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Headteachers

welcome: Dear Crest family,

I hope you and your families are well

and staying safe. By the time you read

this it will have been 26 school days

missed. For me it feels like 126 days!

Ramadan Mubarak (a little late I

know) to my Muslim families and

teachers. Many of you know that I

always fast with my students and I

have been doing well so far...it is so

hard, but I will keep it up!

The need for gratitude feels even

more important now. So often we

complain about school, but we should

be grateful to belong to such a caring

school community, a place where we

spend so much quality time with our

friends and teachers. School is not

just about learning; school is the place

where we learn, not just about books

or the world but about ourselves and

each other. School is a special place

and we are all incredibly lucky to

belong to the Crest Academy family.

There has been lots of speculation in

the media about when schools will re-

open to all students. As soon as I

know the exact dates for this, I will

contact all students and their families

and inform you all about the next

steps.

Be grateful for school, a place that

you often complain about, but I am

sure you now miss!

We will all be back at school and

together again and although the

world will have changed, your school

will still be here for you.

Take care... and do your work!

Ms. Fernandes

Word of the week:

Superfluous

Adjective: Unnecessary, especially

through being more than enough.

"The purchaser should avoid asking

for superfluous information"

Assembly/PSHE focus: Virtual House

Introduction.

PowerPoint will be uploaded/emailed

to all pupils every Monday. Please

read it through and do the activities!

Date: 11th May 2020

Edition 2

School Calendar/

Important updates: Ramadan Celebrations

23rd April – 23rd May 2020

May Bank Holiday

Monday 25th May 2020

FSM VOUCHER SCHEME

We are now running free

school meals through the

national voucher scheme.

Vouchers will be issued every

Monday. Contact Ms

McCrossen if you have any

queries. Email

vanessa.mccrossen@e-

act.org.uk

Contact us If you have any

questions or require further

information please contact us

via email on

TheCrestAcademyInformation

@E-ACT.org.uk

Year notices: • All pupils are expected to login to showmyhomework daily at

the following times:

Years 12 and 13 by 9.30am

Years 10 and 11 by 10.05am

Years 7, 8 and 9 by 10.35am

• Year 11- Successful applicants will receive an acceptance letter

to The Crest Academy Sixth Form during the latter part of this

week. We are still accepting applications for internal students.

If you wish to apply, please complete this e-form below:

https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=GO7B0

1t5ske0wJc0nDNaDriLE8Db02hHr0twTTXneg9UOE9XU1JMR1k2

WlVTOVJNOE9DMkk0RE42Vi4u

• All year 11 students should look out for an email from Ms Ward

regrading Eton-X courses.

• All Year 10 & 12 pupils must check their emails daily so that

they are aware when their TEAMs lessons are taking place.

• Year 10 Geography online lessons will begin this week with one

lesson a week.

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Home Learning @ Crest

Firstly, we must congratulate our students for their

dedication and commitment to their home learning

during this challenging time. Students have completed

some excellent work over the last few weeks, which is

fantastic, we are immensely proud of them.

Microsoft Teams

Year 10 and Year 12 have now started their online live

learning via Microsoft Teams. Our students have

engaged in their learning in a range of subjects with

great enthusiasm.

Crest Pupil Code of Conduct for Remote Learning

Please read our pupil code of conduct for remote

lessons here, which has been also been sent to you by

post. This guidance highlights our expectations when

live audio learning takes place at home. Once you and

your child have read the code of conduct you will

complete the online form to confirm this. The link to the

reply form here

Virtual Careers Talks

Speakers for Schools- Virtual Talks programme for the

week commencing 11th May.

• Tuesday 12th May 2pm Josie Rourke Film and

Theatre Director

• Wednesday 13th May 10am Lady Nicola

Mendelsohn Vice President for EMEA, Facebook

• Thursday 14th May 10am Ed Couchman,

General Manager, SNAP Inc (Snapchat)

The web address for the above VTalks is:

https://www.speakersforschools.org/inspiration/vtalk

s/upcoming-vtalks/

No login is required. Links should be opened in a

browser that is not Internet Explorer. Students can view

by clicking WATCH LIVE TALK HERE and then clicking

‘Watch on web instead’ and sign in anonymously. The

speakers will appear at the set times- 10am and 2pm.

A reminder of the support available to students and parents on our website

https://crestacademy.e-act.org.uk/ here you will find:

• A Home Learning timetable

• A Home Learning homework timetable

• How to study at home

• Online safety

• A Virtual Learning parent guide

• A parent and student guide to support Show My Homework for

daily learning.

• Weekly lessons with resources

• Parent Support

Platforms we are currently using:

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1. You are running in a street marathon and you overtake the

person in last place, what position are you now in?

2. Everything Mr Red owns is red, he lives in a red bungalow

and his chairs are red, his tables are red. His ceiling, walls and

floor are all red. All his clothes are red, his shoes are red, even

his carpet, television and phone are red. What colour are his

stairs?

3. You have a barrel, filled to the top with water, which weighs

150Kg. What can you put in the barrel to make it lighter?

Functional Literacy:

Each week students at The Crest Academy have been sent a lesson on how to improve their Literacy from home. Last

week students learnt how to compose a professional email. Now that all students have a Crest Academy email, they

were able to get straight to this task. Thank you for all the lovely emails I received.

Accelerated Reader

Our Accelerated Reader competitions are ongoing, and students are working hard to try and win one of the Amazon

vouchers up for grabs.

For our quizzes competition, this week's top 3 are: Sara H in Year 7 with 36 quizzes, racing from third place last week;

Haider A in Year 7 with 29 quizzes and Dhruvi S in Year 9 with 26 quizzes. Remember: students must have an 85%

average to qualify and must be quizzing on books at or above their ZPD level.

For our highest word count competition, this week's top three is only a little different from last week: we have Sabrina

A in Year 8 now in first place with 886,687 words; Abeera M in Year 7 now in second place with 805,768 words; and

Nawal D in Year 7 holding steady in third place with 540,893 words. Competitions end on 22 May 2020.

Literacy at Home

Please see information below about ways to help your child engage in reading at home. There are a variety of

websites to access as well as writing competitions.

All students should be reading at least 30 minutes a day to ensure their reading level is improving. Being at home is a

great opportunity to ensure your child is reading more than this to accelerate progress. Please access our reading list

on our Literacy page if you would like more guidance as to what your child should be reading.

Answers are located at the end of the newsletter

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Brent Parent Carer Forum would like to gather parents and

carers views of the success and challenges of COVID19 impact

on their lives so far but also looks to seek what would be

helpful post COVID. Please can all parents complete the

survey using the link/web address below. The survey will be

available until the 23rd May.

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/covid19274

To create a thank you card, poster, piece of art

or poem to say thank you to our local key

workers. Please send all final pieces to Ms

Allen.

Email: Selina.Allen@E-act.org.uk

Healthy Eating Tops Tips During Lockdown

You do not need to eat a special diet as all foods provide some goodness.

Three of the nutrients that help to support your immune system include vitamin A (sweet

potato & spinach), vitamin C (berries, tomatoes & peppers) & zinc (meat, shellfish, dairy &

bread).

Consume Oily fish -Oily fish is one of the few rich sources of vitamin D in the diet

If we are staying at home all the time, we may not be getting as much sun exposure, which is

our main source of vitamin D. Vitamin D is important for bone health and to support the

immune system.

Be sure to hydrate Drinking an adequate amount of fluid is essential for you to feel and

function at your best.

This week the P.E department have set the house competition.

Staff, pupils and parents I hope you have your trainers ready!

Step 1: Download a free steps or pedometer app (examples on

the next slide)

Step 2: Select one day to record your steps. (any time between

the 6th -13th May, late entries will not be counted)

Step 3: Take a screen shot of your total number of steps and

upload this on to Show my homework to your PE teacher ONLY.

Step 4: The PE team will then total the scores and decide a

winner.

Step 5: The winner will gain a prize and points towards their

house.

Step 6: Each year group will compete against each other.

GOOD LUCK AND KEEP SAFE!

EXAMPLES OF FREE PHONE APPS

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We hope you are all managing to stay fit and healthy by engaging in

your daily exercise, either alone or with people you live with. It is

also important to eat as well as you can and sleep well. Remember

to keep in touch with your friends too and help around the house.

Year 12 – We are still waiting to hear when the Academy will be able

to reopen. In the meantime, it is important that you do your best to

keep up with the work set by your teachers. Please also make sure

you are set up on Unifrog, so staff can write your subject references

and remember to use Unifrog to aid your research for degrees and

apprenticeships.

If you need further information about registering and require your

Form Code, please see the post on SMHW. Any other problems

please contact me.

Year 13 - Please make sure that you are ready for your chosen

university/ degree apprenticeships, by researching content for Year

1 of your degree. We suggest that you read around the university

topics and listen to podcasts and videos. Year 13 BTEC students, you

do not need to submit any more work now. We will use the work we

have already to inform our centre assessed grade.

Preparation for University

This is the first of several quizzes to

help you understand more about

university finance. This one deals

with money available to help you

pay for your course and living

expenses

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e

/1FAIpQLScPCHtFEVov5zCkXeYHXsy

0uK5Ebw7z1QFx6m1bIU_zLEgiQQ/v

iewform

Useful resources

Amazon - Free audio stories and

books.

The Economist Educational

Foundation - A range resources on

based on current issues to

encourage critical thinking.

https://economistfoundation.org/re

sources/

Starter High, Brain Hamilton

Foundation-Free Online Course

Students can take to learn how to

set up and run a business.

https://starterhigh.brianhamilton.or

g/

UCAS Information

It is now time to accept your University place. Most

of you will have the option to Firm - your first choice

(CF) and Insure - your backup choice (CI) in case you

do not meet the requirements of your first choice.

UCAS deadline to accept offers is now - 18th June

2020 Note: this is an extended external deadline set

by UCAS. Failure to meet this deadline will mean

you will lose all your offered university places.

To accept your offers, you will need to log into UCAS

Track and follow the steps. Please watch the video

on the link below for more information before

making your final choices.

https://www.ucas.com/undergraduate/after-you-

apply/types-offer/replying-your-ucas-

undergraduate-offers

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Aya Zeidanai in Y9 for

submitting detailed work for

Athletics.

Daniel Antunes, Jena Al-

Hashimi in Y10 and Adam

Cord Y7 for submitting

exceptional work

Romila Rashid for a reflective

perspective on life as a KS5

student linked to Ms Ward

literacy task.

Carlo, Jena and Roakhsar Y10,

Micheal Ige Y8 for always

submitting exemplary work

every week.

Maya Hatata Y9 for her

outstanding work on Jane Eyre.

Yr7- Ayla Baya and Ali Guher for accessing lessons and

submitting excellent work.

Yr8- consistently completing all their work on time in all

their subjects: Fiorella Andrisan, Mubasher Qadir, Rami

Bensalem, Tamer Boutalbi, Rizona Brestovci, Maria Dos

Ramos Cabral, Fozia Hussain, Heena Khan, Sabrina

Abdisamad, Darya Ahmed, Yousef Khidir, Muhammad

Sıkander, Rian Souza De Oliveira, Noor Sheeraz and

Malika Abouel Alaa!

Yr9- Enkeleda Beqaj, Rava Ali, Malachi Stephens,

Giovanni Pellerito for showing a fantastic attitude to

their independent learning.

Yr9- Samuel Gomes, Suada Hassan, Derelle Desire, Laiba

Qurehsi, Tuyen Legister-Downie, Manar Mohamed for

understanding the importance of developing positive

and healthy relationships.

Maria, in year 8 for a

lovely essay on Blues and

Louis Armstrong. Carlo in

year 10, produced

detailed work and got all

the scales correct on the

worksheet.

Pastoral Managers

Yr10-

Maisie for being the number 1 GCSEPOD user last

week. Isha and Lisa have actively engaged and asked

questions in all their teams Lessons. Martin and

Marius for submitting excellent homework to

several subjects.

Salma Othman for not missing any lesson on teams

and doing all her work on time, Great improvement.

Yr11- Sanya Suleman 11E - Engagement with

English, working hard and continuing to keep herself

mentally active!

Zohra Khorami 11S - Excellent response on how to

write a professional email!

Aman Rashid 11I-Excellent response on how to

write a professional email!

Leah Eldemire 11A- Excellent response on how to

write a professional email!

Marwa Akbari Yr12 for

producing fantastic BTEC

Business work.

Lyba Munir Yr13 for

excellent effort and

commitment to her

Health and Social

Care studies

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Tourist Trail Dream UK Holiday: Write at least 400 words

describing your perfect UK holiday. Prizes contribute to a

day out at a UK attraction. Entrance information on

website below.

https://www.thetouristtrail.org/competition/young-

persons-writing-competition/

Due Date: Closes 15 May.

Answers to brainteasers:

1. Answer – It is impossible to overtake the person in last

place as there is no-one behind them.

2. Answer – There are no stairs as he lives in a bungalow.

3. Answer - Holes