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As We Come to the End of the Final Week of the Spring Term, I Would Like to Wish All Students and Their Families a Very Happy, Restful and Peaceful Easter Break

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As We Come to the End of the Final Week of the Spring Term, I Would Like to Wish All Students and Their Families a Very Happy, Restful and Peaceful Easter Break 150 Seymour Road, Leyton, London E10 7LX Tel: 020 8988 5860 / Fax: 020 8988 5861 Website: www.lammas.waltham.sch.uk Friday 31st March 2017 ISSUE NO: 426 Email: [email protected] Heads Corner: As we come to the end of the final week of the spring term, I would like to wish all students and their families a very happy, restful and peaceful Easter break. Mr Cullen’s article in this newsletter is a helpful reminder to us of the religious meaning of Easter. I’m sure many students and families will take time during this break to think of ways in which we can support and help others who are suffering. Our return to school is on Tuesday 18th April at our normal start time of 8.30am with all students expected on time and in their full school uniform. There have been several trips and events during this week, starting with the Year 7 Science Symposium in Milton Keynes, the A level Psychology conference and the Year 8 Poetry Slam – and that was just Monday! The week continued to be busy with the upgrading of our cashless catering system, a Year 10 evening trip to the theatre in Greenwich with Ms Hollingsworth and Mr Daintry, a guest speaker on Wednesday afternoon for our Sixth Form students and some Year 11s who is a CEO of a successful company, and our Coffee Morning on Thursday for parents of our new students joining us in September in Year 7. There are articles on some of these events in this edition with a few to follow in the first edition of the newsletter in the summer term. Some of you may have followed the news about changes to school funding and the difficulties that this will cause. I am enclosing a copy on the next page of the Waltham Forest Secondary Headteachers’ joint letter to you. Over the next few years, our schools are facing the worst cut in resources for decades through the redistribution of funding away from London and the freeze placed on schools’ income, despite increasing costs. These cuts have already begun to take effect across all Waltham Forest Schools. Please do write to your local MP so this matter is raised in Parliament. I look forward to seeing you all for the summer term after an enjoyable and safe holiday. Best wishes, Shona Ramsay Headteacher Dear Parents and Carers, School Funding Crisis As you will be aware, schools across the London Borough of Waltham Forest are facing huge financial challenges and the Government’s planned National Funding Formula is set to make things far worse for the borough’s schools and its pupils. The Government has stated that the scheme will redistribute funding across the country’s schools in a more equitable way however it is clear that this will not be the case. Already, many MPs and Councillors across the country, representing all shades of political opinion, are supporting Head Teachers and Governing Bodies in complaining of the potential damage to children’s education and opportunities. The likely outcome will be larger class sizes; a reduction in the subjects available at secondary level; less teaching time; fewer opportunities for sport and cultural activities; more difficulty in recruiting staff. Waltham Forest Council will be making its concerns known to the government and, across London, Councils are working to raise the importance of the issue with the Government, through their MPs and through the media. The London Borough of Waltham Forest and other London Councils have provided a response to the Government’s consultation on the National Funding Formula. Primary and secondary Heads Teachers want parents to have a voice in this campaign and to provide their support. Therefore, you may wish to access a parent-led website: http://www.fairfundingforallschools.org, which includes guides to responding to the consultation on the National Funding Formula, model letters to MPs, journalists and other useful resources. By adding your voice, you are agreeing to support our call to the government to re-think the NFF and to invest more funding in schools, in particular to provide an additional £335m per year (1% of the DfE’s schools budget) to ensure no school loses funding as a direct result of the implementation of the National Funding Formula. Yours sincerely Waltham Forest Primary and Secondary Head Teachers POETRY SLAM WINNERS! This week, instead of ‘Poet of the Week’, we are celebrating the amazing young Poets who made the Year 8 Slam so fantastic! On Monday 27th March we heard from 19 Poets, each of whom have been working really hard on their poems with Miss Hirsch. Every single one of them was brilliant and they all brought passion, emotion and honesty to the stage. It was really tough to decide the winners. Whilst we reminded ourselves that ‘the points are not the point, the point is the poetry’ we still had to pick people for the prizes. Mr Pillay, Ms Richards and Mr Thorbourne did the difficult job of judging and picked people that had impressed them, for their writing, their performances and their effort. The two commendations went to Ayma Perveen for best performance and Matthieu Louise for most imaginative poem. 3rd place – Lacee Polocz 2nd place – Iqra Shahid 1st place – Lena Swara Lena performed her stunning poem beautifully and was a very well deserving winner. Here is Lena’s winning poem: Gaming codes By Lena Swara (Year 8) Many players have certain skills. Headphones are like the sounds favourite I wish I had a code toy, the wires are like trains of sound that showed how I feel the waves pass through me like a howling I wish I had a better poem that showed wolf in the full moon. better verses but you hear the delicateness of silence. I wish I had a better voice that said some A game is imagination better words every press is an idea. I wish I didn’t have to rhyme every time I wrote. I code what I want and see what I had imagined. I was told that all my fears would shrink but now I’m insecure and I care how I I code 24/7. My pixelated character can code. move up, down, left and right. Words in game speeches are lethal codes I can have infinite lives. that can show the most pain from every press of a button. I could build a rocket ship and then fly it far away I would rather daringly punch myself, instead of a verbal hit and I dream about space but now they are laughing at my face saying a game is because I can put a plaster on a bruise a waste of time! but I cannot put one on my heart. I will prove to them that it’s not just a game, it’s a dream. This glitches around the gaming system, I have my computer, laptop, iPad and every micro square of the screen phone represents a game which is pixelated with code. and I start to code until I can see a perfect masterpiece. It is diverse. Many players have certain skills Ulfat Maalim – Year 9 We Are All Artists Pencil Drawing 27/03/17 If you and your parents want to learn a language or improve a language, you can now download Rosetta Stone learning programme at a discounted price of £149. What is more, once you install it, five members of your family can have individual accounts on one programme! Learn English, French, German or any other of the numerous languages that Rosetta Stone offers. Ms Piorkowska EAL Department On Sunday 12th March Ms Hirsch and Ms Smith took two lucky students to the Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre. Ayma Perveen and Iqra Shahid, both in Year 8, were selected for the trip after they wrote exceptionally mature and passionate poems about feminism in their poetry lesson with Ms Hirsch. They had demonstrated enthusiasm for discussing equality and the teachers thought this would be a brilliant opportunity for the girls to learn from some inspirational speakers and bring their ideas back to Lammas. Women of the World (or WOW) is a 3 day festival held at the Southbank Centre each year. There are also WOW Festivals all around the world, each one celebrating amazing women and giving people of all genders a chance to discuss equality and the problems facing women in today’s society. On the school trip to WOW the girls began the day by listening to some famous women discuss the day’s news headlines. Comedian Jo Brand told everyone she is ‘in a permanent state of anger’ and the speakers discussed how social media seems to be running our country. They then went to a talk for teenagers about what it is like to grow up as a girl. The talk was really informative and educational and everyone came out feeling more open and confident to talk about what it is like to go through puberty. They finished the day with a craft session for a feminist zone and made pictures and poems for their website. The girls even read the craft leader their poems and she was extremely impressed. The day was inspiring, informative and incredibly interesting and Ms Hirsch and Ms Smith were really proud of how brilliantly the girls represented Lammas. Here is what the students had to say about their experience: “We were given an amazing opportunity to experience the Women of the World Festival in which we were able to expand our knowledge of various feminists and activists fighting for the respected liberation of women worldwide.
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