Newsletter - Issue 1 - October 2013 - The Langley Academy

MathsThe Mathematics Faculty and students have beenoff to a great start this year. Feeding on thefantastic GCSE results of last year’s Year 11students, the current cohort are eager to work justas hard to reach the results they deserve. The Year9 students worked in Maths on creating stopmotion videos on fractions for the Year 6 OpenEvening. Year 7 students have completed projectson constructing Islamic Art and learning about theimportance of the geometric shapes.With the focus on Internationalism, see if you canfill in the Maths facts below to the country it’soriginated from. A bar of chocolate will beawarded to the first student to bring the answers to the Head of Maths, Mr Katsholo.1. _________________ is the first country to treat 0 as a number and not just a divider ofpositive and negative values.2. The ___________________ were using equations and formulae to work out measurementsfor their buildings thousands of years ago.3. Maurits Cornelis Escher, an artist from ________________, was inspired by the mathematicalconcept of tessellation to create his art.4. ________________ has the largest land mass, whereas ______________ has the largestpopulation.ScienceThe Science Faculty is very pleased with our results in the summer. In particular, we had some greatachievements in Triple Science with several students achieving straight A’s. As I am sure you areaware it is a turbulent time in education and Science has not escaped from the government changes.Students need to be ready for some new challenges. For example there are no more modules inScience so students have to take their exams at the end of the year. To support students, revisionguides are available on the ParentPay Shop (click here:http://www.parentpayshop.co.uk/schools/8716905/uniform_shop.html) and can be collect from theprep (N1.14) room Monday and Tuesday break.23