15 April 2016

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Notice of Fundraising Events The Events Team are co-ordinating the following events to help raise money for the school production. Please help support the production!   Penalty Shoot Out Competition! Challenge the PE Teachers to a Penalty Shoot Out! 50p for 3 shots. Prizes for a hat trick! Date: Friday 6th May When: 4.30-5.30pm Where: MUGA Tickets on sale soon….     Non Uniform Day Theme to be decided – watch this space! £1 per student Date: Friday 1st July

Cake Sale All cakes 50p Date: Tuesday 10th May When: Break time Where: Dining Hall  

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Notice of Fundraising Events The Events Team are co-ordinating the following events to help raise money for the school production. Please help support the production!   Penalty Shoot Out Competition! Challenge the PE Teachers to a Penalty Shoot Out! 50p for 3 shots. Prizes for a hat trick! Date: Friday 6th May When: 4.30-5.30pm Where: MUGA Tickets on sale soon….     Non Uniform Day Theme to be decided – watch this space! £1 per student Date: Friday 1st July

Cake Sale All cakes 50p Date: Tuesday 10th May When: Break time Where: Dining Hall  

Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome back after the Easter break. I hope that you all enjoyed the holiday.

We have welcomed back Ms Davies, Head of MFL, this week. She took a sabbatical to teach in an International School in Kuala Lumpur for two terms; it is great to have her return to INA!

We also welcomed Mr Ayerh, Pastoral Leader for Year 9, who joins us from Seven Kings High School. He is settling in very quickly and getting to know his year group.

There is a lot to read in the first newsletter of the term. Do make a note of the key dates for the term as we’d love to see you are the events that we are planning for…

With best wishes,

Rachel Macfarlane,

Principal

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National Theatre Trip

Suicide, a modern-day comedy directed by Suhayla El-Bushra. The play follows the life of a down- and-out young man named Sam who loses his job and is convinced to take his own life. From corrupt local politicians to social media-savvy kids, everyone wanted a piece of Sam’s demise!

We made the trip to the National Theatre by coach and arrived to a beautiful sunset on the South Bank where Ms Rayner was nearly mauled by some malevolent pigeons. We collected our tickets and made our way into the auditorium. There was a sense of excitement as nobody really knew what to expect!

The play was fantastic and incredibly enlightening for the students who all watched with critical eyes. It was a great opportunity for the GCSE cohort to see what can be done with a versatile stage, creative use of technology and a big budget. The students will reflect on what they saw in coming lessons and their experience will no doubt aid their

understanding and application of GCSE Drama.

“Miss, that was so sick”

Donté Da Costa

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This week, students at INA began rehearsals for our whole school production ‘Zero To Hero’ which will be performed on Wednesday 13th and Thursday 14th July 2016. Our show will be an Isaac Newton Academy re-telling of the story of

Greek hero, Hercules.

On Monday, the show band met for the first time and started to learn some of the music to accompany the songs. Mr Fowler has been busy over the holidays, writing and arranging music for the band to learn. This enrichment activity gives students a chance to experience what it might be like to work as part of a professional band accompanying theatrical or televised performances.

The singers, dancers and actors also met together on Monday where the story of the play was explained to the students, and almost all of the speaking parts were given out. Ms Brett and Ms Gallagher will be working with the dance team every Wednesday, with some of our students taking the lead in choreographing the dance numbers. The singers and actors will be meeting every Monday and Wednesday with Ms Morten, Ms Hope, Ms Field and Ms Rayner to rehearse the music and all of the scenes.

The Set Design team will be meeting with Ms Carragher, Mr Vaghela, Ms Curley and Ms Jalil on Mondays, to design and build our stage set and props. The Events Team are also meeting with Ms Webb and Ms Davies on Mondays in order to plan fundraising activities, organise publicity and design the programme for the show.

On Wednesdays, Ms Hinds and Ms Chamberlain will be meeting with our costume design team to design and make costumes all every single one of our very large cast which presents a very exciting challenge.

As usual, we want as many people as possible to be involved in the production in some way, so if you are not already involved, please make sure you come down to watch the final performances in July!

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On  Wednesday  13th  April,  Freshwater  Theatre  Productions  visited  INA  to  put  on  a  version  of  Les  Trois  Mousquetaires  (The  Three  Musketeers).  The  show  covered  the  introductory  chapter  of  Alexander  Dumas’  famous  novel  and  introduced  every  student  at  INA  to  17th  century  Paris  and  D’Artagnan’s  quest  to  become  the  fourth  Musketeer.  

Students  played  the  roles  of  the  King  Louis  XIII,  The  Cardinal,  D’Artagnan’s  father,  his  trusty  horse,  Monsieur  Détreville  (the  head  of  the  Musketeers),  the  cardinal’s  guards  and  the  three  musketeers  themselves  –  Athos,  Porthos  and  Aramis.    Audience  participation  was  essential  in  making  the  performance  a  success  and  our  INA  students  did  an  excellent  job  of  providing  the  sound  effects,  rapping,  singing  and  being  excellent  Parisians    supporting  D’Artagnan  on  his  quest  -­‐  every  student  speaking  French  throughout  the  performance.  

 

Les  Trois  Mousquetaires  On Saturday 19th of March, students from Years 8 and 10 met together to participate in

this month’s Saturday Stretch class. The sessions focus was Biology and was led by Joe Mattocks, a Biology undergraduate from Southampton University. Helpfully, Joe has written a few words outlining his educational journey thus far and also given us a few words of wisdom:

“I decided to study biology as I am very interested in how science can be applied to help solve the world’s problems. After taking my GCSEs I stayed on at school into sixth form and studied the International Baccalaureate (IB) diploma, a qualification equivalent to A-levels. My subjects included: English, Music, Biology, History, French and Maths.'

When choosing a subject, I wanted one that I enjoyed and which had the potential to lead on to a wide range of job opportunities. When choosing a particular University, I think it is important to attend an open day to see if you can imagine yourself studying and living there. Finally, it can be quite difficult to choose options in school and college. If you are not sure what you want to do after leaving school, it could be a good idea to take facilitating subjects that keep your options open.”

The first activity was a helpful one; we were given some ‘university jargon’ and had to match the vocabulary with the correct definition. This really aided the student’s understanding of some of the specialist language associated with going to university.

We then talked about different plants and how they adapt to suit their environment. The students came up with some insightful examples of adaptation and were shown some rather extreme models on the interactive whiteboard.

The students then got an opportunity to apply their understanding and were challenged to design the ‘perfect plant’. They reasoned within their teams to find and create adaptations that would protect the plant from both natural and man-made threats. It was great to hear the students challenging each other’s ideas and working so collaboratively towards their projects.

It was then time to brush up on the presentation skills as each group were invited to exhibit and explain the adaptations they had given their own plant. This was a very enlightening experience as each group had created something wholly different from the last. The designs created were dynamic and imaginative and really showed that the students had put in both time and effort.

Joe then talked to us about university life and gave us an insight into what a typical day at university might look like. The students asked some probing questions about the process of application to a university and Joe kindly detailed the different routes you can take to get to university. The model below really helped the students visualise the process.

After a useful discussion about conditional and unconditional offers from universities, Joe shared some of the career paths you could pursue after studying Biology, to include:

• Teacher• Governmentadvisor• Consultant• Agriculture• Research• Medicine• Conservationandtheenvironment• Industry• Journalism• Pharmacy

All in all it was an enjoyable and enlightening session that taught the students a lot about both Biology and university life.

Saturday Stretch: Biology

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On  Wednesday  13th  April,  Freshwater  Theatre  Productions  visited  INA  to  put  on  a  version  of  Les  Trois  Mousquetaires  (The  Three  Musketeers).  The  show  covered  the  introductory  chapter  of  Alexander  Dumas’  famous  novel  and  introduced  every  student  at  INA  to  17th  century  Paris  and  D’Artagnan’s  quest  to  become  the  fourth  Musketeer.  

Students  played  the  roles  of  the  King  Louis  XIII,  The  Cardinal,  D’Artagnan’s  father,  his  trusty  horse,  Monsieur  Détreville  (the  head  of  the  Musketeers),  the  cardinal’s  guards  and  the  three  musketeers  themselves  –  Athos,  Porthos  and  Aramis.    Audience  participation  was  essential  in  making  the  performance  a  success  and  our  INA  students  did  an  excellent  job  of  providing  the  sound  effects,  rapping,  singing  and  being  excellent  Parisians    supporting  D’Artagnan  on  his  quest  -­‐  every  student  speaking  French  throughout  the  performance.  

 

Les  Trois  Mousquetaires  

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Summer term all through menu 2016

Music Notice for all year 9 parents An important letter for the return of year 9 big band instruments is going out on Thursday (14th April). Save the date: Tuesday 26th April - all year 9 students (except for drummers) need to bring in their big band instruments to be checked and returned at the following times:

• IS 1:50 - 2:50 (during lessons)• CA 2:50 - 3:30 (9C & 9A students will have to stay behind at the end of school)• EN 3:30 - 4:00 (9E & 9N students will have to come back to school with their instruments)• WT 4:00 - 4:30 (9W & 9T students will have to come back to school with their instruments)

Save the date: Tuesday 3rd May - all year 9 drummers need to have brought in their drum kits by this date• On 3rd May all Year 9 drummers will come to KS3 hall.• GC, WM, SF & GHo (led by WM) will supervise students as they assemble and disassemble

their drum kits from 2:50 - 4:30

Details on how to purchase your child's big band instrument are included in the letter. Thank you for your support with this. Mr. G CoughlinHead of MusicIsaac Newton Academy

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PE AT ISAAC NEWTON ACADEMYNews & Results

Girls Can!

This will run every Tuesday at the

start of lunch and we will have

special guest teachers from around

the school each week to help raise

awareness also acting as positive

role models. We will focus on a

different sport each week. The

initiative is aimed at having fun and

increasing numbers of girls in sport.

Come and try something different

with your friends.

Cricket Trials

Cricket fixtures are fast

approaching this term. The P.E

department will be holding cricket

trials at some point over the next

two weeks in preparation for the

fixtures.

Please listen out for notices in

registers that will notify you when

each year group’s trials are.

Fixtures coming up…..

Wednesday 20th May- Year 7 & 9

Lyca mobile 6 aside tournament @ Seven

Kings

Thursday 21st May- Year 10

Handball Vs Mayfield (Away

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PE AT ISAAC NEWTON ACADEMY

Day 1st Lunch (Year 10)

2nd Lunch (year 7,8 &9)

Mon Badminton Boys and Girls

Badminton (Year 7, 8 & 9) Boys and Girls

Tues Girls Can! (Year 7,8 & 9 Girls)

Wed Basketball club Boys and Girls

Basketball (Year 8 & 9) Boys & Girls

Thur Handball(Year 7, 8 & 9) Boys and Girls

Fri Basketball (Year 7) Girls and Boys

Improve your skills! Try something new! Keep fit! Make new friends!

Unleash your energy! Increase your chances of getting into a team!

DAY CLUB TEACHER VENUEMon Handball DB Sports Hall

Girls Can EH AstroBoxing External

providerActivity Studio

Tues Judo Club External Sports HallWed Yr 8 S+C BH Sports Hall

Yr 10 Football

AT Astro

Table Tennis GA Activity Studio

Resistance Sliding

External provider

Ks3 Hall

Thur Yr 10 Football

CD Activity Studio

Table Tennis LAJ AstroYr 8 Basketball

External provider

KS3 Hall

Fri Badminton club

External provider

Sports Hall

Bike Club EC, DH, BB MUGAGirls running club

RM South Park

After school Lunch time

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This week’s Mathematicians of the Moment

Zaynab  Mahiya  (9A)  Shakurra  Wellington  (8E)    Haider  Hussain  (7N)  

Ikran  Shire  (9T)    Cameron  Salhotra  (7N)     Annan  Ibne-­‐Anis  (8E)    

Well done to the following students who are this week’s Mathematicians of the Moment. Please collect a merit from Mr

Dukes

7I 190 7S 100 7A 130 7C 30 7N 430 7E 90 7W 370 7T

8I 8S 90 8A 500 8C 30 8N 100 8E 290 8W 8T

9I 9S 9A 1150 9C 9N 1330 9E 320 9W 540 9T 1900

Here are the scores so far

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The Mathematics department would like to encourage all students to enter next week’s Mathematician of the Moment competition. Look out for the new

problem next term.

Answers on a postcard to be handed to Mr Dukes (G42) by Thursday 4.10pm latest!

Monday 18th April to Thursday 28th April YEAR 7 - PROBLEM OF THE WEEK

YEAR 8 - PROBLEM OF THE WEEK

Answers on a postcard to be handed to Mr Dukes (G42) by Thursday 4.10pm latest!

Monday 18th April to Thursday 28th April

YEAR 9 - PROBLEM OF THE WEEK

Answers on a postcard to be handed to Mr Dukes (G42) by Thursday 4.10pm latest!

Monday 18th April to Thursday 28th April

How  many  ways  can  this  be  done  ?  What  is  the  greatest  number  of  cakes  

Horace  could  have  bought  ?  

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I N A B R I D G E S O p e n n e s s

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O p e n n e s s

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How we build learning power and develop character at Isaac Newton Academy

“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.” Isaac Newton

The secondary BRIDGES programme commences on Monday 14th September. BRIDGES are habits of mind or learning characteristics that develop a student's character and learning power and enable them to grow into well rounded individuals and resilient learners.

On a two weekly cycle throughout the year, Year 7 and 8 students are introduced to one or two new habits of mind or learning characteristics that will permeate throughout the curriculum. This will take place through a range of interactive activities. In addition, the students will experience BRIDGES learning objectives in each and every lesson throughout Isaac Newton Academy. Year 9 BRIDGES lessons will focus on strengthening certain BRIDGES learning characteristics through exploration of PHSE topics and themes.

Each fortnight you will find top tips in the newsletter of ways of supporting your child to develop the BRIDGES habits of mind and learning characteristics within the home.

B R I D G E S

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Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10C 60 E 319 T 259 N 155S 48 N 312 S 177 W 152N 51 A 296 N 140 C 120 T 208 C 295 C 132 I 116W 204 S 283 N 131 E 109I 22 T 242 W 103 S 96A 21 I 209 A 105 T 84E 44 W 156 I 51 A 66

Praise &Recognition

Merits

Gabriel AyerhYear 9 Pastoral Leader, i/c Praise and Recognition

Ahmed was well known for being kind, for helping others and for being extremely polite. He was also someone known for his hard work and absorption; the idea, therefore, is that the winner should be someone that encapsulated one of these qualities in that week.

Year 7: Sukhdev Rihinsi 7EYear 8: Maliha Awadh 8AYear 9: Sabir Mohammed 9AYear 10: Maria Gulafreed, 10E

Good Deed Feed

Ms Rayner: Awais in 10T gave up his time to translate for new student Bianca during a Drama rehearsal after school this week (he is not in the same group).

Mr Healey: Rajan Virdee- Came in at 7:30am to train the handball team and also came along to their match to help manage the Girls team.

Ms Coates: Kaiya and Jodie in Year 8 – really good at sharing ideas and helping each other catch up with any missed work.

Ahmed Al-Khafaji Award (Peer Commendation Award)

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Key Dates for the Summer Term 2015: Secondary

Summer TermMonday 11th April - Wednesday 20th JulyHalf Term 30th May - 3rd JuneINSET days: Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th June, Friday 8th July

Monday 18th April Shaking Up ShakespeareWednesday 20th April Secondary Parent Numeracy WorkshopFriday 29th April Speak out Challenge FinalWednesday 4th May Sept 2016 new Reception Parents’ Information EveningThursday 5th May Year 7 to Oxford UniversityFriday 6th May Year 10 Maths ChallengeFriday 6th May Year 7s to Rochester Wednesday 11th May Year 11s & Parents Work Experience EveningTuesday 17th May Primary Sports DayWednesday 18th May BRIDGES mentoring. No lessons in the afternoonThursday 19th May Year 10 Geography fieldwork at StratfordFriday 20th May Year 10 Geography fieldwork at StratfordMonday 23rd May Year 7s to RochesterWednesday 25th May Year 10 Science controlled assessmentsWednesday 25th May New Year 6 Parents’ Information EveningFriday 27th May Music RecitalFriday 27th May Year 10 Geography Field Trip to Wales

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