Success Magazine Spring 2016

SUCCESS MAGAZINE

BOOK DAY

OLIVER!

CLUBS SPRING 2017

WORLD

AFTER SCHOOL

CONTENTS

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8 English 10 Art 12 Explore 13 Sociology & Citizenship 14 Maths 15 Computing 17 Catering 18 Product Design 19 Science 20 Geography 21 Physical Education 23 Business 24 The Library 26 Beyond Words 28 Modern Foreign Languages 29 Aquila 30 Cygnus 31 Lacerta 32 Pegasus 33 Scorpiuz 34 EAL 36 SEND 39 Learning in our

Provision for Autism 44 Dates for Your Diary

WELCOME FROM THE HEADS

It has been another busy and exciting term.

Congratulations to Ms Roberts and the students and staff at Heartlands this term for doing so well in the Challenge Partners Review. The Challenge Partners group is made up of senior staff from other schools and a registered inspector form Ofsted. It was great to hear these visitors talking so enthusiastically about the school.

I am pleased to say that the Heartlands Community Trust has been approved as an Academy Sponsor. This means that the DFE is convinced that we are in a position to give additional support to those schools that require it. There will be no immediate changes but it is a great endorsement for the staff and students at the school regarding the quality of the work that takes place at Heartlands.

Welcome to the spring edition of Success magazine.

This edition is packed full of exciting reviews, reports and articles on the amazing array of activities, trips and events our students take part in outside the classroom, as well as an update on what has been going on inside the classroom. I am always so full of pride reading about the fantastic students we have here at Heartlands and it is great to share with you all what I see every day.

This magazine gives us a chance to pause and reflect on our SEARCH values here at Heartlands and the first value that School Matters and that students who attend every day and give 100% effort reap rich rewards both academically and socially. Developing rounded characters is as important to us as developing those Grade 9s!

Finally, parents received notification of their school places this term. We would very much like to welcome any new parents that chose the school. Transition to secondary school is a really exciting time for young people and we look forward to seeing you on Transition Day.

As always, the pages are also crammed with adverts and information on clubs and opportunities for your child to be involved in; school is about breadth and enjoying all aspects of what Heartlands has to offer.

Make this term the term you try something new: be it coding club, debate mate, Badminton or pledging to complete a volunteer card.

Mr Garrill Executive Head Teacher, Heartlands Community Trust

Elen Roberts Head of School, Heartlands High School

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WORLD BOOK DAY THE LIBRARY’S READ AROUND THE WORLD INITIATIVE WINS A PRIZE IN THE OFFICIAL WORLD BOOK DAY COMPETITION

WORLD BOOK DAY DOOR COMPETITION Pictures of the winners from our World Book Day door competition judged by Catherine West MP.

THE WINNERS HHS 1st place POR Alice in Wonderland HHS 2nd place PJS The Twits HHS 3rd place ACE Noughts and Crosses

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ASD provision 1st place The Jungle Book ASD provision Best effort 3 Narnia Staff winner Student Services Mr Bump 6

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WORLD BOOK DAY

WORLD BOOK DAY WITH CATHERINE WEST Try to read, no matter how busy you are, as it can open up new opportunities in life …

CATHERINE WEST MP

On World Book Day we were joined by our local MP, Catherine West.

accessible to people who don’t have them and has helped to donate over 7,000 books to those without them.

Furthermore, she talked about how reading is ‘very important and can provide information’ and how it can ‘open new doors’. She gave us advice on good books, and what to read if you don't enjoy it yet.

Catherine West met with some of the student librarian team to discuss World Book Day, the books that she would recommend and her current reading interests. We asked her a flood of questions about books and discovered that she is an avid reader and tends to try read one book at a time if she ever has some time to herself. She also expressed her passion for books and some of her favourite authors included: Robert Harris, Michael Rosen (a local author) and Enid Blyton. We have books by all three authors in the school library!

Some of the recommendations she gave us were to try the Harry Potter series by J K Rowling, any book

by Jacqueline Wilson or Malorie Blackman, to listen to audio books as an alternative to reading, or even to try comics and graphic novels, for those who are reluctant readers.

Catherine also exposed how she also enjoys books with inspirational heroines and how books ‘open up a different world’ for her to escape into.

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At the time of the interview, she was reading Love in the time of cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez and linked this to her message to those of us who are bilingual: ‘If you speak a 3

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different language at home, try to read something in that language’ as well as reading in English at school.

Her particular message to all on World Book Day was to try to read as much as possible, no matter how busy you are, as it can always open up new opportunities in life.

Catherine West then went from talking about how books open doors, to judging our decorated doors competition. She was an inspirational person to interview and we hope to see her back in school again soon.

Abbie Rollingson, Suzie Sawicka, Numirah Hassan, Jude Apcher & Ilias Lassami, Student Librarians Editor’s Note: Catherine West MP will also be visiting during the Haringey Children’s Book Award, which takes place at Heartlands on April 24th. More details in the next Success magazine!

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Based on Charles Dickens’ classic novel Oliver Twist, Oliver! chronicles the adventures of England’s beloved orphan as he escapes his bleak workhouse existence and is taken in by a gang of London pickpockets working for master thief Fagin. Oliver’s story takes us on a journey through a London underworld of theft and violence as he searches for a home, a family and – most importantly – for love.

When he is falsely accused of exposing Fagin’s gang by the frightening Bill Sykes, Oliver begins to realise that he has more friends than he thought.

The themes of poverty, social class and cruelty that are explored in Dickens’ 1837 novel are, unfortunately, still relevant today. However, the story reminds us that injustice can be countered by the power of compassion, hope and the courage to stand up for what you believe in.

We are proud to showcase the rich diversity of our fabulous student body in this production: from the fantastic actors and singers that you can see on stage; to the accomplished student musicians within the orchestra; the skilful artists who have created the set; and the diligent backstage team who have masterminded the complex scene changes. It has been a pleasure to work with such a talented, disciplined and dedicated group of students, and to watch students from across the year groups grow and form new friendships, just as Oliver did.

Well done all involved in an excellent production of Oliver! at Heartlands High School @HHSHaringey @DramaDept_ joe dilger

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ENGLISH Jane Brittan’s books are available in the school library

JANE BRITTAN AUTHOR VISIT

Award-winning author Jane Brittan dropped by at Heartlands. The writer of the Edge of Me and Bad Blood 1 visited us for a session with 10A1.

Jane, who is a Carnegie longlist nominee, embellished the hour with her ecstatic and eccentric presence.

For many of us, her works were uncharted, so it was a really fresh experience. My peers and I were flooding with questions which were answered with flair.

During the assembly, Jane guided us on how to recover from writer’s block by bouncing possible ideas with someone. We established that there are two types of writers: those who plan and those who don’t. As writing is indefinite, she prefers not to plan.

But for aspiring writers, why not try both and see what suits you? The discussion was based around her love of cliffhangers and spine-tinglers.

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the room at this point – like a spark.

Expect dark and mysterious content in Jane’s work! The best-selling author aspires to work with YA writer Patrick Ness – so Ness lovers, keep an eye out for that. The meeting was concluded with a stimulating glimpse of her new novel Bad Blood 1.

Jane Brittan is truly an architect with words.

After suffering from severe writer’s block since July this year, Jane has provoked my writing ingenuity and I have been able to start writing again!

She was very willing to advocate me and that just shows the strength of her tenacity. After the short but insightful excerpt of her works, I received an impression of it being artfully composed and I aspire to captivate just through words on paper too.

Ameena Ahmed ASG

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Debate Mate is a unique, international educational charity dedicated to improving social mobility using peer-to-peer debate mentoring.

We run after-school debating clubs, facilitated by students at the best universities, which give young people the skills they need to become exceptional young leaders – confidence, interpersonal communication skills and higher order thinking.

We have a strong global presence, operating programmes in Nepal, Africa, Jamaica, the Middle East, and the United States.

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TAZEEN AHMAD JOURNALIST Tazeen Ahmad gave an inspirational talk about her journey to becoming a journalist.

Students were enthralled and listened carefully to her. Students also took part in a thoughtprovoking workshop, reflecting on how they are perceived by their peers.

We also run bespoke workshops for teachers looking to integrate debating into their classrooms and specialised training for students who want to ‘debate like a world champion’.

By teaching debating through peer-to-peer mentoring, we empower and inspire participants and provide them with powerful role models to raise their aspirations.

The Urban Debate League is a cumulative tournament which takes place over three rounds across the country, and concludes with a finals-day competition for the top eight schools in the league.

Students prepare for rounds in their regular after-school clubs,

and then attend rounds at host schools in their area.

Those students who are not speaking in debates are encouraged to make points from the floor before the final speakers on each team make summary speeches.

Team A won that debate and Teams B and C lost in the next round. The motion was ‘This house would ban beauty pageants’. In the debate, Team A and C lost but Team B won the debate. Debating was fun and it allows me to build my confidence.

Heartlands pupil Katherine Kolenda describes her experience at the first Urban Debate League competition: I went to the Urban Debate League as I am a member of the fantastic Debate Club at Heartlands. We went on a trip to Hornsey School for Girls with Mr Adekunle and Ms Martin and we were divided into 3 groups, I was in group B. We had two debates.

The motion for the first debate was ‘This house would punish parents for the crimes of their children’.

Debate Mate takes place every Thursday in N3.8

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ART COLLABORATION IN ART

JACK PETCHEY WORKSHOPS

In this issue of SUCCESS we wanted to celebrate the power of collaboration. It is an important aspect of all creative subjects, and few professionals in the art world work alone, so it is something we encourage in our art lessons here. Here you can see some examples of students …

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working together on SEARCH day trips collaborating in workshops at the Saatchi Gallery planning a mural for the Music corridor collaborating on set design for our school production of Oliver!

Many hands make light work, and often produce more ambitious, more exciting outcomes.

We are very excited to have started work on the Jack Petchey START project with the Saatchi Gallery once again this year. We took 30 fantastically talented Year 8 students to the gallery where they experimented with a range of collaborative creative challenges exploring the theme of ‘Inclusion’. The students were superb: embracing challenge, working well in teams and producing some very exciting outcomes.

In our February workshops in school we went even further to make collaborative 3D pieces.

Next up: experimental filming featuring our sculptures and a final exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery in the summer.

Watch this space!

Year 11 Art & Photography Exhibition Tuesday 20th June, 16.30 - 19.00

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STUDENT GALLERY 75% GCSE Art assessment is based on work in their sketchbooks.

The current Year 10 are doing a fantastic job of producing personal, exciting and varied work for their sketchbooks at the moment.

Please enjoy these examples and follow @artheartlands to see more.

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1. Wiktoria Sniadowska 2. Crystal Bailey 3. Cheyanne Wilson 3. Rhia Hibble 4. Nikola Horszczaruk 5. Shaya Boateng 6. Ugur Ergonul

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EXPLORE This term in Explore has seen students study England from the Anglo-Saxons to the Normans. Mainly, the students have focused on how William the Conqueror tried to control the people of England after the Battle of Hastings in 1066. Their home project was to build their very own Motte and Bailey Castle, a specific type of castle built by the Normans in England.

The effort from the students was AMAZING, with castles being built of all different shapes and sizes. Some were even edible!

On Wednesday, 8th February, our class, 7C, had a very big Castle Competition. The task was to build a motte and bailey castle. A motte and bailey castle was one of the methods William I used to conquer England. We all went about our own different ways to build it but I painted a bowl brown for the motte (a hill which held the castle called a keep). For the palisade (the castle wall), I went out to my garden and collected some sticks which I glued to the wooden surface. I painted a long piece of cardboard to serve as a means of transport from the bailey (where the villagers lived) to the motte or vice versa. It was a very enjoyable task. Building the castle was a good way of memorising the different parts of a motte and bailey castle opposed to just writing and labelling a diagram of one.

The competition was really great as I got to see the hard work of my other classmates.

In Explore, we have been learning about the history of England before and after William I and the Battle of Hastings in 1066. In this topic we have been specifically learning about motte and bailey castles.

These castles were a type that the Normans built so that William of Normandy could control England.

We were assigned a task to create a motte and bailey castle including all the features of one. I personally created my castle to learn more about how William took over England and his strategies.

It took me about a week to build my model. I made my model using cardboard for the structures and paint to add colour to the castle.

For the hills I used a cone, similar to what you would see being used in PE, and taped over it.

I enjoyed the task because I tried out something new and instead of having my face two inches from a screen, I put hard work into making something I’m proud of.

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This term was amazing in Explore!

Feeling like real historians and learning about all sorts of exhilarating subjects of actual historical events was an excellent experience!

Within our time with Ms Somo, we learnt about awesome things that happened in 1066–67 such as The Battle of Hastings, leaders like Harold Godwinson and Harald Hardrada, The Bayeux Tapestry and William the Conqueror’s time controlling England; not to mention motte and bailey castles!

As a home learning project, we were asked by the wonderful Ms Somo to create a model of a motte and bailey castle using our imagination and creativity. All the projects presented were fantastic! Witnessing people using their intelligence to make their models and showing them was a sight to be seen!

For my project, I managed to make it edible. I made a vanilla cake with green fondant as the hill; used wafers as the palisade walls, a house and a drawbridge. I also included chocolate fingers as pillars and a bridge, Madeira cake as a surface and used a muffin as a keep with toothpick flags, while crumbling Oreos as dirt, using hard gummies as vegetation and royal icing made of lemon juice was used to hold everything in place.

Well, thanks to this, I won a class competition, getting 170 merits as a prize! Liyanda Poswa

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SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGY TRIP TO SOUTHBANK CENTRE AND THE SUPREME COURT, LONDON

As part of a Year 9 Sociology SEARCH Day, Year 9 took part in a fantastic trip to central London to support the ‘Crime and Deviance’ unit of work they will be studying for their upcoming Sociology GCSE. The morning was spent visiting an exhibition at London’s Southbank Centre followed by an afternoon at the UK’s Supreme Court.

Students were fascinated by the We Are All Human exhibition at the Southbank Centre which showcased artwork produced in the UK’s prisons, secure hospitals and immigration removal centres, and by ex-offenders in the community. Students were able to hear firsthand how the arts reflect and enrich the lives of people in secure and criminal justice settings.

“Prison is a concrete jungle so I wanted to get as much nature into the exhibition as possible. We are all human – it’s a really simple truth.” Benjamin Zephaniah 2016 (writer, poet and exhibition curator)

CITIZENSHIP

TRIP TO THE US EMBASSY, LONDON Ms Collins and Ms Kenssous took a group of lucky Year 11 Humanities students on a trip to the US Embassy in central London to hear the former Deputy Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon Nick Clegg MP speak. Nick Clegg shared his reflections on his time in office, his views on the future of the special relationship between the US and UK and discussed issues concerning the current political landscape. Students (and teachers!) found it to be a really enjoyable, informative and inspirational event.

Year 9 then spend the afternoon at The Supreme Court where they received a guided tour around the highest court. They learnt about the different types of court in the UK and about different cases that are heard in the UK – including the recent Brexit appeal.

This was a great opportunity for students to learn more about the political and justice systems and the impact of these, which forms a major part of Sociology at GCSE.

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MATHS HIGHEST ACHIEVERS IN MATHS I would like to take the opportunity to congratulate the following students for achieving the highest grade in their year group. This is a magnificent achievement and they are all very able mathematicians who can solve very difficult complex problems effectively.

Year 7 Rafael Berahi

NUMERACY BOOSTER CLUB TUESDAYS AT 3.10PM IN S3.6 Our fantastic Year 10 volunteers have been helping Year 7 and 8 students at Numeracy Booster Club, every Tuesday after school. As well as earning plenty of merits, they’ve been working toward their volunteering commitments for the Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award!

Year 10 Shania Ali

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LETTINGS 2017 Astroturf football pitch, sports hall, dance studio, auditorium & classrooms available for hire 7 days a week To book call 020 8826 1230 07787 513 656 07872 468 968

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Year 8 James Miller

Year 9 Bushra Manie

Year 11 Gabriela Stevens

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COMPUTING YEAR 8 (C&H) COMPUTING SEARCH TRIP

The Centre for Computing History, Cambridge

RACE FOR THE LINE COMPETITION This term the Coding Club will be starting an exciting new STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) challenge. We are entering into the Race For The Line competition.

Race For The Line is a competition aimed at secondary schools across the country and has one main aim, to design and make the fastest rocket car possible to race against other school, both regionally and nationally.

This project is inspired by the current Bloodhound Project which is trying to break the land speed record, a record currently set at 763 mph. This new project hopes to raise that record to over 1,000 mph, using a mixture of a jet and rocket engine to project itself into the record books. Here at Heartlands we want to do the same, using a

This year, all our Year 8 students are visiting the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge (TCCH), and on 25th January, learning groups C&H 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.

mixture of polystyrene, rocket power and design ingenuity to propel ourselves into the national finals – with a chance to get the school’s name on the Bloodhound Rocket and go see it race in Newquay.

The students at Coding Club have been hard at work designing the perfect rocket. We have been learning about down force, thrust and air resistance, and applying that to designs which we will be creating in CAD software. We are then going to build our rocket cars and program an accelerometer, all in preparation for the big race day next term.

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, including a brand-new virtual reality headset. Thank you to Mr Gates, Ms Rundle, Ms Oliver and Mr Young for their support on the day.

Watch this space for more information on the Race For The Line project, and news on the Bloodhound …

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THE SMART DIGITAL CITIZEN QUIZ

WINNERS

Winning answer to ‘What does it mean to be a SMART digital citizen?’

To follow the 5 policies: Smart, Meeting, Awareness, Rules and Tell in order to be safe and responsible when using the internet and digital services 1st Asher Charlton CSR wins a Chromebook 2nd Ameena Ahmed ASG wins a £ 20 Amazon voucher 3rd Jemima Mbungu PVU wins a £ 10 Amazon voucher

Thursday’s 3.15 to 4.30 pm – Room F4.20 open to all year groups

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YEAR 11 COOKING UP A STORM IN 3 HOURS 1. Yosko Eminov – Turkish Cuisine Lahmacun, kebab, Turkish rice pudding, with homemade, humus and cacik.

2. Saffron McKenzie – American Cuisine Homemade beefburgers with fries.

Dessert: Pancakes with homemade ice cream and a fresh raspberry sauce.

3. Faith Ako – Jamaican Cuisine Jerk chicken wings. Fresh filleted fish. Escovitch with homemade macaroni cheese bake.

4. Karim Khaldi – Italian Cuisine Homemade pasta ravioli, with garlic bread. Dessert: Fresh vanilla panacotta with caramel sauce.

7. Kiris Matheou – Japanese Cuisine Tempura vegetables, with homemade sweet and sour reduced sauce, Katsu curry, Japanese spiced prawns.

5. Elaine Harsley – British Cuisine Two pastry chicken pies with winter greens. Dessert: Apple crumble with homemade custard.

8. Jharmani Williams – Jamaican Cuisine Main: Jerk chicken wings with rice and peas, festival dumplings and Jamaican hard dough bread.

Starter: Salt fish fritters.

6. Gabe Ackley – Peruvian Cuisine Ceviche. Marinated sliced beef, with reduced sauce and rice.

Deconstructed chocolate mousse with shortbread biscuit base.

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PRODUCT DESIGN 3D jigsaws made by Miss McKenzie-Cook's Year 11 class.

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SCIENCE PRIMARY SCHOOL, VISITING TEACHERS AND ACHIEVEMENTS! Well done to Asmaa, Gentiana and Naureen, who were awarded a distinction in the Science of Sense project this year!

This is what Joe Connor (Senior Chrysalis Fellow) from Highgate Wood had to say.

“All the students’ work was very well presented, showcasing perfectly all the work that they have carried out. While all the groups definitely deserve a pat on the back, a special mention should go to Asmaa, Gentiana and Naureen, whose group were one of the three chosen for a distinction award, recognising their dedication to such a substantial research project and producing such a brilliant final product.”

DEVELOPING EVEN YOUNGER MINDS! Primary science outreach has been going from strength to strength at Heartlands High School. Ms Tawil assists in most of the sessions and said it is a pleasure seeing pupils excited about science but also seeing the importance of these primary sessions.

A busy spring term with primary outreach! So many teachers have volunteered to run these sessions, so a big thank you to: Mr Young, Ms Perin, Mr Bimpiris, Ms Tawil, Mr Theokli, Ms Korponyai and of course Mr Kane who has coordinated this project.

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Above: Earlham Primary School: Refraction and Reflection Right: Lordship Lane: Learning about making electrical circuits

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Until June we have 5 visiting teachers with us which are developing their teaching knowledge.

In Science we are so pleased to have these extra 5 minds to share good practice with and further innovate science with their ideas.

St Pauls – Investigating rocks – Wax Crayon Rock Cycle

We also have enthusiastic photographers in science: this image was snapped by Ms Perin showing the Van de Graaff generator.

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YEAR 8 Year 8 has been learning about restless earth, looking at earthquakes and volcanoes. They have made structures of the earth models, as well as mini volcano models that are fully labelled, taking the time to encourage and teach each other. They have been very resilient and resourceful. They have also been carrying out decision-making exercises with the job role of Head of The British Red Cross – having to make decisions about what aid and help they would send to an earthquake hit zone and justifying their responses.

YEAR 9 Have been teaching each other about weather hazards with some excellent presentations that include a focus on literacy.

YEAR 11 Working and trialling a variety of revision techniques in class.

They have also been very resilient in preparation for their exam.

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BADMINTON CLUB FRIDAYS 3:15–4:15 PM SPORTS HALL

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PHYSICAL EDUCATION

ATHLETICS The beginning of the athletics seasons has started well.

Year 7 girls came 3rd out of 12 in Haringey sports hall athletics getting bronze medals.

EXTRA-CURRICULAR CLUBS The extra-curricular clubs have been steadily increasing in numbers across the Department. Table tennis club, which is taken by Zoltan an external coach, is flourishing with well over 20 students attending on a Friday after school. The goal is to enter students into competitive fixtures against local secondaries.

Above: Year 8s are ready for their second heat with some excellent talent and high expectations. Below: Year 8 Girls Indoor Athletics Haringey Champions 2017. Outstanding performances from Mayela in 800 m, Kadira jumping 1m 48in high jump, Gabi in 60m and Jeslyin winning 20m.

Football on a Monday and Wednesday is now being supported by Sean Daly the football coach who runs the before-school football academy to help develop some of the Year 7, 8 and 9s skills.

With the addition of Chico our rugby coach who has been supporting us in curriculum lessons, we are now offering rugby club on a Wednesday and Thursday after school. We have already seen some success in the Emerging Schools competitions for Years 7 and 8, which are held at New River Sports Centre and it would be great to see a few more regularly attending.

PRIMARY SCHOOL INDOOR ATHLETICS Throughout the month of January Heartlands has been hosting Primary Schools throughout Haringey competing in the Haringey Indoor Athletics Championships.

The winners and runners up from each heat qualify for the Haringey Final on 2nd February.

The event is a prestigious one as the overall winners go on to represent Haringey at the Copper Box Arena at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in the London Youth Games.

CROSS-COUNTRY

The event welcomes close to 600 primary school students to Heartlands and is brilliantly run by a host of Heartlands young leaders from Year 10 and the PE Department.

I would like to say congratulations to Rhodes Avenue Primary School who won the Haringey Final.

Cross-country was another success with some excellent performances from Year 8 girls. The team came 3rd in Haringey, with Finn Donlon 3rd in senior boys.

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HARINGEY HAWKS – UNDER 16S NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!

The 18th of February 2017. This day shall forever be engraved in my memory as the day I won my first major trophy as a member of Haringey Hawks. We were crowned Under 16s National Cup Champions on Saturday 18th February after defeating Brentwood Fire by 45 points in the finals. When the final buzzer sounded all that filled my eyes were people cheering, celebrating, screaming, it felt surreal. I couldn’t believe it at first: I stepped back and took it all in.

However, that same moment I stepped back and thought about where I started when Mr Batimba first joined our school when I was in Year 8. As soon as he did, he started a breakfast basketball club every morning at 7:30. I never believed that I would win a national trophy with the same man. I didn’t take to it at first for making me run laps and do press ups. Those same mornings, where I couldn’t even dribble a ball correctly, I never imagined I would have improved this much as a player,

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person and also as a student.

Mr Batimba reminds each and every one of his players at school and Haringey Hawks that life is bigger than basketball and that basketball is a vehicle to success in life. He teaches us valuable life skills and to be responsible and accountable for our own actions as well as making us elite players on the court. He’s definitely making a positive impact on our lives. For me personally this couldn’t be said any more explicitly as basketball has done just that.

It has allowed me to go above and beyond in winning a trophy. It has helped improve my behaviour, grades and attitude towards life. Basketball for me has been more than a sport.

It’s been a journey.

As a Year 11 student life can be very stressful, especially while dedicating as much time to basketball as I do.

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squeezing in homework every second I get just to ensure I can attend my training sessions. Having to balance these out all the time has led to me looking at them in the same light. Basketball has positively influenced my school work. Winning my first trophy has led me to want to gain more successes in school and win again in August with good GCSE results.

I never imagined I would have improved this much as a player, person and also as a student. Mr Batimba reminds each and every one of his players at school and Haringey Hawks that life is bigger than Basketball and that basketball is a vehicle to success in life.

Winning the National Cup has granted me the ability to taste success and remember my journey and one thing is for sure ‘This isn’t the end, it’s the beginning.’

Andreas Vella

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BUSINESS 10x BANKING NETWORK EVENT

YEAR 9 BUSINESS TRIP TO IBM Friern Barnet School has been working with Enabling Enterprise for a number of years on a Secondary Enterprise Programme to develop skills in their students such as teamwork, problem solving and creativity. This year, Year 9 has already had the chance to take part in A Day in Politics to test their enterprise skills.

Heartlands High School is in its second year of working with Enabling Enterprise. They have been using lesson time projects in English and Maths to hone key Enterprise Skills and reinforcing the learning with exciting trips to top London businesses.

IBM is one of the most famous information technology companies in the world. It now focuses on generating innovative solutions for business problems far more than on producing hardware.

This tech-based challenge sets teams of students the task of designing their very own app that solves communication concerns

RECENT TRIPS Over the last few weeks we have had a wide range of Business trips taking place:

across the company. After completing market research on a tour and having a hands-on experience of some of the latest technology, students had an opportunity to ask insightful questions of the IBM employees about their problems communicating with colleagues.

Over the course of the day, the teams focused specifically on two Enterprise Skills: problem solving and sharing ideas. Having never worked in these teams before, it was great to observe how the students had team discussions before making decisions and used a number of strategies to solve problems collaboratively. The day ended with teams presenting their app design to a group of judges from IBM, who had nothing but praise for the teams of budding entrepreneurs.

On Search Day 6, we hosted a careers event for a group of Year 10 Business students.

At this event, students were able to network with staff of 10x Banking. This organisation is a fast-growing company who specialise in improving technology in the banking industry. On the day itself we had 18 members including founder Antony Jenkins, who is the former CEO of Barclays, leading the session and talking to our students. The students involved found the event very interesting and as a result we hope that some of these students will secure work experience placements with the company in the future. 10x has also agreed to mentor some of our aspiring students into careers in Business and Economics.

They worked really well collectively and combined each other’s ideas in their design. – Volunteer, IBM

UBM Year 9 on 8th March Waitrose Year 10 on 10th March

Fresh fields LLP Year 10 on 15th March

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LibraryHHS

THE LIBRARY KIDS’ LIT QUIZ 2016 During November, two teams of HHS students in Years 7 and 8 represented our school at the regional heat of this prestigious international competition.

This competition has been going for 25 years, in 11 countries! In our heat, students competed with those from the following schools: • QE Boys • City of London • Arnold House • Wetherby • Lyndhurst • University College School • Orley Farm • Queenswood and attempted to correctly answer 100 questions – 10 per themed round. We can’t mention all the rounds in case this affects heats elsewhere in the world, but our boys’ team were top scorers for ‘Realms’.

STUDENT LIBRARIANS VISIT SENATE HOUSE LIBRARY As part of our Student Librarian programme, we took a selection of our huge team (how would the library run without them all?) on an aspirational trip to see a university library – Senate House Library.

We had a tour of the library, as well as being shown particular items from their collection to show their range and why different things are kept when others are not. We also learnt a little about what it is like to work there, and the different types of jobs within the organisation.

The building and collection are massive (you can see the tower behind the trees in the photos) and whereas some floors are open to University of London students (and the public!) most of the tower floors are on request only by staff, as the shelves are so close together (to fit more books in). The building is often used for films because of its iconic design. It was designed by the same person as our local Southgate tube station!

We are very grateful to members of the library team for taking the time to show us around – Lisa Miller and Richard Espley.

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Technically, the visiting author’s team won, but the prize was given to Queen Elizabeth’s School with 86/100 who go to the UK final in December. Hopefully they can win and go through to the world final in Canada! Sadly, our students didn’t quite make it to the national final, but a good day was had by all.

The secret to future success? Keep reading!

Practice for next year using the app! ww.kidslitquiz.com/app.php

THE LIBRARY

LibraryHHS

HARRY POTTER BOOK NIGHT 2017 Students and staff had amazing fun at our annual event to celebrate all things Harry Potter, held in the Library and organised by Ms Mudd as part of national celebrations.

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HHSBeyondwords

BEYOND WORDS BOOKS READ: 7,157 • WORDS READ: 167, 712, 815 • AVERAGE % CORRECT: 80.2 ENGAGED TIME: 15 minutes per day

Beyond Words is our whole school reading programme that creates responsible, resilient and reflective readers. Students have been reading books within their ZPD level and taking quizzes to check their understanding.

MILLIONAIRE CLUB

Miller, James 1,720,559 words SMS

Cetinkaya, Ediz 1,294,290 words AHO

Khan, Ashraf 1,718,420 words CSE

Beedham, Fay 1,226,821 words LKE

Ewing, Harry 1,650,119 words CMY

Shodipo, Timmy 1,169,927 words PGE

Douet, Terence 1,637,483 words PGE

Sibabi, Amina 1,118,666 words SAG

Image: Top readers: Elenor Neilson, Phoebe Willars and Myfanwy Green

Colak, Ezel 1,490,797 words POR

Kaya, Rokan 1,107,177 words CTA

Neilson, Eleanor 2,287,251 words PJS

Saed, Mustapha 1,478,137 words SAT

Phillips, Karjah 1,098,019 words PMC

Willars, Phoebe 2,190,965 words PWM

Van Der DoelenKawazuti, Lucas 1,475,210 words PJS

Shallo, Fatma 1,094,989 words ARO

Congratulations to the following students who have read over 1,000,000 words:

Greene, Myfanwy 2,014,712 words CSY

Bougrine, Sam 1,448,848 words CGT

Abdi, Suber 1,918,384 words AKU

Benarab, Cherine 1,422,042 words PMC

Fang, Chen 1,867,507 words POR

White, Fred 1,382,731 words LKE

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Thorpe, Jasmine 1,093,598 words SMS Noriega, Alejandro 1,008,681 words CTA

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DREAM TEAM – SEASON 3 The following students beat their Points Target and achieved over 30 minutes of engaged time per day with a 90 % + average score on quizzes – a fantastic achievement! They will receive a lunch pass and have been entered into the raffle to win a sports voucher.

AQUILA

Aung, Thant

Guo, Ying

Jarjouhi, Julie

Andrews-Crawford, Renae

Anacreonte, Luciano

Karatopraklieva, Simona

Omar, AbdulJabbar

Cetinkaya, Ediz

Ballard, Laurie

Carrington, K'Yarna

Laksari, Darya

Hashani, Etrit

Zlatkov, Nik

Waseem, Samiullah

Lowrie, Curtis

Ahmed, Ameena

Average percentage correct 85% Engaged time 20 minutes per day

RENAISSANCE HOME CONNECT Please continue to encourage your students to read for at least 20 minutes a day and signing their Reading Log in their student planner. You can keep informed of your child’s progress with their reading by logging in to Home Connect visiting tinyurl.com/heartlandshomeconnect using the link under ‘Reading’ on the school’s website and setting up email notifications.

BEYOND WORDS

HHSBeyondwords CYGNUS

LACERTA

Kaya, Rokan

Chowdhury, Raihanur

Raka, Ermir

Greene, Myfanwy

Reid Taylor, Antonio

Brophy, Anthony

Lakatos, Daniela

Khanafer, Zahraa

Frewin, Leah

Stevens, Gabriella

Thomas, Daniel

Adelekan, Olatunbosun

Aksoy, Seyma

Derizzio, Tony

Ali, Barkot

Leykun, Joseph

Mahmud, Hannah

Samadi, Sarah

Apcher, Jude

Erturan, Evren

Zahed, Sara

Khan, Ashraf

Baksh, Fawzan

Abdulkadir, Muna

Ewing, Harry

Campbell, Roial

Morris Heather, Abeni Abdillahi Ally, Khadar

Lin, Ying hao

PEGASUS

Benarab, Cherine

Lammas, Scott

Neilson, Eleanor

Benarab, Muhammed

Kaspirowicz, Tairone

Karadeniz, Ceren

Messaadi, Lina

Phillips, Karjah

Abdulkadir, Salim

Biris, Glenda

Yousuf Adem, Hamzah

Guo, Jessie

Kucaj, Armela

Kula, Wiktoria

Sibabi, Amina

Francois, Jade

Brandy, Jared

Vargas Ganchozo, Yadira

Ahmed, Zackariah

Huseyin, Laila

Van Der Doelen-Kawazuti, Lucas Fang, Chen

Singh, Rajveer

Amadu Moore, Baindu

Bozkurt, Sinem

Abdullah, Adam

Lin, Yingjian

Beedham, Fay

SCORPIUZ

Jeilani, Nasra

Sousa Da Silva, Gemma

Beedham, Miles

Karatas, Melisa

Douet, Terence

Willars, Phoebe

Mohammed, Anas

Joslin, Polly

Sella, Jason

Vaughn, Trey

Thompson, Martha

Miller, James

PLATINUM CLUB Students with a reading age of 16 years or higher automatically become ‘Platinum’ club members.

These students clearly have been working hard with their reading and are given privileges from being members of the club, such as:

• trips • speakers • buying privileges for the library • first access to new library books • special events

Students who know they qualify for Beyond Words Platinum should regularly check their school emails for information. So far, Platinum students have heard speakers talk about their own reading journey and started to order and create their own ‘Platinum Library’ which is an extra special collection of books just for them to borrow. There was also a trip for World Book Day to central London to buy more books for the Library!

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MFL

COMING UP

VOCAB EXPRESS Last half term, we launched Vocab Express, an online vocabulary learning application, designed to motivate students into learning vocabulary independently. Vocab Express is set as weekly home learning for all students on Show My Homework. A massive well done to Alejandra Evdochim, winner of the MFL Vocab Express challenge! She was awarded 200 merits for having the highest point score in the whole school!

Following from the success of Vocab Express last half term, this term we

will be taking part in the international competition! The international interschool competition will run from Monday 6th March at 8am to Friday 10th March at 3.30pm UK time.

Please see posters in MFL classrooms.

The winners are …

Liyanda P (Year 7) Deborah O (Year 7) Adam D (Year 11) Ayan A (Year 11) Yagmur E (Year 10)

100 merits 90 merits 80 merits 70 merits 60 merits

Ezel C, Luisa A C, Ania H and Darya L have also received merits for their amazing effort.

YEAR 11 REVISION GUIDE Course Content

Exam Information

Exam Dates

Coursework 60 %

4 pieces

Listening Exam (20 %)

Higher 45 mins Foundation 30 mins

French: Spanish:

16–05–17 19–05–17

Reading Exam (20 %)

Higher 50 mins Foundation 30 mins

French: Spanish:

16–05–17 19–05–17

• Year 10 New GCSE Conference (March) • Year 9 French Exchange (April) • Turkish GCSE SOAS • Year 10 Euroscola Strasbourg Parliament Trip (May)

COMMUNITY LANGUAGES Well done to the following students who completed their Turkish GCSE speaking assessments this term: Ediz Cetinkaya Ali Usta Sila Arslan Berkan Karakus Berfin Duran Emre Turan Furkan Unkaplan

Kerem Joutai Ali Ahsak Berkan Ozsayan Selina Kilic Sevkan Corten Zara Cek

Thank you to our Community Languages Ambassador Secgin Gunes in Year 11, for supporting the candidates. If you would like to take a community languages exam next academic year, please speak to Ms Shosola.

Revision Checklist Topic 1: Lifestyle

Healthy and unhealthy lifestyles Consequences of lifestyles Relationships with family and friends Future plans: marriage/partnership Social issues and equality

Topic 2: Leisure

Free time activities Shopping, money, fashion Advantages/disadvantages of new technology Holidays (plans, preferences, experiences)

Topic 3: Home and environment

Special occasion celebrated at home Home, town, neighbourhood Environmental problems Environmentally friendly within home and local area

Useful websites & apps • www.vocabexpress.com (web + app) • www.memrise.com (web + app) • www.bbc.co.uk/education/subjects/z9dqxnb • Duolingo (app)

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Listening & Reading Top Tips • Read instructions and all questions first • Anticipate answers • Identify key words • Look for cognates • Listen for negations (ne…pas or NO) • Listen for linking words such as ‘mais’, ‘pero’ • Use knowledge of grammar (Masc/Fem, Sing/Plu, verb endings) • Educated guess

Aquila

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The gaps in between me writing excerpts for Success magazines seem to get shorter and shorter as we make our way through another academic year and now, having reached the half-way point, it’s a time for reflection on all the year's successes.

Firstly, I want to touch on our Christmas charity event which encompassed a non-school uniform day with students bringing in items of food for Haringey Food Bank.

We managed to collect in excess of 1,500 items of food by the end.

I was fortunate enough to drive the food to the food bank with our Junior leadership team and it could not have been received more warmly by the volunteers who work there.

It was so heart-warming to see students from all houses but especially my Aquilans going above and beyond with the items they brought in. It really represented to me the sense of community spirit and the desire to help others less fortunate at a time of year where so many of us have so much and others so little.

This term has seen Aquila make a massive push toward our desired target of 96 % attendance. Due to the hard work of our staff and the resilience of our students, we have managed to push ahead to 94 %

93.68% Attendance

attendance for the year to date which puts us ahead of the other houses and well on the way to hitting the school target.

TOP MERITS

Year 11s are now busily preparing themselves for their upcoming exams and staff and students alike are working hard to ensure we get the best possible outcomes.

It always pleases me when I walk past the library at lunchtime and see so many of our Year 11s having working lunches around tables and knowing how that level of passion and commitment to their studies will pay dividends come August.

Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Shallo Taahir

Year 7

AKU

826

Arslan Sila

Year 9

ASM

762

Acevedo Arcila Juan

Year 7

AKU

712

Lassami Ilies

Year 8

ASM

691

This term has seen the Year 8s beginning to think about their options. I wish my Year 8s all the very best in their choices and look forward to watching them progress in their chosen subjects over the coming years.

Sarr Benjamin

Year 10

ASM

635

Farah Fahad

Year 7

ASM

623

Grihault Owen

Year 9

ASM

580

Pierre-Morales Reniece

Year 9

AKU

576

Akinyemi Olubusayo

Year 9

AKU

575

Malique Aminah

Year 9

ASM

573

Aquila welcomes some fantastic new tutors to our house – Mr McArdle, Mr Rose, Mr BartonEllington, Mr Williams Wray, Ms Collins and Ms Gulderen who joins us as our new Associate Head of House.

Koten Hilmi Can

Year 7

ASM

543

Bokciu Sidorel

Year 9

ASM

537

Gordon Roneil

Year 10

ASM

529

Abdi Suber

Year 7

AKU

526

Sabahat Seher

Year 9

ASM

524

Atanasova Desislava

Year 10

ASM

522

Stoyanova Viktoria

Year 8

AKU

509

Djaboub Mouhamed

Year 8

AKU

508

Keser Furkan

Year 8

ASM

489

Borkowska Nikola

Year 7

ABE

487

Finally, I want to say a big thank you on behalf of the house to Ms Collins who worked so hard as Assistant Head of House but has decided to step down this year to focus more on her subject responsibilities.

Thank you for all your support this term and please don’t hesitate to contact me with any concerns.

Connect with Mr Corey aquila@heartlands.haringey.sch.uk 020 8826 1230 Ext: 362

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Cygnus

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We’ve had a great few months of achievement in Cygnus.

93.15% Attendance

Our Year 11s are preparing for their GCSEs and made great progress in their mocks and further down the school we saw lots of Cygnets in the Foundation Stage Awards Ceremony: • Uygar Celik won the Attainment Award for Year 7, being on/above target in 8 subjects • Alejandro Noriega Castro won the English Award for 100% engagement • Fazeah Hasan won the Art Award for Year 8 for Outstanding Effort • Myfanwy Greene won the Year 8 English Award for excellent achievement • Dylan Baker won the MFL Award for fantastic Home Learning • Anthony Brophy won the History Award for always doing the right thing We’ve also had some staff changes in Cygnus. Miss Betiku, our previous Assistant Head of House was promoted to Deputy Head of Science last year and rejoins Lacerta House.

Miss Betiku did an outstanding job with Cygnus and we wish her all the best in her new role.

Miss Martin joined Cygnus in the role of Associate Head of House in January has already made a great impact throughout the house – I hope you get the chance to speak to her in the coming months.

Uygar Celik

TOP MERITS

Alejandro Noriega Castro

Fazeah Hasan

Myfanwy Greene

Dylan Baker

Anthony Brophy

Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Hadzhieva Viki

Year 9

CAM

609

Noriega Castro Michael

Year 9

CDC

522

Baker Dylan

Year 8

CDC

480

Young Zsa

Year 9

CMY

453

Gliwa Kadira

Year 8

CSY

451

Alexieva Veneta

Year 8

CMY

440

Himedan Ania

Year 9

CSY

439

Er Jane

Year 8

CGT

422

MacdonaldBoyle Ella

Year 8

CSE

419

Qadri Zahra

Year 9

CGT

407

Kaymak Ahmetali

Year 10

CSE

404

Noriega Alejandro

Year 7

CTA

388

Christofides Anastasia

Year 7

CSE

382

Brandao Furtado Alodie

Year 7

CMY

381

Campbell Nikai

Year 9

CGT

368

Karabela Eray

Year 9

CSE

368

Tryfon Ioanna

Year 10

CAM

367

Chemlal Raneem

Year 8

CMY

361

Cerny Ella

Year 7

CTA

359

Dil Ekin

Year 11

CHA

357

Connect with Mr Fox cygnus@heartlands.haringey.sch.uk 020 8826 1230

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Lacerta

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As we near our AFA3 assessments, students are working hard to practise what works for them and what doesn’t when revising.

93.1%

Attendance I talk about embedding positive routines and trying different things out to see what works best for you. This is where we like you to work independently as revision can be done in so many different ways. What is important is that you try a variety of techniques, make mistakes and try something else before you get to Year 11. Too often I talk to Year 10 and 11 students who still don’t know what works best for them – don’t leave it too late! Be independent, reflective and resilient learners. Good luck with your exams.

TOP MERITS

Lacerta’s Stars of Spring Term

Emma Robinson

Yingjian Lin

Liyanda Poswa

Natan Pawlaczyk

Tristian Gashi

Ashley Dummett

Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Pawlaczyk Natan

Year 7

LLB

631

Poswa Liyanda

Year 7

LGI

593

Sharif-Mudhir Shayma

Year 8

LPN

589

Dummett Ashley

Year 9

LPN

477

Mahmud Hannah

Year 9

LBU

475

Loureiro Joana

Year 8

LAW

453

Madziar Milosz

Year 9

LLB

448

Turan Emre

Year 11

LYG

439

Hoxha Nirvana

Year 9

LAB

429

Jupolli Granit

Year 11

LGG

428

Ali Barkot

Year 10

LBU

426

Aksoy Seyma

Year 8

LPN

425

Nuha Gresa

Year 7

LLB

418

Jallow Khadijah

Year 7

LBU

410

Kowalczyk Zuzanna

Year 10

LPN

408

Mayamba Gradie

Year 7

LKE

406

Lin Yingjian

Year 8

LBU

394

Nuha Vjollca

Year 10

LBU

387

Oluseye Lina

Year 7

LBU

381

Wolski Maciej

Year 7

LCK

376

Connect with Mr Brierley lacerta@heartlands.haringey.sch.uk 020 8826 1230 Ext: 306

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Pegasus

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This term, students in Pegasus have continued to impress me, and others, with their exemplary conduct and motivation. They have worked hard to demonstrate our school ethos and use this as a means to keep them independent and steadfast on their journey to do and be the best they possibly can.

93.66% Attendance

TOP MERITS

Pegasus students have shown that School Matters by maintaining high levels of attendance, ensuring all Home Learning activities are completed on time and to the best of their ability, and by applying themselves effectively to guarantee that they are making the most of the learning opportunities here at Heartlands. The results of our Effort can be seen in the fact that our House has continued to lead the merit race on a weekly basis and, as is always the case, our resulting Achievements, particularly in following AFA2, have shown how often and how many of our students go above and beyond expectations.

Our commitment to Responsibility has been exemplified in the way that Pegasus students have continued to meet my challenge set out earlier in the year which was to be known as the students who set the example for others to follow. Similarly, we have worked hard on the importance of independent reflection and developing an appreciation for taking responsibility for our actions as much in regards to our learning as to our attitude and conduct.

Our focus therefore on Character is embedded into everything we do.

This term I have been particularly impressed with the number of students who have begun taking the lead of delivering Character sessions in VT. It is rewarding to see such great examples of student leadership and student-led learning.

Our High Aspirations is evidenced by our unrelenting desire to improve ourselves. We may be leading the merit race but this does not mean we can take it easy. Each and every day is an opportunity to develop and to learn new things and we have no time to waste! Carpe Diem – Seize the Day (Our Pegasus Motto) Finally, I would like to take the opportunity to introduce to Pegasus’s newest Staff member, Mr Adekunle, who was recently appointed to the role of Associate Head of House with the responsibility for supporting all Pegasus students on their educational trajectory. Of course, he has been welcomed positively and already many students are benefitting from his support and challenge.

Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Virgo KaydenTrey

Year 7

PSH

634

Gordon Toure

Year 9

PSH

632

Jeilani Fatma

Year 10

PSH

618

Sousa Da Silva Gemma

Year 10

PSH

578

Plummer Sienna

Year 7

PSH

565

Kaspirowicz Tairone

Year 9

PSH

559

Strachan Romina

Year 10

PGE

553

Impey Charley

Year 10

PSH

549

Shodipo Timmy

Year 10

PGE

539

Simeonova Simona

Year 7

PSH

532

Islam Alvi

Year 7

PSH

520

Scott Tilly-Mae

Year 8

POR

493

Batalov Atanas

Year 9

PSH

490

Said Anwar

Year 8

PGE

481

Phillip Leeah Teairra

Year 7

PMC

475

Velikic Anya

Year 8

PMC

474

Anghel Maria Adelina

Year 8

PMD

463

Owiredu Deborah

Year 7

PGE

460

Colak Ezel

Year 7

POR

457

Ahmed Serhan

Year 9

PSH

450

Connect with Mr Fari pegasus@heartlands.haringey.sch.uk 020 8826 1230 Ext: 246

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Scorpiuz

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A huge thank you …

Since myself, Ms McKenzie and Ms Ahenkan have taken over as Associate Heads of Scorpiuz in January we have both been made to feel extremely welcomed by both students and staff.

92.92% Attendance

Over the past term we have seen students prepare for their AFA3 and upcoming GCSE exams. This has brought its own set of challenges for us all but as a house we have seen students conduct themselves with great levels of maturity and determination.

TOP MERITS

This same level of maturity has been continued in the behaviour and attendance across the house where through the continued hard work of the house we have managed to maintain our 3rd place position in both attendance and merit race, which no doubt we can still move up!

As we prepare for the new term I am sure that as a house we will all go from strength to strength and continue to support each other as Year 11 make their final preparations for their GCSE exams, Years 9 and 10 begin to focus on mock exams, while Year 8 will be finding out their option choices and Year 7 completing their first year at Heartlands.

Name

Year

Form

Merit Total

Thompson Martha

Year 7

SAG

795

Sibabi Amina

Year 7

SAG

743

Charles Nancy

Year 7

SMI

584

Evdochim Alejandra

Year 9

SSO

568

Martin Jaden

Year 11

SKN

545

Karakus Berkan

Year 10

SMI

541

BEYOND WORDS

Alvarez Chica Luisa

Year 8

SAG

491

Guo Jessie

Year 7

SAT

490

Well done to SAG for their consistent effort with reading and quizzing. SAG have the highest average percentage correct and over 25 minutes’ engaged time per day.

Alem Million

Year 11

SKN

489

Racut Gabriela

Year 8

SMU

473

Guo Jenny

Year 9

SAG

454

Ntentes Ioannis

Year 8

SMU

454

Hussain Shahriyer

Year 11

SKN

451

Lushi Merita

Year 9

SAG

444

Aguilar Walkley Yago

Year 11

SMT

443

Patel Jatin

Year 11

SKN

442

Bouattaf Yasmine

Year 7

SRE

441

Pavlov Ivan

Year 8

SSW

435

Nevins Daniella

Year 8

SMI

434

Vaughn Trey

Year 9

SAG

431

I have no doubt in the new term we will all maintain the hard work that we have started to improve our attendance, which is something that will continue to be the focus for next term as, within Scorpiuz, we understand the importance of being in school every day as every day missed is a step away from achieving our full potential.

ATTENDANCE SUCCESSES As a school community Heartlands has had a massive push towards attendance this year and the following Scorpiuz tutees have made fantastic effects with 100% attendance so far this term, keep it up!

Berkolli, Elma Brandy, Jared Charles, Nancy Gravelsins, Nils Kongolo, Merveil Kucaj, Armela Kunin, Aleks Lyubenova, Preslava Mohamoud, Mustafa Oskan, Demircan Reid, Jayden Vargas Ganchozo, Yadira

HEAD OF HOUSE COMMENDATION Jessie Guo SAT for her continued commitment to her achievement and Dylan Karpha-Burke SSW for his continued citizenship.

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EAL

LITERACY AND EAL TRIP TO TATE MODERN AND SOUTHBANK

TRIP TO TATE MODERN AND SOUTH BANK

by Marian Baymakov, Year 10 First language: Bulgarian I am really tired today because I was on a trip to the Tate Modern and the South Bank area!

In the morning, while I was going to school, I wondered what my day would be like, because I was excited.

Students gathered in one room for fifteen minutes and we went to Wood Green Station. We travelled by Tube.

It was also very fun because of my friends.

Then, we went outside. We went straight next to the Thames.

There, the beauty of the landscape was amazing. I took many pictures, which will be my memories forever.

We started walking along the river until we reached the London Eye and Big Ben. We saw many old bridges and boats and we experienced great moments. It was a great trip, which I’ll never forget.

When we arrived in the centre of London, we saw a big building, which was the art gallery. The building was very big and beautiful, but it was boring inside. There was nothing good. The paintings and sculptures weren’t beautiful. Well, there were some good things, like projections, statues and black and white pictures.

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We saw many old bridges and boats and we experienced great moments. It was a great trip, which I'll never forget.

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Ms Tall and Ms Garcia were really proud of Walid’s independent reading on the Tube, using both his dictionary and vocabulary book.

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BEING AN EAL STUDENT AND BUDDY Michael Noriega, Year 9 First Language: Spanish Today, I’m going to talk about what it is to be an EAL student and also an EAL buddy.

Firstly, EAL stands for English as an Additional Language, which means that if you are an EAL student, you speak another language as your mother tongue or native language, so English would be your second language.

An EAL buddy is someone who helps another EAL student that has just arrived from their country to this country by translating for them what other people say or helping them with the homework they don't understand, etc.

First, we need to consider my situation. My name is Michael Noriega and I am an EAL student and buddy.

Time flies: when I arrived in this country, I remember I couldn't understand or say anything apart from the word ‘hello’. During the few years I’ve been in this country, I've improved my English a lot. When I arrived in this country, I couldn’t communicate with anybody. I felt scared because people talked to me and I didn't know what to say. However, nowadays I feel more confident because I know more vocabulary. Therefore, I can help others, because my English has improved. That is how I became an EAL buddy, by improving my English to help others. For example, I help others by translating into my first language, which is Spanish.

In conclusion, I think that helping people and becoming a good buddy is a great idea, because that is how you turn into a helpful and kind person. Therefore, there are many positive things about it. When someone has arrived to this country, and he/she can't speak English and they have a buddy, they feel more confident because they have someone that can support them with their English.

That means that, hopefully, this person would want to help another person in the future as well, so I encourage you to become an EAL buddy. :)

I think that helping people and becoming a good buddy is a great idea, because that is how you turn into a helpful and kind person.

MY BEGINNING IN THE UK

by Alejandra Evdochim First Language: Romanian I feel excited for sharing my story with you. How should I start? I came to London almost two years ago with no English at all. I was afraid of everyone.

Every time I was walking on the street, people would ask me different types of questions, such as, ‘Sorry, where is Barnet Street?’ or ‘What bus should I take to go to Palmers Green?’ But my answer was, ‘I don't speak English.’ I was disappointed in me because I wasn’t able to help them.

Once I started school, everything changed. All this was because of Ms Garcia. I remember my first day of school.

I was in reception with my mum, waiting for my buddy, Tabita, a lovely person who speaks the same language as me, Romanian. With a lovely smile, she told me that I was in Year 8 and that she would always help me when I needed help.

I said ‘bye’ to my mum and we went to my first lesson, Geography. I was waiting in the line to go into our classroom and I remember I was so scared. Tabita was in a hurry and she told me to go inside when everyone did.

I was actually shaking. Everyone went in the classroom except for me. Crying, I ran away. I stood in the corridor, thinking, ‘Where is Tabita?’

Then, a lovely woman came to me, Ms Annan, and she helped me to find Tabita. Once we found her, we went to our Geography classroom. Everyone was staring and laughing at me. It’s so hard to think that everyone is talking behind your back and laughing at you … But I got through all that with all the support I had at school.

At the moment, I am level ‘green’ in English and I can tell you that I feel amazing as I can talk freely to everyone and I can do the best I can.

Thank you to all who helped me, but overall to Ms Garcia, for being such a great teacher and a second mum to me.

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KINGSWOOD TRIP During a weekend in January, there was a Learning Support department activity-filled residential to Kingswood, Kent. A group of Year 10 and 11 students partook in this trip. This was a fantastic opportunity to enrich and challenge the students and help them build toward their ASDAN qualification. One of the key learning objectives of this trip was to boost the students’ ability to work in a team and solve problems.

This was tested with a series of activities such as orienteering and the scrapheap challenge, (where some fantastic robots were designed and made from just cardboard, tape and some good old-fashioned imagination!).

Motivation was another fundamental aspect of this trip. The students motivated each other fantastically, helping push each other to take risks and do things that they wouldn’t normally do. Activities such as rock climbing, Jacob’s ladder, laser tag and the zip wire.

These motivational skills were especially important when the temperature dropped below 0!

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SEARCH DAY KIDZANIA TRIP For Search Day, the Learning Support department had the fantastic opportunity to take a group of KS3 students to Kidzania! The students had the chance to experience what it feels like to be an adult for a day!

They were exposed to a wide range of careers to choose from, such as doctors, pilots, firemen and many other exciting job prospects.

One of the fundamental purposes of the trip was to help students to build and strengthen their confidence in the skills needed to become successful young working adults. Other key life skills they gained during this trip were money-handling, problem solving, risk taking, team work and resilience. By the end of the trip many of the students felt extremely optimistic about their possible future careers and, most importantly, felt proud of what they were able to achieve that day.

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SEND DRAMA CLUB During Drama Club last term we performed a play called The Boy Who Got Lost in a Book.

SEND BAKING CLUB We have started this year with an ambitious group of students, building their skills and independence in the kitchen. We meet every Tuesday and bake a range of different savoury delights and sweet treats.

Each week, we aim to work on a range of different skills: cutting and chopping, melting chocolate, weighing, mixing ingredients and cleaning the kitchen once the session is over.

Before the end of Christmas term we were given the opportunity to make jam tarts and a Victoria sponge for the parents who attended the SEN department’s play of The Boy Who Got Lost in a Book. We enjoyed this and received many compliments from the parents.

One of our favourite games to play is ‘Who’s in the Book?’ We act out characters from books we love and everyone has to guess who we are playing. So with this in mind, we decided to make a play about all our favourite story book characters.

There were lots of lines to learn and lots of things to remember because we decided to use lots of drama skills like ensemble work, physical theatre and multi rolling. But we rose to the challenge and performed a wonderful show.

First we performed to Alexandra Primary School and we were a little bit nervous for that but we treated it as the dress run. We then stayed after school and performed to teachers and our parents, this was really exciting and really nerve-wracking but we did it and we got a huge clap at the end.

This club is open to anybody who wishes to attend and we meet every Tuesday in F4.20.

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C0DING CLUB THURSDAYS, 3.10 PM IN S3.9

2nd February – 30th March 2017 Thursdays after school 3.20–4.20 pm F4.19 If you are interested, see Ms McKenzie

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Do you have a passion for fashion?

Want to learn how to make products out of fabric?

Then why not come along to our Textiles Club after half term Where you will learn about: • fashion & costume • colour application, printing or dyeing fabrics • learning how to use a sewing machine • constructed and/ or applied textiles • constructed and/ or stitched and/ or embellished textiles.

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LEARNING IN OUR PROVISION FOR AUTISM Students and staff have been working hard this term on our jungle theme. We have had lots of new staff join the team this term and are thrilled to have each and every one of them contributing so positively.

We are pleased to announce the start of our new partnership with Area 51 college. Mars class, after a series of interviews, have landed the responsibility of running a market stall in the Wood Green shopping mall. They are doing this as part of their work experience every Thursday.

Do feel free to pop along and support them if you are in the area.

Mars class have also focused on choosing their college placements for next year and have been touring each of them to get experience of life beyond school.

Much of our focus this year is developing and enhancing our teaching practice to ensure it is consistently high and tailored to meet the learning needs of our youngsters. We are reviewing the layout of our classrooms to make sure they offer the most appropriate learning environment and also focusing on perfecting our approaches to communication through the development of new policies. Our focus remains to work towards gaining accredited status from Autism Accreditation which recognises and rewards high-quality practice in autism. www.autism.org.uk/professionals/accreditation.aspx

NEPTUNE This half term, Neptune class has been busily exploring the animal kingdom through our topic, Rumble in the Jungle. We have been learning what makes something alive and not alive, and how to classify animals into groups, such as fish, birds, reptiles and mammals. In art and music, we have been exploring animal sounds and rhythm, and creating wonderful art work based on animal footprints! We really enjoyed making our own footprints in flour around the classroom. We have been cooking jungle-inspired food, such as Green Jungle Smoothies and Snake Spaghetti. We really enjoyed making an edible jungle scene. In maths, we have been learning how to take the temperature and read a thermometer. We went around the school recording the temperature in different rooms.

Did you know that degrees Celsius are named after the Swedish inventor who designed the thermometer? We also took inspiration from Goldilocks, and took the temperature of our porridge before deciding which bowl would be best to eat. If you see us around, please ask us about jungle animals, as we have been researching them in our ICT lessons.

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JUPITER SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Class Jupiter have done so well in PSHE. The students enjoyed interacting together by ‘playing games’.

We have been working on social communication skills, so by enabling interaction through games, the students have been practising valuable skills.

Playing games is an easy and excellent way to spend unhurried, enjoyable time together. As an added bonus, board games are also rich in learning opportunities, helping to improve interpersonal skills. We have also been exploring drama games, getting the students to work in a team and to help them be creative.

CURRICULUM In Maths we have been working on 2D and 3D shapes. The students conducted a survey around the school, looking for objects that have the elements of some of the shapes. The students worked hard as a team and used their own initiative.

We continued this activity throughout all the other lessons, such as, Art and Design.

The students made 3D shapes using different materials such as Playdoh, card and Lego pieces.

We have also had the opportunity to access equipment in the music room. The students have been learning how to play a song on the keyboard. They introduced themselves very politely to the music teacher and did some great listening. This has been a really valuable piece of learning.

PHYSICAL & SENSORY This term, Jupiter class has produced a new morning routine which we will do daily to help us focus and start the day fresh. Each day focuses on the different parts of our sensory development.

We have named each day and the overall project ‘Active Five’. We have a schedule already and cannot wait to start it after half term.

Active Five Monday

Tuesday

Wed

Thursday

Friday

Martial Arts

Training Tuesdays

Wakey Hands

Sensory Toys

Feelings

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INDEPENDENCE SKILLS The students have been given their individual targets. Some of them have been focusing on their physical abilities, such as learning how to tie shoelaces, how to control their voices and making sure we use our ‘presentation’ voice when we are talking to others. They are all working hard to meet their targets and enjoying the challenge. Each of them has been working independently with great pride and excellence.

Practising their reading and handwriting skills has been most essential in the step towards their progress.

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SATURN SOCIAL COMMUNICATION We have been exploring our emotions and feelings in PSHE lessons. Our students have been examining how they feel and the consequences of their actions. We have enjoyed watching ‘Inside Out’ together, and visual representations of emotions was a very stimulating and powerful tool for both the staff and students! Studying our feelings and how we can communicate with them has helped us all to build and maintain friendships, express our needs, and learn about why we might feel the way we do.

PHYSICAL & SENSORY In Saturn, we continue to involve as much sensory input into classes as we can!

In Art, we have painted animal masks, made models from Plasticine, and put together our own miniature globes. All of this has been tied in to our current topic, Jungle Wildlife. In English, we have been learning about different adjectives we can use to describe certain animals, and also the sounds animals make, helping us with our phonics work.

CURRICULUM Our topic this half term has been ‘Jungle Wildlife’, and we have all really enjoyed learning about a variety of animals in different habitats. This has tied into our English work, where we have been working on our spelling, descriptive skills and variation of vocabulary.

In Maths, we have been learning about time, and how we can tell the time ourselves. This has been very useful for students to independently keep track of their day (and also remind us when it’s time for them to have a break!). We continue to have our regular trips into the community, for shopping, the library and swimming, which forms a key part of our students’ curriculum.

We are proud to say all of our students are gaining confidence from these trips, helping their social skills, awareness, and knowledge of their local community.

INDEPENDENCE SKILLS We continue to have regular independent work sessions, including exercise. The progress made by Saturn class continues to impress, and each student has their own personal targets they are working towards. All of our students have different and specific needs, and our independent sessions help them to develop their skills personally, and at a pace that suits them. We have been learning about exercises to help our posture and balance, and many of the students show better progress than the staff!

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VENUS SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

In PSHE, the students have been learning, discussing and role playing different situations where we communicate with people. This has included identifying key points to remember such as body language, politeness and facial expressions.

Venus class have explored how to communicate in good and bad ways during different scenarios like shopping, in cafes, with friends or strangers.

Can you spot who is communicating well?

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CURRICULUM

Venus class have started a new course this term: OCR Entry Level Art and Design.

They have started work on their first piece of art using the theme Space.

Lots of ideas are developing and sketchbooks are looking fantastic.

The course enables students to develop creativity, imagination, practical skills, communicating and expressing ideas, feelings and meanings through the median of art and design. It provides learners with a qualification that is relevant to them and meets their needs.

PHYSICAL & SENSORY

To be really independent it is important to manage and measure time, so in Maths we have been looking at time facts, estimating how long something takes and how best to measure it and the need to know if the time is am or pm when telling the time.

Everyone in Venus class loves using Playdoh and sensory putty to fiddle with or to regulate our emotions so we thought we would try making our own.

It was really successful. So we now we have lots to play with and we have noticed how much calmer and focused we all are.

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MARS SOCIAL COMMUNICATION

CURRICULUM

Conversational topics during tuck shop and conversation keyrings …

Developing skills, going to work and our first trip to the cinema.

During tuck shop we are encouraging our students to talk to one another, and to support this communication we made conversation starters. During tuck shop we have a pot on the table with these in and students can choose a card which might say, ‘What did you have for breakfast this morning?’ We can support students in initiating conversation with their peers and hopefully develop the exchange further. We also gave students a conversation keyring with starter ideas, with particular focus on their interests, for example ‘How did you commute to work this morning?’ or ‘What is your favourite London Underground line?’

Mars class have been really busy exploring transport this year: how we commute and plan trips, and last term we learnt about environmentally friendly ways to travel. During Skills for Life we have been discussing how we travel to work. We travel to our work experience on foot and the students had to plan the route using maps, plotting the quickest way.

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During Maths students have been planning class trips and we were lucky enough to have a visit to the cinema to see Muana. Individuals have decided where they would like to visit. They then calculated how far away these destinations were, and plotted these on a chart. Next, students worked out how long it would take to travel and the best way to get there. To decide which film to watch for our first visit, we had a class vote and made a tally graph to count which film was the most popular. Our next visit is to the London Transport Museum!

Working out new exercises We wanted to add more variety to our class exercises in Mars so we designed a set of new exercise cards for each student. The exercises focus on four key areas: cardiovascular, core strengthening, balance and fine motor, and relaxation. We colourcoded these too, so over a four-week cycle students have a four week programme designed individually for them. Every student has the opportunity to relax with a hand massage, joint compression or heavy blanket at the end of their routine.

INDEPENDENCE SKILLS Work experience In Mars class, students have begun their work experience in our local community. In conjunction with Area 51 College, Mars class are working in their shop which is located in Wood Green Shopping City. Every fortnight, students travel to work, collecting the shop keys along the way as part of their responsibility. They set up the shop, pricing items, tidying and serving customers.

During the latter part of the spring term we will be making items to sell in the shop, for example greeting cards, bracelets and paper cars.

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Heartlands High School, Station Road, Wood Green, London, N22 7ST T 020 8826 1230 F 020 8826 1231 www.heartlands.haringey.sch.uk HeartlandsHighSchool

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Year 9

Thursday

23rd March

Year 9 Parents’ Evening

Friday

24th March

Late start for all students 9:15 am

Monday

27th – 31st March

Year 10 Work Experience

Friday

31st March

Last day of Spring Term 2

Monday – Friday

3rd April – 14th April

Spring holiday

Monday

17th April

Easter Monday – Bank holiday

Tuesday

18th April

Start of Summer Term 1

Monday

24th April

SEARCH Day 8

Year 8

Tuesday

25th April

Year 8 Girls’ HPV Vaccination

Year 10

Wednesday

26th April

Year 10 Parents’ Evening

Thursday

27th April

Late start for all students 9:15 am

Friday

26th May

Last day of Summer Term 1

Tuesday

2nd May – 26th May

Year 11 GCSE Exams

Monday – Friday

29th May – 2nd June

Summer half term

Monday

5th June

First day of Summer Term 2

Saturday – Sunday

10th – 11th June

Duke of Edinburgh practice

Year 7 & 8

Monday – Friday

toJune find us: 12thHow – 16th

Year 7 & 8 Exam Week

Year 9

Monday – Friday

19th – 23rd June

Year 9 Exam Week

Tuesday

20th June

Art & Photography Exhibition

Year 11

Thursday

22nd June

Year 11 Leavers’ Event

Year 10

Monday – Friday

26th – 30th June

Year 10 Exam Week

Saturday – Sunday

1st – 2nd July

Duke of Edinburgh qualifying

Monday – Friday

3rd July – 7th July

Health & Wellbeing Week

Wednesday – Thursday

5th – 6th July

Transition Day

Friday

10th July

Sports Day

Friday

21st July

Achievement Assembly End of Summer Term 2

Year 10

Year 11

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