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Celebrating black culture Students celebrated Black History Month, which reflects on the history of black people in Britain from the time of Henry VIII to the present day and their contribution to the nation. Throughout the month students studied famous black people and created their own poems and artwork. Top Table Tennis Talent Four Year 8 boys, Jayden Sullivan, Mohammed Hamsa, Sammuel Syed and Efrat Opu represented Bow School in the Tower Hamlets table tennis tournament. They were the first boys to represent the school after their excellent performances in the after school table tennis club. Efrat won one of his group matches and the rest of the team narrowly lost out in some very competitive games. The boys were a credit to the school with their conduct, effort and performances. Well done boys! Nelson Mandela wins the peace prize, The people of Africa need no disguise, Martin Luther King Jr gives his speech, And now his voice is forever preached, Rosa Parks spoke out, And now all blacks can go out and about, Muhammad Ali floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee, He is triumphant and every one can see, He doesn’t need to prove he’s the best, Because black or white he beats the rest, For black, white and everyone, Can go back to before it begun, Where everyone is the same internally, But on the outside is diversity... Poem by Jaydon Sullivan Congratulations to our Head Boys and Prefects Congratulations to our two new Head Boys, Enam Ahmod and Imran Ali. There was only one vote between them so we decided to have two Head Boys this year. Thank you to everyone who voted for them and for our new Prefects. All nominated boys should be very proud of their achievements. Our three Senior Prefects are Normunds Sladzevskis, Mohammed Daud and Mosthak Ahmed. Our Prefects are Nazmul Ali, Bodrul Alom, Mohammed Alom, Yousif Halwachi, Samirul Hasan, Afzal Hussain, Monwar Hussain, Sadman Islam Kabir, Tanvir Islam, Jamil Masum, Denny McAuley, Nabir Miah, P.J.Potiwal Singh, Saddiqur Rahman, Abubakr Siddique Ali, Pardeep Singh, Shain Singh, Ryan Thomson and Isa Vassallo. Bow rugby team are kitted out for success Bow School’s rugby team is ready for the challenges of the new season and now have a brand new kit, courtesy of the Jack Petchey Award Fund. The hard work has already begun and the boys are determined to make it a successful campaign. Design Ventura project Year 10 Resistant Materials GCSE students recently visited the Design Museum for the launch of a live project called Design Ventura. The project brief is to design an exciting and creative product to be sold in the Design Museum shop. The winning entry will be produced and sold with profits going to charity. With around 2,000 students involved, the competition will be fierce but our Year 10s already have some exciting ideas in development. As well as the launch workshop itself, students also toured the museum to investigate the kind of products currently sold in the Design Museum shop. Bow School has been chosen as one of 30 schools to host two workshops. The first was a ‘design hothouse’, workshop given by one of the Design Museum education team and backed up by an industry professional from www.airside.co.uk. The guidance was extremely beneficial for the boys and the visitors were very impressed with the ideas so far. The second workshop, ‘business hothouse’, included a professional from Deutsche Bank alongside another knowledgeable Design Museum teacher. This workshop opened the boys’ eyes to the amount of work and thought needed to produce a potential competition winner. Again, the visitors were impressed and encouraging about the boys’ work.
Peer Mentoring Peer Mentoring has been developed as one of the initiatives at Bow. As part of the initiative, students run mediation sessions and support the anti-bullying campaign. Sports based peer mentoring workshops are organised in the school and facilitated by a national programme ‘Beatbullying’, on a yearly basis, aimed at Year 7 students. X-TRAORDINARY AUTHOR ADDS POETRY TO MATHS EQUATION Earlier this term, world famous poet, author and former children’s laureate, Michael Rosen came to visit us at Bow. The visit was arranged by Ms Trapp with the Tower Hamlets 14-19 Mathematics Consultant and the London Grid for Learning. Michael came to our library where Year 7 were split into three groups to hear him perform some poems, ask questions and to do a short workshop on writing poetry with a maths focus. We learned how Michael thought up poems in his head and joined in to help him perform some of them. Year 7 then to began to learn how to write maths poetry for themselves. The authors of the best poems received signed copies of Michael’s book. ONE MORNING MICHAEL ROSEN CAME TWO SEE US AT BOW. THREE GROUPS OF STUDENTS AND SOME VISITORS FROM OMAN FOUR A WORKSHOP ON POETRY AND MATHS. FIVE AN IDEA WE WOULD HAVE LIKED HIM TO STAY SIX TIMES AS LONG. SEVEN IS THE YEAR HE WORKED WITH, SO YEARS EIGHT AND NINE WERE VERY JEALOUS! TEN OUT OF TEN IS WHAT WE GAVE THE VISIT! Year 11 learn life saving skills As a requirement for their ASDAN course, a group of Year 11 students recently trained as qualified first aiders. A member of the British Red Cross delivered a four hour course where students learned to assess an unconscious casualty for life threatening conditions, administer CPR, practise the recovery position and how to dress open wounds. They participated in discussions and worked in small groups to further their understanding of the procedures. All students were assessed throughout the session and are now qualified first aiders, able to offer assistance at school and in the community. The students thoroughly enjoyed themselves and are planning to deliver mini-training sessions to younger students in the school. Bow boys experience farm life in the city Small groups of Year 11 students, as part of their ASDAN course, have volunteered at the Spitalfields City Farm. In total they spent 10 hours assisting in and learning about the day-to-day operations of a city farm, as well as enhancing their knowledge of their community. During the sessions, students experienced feeding and caring for the animals, planting seeds, farming discussions and activities around the environment and the importance of local produce. The students have had a fantastic experience at the farm and a number of them will be volunteering during their own time in the future. Students were shown how they could publish their own poetry on the ‘Perform-a-Poem’ site. This e-safe site has been created to enable young people to perform their own poetry, as well as watch the performances of others. Developed following Michael Rosen’s many popular poetry performances, this site is a great opportunity for young people to perform and share poetry. Check it out at: www.performapoem.lgfl.net
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