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Southern Entrance
We would like to remind parents and carers that the gate at the southern entrance will be locked at 08:23 each morning. Students arriving after this time should enter via the main entrance in Cricklefield Place.
Safeguarding
The welfare and safety of our students is our priority. We do everything possible to ensure our students’ safety, both within the school community and outside of school, including working with relevant agencies to address any issues related to child protection. Students are informed of who they should go to should they have a concern about their own safety or the safety of others. At INA, all staff have regular safeguarding training to ensure that they are able to meet their statutory responsibilities. We also have a number of staff who are designated to respond to any child protection concerns and to liaise with social services:
Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) Jo Spencer Vice Principal Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead (DDSL) Tam Broadway Primary Headteacher Designated Child Protection Officers Eleanor Seale Office Manager Leanne Abbott-Jones Assistant Principal Gareth Marshall-Jones Primary Deputy Headteacher
Patrick Ball Pastoral Leader
You can find the INA Safeguarding policy, Child Protection policy and other related policies and procedures on the Academy’s website.
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Dear Parents and Carers, This week the Year 7s have been battling against each other in the Inter-Form Maths Challenge, the Year 10s Football Team were in the semi-finals of the borough cup, Anushri competed against other regional finalists in the Redbridge Schools Speak Out Challenge and the Year 11 PE students had their practical GCSE assessment. All of theme rose admirably to the challenge and coped with the pressure like professionals! I am sure that the Year 8s will do the same tomorrow when they compete against each other at the annual Big Band Competition – good luck everyone! Many thanks to the staff who made these rich opportunities possible. I am delighted to announce the winner of the Year 7 Student Council poster competition on online bullying. This is Eashar Kaur Rihal (7N), with Safa Noor Kayani (7S) and Diya Rajput (7E) as runners up. Well done and thank you to all entrants! I should like to introduce you to our newest member of the English teaching team, Ms Khatun:
Saleha Khatun, English Teacher It has been a pleasure to be accepted into the community of INA. I have been teaching here for just over a month now and I have enjoyed every day. I completed my PGCE in 2016 and joined INA at the start of January as an English teacher. I’ve been asked by many of my students why I wanted to become a teacher and why English out of all subjects. I didn’t fall in love with English in primary school, or secondary school; it was actually my A Levels that drew me to the subject. I always had a love for books but it was studying one particular novel during my time at college that changed the game for me. The novel is called “The Colour Purple” by Alice Walker. It was studying this book that made me fall in love with English, and my teacher Mrs Moran who made me want to be a teacher. I always thought that if she could teach as amazingly as she did and make someone like me fall in love with a subject, I could do that as well. So, many years later here I am, teaching at an amazing school, with lovely students and incredible staff! 24 March 2017 Secondary Newsletter
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Next week will be a busy one, with the Spring Spectacular on Wednesday evening, the End of Term Concert on Thursday night and Awards Assemblies on Monday (Year 8) and Friday (Years 7, 9, 10 & 11) mornings. I hope to see many of you at one or more of these events.
Term ends for secondary students at 1.15pm on Friday and starts again on Tuesday 18th April at 8.25am.
Rachel Macfarlane
With all best wishes,
SPORT RELIEF MILE
What: 1 mile run When: P.E lessons final week of term 27th-31st march Where: Astro Why: Raising money for education and support for the underprivileged youth around the world How: Students will donate as much as they want at the start of their lesson; the form that raises the most will win a prize. Half the money raised will go to Comic Relief and the other half will go to Wings of Hope! Good luck!
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A Warm Invite to
INA’s End of Spring Term Awards Assemblies Monday 27th March — Year 8 Friday 31st March — Years 7, 9, 10 & 11
In the final week of term, we will be holding our second set of awards assemblies of the year. This is an opportunity for the staff, students, governors and parents/carers to formally celebrate our students’ achievements at the end of the spring term. There will be a separate assembly for each year group. Please note the dates and times as follows:
Monday 27th March 8.55-9.45
Year 8 Awards assembly
Friday 31st March
11.05am Y7 Awards Assembly (KS3 hall) Y9 Awards Assembly (Dining hall) 12.00pm Y10 Awards Assembly (KS3 hall) Y11 Awards Assembly (Dining hall) 1.00pm Students dismissed At the assemblies we will be presenting awards in recognition of students’ academic progress and attainment, personal progress and the development of their BRIDGES dispositions. Excellent attendance and punctuality will also be celebrated. It is also a great opportunity for you to see some examples of the activities and events your child has participated in this term. We believe that it is important that every student is represented by a parent at the Awards Assembly for their year group and would like to invite one parent to attend on behalf of the family. If you would like to attend, please ask your son/daughter to collect a ticket for the awards assembly from his/her form tutor. Please request your ticket by Monday 20th March. Due to limited capacity, we are unable to accommodate very many additional family members. However, if you would like a second place, please notify the school office and we will do our best to allocate an additional ticket. I look forward to seeing you on the Monday 27th March (Year 8) and Friday 31st March (Years 7, 8, 9 & 10) Ms Spencer, Vice Principal 24 March 2017 Secondary Newsletter
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Praise and Recognition
At INA, we aim to provide a stimulating, challenging and rewarding learning environment which supports learning, celebrates achievement and encourages everyone. Awarding merits, informal praise in class and the end of term awards assemblies are all part of this. Please speak to your child/children on a regular basis to see how many merits they have and how they are working towards the different awards on offer.
Merits
We are one week ago from the end of the Spring term merit race! A massive well done to all the students who have worked hard to get merits so far! Remember that there is merit awards for you gaining 25/50/100/150 merits over the academic year, so set yourself a target to achieve! Also your merits help push your form up to the top of the leader board, so it will be interesting to see which forms win in each year group this term! If you are owed merits, make sure you remember to get them and good luck! YEAR 7
TOTAL
YEAR 8
TOTAL
YEAR 9
TOTAL
YEAR 10
TOTAL
YEAR 11
TOTAL
W C S E N I A
563 474 455 451 361 346 269
W T N C I S E A
401 355 320 260 238 233 227 219
E W A S N T I C
260 209 209 207 206 146 130 113
E T N W I S A
218 197 170 126 119 79 31
I W S A C N E T
114 18 0 0 0 0 0 0
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Ahmed Al-Khafaji Award (Peer Commendation Award) Ahmed was well known for being kind, for helping others and for being extremely polite. He was also someone known for his hard work and absorption. The idea, therefore, is that the winner should be someone who encapsulated one of these qualities in that week. Year 7: Leah Deane 7N Year 8: Abbas Khan 8S Year 9: Omeir Khan Mohammed, Jayden Deane and Sinthurum Seethamohan Year 10: Brett Butler 10I Year 11: Haneefa Gachi 11I
Good Deed Feed Ms Hussain: Denice Jaquilmac 10W for being really helpful in RE lessons with resources and ensuring everyone understands the unit on Christianity by clarifying things Mr Golinksi: Umaima Umarji 8E, Asma Omar 8E, Zubeida Esmail 8T. All three students regularly clean out the hedgehog’s cage and do a fantastic job at keeping the hedgehog clean and healthy. Dr Mounsey: Sunil Mann 8T deserves praise for helping do some test analysis in Science for an absent classmate without being prompted at all.
Mr Ayerh
Year 10 Pastoral Leader, i/c Praise and Recognition.
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The Youth Travel Ambassadors of INA had to give a pitch to the organisers of the Youth Travel Ambassadors scheme to explain to them what our travel issues were and what their travel plan was. If they thought it was good enough, with all the issues and solutions well explained, they then would agree to give them £250, to implement the solutions. This is how it went... Ishan:
Good Morning, we are the youth travel ambassadors from Isaac Newton Academy in Seven Kings, and we all determined to make our school a better place.
Salma:
We are all in year 8, and here to pitch about the travel issues in our school.
Simra :
This year the issues we have targeted and want to work on are ▪ Cars stopping suddenly, meaning that parents don’t park properly in the spaces provided but stop outside the entrance for their convenience. ▪ We have lots off congestion with an over-flow off cars.. ▪ Pollution, having a lot of congestion means there is a lot of pollution, creating a non- eco-friendly environment. ▪ Double and Triple parking. ▪ Cars speeding around the car park, making it unsafe to cross
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Kisanth:
We would like to address the fact that our target audience is secondary students, as they make their own way to school as well as addressing primary and secondary parents.
Ria:
Here is a pie chart representing the results from a survey we did in year 8 about travel issues. As you can see, one of the main concerns was pedestrians crossing.
Salma:
We have all created a video that we would like to show you and in this video we are addressing the main issues in our car park.
Nahar:
We are still waiting for the results from our experiment, and once we have received them we are going to survey parents and students on how shocked they are by the results.
Shama:
The community event. In the summer term, most likely May, we would like to run a community event. This would include inviting parents and local members of the community to join us on a Tuesday at around 6pm in our school hall to discuss the local issue of pollution and to inform them on the ways the car park is being used and how it should be used. This would give people a great opportunity to discuss this issue with the local community. This would allow us to get feedback from the public as well as informing them on the issues we have, to hopefully resolve our issue. Things we would need would be: ▪ posters ▪ banners- from www.banners.co.uk ▪ food ▪ a speaker (most likely from TFL) ▪ Activities, such as a smoothie blender bicycle. The way we would measure the impact it has on the car park is by filming before and after the event, then watching it over and seeing the difference it has in terms of, if it is still congested and people are still double parking.
Shama:
Another event that we would like to run is a competition. We would like to run this through year 8, in April. It would be a competition that would require groups of 5 or 6 to invent a product that will reduce the pollution in their daily life. This would mean that they would have to research about pollution that would then inform them on the bad impact it has which would also encourage them to stop using cars to get to school but instead walk or cycle. The prize and motivation for this competition, if we were given the money, would Nandos’ vouchers worth £30. The way we will measure our success is to have a survey asking year 8 students what they know about pollution and its effects before and after the competition.
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Shama:
Thank you for listening and we hope you take our issues and money needed into consideration.
Kisanth: We would like to ask if you have any questions. The pitch took place in our school hall and we were joined by four other schools, five schools in total. We also had three judges, judging everyone’s pitch to see it they deserved the £250. The order in which the schools presented their pitch was very fair and was simply picked out of a hat. Isaac Newton Academy was called out to pitch last, but they definitely saved the best till last! The Youth Travel Ambassadors gave a confident pitch, explaining all that they wanted to do and the effect it would have on the school. They then presented a video to visually show the issues and it was a big success. We were asked for the video to be shown to the schools that attended the event and it has also been shown to years 7, 8, 9 and 10 in assembly, to give them a wakeup call. Whilst the judges deliberated, the YTA members got to socialise with members from other schools, discussing with them their issues as well as ours. It was a very successful day and all five schools ended up going home with £250. Shama Daula
LOST PROPERTY
Parents, please encourage your child to come and check the lost property box for any missing items at Student Reception by Friday 31st March 2017. After this date, all lost property left over will be disposed of. Please be aware that as of the 24th April 2017 we will be disposing of all lost property regularly and ask that every week you encourage your child to come and check the lost property box at the Student Reception. We currently have the following items in lost property: Books Whole PE Bags – with full PE kits And lots Blazers/Coats more… Shoes/Trainers Pencil Cases
Teijahna Henry
Student Receptionist
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Year 11 Study Leave - Summer 2017 The exam season starts on Monday 15th May and ends on Friday 23rd June. Half term is 29th May – 2nd June. Normal lessons for all students will continue until and including Friday 12th May. From Monday 15th May until Friday 26th May all Year 11 students will be in school all day and expected to attend their normal lessons if they are not in a GCSE exam. This will include pm lessons where they have an am exam, am lessons where they have a pm exam and lessons between am and pm exams, where applicable. Morning exams Each morning exam session will start at 8am. A 30 minute revision session (usually based in the dining hall) will occur from 8-8:30. At 8.30am a free breakfast will be provided for all Year 11 students taking the GCSE that morning. Afternoon exams Each afternoon exam session will start at 1pm (following KS4 lunch). A 30 minute revision session (usually based in the KS4 hall) will occur from 1-1:30. If a student has a lesson between a morning and afternoon exam, he/she should go to the lesson but the teacher will allow him/her to study for his/her afternoon exam rather than take part in the lesson. Teachers will continue with their Year 11 lessons right up until the final exam for that subject has been taken. Once the final exam has taken place, the student coming to the lesson will be allowed to get on with independent study for up-coming exams. The teacher will supervise and ensure that there is an atmosphere conducive to private study. From Monday 5th June, there will be study leave for Year 11 students. There will be a programme of revision lessons offered in the subjects where exams have not finished. Students will be expected to attend revision sessions that apply to them (although for some students who are good at revising independently these sessions will be optional and for others an invite will be issued and they will be required to attend.) There will be signing up arrangements so that staff know who they are expecting in advance of the session. Students will sign in and out at reception. At times when they do not have a revision lesson or an exam they will be expected to leave site to go home to revise. The last exam is on Friday 23rd June. We are planning to hold a pm Year 11 assembly on that day. The Graduation Ball is on the evening of Monday 10th July. Mr Crowther-Green, Assistant Principal
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Oxbridge Interview Questions In anticipation of our upcoming first cohort of sixth form students in September; it is pertinent that our students begin to think more deeply about universities and the route they would like to take in higher education. It’s well known that Cambridge and Oxford have gruelling entrance examinations and would-be Oxbridge undergraduates are invited to attend an interview, to be asked “unanswerable” questions - brain-teasers designed to explore the far reaches of their mind, test their lateral thinking and expose weaknesses in their ability to argue, process and reason. In order to prepare our students for such daunting tasks we are offering students the chance to their skills at such “unanswerable questions” and every week we will ask what is now known as an “Oxbridge question”. This competition is open to all students from all year groups; please answer the question on a typed A4 sheet of paper. The answer should be no more than one side and should be submitted either via email to info@ isaacnewtonacademy.org or a printed copy can be left in G.43 (clearly addressed to Mr. Dewal). The following link should help students if they are struggling or wish to research on how to answer these tough questions: www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/11284676/Could-youanswer-the-toughest-Oxbridge-question.html This week’s question goes as follows: How would you describe a human to a person from Mars? (Asked in interviews for Medicine at Cambridge) Get your thinking caps on and get those brain cells firing! Good luck and best wishes, Mr. A. Dewal, Mathematics teacher/Ambassador for Higher Attainers
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Year 11 Easter Holiday Revision Sessions The following revision sessions will run over the holidays to support Y11 with their upcoming GCSE’s. Students will be invited to attend or invited to sign up for the sessions by staff. Students will continue to be supported with exam preparation with learning on FRONTER Mr Crowther-Green Date Mon 3rd April Mon 3rd April Mon 3rd April Tue 4th April Tue 4th April Tue 4th April Tue 4th April Tue 4th April Wed 5th April Wed 5th April Thu 6th April Fri 7th April Fri 7th April Fri 7th April Fri 7th April Mon 10th April Mon 10th April Mon 10th April Tue 11th April Tue 11th April Tue 11th April Wed 12th April Wed 12th April Thu 13th April
Subject Science Spanish French PE Art Graphics History History History Graphics Graphics RE RE Geography Geography English English English Geography Geography Mathematics Mathematics Drama Drama
Room T16 G41 G37 TBA S13 316 G21 G18 G21 S16 S16 G21 G18 G26 G25 S37 S38 S34 G26 G25 F52 F52 S31 S31
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Teacher Mr Clift-Matthews Ms Brett Ms Gallagher Mr Beattie Mr James Ms Hinds Ms Priestley Ms Coates Ms Priestley Ms Hinds Ms Hinds Mr Woracker Ms Priestley Ms Balsdon Ms Gurm Ms Curley Ms Atkinson Ms Davoll Ms Balsdon Ms Gurm Mr Dewal Mr Dewal Ms Rayner Ms Field
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GCSE Examination Timetable Summer 2017 Date Mon 15 May
Week 3
Week 2
Week 1
Tue 16 May
Session
Length
Paper Code
Subject
AM
60
B603/01
Religious Studies
REL STUDS: ETHICS WRITTEN
60
B604/01
Religious Studies
REL STUDIES B: ETHICS 2 WRITTEN
90
5RS0601
Religious Studies
REL/LIFE/HINDUISM
25
5FR011F
French
LISTENING (F)
35
5FR011H
French
LISTENING (H)
35
5FR033F
French
READING (F)
50
5FR033H
French
READING (H) INFLUENCES ON LIFE (H)
AM
Paper
Tue 16 May
PM
60
5BI1H01
Biology
Thu 18 May
AM
60
5CH1H01
Chemistry
Thu 18 May
PM
90
41530001
Drama
DRAMA UNIT 3 WRITTEN PAPER
Fri 19 May
AM
25
5SP011F
Spanish
LISTENING (F)
35
5SP011H
Spanish
LISTENING (H)
35
5SP033F
Spanish
READING (F)
50
5SP033H
Spanish
READING (H)
CHEMISTRY IN OUR WORLD(H)
Fri 19 May
PM
90
5PE0101
P. E.
THEORY OF PHYSICAL ED.
Mon 22 May
AM
105
1ET0 01
English Literature
SHAKESP.& POST 1914 LIT.
Mon 22 May
PM
90
B561/02
Geography
Wed 24 May
PM
60
5PH1H01
Physics
Thu 25 May
AM
90
1MA1 1F
Mathematics
NON CALCULATOR (F)
90
1MA1 1H
Mathematics
NON CALCULATOR (H)
GEOG B: SUSTAIN DCSN MKNG WRTTN UNIVERSAL PHYSICS (H)
Fri 26 May
AM
135
1ET0 02
English Literature
19C NOV/POETRY SINCE 1789
Mon 5 Jun
AM
105
91451
History
Tue 6 Jun
AM
105
1EN0 01
English Language
Tue 6 Jun
PM
105
B563/02
Geography
Wed 7 Jun
PM
90
5RS1301
Religious Studies
Thu 8 Jun
AM
90
1MA1 2F
Mathematics
CALCULATOR (F)
90
1MA1 2H
Mathematics
CALCULATOR (H)
HISTORY B UNIT 1 FICTION & IMAG.WRITING GEOG B: GEOGRPHCL KEY THMS WRTN HINDUISM
Fri 9 Jun
AM
60
5BI2H01
Biology
COMPONENTS OF LIFE (H)
Fri 9 Jun
PM
90
5MU0301
Music
LISTENING & APPRAISING
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GCSE Examination Timetable Summer 2017 Date
Session
Length
Paper Code
Subject
Mon 12 Jun
AM
120
1EN0 02
English Language
Mon 12 Jun
PM
45
5RU0101
LISTENING
55
5RU0301
READING
90
1MA1 3F
Mathematics
CALCULATOR (F)
90
1MA1 3H
Mathematics
CALCULATOR (H)
Week 4
Tue 13 Jun
AM
NON-FIC.& TRANS.WRITING
Wed 14 Jun
AM
60
5CH2H01
Chemistry
Wed 14 Jun
PM
105
91452
History
Thu 15 Jun
PM
60
B601/01
Religious Studies
REL STUDIES B: PHILOSOPHY 1 WRITTEN
60
B602/01
Religious Studies
REL STUDIES B: PHILOSOPHY 2 WRITTEN
DISCOVERING CHEMISTRY(H) HISTORY B UNIT 2
Fri 16 Jun
AM
60
5PH2H01
Physics
PHYS.FOR YOUR FUTURE (H)
Fri 16 Jun
PM
25
5IN011F
Italian
LISTENING (F)
35
5IN011H
Italian
LISTENING (H)
35
5IN033F
Italian
READING (F)
50
5IN033H
Italian
READING (H)
45
46801H
Panjabi
PANJABI UNIT 1 TIER H
60
5BI3H01
Biology
USING BIOLOGY (H)
Mon 19 Jun Mon 19 Jun
AM PM
45
5AR0101
Arabic
LISTENING
5AR0301
Arabic
READING
46802H
Panjabi
PANJABI UNIT 2 TIER H
60
46804
Panjabi
PANJABI UNIT 4
55 Tue 20 Jun
Week 5
Paper
AM
50
Tue 20 Jun
PM
90
5GR0201
Graphics
KNOWLEDGE & UNDERSTANDING
Wed 21 Jun
AM
60
5CH3H01
Chemistry
CHEMISTRY IN ACTION (H)
Wed 21 Jun
PM
60
5RU0401
Russian
WRITING
Thu 22 Jun
PM
60
5AR0401
Russian
WRITING
Fri 23 Jun
AM
60
5PH3H01
Physics
APPLICATION OF PHYSICS(H)
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P6 2:50 start Released 4:00
P3 11:05 for 11:10 start Finish 12:10 P4 12:10 (Y7-9) 12:45 (Y10) PM Year P5 1:45 for 1:50 start Finish 2:50
P2 9:45 start Released at 10:50
Times unless stated AM Year P1 8:35 for 8:40 start Finish 9:40
Y10 Maths 1 90 min
10 Y10 Maths 1 90 min
Y8 English Nonfiction comparison 60 min Y9 DT 50 min
Mon 5th June GCSE, 7, 9 History B unit 1 105 min
Y10 French Listening 50 min Y10 French Reading 50 min GCSE Geog B 105 min
Tue 6th June GCSE, 8, 10 English Fiction and Imagery Writing 105 min
Y8 RE 50 min
Y10 Science Double and triple Bio 75 min and 105 min
Wed 7th June Thu 8th June 10, 9 GCSE, 9 Y10 Science Double Maths Calculator and triple Physics 90 min (75 min) and (105 min) Y10 Science Double and triple Physics (75 min) and (105 min) Y9 English Y9 Maths Poetry Comparison 90 min 75 min Y9 English Poetry Y9 Maths Comparison 90 min 75 min GCSE 10 Hinduism Y10 Science Double 90 min and triple Bio 75 min and 105 min 2 T25
End of Year Examination Timetable June 2017
GCSE Music Listening 90 min
Y10 Drama 50 min
Y10 Music 50 min
Fri 9th June GCSE, 10 Science B1 60 min
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P6 2:50 start Released 4:00
PM Year P5 1:45 for 1:50 start Finish 2:50
Russian Listening 55 mins
10 Computing theory 60 min
GCSE, 10 Russian Listening 45 mins
Y10 Maths 3 90 min
10 Y10 Maths 3 90 min
Y8 DT 50 min
Y7 RE 50 min
P3 11:05 for 11:10 start Finish 12:10 P4 12:10 (Y7-9) 12:45 (Y10)
(In classrooms ISAC) Y7 Science 30 x Bi, Ph, Ch 90 min Y8 Music 45 min
(In classrooms NEW) Y7 Science 30 x Bi, Ph, Ch 90 min Y7 French 60 min
P2 9:45 start Released at 10:50
Tue 13th June GCSE, 8 Maths Calculator 90 min
Mon 12th June GCSE, 7 En Non Fic 120 min
Times unless stated AM Year P1 8:35 for 8:40 start Finish 9:40
GCSE Hist B unit 2 105 min
Y9 Spanish 60 min
Y9 French 60 min
Wed 14th June GCSE, 7 Science C1 60 min
GCSE Religious Stud 60 min
Y9 History 50 min
Y9 Geography 50 min
(In classrooms NEW) Y7 English 60 min Framed Y10 English Lang 120 min
Thu 15th June 10, 9 Y10 English Lang 120 min
Punjabi 45 min
(In classrooms ISAC) Y7 English 60 min GCSE Italian Listening 25-35 min Reading 35-50 min
Y8 Maths 90 min
Y8 Maths 90 min
Fri 16th June GCSE, 8 Science P1 60 min
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P6 2:50 start Released 4:00
P3 11:05 for 11:10 start Finish 12:10 P4 12:10 (Y7-9) 12:45 (Y10) PM Year P5 1:45 for 1:50 start Finish 2:50
P2 9:45 start Released at 10:50
Times unless stated AM Year P1 8:35 for 8:40 start Finish 9:40
Y8 Geography 50 min GCSE Graphics Know and Und 90 min
Y9 Science 90 min
7 Arabic Listening and Reading 45 + 55 min
Y7 Maths 90 min Y7 Maths 90 min
Y8 French 60 min
Y7 Music 50 min
Tue 20th June 7, 8 Panjabi Unit 2 and 4 50 and 60 min
Y9 Science 90 min
Mon 19th June GCSE, 9 Science B3 60 min
Y10 History 75 min Y10 History 75 min
10 Russian Writing 60 min 1 T25
7 History 50 min
7 Geography 50 min
Wed 21st June GCSE, 7 Science C3 60 min
Y8 Science 90 min
Y8 Science 90 min
8 Arabic Writing 60 min
Y9 RE 50 min
Y10 Science Double and triple Chem (75 min) and (105 min) Y9 Music 45 min
Thu 22nd June 10, 9 Y10 Science Double and triple Chem 75 min and 105 min
Y10 English lit 105 min
10 Y10 English lit 105 min
Y8 History 50 min
Y8 Spanish 60 min
Fri 23rd June GCSE, 8 Science P3 60 min
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10 Y10 PE 90mins Y10 PE 90mins
Y10 Geography 90 min
Y10 Maths 2 90 min
Tue 27th June 10, 9 Y10 Maths 2 90 min 180 students
10 Y10 Geography 90 min
Additional exams
PM Year P5 1:45 for 1:50 start Finish 2:50 P6 2:50 start Released 4:00
Y10 Spanish 2 Reading 50 min Y7 DT 50 min
P2 9:45 start Released at 10:50 P3 11:05 for 11:10 start Finish 12:10 P4 12:10 (Y7-9) 12:45 (Y10) Y7 Spanish) 60 min
Mon 26th June 10, 7 Spanish 1 Listening 50 min 52 students
Times unless stated AM Year P1 8:35 for 8:40 start Finish 9:40
10 Y10 Computer Science - theory 60 min
Y10 RE 105 min
Wed 28th June 10, 8 Y10 RE 105 min 56 students
Thu 29th June
Calling All Poets At INA!
The biggest poetry competition for young writers is once again looking for the best poems by young people aged 11 to 17 from the U.K and beyond. Poems can be on any theme, of any length and in any style. Winning entries will be published in the prestigious, internationally distributed anthology, and there are a range of prizes including: ✽✽ A place on a week-long mentored writing course with awardwinning poet judges Sinead Morrissey and Kayo Chingonyi (including accommodation and travel) ✽✽ A prize bag full of books ✽✽ Membership of The Poetry Society
If you would like to enter, please bring a copy of your poem to Ms Atkinson in S14 by the deadline of Friday 7th July. There will also be a school prize for the best poems submitted.
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Attendance Regular attendance is a crucial factor in students’ educational development and ability to achieve their full potential. At Isaac Newton Academy every student is set the target of 100% attendance. We know that attendance has a direct link to progress, and would urge you to really consider if a day off school is necessary. Congratulations to 8W, 10I and 10S for 100% attendance last week. Year 9 are the top year group for the week with 98.1% 7A
97.0
8A
99.0
9A
96.6
10A
97.6
11A
96.7
7C
91.5
8C
98.3
9C
98.9
10E
98.6
11C
97.7
7E
97.1
8E
97.7
9E
98.2
10I
100
11E
96.7
7I
96.2
8I
97.6
9I
95.8
10N
97.0
11I
94.6
7N
99.5
8N
91.1
9N
98.4
10S
100
11N
98.9
7S
98.1
8S
96.2
9S
98.9
10T
98.1
11S
97.3
7W
98.1
8T
96.2
9T
99.5
10W
93.7
11T
92.9
8W
100
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Calling:
Parents, carers and community members. Would you like to volunteer to lead an after school enrichment at Isaac Newton Academy? Enrichment run from 4:15-5:15 on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday and from 3:15-4:15 on Tuesday. For further information contact Ms Clarke. Tel: 020 8911 6666 info@isaacnewtonacademy.org 24 March 2017 Secondary Newsletter
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This week in P.E. WE ARE COLLECTING ACTIVE KIDS VOUCHERS FROM SAINSBURYS!
If you gain any vouchers from Sainsbury’s please bring them into reception of the primary or secondary schools. We would be most grateful for this contribution to equipment that will help the P.E. Department!
This week’s results: Wednesday 22nd March
Year 10 Football v Wanstead (A)
Cup semi-final – Lost 1 - 0
Fixtures next week: Monday 27th March
Year 11 Football V Seven Kings (A)
Wednesday 29th March
Primary School Spring Spectacular
Thursday 30th March
Year 7 All-Star game – Thursday (H)
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Charity at Isaac Newton Academy In the run up to the spring holiday, our charity council at Isaac Newton Academy are having a drive to collect goods for a local foodbank. This is a wonderful opportunity for the INA community to help support the most vulnerable people in our wider local community. From now until the last day of term, each form room will have a box for the collection of donated goods from members of the form. It would be great if students could look for any extra goods that may be donated to a good cause and bring them in for the collection. Particularly suitable goods are: ✽✽ Tinned Meats ✽✽ Tinned Fish ✽✽ Milk (UHT/Powdered) ✽✽ Tinned Rice Pudding ✽✽ Fruit Juice (Long Life) ✽✽ Toiletries (e.g. Soap/ Toothpaste) ✽✽ Nappies (Size 5 & 6) ✽✽ Perishable goods cannot be collected. We are always bowled over by the enthusiasm and generosity of our community in supporting charitable events. Thank you for all your continued support with our charitable endeavours this year. Mr Alex Clift-Matthews & Ms Helen Atkinson 24 March 2017 Secondary Newsletter
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Super Curricular Opportunities We are pleased to share with students, parents and carers that Super Curricular opportunities will be shared with students on Fronter. Please login to Fronter weekly to hear about opportunities that you can apply to and take part in.
Bring Your Family to University days for students in Years 7, 8, 9 and their families.
29th April and 13th May 2017
Medicine and Dentistry Summer Schools taking place at Queen Mary University of London during June/July 2017.
Deadline - 3rd April 2017
APPLY HERE
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Year 11 Maths Summer Schools at Queen Mary Year 10 University Experience at Queen Mary (May 22–26, 2017)
Deadline - 3rd April 2017
Explore the world of Maths and discover what it's like to be a student at Queen Mary! 20th or 27th July 2017.
Deadline - 21st April 2017
APPLY HERE
APPLY HERE
Breast Cancer Awareness talk given by Frances Dean to Year 11 on Friday 24 March 2017 Secondary Newsletter
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Key Dates for the Spring Term 2017 Spring Term
Tuesday 3rd January – Friday 31st March
Summer Term
Tuesday 18th April – Friday 21st July
Key Dates for Secondary – Spring Term
Wednesday 29th March Thursday 30th March Friday 31st March Monday 3rd April — Monday 17th April Monday 17th April Friday 21st April Monday 1st May Thursday 4th May Wednesday 10th May Friday 12th May Wednesday 17th May Monday 22nd May
Year 9 & 10 Kings College Medical School Day Trip Spring Concert Awards Assemblies. End of Term. EARLY CLOSE EASTER HOLIDAY
Bank Holiday Student Reports sent home Years 7 & 8 Bank Holiday Holocaust Remembrance Day Tim Foot Year 7 Revision Skills Non Uniform Day Bridges Mentoring Years 7-10 Start of Year 9 ARK Maths & English Test Week Monday 5th June Home Learning/ Revision Day Tuesday 6th –Friday 16th June Year 9 & 10 Exams Tuesday 13th June Maths Challenge Monday 19th – Wednesday 28th Year 7 & 8 Exams June Monday 26th June Options Choices Finalised Friday 30th June Inset Day
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