Primary Newsletter

24th May 2024

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Head of Primary’s Address

I can’t believe we have come to the end of our penultimate half-

term, and what a great week it has been. We welcomed our Year 1
families into school on Wednesday to celebrate and showcase their
lovely learning – well done Year 1! Some of our Year 3 and Year 4
children went out on a football adventure with Ms Huston, and we
also held our annual Movie Night, where the children thoroughly
enjoyed the entertainment and snacks.

Class photos took place on Wednesday, and we will let you know
when they are ready to view for purchase.

After the brief rest of half-term, we will return to a full agenda of

exciting learning activities for all our children across the primary
phase.

Year 1 will have their Phonics Screen Checks and Year 4 have their
Multiplication Tables Check. Both of these tests are national
assessments and will be taking place within the first two weeks of
the half-term. Therefore, don’t forget to practice reading and
timetables throughout the half-term break.

I want to personally thank each and every one of school

community for supporting our children through their education
journey this term and wish you all safe and happy half-term.

I look forward to seeing you all back in school at the usual times on
Monday 3rd June.

Ms West

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Lovely Learning

Year 1 Fruit Salads!

Year 1 had an incredible time

making some delicious
African fruit salads. We have
been focusing on instruction
writing in English and were
looking at lots of imperative
verbs to include in our
instructions.

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Lovely Learning

Year 1 Learning Showcase

This week, Year 1 had an amazing time showing

our parents some lovely learning through our
showcase. We had Art, Geography and Science
stations which allowed everyone to get stuck in!
We also showed off our amazing phonics skills.
Everyone had a lovely time.

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KS1 Origami Enrichment

This term some KS1 children
have taken part in Origami
Enrichment. This has allowed
the children to use their fine
motor skills to create some
beautiful artwork. This week
we produced an intricate red
butterfly!

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Lovely Learning
Year 4+5 Football Festival
On Tuesday 21st
May 11 of our year 4 and 5 pupils travelled to Power League in Fairlop,
where they took part in a variety of football activities. They all represented the school
wonderfully and showed us how determined, brave and kind they are.
Well done to everyone that took part in this amazing event!

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Tournament of Books!
Below, you can see an image of the reading tournament
that will take place in Year 5 over the next few weeks.
Pupils will be reading and selecting their favourite books
in a whole-year-group tournament. We’re excited to
hear about the winning novel!

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Auditions for INA Academy Awards

Are you a budding performer hoping to build your presenting
skills? Do you enjoy speaking to large audiences? Would you
like the opportunity to present to our parent community on
the secondary stage?
We are looking for two primary students to present at our all-
through Academy Awards on Wednesday 3rd July from 5:00-
7:15pm. The two roles are as follows:
1. Student Presenter: this role would require learning a
script; reading out award nominations and presenting
trophies to pupils and teams on stage in front of parents,
carers, pupils and staff. You would be on stage for the
majority of the Academy Awards alongside student leaders
from the secondary.
2. A poetry performer: we are also looking for one student to
present a poem that they have written or a poem that
inspires them as part of the performance element of the
award ceremony. The poem should take no longer than 2-
3 minutes to present.
If you would like to be apply for one of these roles, please
come to Ms Jeremy’s office at 12:00pm on Thursday 6th
June. Successful candidates will be notified by Friday 7th
June. Parents and carers of student presenters will also be
offered the chance to attend the evening to see their child
present at the awards.

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Ms Ahmad’s
favourite reads

My favourite children’s book is The Miraculous Journey

of Edward Tulane By Kate Dicamillo. The book tells the
story of a lost rabbit. Abilene loves Her China rabbit.
But one day he goes missing on a voyage from New
York to London. Edward falls overboard and from
there he finds himself on an amazing adventure. This
story is full of twists and turns.
My favourite adult literature is the Kite Runner by
Khaled Hosseni. It depicts the lives of two boys living in
Afghanistan who want to win a competition. But they
have obstacles along the way. A heart wrenching story
of love, loyalty, and family.

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Second-hand book sale

Wednesday 12th June
2024

3:35pm to 4:05pm

We will be running a second-hand book sale on

Wednesday 12th March. We would love to see you come
along and treat yourself to a new read!

If you have any unwanted books at home, which you

would like to donate, please bring them into school
before Monday 10th June. All types of books are welcome
from cook books to children’s picture books. We look
forward to receiving your donations.

If you are able and willing to offer support in setting up

and selling the books alongside our school staff, then
please let the office team know and we will be in touch!

Thank you in advance to all those who offer their

support.

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Science Week Coming Soon…..!

Week beginning 17th June 2024
To celebrate Science this week, the children will be undertaking
a range of exciting experiments in their classes….
On Tuesday we will focus on Environmental Science and have a
Climate Day. We will be using our science and engineering skills
to see if we can design and make floating gardens such as are
being used ingeniously in Bangladesh to help farmers continue
to grow crops when floods occur as they are with increasing
frequency in that part of the world, due to climate change. We
are asking all the children to wear something green and to bring
in £1 with them that day which will help us raise money to fund
more Science and Climate opportunities going forward….
Happy Science Week everyone!

Resource request: Please start collecting small plastic tubs

(yoghurt pots, jelly pots, small shallow trays - nothing larger than
a margarine tub) and give to your child’s class teacher for the
floating garden project

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Praise and Recognition
Well done to all the children below, who have been recognised for their great
character habits and fantastic learning this week.

BRIDGES
Scholar of the Week
Habit of the Week
Fatima Javed for showing great
Zayan Khan for always being
Reception excellence by working exceptionally
enthusiastic when finding out one
hard this term in her writing. She
Curie Class more and one less within 20
has been using red words and set 2
independently.
sounds.

Reception Aydin Carrim for showing great Musa Hoque for remembering to use
excellence when writing sentences capital letters and full stops in his
Maxwell Class
during afternoon exploration. writing.
Zainab Patel for showing excellence
Anah Uddin for her fantastic learning
Reception and pride in all her learning. She is
this week especially in Math by
a brilliant role model and is always
Newton Class writing Maths equations
doing the right thing even when the
independently.
adult is not looking.
Halima Jamil for showing great Hammad Kashif for presenting
Year 1 excellence when sharing answers. himself with a great attitude
Britten Class Halima is always determined to especially through his resilience in
expand and justify her ideas. our showcase.
Michela Mondal for consistently
Year 1 Ashreen Kaur for some very
giving of her very best and working
impressive inferring in whole class
Fitzgerald Class with great focus and sustained effort
reading this week.
in all lessons throughout the week.
Rohaan Ali for always being
Prathmesh Soni for showing
ambitious and working extremely
Year 1 excellence when completing difficult
hard, regardless of how challenging
maths equations in both addition
Glennie Class the learning is. Rohaan is an
and subtraction by using
exceptional role model to Glennie
regrouping. Well done Prathmesh!
class!
Ayaan Stihari for showing his Raees Ali for showing great
Year 2 excellence by being ambitious and knowledge in Geography lessons and
Al-Kashi Class trying his best in all his SATS being able to name the different
assessments. continents and oceans of the world.
Eshaal Alam for showing excellence Ayaan Uddin for creating a mouth
Year 2 and persevering during our SATs fold pop up as his second page for his
Fibonacci Class assessment week and trying her pop up book. remembering the steps
best. he needed to be successful.
Sumayyah Sillah Marega for being
Year 2 Janya Chauhan-Patel for showing
creative and imaginative when
excellence in creating a pop up book
Pythagoras Class writing character description and
in our DT lesson.
including similes.

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Praise and Recognition
Well done to all the children below, who have been recognised for their great
character habits and fantastic learning this week.
BRIDGES Scholar of the Week
Habit of the Week
Zain Ali for showing excellence this
Amira Mohammed for being a
week by continuing to be highly
resilient member in Ellington class.
ambitious. He has worked
Year 3 She produces work to a high
exceptionally hard this half term in
Ellington Class standard and ensures she is
writing and including all features
maintaining this progress across all
in an informal letter from the
areas.
perspective of Bron.
Maryam Ali for striving for
Rukh-E-Zahra Naqvi for using her
excellence in her learning by
Year 3 curiosity in Science this week;
upleveling her written work to use
Nicks Class retelling the life cycle of a plant using
ambitious vocabulary through the
new scientific vocabulary.
use of the thesaurus.

Abbad Kashif for showing

Aganveer Sood for explaining the life
Year 3 excellence in his learning by being
cycle of a flowering plant with
Shankar Class ambitious in his informal letter in
scientific vocabulary.
English.

Nahi Begum for improved

Sakinah Ahmed for being an
excellence in her ambitious efforts
Year 4 ambitious scholar and striving to
to rewrite her own version of a
Lovelace Class always improve and achieve to the
Shakespearean playscript using
best of her abilities.
modern language.

Aliyah Landi for her continuous Aliza Ahmed for her diligence in
Year 4 effort with her Shakespearean Maths this week in devising rules
Mirzakhani Class playscript this week, in making it and applying them to write number
the very best it can be. sequences.

Thanshika Ashokkumar for

Safwan Mahmood for working hard
maintaining ambition across all
this week to modernise his own
Year 4 subject areas and ensuring that
version of the Shakespearean play
Ramanujan Class excellence is demonstrated,
'The Tempest', whilst decoding and
particularly through her
paraphrasing unfamiliar language.
handwriting and presentation.

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Praise and Recognition
Well done to all the children below, who have been recognised for their great
character habits and fantastic learning this week.

BRIDGES Scholar of the Week

Habit of the Week
Tahsin Chakma for ensuring
Qirrat Sobia for being brave this week
Year 5 excellence in his learning across all
and putting her hand up during all
areas, especially during English
Rahman Class lessons through incorporating
lessons to share her ideas with the
class.
adventurous vocabulary.

Tripat Kaur for demonstrating

excellence in all curriculum aspects Fadil Baig for using his writing
Year 5 including how she conducts herself intervention in his class work to
Tailleferre Class around the class and school. She is a uplevel independently during his
brilliant role model and presents letter writing as Harry Potter.
herself well.

Ekamjot Kaur for continuously Nafiz Hossain Jamal for his brilliant
Year 5 being ambitious in all lessons and work in English this week where he
Vivaldi Class holding herself to an extremely high wrote a fantastic letter including
standard. parentheses and embedded clauses.

Jai Pathak for always demonstrating

excellence throughout all of his
Year 6 Hira Noor for trying her hardest
learning, especially throughout his
throughout our D.T day and creating
Cartwright Class formal letter by constantly trying his
an amazing slipper with lots of detail.
hardest to include all the key
features.

Year 6 Shad Rahman for making a Medina Islam for writing in a clearly
deliberate effort to act promptly and formal register within persuasive
Einstein Class willingly contribute in class. writing.

Annika Taheem for always

Rayaan Zeeshan for using his
Year 6 demonstrating excellence in all areas
resilience when trying different
of her learning, especially through
Johnson Class her immaculate presentation and
stitches when making his slipper in
D.T.
handwriting.

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Praise and Recognition

25 Merits – Bronze Certificate

Congratulations to the following pupils who have

demonstrated excellent learning habits and ended the day
on gold 25 times! As a result, they have been awarded their
Bronze certificate for achieving 25 merits.

Sahl Singh
Chaytrika Vijayan
Imaad Siddiqui
Mayun Mohi Ud Din
Harkirat Kaur
Fawaz Bari
Ahmed Syed

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Praise and Recognition

50 Merits – Silver Certificate

Congratulations to the following pupils who have

demonstrated excellent learning habits and ended the day
on gold 50 times! As a result, they have been awarded their
Silver certificate for achieving 50 merits.
Isra Javed Zahraa Din
Haniya Hussain Khadija Khankara
Hassan Shahid Eartha Benjamin
Agam Dhanesar Samuel Albanis Lopez
Zara Ahmed Maryam Ali
Rodrigo Correia Melo Ambika Duggal
De Nascimento Eric Morgan
Jassriya Kitaure Johanna Titty Matthew
Ishaq Zaman Alvina Adeel
Avtaj Singh Tahsin Chakma
Jabir Sikder Edie Morgan
Diya Sauntoo Malak Raggai
Sukhmani Mann Musa Malcolm
Shivam Kalra Haniya Sheikh
Odri Bogolomolova Zander Benjamin
Anayah Khawaja

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Praise and Recognition

75 Merits – Gold Certificate

Congratulations to the following pupils who have

demonstrated excellent learning habits and ended the day
on gold 75 times! As a result, they have been awarded their
Gold certificate for achieving 75 merits.

Zara Yousafzai
Zayaan Malik

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Attendance
Regular attendance is a crucial factor in students’ educational development and ability to
achieve their full potential. At Ark Isaac Newton Academy every student is set the target of
100% attendance.

The class with the highest attendance for the phase by the end of every week is
awarded the attendance trophy during Friday’s Praise & Recognition assembly.

Early Years and Key Stage 1

Curie 91.2 Britten 95.6 Al-Kashi 99.4

Maxwell 94.4 Fitzgerald 97.8 Fibonacci 99.4

Newton 95.6 Glennie 100 Pythagoras 97.8

Well done to Glennie class who are the winners this week with 100%. Looking for
improvements from all our other classes to aim for over 96% and strive for 100%.

Key Stage 2

Ellington 98.9 Lovelace 97.8 Rahman 96 Cartwright 99.4

Nicks 96.7 Mirzakhani 97.8 Tailleferre 98.9 Einstein 95

Shankar 98.3 Ramanujan 100 Vivaldi 100 Johnson 96.6

Well done to Ramanujan and Vivaldi class who are the winners this week with
100%. Looking for improvements from all our other classes to aim for over 96%
and strive for 100%.
Overall Attendance: 96.1%
Overall Attendance for the year to date: 96%

National average attendance for primary schools is 96.0%. It is important that the children
attend school every day and do not miss any learning. Thank you for your support in ensuring
your child is at school every day. We always strive for 100%!

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Composer of the fortnight…

Bill
Withers

After half-term we will continue listening to the music of Bill

Withers. As a suggested activity to support at home, you could
gather some facts about Bill Withers using the following links to
get you started:
https://billwithers.com/
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Withers
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bill-withers-mn0000078044

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Ark Isaac Newton Academy Values & Beliefs
Each week, a ‘Values article’ that connects to the core values of Isaac
Newton Academy will be published in the newsletter. Within these
writings, we will draw parallels to influential individuals whom we
consider to embody the principles of our school. Keep reading to
discover this week's "Values Article.’’
Values & Beliefs
• Integrity – We are true to our values, doing what we say; we
always do the right thing, even when it’s hard and nobody is
watching.
• Kindness – We always support each other, show genuine
care and consider the feelings of others in all our actions and
words.
• Professionalism - We model pride and positivity in all that
we do; we are always respectful and take responsibility for our
actions.
• Growth mindset – We work hard; we are resilient in
adversity and unafraid of failure, always embracing our
mistakes and celebrating our growth.
• Excellence – We are highly ambitious, doing the best in all
we do to become the greatest version of ourselves.
• Community – We are unified, valuing relationships that
create an environment where everybody is accepted and
belongs.

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Isaac Newton Academy Values & Beliefs

Integrity, Kindness, Professionalism, Growth Mindset, Excellence

and Community.

Excellence – We are highly ambitious, doing the best in all

we do to become the greatest version of ourselves.

One famous cricketer who has demonstrated excellence and is highly

ambitious is Virat Kohli. Kohli is regarded as one of the best batsmen in the
world and has achieved numerous records and accolades throughout his
career. His passion for the game and relentless pursuit of success have
driven him to continually improve and push boundaries on the cricket field.
Kohli's leadership as the former captain of the Indian cricket team has also
been commendable, guiding his team to victories and inspiring his
teammates with his dedication and commitment. Off the field, Kohli has
ventured into business and entrepreneurship, establishing his brand and
investments in various ventures. His combination of talent, ambition, and
determination has made him a role model for aspiring cricketers and
sportspeople worldwide.

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Ms Bhatti
Key Information
Safeguarding Children

As 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

In order to safeguard our children, we do not allow for parents/carers to take photographs
or video on school grounds. If you wish to take a photo of your own child, we ask that you
do this once you have left the school site.

The Designated Safeguarding Leads (DSLs) for the school are Mr Austin (Secondary and
overall DSL), with Mr Marshall-Jones as the Primary Safeguarding Lead (DSL). Deputy
Safeguarding Leads include Ms West, Ms Jeremy and Ms Vincent (DDSLs).

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Key Information

For full details of our uniform policy, click here.

Contacting INA
Phone the school office on 0208 911 6666

To email Isaac Newton Academy Primary – Please use the following email
address [email protected]

You can contact teachers through the Year Team email accounts. Please see
below:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

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Lunch menus. Next week will be Week A.

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Future dates

Date Event
Monday 27th to Friday 31st Half-term (school closed)
May 2024
Monday 3rd June 2024 Start of final half-term (school opens usual times)

Monday 3rd June to Friday Year 4 Multiplication Tables Check period

14th June 2024
Tuesday 4th June 2024 Year 4 visit to Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre

Wednesday 5th June 2024 Second-hand Book Sale from 3:45pm

Monday 10th June to Friday Year 1 Phonics Screening Check period

14th June 2024
Monday 17th June to Friday Science Week
21st June 2024
Monday 24th to Wednesday Year 6 Residential trip to Stubbers Outdoor Adventure Centre
26th June 2024
Tuesday 25th June 2024 Year 1 visit to the Sealife Centre (Southend)

Wednesday 26th June 2024 Parent/carer information evening and curriculum showcase for all
Year 6 children going to INA Secondary – 5:30pm
Tuesday 2nd July 2024 Reception's visit to the farm

Tuesday 2nd July 2024 Year 2 Learning Showcase – Parents invited

Wednesday 3rd July 2024 Primary Sports Day

Wednesday 3rd July 2024 Academy Awards Evening (for invited students)

Thursday 4th July 2024 Year 6 to Year 7 Secondary Transition Day

Friday 5th July 2024 Ark INSET Day (school closed for children )

Tuesday 9th and Wednesday Aladdin Production

10th July 2024
Tuesday 9th July 2024 Year 3, 4 and 5 Summer Concert (children only)

Tuesday 9th July 2024 Year 1 and 2 Summer Concert (children only)

Wednesday 10th July 2024 Second-hand uniform sale – after school

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Date Event

Thursday 11th July 2024 Year 6 end of year production – 9am

Friday 12th July 2024 Year 2 visit to the Sealife Centre (Southend)

Tuesday 16th July 2024 Primary Transition Day

Thursday 18th and Friday 19th Awards Assemblies (children only)

July 2024
Friday 19th July 2024 Last day of term

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