Oasis Academy Immingham - October 2016 Newsletter

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October 2016 | Issue 1

Dear Parents & Carers, I am delighted for you to receive the first newsletter of the year where I am sure you will find lots of useful information relating to life in the Academy and for each specific year group.

I would first of all like to introduce and new school App and encourage all parents and carers to download the App, free of charge to their smart phone / device. This App gives you an up to date insight into what is recorded on our school system in relation to your child.

Therefore you are able to monitor their attendance and punctuality, behaviour and rewards and progress. You are also able to engage in dialogue with the Academy through this system.

I have always believed that the relationship between home and school is the greatest influence on how well students do in school and with this technology there is a real opportunity to ensure that parents are well informed. This in turn will prompt parents to engage with us where necessary and ensure that we have an active feedback loop to support your child to do the best that they can. Please do ensure you have access and if you need any support in getting yourself set up, please contact us. Further information is available in this newsletter.

The correlation between attendance and progress in school is absolute. What parents don’t always understand however is the threshold for what would be described as good attendance and the point at which progress very quickly drops away.

Nationally, this decline in pupil performance starts to happen when attendance drops below 95% and completely drops away by the time attendance drops below 90%. It is critical therefore that we are proactive in doing all that is possible to ensure every pupil has ‘good’ attendance. So far this term, our whole school attendance is just above the national average at 96%. This is a great start, however we must sustain this through the winter months. Please support us by ensuring your child is in school unless it is absolutely necessary.

For Year 11 parents, I would like to emphasise the importance of ensuring your son/daughter is studying at home in the evenings, weekends and holidays and also that they are attending after school intervention classes and completing all homework. To let them off the hook is not helping them particularly when they are competing with every young person nationally, it is an expected standard in schools up and down the country for year 11’s to be staying behind on most evenings and attending on non-school days. This is what it takes to be successful and to meet the ever challenging demands of modern examinations. We need your help, it is in the best interest of your child so as to secure those ‘life-changing’ grades.

Enjoy half term...

Mr Rowlands Executive Principal

Contact us anytime at...

www.oasisacademyimmingham.org | 01469 576599

If you have any questions, please contact: Email: Daniel.Marsh@oasisuk.org or Phone (Direct Line): 01469 550 690

YEAR 7 NEWS Welcome to YEAR 7

My name is Mrs Churches, I am a Drama teacher and Head of Year 7. I work alongside Mr Linford to ensure that the students in year 7 are on track academically as well as happy in school. I have worked at the Academy for 7 years and this is my second year of being Head of Year 7. I thoroughly enjoy school life and in particular guiding our students to become the best that they can be.

I am delighted with the way our new year 7 students have settled into life at the Oasis Academy. It is such a huge event in a child’s life to transition from year 6 to year 7, however our new year 7 students seem to have taken this in their stride.

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I am proud of the way in which year 7 have been meeting our REACH values as these are vital in guiding us to be the best person that we can be.

It was wonderful to see so many of you at our meet and greet on Thursday, I feel that communication between tutors and parents will be key to ensure that your child is on track both academically and pastorally.

Regards Mrs Churches, Head of Year 7.

It’s been a really good positive start to Year 7, the students have been so well behaved and polite, it’s been encouraging to see them already engaged in after school clubs and community projects.

Mr Linford Pastoral Ye ar Manager

Below photos of Year 7 football team and Declan H, Lucie B & Dennon B Helping to raise awareness with YMCA Humber of I AM Whole and the stigma young people face because of their mental health difficulties.

Thank you to all the parents I have spoken to and/or met it’s very encouraging to know we are working together to enhance the education of your child.

Regards Mr Linford, Year 7 Pastoral Manager

Form Time Fun! 7AHA completed a challenge which was set by their REACH ambassadors. The task involved team working skills to build a tower using marshmallows and dry spaghetti.

We were overwhelmed with the amount of applications we received for Head Girl & Boy. Students started the process by completing an application form this was followed by an interview led by last year’s head boy, Liam P. The competition was strong and we struggled with who to choose, as we wanted them all!

Mabel-Rose Owen

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Head Girls & Boys

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Mrs Coates 7-LCO

Hi everyone, my name is Mrs Coates-Metheringham and I have been at the academy for 8 years.

My role in the academy is Community Director, this means I deal with lots of different things in the academy including PSHE and careers. I am really excited to be a year 7 tutor as I am used to dealing with 6th form students!

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My name is Miss Hanson and I am a year 7 form tutor (7AHA) and also a PE teacher in the academy. I would like to start by saying how much I have enjoyed working with the year 7s in the first half term. My form have made a fantastic start to the new school year, and I am really pleased with how well they have settled into academy life and how hard they are working. It has also been a pleasure to see students from various primary schools coming together in form time and making new friends. My Top Tips to form AHA moving forward into the second half term are: 1) 2) 3)

Make sure you are in school everyday Work hard in every lesson every day In everything you do follow the REACH values.

Miss Locke tt 7-KLO

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Hi everyone, I’m Miss Lockett. I have just started teaching English at Oasis Academy Immingham. This first term has been incredibly enjoyable, particularly due to my year 7 form. So far, we have had weekly news round competitions with prizes for the winners. This has encouraged my form to actively seek out exciting and strange news stories. We have also been dedicating some tutor time each week to find out more about each other: our interests, hobbies, weekend activities. This has helped form a close bond between us all! I’m looking forward to a positive first year here at Oasis Academy Immingham.

Hi I am Mr. Baily, I joined the academy at the end of the last academic year. I am a maths teacher and also the tutor for 7GBA. They have all brought their own unique personalities and together we have helped settle each other in. I am really proud of how they have all settled in and are making a positive start to their secondary education. We currently sit top of the attendance league tables and that is something that I want to become a tradition from year 7 to year 11, it means we win chocolate cake!

ly Mr Bai 7-GBA

I’m a year 7 tutor and I teach science and STEM. I work with Miss Tarry who is our tutor on a Monday.

Mrs Nicho lson 7-JNI

I am your first port of call if you have any issues or any questions to ask, please contact me at: Jayne.nicholson@oasisimmingham.org

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YEAR 8 NEWS Welcome to YEAR 8 This is my second year in charge of year 8. Before that I was Head of Enterprise house. I have worked for the academy now for 8 years and have experience of teaching a range of subjects. It is my job to make sure that students are happy, healthy and safe. We have already had a great start to year 8 and I look forward to guiding this group through their option choices as they progress through the school.

Mr Varley Head of Ye ar

My e-mail address is craig.varley@oasisimmingham.org.

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I am the Pastoral Manager for Year 8. I have worked at Oasis Immingham Academy since it began in 2007, and previously as the Support Annexe Manager for Immingham School.

I have been married for 32 years and have two sons, and have experienced the trial and tribulations that family life and peer group friendships often brings especially when it begins to impact on a child’s school life. I oversee the pastoral care for year 8 students and link in with parents and teachers. My role can be challenging and diverse, but also very rewarding. It falls to me to make sure that your child’s time in year 8 is a happy productive one, but as we all know there are often stumbling blocks along the way which can impede your child’s progress. It may be a very quick and simple phone call home or to arrange meetings with parents so that we can work on a plan of action of support for the student.

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I’m happy to meet with any parent so please feel free to contact me via email Jamie.albery@oasisimmiham.org or by contacting the school.

Form NWH has had a terrific start to the year, we have enjoyed circle time this half term and have discussed many things such as what makes a good leader, what things are you looking forward to this year and does everyone have the right to an education.

Miss Whitb y 8-NWH

NWH made a good effort during Harvest festival with Jake Shakespeare bringing in a whole bag of goods for those in need. Lots of stickers have been logged with Calum W taking the lead in sticker logging. We are a vibrant and happy form who are enthusiastic, enjoy learning and look forward to spending time together during tutor time.

We are very pleased to share with you that our Form Captains are; Callum M and Mya R. They have both shown an excellent work ethic, enthusiasm for learning and have led the tutor group by example. We are very proud of their efforts already this year.

We have been getting to know each other through Circle Time and we have tackled some challenging issues already! As a whole tutor group, we won the first Assembly Entrance Award this year for our excellent conduct on entering and maintaining excellent behaviour during assembly. This is something we aim to replicate every week.

Our tutor group targets for next term are: To reduce Red and Yellow cards by 30% compared with term 1. For every tutee to become involved in a community club or extra-curricular group during term 2. We look forward to sharing our progress with you next term.

en Mr Gre 8-ALG

Over the last few weeks my form has settled in well to being in year eight, I am pleased to announce that our new form captain is Abigail Robinson and our two vice captains are Libbie R and Shantell D.

Mr Jagger 8-GJA

All three of the girls have already shown some leadership qualities when undertaking tasks in form time, from checking that student planners are up to date to ensuring our form board is all correct. Over the next few months I am looking forward to working with my form and developing some of their communication skills via circle time and other curriculum based activities.

My form has settled in well over the last few weeks. We are forming good working relationships and positive friendships. Through circle time we are learning to communicate and listen to each other. I look forward to guiding the group through the next year of their education.

Mr Batty 8-MAB

8ABU have made a terrific start to the new year. Attendance and behaviour has been a really positive as we work together to try and be the best form in year 8. The students are showing a real maturity through circle time, when discussing some important and some not so important issues! Here’s to a fabulous year 8!

Mr Burton 8-ABU

YEAR 9 NEWS YEAR 9 NEWS

W E L C O M E

Hi and welcome to our first newsletter as Head of Year and Pastoral Manager for Year 9. It is a great privilege for Mrs Vincent and I to be the ones who prepare year 9 for the important year ahead.

The majority of the Year 9 students are making great progress and showing great potential to reach their maximum learning. The students are not only impressing staff, but each other with some of the talents they possess.

Whilst most students are progressing and getting every day things right such as upholding the Academy expectations and ethos….some standards are not being met.

A minority of students are starting to log a small number of cards for issues such as not arriving to the Academy on time in the morning or not handing home work in. These issues result in students gaining yellow and red cards which result in disruption to other students learning in valuable lesson time. Ensuring students get things right will mean students will be prepared better and have the Academy expectations embedded in who they are and what they want to achieve when they leave the Academy.

New App! A new App called Xpressions has being linked to the Academy. This gives parents and carers the chance to view and monitor behaviour, achievements and attendance.

Attendance Attendance at the Academy is crucial for students to gain the grades they are capable of: Our current attendance as a year is: 94.73% The form attendance in Year 9 currently reads at:

Form Time Setup The set up of form time for year 9 is: Monday: Sign Planners/Sol tracking/Attendance/ Behaviour Tuesday: Circle time Wednesday: Assembly Thursday: Quiz / Challenge Friday Literacy / Numeracy

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TEL - 98.03% DAB - 95.26% JUB - 94.29% KGR - 94.25% RNE - 91.80%

It is crucial students attend as the link between students achieving and attending is becoming more obvious.

Mr Morris Head of Ye ar

Mrs Vincent

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Form Activities Over the past half term students have taken part in challenges and quizzes on a Thursday form time. Quizzes are based upon topic areas around the Academy. The challenges are set by myself to link learning with improving social skills for every member with in each form.

Challenge: The current challenge champions are form DAB. Quiz: The current quiz champions are form DAB.

Meet the YEAR 9 TUTORS

Mr Baker 9-DAB

reaves Miss G 9-KGR

Mrs Ellis 9-TEL

FORM CAPTAINS!!

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Miss Neal 9-RNE

Y9 leaders

Form captains have been appointed to each form. These are decided by our form tutors and the students with in each form.

Head/Deputy/Council leaders for Year 9.

The form captains for each form are below:

After receiving an incredible amount of applications for the roles I am pleased to announce that interviews will take place on the first week back after half term.

n Stephe 9-DAB

Paige 9-DAB

Good luck to all students that applied!

Megan 9-RNE

Amy 9-T EL

Alicia 9-KGR

Mark 9-KGR

Bailey 9-JUB

Read all about it…Read all about it!

Year 9 Newspaper Editors: Could you be a Year 9 newspaper editor?

Harry 9-T EL

Millie 9-JUB

NEWSPAPER

Courtney 9-JUB

Well done to you all :)

Could you report on Year 9 events?

If so please come and see Mrs Vincent and I in the Year 9 office to get an application form…..

YEAR 10 NEWS Warm Welcome to YEAR 10 ATTENDANCE Hello and welcome to my first newsletter page as Head of Year 10 for the new academic year.

This is an important year for these students, as they are often completing coursework and assessments which will contribute towards their final GCSE grades in Summer 2018. It is therefore important that myself and Mrs Kaveney uphold the high standards and expectations for all students. This includes completing all homework, attending lessons on time and ensuring they are putting 100% effort in every lesson.

The students need to see this year as the beginning of their GCSE’s, by making a good start and ensuring hard work and effort from now, will make their final year in this school a lot easier.

Please be aware of our new App Xpressions, this is an effective tool to help monitor behaviour, achievements, attendance and progress. Show my homework is also a great tool to monitor your child’s home learning, all students have now been set up with new log ins and passwords, please do not hesitate to contact me if you need new log in information.

Supporting Year 10 is also our fantastic Pastoral Year Manager – Mrs Kaveney I am passionate and committed to support students and help make a difference to their school life. As many students are starting their GCSE’s this year, it is important that they can feel safe and happy in their school environment to fulfil their full potential.

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Mrs Kaveney Pastoral Manager

Attendance is important at the point in their academic career and being late to school will affect their attendance. There is a strong link between attendance and achievement at GCSE. Current Year 10 attendance is 94.90% Current attendance for each form: • • • • •

10-DEN - 97.99% 10-LMA - 95.41% 10-ASN - 94.63% 10-JCR - 96.25% 10-SWI - 95.81%

KEY SKILLS Tutor time in Year 10 is an ideal opportunity to focus on developing key skills needed for GCSE’s. Two out of the five days are spent as intervention time for the core subjects Maths, English and Science to allow students to complete extra tasks, practice papers and revise these subjects. Please find below the current timetable for tutor time Monday

Admin Checks

Tuesday

Assembly

Wednesday

Maths / English

Thursday

Science / Maths

Friday

Circle Time

To introduce you further to our fantastic Year 10 team, below are our fantastic tutors here to support you and your child:

Our tutors

Mr Enwright 10-DEN

Mrs Marsden 10-LMA

yd Mr Sne 10-ASN

YEAR 10 STUDENT LEADERS One of our first important roles this year will be to choose some Year Leaders.

We want this group of students to be representative of the year as well as to be fantastic role models and play an important part of the student voice.

owe Mrs Cr 10-JCR

Mrs Wilson 10-SWI

WHAT’S HAPPENING IN YEAR 10 Our first career trips are starting, a group of 15 Year 10 students took a trip to Forest Pines in Brigg to have a sneak peek at Further & Higher Education courses provided by Riseholme College, The Grimsby Institute & North Lindsey College. Students took part in a range of different taster activities including making DNA with sweets & holding a cockroach.

I will regularly meet with these students to ensure The entire Year 10 cohort have also visitied Grimsby effective communication between myself, Mrs Kaveney Institute to carry out some Taster and the student body. Applications are currently being session in various subjects. completed with interviews to follow!

YEAR 11 NEWS

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G I B M A E R D WHERE WE

Numerous colleges have been delivering to our year 11’s giving them their options for when they leave school. Still some students are unware of where they want to go next. We want students to start planning for their future now, and so one of the tasks we have set during tutor time is to think about their dream job. When primary school children are asked what they want to be when they are older they dream big, from becoming princesses to astronauts. Even if you ask Year 7 students, which I did recently and I got replies such as ‘I would like to be a doctor’ and ‘I would like to be vet’.

So why it is when I ask students in Year 11 that I get responses such as ‘I don’t know’? It’s a shame that at a young age we can stop aspiring towards our dream job. The message that I have tried to get across this term to our students is that it is never too late to stop dreaming. At this moment in time at the age of 15 and 16 we can do whatever we want to do. Still I realise that making a decision on our future can be scary and still some students are just unsure of what to do next. Well, my advice is, if you are unsure about what you really want to be then make sure you have options and the best way to do that is to make sure you have as many GCSE’s behind you as you can. The more GCSE’s you have the more doors that are open to you. I have a 4-year-old daughter and that means I have to watch a lot of Disney princess movies and one quote that sticks out to me from Princess and the Frog is when Tiana wishes upon a star for her dream and her Dad replies with ‘Yes, you wish and you dream, with all your little heart. But you remember, that old star can only take you part of a way. You got to help him with some hard work of your own.’ So let’s start dreaming big Year 11, people do get their dream jobs but you need to want it enough and be willing to work hard for your dreams. So this year do whatever it takes to reach your goal. Remember effort is a choice.

Stars of Year 11!

I don’t think we can celebrate how awesome some of our students are enough, and that is why each half-term I wanted to share some of the amazing things our students do. Firstly, I would like to say a massive thank you to 3 of our year 11’s Hannah, Chelsie and Megan for their contribution towards helping younger students improve their reading. Each week these 3 students have taken it on themselves and given up their own time to help others. This is a selfless act and done simply to help others highlighting the community of Oasis Academy Immingham.

It is students like this that make me proud to be a part of our school.

WELL DONE Y11

Secondly I would like to say a massive thank you to Mrs Wilson’s Year 11’s for their contribution towards the Harvest Festival. I set a challenge this term to see who would be ‘The Most Generous Form of the School’. Amy from 11HWI reports; And the Most Generous Form Award goes to …… 11HWI

Amy H

Harvest festival at Oasis academy was made more exciting this year as the school held an exciting competition. This competition consisted of the collection of food items which could then be given to local people in the community that may need some support.

One form in year 11 contributed over 90 cans and packets of food to be donated to charity. The form that won was that of Mrs Wilson’s. Most of the form gave a generous amount which earned them an extended break the following week. Altogether the whole school donated hundreds of food parcels which went to support local people in the community. Thank you everybody for your help.

Finally, I would like to congratulate Ella and Yasmene on winning the revision poster competition. In a recent student skills session held for Year 11 they were given the task to design and create a poster that informs others how to revise. Here is the winning design.

Well done!

PP EXAMS ARE COMING

Over the first 2 weeks back after half term Year 11’s will be completing a series of PP Exams (mock exams). Students will have designed a revision plan in tutor time and should use this to help them plan their revision across the half-term. I would expect students to be revising over the holidays to help teachers make accurate informed decisions about their potential outcomes in summer. Too often students think that because they are completing PP exams that they do not need to put the effort in. However, my advice would be to take these exams seriously. If students are revising across the year it will make revision before the real exams more manageable. Often students leave revision too late and then cram as much as they can the night before an exam. This is not a productive way to revise. Revision needs to be broken down into manageable chunks and across a longer period of time. The benefit of these exams allows students to trial revision strategies and see what works for them. Let’s ensure we are being creative with our revision as well; this helps to make the learning more memorable. Check out the timetable below to see when a given PP exam will be taking place.

View the larger timetable by clicking on the pictures...

262 CHALLENGE OCTOBER 2016

OAI WELCOMES ADAM HOLLAND

ON SUNDAY 2ND OCTOBER WE WELCOMED ADAM HOLLAND AS HE VISITED OAI AS PART OF THE 262 CHALLENGE WITH OASIS UK

During our most recent PSHE day, students in year 7 attended a session on cyberbullying & were asked to design posters of what they thought cyberbullying could do to people.

The below examples are created by Alex F & Melani H. Well done to you all.

22nd September saw the Academy football teams in Cup action against Whitgift School.

The matches saw; The Year 7 team win their first game 4-3.

The Year 9 team won 9-3.

The Year 11 team lost 5-0.

The results mean we have 4 Academy teams through to the District school Cup Quarter finals against Wintringham Academy.

Thanks for your continued support

L L A B T O O F

Is my child too ill for school?

When your child is unwell, it can be hard deciding whether to keep them off school. These simple guidelines should help.

Not every illness needs to keep your child from school. If you keep your child away from school, be sure to inform the school on the first day of their absence.

Use common sense when deciding whether or not your child is too ill to attend school. Ask yourself the following questions.

• Is my child well enough to do the activities of the school day? If not, keep your child at home.

• Does my child have a condition that could be passed on to other children or school staff? If so, keep your child at home.

• Would I take a day off work if I had this condition? If so, keep your child at home.

If your child is ill, it’s likely to be due to one of a few minor health conditions. Whether you send your child to school will depend on how severe you think the illness is. Use this guideline to help you make that judgement.

Remember: if you’re concerned about your child’s health, consult a health professional.

Common Conditions

• Cough and Cold: A child with a minor cough or cold may have to attend school. If the cold is accompanied by a raised temperature, shivers or drowsiness, the child should stay of school, visit the GP and return to school 24 hours after they start to feel better. If your child has a more severe and long-lasting cough, consult your GP. They can give guidance on whether your child should stay off school.

• Raised Temperature: If your child has a raised temperature, they shouldn’t attend school. They can return 24 hours after they start to feel better.

• Rash: Skin rashes can be the first sign of many infectious illnesses, such as chickenpox and measles. Children with these conditions shouldn’t attend school. If your child has a rash, check with your GP or practice nurse before sending them to school.

• Headache: A child with a minor headache doesn’t usually need to be kept off school. If the headache is more severe or is accompanies by other symptoms, such as a raised temperature or drowsiness, then keep the child off school and consult your GP. • Vomiting and Diarrhoea: Children with diarrhoea and/or vomiting should definitely be kept off school until at least 48 hours after their symptoms have gone. Most cases of diarrhoea and vomiting in children get better without treatment, but if symptoms persist, consult your GP. • Sore Throat: A sore throat alone doesn’t have to keep a child from school. But if accompanied by a raised temperature, your child should stay at home.

• Chickenpox: If your child has chickenpox, keep them off school until all their spots have crusted over.

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Tell the school!

It’s important to inform the school if your child is going to be absent. On the first day of your child’s illness, telephone the school to tell them that your child will be staying at home. The school may ask about the nature of the absence of the illness and how long you expect the absence to last.

If it becomes clear that your child will be away for longer than expected, phone the school as soon as possible to explain this.

For more information please visit this link: NHS Live Well

n o i t a c u d E r e h t r u F 0 1 Year ! s e n i P t s e r o F o t p i r T

On 10th October, a group of Year 10 students took a trip to Forest Pines Hotel in Brigg to have a sneak peak at Further & Higher Education courses provided by Risholme College,

The Grimsby Institute and North Lindsey College. Students took part in a range of different taster activities including making DNA with sweets and holding a cockroach. It was a great day & thank you to the Lincolnshire Outreach Network for putting on a great conference.

ATTENDANCE

95.6% Thank you to all students and Parents / Carers who have helped us achieve this.

To enable us to improve even further next term: All students should be achieving 96% attendance and above.

Attendance Contact Numbers:

Keep up your support by: • Making all appointments outside Academy hours.

• Ensure your child is on time.

All students are legally required to attend for

190 days each year.

Autumn Term 2

Monday 31st Augu st - Friday 16th De cember 2016 Christmas holidays Monday 19th Decem ber 2016 - Tuesday 3rd January 2016

Spring Term 1

Wednesday 4th Jan uary 2017

- Friday 17th Februa ry 2017 Half term Monday 20th February 2016 - Friday 24th Februa ry 2017

Spring Term 2

Monday 27th Februa ry 2017 - Friday 7th April 2017 Easter holidays Mo nday 10th April 20 17 - Friday 21st Ap ril 2017

Summer Term 1

Monday 24th April 2017

- Friday 26th May

2017 Half term Monday 29th May 2017 - Fri day 2nd June 2017

Summer Term 2

Monday 5th June 2017 –

Monday 24th July 2017

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