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"A liberally

educated

person meets

new ideas

with curiosity

and

fascination.

An illiberally

educated

person meets

new ideas

with fear."

-- James B.

Stockdale

Thought of

the Week

Mr Dickson

Headteacher

Issue 14

July 2017

@ eastburyschool

MIXED EMOTIONS The end of another school year is almost

here, and it is with mixed emotions I write

this article for you. Firstly I am very sad that

we will be losing several highly valued

colleagues who are retiring at the end of

term. I would like to take this opportunity

to thank them again for their long service

and loyalty to the school and pupils over

many years, and the fantastic

contributions to Eastbury they have made.

These staff have believed in Eastbury

students and changed their lives for the

better. Their dedication and

professionalism sets an example to others

and they have made a positive difference

to the life chances of tens of thousands of

pupils. We will be sad to see Keith Coffey,

Steve Hamberger, Kevin Medcalf, Kevin

Courtier, Ronald Albrow, Susan Smith and

Sheila Gibbs leave but we all wish them a

very happy and long retirement. They will

always be friends of Eastbury and be

welcome at our many events.

I am happy that 2016/2017 has been

another successful year for Eastbury. Our

aspirational students and staff have risen

to the challenges of the new harder

exams in 2017 and the new grading

systems in English and Mathematics. This is

the first year of the new more challenging

exams and grading system, therefore we

cannot make comparisons with previous

years. I would like to congratulate the

students who have been studying hard all

year to prepare themselves for the exams.

I would like to thank all the staff for their

hard work, professionalism and the many

hours they have put in to ensure all our

students are fully prepared for the rigours

of the new exams. I would also like to

thank our caring families, Governors and

Local Authority who have provided

support and encouragement. It is a

privilege to work with such a dedicated

staff team and enthusiastic students.

The majority of our GCSE students are now

progressing to our excellent sixth form to

study A Levels or local colleges to study

more vocational courses. Over half of our

sixth form students have received offers

from Russell Group universities (considered

to be the best in the United Kingdom) and

other students have places on respected

courses at top universities in their field.

Many students are beginning to receive

offers from top apprenticeship providers.

All of our pupils have great careers ahead

of them.

CONGRATULATIONS TO WORLD

CLASS PUPILS Eastbury pupils have been making history

again.

For the third time the Eastbury Futsal team

are the top performing national schools

team, and have been selected to

represent England in the Futsal world cup

next year. More information can be found

on the website. We are extremely proud

of, and congratulate Funmi Fadoju who

has been selected to play for the England

under 21 Netball team. I am delighted to

report that in her debut match the

England team beat Trinidad and Tobago

49-2. More information can be found on

the website.

UPCOMING EVENTS

6 July 2017 Art & Photography Exhibition

6 July 2017 Style Show

10-11 July 2017 PE Awards Evening

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We also need to congratulate all of the PE staff

and coaches who have made these amazing

achievements possible. We have probably the

best PE department in the world!

EASTBURY COMMUNITY SCHOOL TO

LEAD THE WAY IN ROYAL SHAKESPEARE

COMPANY’S ASSOCIATE SCHOOLS

PROGRAMME. I am delighted to report that we are one of 10

schools nationwide to be selected as a ‘lead’

school as part of the RSC’s national Associate

Schools programme.

The RSC Associate Schools programme is the

RSC’s long-term partnership programme with over

200 schools and 10 regional theatre partners

nationwide that aims to immerse teachers and

students in new approaches to Shakespeare’s

plays.

As a RSC Lead Associate School, excellent

teachers Anita Ark and Jolaine Fox and many

others from the English department demonstrate

a deep commitment to sharing Shakespeare’s

work with children of all ages and abilities using

RSC approaches. To do this, they work intensively

alongside practitioners from the RSC and Barbican

theatre to learn how RSC actors approach

Shakespeare in the rehearsal room.

The teachers then work with theatre practitioners

from the RSC and the Barbican to adapt those

techniques for the classroom - pushing desks to

one side, getting the children up on their feet,

speaking the words out loud and exploring the

plays through techniques taken from the rehearsal

room and performance. Both pupils and teachers

work alongside each other in workshops and

performance projects, developing their skills and

knowledge. They then recruit and lead a local

network of schools who use Shakespeare’s play to

lead the culture for learning in their schools.

Nehal Butt

Gokhan Tahiri

Sameer Punn

Gersi Lika

Mikel Muca

Alan Zuquoli

Shaun Kitenge

Miguel Coiconcsisel

Martins Idahosa

Jerold Coblah

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I am extremely proud and privileged to have such

talented and dedicated teachers in the school

who are increasing the achievement and

enriching the experience of our pupils. The

dedication of Anita Ark and Jolaine Fox in leading

this exciting work sets the standard for others to

follow. We are looking forward to working

alongside many other schools in Barking and

Dagenham, and East London.

Speaking about the newly appointed Lead

Schools, Director of Education for the RSC, Jacqui

O’Hanlon, said:

“Our Associate Schools programme is based on a

simple truth: that schools believe other schools

when it comes to what makes the biggest

difference to teaching practice, to aspirations and

to the lives of the children they teach. Now

entering its second year, we are thrilled to

announce our new cohort of Lead Associate

Schools who demonstrate on a daily basis the

impact of an arts rich curriculum. Lead Associate

Schools are full of children, teachers and governors

who inspire each other and their local

communities with Shakespeare’s work. We are

incredibly proud to work in partnership with such

talented, passionate partners at a time when there

has never been a more urgent need for work that

brings us together and gives us a voice“.

JULIUS CAESAR - ROYAL SOCIETY

COMPANY Nikita Zyrianov, Y9 and Stacey Tamiam,

Y8 alongside 14 students from local primary schools

performed Julius Caesar with the Royal

Shakespeare Company at the world famous

Stratford upon Avon theatre last week.

UNIFORM REMINDER I would like to thank all parents and carers for

ensuring our pupils arrive at school smartly dressed

in full uniform on time. At this time of year many of

you will be thinking about buying uniform for

September. Our common sense smart and

affordable uniform can be found on our website.

http://www.eastbury.bardaglea.org.uk/Uniform-PE

-Kit-Secondary

Please look out for our final newsletter of the year

which will be published in the last week of term.

David Dickson Executive Head teacher

I am writing to inform all

families that I will be retiring

from the teaching profession

at the end of this academic

year. I have been at Eastbury

for twenty-five years which

has meant that I have

worked for six different head

teachers, been involved in at

least twelve phases of

building and worked with

countless numbers of staff

and students. Eastbury has been an important

part of my life and has taken up the vast majority

of my professional career. The most recent

building programme has taken three years from

development to conclusion. I would have hoped

that this would have been fully completed by

the time I had departed. Unfortunately, this

hasn’t quite happened but most importantly, the

main body of the school with teaching facilities

are fully operational.

Being a part of Eastbury has been a rewarding

and inspiring experience. I would like to take this

opportunity to thank all of the students and their

families for the fantastic support over the years.

We have seen Eastbury change and grow to a

point where the young people of Barking and

Dagenham are receiving a first class education

in a caring and aspirational school. We have

achieved this within the context of an ever-

changing political and educational landscape.

The pressure on young people today has never

been greater which makes it all the more

satisfying to recognise that Eastbury students are

a credit to their school and families.

I am very proud to have been able to work

alongside all of those involved with Eastbury and

look forward to hearing about the successes and

developments of the school in the future.

Keith Coffey - Head of Secondary

KEITH COFFEY - EASTBURY FAREWELL

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YEAR 8 ROUNDERS RALLY

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Eastbury came 2nd in our pool; drawing with All Saints (3-3) and winning against Jo

Rich (7-5) & Riverside (7.5-2).

We met Robert Clack in the Semi’s and won 6.5-5.5. We then came head to head

with All Saints in the final. An intense final saw us batting first and we scored 5

rounders.

Unfortunately, they crept ahead and won by just 6.5-5.

The Eastbury team have made leaps of improvement since last year (8th last year

and 2nd this year!!) Also, the

league competition isn’t

over, so we still have a

chance to win the title.

Huge congratulations to the

team for their efforts and

achievements today.

YEAR 8 ROUNDERS RALLY Friday 16th June

PLAYER OF THE MATCH

CHARISE

HISLOP

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W e certainly have a very talented and

conscientious cohort of artists in year 7.

This year the Art department teachers have

identified an incredible 66 Art Stars. For a student

to gain Art Star status, they will demonstrate a

wide variety of attributes, recognising their skill to

make independent, creative decisions, create

original artwork, be articulate in the practical

application of art techniques, apply keywords

and formal elements in verbal discussion and to

lead by example in terms of the pride they take

in the presentation of homework and class work

and their personal work ethic. Becoming an Art

Star is a huge achievement in KS3, and students

wear their unique badge with pride. To reward

the determination and continuous effort for

these students and to deepen their knowledge

of Art forms and art history I organised a trip to

the Henry Moore foundation.

Twenty places were available for the visit and

the year 7 students returned their permission slips

eagerly to attend the trip. An early start was

required for us to travel to Hertfordshire that day

and it was wonderful to see students arrive early

and very keen for the day ahead.

The foundation is an incredible place, the former

home in fact of Henry Moore himself. The

foundation is set upon 5 acres of land, which

Moore acquired over the years, progressively

buying up land as his art sold. The foundation

today, offers visitors a magical, natural place to

visit and view his sculptures. It is wonderful to be

able to roam freely in the sheep fields and see

Moore's sculptures or to turn a corner in the

beautiful gardens and be pleasantly surprised by

one of his natural forms.

Moore was was a British artist who came from a

mining family, his childhood and father’s mining

history is a huge part of Moore's inspiration. The

Henry Moore foundation was founded by the

artist and his family in 1977 to encourage public

appreciation of the visual arts.

Students were supplied with sketchbooks and

drawing equipment, however many students

arrived prepared with their own personal

sketchbooks. It was fantastic to see the sketches

and drawings that these students had produced

in their own sketchbooks for their own pleasure,

again showing a real maturity and interest in the

arts. Students were on top form during the visit,

asking intelligent questions that made the tour

around the foundation enjoyable for the guides

and great experience overall.

The students impressed the guides on the

foundation so much in fact that as we finished

our tour I was presented with two huge bags of

brand new books, not just featuring Moore's

work but presenting history of sculpture and

British artists. A lovely gesture for a perfect day!

Well done and thank you to all the students who

attended and represented themselves and

Eastbury Community School as friendly,

appreciative and talented. A huge thank you to

Mrs Wallace also who accompanied us on the

visit to ensue that all students could take part.

Watch this space for further visits to the HMF in

2018.

YEAR 7 HENRY MOORE ART TRIP

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O n the week beginning Monday 12th June,

myself and 5 other students had the

chance to participate in a humanities week at

Queen Mary University of London. Along with

us were four other groups from different schools

across London. This opportunity was given only

to 30 people in the city and we were all picked

for many different reasons. This summer school

was organised by Michelle McAvoy alongside

Priya Clarke and the Widening Participants

Team.

Since this was a humanities week, we did many

activities, lessons and visits to different places.

We had team building, drama, law,

geography, film screening, history, English and

politics. Some of these were done in lecture

theatres and also in classrooms. We performed

dramas in a studio and watched ‘Before the

flood’ in a small theatre room. During the week

we had registration at the Mile End campus

and went elsewhere for other lessons. To make

this experience even better we had a visit to

the Royal Courts of Justice where we carried

out our own case in a court hall.

Moreover, there were 24 people that were

unknown to me and my friends. Therefore, we

got split into day groups with people from

other schools and had a great chance to talk

to them. It was nerve-racking to stick with

people you’ve just met, and nerve-racking to

all work like a team and support each other.

Within our groups we also had student

ambassadors. Since everyone would have a

travel group (school friends) and a day group,

most of us would have different ambassadors.

They picked us up from school, took us to the

university and dropped us off at our train

stations at the end of the day. Each group only

had one student ambassador and only had

staff at the campus and lessons.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday for lunch

we had sandwiches, crisp, a chocolate bar

and a fruit. They had given us QMUL reusable

water bottles to use during the week in order to

reduce the amount of single use plastics. On

Thursday we went to Nando’s and had the

choice to pick one out of four meals offered.

This was all a great time to socialise and find

out more about each other. On our last and

final day, we had a celebration lunch at

Mucci’s.

YEAR 9 UNIVERSITY WEEK AT

QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY

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That day, Friday 16th June, we graduated and

were given prizes awards and a graduation

certificate. We took pictures and had some

parents watch us. We had a booklet to

complete about the sessions that took place

during the week and the best one would get a

voucher for ‘National Book Tokens’. Priya was

there announcing some of the answers from us

and said there were some very insightful and

significant things written and she was very

grateful that we had a pleasant time.

Overall, I was delighted to have spent a week

in the Russell Group university and experience

something new. I took that week as an

opportunity to try new things and meet new

people as well as be willing to discover and try

unfamiliar things. I realised how much attitude,

expectations and point of view matter when

you’re around new people and the influence it

can have on you. Very happily, I would do

something like this as many times possible and

still be able to enjoy it. As challenging as I

found some elements, everything added up to

make this a wonderful week. If this is

something you’re offered in the future, I would

highly recommend you grasp the opportunity!

By Blerta

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T he HeadStart Challenge is coming to an end

for our year 10s and 11s. The programme

started in February and will finish in August once

the students have completed their volunteering.

HeadStart is a programme run by The Challenge:

the UK’s leading social integration charity. They

design and deliver programmes that bring

different people together to develop their

confidence and skills in understanding and

connecting with others.

All of the students have completed skills

training workshops and their volunteering

information session. They have set goals with

their HeadStart mentor and are regularly

meeting with the mentor to help achieve and

develop these goals.

As part of the programme the challenge

encourages young people to volunteer 16

hours or more with a not-for-profit organisation.

In return, they are able to access employability

skills workshops, events and a guaranteed

interview for a part-time job or internship, with

one of their corporate sponsors including

Lloyds Banking Group, Starbucks, New Look,

ZenDesk and Berkeley. They will need to

complete their minimum 16 hours by August 6th

2017

I would like to thank Karen and Jasmin who have

been exceptional mentors over the last six months

to our students in helping them set goals for their

future and developing their social skills ready for

the working world.

NAME SURNAME

Mustafa Koksal

Glendit Ponari

Sahiba Kabir

Saadin Mowlana

Mariam Abdirizak

Shuaib Ahmed

Nadir Cabdi

Rashid Mohammed

Suraya Salah

Joshua Kalamb

Ece Demirkaya

Denis Gashi

James Felton

Kasey Furby

Nicky Saunders

Michael Likolo

Stacey Paterson

Nasser Salum

Charlie Jallow

Manuel Gonzales Tapia

Jayram Pakeeswaramoorthy

Jessica Morris

Harry Palmer

Jack Hagger

Mikel Muca

Alex Thuo

Jack Holman

Nicole Leitch

John Muraszko

Brenda Demiter

Kane Johnson

Jamal Javed

Ayoub El Badri

Amy Krasniqi

Chloe Foster

Georidica Mukumbu

Monica Perianu

Ntumba Paris

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F irst can you tell me how Eastbury School first got

involved with The Big Draw?

Eastbury first became involved with The Big Draw six

years ago, after I started working at the school. We

were keen as a department to raise the awareness

of visual literacy and all the possible ways subjects

could include visual learning and drawing within les-

sons. We started small and have worked up to more

involved projects over the years.

Eastbury’s film One World Seven Billion styles was a

fantastic example of what can be achieved through

animation. Can you tell us a little about the con-

cept?

Art and Photography teacher Darren Bartholomew

worked with the whole cohort of year 8 to animate

a 6th former street dancing using rotoscoping. This

was a large undertaking which integrated both the

art and pastoral teams in a joint creative venture.

The process involved videoing a dancer, a student

who also studied BTEC Art and Design. This video

was broken up into separate frames and stills and

printed out ready for the entire year group to work

on. Each student had a frame to work with during

tutor time, filling the silhouette with colours and pat-

terns. Some students added words and designs to

the background which add quick bursts of energy

to the final animation, if you watch carefully you

can see these flash across the screen.

Darren spent time after, developing the final anima-

tion digitally; adding the soundtrack and other lay-

ers of visual information. Both the staff and students

are incredibly pleased with the work created and

the specialist skills and time Darren provided to the

department and the Big Draw. It has inspired the

department to use animation more this year and

develop our confidence and skills further.

You can watch the final video on Eastbury's

Youtube channel here.

What do you think were the most positive things

your students gained from the project?

Our students learnt about collaboration and new

digital media. Students realised their seemingly

small creative part developed into something much

bigger and more intricate, they watch the anima-

tion looking for their input. It forged links across both

Art and the pastoral team, allowing students to fur-

ther feel they ‘belong’ to a year group and the

school. It was exciting for them to work with the old-

er KS5 students and set additional aspirations for

their creative futures at Eastbury. I think a final out-

come was very powerful to share with the school

and students, especially developing knowledge

and confidence in digital media as one of the fast-

est growing career paths in London.

THE BIG

DRAW MEETS

EASTBURY

SCHOOL

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A s part of the Cultural Citizen program

23 students from year 8 and 9 have

completed the Bronze arts award

program. These students have worked

independently to complete a series of

tasks related to many different creative

fields such as photography, art, music and

performance.

As well as being an audience member,

students met different people that work

within these fields and took part in many

workshops aimed at making them aware

of all the creative opportunities they have

in London as well as Barking and

Dagenham.

ARTS AWARDS @EASTBURY

Can you tell us a little about your Big Draw event

from 2016?

Eastbury Art Department encouraged all staff to

teach or discuss drawing in some form in October

during their lessons to encourage visual literacy and

the value of the arts within both education and stu-

dent’s career choices. Lots of fun activities took

place around the school such as visualising the

characters in plays during English, drawing selfies

and redesigning the department’s Twitter logo.

As the theme was ‘STEAM’ (Science, Technology,

Engineering, Art and Maths). The Art department

used this as an opportunity to develop our use of an-

imation, apps and digital media by creating a stop

motion animation. We took the theme of cells and

year 7 Biology students created beautiful hand

drawn and woven visual responses in class using a

variety of secondary sources as inspiration. These

drawings were then animated using the Imotion app

on our iPads and edited using the ‘Glitch’ app and

Final Cut Pro. The final animation has facts about

cells running through it, so it’s final purpose is both

creative and educational. This was a way to link to-

gether hand drawn, more ‘traditional’ art forms with

new media that all students have access to on their

smart phones. It’s about giving students confidence

to try new things and explore, this is vital to us as

teachers as it is to the young people in our lessons.

Staff felt more confident and are now using these

techniques in their lessons this year.

You can see pictures of the cells throughout the

blog and the final animation here on Eastbury’s

YouTube channel. You can also check out all the

amazing work the Eastbury Art Department are do-

ing on Twitter @ArtEastbury.

We hope our chat with Jennifer has inspired you to

get involved with The Big Draw this year! Sign up to

take part in the festival here.

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Y ou are invited

to the 2017

Eastbury Style Show

being held on

Thursday 6th July

starting at 6:30pm.

The main attraction

of the event will

involve a fashion

show featuring a

stunning Year 10 fashion collection based on

mechanical products. Year 11 have created

an innovative fashion collection produced as

part of their GCSE Textiles Technology

coursework.

Students in years 7, 8 and 9 who attend Textiles

club after school will also be showing their

fashion collection based on My Perfect Place.

This year we have a new addition to the

Eastbury Style show ‘The Eastbury Community

Primary School’, Year 1 students will take part in

a special arranged catwalk with their

collection “Our Perfect Place”. I have

organised a last minute collection linking with

terror attacks using the Jack Petchy award

money, it is called ECS ONE LOVE. Also

featured in the event will be a vocal

performance by some of our students.

A buffet for guests during the event will also be

available, made by the hospitality and

catering students. The cost of attending this

event is £5.00 for adults, £2.50 for children

under 12yrs, 3yrs and under are free and staff

are £2.50. This will include entry to the fashion

show, a gift bag and a buffet during the

event.

It will be a fantastic event and we would love

to see you there. If you would like to attend

can you please email me Ms Taylor

FTA@eastbury.bardaglea.org.uk to let me

know to reserve a seat and you can pay for

the tickets on ParentPay, any concerns with

ParentPay please Contact Sarah Vincent in

finance.

The event will take place in the Main Hall at

Eastbury Community Secondary School and

doors will open at 6.15pm, the event will finish

at 7:30pm.

Many thanks

Fiona Taylor - Head of Textiles

STYLE SHOW 2017

PARENT GOVERNOR

Following the recent elections

for Parent Governor we are

please to announce that

Mr Sarfraz Akram was elected

as a parent governor.