Newsletter 28/11/2014 - ARK Putney Academy

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Putney Academy News
Edition 11 28-11-2014
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This section is
and always let your family
for teachers
know when you are revising.
and other staff
3.Create summary notes and
to give praise
anything simple that helps to students who
your memory – as short notes, have gone above
drawings and sayings are much and beyond to be
easier to remember. kind or helpful
4.Get help. Ask friends and to others. Each
student featured
family to test you. Also at-
Dear students
will receive 5
tend any teacher revision
house points.
classes – as teachers will
Everyone in the academy is sit-
know better than anyone what
ting exams over the next two
will be in tests and exams! Paul Patrimonio
weeks right from Year 7 to year
– Man of the
5.Record yourself reading
13. Some year groups are sit-
match in Rugby
notes and occasionally listen
ting official practice exam
this week_Mr
to them instead of reading.
papers and some lower year Evans
6.Take a 5 or 10 minute
groups are sitting assess-
break every hour and do some
ments. All exams have two func- Alan Kawa – Two
tions; the first is to measure stretching exercises, go for brilliant tack-
a short walk or make yourself les in rugby._
what you know and your skills.
a drink. Mr Evans
Some people call this weighing
7.Allow yourself some fun-
the pig. The other function is
Jake Gatehouse
time each day to relax...and
more important especially when 13RSA
make sure you get a good 8
you completing assessments and For making such
hours of sleep each night.
that is measuring what students an awesome Oreo
8.Eat well. Good brain foods?
do not know or are not able to cake for my
do so that we, as teachers can Wholegrain foods (cereals, birthday. It
wheat bran, wheatgerm and was out of this
adjust our planning to ensure
whole wheat pasta). Blueber- world
that next time you have learnt
ries. Blackcurrants. Broc- Thank you Jake!_
the knowledge and mastered the
coli. Tomatoes. Oily fish. Miss Torres
skills required to be success-
Nuts.
ful.
9.Don’t panic if you feel a
Show Hy Homework is coming bit nervy. A certain amount
to APA! of nervousness actually helps
you perform to the best of
your ability, producing a
rush of adrenaline that helps
you to feel alert and fo-
cused.
10.Think positive – it’s se-
riously not the end of the
world if you do not do as
well as you expected – just
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learn from the experience.
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Year 7
Well done to Robyn, Troy, Lia,
Lynn-Esther, Dirie, Jamal, Jasmine, I have really enjoyed hearing all the
Shania, Shakira, Nassim, Alea, wonderful comments about our respect post-
Eleesher, Yazan and Shai for main- ers! Miss Downey will be keeping her eyes
peeled and I will announce the winner in
taining 100% attendance, and the
next week’s assembly.
following students for maintain-
Well done to Mark and Isaac who have
ing our main target of 96%: Sa- joined the choir in playing the African
phyra, Shaecaeden, Abu, Bethany, drums, Mr Marshall is so impressed with
Anna-Ruth, Raheel, Andrew, Yasmin, their skills and effort- keep this up!
I was also very impressed to visit set 3
Daniaal, Kenny and Jimena. This is
in Drama this week- Tyler played a fantas-
great to see and we now need the
tic narrator for The 3 Little Pigs.
next twenty of you who are hovering Finally, your assessment week begins on
in the early 90s to look at your Monday- you must ensure you are revising
attendance and aim to get back to thoroughly by going through your exercise
books and reading over work, attending
96% as well. The odd days off, be-
extra-curricular subjects clubs and seeing
ing late some mornings, and miss-
your teachers for tips and support.
ing the odd lesson will affect your
Turing House
learning in subjects, and around
Congratulations to the following students
this time of the year, will cause
who have 100% attendance so far this term!
you to miss important aspects of
TWEEDDALE, Ewan GREENE, Rebecca
assessment preparation.
SARKER, Hemiel GRANT, Shameille
SAID, Jonathan ELMER, Joseph
I was very pleased to see that you PRESCOTT, Kyle ELMER, Andrew
have all been completing your home- ORMISTON, Sacha Lei- DOGUSOY, Kerim
work, behaving well in lessons, and manis DENNINGER, Gael
ONYEKA, Victory BROWN, Sinead
arriving at school on time this
ONYEKA, Isaac BROWN, Shakira
week, and you will be pleased as it
MENSAH, Rowen BAKER, Eleesher
means you get to go home on time. LENNOX, Bethany ASLAM, Rakeeza
I know you will keep this up for HOLMAN, Nathanael AL-SAYED, Yazan
the next few weeks so we can have a HOLMAN, Macaiah ALLEN, Shai
HO, Kevin AHMED, Sharif
belting end to the Christmas term.
Our enterprise day is coming up- we will
Have a lovely weekend. be selling cakes, sweets and Christmas
items in order to raise money for Thinking
of Theo. If you would like to take part in
raising money for Theo, please come and
see me.
Please support APA’s campaign and bring in
a tin of dog food to feed dogs in crisis
in Romania this Christmas.
Have a great weekend,
Ms Harvey
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Congratulations to the following pu- Just a reminder to everyone that Year
pils, in Dickens House, for achieving 9 exams start next week. All students
100% attendance so far this academic have been issued with an exam timeta-
year: ble, accompanied by a text home. They
will need to check with their class-
WALLEN, T’Leah LAGDEN, Joseph room teachers for revision outlines
THOMPSON-GOUGH, Jay- HOMSAP, Ramavadee and materials, many of which should
don HARDING, Jasmine
have already been distributed. It’s
POPE, Leo GREENIDGE, Simeon
really important that students try and
POPE, Brandon FRANCIS, Adam
concentrate on areas of weakness and
PIEDADE, Troy COYLE, Shania
give themselves a checklist to adhere
PIEDADE, Teon CHOOMSAENG, Athit
to.
OSMAN, Abdikadir AHMED, Danyal
NKOSI, Armstrong ABEBERESE, Ashia Well done to all the students who have
MIAH, Iqbal maintained such excellent attendance
and punctuality this year, I hope to
Congratulations to the following pu- reward them before the end of term for
pils for upholding the 6 pillars: their hard work and dedication.
Nathalie Rangla for Good Effort, En- Year 9 are supporting Ms Fennell in
thusiasm and Independence in Science the HELPING ROMANIAN DOGS IN CRISIS
Dumauria Bourne-Brown Good Effort, En- leading the APA campaign to collect
thusiasm and Independence in Science tins of Dog food for Abandoned and
Tia Roye for Good Effort in Maths Starving dogs in Romania. If anyone
Jamie Hill for Good Effort in Asdan has a spare tin that they can bring
Danyal Ahmed for Good Effort in Eng- in…Please take your tins to Room B34
lish next week so they can get to Romania
Riana Scott for Good Effort and Inde- for Christmas !
pendence in French
Jeiel Oakley for Independence in Sci- LETS FILL UP PAWS2RESCUE VAN HEADING
ence OUT TO ROMANIA!
Kaliyah Roye for Good Effort in Art
Ashia Abeberese for Good Effort in ORPHANED PUPS LIKE THIS NEED YOU!
English
Ryley White-Francis for Good Effort
in English
Drama Club
Come and join us after school on Tues-
day from 3:30pm-5:00pm; it is a lot of
fun!!! Everyone is welcome!!
Abandoned and Starving
Romanian Dogs need your
help!!!
Donate a tin of dog food and help bring
a little warmth to the abandonned,
stray and orphaned dogs in Romania
this Christmas.
Please bing your cans to Room B34 by
10th December!
They will be taken to Romania by lo-
cal Sutton Rescue on 12th December,
this way the dogs can be fed in time for
Christmas.
Appeal to help
Romanian dogs in
crisis
The stray problem in Romania began in the late 1980s. Before the communist regime of Dictator
Ceausescu, most Romanians worked on farms with their companion animals. But new communist
policies changed agricultural Romania into an urban society complete with overcrowding and food
shortages. As communism took hold, many rural families were forced to work in urban areas and
were not allowed to take their pets with them into the apartments where they lived. Thousands of
dogs were left to fend for themselves in the countryside. Since Ceausescu’s execution in 1989, the
dog population has grown into the millions.
Abandoned and stray dogs are on the streets starving and often abused on a daily basis. The Roma-
nian Parliament has ruled that all stray dogs will be killed if, after 14 days in a public dog shelter,
they remain unadopted. Official “ public shelters” for dogs are filthy and cold, the dogs are kept in
very small cages, lying in their own faeces, deprived of food and water, often in great pain. The dogs
are cruelly caught by untrained dogcatchers. Life is hell for dogs in Romania. Many local Romanian
people work tirelessly to help these dogs in crisis, but have few resources to do this.
Paws2Rescue are a local charity based near us in Sutton they work with their dedicated rescuers in
Romania to help as many of these dogs as possible by providing places of shelter and safety, away
from abuse, and providing food, vet care and love.
APA students can help the dogs in crisis by donating tins of dog food that will be transported by
Paws2Rescue to Romania – it will directly reach
the dogs and give them food that they so desper-
ately need.
Paws2Rescue leave Sutton for Romania on the
12th December 2014 in an empty van, to bring
back a few lucky Romanian dogs that have been
adopted by families in the UK.
APA STUDENTS WORKING TOGETHER CAN
FILL THAT EMPTY VAN UP WITH TINS OF
FOOD FOR THE DOGS IN ROMANIA.
Please bring your tins to Room B34 by the 10th
December 2014 PLEASE HELP
Sadly, we cannot save every dog, but with your
help, we can save as many as we can. Together we
are stronger.
APA CHRISTMAS CARD DESIGN 2014
DESIGN THE APA CHRISTMAS CARD AND HAVE IT
PRINTED PROFESSSIONALLY.
• THE DESIGN MUST BE NO LARGER THAN A4.
• APA CAN BE PART OF THE DESIGN.
• IT SHOULD BE IN COLOUR.
• THE DESIGN SHOULD BE FLAT…NOT RAISED (NO STRING, ETC).
• YOU ARE ONLY DESIGNING THE FRONT OF THE CARD.
• ALL ENTRIES MUST BE WITH MR SOLARI BY MONDAY 1ST DECEMBER
(3.30PM).
• THERE WILL BE AN OVERALL WINNER AND RUNNERS UP FROM
EACH YEAR GROUP.
School Announcements
Sports
Basketball Result
Table Tennis Report
Wandsworth schools’ Under 16s basket-
This week saw some movement in the top 10
ball competition
rankings. A new entry at no. 10 is Amari,
who had a strong display in his group this
APA 22 v Ashcroft 38
week, winning 2 out of his 3 games. Ahead
year 7 inter-tutor football of him is Sacha, who bounced back follow-
ing a bad couple of weeks where an injury
The final results for the year 7 in-
hampered his progress. Sacha dominated his
ter-tutor final are as follows:
group, winning all three games as he de-
servedly takes his place back in the top
7MEV 7KTO 7KYR 7CPA PTS
10.
7MEV 1v1 0v0 2v0* 5
Further up the field, Daniel Dario contin-
7KTO 1v1 4v1 3v0 7
ued his climb up the league, rising to 8.
7KYR 0v0 1v4 1v1 2 Likewise the ever present Kiera more than
justified his top 10 position by oblit-
7CPA 0v2* 0v3 1v1 1
erating this week’s opponents to climb
* Won by default into the top 5. Near the top we saw the
The year 7 inter tutor competition first significant change as Joseph Ifayomi
came to a close this week with the defeated Tyler to rise to 3 in the rank-
ings. Although it is very tight at the
outspoken and controversial manage-
top as Tyler almost handed Louie his first
rial combo of Ms Torres and Mr. A
defeat, but Louie fought back to take the
walking away with the cup. No one can
match in the end.
deny they were the overall winners but
they were very lucky to face a weak-
Bubbling away outside the top 10 we have
ened Topalidou team in the last week. Mark D, Luca and Joshua. All three have
Disheartened and knowing that they the quality to challenge any one of the
were not in the top half of the group, top 10 and we look forward to seeing them
the Topalidou team didn’t put up the playing some of the top players in the
same fight as they had the week before next couple of weeks.
against Mr. Evans team. Torres and Mr.
As always Louie and Amiya lead the stand-
A’s (aka the self-appointed Special
ings as they continue to battle it out at
One) team ran out a comfortable 4-1
the top – congratulations to them as they
win to secure the title.
continue to dominate like Messi and Ron-
aldo.
Mr Evans tutor were very unfortunate
to walk away with only 2nd place over- We had some new entrants to the club this
all. In the first week they completely week – well played Lewis, Aaron, Toffee
dominated Ms Torres’ team with 75% and Jordan. Hope to see you again next
possession and 10 shots on goal to Ms week.
Torres 3. Ms Torres team scored a very
Next week Louie and Amiya will be paired
lucky last minute equaliser on the
with the might of year 8 – Kenny, Shae and
counter attack.
Andrew. In the 2nd group will be: Joseph,
Tyler, Alhassan and Kiera. Group 3: Isaac,
Fortunately, some justice has been
Daniel, Sacha and Amari. Group 4: Mark,
served, as Mr Evans team were awarded Josh, Luca and Manni.
the fair play trophy by the panel of
international journalists in attend- 1. Louie 6. Alhassan
ance. The player of the tournament was 2. Amiya 7. Isaac
also from their team – well done Amiya 3. Joseph 8. Daniel
Williams! 4. Tyler 9. Sacha
5. Kiera 10. Amari
Unlucky to Ms Patrick and Ms Topa-
lidou’s teams. Maybe football just On the bubble: Mark, Luca & Joshua
isn’t your game? Better luck in other
sports ;)
Sport Cont.
Cricket
ARK Putney Academy is affiliated to Surrey County Cricket Club through
the Cricket Activators programme
Coaching sessions take place on
Wednesdays in the sports hall from 3.30-4.30pm
Upcoming Fixtures
Monday 1st December - Year 8 football v Chestnut Grove
Friday 12th December - Ark Basketball Competition @ Evelyn Grace Academy
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Yr7&8 Basketball Inter-tutor Football Table Tennis club KS4 football KS3 football
Sports Hall Sports Hall Sports Hall Sports Hall Sports Hall
1:15pm-1:45pm 1:15pm-1:45pm 1:15pm-1:45pm 1:15pm-1:45pm 1:15pm-1:45pm
Afterschool Clubs
Year 7&8 boys Year 9 boys Cricket club Trampolining Basketball
football football Sports hall Sports hall yr9 and above
Putney Heath DHR 3.30pm – 4.30pm 3.10pm – 4.00pm Sports hall
3.30pm – 4.30pm 3.30pm – 4.30pm 3.30pm – 4.30pm
Fitness training Yr7/8 girls Netball KS3 Rugby
yr9 and above Sports hall Putney Heath
Sports hall 3.30pm – 4.30pm 3.30pm – 4.30pm
3.30pm – 4.30pm
ARK Putney Academy
PE Extra-Curricular Activities - Autumn Term 2014
Open Space
The support and wellbeing team, Cate,
Esther and Ms Collins are pleased to
to offer all students drop in sessions
(called Open Space) to use if you are
feeling low, worried, stressed, anx-
ious or have complicated stuff going
on.
If you want to use Open Space, all you
have to do is ask your teacher for
permission and go to the Wellbeing
and Support Office on the ground floor
of B Block. We know this might not be
easy for you to do, for so many rea-
sons, but please know all staff here
at school want to support you wherever
possible.
Open Space Times:
Mondays Period 3
Tuesdays Period 1
Thursdays Period 5
If you have any questions about Open
Space, feel free to drop in and ask Ms
Collins.
Apa Christmas Fair & Concert
We are currently looking for people who would
like to take part in the Christmas Fair on 11th
December. If you can bake, sew, knit, photo-
graph, draw, paint, style
hair, do nails, make jewellery or simply want to
help, we would love to hear from you.
Absence and Lateness
A reminder to all students that if We still want your old school uniform !
you arrive late to school you need to
sign in with Ms Williams or Mrs Scul- Do you have any old APA school uniform lying
ly. All year 7-9 students report to around that no longer fits?
Ms Williams on the top floor, room AD15 We are accepting donations via school recep-
and all year 10 – 13 students report tion and our aim is to provide uniform at knock
to Mrs Scully also on the top floor, in down prices at various APA events coming
room AD16. soon!
Please ensure that all donations are clean, in
If you are ill and not attending good condition and bagged for the attention of
school, that morning your parent or the PTA.
carer must call school and speak to Ms
Williams or Mrs Scully before 8:30am. Thank you !
For all year 7 – 9 students please
call Ms Williams on our school number
Next PTA meeting
and extension 227 or for all year 10 –
13 students call Mrs Scully on exten-
The next PTA meeting is due to take place
sion 190. Or you can select line 1
on Monday 1st December at 6 p.m in the
and choice the following 1 for Ms Wil-
school library.
liams and 2 for Mrs Scully.

For further updates please follow us on
Please do not call reception or leave
messages because these are unclear and twitter!
the receptionist cannot log lateness @apapta
or sickness on the system.
Miss Roe’s Travel Blog
Week 6
Caves and rainforest
As many of you know Miss Roe is currently travelling in South East Asia, she has writ-
ten to us to let us know some of the things she has been doing that she thought the
students at APA would be interested in!
madic one to living in a small vil-
lage. The lifestyle of the Penan
people still has many traditional
aspects to it however Christian
missionaries bough religion to the
area in the 1960’s which bought
with it some changes to their life-
style including improved education
and healthcare. They are communal
as a people and when a wild boar
has been hunted it will be shared
between many. Also money bought
into the village is shared equal-
ly and the people all support each
other.
The main attraction that has bought
tourists to this area is the lime-
stone caves that have formed over
millions of years. The caves are
huge not just in height but also
length and there are are a large
number of interconnecting caves.
There are 4 main show caves which
have been made accessible to all
tourists by large boardwalks that
Venturing out to Gunung Mulu na- allow everyone to explore the
tional park in Sarawak, Malaysian caves. Deer cave is one of the
Borneo, involves either a 3 day largest caves in the world, it is
boat trip or a short flight as there 148 m high and 4km in length. I
are no roads directly accessing
this area of the rainforest.
Mulu national park is a UNESCO
world heritage site which means it
is provided with extra support both
financially and to help protect the
national park area. The area is
originally home to tribal people
who lived nomadically in the for-
est, hunting and living off of the
land. The Penan tribe is the larg-
est tribe in the national park and
they have, over the last 50 years,
changed their lifestyle from a no-