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150 Seymour Road, Leyton, London E10 7LX Tel: 020 8988 5860 / Fax: 020 8988 5861 Website: www.lammas.waltham.sch.uk Thursday 24th March 2016 ISSUE NO: 387 Email: [email protected]

Head’s Corner Happy Easter to Everyone! I would like to wish Happy Easter and Happy Holiday to all students, parents and carers on behalf of the Staff and Governors of Lammas School. I hope everyone has a fantastic break and comes back refreshed for the summer term.

Shona Ramsay Headteacher Spoken Word at Lammas Continues

Welcome to Sara Hirsch who will be joining Lammas in May. She is part of the Spoken Word Educator programme and the Goldsmiths University Writer/Teacher MA. She has been training with Ms Brogan at Lammas since November and is excited about working in the school two days a week from May to July. She is on an Arts Council funded tour of New Zealand for a month, is performing at Glastonbury and Latitude this summer and is publishing her first poetry collection with Burning Eye Books. It’s been a busy final week at Lammas for out-going Spoken Word Educator Ms Brogan. Don’t Waste – our music video about food waste was featured in The Waltham Forest Guardian, the Poetry Showcase was a great success, the Year 7 Slam was electric and her last act will be the Year 8 Slam. You can keep in touch with Ms Brogan and her travels in South East Asia via her website www.catbrogan.com. Ms Brogan would like to thank all the students and staff at Lammas for taking poetry to their hearts. Year 7 Slam Congratulations to Jordan-Lee Massala who came first and runners-up Muhammad Rahman, Dawud Akhtar and Maryama Dhudi. All the students were exceptional and it was very difficult to pick a winner. Congratulations to everyone who performed in front of their whole year group: Zin Lwin, Gustavo Gomes, Cosmin Enache, Hassan Khan, Lauren All the winners of the Year 7 class slams who performed in the final. Brightman, D’Andre Griffith, Abigail Pritchard, Lacee Polocz, Enje Sewell, Ja’Tyri Walker, Macey Arthey, Alex Stoica, Naijah Sinclair, Dominque Griffiths, Mohammed Sebaihi and Terika Mothersill.

The Tigers – The winning poem

There was once a tiger Whose name was tiger He had friends called tiger.

We had a fight In the dark dark night. He cut my head Then I cut him on the neck And he lay dead.

My head was like a volcano squirting out lava. My blood tasted salty And I thought and said: “oh crud!”

I went home and watched the news And they said: “Tigers are on the loose stealing shoes!” My face turned into a frown Which made me look like a clown.

I got my gun and I was ready to run. I was ready I was steady. I fought the tigers like there was no tomorrow And I saw there ugly faces of sorrow.

I won that fight that very dark dark night. I was proud as I heard the crowd go wild.

Some of you would ask what happened to my head I would say listen to my tiger poem instead.

By Jordan-Lee Massala (Y7, Bl5)

Year 8 Slam Congratulations to first place Istvan Szolcsanyi, second Beatriz Miguel and third Jesse Hambleton. All the performers were excellent. Well done to them for representing their class and performing their poem in front of all of Year 8: Dontae Gayle, Skirmante Gvazdziauskaite, Blaize Denning, Shanyah Inglis-Barbosa, Pablo Zuluaga, Malachi Doe, De'Qwan Bigby- Loton, Klaidas Moliejus, Ramai Stennett, Ana Maria Lincan, Bradley Farrer, Beatriz Miguel, Duante Providence, Ismail Ghassem and Lukas Kanci. No Title I have been called loads of names if I were to count them all up I would probably get enough words to make a long book.

But they aren’t really pleasant names. I would say they are names that show endless hate, names that make you sad enough to actually consider if this country is hell itself. That is what I can tell you from my personal experience of being cussed and called names for a year.

People seem to want to leech popularity off me just so that they can seem cool but all they really do is nothing. I mean I have cried about it before

I wanted to go to another school before I even wanted to go back to Hungary. But I fought, I fought that despair and hate and anger and rage.

My soul had been broken tons of times but is now made out of iron and steel which is more resistant to the idiotic things people say.

The parts of my soul that aren’t as strong are still broken but held together by cellotape that doesn’t break because I hold it together with my will and with my determination or what remains of it.

Every single time someone tries to ‘hurt’ me I just get a bit more angry and with that anger I can make myself go over my limits.

To be honest I am stronger than anyone. My soul has an unlimited amount of will and doesn’t care about what others try to make it feel like because it doesn’t depend on others.

It depends on itself since it barely has any companions and it doesn’t exactly need companions. And with that soul burning inside waiting to unleash the beast from all the anger I am stronger than anyone but of course not in my body but spirit wise I’ll tell you what, my struggles aren’t going to be over until I say so.

It doesn’t matter if it takes pain, it doesn’t matter if it is an endless struggle because that fire does burn and nothing can extinguish it.

By Istvan Szolcsanyi (Y8, Bk3) YEAR 10 WORK EXPERIENCE The Year 10 Work Experience (WEX) will take place between 4th and 15th July. The objective of Work Experience is to assist pupils to make the transition from School to working life. It is intended to help pupils gain some of the essential skills and qualities needed to become employable and to provide a taster of working within a specific industry. It is also seen as an opportunity to learn and develop new skills and to build self-confidence.

Please take note of the following important dates:  Own choices cut-off date: Monday 11th April.  Employer Health & Safety visits to be completed: Friday 22nd April.  Pupil without placements to have chosen from school database: Friday 13th May.  Interviews to be completed by: Friday 10th June.  Parental consent forms cut-off date: Friday 24th June. All Year 10’s were given an information pack last October 2015 on how to approach potential WEX employers. If you have misplaced the pack please contact your Tutor or SPL. Mr Sawali

Exam Tips

Don’t forget to use the online learning resources in the run up to your exams.

You can also find the exam timetable on the school website. Type ‘Exams’ into the search box at the top of the screen.

Mr Seedat

NEED HELP WITH HOMEWORK? We currently run a homework club every day after school (Except Thursday) from 3.00 – 4.00pm. This is open to all years. Located in the ATL room, we can help you to get ahead! Our team have expertise in a range of areas, so you are guaranteed to get the right help. Ms Lavery-Welsh

Up until the end of the Academic Year the ATL department will be running after School intervention for all Year 11 students. This is an opportunity for students to spend time everyday afterschool except Thursday’s to catch up on revision, exam practise and any coursework. This is a great opportunity for Year 11’s to take ownership of their learning and take advantage of the support that is provided by the ATL department.

Intervention hours: Monday 3:00-4.00 (Ms Sobtchak) Tuesday: 3.00pm-4.00pm (Ms Sobtchak) Wednesday: 3.00pm-4.00pm (Ms Melanarkitis) Friday: 3.00pm-4.00pm (Ms Sobtchak)

If you have any questions do not hesitate to speak to a staff member in the ATL Department.

NUMERACY NEWS

Pi Day Challenge

To promote Pi Day 2016 students at Lammas School took part in a Pi (π) Challenge in the maths corridor. The challenge was to solve clues which gave you a numerical answer which were also digits of π. If you solved a clue correctly you won a pie. There were 29 clues altogether which gave us the first 29 digits of π = 3.1415926535897932384626433832 and also spelt the word floccinaucinihilipilification. This word is one of the longest words in the English dictionary and means an estimation.

Pi (π) is one of the most important and fascinating numbers in mathematics. Approximately 3.14, it is a constant that is used to calculate the circumference of a circle from that circle's radius or diameter. It is also an irrational number, which means that it can be calculated to an infinite number of decimal places without ever slipping into a repeating pattern. This makes it difficult, but not impossible, to calculate precisely.

On Pi day there were also lots of other cross-curricular Pi based activities which took place in maths and other lessons across the school. You can see an example of some Pi (π) art created by our Year 7 students in maths using circles. We investigated what happened when we changed the radius of our circles and explored the different patterns we could create. To see some more examples of Pi (π) art take a look at our display in the maths corridor.

Mrs Bham, Numeracy Co-ordinator

& LRC PAGE

1. The word ‘Easter’ comes from the name of an Anglo-Saxon…?

(a) Goddess (b) God (c) Food 2. Easter Sunday is preceded by a 40 day period known as…..? (a) Advent (b) Whitsun (c) Lent

3. The Thursday immediately before Easter Sunday is known a ‘Maundy Thursday’

  True False 4. All over the world, Easter Sunday is always celebrated in April  True  False COMPETITION 5. The Cadbury chocolate company made their first chocolate Easter egg in…?

6. Cadbury first started making their famous gooey ‘Crème Egg’ …..? (a) 1951 (b)1971 (c) 1965 1. EBUN AKINSIKU BLACK 2 7. The famous Easter Egg Roll’ at the White House (which started in 1878) has a claim 2. HAMZA AKHTAR BLACK 3 to fame as being the longest running annual presidential tradition.  True  False 3. ZAHRA BUNDHOO BLUE 2 8. In April 2012, a record breaking chocolate egg was made which weighted…? (a) 2000kgs (b) 4000kgs (c) 6000kgs 9. The Origins of the Easter Bunny can be traced back to a region of…? WELL DONE TO ALL WHO TOOK (a) France (b) England (c) Canada 10. What is the name of the 2011 animated movie all about a young rabbit who does PART!! not want to become the Easter Bunny? (a) Hip (b) Hop (c) Hip Hop