2025 Save The Date Upcoming Events for the Spring Term
Wednesday, 26th
March
Year 10 Parents Evening Letter here.
Monday, 7th - Monday 21st April Easter holiday
Royal Institution Science Show
Extra curricular activities at Eastlea
NCL Term Dates
NCL Term dates 2025-26, with changes to the Autumn Half Term.
Here are the proposed term dates for the next academic year. with a letter from the Trust CEO to explain the changes
On 28th February, Year 7 and 8 were treated to a Science Show from the Royal Institution, making their Science learning fun and exciting. We also invited in primary pupils form local schools for a taster of learning at Eastlea.
Mr Agidi, Head of Science
Information for Parents/Carers
World Book Day
Students enjoyed seeing staff dressed as their favourite characters from books. below are photographs of the staff including Ms Carter dress as Mark Watney from The Martian, a sci-fi book by Andy Weir.
Mad-hats off to the admin team who embraced and celebrated Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll by dressing up and hosting an Alice-themed Tea party.
World Book Day Celebrations in the School Library
This year, the library had a magical Harry Potter theme, transforming the space into a scene from Hogwarts. The library was decorated with house banners, lights, book displays and with the door resembling Platform 9¾. The library staff fully embraced the spirit, dressingas the beloved characters. Our library was buzzing with excitement as we celebrated World Book Day with a range of fun and engaging activities! From scavenger hunt to designing bookmarks and book-themed quizzes, students came together to take part. Students from Inclusion came in to enjoy a special storytelling session of the Gingerbread Man.
One of the highlights was our two author events. Author Bali Rai visited Eastlea on Monday 3rd March as part of our World Book day events. He delved into his life & experiences to share his motivations & inspirations for writing an array of books, including The harder They Fall and Soccer Sqad series. Bali is a well recognised author, writing over 40 books and also worked with the BBC. Students gave positive feedback & enthusiastically engaged in the creative writing workshops where they were asked to use their imagination to create ashort story using a specific scenario.
World Book Day continued
We also had a livestream, with international bestselling author of young adult thrillers, Karen McManus. Her work includes the One of Us Is Lying series, which was turned into a television show. Selected students had a chance to find out about her passion for books and how she started writing from a young age. Our students had a chance to pose a lot of interesting questions to Karen.
Some students (pictured below) also visited the library to collect their prizes for the New Year book reading competition. Well done to them for their reading! Albert 8M, Amy 7M, Tanisha 8E and Jannath 7S, Elisha 8E A big thank you to all the students and staff who participated and made the day special! Let’s continue to celebrate the magic of books every day.
Rushnara Khanom. School Librarian
Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge
On the 14th and 27th of February, a selection of our Year 10 students participated in the first round of the Jack Petchey Speak Out Challenge. The day was spent learning, designing, and practicing a speech. Many inspiring and thoughtful speeches were delivered, but only four have been selected to move on to the next stage: Nahia Chowdhury, Anjum Ferdus, Ikhlas Mohamed, and Khadija Yusuf.
These four will now compete with each other in an assembly speech in order to select the best candidate for the next stage of the competition, the Newham Regional Final, to be held at Sarah Bonnell School on Wednesday, 30th April, 2025. Congratulations to our four candidates and to all those who participated!
Mr Hibbs, English Teacher
Part of the day was spent practising and rehearsing proper poise and stage presence when delivering a speech.
Many students spoke eloquently, and delivered very thoughtful speeches.
The remainder of the session allowed each student to deliver their speech to their group.
Here is the latest edition of the PSHE newsletter which has been sent to parents and carers by Parentmail this week. It outlines the subjects being taught to students in each yea group in tutor time this half term.
Ms Bhanu, Head of PSHE
Information for Parents/Carers
INFORMATION FOR FAMILIES
Term dates and calendar
A reminder that our term dates and calendar, which includes all key dates for the year can be found on our website.
Dates for this Academic Year
Spring Term Mon 6 Jan - Fri 4 April 2025
Half term Mon 17 February - Fri 21
February 2025
Summer Term Tues 22 April - Fri 18 July 25
Half term Monday 26 May - Friday 30 May 2025
Additional Closure
May Day National Bank Holiday: Monday 5th May 2025
TERM DATES 2025-26
LUNCH MENU
Here is the link to the new Lunch Menu We will be on week 3 next week
BREAKFAST CLUB
Breakfast Club runs from 7.30am to 8.30am and students wishing to attend Breakfast Club should arrive via the Exning Road entrance.
GENERAL SCHOOL LINKS:
Free School Meals
Uniform Reminders Go 4 Schools
You may like to know that the school’s uniform supplier, Fashion Shop, now has a website where you can order uniform. Here is the link to the website.
PARENTING SUPPORT & RESOURCES
Mental health support: adults
Mental health support: children & young people Free Money
Management Courses for Adults
Family Navigators (supporting with signposting, advice & advocacy) Newham Form Filling Services
Support for those struggling financially
Support for those worried about winter fuel costs Community Health Champions: Help With Money NHS Talking Therapies
