Guest HOME LEARNING AND HOMEWORK Click here INFORMATION FOR PARENTS Click here ABOUT US Read more Virtual Employer Presentation A group of Year 9 iMedia students had a great opportunity on Friday 8th October to attend a virtual careers presentation delivered by Cassian Harrison, SVP, Content & Commissioning, BBC Studios. The presentation was organised through Speakers For Schools. The speaker spoke to the group about his own personal career journey and highlighted to them that he had to start his career in Media working in low level jobs that would enable him to gain the skills and experience that he needed to be able to progress up the career ladder. He also touched on how important it was to try and be resilient, even when knock backs in your career occurred. The speaker has had a very varied and exciting career to date which the students enjoyed hearing about, they also had the opportunity to see slides of some of the television productions that he has been involved in, one of the best known being the David Attenborough series of wildlife documentaries. The presentation also included some examples of how the GCSE curriculum that the students are currently learning, links to actual work that is carried out in the in the Media industry. Some quotes from the students: Summaya ' I like how he explained the job roles, I understand more about the kinds of jobs I can do (in media) in the future now. Ryan 'I like how he admitted that he had been rejected, but that he kept coming back to get the job he wanted' Ahmed ' I liked to see how media jobs took him all around the world and to different countries - he even got arrested!' Science Award Nominees October Well done this half terms Science Awards nominees - Year 7 Zuzanna - Nominated for her positive attitude to her learning Year 8 Inaya - Nominated for her enthusiasm in lessons Urooj - Nominated for her excellent piece of independent work on digestion Tasneemah - Nominated for her excellent written work in Biology Mohammed Yusuf - Nominated for his positive contribution in lessons Year 9 Rebecca - Nominated for her hard work in chemistry Adal - Nominated for his brilliant mathematical skills in physics Mohammed – Nominated for being hardworking and focussed in Chemistry Mohammed - Nominated for his excellent homework scores in Biology Zara – Nominated for her high homework scores in Biology Year 10 Isaam - Nominated for his contribution and effort in Chemistry Year 11 Suleman - Nominated for his persistently good work in Biology Omar – Nominated for his effort and hard work in class and with EDUCAKE Heena – Nominated for her resourceful and hard work with revision in Physics Amina – Nominated for her initiative with independent learning in Physics Uzma – Nominated for her outstanding effort in Chemistry Summer Term Science Awards Congratulations to the pupils that have worked extra hard last half-term and made their return to school a success with their eagerness and dedication! Nominated by Ms Kondrat Esah (8CEN) Science - Esah always tries his best and gives everything a go, he has a superb attitude to learning in science and has infectious enthusiasm. Sakina (9SRE) Biology - Sakina has a fantastic attitude to learning, asks important and well thought out questions and always puts her all into everything. She is a fantastic student. Nominated by Ms Shan Aleenah 9SNN and Anoosha (9SNN) Excellent attitude to learning during form time. Both girls participate fully in form time activities and are a excellent role model to the other pupils. Nominated by Ms Ashfaq Afia (8PRJ) Science - Excellent questioning in class to aid understanding Leshaye (10BYA) Chemistry - It's evident that Leshaye is trying really hard with understanding theory in Chemistry and asks good questions to aid her understanding. Keep it up Leshaye! Nominated by Ms Hiley Muhamaad (8CET) Science - He has consistently demonstrated a fantastic attitude to study in lessons, he is not afraid to suggest answers in lessons and actively encourages and supports other pupils in the class. Nominated by Mr Khan Isra (10CNG) Physics - Works always competed to very high standard. Fatima (8RXE) Science - Really good at following instructions. NSPCC Number Day This year our KS3 pupils took part in the NSPCC Number Day and managed to raise £69.08! Students made Number Day posters to celebrate Maths Day and to raise awareness of child abuse with the best posters being awarded prizes. Well done to all who participated and congratulations to the winners. Year 7 Bank of England Career Talk The Year 7 cohort had the opportunity to attend a virtual careers presentation on Tuesday 25th May during Form Time. This event provided the Year group with a chance to learn from an employer about the world of work and encouraged them to think about their own careers. The Speaker was Victoria Cleland, Executive Director of Banking, Payments and Innovation for the Bank of England. The Speaker talked to students about the history of bank notes and the fact that there are currently 6 x denominations of bank notes in existence: £5, £10, £20, £50 – these are the notes that we are all probably familiar with, plus there are in fact two more which only exist in very small numbers. The £1M (one million pounds) bank note otherwise known as a ‘giant’ and a £100M (one hundred million pounds) bank note otherwise known as a ‘titan’. Students learnt that the Bank of England is the second largest keeper of gold in the world holding gold worth over £200,000M (two hundred million pounds) second only to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The Speaker went on to tell the Year group about her own career journey including what she had done at university, and what made her decide to work for the Bank of England. She discussed work/life balance and how it was important to enjoy the job that you are doing. The event finished with an opportunity for students from each Form to ask the Speaker a question. They asked some extremely good questions and have since been complemented by the Speaker, Victoria Cleland on the quality and variety of the questions that they asked. Mathletics Competition Recently Farhaan Ahmed took part in World Maths Day and, as a result of his fantastic efforts, he has qualified for the World Maths Day Champions Challenge – a celebration of our top World Maths Day mathletes. The event is an exciting addition to World Maths Day. The event sees the Top 32 students from the regional Year 9 and up age group enter into a knock out tournament that is live streamed on Twitch. It’s a fantastic way to celebrate and highlight the students’ achievement and the first time that top students have the opportunity to directly challenge each other. Also, 15 of our pupils achieved a bronze certificate in Mathletics competition and received bronze badges. Imaad ALI Ismail ALI Zahid ELBOSHRA Abdul KHAN BEGUM Alisha NAZAKAT Zahed ALI Daanish CHOUDHRY Raabiah BASRI Khalil KADER Isha MAJID Abdur RAHMAN Eliza SAJAD Muhammad Rayhan ZAHEER Spring Term Science Awards Well done to these hard working pupils that returned to school from the lockdown with a positive attitude, which is reflected in their achievements. KS4 Winners: Physics – Mr Green - Aeysha - Year 10 - a brilliant improvement to her physics grade, as a result of the hard work she has put in. Biology – Ms Hiley - Ameerun – Year 10 - an absolutely fantastic work ethic and great participation in lessons. Great effort and attainment. Chemistry – Ms Asghar - Sharukh – Year 9 - he has worked incredibly hard, she has produced consistently outstanding work over lockdown and in class. KS3 Winner: Year 8 Science - Ms Ashfaq – Sophie - Very hardworking and always produces excellent quality work in Science. Runners up: Jack - Year 7 (Ms Hiley) Malaika Physics – Year 9 (Ms Yates) Leshaye Biology - Year 10 (Ms Kondrat) The Science Awards This year at Yardleys school, we will be presenting science awards to hard working and diligent KS3 and KS4 students. The awards will be presented each half term, there will be winner's for KS3 and for each triple science KS4 subject and the nominees will also be acknowledged. Congratulations to the pupils that have worked extra hard this half-term and made their return to school a success with their eagerness and dedication! An extra congratulations to the winners for this half term that have proved that Covid-19 will not be an obstacle for achieving success and have not let their motivation be affected by current events. A very well done to these brilliant students!! BIOLOGY WINNERS Aqsa(9TDN) by Ms Hiley - For her fantastic attitude to learning and attainment in lessons Riyadh (8BMH) by Ms Begum - He has completed all his VLE work to a very high standard, and brought in 8 sheets of work. He is also very good at answering questions verbally with a high level of oracy and incorporates key words. He is very engaged in lessons and completes his work to a high standard and contributes consistently. He is also incredibly well-mannered and helpful. Amaani (11DSR) by Ms Shan - Amaani has realized she missed a lot of work in year 9, but is determined to catch up and is doing a lot of extra revision at home. She is a lot more focused in class this year and is not afraid to ask questions when she does not understand the work. All this hard work will pay of. Keep it up Amaani. Sania (10DNJ) by Ms Kondrat - For coming to every lesson with contagious enthusiasm and fantastic effort. She is always focussed and is determined to succeed. CHEMISTRY WINNERS Abbas (11DSR) by Ms Begum - Excellent levels of motivation and contribution during Chemistry lessons. Often asks for additional work to support revision. Korben (7RES) by Ms Hiley - For a fantastic start to Science and for putting effort into his classwork Zara (10BYA) by Ms Yates - For a consistent effort with her remote learning during Y10's isolation period. Zahid (9DSH) by Ms Ashfaq - Very hardworking, excellent scores in MDAs PHYSICS WINNERS Muhammed (11ARA) by Ms Mosleh - Outstanding contributions to lessons recently and a great attitude to learning. Abdur-Rehman (9TDN) by Ms Yates - For consistent effort in his MDAs and frogplay homework's in Physics. Laiba (10CAJ) by Ms Kahn - Takes part actively in class discussion and ensures that scientific vocabulary is used while answering any questions (In class as well as on MDA's) Syed (11ARA) by Mr Kahn - He has been working hard since the start of the term. He has shown good understanding of the topic Electricity. This is reflected from his answers on MDA. Falak (9RYP) by Ms Mosleh - Consistently outstanding effort both in class and online (engagement very high and assignments completed really well) Year 10 - STEM for Women Trip On Friday 6th March, Mrs Chauhan-Rowe and eight female Computer Scientists from Year 10 attended a STEM for Women event at Bournville College. The girls took part in workshops to help inspire females to get more involved in STEM. During the morning session, the girls used Python to program a game similar to Space Invaders, this was a challenging task but the girls persevered which resulted in eight fully working computer games. After lunch, the girls went to the engineering department and used the equipment to create personalised keyrings. The girls enjoyed the day. Thank you to South and City College. ASE Teach meet On 10th March the Science department at Yardleys hosted a local event for teachers and botany experts to share good ideas and best practice for developing practical science involving plants. We had a great turn out and staff learnt lots of new exciting practical techniques that we can't wait to put into practise. Special thanks to Dr Gaynor Sharp from the Association of Science Association for organising the external speakers at the event and the cake. Aspire to Be at Birmingham Metropolitan College, James Watt Campus On Wednesday 12th February, Ms Wareham and Mr Thornton, accompanied 10 SEND students to the ‘Aspire to Be’ event at James Watt College. As soon as we arrived we were taken to our first taster session, electrical and electronic engineering. Our instructor was Dennis, who after a short introduction and health and safety brief, gave us our task, making a circuit board. Students were given a circuit board, a resistor, a fuse carrier and fuse, a bulb and battery leads. Humayd Ashfaq completed his circuit board first, and it worked. Our next session saw us washing our hands and checking how clean they were under UV light, followed by changing nappies! Everyone had a go and now knows how it’s done. Our third session was gaming but rather than using computers we were creating hand drawn concept characters, and we made some very strange creations. After lunch, we attended a media session. Here we were shown how to use Photo Shop, and were then tasked with creating our own Andy Warhol pieces using our favourite stars, ranging from Scarlett Johansson to Alex Turner. Our final session was in the gym. Here students took part in fitness circuit training, and it was commented on by the college staff how engaged our students were, with Kadeer turning the stepper machine up to max and carrying on as if it were a walk in the park! A fantastic day was had by all and a massive thank you to Mrs Price for organising the day. KS3 Parafootball Tournament at Aston Villa On 27th January two teams from Yardleys School entered the Parafootball Tournament at Aston Villa Football Club. The teams were looking forward to a jam packed morning full of football against a large number of schools at this prestigious event and venue. The Year 7 team; Malaikah Naveed, Zeshan Afzal, Haleema Ahktar, Sefora Bozu and Mohammed Mouzam worked very well together, even though they were the youngest team in the tournament. They had some amazing goals from Zeshan, Sefora & Malaikah. The Year 8 team; Dev Tank, Subhan Mahmood, Muhammed Farooq, Mica Ming, Emily Simpson and Akemi Tidmarsh did very well against some difficult competition. Dev as the goalie made some fantastic saves and there were some great individual performances including two great goals from Emily and Mica. Rugby News On a cold and damp day at Yardleys, the Year 8 Rugby Team welcomed their counterparts from KESH school in Sheldon. This was a tough game with some strong performances all round. This included, good running and pace shown by Farhaan Hussain, crunching tackles being dealt out by Uzair Azhar and excellent ball carrying from Elijah Adeyemi. The game was controlled well by Raheem and Hasheem Sharif who become more and more confident in their play around the field. Very strong performances came from Nauman Ilyas and Shayaan Khan who were physical in the tackle and with ball in hand. KESH were a good team and played in the right way and with no fear. However, the power of Yardleys saw through in the end and took a good home win. Thanks to those that played for KESH to make up their numbers – without you the games can’t happen! Man of the Match – Shayaan Khan – eye watering hits all over the pitch including one on their big ball carrier. Shayaan also scored himself with some bruising ball carrying. Final Score: Yardleys – 35 KESH - 15 January Athlete of the Month – Adeyemo-azing The Athlete of the Month for January goes to Sarah Adeyemo. Her performance in the girls’ basketball fixtures has led to recent successes for the team. Ms Perry added ‘Sarah has been a rock in the team and her outstanding skills and leadership have also helped improved her teammates performances’. Eco-Leaders News Back in November the Eco-Leaders participated in Switch Off Fortnight to help mitigate climate change and save the school money. During this time they were patrolling the school at lunch times, switching off lights and leaving friendly reminders for those unoccupied rooms with computers and lights switched on (being incredibly thorough...). During November 2019 in comparison to November 2018, the school saved approximately £398 on electricity alone (£295 of this was during the day). This is around 7% of the monthly kWh usage! Not only has there been a large saving made during November but we have seen a change in "switch off" behaviours particularly during lunchtime, so we are hoping we will see a continuing reduction in monthly usage. Well done to the Eco-Leaders for this fantastic achievement. Virtual Decision Experience On Tuesday the 21st of January some students took part in ‘virtual decisions’ experience, aimed at highlighting the dangers of risk-taking behaviour. The students watched a scenario based on street crime and personal safety, and made choices throughout to see how the scenario would play out. There was then dialogue between the students and adults around young peoples’ society, and how actions have consequences and repercussions. The students very much enjoyed their sessions, and this is something we hope to repeat with other students in the future. Home Calendar PARKING INFORMATION For the safety of our students and local residents please ensure that you do not park illegally at our school gates. This includes not parking on double lines, in marked areas or blocking access points of local residents homes. Please be considerate of our community. 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