30th June 2017 34 Dear all, It was wonderful to come together as a full school for our assembly on Wednesday morning. Year 10 students shared a series of poems with our school to support us in reflecting on the terrible tragedies that our country has experienced and how we can make an active choice to pursue peace, to be kind and to help others despite adversity. I shared with students a fitting memorial and one we could perhaps all currently choose to adopt. During the English Civil War Sir Robert Shirley built the stunning Staunton Harold Church, in Leicestershire, and erected a moving memorial plaque: “When all things sacred were throughout the nation either destroyed or profaned, Sir Robert Shirley, Baronet, founded this church whose singular praise is to have done the best of things in the worst of times and hoped them in the most calamitous”. Words, I certainly believe are worth holding onto and striving for. This week has been one of so many successes; with further wins on the athletics field and incredible performances by our ArcherShop choir at St Jude’s proms. Additionally, Year 10 have taken part in an excellent SRE Day which included a moving presentation by an ex-offender and enjoyed a Taster Day at Woodhouse College. The Principal of Woodhouse College, John Rubinstein, has already commented on how impressed his staff were with our students today and we are delighted to have already afforded them the opportunity of an experience of 6th form life. Next week is a busy one, as we look forward to welcoming our Year 6 families for their Induction Week events. It seems hard to believe that our September 2017 cohort will make our school full for the first time and that we will be 5 years old as a school. However, with 53 siblings in the cohort I know we have many experienced hands! We look forward to taking Year 7, Year 8 and Year 10 on their trip days on Thursday. Please do check emails carefully in relation to payments, timings and required equipment. Year 9 have gone off to Stubbers for the weekend today (we wish them a wonderful time) and they will spend Thursday taking part in their SRE day at Upper School. With my best wishes, Lucy Harrison Headteacher KEY DATES FOR THE DIARY: REMINDERS: July Please ensure your ParentPay account is topped up Thurs 6th – Year 7, 8 & 10 trips (Y9 SRE day) for the rest of the year. Fri 7th – 7SJO Archer café Tues 11th – Summer Showcase Please sponsor our running team in Race the Weds 12th – Summer Showcase Neighbours: Thurs 13th – Summer Showcase https://mydonate.bt.com/events/archeracademyrtn/44 Fri 14th – Learning Review Day 1187 Mon 17th – Sports Day Mon 17th – Year 7&8 FA Disco Book Archer Summer Party tickets here: Tues 18th – Year 9 Grad Fest https://www.eventbrite.com/e/archer-summer-party- Weds 19th – Last day of term tickets-35457942661 Thurs 20th – INSET day Key Information: Learning Review Day: All parents should now have received an email with booking information for LRD. Please book your appointments online following the instructions in the email. If you have any questions please email [email protected] Hot weather: In this hot weather we would encourage all students to bring a full bottle of water with them to school, Additionally, sun cream is recommended when students are taking part in outside sporting activities. Uniform: A reminder that shorts are permitted in our school uniform and available from the uniform shop. Please see the Uniform4Kids website for further details. WOW WORD OF THE WEEK – Mrs Vandervelde Year 7 & 8 – Product (productive, production, produce) Year 9 & 10 - Cumulative FRIENDS ASSOCIATION UPDATE – Lisha Taylor Archer Summer Party – Saturday 15th July 1 – 4pm, Lower School Please put the date in your diaries for the Archer Summer Party on Saturday 15th July, from 1 – 4pm at Lower School and book your free tickets here, so we have an idea of numbers for catering: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/archer-summer-party- tickets-35457942661. This year’s party will have an international theme celebrating diversity – our school, our community. Refreshments: International Food We will be asking families to contribute an international food dish and this will be coordinated by Sara Wolfin, you can reach her by phone 07957 480026 or by email: [email protected] Cakes and Puddings We will also be running our popular cakes and puddings stall and would ask you to let Lisha Taylor know if you will be bringing in a contribution to this stall by emailing [email protected] Raffle prizes We are once again looking for good quality raffle prizes for the party. Please have a think about what you could donate: a voucher for a hairdresser, a meal out at a local restaurant, perfume or beauty products etc. You can email Lisha via [email protected] and let her know what you would like to donate. Thank you so much for all offers of donations so far. Year 7 and 8 School Disco – Monday 17th July 7 – 8.30pm, Lower School Students in Years 7 and 8 are all invited to an end of year disco on Monday 17th July from 7 – 8.30pm. Tickets are priced at £3 and are on sale now at Lower School reception. There will be pizza and other refreshments available on the night, as well as all our favourite glow products so please bring some spending money. RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS – Miss Harrison The whole school has got behind our Random Acts of Kindness drive this week. Staff have all received a postcard and been asked to perform a random act of kindness for another staff member and now all the students are keen to get involved too. There is a real feeling of comraderie about the school and I have asked all students to perform a random act of kindness next week for either a teacher or fellow student. SUMMER SHOWCASE – Miss Randall 6pm on Tuesday 11th, Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th July We are so excited; our Summer Showcase at JW3 is almost here. Come along and see the winning dance pieces from the London Youth Games and drama performance from the Welwyn Youth Drama Festival, not to mention many more new works and surprises in store for our audience. All parents who have students performing in the showcase should have received an email with all the details for food, arrival time at the theatre and permission slips this week. Please email Miss Randall via [email protected] if you have any questions. We have 150 performers in the showcase! Please bring your friends and family along to this amazing show. Tickets are available to all students on Parentpay. Please ensure that the money is credited to your ParentPay account by Monday 10th July. Tickets cost £7.00 for adults and £4.00 for concessions. These will be distributed via school reception where the students can collect them. Owing to the number of students involved advance booking is strongly advised to avoid disappointment as we have a limited number of seats available. Thank you so much to Peter Copley for programme design once again this year. RESTART PARTY – Mr Pearson Come and get your electronics fixed at the Archer Academy’s Restart Party! Tuesday 4 July, 2pm-4pm, 3 Beaumont Close, The Bishops Avenue, London N2 0GA. If you’ve got any broken electronics kicking around, bring them along to the Archer Academy’s Restart Party on 4 July and we’ll help you sort them out. Our Year 10s have been working with engineers from Restart, a social enterprise that teaches people how to save electronics from the scrapheap. They’ll either fix your item, or give you advice about what to try next; either way, they’re bound to save you some money. We want to fix as many items as we can for the people in our community, so please share the news with your friends and neighbours – and bring your broken stuff along to us on the day. And if you’re an engineer – or just a bit handy – and would like to come and help, we’d love to have you; please email us on [email protected] putting Restart Party help as the subject. Thanks very much! https://therestartproject.org WOODHOUSE TASTER DAY – Mr Savage Year 10 had a fantastic taster day at Woodhouse College and got stuck into some A level lessons and a flavour of college life. EMOTIONAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING UPDATE – Mr Naylor Sex & Relationship Education Dates: - Year 9 SRE (contraception and sexually transmitted infections, consent and the law) and DAE Lifelong Learning Day 6th July 2017 - Year 8 SRE (body changes and puberty, sex and the law) Lifelong Learning Day 13th July 2017 - Year 7 Healthy relationships introduction session PM assembly 13th July 2017 Please do contact Heads of Year or Mr Naylor if you have any questions. Our provider for these sessions is Brook and further information can be found on their website: https://www.brook.org.uk/ PROMS AT ST JUDES – Ms Humphrey The Archershop Upper School choir performed in the Proms at St Jude’s this week and we have been informed by a member of the audience that they really stole the show. More information on the exciting programme of concerts can be found here: http://www.promsatstjudes.org.uk/ BRIGHT IDEAS – Mr Wick Who does Feminism actually benefit Joel Freedman held a fascinating lecture this week on the subject of feminism.