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Ark Victoria Secondary Newsletter
Happy birthday to the following pupils who will celebrate their birthdays next week:
Hafsah Azmat 10 CadburyUbaydul Alom 10 TolkienHumayrah Saleh 10 TolkienShams Akhtar 10 WattAyesha Abbas 10 WattIkraam Mohamed 11 SimmondsFabia Ahmed 11 SimmondsKenza Benmoulai 9 CadburyNastehe Egal 9 WattSahran Islam 7 WattSara Rafik 9 YousafzaiTahshan Islam 8 CadburySaira Khattak 7 TolkienSamira Bousyf 8 SimmondsSahran Islam 7 WattAdam Hussain 8 YousafzaiOmar Ben Khayi Oufli 7 Zephaniah
Headteacher’s Welcome:
Birthdays next Week
Our weekly Celebration Assemblies will be uploaded onto our YouTube channel from Monday 4th May 2020.
Y7: 11.30amY8: 12.00pmY9: 12.30pmY10: 1.00pm.
You can view the assemblies here. https://bit.ly/ArkVictoriayoutube
Celebration Assembles
Friday 1st May 2020
Secondary parents and carers - Please email us any completed students’ work for, positive stories or videos on a weekly basis to: [email protected]
Please email any art work to be display in our Virtual Art Gallery to [email protected]
Dear Ark Victoria students
I hope that you all remain safe, well, happy and healthy. We are working hard as a school team to make sure that you havesufficient work, which is interesting and which supports your educational journey, while you remain at home. We are alsoplanning for the re-opening of school – although we don’t yet know when that will be! This week marks the 6th in lockdown andthe first full week of Ramadan which many in our community are celebrating. Ramadan is a time for spiritual reflection, prayer,doing good deeds and spending time with family and friends; the lockdown makes some of this more challenging, but technologydoes enable us to connect and celebrate with our loved ones. Both Ramadan and learning remotely, while school is closed,require resilience and self-discipline. I know that you are all working very hard on both. We have all had more time for reflectionand I hope that this reflection has allowed us to value some of the things we may have taken for granted: precious time withfamily and friends, being at school, connecting with our peers, learning from our teachers, enjoying travelling with and visitingfriends and family, hugs, smiles and much much more.
Despite what we are missing, there is so much to celebrate including all the brilliant work you have done. I am so proud of allyour efforts and look forward to a time when we can share this work in our school building.
Look after yourselves and I look forward to seeing you all again soon.
Ms McSorley
Ambitious
Resilient
Kind
Ark Victoria AcademyNewsletter 1st May 2020
Where could your favourite subject take you?? Use this career finding toolthat is available on the BBC to do some research!Your challenge is to create a poster with details about a job you are interested in that could be shared with other students!
There will be a prize for the best entries!
Are you looking for something fun and informative to watch??
Then check out The Nine to Five with Stacey Dooley. This show focuses on five young people completing work experience in a range of different industries, from catering and hospitality to working in an airport!
30 free hours of free virtual work experience for Y10 students
SCAPE Group has created Learning in Lockdown, a week-long virtual work experience programme for Year 10 pupils, taking place w/c 18th May 2020. The week will be based around a design challenge for teams of young people that engages the full breadth of the STEM subjects. Every participant will also receive a CV-worthy accreditation at the end of the programme.
Free skills & career activities for 14- 16 year olds
Some of you might already know what you want to do, or you might already be in the career of your dreams. But many young people often don't know what careers are out there - or how they would even get to the career of their dreams.
Check out this booklet to learn more about the careers available to you and how you might get to them.
https://www.youthemployment.org.uk/dev/wp-content/themes/yeuk/files/Editable_Skills_Careers_Booklet.pdf
Ramadhan Kareem
The Religious Education Department would like to wish all of our students and families who are observing the month of Ramadhan, Ramadhan Kareem.
Ramadhan or Sawm, is the requirement to fast during the Islamic month of Ramadhan. It is the third of the Five Pillars of Islam. Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar, and special because it was the month the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) first began to receive revelations of the Qur'an from Allah. This is a special month whereby Muslims take every opportunity to worship God as much as they can. Ramadhan Kareem from Ark Victoria.
Mr Nore – Faculty Director Humanities
Ark Victoria AcademyNewsletter 1st May 2020
AVA Virtual Art Gallery
Welcome to the new AVA virtual gallery; a great way to display how you are being creative whilst at home. Exhibiting Artdemonstrates how you are developing skills, knowledge, understanding and an appreciation of art, whilst also building a senseof pride and ownership in your school…plus a little bit of competition!
Creating Art is a wonderful activity for the whole family to enjoy, to follow up after a walk or a virtual tour of a museum online.Art is able to consolidate great memories and enjoyment and can also be relaxing and therapeutic too.
There will be a weekly activity for the whole family to enjoy as well as the Art lessons on Teams and in the Home Learningsections on our website; so with that in mind, we hope is that students and parents will get creative and share their Art for thewhole of our community to enjoy. You may even receive a reward for your efforts!
For a chance to exhibit your wonderful creations on our gallery, take a photograph of your completed work and email itwith your name and year group to: [email protected]
If you're looking for ways to get involved in something creative but have limited materials at home, take a look at these apps thatcan be downloaded to your devices.
Sketches (iOS app) is elegant and a good tool for older kids. It has no stamps or distractions, so it helps them concentrate ondrawing. They can import photos into it, and also watercolour a drawing. There is a free and a Pro version, and the free versiongenerously allows users to try most features.https://www.tayasui.com/sketches/sketches-video.html
Scribblify (iOS and Android app) has a huge range of brushes, backgrounds and colours that encourage kids to play with colour,lines and symmetry. The Scribblify website explains the app well, but kids can pretty much start drawing with it instantly. Thebright colours and patterns will appeal to youngsters. It's free but you can pay for more tools in a Premium version.http://scribblify.com/
Ms Lovell
Year 10 Artist of the week
Fatema Begum
Year 7 Artist of the week
Eiesha Shakeel
AVA Shout Outs
Mrs Bashir- Shout out to Zhumana Rahman in Y9 for completing a
high quality piece of work for RS
Mrs Mackie – Shout out to Ammar Shah,
Haider Hussain, Mehram Bibi and Zahid Ibrahim in Y9 for completing their Science work
Huge well done to Tahsin Mohammed
for completing multiple pieces of
work!
Mr Cooper - I’m really impressed with Noor
Abdullah’s work ethic and attention to detail with
the responses on GCSE Pod. She deserves a shout
out for the efforts!
Shout out to Mr Hussain’s Y10 English class who
have completed the revision materials online.
Subject Celebration names. Your Faculty Director has chosen you for the amazing work that you have sent in
Maths: Zhumana Rahman Y7, Farhaan Ali Y8, Muzammil Iqbal Y7 and Mahin Sultan Sarwar Y10Drama: Humeira Naseem Y9Science: Akhtar, Nafeesa Y7, Ali, Haniy Y8, Ferdous, Humayra Y9 and Hassan, Yousef Y10Comp Sci: Shahzeb Ghafoor Y8, Sayhan Sadiq Y9, Hafiza Sultana Y10 and Madihah Yasir Y7Business Studies: Tahini Rageh Y10, Subhaan Karim Y10, Nameeqa Mohammed Y10 and Adam Hussain Y10Music: Eiesha Shakeel Y7RS: Zhumana Rahman Y9 and Sky Nabi Y8Geography:Tahsin Mohammed Y7 French: Kenza Benmoulai Y7, Aalisha Hussain Y8, Abdelmalik Ihya Y10 and Muna Rashid Y7PE: Ibraheem Aslam Y10
Miss Coughlan –Huge Shout out to
Aalisha Hussain for sending in her PE
work.
Mrs Rashid – Shout out to Eiesha Shakeel in
Y7, and Yousef HassanFatema Begum
Ahad EmonAbdelmalik Iyha
Abdirahim Fidar in Y10