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Ark Putney Academy Newsletter - 21/10/2016 Edition 5

Dear students,We have reached the final week of the first half term! It has been fantastic to see so many of you getting it right around the academy and listening to Tone, Time, Place and STEPS. It has also been brilliant to see all the house competitions that have been taking place and all the enthusiasm you have been showing. I have had so many compliments this term from members of staff, parents, prospective parents, and members of our local community about how well you all carry yourselves and what considerate and good mannered people you all are. I hope you all have a great half term and bring back the good attitude you been showing in the year so far!Well done!Ms Downey.

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HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TICKET YET?Come and support APA students in our own unique production of HAMLET! Tickets available NOW from RADA Studio Box Office 0207 3075060Hamlet will be performed at the RADA Studios, 16 Chenies Street, London on November 14th at 7pm. See you there!

Year 7 Retaaj Malakh 7ABR Maicha Gilbert-Mahile 7KBL Sarah Ramirez 7ETH Tianna Willis 7ABR Hayley Howard 7PO

Year 8 Vriddhi Singh 8ABO Prince Bryon Eanmi 8AFO Alexandre Gallimore 8AFONicola Barton 8AFO Cheyanne Francis 8DCL Zhane Goldie 8DCL Katie Howard 8DCL Sade Ferguson 8DCL Year 9Victoria Rebok 9NCO Poppy Nagle 9COL Kacey Wells 9KTO Maria Upfold 9MEV Connor Davis 9NCO Year 10 Anna-Ruth Stephens 10HHU Tyler-Morgan Rogers 10HHU Courtney Jeffs 10HHU

Tuesday 1st November the whole cast will be in the Drama classroom rehearsing all day. A reminder of who this involves is beneath.

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Well done for everyone who decorated their French books this term, Miss Sinot was very impressed with all the entries and has announced the winners in French lessons! Here are some of our favourites!

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Congratulations on a great first half term! It’s been great watching you all settle into your lessons and embedding the Pillars. Dropping into lessons this week I’ve seen some impressive writing, fantastic stitching and questionable cooking (if you couldn’t guess they’re meant to be fish cakes!). Can’t wait to see what you guys get up to next half term. Shout out to our star of the week Kate for an impressive 69 positive points. Can anyone catch her up?

I’m looking forward to seeing the pumpkins you guys carve this afternoon and being out cheering on the football team after school. There’s a lot on next half term, from a road safety assembly to ice skating trip. Make sure that you are here on time every day doing your best to be part of it.

Have a great half term break.

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It has been a real pleasure to have Delia in the year group, she has consistently upheld our Pillars and I will really miss her enthusiasm- Good luck Delia!

Well done to all of year 9 who participated in the Football tournament- it is great to see so many of you contributing to our school community.

Big shout out to Year 9 girls going through to the basketball finale! I am looking forward to watching and cheering you on!

Have a great, restful half term.

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Well done to all of you who have been getting it right this first half term. Keep up the good work! My stars of the half term are: Jafar Al-KuwaityAndria KamilVriddhi Singh Nicola Barton-NyamalorHave a lovely break and I will see you when we return!Ms Bingham

Year 10,

What a fantastic half term it has been as you saw from all the celebrations in assembly. You have worked incredibly hard and you should be very proud of yourselves. I would like you to rest, sleep lots and have some fun over half term. Don’t forget when you come back you are one step closer to your future.

I look forward to seeing you after the holidays,

Miss McMillan

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House football competition

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“Big up Valeria for being amazing!” Anon

“Big up Year 10 for being the best year” Anon

“Big up to Kali for being amazing” Anon

“Big up Tylar for being my best friend” Anon

“Big up Year 9 Set 3 in Science! Fantastic work this week!” Mr Foster

“Big up Kate for being amazing!” Vina

“Big up Taig for being a laugh at 15:25 on Friday” Anon

“Big up ‘weirdo’!!! You know who you are.” Anon

“Big up Riana for helping me when I got hurt :( Thanks! x” Kacey

“Big up Anna” from you know who

“Big up Alea, Anna, Calesse, Shania, Saphyra, Rumaysah, Karen, Valeria, Shakira, Kaliyah, Jimena and Brenda”Abigail - Year 10

‘Big Up Maria Ups for helping me when I got hurt’ from Kacey

‘Big Up Miss Harris for cutting up my socks’ from Kacey

‘Big up La’Shai’ Lockett Allen

‘Big Abu’ by Rumaysah

‘A big up to Julie Rickard for the lovely biscuits she provides in the staff room and making that special trip to come up and provide at lunchtime’ from M.W

‘Big up Becky for being the best person ever’

‘Big up everyone in Year 10 because we’re amazing’ Anon

‘Big up Courtney and Anna for being my best dramatic people! Xx’ Love from Tylar

‘Big up my drama class Tylar, Shania, Valeria, Courtney etc’ from Anna-Ruth‘Big up Simon for being Ling-Ling’ from Tylar-M

‘Big up Vina for being awesome!’ Kate

‘Big up Alea and Abigail’ Anon‘Thanks Safaa for the most amazing work’

‘Big up to all the reception staff for being amazing’ from Tylar-M xx

‘Big up Macauley for his next game for Fulham! Top Goal Keeper’

‘Paul is amazing’ Valeria year 10

‘Big up Valeria and Abu’ by Anon

‘Big up Becky with the good hair’ Year 10

‘Big up Miss Carter’ by her favourites

‘Big up to Simon for being my Best Friend xx’ from Tylar-M

‘Big up Tylar Morgan for being awesome!!!’

‘Big up Anna for being so load and my tall friend’ Courtney x

‘Big up to the fabulous Valeria’

‘Big up Jaz for being a total idiot, Big up Daisy for being even more of an idiot! Year 10 anon

‘Big up Macauley for being amazing!!’

‘Big up Simon for being weird!!!’ Love Tylar

‘Big up Valeria’

‘Big up Tylar-Morgan for always being a good friend x’

‘Keavey – best impressions’ FHA

‘Big up Reuben, from the whole of year 10’

‘Big up Tylar for being special!! Simon

‘Big up Kacey and Abu for escorting visitors after school! Thank you!’ Miss Harris

‘Big up Becky for helping me’ Cheyanne

APA Sports NewsAPA Girls Basketball Team On Wednesday this week our girls basketball team took part in the Wandsworth Schools Basketball league competition against Southfields Academy and Harris Academy and won both games. The next round will be on the 23rd November here at APA in our Sports Hall. Team: Amiya Williams, Sinead Brown, Nicol Ramos-Nardello, Fatima Addo, Leyla Vafi, Zaynab Kanyi

School Rowing Competition Well done to all pupils who took part in the school rowing competition. Over 40 of you took part and yesterday’s event in the Undercroft area was extremely successful and that is down to the effort and enthusiasm of all those who showed up to take part and also support each other. This month’s winners from each year are:Year 7: Malaika Langley-Johnson 7ABR 460 metres and Victor Santos 7ABR 444 metresYear 8: Prince Tonmi 8AFO 455 metres and Emily Efionayi 8AFO 415 metresYear 9: Reeym Shah 9COL 535 metresAll winners will receive a queue jump pass after half term.Well done also to the fittest tutor group 7RSI who rowed in total 1957 metres. Keep it up!

Upcoming fixtures and events

• Friday 21st October: Year 7 Football Friendly @ Ark Putney Academy 3g (4:00pm kick off)• Monday 31st October, 7th November and 14th November: London Youth Games 2017 Cricket Trials and training sessions for year 7 and 8 boys and girls (For more details speak with Mr Sheehan). • Wandsworth School Games Badminton Competition KS4 boys Wed 30th November 2016 (if interested see Mr Sheehan).

U14 Basketball – Wandsworth schoolsThe under 14 girls squad travelled to Southfields for the Wandsworth Schools Basketball tournament. The first game against Southfields started well and Amiya Williams dominated with 6 points out of the 8 scored. Southfields scored a few late baskets but it wasn’t enough to overturn our commanding lead so the girls got off to a winning start. The second game was against the reigning champions of the competition, Harris Academy Battersea who bought along a large squad made up of predominantly year 9 students compared to ours which was made up of years 7, 8 and 9. The experience of the Harris squad saw them take an early lead but APA were determined to get level and with 2 minutes to go Amiya scored to take the score to 6-5. The girls did exceptionally well to hold on despite Harris throwing everything they had at them.

House Football ResultsThis week has been the house football competition which has been extremely entertaining and fun to watch, below are the results from year 7, 8 and 9.o Year 7 Winners: Brunel

o Year 8 Winner: Turing o Year 9 Winner: McQueen