Message

from

the Principal

Dear students As you will have noticed the playground on the left hand side of the building with the chequered floor has now been opened. This is known historically as the elephant playground and has been restored to exactly how it looked when the building was first built in 1957. This gives us much more space

Spotted at APA

Newsletter Edition 40 ~ 09-10-2015

Students of the week

Ye

ar 7: Dounia Fouchane

Year

8:Amiya Wi

lliams

Year

10:Shameille Grant

Year 1

1: Caitlyn Longuehaye

Year 9:Sha

kira Brown

outside and we will be putting additional seating in this area. If you have any other ideas of what we could purchase to go on this playground please let me know. We now have more space than we have had for a long time but remember that as members of a community we are all responsible for looking after the space both inside and outside the building. Please use the bins at all times and eat only in the designated areas so that we can kept our new school looking a fresh as possible.

Welcome new Sixth

Formers!

Year 13 welcoming Year 12 into the Sixth Form with a Friday afternoon barbecue!

Welcome from the Heads of Year

Miss Bingh

am: Year 7

Miss Har

vey: Year 8

Mr Glyn:

Year 9&10 Well done to the top

Year 9 students, who have collected the most POSITIVE points this term. Each half-term these students increase their chances of gaining rewards at the Rewards

Dear wonderful Year 8,

It has been brilliant to see so many of you getting involved in the extra-curricular clubs and House competitions this week; remember what

Assembly. They also are working very well in lessons and presumably making good effort and progress to achieve these.

Another week and much more to celebrate, we had lots of exciting experiments in science, I have lots of great photos from Miss Hughes it looks like you’ve really taken to all the great things that Science at APA has to offer.

We have given you lots of information since you started and there has been more this week. A letter was sent home this week about parents evening with a time slot, it is REALLY important that you get parents/carers to note down the time or suggest a new time and return the slip to your form tutors. If a letter didn’t make it home you need to tell your form tutor right away. You were also given health questionnaires to fill out, please ask parents/carers to fill these out and return them to reception.Next week there is a deadline for the house competition to design a new positive postcard that will get sent home when you do something really noteworthy and we want to celebrate your efforts and success.

Congratulations to Miss Boot Handford’s form class who regained the attendance title for year 7 from Mr Haydens’s group and have had Elliot the Elephant for company this week. Special mention to our pillar point leaders; Maham Saleem, Louise Chesters (top of THREE leader boards) and Natalia Villegas-Calderon.

BAKER, Eleesher-51BAKER, Duejon-50LONGUEHAYE, Kayla-47GOMEZ, Eugenia-46NELSON, Nadia-39

AMPONSAA-SAFO, Brenda-36HARDING, Jasmine-33OAKLEY, Jeiel-33RUBY, Jordan-33BADR-NKANSAH, Shakira-32

Also a very well done to the Year 10 students above for exactly the same reasons. Year 10 have generally made a good, positive start to their studies this year, which is very pleasing to see.

A reminder that there is a Year 10 Information evening on the 22nd of October and more details will be given on this soon.Remember “As long as you have done your best, then no one can do more!”. So lets see a few more names and points in the coming weeks.Have a good weekend.

WISNIEWSKA, Gina-30STEWART, O’Shane-26ABDALLA, Sabir-24ABEBERESE, Ashia-22BREFO, Emmanuel-22

HARRIS, Suzanna-22ROWE, Elizabeth-22EDGLEY, Daniel-20LEE-SALTER, Taig-Dafydd-20CHACHOV, Borislav-19

Lastly the student of the week goes to Dounia Fouchane as she has donated a suitcase and a huge bag of clothes to go towards the Syria refugee appeal. A truly admirable and very generous donation and no mean feat to bring in such huge amounts, an example to us all Dounia, well done!

I said, excelling and becoming an expert in an area of interest builds character and gives added sparkle to your CV. Huge congratulations to the following students who have shown real dedication to our sporting community and beat a fellow Ark school in Basketball this week:Dear tremendous Turing,

I am pleased to announce that our new House Captains are Victory Onyeka and Arbana Gashi. We also have brand new Sports Captains Davis Fortes and Danny Duran; they will be supporting and helping run all House competitions. Well done to the following Turing students who have shown real community this week by getting involved in the House Football competition. Sacha, Tyler, Florian, Isaac, Zhane played brilliantly on Monday despite being nabbed at the last minute by Dickens…we will win the House Cup!

Joseph IfayomiMark DdembeJosh Dowsling-ReynoldsCameron Goodchild

Isaac OnyekaAmiya WilliamsManni Barber-Taylor

School AnnouncementsScience Club

For those of you who don’t already know Miss Opoku she is the tutor of 7JOP and the new head of our History Department.

Science Extra-Curricular Key

Stage 3

Room 2-293.30-4.30 pm

CSI: PUTNEY

Do you have a question?• What would you like

to see happening at APA?

• Is there anything that could be improved upon?

• Would you like to be more involved with the school?

The parent teachers association is an organisation run by volunteer parents and staff. We are totally independent and act in the interest of the students and general wellbeing of the school.We run regular monthly meetings where parents and staff have the opportunity to discuss all matters relating to life at Ark PutneyAcademy.• Topics at our last meeting included:

Allocation of lockers to students.• Time-tabling of school clubs. • What the Ebacc exam means for your child.• Planning for a Christmas Fair & concert.If any of these topics are of interest to you or if you would like to add anything,please get in touch by emailing us at;pta@arkputneyacademy.org or by Tweeting us @apaptaYou can also drop into the school and get a message to us via reception.We look forward to hearing from you soon!

Science Corner

Year 7 set 2 in class. Preparing onion slides and using microscopes to magnify them

Postcard from Gael and Guilhem Denninger who left us at the end of last year...

This week’s topic: Celebrities in the public eye: Madonna’s Fall and Harrison’s crash

Let’s get Quizzical

Black History Month Quiz - Answers

1. Which of these famous books stirred up anti-slavery sentiment in the United States before the Civil War?A) Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher StoweB) Huckleberry Finn, by Mark TwainC) Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott2. What is an abolitionist?A) A person who believed slavery was just and fair.B) A person who wanted to end slavery.

C) A person who wanted to secede from the North.3. What was the Emancipation Proclamation?A) A document declaring that the Southern states were seceding from the United States.B) A document declaring that all states west of the Mississippi would be “free” states as opposed to “slave” states.C) An executive order by President Lincoln declaring

that all slaves were free.4. What were Jim Crow laws?A) These laws legalized slavery.B) These laws instituted segregation in the South, legalizing racially segregated facilities.C) These laws had to do with fugitive slaves and their return to slaveholders.5. In what year did Britain first pass an act offi-cially outlawing the institution of slavery?A)1833B)1782C)1888

6. On August 24 1981, Charles Chapman became the first black swimmer to swim across this geographical water region:A) English ChannelB) The Meditarranean SeaC) The Aegean Sea7. To which organisation was Kofi Annan appointed Secretary General in 1996?A) United NationsB) MensaC) The British Red Cross8. Which historical black nurse died in London in 1881 after saving many British soldiers during the Crimean War of 1855?A) Mary SeacoleB) Floerence NightingaleC) Mary Ezra Mahoney9. Who was the first black player to captain England?A) Sol CampbellB) Paul InceC) Rio Ferdinand

United Nations and International Day of the Girl Child Quiz

October 11th (this Sunday) is the UN’s International Day of the Girl Child, which “recognises girls’ rights and the unique challenges girls face around the world”, such as limited access to education or child protection issues. Ark’s very own Walworth Academy hosted the UK’s first ever “Girl Summit”, which saw Malala Yousafzai and David Cameron address just such issues. How many of these questions can you answer about the United Nations?

2. At which of the following conferences was the United Nations Charter adopted?A) The Yalta ConferenceB) The San Francisco ConferenceC) The Dumbarton Oaks Conference

3. What was the first United Nations Peacekeeping Force?A) United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)B) United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF)C) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

4. In 1980 the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the eradication of which of the following diseases?A) SmallpoxB) TuberculosisC) Malaria

1. In which year was the UN founded?A) 1915B) 1945C) 1956

5. Which US president gave the United Nations its name?A) Franklin D. RooseveltB) Jimmy CarterC) No US president coined the name. It was a brainstorm of several nations.

What is the UN’s predecessor organisation which failed after being created at the end of WWI?A) The Anti-Terror CommitteeB) The League of NationsC) The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen