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THE URSULINE ACADEMY ILFORD

A Catholic Academy for Girls

Weekly News – Issue 4

2nd October 2020

Dear Parents/Guardians

Headteacher’s Headlines…

As you will know the number of COVID cases in London indeed in Redbridge has been rising over the last

week and the area is on the Government watch list. We have been maintaining our Year group bubbles

and keeping the situation under close scrutiny. There was one positive case in Year 10 this week, the

student had not been in school for a number of days and we were able to track her contacts in school,

friends and girls she may have sat near in class, and these students were asked to self-isolate as a

precaution. There have been no more cases among staff although some were still self-isolating having

been a contact of a colleague or family member. It looks like this will be the way things are for the next

few months but please be assured that we act on information as soon as it is received. Exit times have

now been staggered further with Years 7 and 8 leaving at 3.10, Years 9 and 10 at 3.20 and Year 11 at 3.30

from Monday. The gate is open from 8am in the morning so there is a 40 minute window for girls to arrive

so we have not needed to change the start time. We have also suspended Year group assemblies for the

time being but tutors have been asked to hold class assemblies and morning prayer. From Monday we are

strongly advising girls and staff to wear a face covering in corridors and communal areas with a view to

making this compulsory if numbers continue to rise. This is still not required in classrooms at present. All

of this is of course subject to review.

On pages 15 – 22 are the Edmodo/Padlet codes for each Year group, this is to enable staff to set and mark

remotely were a class or year group asked to self-isolate. In the event of this, online work will be

supplemented with some live sessions for students. The online platforms are also being used by some staff

to set and mark homework. Please print off and keep these codes for easy reference.

Please do not send your daughter into school if she is feeling unwell and if your daughter has a COVID test

she must self-isolate until the test result is received and is negative. Please keep the school informed of

any developments while your daughter is off, including family members who have tested positive.

On a brighter note, we have now uploaded our promotional video onto the school website at

www.uai.org.uk. This was produced because of course we are unable to host our usual Open Evening for

new entrants 2021. We also have adverts in local Parish newsletters and the Ilford Recorder. Recruitment

could be more difficult this year with the pandemic so please share our story and recommend us to friends

and family if you feel able.

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This week's newsletter is packed with other good news stories, including the first of the Year 7 retreats,

Artist of the Month and the thank you we received from CAFOD World gifts. Yesterday saw the start of

Black History Month, we have lots planned and we will report more on that next week. This week the

Music Department have focussed on the achievements of black composers, see pages 10-14.

Unfortunately, this year we were unable to host our Welcome Assembly for Year 12 and their parents,

where the Year 13 Head Girl team are also invited to receive their badges, so today I met with the Head

Girl Gemma Harbour and her deputies Savannah Arbon, Jade Adebiyi, Piper De Stafano, Madeleine

Doves, and Natalie Gabriel to give them their badges and for a little photo opportunity in the Hall. The

girls have done a lovely display in the Reception area introducing themselves to the rest of the school, this

would usually be done in an Assembly. They are a fantastic bunch and a great source of inspiration for

younger students. The Senior Prefects also received their

badges and I will meet with them next week. Well done girls!

Serviam!

Chaplaincy News

Pope Francis@Pontifex – 2nd October

Let us continue to grow in the awareness that we all live in a common home as members of a

single family! #SeasonOfCreation

Forward in Joy – 366 days with Angela Merici – Daily words of wisdom from our patron saint

October: Be Shepherds 2nd October: May God give you knowledge and capacity.

3rd October: You will achieve more with kindness and gentleness than with harshness and sharp rebukes.

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4th October: Spread peace and concord wherever you are.

5th October: What you want them to do, do it yourself first.

6th October: They are all creatures of God. And you do not know what he wants to make of them.

7th October: As far as possible, you yourselves provide.

8th October: Charity directs everything to the honour of God and the good of souls.

A message from CAFOD…

Thank you for supporting World Gifts

I’d like to say and big thank you for your support in helping us to fight poverty and injustice in the world.

In coming together to buy from our World Gifts range you are helping to provide some of the world’s

poorest people with the tools and resources they need to change their lives for the better.

From helping rural communities access vital health care, to enabling families affected by disasters get back

on their feet, you will be playing a vital part in transforming people’s lives.

On behalf of CAFOD and all the people we support, thank you once again.

With every blessing,

Chris Funnell

Head of Supporter Donations

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Year 7 Retreats

It was awesome! I definitely want to come again!

I haven’t had this much fun in a long time. I especially enjoyed colouring

the quotes during afternoon prayer.

Today was very exciting and I would say everybody that would like to

come here that you should.

I enjoyed all of the activities and that we bonded with each other.

I enjoyed learning about each other and finding out more about

each other. I liked that during prayer we were all calm and relaxed.

I learnt that anyone can help change the world if we put our minds

to it.

I love this house! It’s so big beautiful and amazing! I enjoyed

EVERYTHING. IT WAS absolutely perfect! I would come here

again.

I enjoyed playing charades and the Stormzy video.

I liked how we had

to close our eyes

and focus in the

prayer time. It was

relaxing and calm

and everyone was

quiet and peaceful.

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Art News

Artist of the Month

Kamile Karaliute Year 13

Kamile has been inspired by the beauty

in nature and has produced some highly

detailed paintings. She says:

’Nature is the greatest artist of all time’

I particularly love the beauty and

boldness of the sunflower. Vincent Van

Gogh is my favourite artist and

impressionism is my preferred style; so

for this project I challenged myself to

create the opposite - photo-realism. This

style is more suited to highlight the

delicate, intricate, patterns found in

nature and in particular on the wings of a

butterfly –the beauty of the minute

detail drew me in and I extended this

approach to the sunflowers themselves”

Well done Kamile.

Mr Butler

Head of Art

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Music News

During “Black History Month” this October, we will celebrate black musicians who

helped to shape the music we have today. This week, our focus is on 9 black composers who changed the

course of Classical Music History, a couple of whom were nicknamed the “Black Mozart” and “Black

Mahler”. From Scott Joplin to Florence Price, the music of these brilliant composers has too long been

neglected in Western classical music tradition.

1. Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745 – 1799)

Dubbed ‘le Mozart noir’ (‘Black Mozart’), the Chevalier de Saint-Georges is

remembered as the first classical composer of African origins.

Born to a wealthy plantation owner and his African slave, Saint-Georges was a

prolific composer who wrote string quartets, symphonies and concertos in

the late 18th century. He also led one of the best orchestras in Europe – Le

Concert des Amateurs – and former US president John Adams judged him

“the most accomplished man in Europe”.

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Mozart, who at the time of Saint-Georges’ success was struggling to make his own music heard, envied

him. There is a popular theory that Mozart, as well as swiping one of Saint-Georges’ ideas in his Sinfonia

Concertante, used his jealousy to fuel the creation of the villainous black character Monostatos, who

appears in his opera The Magic Flute.

Listen here - https://youtu.be/c8-sIoTQfio

2. Florence Price

Florence Price was the first African-American

woman to have her music performed by a

major symphony orchestra – in 1933. A music

critic from the Chicago Daily News heard the

work, performed by the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra, and declared it “a faultless work, a

work that speaks its own message with

restraint and yet with passion… worthy of a

place in the regular symphonic repertoire.”

Born in Arkansas in 1887, Price was a deeply

religious person, and brought the music of

the African-American church into her music –

as well as influences from the likes

of Dvořák, Tchaikovsky and other European

Romantic composers. Hear some of her songs here and here, and the Concerto in One Movement here.

Listen here - https://youtu.be/9s4yY_A2A2k

3. Scott Joplin (1868-1917)

Dubbed the ‘King of Ragtime’, Scott Joplin was one of the most important and

influential composers at the turn of the 20th century. His ideas around harmony,

as well as his complex bass patterns and sporadic syncopation, are still imitated by

composers today.

Joplin’s untimely death, caused by syphilis which descended into dementia,

marked the end of ragtime and a sad lapse in interest around his music. But his

compositions were rediscovered and rose to popularity again in the early 1970s,

when Joshua Rifkin released an extremely successful album of his pieces. This was

followed by the Academy Award-winning 1973 film The Sting that used several of

Joplin’s compositions, including ‘The Entertainer’ and ‘Solace’.

Listen here - https://youtu.be/pMAtL7n_-rc

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4. George Bridgetower (1778 – 1860)

George Bridgetower was an Afro-European

virtuoso violinist and composer whose name you might

recognise from Immortal Beloved. He is described in

the film as ‘the famous virtuoso from Africa’ – but his

father was probably from the West Indes.

In the scene, he plays Beethoven’s ‘Kreutzer’ Violin

Sonata No. 9, a piece that Beethoven formally

dedicated to Bridgetower. The scene recounts their

real-life falling-out, which culminated in Beethoven

withdrawing his dedication over an off-colour remark

Bridgetower made about a lady Beethoven knew.

Outraged, Beethoven opted instead to name his sonata

after Rodolphe Kreutzer, the great French violinist.

Bridgetower’s name soon got lost in history, and he

died in poverty in Peckham, his name forgotten. So

next time you hear a performance of the Kreutzer

Sonata, spare a thought for the man after whom it

should really be named…

Listen here - https://youtu.be/R7LmeLfg5t0

5. William Grant Still (1895 – 1978)

Still’s career is a story of firsts: dubbed

‘The Dean’ of African-American

composers, he was the first African

American to conduct a major American

symphony orchestra, the first to have

an opera produced by a

major opera company (the New York

City Opera), the first to have a

symphony (his First Symphony)

performed by a leading orchestra, and

the first to have an opera performed

on national TV.

Still composed more than 150 works in his lifetime, including five symphonies and eight operas, the most

famous of which is his ‘Afro-American’ Symphony No. 1. He also found time to moonlight as an oboist,

conductor and jazz arranger.

Listen here - https://youtu.be/2OXmKehGDmE

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6. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 – 1912)

Referred to by white New York musicians as the

‘African Mahler’, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (not to

be confused with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the

Romantic poet) fought against racial prejudice all

his short life.

He skilfully married African-American folk music

with concert music, composing pieces like his

African Suite, African Romances and Twenty-Four

Negro Melodies. He is particularly known for his

three cantatas based on the epic poem, Song of

Hiawatha.

Coleridge-Taylor was given a well-deserved foot in

the door by Edward Elgar who recommended him

to the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford,

Gloucester and Worcester, where his Ballade in A

minor was eventually premiered. Elgar woke up to

Taylor’s talent thanks to August Jaeger, a highly

influential music critic and editor of publisher

Novello, who advised the composer that Taylor

was ‘a genius’.

Listen here - https://youtu.be/pkqaSqwHlsw

7. George Walker (1922 – 2018)

Walker was the first African American to win the Pulitzer

Prize for Music. He received it for his work Lilacs in 1996.

But not only that; Walker was also the first black

graduate of the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia in 1945,

the first black musician to play New York’s Town Hall in

the same year, the first black recipient of a doctorate

from the Eastman School in 1955, and the first black

faculty member to receive tenure at Smith College in

1961.

Walker died on 23 August 2018, and his most famous and

performed work remains his Lyric for Strings (1946), a beautifully moving work for string orchestra. He also

brought the Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ legacy to our attention in 2010, honouring him in his Foils for

Orchestra (Homage à Saint George).

Listen here - https://youtu.be/W17alPNaVfY

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8. Francis Johnson (1792-1844)

Francis ‘Frank’ Johnson was a celebrated and widely-

published Philadelphia composer, known for being the first

African American composer to have his works printed as sheet

music.

He played the violin and keyed bugle, and wrote over 200

pieces – including Ethiopian songs, operatic airs and marches.

A contemporaneous account by Philadelphia resident, John

Cromwell, remembers Johnson’s influential work and

pioneering brass band, which was “the leading military band

at all the famous parades and fashionable functions.”

Listen here - https://youtu.be/V0XUsOoyE7U

9. Wynton Marsalis (born 1961)

Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis is one

of the biggest stars in jazz, but his

inventive and infectious jazz, gospel

and spiritual-infused compositions

have become some of the most

important new works to hit classical

concert halls.

In 1997, Marsalis became the first

jazz musician to win the Pulitzer

Prize for Music with his oratorio

Blood on the Fields.

And it’s his violin concerto, a work composed for violinist Nicola Benedetti, that's been making waves in

2019. Nicola has been championing this work around the world and with a recently released recording. She

recently came to Classic FM and told us all about the concerto's extraordinary first movement.

Listen here - https://youtu.be/ILE2L7FkXaI

Ms Deller, Head of Music

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STEMETTES - EXPLORE

Registration for Weeks 1 & 2 now open! Click here to register

Week 3 registration opens on 5th October at Midday.

Stemettes Explore - Join us this half-term for 3 weeks of sessions exploring STEM careers,

advice and opportunities. We’ll be bringing together young women, nonbinary young

people and folks from across the STEM industry, for networking, inspiration and learning.

Hosted on Instagram Live and Microsoft Teams. Who are Stemettes and what do they do? Stemettes is an award-winning social enterprise working across the UK & Ireland and beyond to inspire and

support young women into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths careers; (known collectively as

STEM).

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They have a vision to support all girls to make informed decisions about careers and to inspire them into Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) fields, by showing them the diversity of people already in STEM via a series of cohort programmes, impactful events and inspirational content platforms. This drive by Stemettes is also aimed at helping to eventually improve the proportional representation of females in the field of STEM to at least 30%+ of the UK's STEM workforce, as opposed to the current 21%. During Lockdown, we sign-posted KS3 students (through our DT tasks) and in the school’s Newsletter to sign up for events. This was very well received and so we were hoping to share this with the wider school. It may be of interest to share with Girls that through Stemettes, some of our previous students have used the experience to help invest in their STEM futures, with some currently studying or working in STEM related fields and they have continued to share in the success of this environment. Mrs A Kodi-Pecku.

Careers

Apprenticeship Opportunities

We are really excited to share we have an exclusive event taking place next week

with BP for students looking to get into; Business, HR, Technology, Banking, Finance

and Trading! BP are one of the biggest companies in the UK, with over $280 billion in

revenue, 73,000+ employees globally and offer some of the highest paid

apprenticeship programs in the UK.

3 Amazing Apprenticeship Opportunities: (You can apply now or you can wait until our event next week to

find out more!)

HR / Business, London, £22,000 starting salary https://on.bp.com/3iaqhrF

Technology, London, £24,000 starting salary https://on.bp.com/2HxHRZL

Trading / Finance, London (Canary Wharf) £27,500 starting salary https://on.bp.com/3n8s7gm

Exclusive Online Webinar:

Tuesday 6th October, 5pm - 6pm

An introduction to BP and their opportunities

An interactive workshop session with senior business leaders

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BP is the 7th largest company in the UK with over $280 billion in revenue

To book your place please follow the link below

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/bpuk

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We’d love for you to join our next

Virtual Open Day on Saturday 24th

October .

With our 150+ industry partners, our

business incubator which encourages

entrepreneurship and our campus

based in the heart of a FTSE 100

company, you’ll be immersed in the world of business from day one.

Book my place

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The Future of Work: What does it hold for students?

We have brought together the latest research to identify the key trends that will influence the world of

work over the next 10 years. If you want to help your students prepare for the world of work based on the

latest evidence, check out Future of Work 2030-2030 report - start with the summary below or go straight

to the article.

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Discover Degree Level Qualifications at New

College Durham

On Saturday 10 October, from 10am, you can connect with the college to find out about higher education

courses at our Virtual Higher Education Event. Teaching staff will be on hand to discuss the wide range of

qualifications on offer including degrees, higher apprenticeships and professional qualifications.

We have over 50 different foundation degrees, honours degrees and professional qualifications in a

dynamic range of subject areas including our dynamic degrees in Podiatry. Social Work and Business, all of

which can be viewed here www.newcollegedurham.ac.uk/higher-education/

You can enjoy a virtual tour of the college’s outstanding facilities and chat to the Advice, Support, Careers

team who will answer questions about entry requirements, student finance or support.

Ms Finlay, Careers Coordinator

Mental Health and Wellbeing in the News

“Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens and I will give you

rest.”

Matthew: 11. 28

The Ursuline Academy Ilford is working to raise awareness of Mental Health issues, particularly amongst

young people. Mental Health and Wellbeing being particular interests of mine, I will be regularly sharing in

our Newsletter articles or news reports which I think are particularly relevant to our school community,

students, parents and staff. I will address a different mental health-related topic every month.

Miss Ammeux (Head of MFL Department and Mental Health Advocate)

October Theme: World Mental Health Day

Ahead of World Mental Health Day on 10th October, this week we are looking at the online Teen Sleep Hu,

launched by The Sleep Charity as part of its campaign ‘Teen Sleep Matters’, which promotes the

importance of sleep for young people’s mental health.

Please see more informatiion on page 28.

https://www.charitytoday.co.uk/charity-campaign-awakens-teens-to-the-value-of-sleep/

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Useful contacts: YoungMinds: www.youngminds.org.uk Catholic Mental Health Project: Tel: 02079014826 http://www.catholicmentalhealthproject.org.uk/ Kooth (online service only) www.kooth.com Childline: Helpline: 0800 1111 https://www.childline.org.uk/ The Samaritans (Redbridge): Helpline: 116 123 https://www.samaritans.org/branches/samaritans-redbridge

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SCHOOL DIARY

Date Time Event Category

Monday 5th October All Day Year 7 Retreat

(Desenzano House) 7C Students

Tuesday 6th October 3.30 – 4.30p.m. Year 11 French Class Year 11 French

Students

Wednesday 7th October 3.30 – 4.30p.m. Year 11 DT Class Year 11 DT Students

Thursday 8th October All Day Year 7 Retreat

(Desenzano House) 7J Students

Tuesday 13th October 2.30 – 3.20p.m. Badge Commissioning Service

for Year 7 Year 7 Students

Tuesday 13th October 3.30 – 4.30p.m. Year 11 French Class Year 11 French

Students

Wednesday 14th October 3.30 – 4.30p.m. Year 11 DT Class Year 11 DT Students

Tuesday 20th October 3.30 – 4.30p.m. Year 11 French Class Year 11 French

Students

Wednesday 21st October 3.30 – 4.30p.m. Year 11 DT Class Year 11 DT Students

Monday 26th October – Friday 30th October

All Week Half Term Whole School

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