

Year 11

CAM

347

Azemaj Bleron

Year 7

CJL

342


LACERTA Get to know Lacerta house...Interview with Mr Goulding and Ms Campbell by Jena Rambhujoo and Amira Ibrahim Describe your behaviour when you were at school. GI: I liked school. I was well behaved the majority of the time. CB: Quite quiet, and well behaved. I really

CB: I worked in a bar at Arsenal Football Stadium (Emirates). Funniest moment at school?

Well done to all of our top twenty merit

in school but the most memorable was the

leaders! With two terms still to go we have

outdoor education lesson we used to do for

plenty of time to aim for the cup!

Geography. We even went Rock Climbing in CB: I fell out of a tree in Primary school, but at least I landed on my feet. What made you want to be a teacher? GI: Being a parent I could see how school worked and how it didn’t and wanted to improve education. CB: I love Science and working

intentions for the future

with young people. I learn new

when you were at

things everyday.

school?

Proudest moment in life?

GI: I wanted to do

GI: I’m really proud of my kids

anything in Science. I was

and having them were the

unsure at the time what

proudest moments of my life.

type of job in Science I

I also thought about becoming a Primary School teacher. Favourite subject at school? GI: Science was my favorite subject by far. CB: Science, obviously. Least favourite subject at school? GI: French and Art. CB: ICT and Art, I wasn’t very creative. First job? GI: I worked on a building site and later went on to do painting and decorating.

GO LACERTA!!!

Wales!

What were your

CB: I used to dance when I was younger but

CB: Probably graduating from university and passing my driving test. Interesting fact about you? GI: I met Marvin Gaye in a music venue! CB: I have been to an NBA basketball player’s wedding!

MERITS TABLE Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Year 10

LKE

533

What piece of advice would you give yourself

Hudson-Carrington Caleb

when at school?

Otieno Shanyce

Year 8

LME

430

GI: Take advice given to you more seriously

Michael-Teixeira Jovanni

Year 10

LAL

415

Dai Haifeng

Year 8

LBS

413

and enjoy school because you will never get these opportunities again. CB: ‘Enjoy it because it doesn’t last very long’ .

Snapshot of Lacerta VT time

Lacerta Year 7 boys mentoring with Ms Korponyai.

Top 20 Merit winners

GI: It’s hard to think of the funniest moment

enjoyed school.

wanted to do.

MERITS

James Matthew

Year 9

LGI

402

Orman Mustafa

Year 10

LCB

388

Asenova Tsvetanka

Year 11

LBU

384

Spalding Dezarae

Year 8

LGI

381

Nelson Jermaine

Year 10

LSN

375

Adriani Jasmine

Year 7

LME

374

Akbulut Serhan

Year 11

LAL

370

Ferdous Akram

Year 10

LCB

367

Corten Sevkan

Year 9

LAL

365

Gashi Tristian

Year 7

LCB

362

Katende Wasim

Year 7

LFA

362

Wabnyc Hubert

Year 10

LME

361

Lin Yingjian

Year 7

LBU

352

Tucker Yasmyn

Year 8

LKE

348

LBU fully engaged during Beyond Words

Dummett Ashley

Year 8

LSN

347

silent reading.

Ali Barkot

Year 9

LBU

346

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PEGASUS Welcome back to all Pegasus staff and students; it’s been a fantastic first halfterm. It’s fantastic to see Year 7 students achieving so much so early in their Heartlands careers. They are joining the winners of the merit race

last year, I know we are all very proud of their back to back titles. We welcome Mr Adcock and Ms Walczak to Pegasus this half-term, you can see more about Mr Adcock in his interview! A huge well done to everyone for their efforts on sports day - second place by only a few points! A special mention to our staff relay

MERITS Top 20 Merit winners Congratulations to our top twenty students in terms of merits. With Pegasus currently joint third in the merit race it is important we continue to work hard and earn merits!!

team who I think are still finishing.

Mr Adcock 1. Why is Pegasus the best house? Because the students are focused and determined to make progress and that we work as a team to ensure everyone's success 2. What sets a Pegasus student apart from the rest? Their dedication to school and a ‘never say quit’ attitude 3. What do you like doing in your spare time? Running, hiking, exploring and travelling

Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Year 10

PJS

714

Sahindal Berfin

Year 7

PVU

514

Halil Yucel

Year 10

PSA

512

4. What book are you currently reading? John Simpson's, Strange Places

Rodney Delvon

5. What is your favourite colour? (This can be any variation of yellow) Dark yellow

Williams Jelani

Year 8

PWM

491

Rohanzai Zubair

Year 10

PVU

487

Clarke Jason

Year 8

PMC

448

Willars Phoebe

Year 7

PWM

445

Eminov Yosko

Year 10

PSA

437

Mbungu Jemima

Year 7

PVU

433

Oz Ibrahim

Year 9

PMC

420

Van Anderson Redman-Lee Tyrese

Year 7

PAK

401

Kadiu Kejsi

Year 9

PSH

398

Samad Omar

Year 7

PAK

395

Soares Dos Reis Alves Lucena Margarida

Year 7

PWM

392

Van Der DoelenKawazuti Lucas

Year 7

PAK

392

Antwi Michael

Year 11

PKH

386

Balong-Angey Amiel

Year 8

PMD

371

Grimes Nadene

Year 11

PMD

371

Tshiteya Wegge

Year 7

PKH

370

Jones-Smith James

Year 11

PVU

356

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MERITS TABLE


SCORPIUZ So far, Scorpiuz students have hit the ground running this academic year.

Students and tutors have enjoyed starting

We are very proud to

carers who are continuously supporting the

announce that Scorpiuz won both Sports Day

20-minute reading time at home and signing

and the Inter-house challenge at the end of

bookmarks each evening.

the last academic year.

their ‘Character’ education and are enjoying our new look Vertical Tutoring sessions with half an hour dedicated to pastoral needs and Beyond Words. Thank you to parents/

MERITS Scorpiuz are making a great push in the merit race as we are now 2nd overall! A great start to the new academic year. We are very confident that we can now push for 1st place as we close the gap on current leaders Aquila!

We are all looking forward to AFA day on

Continuing on from our fantastic trophy haul

November 20th and look forward to speaking

of last year, we are currently in 2nd place and

with many parents/carers.

have our sights firmly set on winning this year’s merit race.

Jack Petchey Award Congratulations to Peter Davidson in Year 11, SSO, who attended the London Fire Brigade LIFE programme for a week in September. Peter had a very successful time and won the Jack Petchey award for his efforts; a fantastic achievement - Well Done!

MERITS TABLE Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Chrysostomou Zakariyya

Year 10

SBD

721

Spirlea Agnana-Tabita

Year 8

SKN

685

This year we have welcomed Mr Tanguy

Williams Ricardo

Year 8

SBT

623

Mallet, Ms Ornella Shosola and Ms Mona

Malik Rumana

Year 8

SBT

605

Hassan. All new members of staff have made

Culley Michael

Year 8

SBD

530

a tremendous impact already!

Lawless Jake

Year 9

SKN

489

Guo Jenny

Year 8

SKN

472

Shout out

Cole Ndidi

Year 9

SBT

467

Duran Berfin

Year 9

SMI

442

Well done to our fabulous tour guides on Open Evening. Ivona (Year 11), Gemma (Year 10), Elaine

Garip Nukelda

Year 8

SSO

441

(Year 10) Imaan, Fernando, Andres and Joshua (all Year 11) were some of the names highlighted

Lawrence Rushya

Year 8

SMS

435

for excellent work!

Abdilleh Hussain

Year 11

SMI

426

Evdochim Alejandra

Year 8

SKN

418

Sibabi Said

Year 8

SMT

408

Ahmed Zackariah

Year 9

SBD

403

Marshall Jerome

Year 8

SSW

397

Sam Can

Year 11

SBD

392

Racut Gabriela

Year 7

SKN

391

Daoudi Khadidja

Year 8

SAT

379

Hussain Shahriyer

Year 10

SMI

379

New members of the team We have been joined this academic year with a few new faces in Scorpiuz house. We sadly said a fond farewell to our longest serving tutor, Amy Tillotson , and our languages teacher, Ema Taylor, at the end

of last year. Both tutors left with the best wishes of us all in Scorpiuz House.

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INTER-HOUSE CHALLANGE HHS OLYMPICS

AQUILA - 53 CYGNUS - 47 LACERTA - 45 PEGASUS - 47 SCORPIUZ - 51

BOXING CLUB Wednesdays in the auditorium

3.30 - 4.30PM

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LEARNING IN OUR PROVISION FOR AUTISM

W

e have had a busy

Students really engaged during the

start

new

Alexandra Park Forest trip, where

school year in the

they had to work as a big team to

to

Autism

the

Provision;

hunt for pumpkins in the forest.

we have our first cohort of Year 11 students

they are helping, giving compliments or

Students also took part in a Halloween

who are working towards their Entry

when they remember how to ask nicely to

costume and props making workshop; the

Level qualifications and our new Year 7

play together.

students created fantastic spooky ideas, such

students working hard to learn routines and

as, paper bats, eyeballs, Dracula costumes

expectations of secondary school life.

SEARCH DAY

and we even had witches and black cats.

It has been great to see older students

We have been getting into the Halloween

The students also took part in a ‘design

supporting new and younger peers to settle

spirit, with a spooky themed SEARCH Day.

your pumpkin’ workshop. First they each

into school. We have also been developing

Students enjoyed taking part in the different

completed an original design, then worked

students’ thinking around ‘being a good

activities, working together as a team and

in their class teams to choose a final design

friend’, identifying what good friends do for

working with different members of staff.

and carve their pumpkins, with fantastically

each other and rewarding students when

Saturn

are

using

scary results!

this

assessment tool on the whiteboard

as a way of capturing where

the students’ confidence levels are

at the launch of a session in

relation to meeting the learning

objective. Students rate their

confidence levels and we refer

back to this throughout the

session to assess how they are

doing and notice if their confidence is improving. At the end of the session the students can see the tangible progress they have made in their confidence towards meeting the lesson objective.

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LEARNING IN OUR PROVISION FOR AUTISM NEPTUNE The students in Neptune class have been helping one of their classmates with his communication. We are all helping him to use his communication wall to tell us what he needs by reminding him how to use the pictures on his “I want strip”. We are also learning about being good friends.

Every morning before the start of our circle time, we have a 5-minute workout to get us ready for the day. There are stretching, pushing and pulling exercises, squats, star jumps and the big x finish. It’s a great start to our day!

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Neptune class is focused on the theme “Relationships”, for the Autumn term. We are learning about some of the different types of relationships and chose the Simpson family as a way to better understand their own relationships. We use drama to help us identify key members of the Simpson family. One activity is The Simpsons musical statues, whereby we have to remain still in the position of one of the Simpson family members.

We have been going to the local Morrisons supermarket to purchase our ingredients for our cooking session. We have to allocate individual items to be collected by the students and pay for shopping to make sure we have everything that we need for cooking. Sometimes, we have to decide as a group on alternative ingredients if the item we need is not available. We have made Open sandwiches, pepper & mozzarella panini, pitta bread pizza and individual half pizza. Yummy!!!!


JUPITER Jupiter class have been studying ‘light and dark’ across the curriculum. During Science lessons we went on hunts around the school for different sources of light, learnt about nocturnal animals, and enjoyed exploring the effects of light on the shadow puppets we made. We even visited the Science Museum and captured giant shadows of ourselves! In English we studied ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ and reflected on the owl’s journey and changes in emotions by writing reassuring letters to the main character and recreating the story ourselves through drama.

Jupiter class use a voice-o-meter to allow us to moderate our volume of voice so it is suited to the situation. We have learnt what kind of voice we should be using for different parts of the school day and can refer back to this visual if we forget. We have got so independent at this now, that we take charge of it in lessons, adjusting the arrow so it shows our class how loud our voices should be.

We found out that nocturnal animals often use senses other than sight to help them to stay safe in the dark. We explored using our sense of hearing, touch, smell and taste to identify different items. We loved playing these guessing games blindfolded and realised we can tell a lot about something without being able to see it! We also explored the use of our senses through games, like sensory bingo, and even wrote our own sensory poems.

We earn a lot of merits in Jupiter class and someone has to keep track of them! We have a merit monitor each week who adds up the totals for each student and monitors everyone’s successes across the week. We are applying our addition strategies to help us complete these tasks with increasing independence.

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LEARNING IN OUR PROVISION FOR AUTISM SATURN SUPERFLEX has arrived at Heartlands to take on the team of UNTHINKABLES! Saturn class are using their Superflexible thinking skills to help them with understanding social behaviour and regulation strategies.

This term is a little out of this world for Saturn! The theme across most subjects has been SPACE; in English we are studying good and bad characters from Star Wars, we are making space inspired collages in art, we are all superheroes in PSHE and we recently visited the Science Museum to see spaceships and attended a bubble workshop.

Students have designed their own superhero and joined a training academy in their PSHE lessons. They are finding out that we all have a team of Unthinkables in our brains, but in the academy they will learn super flexible thinking to defeat them when they call on their super hero, Superflex.

Staying with the space theme, our Yoga sessions have gone a little to the dark side!

Our cooking sessions this term have been all about packed lunches. We are trying out different breads and fillings and evaluating our skills and combinations. On week A we learnt to make sandwiches and then we ATEthem! We are improving every step to make the perfect sandwich. On week B we tried to make different types of bread. We were particularly proud of our ciabatta loaves, look out for us on the next Great British Bake Off!!!

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VENUS This term some of our students completed their work experience at Action for Kids. They developed skills for being in a work environment and how to make phone calls and send emails. Students made their own folders with all the work they have done and new skills they have acquired. After their work experience session, students had their lunch at a local cafĂŠ where they were practising ordering food and using their social skills.

This term in English and Drama, the students are studying Romeo and Juliet. The students are very involved and were excited at being given roles as Montagues and Capulets. They enjoyed recreating the fight scene, especially biting their thumbs at each other - a Shakespearean insult!

This term, Venus class have been doing gymnastics in PE. We have been using various equipment such as ribbons, pom poms, balls and hoops. We have been throwing and catching, twisting and turning, shaking high and shaking low and expressing ourselves to music.

This term we have been learning about Indian food. The students have been making chapatti bread, chicken curry and tomato chutney, which was made using homegrown green tomatoes from our allotment!!! We also visited an Indian restaurant and had lunch there; everything was delicious but we decided our chutney was better!

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Year

Day

Date

Event

Year 8

Wednesday

10th February

Subject Evening Event

Year 9

Wednesday

20th January

Year 9 Parents’ Evening

Tuesday

9th February

Year 9 Options Event

Tuesday

23rd February

Year 10 Parents’ Evening

Monday

14th March

Year 10 work experience begins

Tuesday – Friday

1st – 11th December

Year 11 Mock exams

Thursday

4th February

Year 11 Parents’ Evening

Monday

7th March

Year 11 interviews this week

Monday

30th November

SEARCH Day 4

Monday

7th December

Attendance & Punctuality Week; Reading Tests

Friday

18th December

End of Term; school closed for holidays

Monday

4th January

Start of Spring Term 1

Tuesday

12th January

SEARCH Day 5

Tuesday

19th January

DTP Vaccination programme

Wednesday

20th January

DTP Vaccination programme

Thursday

21st January

Late start for all students at 09:15

Wednesday

27th January

SEARCH Day 6

Monday

1st February

Attendance & Punctuality Week

Friday

5th February

Late start for all students at 09:15

Monday-Friday

15th – 19th February

Spring half-term

Wednesday

24th February

Late start for all students at 09:15

Tuesday

1st March

Group School photographs

Thursday

3rd March

World Book Day; SEARCH Day 7

Monday

7th March

Attendance & Punctuality Week

Monday

14th March

Reading Tests

Tuesday

15th March

Staff training after school; no after-school clubs

Thursday

17th March

End of Spring Term

Friday

18th March

Moderation Day; end of term for staff

Monday-Friday

21st March – 1st April

Easter holidays

Year 10

Year 11

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@HHSHaringey

AUTUMN 2015

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