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The Summer Concert

On July 4th 2017, the Beal High School Music department hosted the annual summer concert. The spectators witnessed performances filled with fun, music and (most importantly) talent and dedication that teachers and students had put in to their craft all year round. Awards were handed out, and tears of the KS4 leavers were shed. The terrific acts consisted of solos, instruments such as woodwind and strings, orchestra and the choir and senior choir. Members of the audience sat astounded with the amount of hard work and dedication put into the concert and applauded when everything finished with a bang during the grand finale. All members of the Beal music department sang along to ‘Son Of A Preacher Man’ conducted by Ms Kantor.

- Avni Datt 8GT and Rebekah Durrant 8PR

Year 8 Summer Term Overview This term, Year 8 has been focusing on attending and trying new co-curricular clubs, as well as ensuring that we are promoting and encouraging ourselves to get involved with wider school events. In order to promote these values, we have held a series of charity events and opportunities to fundraise for those less fortunate in London, and around the world. The year team have also seen a range of students win ‘student of the week’, and have been treated to a breakfast in Bealisimo with Mr Mooney. This term has been a great success for the Year 8s as there have been many school trips and individual achievements. As Ms Vadher proudly declared in assembly: ‘Year 8 are the group with masses of talents and performers’, and are always involved with every performing arts related activity or competition around the school. Overall, this term has been a huge success for the Year 8 team, and we are very much looking forward to Year 9! - Aliya Hussain 8FE

What do students and teachers think of the Summer Concert?

“The summer concert is great because all the hard work that goes in to it by the students and staff is amazing. We are very lucky here at Beal to have such hard working and talented staff and students!” Ms Kantor “The Summer concert is a great opportunity to appreciate different music from various cultures and age groups” Sapphire Walters 8PR “It is very rare for students of different age groups to showcase their musical talents and abilities” Maya Begum 8SM “The Summer concert brings everyone together and is so much fun. I have met students that I would otherwise never know or speak to being in the sixth form, and respect the lower years so much more for their amazing talents.” Tion Charles 13LA

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Pictures from the Summer Concert, July 2017

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THE EID GATHERING The Eid gathering took place on Thursday 29th June from 5:30pm- 7:00pm in the KS4 hall. It was an extremely fun night for everyone who attended. There were also many activities and competitions such as: a quiz on Islam, poems read, Islamic songs sung, Quran recitations and even a wrestling display! It was a really exciting event for everyone and this gathering takes place every year. It costs only £5, and in my opinion, it is definitely worth it! All of this would not have been be possible without the sixth formers and Mr Raja who organised the event really well. Liana Mirza 8BA mentioned: “The team put together an enjoyable, fun, and exciting event through their dedication and hard work to provide an entertaining night. They created fine Asian cuisine that everyone could enjoy and I am looking forward to the next one.”

The money donated through ticket sales and general donations will be given to Islamic Relief – Syria Appeal as a way of helping communities around the Globe at such a testing time.

This was a night to remember, if you didn’t come this year, why don’t you attend the Eid gathering next year? And maybe, you can even help organise it when you’re in the sixth form!

- Ayisha Abou-el-Seoud 8PR

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Extra-Curricular University Enrichment Trips

Drama Performance – Mystery of the Murder On Thursday the 6th of July the drama club performed a play (written by Ms Pryce, a Drama teacher) called the ‘Mystery of the Murder’. The performance was about a detective called Drake and his work partner Lirkel who is an accused criminal. The play was enjoyed by the students’ friends and family who went to watch it. The drama club trained hard for the performance every Thursday lunch time for many weeks to show their acting skills and their passion for drama. ‘I loved it. it was absolutely hilarious. My favourite character was Elizabeth Franklin’ Sam Benjamin Kaizer 8JP ‘I loved working on it, it was so much fun and we made a community. I would recommend it to anyone.’ Sabha Imran Chaudhary 8JP

- Safiyyah Haque 8PR

King’s College Trip – Space Expo

On Friday 7th July my peers and I went to Kings College, University of London. The day was organised by the Institute of Physics and there were five other schools attending as well.

The trip was aimed at inspiring girls to take part in Science & Technology and to become Science ambassadors. When we arrived at King’s College we were split into groups with other pupils to encourage working with different people and improve communication skills. In our groups, we were taught a number of different Physics experiments that we could show to younger children to teach them about science.

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King’s College Trip – Space Expo continued..

One of the experiments was to demonstrate the effects of taking of your helmet off in space. We took a small container of PlayDoh, made some holes in it and filled it with shaving foam, then placed that tub into a larger container which had a pump to remove the air. The pump was used to reduce the air in the large container thereby reducing the pressure around the PlayDoh container and the shaving cream started oozing out.

We also did an experiment with nappies where we removed some crystals from the inside. These crystals are very absorbent and turn to jelly when they come into contact with water. These crystals are used in MAGs (maximum absorbent garments).

Once we had done some more experiments we chose our favourites and tried to find ways to make it more interesting in a presentation and appealing to primary school students. We presented it to the other groups and received written feedback on what we did well and what we could have improved on.

It was a great experience and helped me learn a lot about Science and presentation skills.

- Rabia Zia 9TO

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Pictures from the Kings College Space Expo Trip

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Students of Beal High School visit

The University of East London

On Friday 16th June, Year 8 and Year 9 pupils had been selected to represent Beal High School at the University of East London. These students were chosen to participate within this experience by coordinators of the Beal High School Science Department because they are consistent high achieving students expected to study STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects in the future. Students were assisted by Ms Prabhakar and Mr Doherty. They participated within diverse activities specialising in Science and Technology.

“In my opinion, it was a great day, in which it involved us to be pushed to our limits whilst enticing in fun, varied challenges.”

Imaan Khaliq (8HD)

Mahir Shaikh (8GT) and Tanheed Rahman (8KJ) both won awards. Mahir felt proud of his achievements and was pleased that this educational visit will help him in his future.

-Students and teachers at the campus of UEL

By Yaseen Akbar 8GT

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Year 8 Sporting Achievements – Redbridge Cricket Champions

Congratulations to the Year 8 Cricket team who are the Redbridge Cricket Champions of 2017! These students have trained and played extremely well, and have shown great sportsmanship all year round. A huge well done to them all!

Dhruv Keerthy 8DE Haider Chaudhary 8LB Aiman Chowdhury 8BH Imaan Khaliq 8HD Farhaan Amin 8FE Imaad Ahmed 8PR Rehan Inayat 8LB Ickeram Almas 8FE Taran Sahota 8SM Umar Patel 8FE Nisarg Brahmbhatt 8SM Arub Aalyan 8BA Soumen Nandi 8KZ Taaha Yazdani 8FE Hassan Ali Iqbal 8KZ

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Year 8 Boxing Club

Many students have been attending the new Boxing sessions led by Mr Panesar in the dance studio during Thursday and Friday lunchtimes. They have proven to be a great success and new members are welcome in the new academic year.

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WELL DONE YEAR 8

A huge well done to all students and teachers upon completing another successful academic year! No doubt this has been a challenging one, but equally, it has been a rewarding one. These are a few pictures from our achievement assembly where we showcased our talents and celebrated all our achievements over the past year.

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Thank you to all our teachers and form tutors who have made this year so great, especially, our deputy head of year Miss Owen (pictured above) who has always helped us. We wish her every success as she will move on to be the head of the new Year 7s.

From everyone in the Year 8 Newsletter team, we wish you all a fun and restful

summer break!