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HOME LEARNING NEWSLETTER
TOGETHER FOSTERING ACHIEVEMENT
SUMMER TERM: 19th June 2020
It has been great to welcome some of our Year 10 and Year 12 students back to school this week.
Year 10 students have had sessions in core subjects (English, Maths and Science) in the morning, as well as sessions for options subjects in the afternoon. Students have responded really well to the sessions, and although it has taken a bit of getting used to, we hope that the students have enjoyed having the opportunity to see their friends and to experience some face to face teaching.
Remember that you can email questions or comments to [email protected]
Year 10 Sessions in School
As you can see from the pictures, things look a little different in school as we work within the guidelines to help to keep our students and staff safe.
We would like to offer a few reminders for those Year 10 students who have started to attend sessions in school:
Sanitise or wash your hands on arriving at school and regularly throughout the school day
Maintain a 2 metre social distance at all times
If you are in the same room for the morning and afternoon sessions, you should be sat at the same desk
Bring the resources that you need e.g. pens, as you are asked not to share resources with other students
Bring your own lunch
If you have any of the symptoms of Coronavirus, please do not come into school. This also applies for those students who have someone in their household who is experiencing symptoms.
If you have not contacted us to say that you will be attending sessions, please do not turn up at school. We need to know accurate student numbers to plan for the sessions. If you wish to begin attending, please phone or email the school.
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Word of the week:
Herculean
Requiring great strength or effort
HOME LEARNING NEWSLETTER
TOGETHER FOSTERING ACHIEVEMENT
SUMMER TERM: 19th June 2020
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The Gallery
See below for some of the excellent work that our students have completed at home:
Students in Year 9 are reading the play
‘Kindertransport’ for English. The poster below
was one of the great examples produced by our
students to explore the idea of identity.
Albie I made a
wind turbine as
part of his home
learning for Design
Technology.
Mr Gregory was
extremely
impressed with
Gaia ‘s work
(Y8).
Year 7 students
have been
showing their
creativity with the
planter project.
Ms Ikhatalor liked
the Maths notes
that this student
has made. Notes
like these are
beneficial when
students need to
review work at a
later date.
HOME LEARNING NEWSLETTER
TOGETHER FOSTERING ACHIEVEMENT
SUMMER TERM: 19th June 2020
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School Refurbishments and Improvements
The Crush Hall has now been renamed ‘The Forest
Lounge’. The newly made banner has been put up and
there are now more sofas for our students to use in
order to enjoy the space (when they return).
(Designed by Mr Gregory)
We have also recently installed tiered seating in the Main
Hall, and look forward to using this for future
performances and assemblies. Stay tuned for updates on
further improvements including the new science lab,
freshly renovated classrooms and ICT improvements.
SHOW MY HOMEWORK—KEY REMINDERS
1. If your child has forgotten their login details for
ShowMyHomework or needs a password reset, please
email your child’s full name, username and form group
to [email protected] .
2. There is also a parent login for ShowMyHomework,
so please email to request this as well if you would like.
3. A reminder that if your child is finding work difficult,
please feel free to email the relevant subject email
address. The addresses all follow a standard naming
protocol: tfa<SUBJECT>@theforestacademy.co.uk but
we have included them on the next page again for
reference.
Awards This Week
Congratulations to the following students for their
work and efforts this week:
Student of the Week: Amber S
Most Progress: Amina S
Work appearing in the newsletter: Ahnaf K
Most work submitted: Anam R
Head of Year awards:
Year 7: Erika B
Year 8: Gaia G
Year 9: Devika S
Year 10: Malik F
Well done—remember to email to organise to
collect your prize!
HOME LEARNING NEWSLETTER
TOGETHER FOSTERING ACHIEVEMENT
SUMMER TERM: 19th June 2020
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DEPARTMENT EMAIL ADDRESSES If you would like to email work to a particular department, please use the email addresses below:
Business / Economics [email protected]
Drama [email protected]
Design Technology [email protected]
English [email protected]
Food / Textiles [email protected]
Geography [email protected]
HOME LEARNING CHALLENGE
Can you be Platinum?
This week we have been trying to boost our work submission rates for all students across the school.
All of the home learning tasks are on Show My Homework (https://www.satchelone.com/login?subdomain=theforestacademy). We want to encourage as many pieces of work to be completed by each student as possible. Those that complete 100% of home learning tasks due that week and submit them on time can win a prize. The competition closes at 3pm each Monday and covers all tasks from the previous week (starting from the previous Monday).
The levels for the challenge are as follows:
Platinum – 100% of tasks are completed
Gold – 75%-99% of tasks are completed
Silver – 40%-74% of tasks are completed
Bronze – 1%-39% of tasks are completed
The competition runs every week so it doesn’t matter if students were Bronze last week as they could still win the competition and get a Platinum Award by submitting all of their tasks. Remember, tasks need to be submitted to their teacher in order to count. To submit they can upload work to SMHW, take pictures of work in books and upload to SMHW or send work to departmental email addresses displayed on the website or shown above. Prizes can be collected from reception and an e-mail will notify winners.
Good luck!
History [email protected]
Maths [email protected]
French / Spanish [email protected]
Media [email protected]
Psychology [email protected]
Science [email protected]
Sociology [email protected]
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TOGETHER FOSTERING ACHIEVEMENT
SUMMER TERM: 19th June 2020
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Social Media Are you following our social media accounts
for news, photos and updates?
Mazen—Y8, created a model to celebrate Captain
Tom’s 100th birthday and to recognise the fantastic
fundraising for the NHS.
YEAR 6 TRANSITION
For those with children in Year 6, there is a dedi-cated page on the school website regarding transition into Year 7. This will be updated with more information over the coming weeks. Admissions packs are currently being sent out to our new students, and we look forward to working with them during this term to prepare them for their transition to TFA. https://
www.theforestacademy.org/year-6-transition/
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
This is Mr Ansell’s cat. She has a great balance of work
(mainly this involves begging for food), rest (as shown in
the picture) and play (chasing bees and wasps). We all
need to ensure that we get this balance right, so whilst we
obviously want to encourage you to work hard in your
home learning (or sessions in school for Year 10), please
remember to balance this with activities which will help to
support your mental and physical health and wellbeing.
LOCKDOWN HAIRCUTS!
Without access to a barber or a hairdresser, many of
us are having to take matters into our own hands.
We would love to see any examples of students (or
their parents / siblings) trying out their barbering/
haircutting skills. Please send any photos to
[email protected] - we are
happy to share impressive or disastrous results!
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