TALENTED DRAMA STUDENTS SCORE DISTINCTIONS Talented Drama students in
LATEST HOUSE NEWS We’ve had some exciting times of late with an inter House Basketball and Football tournament involving both staff and students which turned out to be a great success.
to build the skills necessary to
The students who took part in the ‘Make a House Banner’ competition organised by D&T produced some amazing work and the banners will be used for Sports Day and other events. This was followed by the ‘House Treasure Hunt’ where the teams had a great time searching around the school for clues.
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There are many more exciting events
Years 7-10 all have scored Distinctions in the New Era Level 7 exam in Improvisation. This qualification is worth UCAS points, so the students’ achievements are fantastic. They worked for twelve weeks
historical event. They chose to explore 9/11 and researched deeply into the subject. An external examiner then put them through their paces asking them to improvise scenes as a whole group based on the events of 9/11 in a range of styles. Many of the students had taken the Level 6 exam in the summer term, scoring Merits that time, so it is great to see a progression both in challenge and outcome.
The students involved are as follows: Year 7 Anton Hague 7E Stuart Patterson 7E
Year 8 Marco Piga 8E Kioni Wynter 8I
Year 9 Mert Ozturk 9K Aniela Lojek 9P Mustafa Mazi 9K
Year 10 Tiy Marcus-Paige 10V Piotr Ochmanski 10P Gulis Gulkaya 10V Brunilda Haxhijaha 10V Jamilla Sutton 10V Andri Boda 10W Chris Lancaster, Head of Drama
The House Captains are also planning the first house assemblies for all students in Years 7-10. Each team has worked hard on a promotional video and these will be showcased for the very first time in the assemblies. The House Captains will also use the time to celebrate all the achievements of their House members and announce what the rewards will be for the overall winning House at the end of the Summer Term. Watch this space… Ms Sheker, House System Coordinator
coming up like the Eggheads style quiz Science is organizing. Each house is busy selecting their teams in the hope of winning that all-important Vivo prize to add onto their score. Each Vivo earned by a student is also added onto their house score and these are awarded for punctuality, attendance, good progress and behaviour. The scoreboard so far: Cedar House
68,987
Elm House
64,171
Maple House
67,134
Oak House
67,132
Numeracy Competition your chance to win £5.00! Please give your answer to your Maths teacher or Mr AhleHagh (T9). Remember to write your Name and Tutor group (all years are involved). The winners will be announced in the next issue of newsletter. Every winner will receive a WHSmith Voucher. Come on have a go at this.
Sudoku There is really only one rule: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column, and every 3 x 3 box contains the digits 1 through 9. You can’t change the digits already provided in the grid. You have to work around them. Every puzzle has just one correct solution. Mr Ahle-Hagh, Numeracy Coordinator
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On 12th March Year 9 headed to the Globe Theatre to watch a performance of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. Year 9 studied Macbeth earlier this year and the trip was a great opportunity to watch one of Shakespeare’s plays in a traditional Shakespearean theatre setting. However, the play was given a modern twist with contemporary costumes and even a hot tub! The students were fantastic ambassadors for the school and behaved extremely well throughout the English trip. It was a real pleasure to take them and we hope they enjoyed the experience as much as their teachers did. Ms Clarke, English Park View West Green Road London N15 3QR Tel: 020 8888 1722 Fax: 020 8881 8143 Email: admin@parkview.haringey.sch.uk www.parkview.haringey.sch.uk
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CHINESE NEW YEAR To celebrate the Chinese New Year, the year of the horse, ‘Dragons in Europe’ brought their mandarin workshop to Park View. Students in Years 7-9 took part in a series of activities to learn about Chinese culture, language and tradition. They tried their hand at chopsticks, discovered their fortune in the cookies and even had a go at writing Mandarin. They also learnt about Chinese superstition and the year of which animal they were born in. Here are a few interesting facts for you. The lucky number in Chinese is 8, the Beijing Olympics began on 8.8.2008 at 8.08pm and their lucky colour is red. The rabbit is one of the most important animals, along with the dragon. You should never cut long noodles or you will reduce your life expectancy!
WELCOME TO OUR SPRING TERM NEWSLETTER! Well, time seems to have flown by. It seems only a short time ago that I was arriving at Park View and now we are rapidly approaching the Easter break. Park View is a wonderful school and I feel very privileged to have been asked to look after it for a while. As you may be aware, I spend shorter periods of time in schools these days and as a consequence visit quite a lot of schools. In addition, my 33 years in education has helped me to speak from a position of experience. Of all the schools I have worked in, I have received the warmest welcome at Park View. Our students are open, friendly and clearly enjoy being part of the Park View community. The quality of relationship formed between students and staff is an important part of the glue that holds us together and is based on mutual respect. I have also noticed that you, the Parents/Carers and extended family give freely of your time to support your children. Every event we have organised has been really well attended. This is a mark of a strong and successful community and Park View is certainly one of those. For the first time in its history, Park View is oversubscribed. Everyone in next year’s Year 7 has chosen Park View and we have more students applying to come to us than we have spaces. I have to say that this comes as no surprise to me. Every morning I walk around the school, visit lessons and talk to students and staff about the learning taking place and every morning I am impressed by the quality of provision we provide. Park View is a happy community where students and staff work hard together and enjoy their learning. And exciting times lie ahead. We are currently working on our Year 7 curriculum making sure it develops the key skills in students, which will make them successful in later life. Do ask your children about the Park View learner skills (they are in their planner if they need some help remembering all six). This is a journey which, over time, will ensure that students make excellent progress throughout their time with us. I could go on about how much I enjoy leading Park View but I am running out of space. Before I sign off, I am pleased to say that I have been in regular contact with Andrew Webster, our new Headteacher, who will start formally in September 2014 and will be coming into Park View to meet key staff before the end of this term. We will work closely together in the Summer term to ensure a smooth handover. It is DATES FOR YOUR a relief that he and I share the same values and aspirations for END OF TERM our young people so I am confident that Park View will go from BANK HOLIDAY strength to strength. I am also delighted that Tim Fyles, our Chair of Governors, has asked me to continue to work with the school in the future in an advisory capacity. Since I love working here, I have jumped at the chance. Have a great Easter break when it arrives and don’t forget to remind your Year 11 students to attend the Easter revision sessions. Rob Thomas, Interim Headteacher
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THE EDEN PROJECT The Emotional Development Environmental Nurturing (EDEN) project has been driven by a group of students, who have transformed a patch of overgrown weeds into a sustainable and productive organic fruit and vegetable garden for the whole school and wider community to enjoy. The project involves students designing, creating, developing and maintaining themed gardens within our school grounds. The aim is to inspire all Park View students to embrace growing food at school and at home. So far we have created an organic fruit and vegetable garden; planted an orchard and dug a pond, with the help of 30 volunteers from Kingston Smith LLP. Future plans include a hen house and run as well as wildflower meadows and wildlife habitats.
spaces, which will benefit the environment and community for years to come. There will be opportunities for students, staff, parents and volunteers from the wider community to engage in regular, interactive, food growing workshops and environmental activities, thus developing an understanding and respect for natural ecosystems, where/ how food grows as well as nurturing/ eating the organic food grown. All students and staff will be invited to participate in environmental/art education workshops. Parents will be able to participate in related workshops, e.g. ‘Growing food in limited spaces’ during our Saturday Gardening events. Sophia Ioannou (Environmental Tutor) designed our beautiful potting shed as well as our polycarbonate greenhouse, which is soon to be completed.
The students have learned how to sow seeds such as pumpkin, broad beans, chilli peppers, basil, thyme and other herbs; they have also planted potatoes, tomatoes, sweet corn, beetroot as well as various fruit bushes. All the fresh produce from the garden is distributed to the food technology department and the school canteen. Last year the students won an award from Veolia at the Haringey War on Waste Awards for tackling food waste. The garden is open to all students, staff and parents and is a beautiful outdoor classroom and green space. The students have also planted trees and shrubs throughout the school to produce shade and improve the green
Students involved in the EDEN project: Darryl McLaren (Y9) “The EDEN project gave us a chance to work with other people and the strawberries were delicious.” Jerome Blake (Y10) “The EDEN project is good for staying active because we had to dig a lot. It also gets your brain working because you need to think and plan ahead where you are going to dig and plant stuff.” Nathaniel Fowler (Y9) “The Eden project brings people together and is good for our environment.” Samuel Iannuccilli (Y9) “Our fruit and vegetables taste good because they’re fresh.” Chelsea Norton (Y10) “Planting trees and shrubs makes the school look more colourful.”
The success of the EDEN project has led to the introduction of Land Based Studies as an alternative provision. Sophia Ioannou is currently delivering BTEC Land Based Studies (level 1) to the following students: Chelsea Norton (Y10) “It’s fun planting trees and learning new skills that you’ve never done in your life.” Yonas Michael (Y10) “Land Based Studies is amazing because it’s outside and I have learned so much about planting trees and bulbs!” Samuel Iannuccilli (Y9) “It’s fun because its outdoors and I love planting things then watching them grow.” Darryl McLaren (Y9) “Getting a qualification for planting trees and bulbs is easy!” Ms Dyer, SEBD
HISTORY TRIP On a warmer than usual winters morning, fifteen Year 11 historians set off to the Lost Theatre to watch the production of ‘Hitler on Trial’. After taking advantage of free literature scattering the tube to catch up on the day’s news, we arrived at the theatre in good time. Without an offer of a hot beverage, much to Miss Underwood’s disappointment, we were ushered into the auditorium to begin with an exam busting session. Park View students held their own in the onslaught of questions directed at individual schools. After a mini break to catch our breath, the second session began where Adolf Hitler was indeed put on trial. The accusation he faced was holding sole responsibility for starting World War Two. A procession of historical characters including Franklin D Roosevelt, Joseph Stalin, Neville Chamberlain and the rather too charming Benito Mussolini brought as James Green said ‘history to life’. After some heated debate, where some students found themselves in the unusual position of arguing Hitler’s innocence, a guilty verdict was reached. The production reached a dramatic ending and literally finished with a bang! It was a highly useful and entertaining day, which was enjoyed by all. Ms Underwood, Humanities
DIANA AWARD Park View is delighted to announce that John Bely (Year 11) has been publicly honoured with the Diana Award. The Diana Award was founded as a legacy to Diana, Princess of Wales’ belief that young people have the power to change the world for the better. Since 1999, the Diana Award has recognised over 40,000 young people who have made a positive difference to their community. The Diana Award believe that young people should be: encouraged for their contributions to society, empowered to reach their full potential and they should be engaged in social action as early in life as possible. John Bely received the award for being a Diana Champion Volunteer, which is awarded to young people who give up their time to improve the lives of others. Ms Selman
PARK VIEW FOOTBALL SUCCESS This term has been a tremendously successful one for Park View’s football teams. While the league took a winter break the cup competitions reached their latter stages. The Year 9 football team made it through to the quarterfinals of the English Schools Cup, only to be beaten 3-1 by Oasis Academy. The team was extremely unfortunate to have three key players missing from the game, but despite that the team were magnificent and really deserved to win the game. The progress they have shown since Year 7, when they were knocked out in the 3rd round is excellent. Despite the disappointment the team still has much to look forward to with the Middlesex cup final against Greig City on Wednesday 2nd April. The Year 11 team will also be representing Park View in the Middlesex Cup final after a comprehensive 3-0 semi-finals win over Enfield Grammar. They will be playing Highgate School on Monday 31st March at Market Road, Camden. Having two teams in the final of such a prestigious tournament is a significant achievement and is testament to the hard work and talent of the students involved. Mr Hill, Year 9 Football Coach
LITERACY PUSH – WORLD BOOK DAY World Book Day was a great success at Park View and went hand in hand with our massive literacy push. Lisa Smith, Head of English said: ‘World Book Day is a wonderful way to further promote a love of reading amongst our school community. Students and staff have thoroughly enjoyed guessing characters and today support our continued drive to improve literacy.’ Reading has really taken off this year at Park View, Students in Years 7, 8 and 9 have been working really hard with the
Accelerated Reader Scheme, and it has been yielding some fantastic results. Recent testing showed that 40% of the students have improved their reading age at an accelerated rate, with many improving by more than a year in just 4 months. Ali Kaymaz, Year 8, whose reading age has improved by three years since September said: ‘World Book Day was really fun, seeing all the teachers walking around dressed as their favourite characters. As students, it makes us want to go away and
read the books they’re talking about.” This is a massive step in our quest to have all students reading age equal to or higher than their chronological age. All Year 9 students have been reading ‘Noughts & Crosses’ – a book that has created huge debate amongst the year group (and also happens to be written by the current Children’s Laureate) – this has led to a huge enthusiasm with students, many who have gone on to buy the rest of the collection.
MODEL UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE Park View was one of the founding members of the North London Model United Nation group with Highgate Wood in 2008. The first conference involved just four schools and now we are up to capacity with schools from all over London. As well as Highgate Wood, we included delegations from Hornsey Girls School, Alexandra Palace, Jack Petchey Academy, Stratford Academy, Mulberry School. Henrietta Barnett, Robert Clack, Sacred Heart, Holy Family, Broomfield school and several others. The conference took place at Highgate Wood school, (Park View was used for the
training day in January), with the overall theme of Global Poverty. The conference was opened with a speech from the Education Officer of Oxfam and Patrick Crozier the Head of HWS. The following students represented Park View this year and all acquitted themselves fantastically well in their first conference. Petros, who is a veteran of three conferences, took part in the Security Council with Callum. The Security Council Committee had to deal with a surprise development when the Taliban took control of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons. The Security Council had to go into overdrive to come up with a workable
resolution to contain this situation. I must say this was most impressive and a lesson for today’s adult politicians. Well done to all students and I look forward to next year’s conference on the theme of ‘Women – Half the World’. Mr Czajkowski, PSHE
COUNTRY
CTTE & REGION
COMMITTEE TOPIC
STUDENT
Ethiopia
WHO
Poverty, Inequality & Health
Lindit Papaj
Egypt
UNICEF2
Children in an Urban World - Slums & Megacities
Aran Culleton
Nigeria
UNICEF2
Children in an Urban World - Slums & Megacities
Jeffrey Koh
Bangladesh
UNICEF1
Child Poverty - Absolute & Relative
Arjun Singh
Philippines
UNDP
Eliminating Poverty
Andri Boda
Bangladesh
UN Women
Gender & Poverty Reduction Post 2015
Tanvir Ahmed
Egypt
SECURITY COUNCIL
Terrorism & Stability
Callum Baird-Kelly
Georgia
SECURITY COUNCIL
Terrorism & Stability
Petros Christoforou