INA Primary Newsletter 200925...website also offers advice regarding ‘online safety’ and how to obtain support or advice regarding the safeguarding of children. Uniform Information

Primary Newsletter

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Important Reminders• If any of your details have changed e.g. your address or phone number

– please ensure you contact the office to inform us, so that we can update our records and contact you in case of an emergency.

• We ask that you avoid visiting the office, please either make an appointment, email or call instead to discuss the matter.

• Please ensure your child attends school every day and on time. If your child is sick or showing any of signs of Covid 19 then you must call the office to let us know by 8.15am. If your child has a medical appointment you must let us know in advance.

Safeguarding ChildrenAs part of their curriculum, the children learn how to keep themselves safe. The following website has been set up by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) to offer parents and schools advice on how to raise safeguarding awareness with children. There is a notable section called ‘The Underwear Rule’ which is of particular support and guidance to parents. The website also offers advice regarding ‘online safety’ and how to obtain support or advice regarding the safeguarding of children.

www.nspcc.org.uk

Uniform Information & School Uniform PurchasesThe Primary uniform can be purchased through the Khalsa Schoolwear website or can be bought at Khalsa Schoolwear shop in Bethnal Green. To save on the cost of delivery charges, Khalsa Schoolwear does a school delivery once every month. You can find further details of the delivery dates on their website or you can ask the reception office staff.

• We expect every child to be in full uniform every day with their top button done up and wearing their tie

• All coats must be plain black• Shoes must be plain black – no trainers, plimsolls or boots! • Please label every item of clothing• One pair of plain stud earrings can be worn• Nail polish is not allowed• Jewellery is not permitted• Long hair for both boys and girls must be tied back. Hair decorations must be small

and plain and match the school uniform

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It has been a busy week with lots of great learning going on across the school. However, as you will already be aware we sadly had to send our Year 6 bubble home this week who will now self-isolate until their return. The school is certainly feeling much quieter for not having our Year 1 and Year 6 pupils in school. We look forward to seeing you all back soon and having a full school once again.

A huge thank you goes out to our parents and carers at this time, it has not been a great feeling as a headteacher having to send children home, but I have felt very heartened to hear how eagerly the children and their parents have been engaging in the Home Learning set, this will have a huge impact and support the students for when they return. I know many parents have been asking about using TEAMS for lessons or visual contact with the class teacher, this is something that we are working very hard with Ark to achieve and hope to have TEAMS up and running across all year groups in the near future.

From Tam Broadway – Primary Headteacher

COVER PHOTO: Year 1 learning at home.

Day to Day Enquiries If you have any questions e.g. to check when your child has PE and needs their kit, you can send any enquiries to your child’s year team via the info@ address on the home learning page.

So for example if your child is in Year 6 you will need to visit the Home Learning page where you find the email addresses listed which will look like: [email protected]. The teachers will aim to answer your questions as speedily as possible.


Covid 19 symptoms:

• a high temperature – this means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)

• a new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or 3 or more coughing episodes in 24 hours (if you usually have a cough, it may be worse than usual)

• a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste – this means you've noticed you cannot smell or taste anything, or things smell or taste different to normal

If your child has any of the listed systems above, please let the office know.

If a member of your household tests positive it is very important that you inform the school and keep all children in family at home for 14 days. If you had Covid like symptoms and received a negative test result, you and your children are able to return to normal once you feel well again. You only need to have a test if you are experiencing Covid symptoms, please follow the government guidance if you are unsure.

Self-isolation means stay at home and do not leave the house for 14 days.

• do not go to work, school or public places – work from home if you can

• do not go on public transport or use taxis

• do not go out to get food and medicine – order it online or by phone, or ask someone to bring it to your home

• do not have visitors in your home, including friends and family – except for people providing essential care

• do not go out to exercise – exercise at home or in your garden, if you have one


This guidance for educational settings indicates who can get a test, local test sites, and how to book your test. It is vital that educational settings only recommend children to get a test if they develop coronavirus symptoms. These are:

• a high temperature • a new, continuous cough • a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste

Should children require a test there are two local testing sites, as well as those situated in our neighbouring boroughs.

• Mildmay Road Car Park, open 8am-8pm 7 days a week. • A Mobile Testing Unit routinely visits Gants Hill. The next dates are 15, 18, 21,

24, 26 and 30 September.

All test sites are government run and appointment only. They can be booked through the online national system.

Book your test here: https://www.gov.uk/get-coronavirus-test. If you are a member of staff you are an essential worker and can indicate that when booking. This will prioritise your appointment. onlinedoctor.lloydspharmacy.com/coronavirus/test

Accessing coronavirus tests for schools


Start and End Times of the Day

Please help everyone by only being at school for the allocated times, it can mean longer waiting times if you or your child are arriving too early.

Year Group Start Time Finish Time

(via the playground)

Tuesday Finish Time

(via the playground)Reception 8.55am

(via the usual school entrance)3.25pm 2.30pm

Year 1 8.25am(via the usual school entrance)

3.25pm 2.30pm

Year 2 8.35am(via the usual school entrance)

3.35pm 2.40pm

Year 3 8.45am(via the usual school entrance

3.45pm 2.50pm

Year 4 8.35am(via the High Road entrance)

3.45pm 2.50pm


3.55pm 3.00pm


3.35pm 2.40pm


Notices

Breakfast and Afterschool ClubEvery parent has details and a password, which will enable you to book a place for Breakfast Club or After School Club.

Payments must be made in advance. If you experience any problems, please contact Ms Chaggar who will be happy to help.

Breakfast is available each day from 7.45am and costs just £2.50 per day. The children enjoy a range of cereals, toast and different topping, juice or milk and fruit. Any child attending must be brought to the main reception area by 8.20am at the latest.

After School Club runs from 3.45pm – 6.00pm (3.00pm – 6.00pm on Tuesdays) and costs just £5.50 per hour. The children enjoy a range of snacks each evening and a variety of games and activities.

Absences immediately before or after a school holiday

If your child is absent before or after a school holiday we must see evidence for the absence. This may be medical evidence if your child is unwell, or evidence of flight delays or circumstances beyond your control. We cannot authorise any absences before or after a holiday without this evidence and you risk being issued with a penalty notice.


Dear Parents and Carers,

As excitement builds for the opening of the inaugural INAP Times Table Championship trophy, fixtures have been released for this week:

Al-Kashi vs Fibonacci

Pythagoras vs Nicks

Ellington vs Shankar

Lovelace vs Mirzakhani

Ramanujan vs Vivaldi

Rahman vs Taillefaire

Cartwright vs Einstein

The matches will start on the 28th September and finish on the 5th October. The results for each match will be in the newsletter along with a league table. If your child has not received a username and password, please can you contact your class teacher.

To access the website please follow this link:

https://play.ttrockstars.com/

May the best class win!


Maths with ParentsWe have continued to buy into the Maths with Parents platform again this year. Your child’s teacher will add topics that are covered in class as they teach them.

Once a topic has been added you will receive a notification. You will then be able to watch videos to help you understand the teaching of the topic in more depth as

well as play some games to support your child’s learning around the topic.

To register your child, then please visit the following website:

www.mathswithparents.comOnce you are on the main page you will need to click to ‘log in’ you will be asked

to click on the ‘new parent’ tab.

When asked for the six-digit class please add as follows and complete the registration details:

Curie 767158

Maxwell 411987

Newton 529808

Britten 179736

Fitzgerald 609482

Glennie 315368

Al-Kashi 708917

Fibonacci 965243

Pythagoras 868671

Ellington 151903

Nicks 640750

Shankar 623599If your child had an account in the previous year group and class, you will

need to register them again in their new class using the codes above.


Lovely LearningDespite Year 1 pupils isolating at home this week, it has not dampened their enthusiasm for learning. A huge thank you to all their parents and carers for helping the children stay engaged in their learning this week. We look forward to seeing you all back next week.


More Lovely Learning


Yet More Lovely Learning


Black Hero of the WeekThroughout Black History Month the children will be learning about a Black Hero in history each week who will feature in our newsletters and we encourage the children to use their discovery skills by clicking on the links below to find our more information about our heroes. As you may be aware, one of our Year 6 classes has been named Johnson class after the famous American mathematician Katherine Johnson.

Katherine Johnson loved maths. Early in her career, she was called a “computer.” She helped NASA put an astronaut into orbit around Earth. And then she helped put a man on the Moon! Ms Johnson died earlier this year at the age of 101.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Johnson

http://www.nasa.gov/content/katherine-johnson-biography

Black Music of the Week

In recognition and to celebrate Black History Month we will be listening to the music of a different black composer or music each week. Next week we will be

listening to and learning about The Buena Vista Social Club. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could gather some facts about Simone in preparation for

the coming week. http://www.buenavistasocialclub.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buena_Vista_Social_Club


Praise and RecognitionEvery week each teacher chooses two children from their class to receive a certificate in assembly; one is in recognition of a child demonstrating our BRIDGES habit of the week, and the other in recognition of a pupil’s academic effort throughout the week.Well done to the following children, who have been recognised this week:

Curie Class:

Inaya Hussain – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing great integrity and always making the correct choices).Eric Morgan – Scholar of the Week (for showing great enthusiasm and participation during phonics lessons).

Maxwell Class:

Odri Bogomolova – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being kind and caring towards her peers at play and lunch).Amira Mohammed – Scholar of the Week (for being a perfect partner during maths).

Newton Class:

Safa Alom – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for always being kind to her peers in the classroom and on the playground).Kaden Daby – Scholar of the Week (for quickly learning all the routines in Newton Class and trying his best in each lesson).

Britten Class:

Numair Muhammad – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for making good choices at home and working extremely hard with his brother).Rayan Chauhan-Patel – Scholar of the Week (for trying his best with his home learning and remembering to use ‘because’ & ‘and’ to add extra detail in his writing).


Fitzgerald Class:

Musa Mughal – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for demonstrating great integrity to choose to do the right thing and apply himself to keep learning excellently at home this week).Zoe Johnson – Scholar of the Week (for some very impressive sentences describing woodland sights and sounds and smells).

Glennie Class:

Zaiden Khan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for making good choices at home and working so hard with his lovely learning).Agastya Panchal – Scholar of the Week (for demonstrating clearly his understanding of number bonds to 7).

Al-Kashi Class:

Alayna Uddin – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing fairness and kindness to her class by sharing and taking turns when using resources. Well done Alayna!).Siddiqa Islam – Scholar of the Week (for writing excellent sentences using her tier words in our reading lesson and using these words in her daily language. Well done!).

Fibonacci Class:

Fouziah Miah – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing integrity and being a great role model of behaviour in class and out in the playground).Marquece Horne – Scholar of the Week (for working incredibly hard on odd and even numbers at home and in class).

Pythagoras Class:

Aadam Dakri – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using his integrity to always do the right thing even when the teacher isn’t looking).Lucas Petre – Scholar of the Week (for writing sentences using different conjunctions).


Ellington Class:

Sartaj Singh – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing excellent humanity in class and phonics. Well done).Harveen Rai – Scholar of the Week (for work hard to develop sucessful sentences).

Nicks Class:

Huzaifah Iqbal – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing his humanity by helping other students make the right behaviour choices throughout the week).Saad Bhutawala – Scholar of the Week (for constantly asking what he can do to improve his work).

Shankar Class:

Aagia Durhailay – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for using her humanity to offer help to her classmates in art).Silha Omer – Scholar of the Week (for her thoughtful contributions and willingness to share in class discussions).

Lovelace Class

Samuel Chamberlain-Thomas – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being honest and fair in and out of the classroom).Shresta Yeruva – Scholar of the Week (for producing an excellent descriptive piece of writing).

Mirzakhani Class:

Kayden Reid – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for consistently showing humanity and care towards classmates).Aydin Landi – Scholar of the Week (for writing an excellent character description using high level grammar).

Ramanujan Class:

Tanush Handa – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for routinely demonstrating humanity by modelling fairness and kindness in and out of the classroom).Anna Jilani – Scholar of the Week (for producing excellent descriptive sentences within her character description).


Rahman Class:

Aran Sivananthan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing integrity in a situation where he could’ve easily chosen to make the wrong choice).Marwa Benaziza – Scholar of the Week (for trying to understand what a metaphor is and using it in her poem).

Tailleferre Class:

Raheema Ali – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing ‘humanity’ by always being kind and courteous to others).Cameron Palmer – Scholar of the Week (for using excellent figurative language techniques during English lessons).

Vivaldi Class:

Dua Maisam – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for being kind and helping others).Ryan Abraham – Scholar of the Week (for writing beautiful imagery in his poems).

Cartwright Class:

Mariam Chowdhury – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing fantastic ‘humanity’ in class by always thinking about how she is able to help others).Eesa Anwar – Scholar of the Week (for using wonderfully interesting vocabulary when writing her own version of a Shakespearian playscript).

Einstein Class:

Kayaan Khan – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for always helping and encouraging her learning partner).Zaina Hussain – Scholar of the Week (for her enthusiasm and engagement in our class discussions).

Johnson Class:

Nirmalpreet Durhailey – Headteacher’s Habits Award (for showing immense integrity and bravery. She has asked for extra help regarding the Shakespearean language that we have encountered this term and done some extra reading to improve her understanding. Well done!).Arissa Isha Butt – Scholar of the Week (for showing a fantastic understanding of the text A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream. She has been able to translate complicated language and has a good understanding of the text. Well done!).


BRIDGES in the Primary Phase“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”

Isaac Newton

BRIDGES are habits of mind or learning characteristics that develop a pupil's character and learning power and enable him/her to grow into a well-rounded individual and resilient learner.

There are seven BRIDGES habits that we will be working on, which will rotate on a weekly cycle throughout the year. The BRIDGES habit of the week will always be in-troduced at the beginning of the week during the Monday assembly and reinforced throughout the week across the curriculum. Each class teacher will award a certifi-cate to a pupil that they feel has demonstrated the BRIDGES focus for the week.

Each week we will update you on the BRIDGES habit that will be introduced in the coming week and offer some top tips on how to reinforce the habit at home too. Please also refer to the Primary BRIDGES wheel below.


At School • We make our lessons as fun and interactive every day so that every child loves

learning and have a sense of enthusiasm with everything they do. Our lessons are very hands on and we ask the children to share their learning with the ‘talk partners’.

• We talk to the children about looking out for the details on things around them, to look closely at the bugs and the leaves in the playground and what happens to everything as the seasons change. We encourage the children to check their work and try to spot any errors they may have made.

• Through our topic approach we engender a sense of curiosity and wonder in the children where they are keen to go home and find out more. We talk about human characteristics and traits and what makes us all the same but equally what makes us different and that it is good to have differences and to appreciate them with an open mind.

• Every area of the curriculum helps the children to become more creative –either through role-play, stories, music and PE – helping the children to use their imaginations.

At Home• Encourage your child to use their imagination by making up stories together, or

suggesting ways in which they could change parts of a story they know well, either change the gender of the characters, have them go on a different adventure etc. Pupils love to role play different characters and it is often even more fun when the adults join in too. Play along and have fun!

• Play games with your child like ‘I spy’ where you can see how many things they can notice beginning with a certain sound or letter they may already know or ask your child to think about an object and describe it using powerful adjectives. Ask questions like ‘I wonder what would happen if…?’ or ‘what do you think might happen if?’ or ‘why do you think…? These types of deeper questions will encourage the children to use their creativity and imagination more fully.

• Either independently or with help, encourage your child to read or research more information around the topics they have been studying in class. The children could also spend time researching our current composer.

EnergyEnthusiasm

NoticingOpen-Mindedness

Curiosity

ImaginingCreativity

Week commencing 28th September 2020

DiscoveryDiscovery comprises seven dispositions:


Autumn Term 2020Tuesday 1st September –

Friday 18th December 2020

Key Dates

Tuesday 1st October Start of Black History Month

Tuesday 6th October INA Secondary Open Evening 5.45 – 8.30pm (Y6 – Y7)

Friday 16th October INA Primary Ark INSET Day – Primary School Closed

Friday 23rd October Multicultural Day

Friday 23rd October Break up 3.45pm

Monday 26th - Friday 30th October HALF TERM

Monday 2nd November Home and Family Week

Monday 2nd November Mathemagical Week

Wednesday 18th November INSET Day: no school for students

Friday 11th December Christmas Lunch & Christmas Jumper Day

Friday 18th December Break up 12.00pm

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INA Primary Newsletter 200925...website also offers advice regarding ‘online safety’ and how to obtain support or advice regarding the safeguarding of children. Uniform Information