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We wish all students, parents and staff a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Keeping parents and students informed
Term 2 Letter 6 Friday 19 December 2014
LRC Quiz Winners
Quiz and Wordsearch: 1st Maham Chaudhry 9T2, 2nd Zaynab Ysuf 8T1 and 3rd Alex Gill 8T1.
Design a Bauble winners: 1st Basima Javed 8T4, 2nd Maria-Kiran Khokhar 8T7 and 3rd Yusra Suhail
9T7.
House Photography Competition
Once again the standard and photographic professionalism of all the entries in this
year’s house photography competition was outstanding. We had 669 photos sent in
covering all the categories for student entries and one category for staff. After much
deliberation by the judges (Mr Sardar, Mr Hall and Mrs Morgan-Jones) the winners
were:
Architecture : Adeola Warner 9T5 Challenger
Natural World: Rose Hodges, 9T2 Endeavour
Travel: Tara Woodhouse 11T6 Endeavour (photo opp)
Multicultural London: Ahmed Mansoor 13T1 Discovery
Sport: Craig Dziworshie 13T5 Challenger
Wildcard: Tara Woodhouse 11T6 Endeavour
Staff: Mr Browning Discovery
The judges also announced an ‘overall winner’, this was
Tara Woodhouse11T6 plus the ‘Principal’s favourite’
awarded to Ahmed Eltigani 8T7 Voyager and Ms
McGruther. House points were awarded to all entries and
each category finalist. It was a very close competition
with Discovery with the most entries but Voyager
receiving the most points. Voyager also leads the House
point league and took the House of the Term trophy.
Christmas Showcase
A very pleasant and enjoyable evening was had by all at our Christmas Showcase
on Thursday evening. Students from across all years took to the stage to bring some
Christmas cheer with a variety of music, dance, drama and readings.
The Senior Singers opened the evening with ‘‘For Your Glory’, a traditional gospel
arrangement. The evening continued with a Beatles classic ‘Come Together’ from
the KS4 Band followed by the Step Into Dance crew performing a ‘Festive Groove’.
It was very much a variety show with a Christmas theme and wonderful to see
unusual acts such as the Ukulele Club who performed ‘Jingle Bells’ and the Guitar
Club who performed Bob Marley’s ‘Three Little Birds’. One of the highlights of
the evening was our very own Kymbali
Williams who sang her own arrangement
of ‘Winter Wonderland’ accompanied
by Michah Congo-Nyah a highly
accomplished guitarist. The duo were met
with a thunderous appreciation from the
audience.
Well done to everyone, it was an evening
of talent underlined with Christmas spirit.
Forensics in Action
Year 11 Applied
Science
participated in a
forensic workshop
led by Emma
Harrison from
the MET Police,
Wandsworth. She
took the students
through her career
pathway and
explained a ‘day
in the life a crime
officer’.
The workshop
gave a very
interesting
insight into this
area of policing although sometimes
shocking. The students can now use the
information to produce their work related
report controlled assessment.
University Challenge Science
Champions
Well done to 8T5 and Challenger House
for winning this year’s competition by
a total of 85 points to 60. The winning
team worked well together to overtake
their opponents, 8T3, in the last round
with their speedy answers and their
impressive scientific knowledge.
Hosted by our very own quiz mistress
extraordinaire Ms Karoune who sped
through the questions in traditional
University Challenge style. It was an
excellent competition from start to finish
– thank you to all of the many teams
and students who took part this year.
Intrepid winners were Arslan Aftab,
Jonaid Ahmed, Morgan Wroe, and
George Somers.
Living for Sports
Many thanks to Steve Brown, Captain of
the GB Paralympic Wheelchair Rugby
team at London 2012 who came to
Ashcroft yesterday with Jon Boyton, the
GB Sprint Kayaker to work a group of
selected Year 9 students through team
building activities.
Jon and Steve worked with the students to build up their confidence starting
with a simple ball throwing and catching exercise and ending with a very energetic
basketball type match. The ‘can do’ attitude of Steve Brown was truly inspirational
and the students were quite in awe of his ball skills and outgoing personality. Both
Jon and Steve portray the same message which is to show young people what can
be achieved if you set your mind to it.
Well done also to the second placed
8T1 team: Sadeed Ahmed, Shahzad
Hashmi, Deshae Pascoe, Hashir Rana
– you put up a good fight!
Ashcroft Technology Academy 100 West Hill London SW15 2UT Tel 020 8877 0357 Fax 020 8877 0617 email info@ashcroftacademy.org.uk website www.ashcroftacademy.org.uk
KS3 Stem Club activity
This week Stem Club
members helped to solve
the problem of a power
cut on their space probe.
With no lights and no way
of navigating, the probe is
aimlessly drifting through
space. They needed to
get the power back on!
Our stemmies worked
hard to construct series
and parallel circuits, using
batteries, bulbs, wires
and switches. The space
probe was powered back
up and continued on its
way across the galaxies!
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR YEAR 11 ART &
DESIGN STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS
Year 11 Art & Design students will be given their EDEXCEL
external examination paper the week beginning January 5
2015. Students will have approximately 8 weeks (minimum of
20 hours) to complete their preparatory work in a sketchbook.
This includes class-work and more importantly homework, all
of which is worth 75% of the examination mark.
This examination concludes with a 10 hour practical art
session (worth 25% of the mark) in April/May 2015 (date tbc).
Please ensure your son/daughter attends all their art lessons
and completes homework to the highest standard. Any queries
should be directed to Ms Stoker Curriculum Manager for Art &
Design.
Year Art & Design Star Awards for Achievement
Well done to Olivia Chenery, Olivia Francis-Cornibert, Rafe
Askem, Sophie Ennis, bigail Lane, Caxie Dagupen, Brondon
De Shong Charles, Megan Kothari, Marley Moore and Angel
Dyrmishi. Overall winners Oliva Chenery.
Year 7 and 8 Multicultural Event
Join us on the 22 January between 1.10pm – 1.45 pm in the
Auditorium for a fun filled Multicultural event open to Year 7
and 8 students.
Our aim is to hold activities to give our students an
increased awareness and understanding of the variety of
cultures that exist within the Academy. On the day there will
be stalls which will allow you to experience other cultures’
Food, Art and Music. The restaurant will also be providing a
variety of dishes which reflect our community. We are a group
of Year 11 Citizenship students who are attempting to raise
awareness of Community Cohesion as a result of completing
a piece of coursework. With our ’Say hello to your neighbour
this Christmas’ and ‘Mind the Social Gap’ slogans we aim to
spread the word that a secluded society is not always the best
way forward. Therefore we would ask that you support this
event through attendance at the session if you are a student.
If you are a parent we are hoping for donations of food.
Ashcroft Academy is incredibly diverse and many of our
students have a variety of cultural backgrounds with many
traditional dishes. This is of course optional but if you would
like to contribute please make contact at the following
address: Mindthesocialgap100@gmail.com. Any donations
would be greatly appreciated.
Further details of the event will be sent out in the New Year,
but it will only happen with our school community working
together. So say hello to your neighbour this Christmas and
Mind the Social Gap. Regards
Eshe Barzey, Caprice Vannucci, Julia Jarnot, Brandon De
Shong Charles, Nazeema Ishmael
‘Powering Our Future Planet’ –
A Royal Society Christmas Lecture
Thirty Year 8 pupils were nominated by their teachers to
attend this special lecture by Sir David King at the Royal
Society. Sir David is the permanent Special Representative
for Climate Change. He has served as the Government’s
Chief Scientific Advisor from 2000 – 2007, during which time
he raised awareness of the need for governments to act on
climate change and was instrumental in creating the Energy
Technologies Institute. He also served as the Founding
Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and Environment
at Oxford; was Head of the Department of Chemistry at
Cambridge University 1993-2000 and Master of Downing
College at Cambridge 1995 -2000.
Sir David flew in from Lima, Peru where he has been a key
part of the Global Climate Change Conference which ended
on Sunday. He is very keen to engage younger students
to think about the future in terms of energy and begin to
address the energy crisis by choosing to study and work in
science with a view to creating solutions for the problems
of diminishing fossil fuel reserves and its impact on global
climate. It was an interesting lecture and he showed us some
current ideas such as using helium filled blimps with on
board compressors and covered in solar panels with battery
backup as a new negative carbon mode of air transport. It is
currently being looked at in terms of freight movement but will
expand to carry passengers as well. The focus of the lecture
was extending a classroom concept into a real life problem
affecting this generation’s future and the need to begin to
think about how they can make a difference in terms of career
choice as well as individual action.
We took part in a timeline challenge and one of our students
won a prize for correctly indentifying 1955 as the year electric
kettles became available to buy. We were disappointed that
we did not win the “big” prize of an ipad for the school for
correctly guessing how many suitcases (20kg capacity) of
CO2 were
generated
by a family
a year – we
went with 50
which turned
out to be an
aspirational
figure
as 2012
statistics
showed it
was actually
500!
Science Work of the
Week
Riham Abdul Aziz if the
WoW winner this week for
her excellent AfL task on
Environmental Chemistry.