13 September 2019
Primary Newsletter
Safeguarding Children As part of their curriculum, the children learn how to keep themselves safe. The following website has been set up by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to offer parents and schools advice on how to raise safeguarding awareness with children. There is a notable section called ‘The Underwear Rule’ which is of particular support and guidance to parents. The website also offers advice regarding ‘online safety’ and how to obtain support or advice regarding the safeguarding of children. www.nspcc.org.uk
Uniform Information & School Uniform Purchases The Primary uniform can be purchased through the Khalsa Schoolwear website or can be bought at Khalsa Schoolwear shop in Bethnal Green. To save on the cost of delivery charges, Khalsa Schoolwear does a school delivery once every month. You can find further details of the delivery dates on their website or you can ask the reception office staff.
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We expect every child to be in full uniform every day with their top button done up and wearing their tie All coats must be plain black Shoes must be plain black – no trainers, plimsolls or boots! If you are not sure about the types of shoes that are part of our uniform policy, please ask. Please label every item of clothing One pair of plain stud earrings can be worn Nail polish is not allowed Jewellery is not permitted Long hair for both boys and girls must be tied back. Hair decorations must be small and plain and match the school uniform
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Schools starts at 8.45am (8.35am for Year 3, 4 & Year 5). It is important that your child arrives on time every day so that the teachers can start the lesson promptly. The school gate will be open from 8.25am and will close at 8.47am.
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School finishes at 3.45pm (3.35pm for Year 3, 4 & Year 5) every day other than Tuesday when we finish at 3.00pm (2.50pm for Year 3, 4 & Year 5).
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If any of your details have changed e.g. your address or phone number – please ensure you contact the office to inform us, so that we can update our records and contact you in case of an emergency.
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Please ensure your child attends school every day and on time. If your child is sick then you must call the office to let us know by 8.15am. If your child has a medical appointment you must let us know in advance.
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From Tam Broadway – Primary Headteacher It has been a great start to the term welcoming everyone back and helping our new cohort of Reception pupils and their families settle in to Isaac Newton Academy Primary. I have been very impressed by how quickly all the children have managed to adapt to their new routines and classes and in particular with the Reception children who have demonstrated a huge amount of bravery as they have waved their parents goodbye each morning. A big thank you to all our parents who have been helpful in dropping the Year 1-5 children off in the playground promptly each morning to give space for our Reception parents to remain in the playground. Information Topic sheets for each year group are now online under the Primary section of the school website under the Home Learning tab at the bottom. These will give you more information about the learning your child will be doing this half term along with ideas about how you can further support them with their learning at home. The Home Learning for this week can also be found in the same place. If you need any further assistance accessing either, please let your child’s class teacher know.
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Enrichment We will be starting our enrichment clubs again from Monday 23rd September. Every child is expected to participate in one enrichment club each week; this is an all-though school expectation. Please make sure you have signed up using the Enrichment app. If you are experiences any difficulties, please let the office staff know. The app will open on Friday 13th at 5pm and will close next Tuesday 17th at 5pm. Enrichment clubs will now finish at 4.45pm.
To help get our growing year off to a great start this autumn, I am looking for a parent/carer volunteer to help in Gardening Club. If you are free 4:00-4:45pm on Thursdays and would like to get involved, I would love to hear from you! Leave a message for me with the office, speak to me at the start/end of the day or drop me an email via primary@isaacnewtonacademy.org Many thanks. Ms Willcox Year 1 - Fitzgerald Class
School Photographer The school photographer will be in on Wednesday 2nd October, taking individual pupil photos and siblings, which will then be available for you to purchase. Further details on how to purchase these will be sent in due course. Please ensure that your child is in their full uniform and looking extremely smart!
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Breakfast and Afterschool Club Every parent has Wisepay details and a password, which will enable you to book a place for ‘Breakfast Club’ or ‘After School Club’. Payments must be made in advance. If you experience any problems, please contact Ms Chaggar who will be happy to help. Breakfast is available each day from 7.45am and costs just £2.50 per day. The children enjoy a range of cereals, toast and different topping, juice or milk and fruit. Any child attending must be brought to the main reception area by 8.20am at the latest. After School Club runs from 3.45pm – 6.00pm (3.00pm – 6.00pm on Tuesdays) and costs just £5.50 per hour. The children enjoy a range of snacks each evening and a variety of games and activities.
Absences immediately before or after a school holiday If your child is absent before or after a school holiday we must see evidence for the absence. This may be medical evidence if your child is unwell, or evidence of flight delays or circumstances beyond your control. We cannot authorise any absences before or after a holiday without this evidence and you risk being issued with a penalty notice.
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Class Ambassadors
Every half term we award two children from each class the honour of being the class ambassador. Each class teacher has chosen two children from their class to represent them over the course of the half term. Their role includes helping children in the playground, welcoming visitors to their class and explaining some of their learning to them, along with helping the staff with other special jobs. A purple pin badge will be presented to the children in assembly next week which will need to be worn on their uniform every day.
Well done and congratulations to the following pupils for this half term: Curie Class – Safaa Patel & Pradhyun Jaganathan Maxwell Class – Aleeza Ahmed & Hashim Janjua Newton Class – Safiyah Motin & Anton Baranski Britten Class – Elsa Matilda & Aneesh Saravanan Fitzgerald Class – Ekamjot Kaur & Ahmed Syed Glennie Class – Alisha Haleem & Zayyan Ali Al-Kashi Class – Bola Omotola & Anya Mirza Fibonacci Class – Wasif Mohammed & Abeera Qazi Pythagoras Class – Diya Napal & Hamza Dakri Ellington Class – Manahil Shaukat & Yasin Alom Nicks Class – Eshaal Khan & Maira Nasir Shankar Class – Anushka Navarajan & Xavier Ambia Lovelace Class – Zakariyah Iqbal & Emilie Morgan Mirzakhani Class – PriyaJanani Pradeep Kumar & Adam Ismail Ramanujan Class – Muhammed Hadi Raja & Kamiah Reid Rahman Class – Raisha Islam & Aariz Khan Tailleferre Class – Fahmid Khan & Ria Jethwa Vivaldi Class – Mariam Chowdhury & Riyen Shah
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Maths with Parents Workshop (Reception & Year 1) A parent information session will be on Wednesday 18th September at 9.00am. Year 2 and 3 parents are welcome to attend but this workshop will revisit the same information that you would have been given last year. Year 2 and 3 parents can log on and add themselves to the correct class using the codes below in a similar fashion to last year. Before the session you can register yourself with Maths with Parents or find out more about the online Maths tool by registering yourself on the following website: www.mathswithparents.com Once you are on the main page you will need to click to ‘log in’ you will be asked to click on the ‘new parent’ tab. When asked for the six-digit class please add as follows and complete the registration details:
Curie
837584
Maxwell
811146
Newton
456489
Britten
747395
Fitzgerald
561856
Glennie
927492
Al-Kashi
603331
Fibonacci
422182
Pythagoras
979169
Ellington
228824
Nicks
633285
Shankar
907071
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Praise and Recognition
Every week each teacher chooses two children from their class to receive a certificate in assembly; one is in recognition of a child demonstrating our BRIDGES habit of the week, and the other in recognition of a pupil’s academic effort throughout the week. Well done to the following children, who have been recognised this week: Curie Class:
Aleeza Khan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave and finishing all her lunch). Aditya Soma – Scholar of the Week (for impressing his teachers whilst writing words during Literacy). Maxwell Class:
Aamir Haroon – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave when coming into school). Aleeza Ahmed – Scholar of the Week (for writing words independently during Literacy). Newton Class:
Zoya Khan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave and having a positive attitude to her learning). Maysa Saad – Scholar of the Week (for being a great talk partner during Talk Tasks in maths). Britten Class:
Sehajdeep – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for a super brave start to Year 1). Yahya Palejwala – Scholar of the Week (for trying hard in all his learning this week). Fitzgerald Class:
Shayaan Sham – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for facing his fears about going into a new class bravely). Ahmed Khan – Scholar of the Week (for fantastic effort all week and particularly good number bond learning).
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Glennie Class:
Tripat Kaur – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave and helping the Reception children in the playground). Alisha Haleem – Scholar of the Week (for using capital letters and full stops correctly). Al-Kashi Class:
Uzair Ahmed – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating leadership and experimenting with different freeze frames during PSHE). Hong Yip – Scholar of the Week (for being able to identify and label different features of an information text). Fibonacci Class:
Wasif Mohammed – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave by raising his hand to answer questions in class discussions). Saad Bhutawala – Scholar of the Week (for trying really hard with his literal questions during Whole Class Reading). Pythagoras Class:
Hamza Dakri – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being brave when using a loud and clear voice during the PSHE drama lesson). Mariam Shaikh – Scholar of the Week (for making inferences based on evidence from the text). Ellington Class:
Tahsin Salam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using their bravery to answer place value questions in maths). Rumaysah Bukhari – Scholar of the Week (for creating an innovative 3D dinosaur project using plasticine).
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Nicks Class:
Kayden Reid – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing leadership by helping others remember their line order). Alexandra Bale-Orhorha – Scholar of the Week (for writing an original rhyming poem about dinosaurs). Shankar Class:
Nafiu Quddus – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing incredible bravery when swimming this week). Zainab Khan – Scholar of the Week (for giving some excellent answers during lessons this week). Lovelace Class
Akbar Hussain – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing leadership and bravery when leading the ‘star words’ and also addressing gaps in his learning). Keira Chand – Scholar of the Week (for articulating her beliefs and customs of Judaism and how they are similar to other religions). Mirzakhani Class:
Nowmi Touva – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating bravery by answering questions even when she was unsure). Priyajanani Pradeep Kumar – Scholar of the Week (for being able to accurately partition numbers by describing their place value). Ramanujan Class:
Jannat Zahir – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating courage and optimism to keep going despite feeling a bit ill). Ahmer Ahmer – Scholar of the Week (for working really hard on improving his concentration and focus).
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Rahman Class:
Keerat Teja – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating leadership and bravery when supporting his peers in class). Raisha Islam – Scholar of the Week (for participating in class discussions). Tailleferre Class:
Fahmid Khan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for great contributions in lessons showing bravery). Ibrahim Ijaz – Scholar of the Week (for writing a clear and concise instruction text showing great use of fronted adverbials). Vivaldi Class:
Hari Virdee – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing bravery in class by pushing himself and answering questions he is unsure of). Sabah Akram – Scholar of the Week (for writing a really informative instruction text on mummification).
Lovely Learning this week! This term in Year 1 our topic is ‘Into the Woods’. To introduce the topic, the children role played being teddy bears having a picnic in the woods! The children made their very own sandwiches and enjoyed their time in the ‘woods’.
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BRIDGES in the Primary Phase “We build too many walls and not enough bridges.� Isaac Newton BRIDGES are habits of mind or learning characteristics that develop a pupil's character and learning power and enable him/her to grow into a well-rounded individual and resilient learner. There are seven BRIDGES habits that we will be working on, which will rotate on a weekly cycle throughout the year. The BRIDGES habit of the week will always be introduced at the beginning of the week during the Monday assembly and reinforced throughout the week across the curriculum. Each class teacher will award a certificate to a pupil that they feel has demonstrated the BRIDGES focus for the week. Each week we will update you on the BRIDGES habit that will be introduced in the coming week and offer some top tips on how to reinforce the habit at home too. Please also refer to the Primary BRIDGES wheel below.
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Week commencing 16th September 2019
Resourcefulness
Resourcefulness comprises ten dispositions: Questioning Making Connections Reasoning Remembering Transferring Scavenging Imitating Adaptability Recycling Flexibility At School •
It is important that the pupils are able to use and remember their vast phonics, spelling and vocabulary knowledge and apply this information when beginning to write independently. The children imitate familiar stories and characters they know and apply these to their own stories.
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As adults we are acutely aware that we model behaviours for the pupils every day during lunchtime when we eat with our knife and fork or avoid talking when our mouth is full, wash our hands, consider how we dress and present ourselves, how we speak to each other; knowing that the children will imitate the behaviour they see.
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As well as being able to read the sounds and words on pages, the pupils now need to be able to question, reason and comprehend the text they read and explain what is happening and explain their ideas.
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In Maths the children need to apply and transfer their knowledge to different problems and also give reason for the way they have worked out the answers.
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Every classroom has a recycling bin which we encourage the children to use and we also look at how we can use materials around us to incorporate them in pieces of art or other areas of our work before we throw things away.
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Encourage your child to use items around the house to create a piece of art or make junk models and re-cycle as many items as possible. Ask questions: What could we use this box for instead of throwing it away? Do you think we could make a car, boat or castle from this large box we have? How can we use some of the things we have around the home and turn them into something more useful?
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When your child finds reading a word difficult or a maths question challenging, ask them to remember and use the things they do know and apply it to the new word or challenge. Ask your child lots of questions when you listening to them read at home – some obvious to find answers but also so more tricky questions e.g. Why do you think …? Why did the character …? How do you know…?
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Encourage your child to use their spelling and vocabulary knowledge to extend the level of interest in their writing. Get them to use familiar story characters, settings or plots to base their own stories upon. Perhaps they could scavenge interesting words from stories they read and create their own ‘interesting word dictionary’ to use whenever they are writing independently at home.
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Remind your child that it is important to adapt their behaviour according to the occasion or place, as parents you will of course role-model how to behave and encourage imitation.
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Headteacher’s Lunch Well done to the following pupils who have been nominated for the Headteacher’s Lunch for next Friday 20th September 2019. An invitation will be given to the children during our Celebration and Awards Assembly: Dija Vitkauskaite - Curie Shanaya Sharma - Fibonacci Abdul Wahab - Mirzakhani Shreyan Yeruva - Maxwell Zenia Zaidi - Pythagoras Gulle Jannat Zahir Ramanujan Lamaisah Zahir - Newton Laraib Ul-Haq - Ellington Rayan Vakas - Rahman Abeeha Zahir - Britten Alishba Zahoor - Nicks Ali Ullah - Tailleferre Anoop Tilk - Fitzgerald Eric Vasile - Shankar Ceylan Warner - Vivaldi Ibrahim Yasin - Glennie Aran Sivananthan Lovelace Rayaan Zeeshan - Al-Kashi
Music of the Fortnight Antonio Vivaldi
For the next few weeks we will be listening to and learning about Antonio Vivaldi as our Composer of the Fortnight. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Vivaldi in preparation for the coming weeks. You can find out some facts and hear some of his music on the following links. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi http://www.classicfm.com/composers/vivaldi/
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Ark inset days
School inset days
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Key Dates for
Autumn Term 2019 Monday 2nd September–Friday 20thDecember 2019 INSET - FRIDAY 4th October Monday 23rd September
Enrichment Clubs Begin – 4.00 -4.45pm
Thursday 26th September
Parent Coffee Moring 9.00 – 10.00am
Thursday 26th September
European languages Day
Monday 30th September
Wonderful Handwriting Week
Tuesday 1st October
Start of Black History Month
Wednesday 2nd October
School Photographer
Thursday 3rd October
RWI Parent Workshop 9.00am & 6.00pm (Reception and Year 1 Parents only)
Friday 4th October
INSET Day – School Closed
Thursday 10th October
EExAT Parent Workshop for Reception Parents only 9.00am & 6.00pm
Friday 11th October
Mirzakhani Class Assembly – Year 4 - 9.00 – 9.20am
Friday 11th October
Fitzgerald Class Assembly – Year 1 – 10.20 – 10.40am
Friday 18th October
Multicultural Day
Friday 18th October
Break up 3.45pm
Monday 21st – Friday 25th October
HALF TERM
Monday 4th November
Home and Family Week (No enrichment clubs)
Monday 4th November
Mathemagical Week
Wednesday 13th November
Reception Information Evening 6.00pm (For September 2020 Intake)
Thursday 14th November
Maths Mastery Parent Workshop 9.00am & 6.00pm
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