Haggerston Newsletter of

Recorder Issue 005_December 2014

Diary Dates Friday 19th December End of Autumn term Monday 5th January Start of Spring term Dear Parents/Carers Thursday 15th January In this edition of the Recorder you will notice more reports than usual Year 7 Parents’ evening from the sixth form, a signal of how it has grown in size considerably 5.00pm – 7.00pm this year, which is a significant change for the school. What is also significant is that the other gradual change which the school has been Thursday 22nd January undergoing over the past four years is now complete – this term the Year 11 Parents’ evening school is fully mixed, with boys in year 11. 5.00pm – 7.00pm Celebrating the successes and achievements of all the children and young people in this school is one of the privileges of being Monday 16th – its Headteacher and, as always, it gives me great pleasure to 20th February introduce to you another fine edition of the Recorder, packed full Spring half term of such celebration. Thursday 5th March At this point in the year the school is extremely busy. Year 11 have their mock GCSE exams this week; other years are in the middle of their end Year 8 Parents’ evening of term assessments or preparing for A level mocks in January, and 5.00pm – 7.00pm last week saw the annual school production, ‘Uprising’, involve more than 100 young people and hugely impress its audiences. Thank you Thursday 26th March for all of your support for the school, and our continued drive to raise Year 10 Parents’ evening standards to ‘outstanding’. 5:00pm-7:00pm We wish you all a peaceful and enjoyable Christmas holiday. Friday 27th March Dr. Jane Keeley, End of Spring term Headteacher Monday 13th April Start of Summer Term A lasting Legacy Thursday 16th April October saw the permanent installation of artwork on the south wall in the Year 9 Parents’ and atrium commemorating the work of the architect Ernő Goldfinger. The text Options evening and graphics illustrate unique design features of our building as well as 5.00pm – 7.00pm highlighting the history of the school building that we work and study in. The installation was generously funded by Rivington Street Studio. Monday 25th - 29th May Summer Half term Friday 17th July End of Summer term

New term starts on Monday 5th January 2015 Recorder December 2014

Alma wins “the most Uprising original idea” prize PASSION, PROTEST, In July, Alma Morris attended POLITICS the awards ceremony at the School of Computer Science at Last summer I sat in the school hall Manchester University, where and was moved to tears by a year she embodied the Haggerston 9 student singing Sam Cooke’s “A values of confident, capable and change is gonna come “. Despite creative with her animation film the song coming from another entitled “The Future I-World”. time and place, the words and way She achieved the prize for the it was sung reminded me of how “most original idea”. relevant it still is today. Use the link to see her entry At Haggerston we have always www.animation14cs. believed that the voices of young manchester.ac.uk/gallery/ people are powerful. Their words winners/Best/ carry weight, no more so than Here are her thoughts on her when performing. winning the prize: It must be hard growing up today. “I was very excited when I arrived at The image of listless, self-absorbed, the University and I felt very lucky materialistic youth can dominate to have been chosen as a prize the media. If you have the privilege winner considering they received of working with young people you 1,339 entries across the UK and know that is not the case. the judges included professional Over 100 students worked with people from famous companies focus, creativity and determination like the BBC and Electronic Arts Open House in creating this year’s performance. (The Sims). I got lots of inspiration If you are purchasing This is a true reflection of our watching the other winning entries, Open House at Haggerston on hats, gloves and school community from year 7 which were all of a high standard. Saturday 20th September was scarves, please note students, who have been with us The afternoon workshops and once again a huge success. Steve the school uniform for less than a term to sixth formers presentations were fascinating, Fitzwilliam, one of our parents and in their seventh final year. especially a talk about computer part of the policy only permits science and music. I got to control Association (HSA), and also the following: The London riots, mothers and a bulb with my mind and try on the an architect himself, worked in daughters, and a love of vegetables, • A Dark Plain* Outdoor Coat. *plain new Occulus Rift, a virtual reality partnership with our sixth form are some of the eclectic mix you – any item described as plain head mounted display. I also found students in conducting the tours. would have seen had you been part must have no patterns, markings out about opportunities to do other The visitors were shown around of the audience. All the pieces were or logos. workshops and about what seems our unique grade II listed building, connected in some way to protest, celebrating the work of Erno to be a really good University. I • Plain dark (navy/black) hats passion, politics on a personal or Goldfinger and the sympathetic had a great day and I would like only (of the knitted ‘beanie’ type global level. refurbishments done by Avanti to thank Mr Wilson and Mr Rains provided by the school) may be This year our ambition was to as part of the Building Schools for because none of this would have worn to and from school and entertain our audience and make the Future programme. happened without their help”. during break and lunch periods them think. After five sold out Alma Morris 9B but must not be worn in performances and rave reviews I school building think we can say we succeeded. • No baseball caps are allowed. Ms Ray-Choudhuri, Head of Expressive Arts Beanie hats, scarves and gloves can be purchased from Student Services at £3 each. Haggerston Recorder December 2014

Year 11 students gaining Our first term at Haggerston the Duke of Edinburgh with flying colours This year we are tracking the journey of a few of our Year 7 students. Here are some of their reflections of their first term at Haggerston. A group of our current year 11 students achieved their Duke of “My first term at Haggerston has been great!. My teachers are firm but Edinburgh Bronze Award at the end fair and want the best for us. Haggerston School is a friendly place. The of the summer term. To achieve the other students have made me feel very comfortable during my first weeks Award students had worked hard and at Haggerston. Our school is dedicated to making us join a club. I attend spent their lunchtimes, weekends basketball and drama – which are fun!” and evenings learning new skills and Teon Collins-Durrant activities. The three activity sections “Like my mum always says – life is school and every experience is a lesson. are Physical, Skills and Volunteering Royal Society of Chemistry Lectures My first term has been an experience for me in different ways, such as Black History Month and activities have ranged from The A level Chemistry students have been attending the monthly Royal learning new social skills and making new friends and all of it has been celebration basketball, badminton, singing, Society of Chemistry lectures at Burlington House in Piccadilly. very exciting.” and mentoring to volunteering at Saraya Osinnowo As part of Haggerston’s Black . All students have In October they were fascinated leaning more about Sir Humphrey Davy - who History Month celebrations, our shown excellent commitment to their invented the miners’ lamp and discovered the elements sodium and potassium. “When you first enter Haggerston, you feel nervous about many things, but business partner, Freshfields, activities, attending regularly and The students were fortunate to meet Sir John Meurig Thomas, Honorary after a day or two you understand what is expected of you and how to be a asked for our students to write and sharing their new hobbies Professor at the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, University of good student. The highlights are mainly the subjects and being in the school perform a poem on the themes with each other at our Duke of Cambridge, who gave the lecture. production where I played keyboard.” of culture, heritage or identity. Nicholas Westwood The final was whittled down to Edinburgh meetings. In November Dr Philip Ball opened their eyes to the chemical history of the twelve entries, and these lucky The final section involved the expedition, pigments on the artists palette. Students were fascinated to learn that paintings “Everybody in the school community has been very polite and helpful” twelve performed their pieces to which was the most challenging section through the ages are very much dependent on the pigments available at the Chloe Tran an audience of parents, peers, as pupils needed to work as a team to time. He spoke of ancient paintings having once been much more vibrant “I love it, it’s better than anything, I just don’t want to leave. can’t wait for staff and Freshfields visitors. Each plan a hike and to camp overnight. For and what we are looking at now are the faded images. He showed how the next term…” student performed remarkably many of our students this was the first invention of new colour has constantly transformed art. Discussion afterwards Joseph Reynolds well, each with their own twist on time they had camped! The students looked at the future of paintings, which is likely to involve nanotechnology. the competition’s challenge. They threw themselves into the expedition The following are some thoughts on the lecture from Tahsin Khan, year 12: were truly imaginative and creative training; anxious that they would get pieces, which were acknowledged lost they spent a long time learning On 6th of November we (the A level Chemistry students) attended a lecture Hackney Youth Parliament by Freshfields who awarded a £10 map-reading skills and compass at the Royal Society of Chemistry at Burlington House based on the invention This October 2014, Haggerston School students took part in the Hackney book token to each student. Special navigation. We took the pupils on a of colour. It was an insightful experience where I was able to understand more Youth Parliament elections which saw 24 young people, elected to mention goes to Beyzanur Kaya practice expedition to show them the about the different colours used in painting through the ages and how they represent the youth voice of the borough. Two of these young people (Y11), Francis Lawson (Y9), Teon (guy) ropes. Working in two teams, were dependent on pigments available at the time and place. I learnt how colour were former Haggerston student Vera Boateng, and current student Dylan Collins-Durrant (Y7), and Kamaria the pupils navigated a route they originated from the surroundings the artists were living in, so this meant they Ferner-Rose. Nearly 7,500 young people across the borough voted in this Nicholas (Y11). Thanks go to all had planned, set up their tents and would use things like plants as well as elements. For example, lead oxides can year’s election, and Haggerston School was proud to be a part of it. those involved including our special cooked for themselves. It was a steep be red, white and yellow and there were very early pigments used in paints and guest poet, Jemilea Wisdom, and learning curve for all the pupils; they had wallpapers – with the unfortunate consequence of lead poisoning. It was only Ms Beckett, Assistant to the Head of Upper School our panel of Freshfields’ judges. anticipated the navigation problems but after advances in organic chemistry and the work of Perkin that synthetic dye Well done all, and keep writing. were not prepared for how tired they became available. I certainly will never look at paintings in the same way again! would be hiking with a rucksack all day! Word of the Week Tahsin Khan, Year 12 Ms Beckett, For the assessed weekend expedition Assistant to the Head of This term sees the launch of ‘Word in July, pupils were completely Upper School of the Week’ across the school. Word independent throughout. They weren’t of the Week is designed to help able to ask us for assistance and it was students improve their vocabulary in with real pride that we watched as the both spoken and written language groups pulled together to support each which will help improve their writing other. The students showed incredible skills, as well as their understanding resilience and strength of character as of examination questions. Staff have they dealt with the rain, getting lost, been using Word of the Week in their heavy rucksacks, sore feet and tired lesson planning, and students have team-mates. They were all still smiling enjoyed spotting when their teachers at the end and we are delighted that include these words. The Words of everybody passed with flying colours. the Week can be found on the Frog Ms Whalley, Maths teacher Learning Platform and are updated every Monday. Mr Jobbins, Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator Haggerston Recorder December 2014

Animation Club Haggerston School Career Launch and For the last 10 weeks we have A Capital Experience had five Year 8 students Alma Over thirty of our Year 12 students applied to join Career Academy in Morris, Alec Burton, Hal Bishop, September. Interviews were held and twelve successful students were Bella Meadows and Fatim Kamara invited to join the programme. In November the new cohort enjoyed develop ideas and produce films meeting members of our Local Advisory Board from businesses based on the theme Passion, The Skateboarding Club including Freshfields, Oxford Knight and Citi at the Haggerston Politics and Protest. The films School Career Academy launch. Year 13 students, now in their second feature Tiago Vincente, Fatim This autumn term has seen the year of Career Academy, also attended the event to celebrate their Kamara, Bella Meadows, Naomi beginning of the highly-anticipated achievements and share their experiences. Marzana Khan and Franca Grant and Dominic Gilbert. All of the skateboarding club. With a great deal Onyeama impressed everyone with their inspirational introduction, props were made by our Year 10 of interest shown at the Enrichment describing their internships and highlighting the opportunities Career Art students. Fair, Mr Eggleton and Mr Diamond Academy has given them. If you didn’t get a chance to see have since been running the This month the new Career Academy cohort enjoyed a behind-the-scenes the films at ‘The Haggerston Show’ afterschool club every Tuesday on the visit to the Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal Football Club, as part of the A then you can view the films on tennis courts. With a large number of Capital Experience event. At the afternoon event, the students joined 1,700 Youtube. Just type in ‘Haggerston regular attendees, the support and Hackney Music Gala other young people from across , Wales and Northern Ireland, all of School Animation Club’ into the consistent effort from the students whom are beginning the Career Academy programme. Students were given Hackney Music Service Gala is search bar and they will appear in involved has been commendable. An insights into successful careers from motivational speakers. Entertainment Spectroscopy in an annual show at The Hackney the top three videos. even mix of boys and girls from all was provided by Citi Bank’s choir, who recently featured in the BBC’s The Empire with performances from a Suitcase year groups are able to engage Choir – Sing While You Work, as well as the dance group, CEO Dancers. Mr Stevenson and Mr Wilson, and learn whilst staying active and over 300 young people from A level Chemistry students Art department having fun. Hackney’s primary, secondary Ms Page, Careers Advisor & Employability Coordinator had a unique opportunity to and special schools. Special It’s been a great start to the club this participate in the Spectroscopy guests included all Hackney Loan of traditional term, and we all look forward to this in a Suitcase workshop led by Headteachers and the Mayor, Jules club going from strength to strength. two PHD students from Imperial Japanese artefacts from Pipe. Haggerston was represented College London. the Japanese Embassy Here are some quotes from some of this year by a confident choir the Haggerston Skateboard performing a medley of Billionaire The students had a unique This term the Art Department has hands on experience of different Club members. ( Bruno Mars ) and You Don’t Love been given the opportunity to borrow Me ( Dawn Penn ). In front of a spectroscopy methods deployed “Since I have joined the club, my a set of traditional Japanese artefacts loud and unforgiving crowd of their in finding out the nature of a father has now started skating, from the Embassy of Japan. Year peers, the Haggerston performers particular chemical. They were even and we now skate together on a 10 Art GCSE students are currently – a choir of thirty, backed by a rock able to individually run an infra red Saturday afternoon” working on a project based on the band and fronted by solo singer spectrum on a compound. Shimari Chang, 7 Silver theme of ‘World Cultures’. Students Roumelia Barnes Hanson – proved This was a wonderful opportunity have been taking part in a series of “There is no pressure as with team themselves to be amongst the top to have some practical experience drawing workshops working directly sports. We all help each other no rank. It was a proud day for the in a topic that can seem at A level a from a range of Japanese artefacts matter what your ability is” Head Of Music, Mr Baxter and the little abstract. such as traditional clothing, fabrics, Nemo Godebski – Pedar, 9 Yellow choir director Mr Anderson. The Kokeshi dolls, hand painted wooden Music Department continues to Ms Kotecha-Karia “I wanted to try something new, toys, Daruma dolls, Ema prayer grow and provide students of all Skateboarding makes me feel free boards, games and lanterns. talents with opportunities and happy” to perform. Ms Ramos-Virley, Khaya Clarke, 7 Green Head of Art Mr Baxter and Mr Anderson, City Year at Haggerston Mr Diamond, Maths teacher and Music Department Mr Eggleton, Teaching Assistant This year’s City Year team have settled into the school and are beginning to make their mark. Collectively the team are working in 19 different subjects and across all years in the school, including 6th form. They are also running a number of extra-curricular activities and a daily paired reading intervention with year 7 and 8 students. Two of the team ran City Year’s 6 week Young Heroes programme with year 7 students last half term. They helped the students plan and run a table tennis tournament to help raise awareness for the Safer London Foundation, a cause they were all passionate about. The event was a great success. This half term the year 8 Young Heroes cohort will be organising their own social action project. Ms Arthurs-Hartnett, City Year Team Leader Haggerston Recorder December 2014

Haggerston School PE department

Basketball Haggerston Basketball continues to dominate in the borough. I am extremely proud of how our students are developing and maturing with their commitment to their academic as well as sports ambassadors on the basketball team at Haggerston. We are undefeated so far in boys’ basketball and I have confidence that we will win the borough championship across the year groups (7, 8, 9, 10 and 11). With the Under 16 boys’ competitions, Haggerston have sealed wins against Mossbourne Community Academy (54-50) and (58-32). The Year 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 boys are undefeated, beating Bishop Challenor, Bridge, Mossbourne and Raine’s Foundation this term. The year 7 girls also have started with a win against Bridge Academy (14-8) which was a great start on which to build their development. This has been an exceptional start to the year and we will continue to work hard and encourage participation, enjoyment, commitment and teamwork. The Under 14/16 Girls have competed in matches against Bridge Academy, , Cardinal Pole and Clapton Girls and though they have yet to win a game, they are not discouraged and are showing resilience and determination to improve to beat the best! Mr Danchie, PE teacher

Hackney Cross Country British indoor athletics Championships champion kick starts Haggerston School took part in athletics at Haggerston their first Hackney School’s Cross School country championships for a Haggerston School welcomed number of years as pupils tackled JJ Jegede, for this year’s the terrain at the Hackney Marshes. Haggerston Athletics Trials. Athletes from yr 7, 8, 9 and 10 JJ who represented Great made for a strong turnout from Britain at the European Athletics Haggerston School: Championships and the • Joseph Reynolds (yr 7) finished Commonwealth Games gave an inside the top 10 in 8th position in inspiring talk of his youth and the year 8 race. early career. • Maliq Oke (yr 8) finished in 4th Pupils then revelled in competing position as well as being the for the top spot of selection for the English Schools Championship Haggerston squad with Maliq Oke silver medallist. (Long Jump) and Darren Gerald (Sprint) winning the trials as well as • Georgeanne Colbert (yr 10) Stephen Allison in the Year 7 capturing 4th place over the age category. distance- an impressive feat for a 200m sprinter. The trials showed that Haggerston athletics is raising its profile with For many pupils it was their debut 52 pupils attending. over such a distance, with Reynolds, Oke and Colbert being put forward for Mr Webb, PE Teacher the London Youth Games. Mr Webb, PE Teacher Contact

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