B E V I N N E W S www.ernestbevin.london Issue 113 Friday 3rd February 2017 TOOTING MP VISIT Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, MP for Toong paid her first visit to Ernest Bevin since being elected last year. She spoke to 6th Formers and answered quesons about polics which ranged from Trump to Brexit and strikes and corrupon in polics. When asked for one piece of advice she would give to the students she said: “Never ever, ever accept the limitaons that somebody else puts on you.” Dr Allin-Khan also visited a Year 8 French lesson and had a tour of the college with the Principal, Ms Sheikh. She visited the sports centre which was of parcular interest as she is Shadow Minister for Sport. READING VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We are looking for volunteers who could come into college every week on a regular basis to read with some of our EAL students who do not have English as their first language. The college would help volunteers to complete a DBS check which is a legal check on all those working with children in schools. If you are interested in finding out more please contact Mrs Wilkins, email [email protected] or by telephone on 0208 672 8582. URBAN SCHOLARS A group of twelve Yellow Ties are taking part in the Urban Scholars Programme 2016-17 at Brunel University. This programme is a series of 4 workshops on a Saturday morning targeted at Giſted & Talented pupils with the aim of giving them advice about connuing their studies aſter school at university. Our first Lecture was by Micheal Liebreich, Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, and was about “Seizing Opportunies”: personally I found this very movaonal and I learnt that if any extra- curricular acvity is available then I should at least try to do it. By Hadi Rizvi 10JAS I found the first urban scholars session inspiring and movang. I have leſt the day with many new thoughts and an enhanced viewpoint of not just how to get beer school grades, but also how to go far in life. My favourite part of the session was obviously Acon Jackson. He gave a very inspiraonal speech that finally made me realise “what IS my goal in life?” and to “Shut up and take acon”. By Hassan Khodabocus10JAS I enjoyed today. I learnt a lot that helped me build up my confidence. I now know that I need to focus a lot more to achieve more and that I would need to be more proacve with my learning to be successful in future. By Jeffrey Sackey 10JAS SWIMMING CLUB Swimming club has restarted this term with sessions on a Tuesday morning at 7.30am and Wednesdays at 8am (access to changing room from 7.50am). See Mr Baker or one of the PE teachers for more informaon. FEBRUARY QUIZ SOLUTIONS Brain Trainer 13, 125, 658 Word Wheel - alto, backcloth, balk, black, blah, bloat, bloc, block, blot, blotch, bola, bolt, calk, chalk, clack, cloak, clock, clot, cloth, coal, cobalt, cola, colt, halo, halt, holt, kohi, kola, lack, latch, lath, loach, loath, loch, lock, loth, octal, talc, talk
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BEVIN NEWS www.ernestbevin.london Issue 113
Friday 3rd February 2017TOOTING MP VISIT
Dr Rosena Allin-Khan, MP for Tooting paid her first visit to Ernest Bevin since being elected last year. She spoke to 6th Formers and answered questions about politics which ranged from Trump to Brexit and strikes and corruption in politics. When asked for one piece of advice she would give to the students she said:
“Never ever, ever accept the limitations that somebody else puts on you.”
Dr Allin-Khan also visited a Year 8 French lesson and had a tour of the college with the Principal, Ms Sheikh. She visited the sports centre which was of particular interest as she is Shadow Minister for Sport.
READING VOLUNTEERS NEEDEDWe are looking for volunteers who could come into college every week on a regular basis to read with some of our EAL students who do not have English as their first language. The college would help volunteers to complete a DBS check which is a legal check on all those working with children in schools. If you are interested in finding out more please contact Mrs Wilkins, email [email protected] or by telephone on 0208 672 8582.
URBAN SCHOLARS A group of twelve Yellow Ties are taking part in the Urban Scholars Programme 2016-17 at Brunel University. This programme is a series of 4 workshops on a Saturday morning targeted at Gifted & Talented pupils with the aim of giving them advice about continuing their studies after school at university.
Our first Lecture was by Micheal Liebreich, Founder and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, and was about “Seizing Opportunities”: personally I found this very motivational and I learnt that if any extra-curricular activity is available then I should at least try to do it. By Hadi Rizvi 10JASI found the first urban scholars session inspiring and motivating. I have left the day with many new thoughts and an enhanced viewpoint of not just how to get better school grades, but also how to go far in life. My favourite part of the session was obviously Action Jackson. He gave a very inspirational speech that finally made me realise “what IS my goal in life?” and to “Shut up and take action”. By Hassan Khodabocus10JASI enjoyed today. I learnt a lot that helped me build up my confidence. I now know that I need to focus a lot more to achieve more and that I would need to be more proactive with my learning to be successful in future. By Jeffrey Sackey 10JAS
SWIMMING CLUBSwimming club has restarted this term with sessions on a Tuesday morning at 7.30am and Wednesdays at 8am (access to changing room from 7.50am). See Mr Baker or one of the PE teachers for more information.
BOOK AWARDSThe Excelsior Award is the only nationwide book award for graphic novels and Manga - where young people aged 11-16 decide the winner by rating each book as they read it. Eight graphic novels are selected for the shortlist and it now attracts over 250 schools and public libraries from all over the UK and Ireland.
The overall goal of this scheme is to encourage reading amongst teenagers. However, its secondary target is to raise the profile of graphic novels and Manga amongst school librarians and teachers. This storytelling medium has been a largely underused resource within education for many years. The Excelsior Award attempts to highlight some of the amazing books that are out there - books that fully deserve to be in our school libraries alongside regular fiction!We will be taking part in this book award here at Ernest Bevin, so if you are a fan of graphic novels and/or Manga, please come to Book Club next Wednesday when we will be looking at the new books. There are eight books on the shortlist to rate and you can read one or all, it’s up to you. Well done to those of you who have been reading books on the Wandsworth Fabulous Book Award shortlist. There is still time to read one or more of these ‘fabulous’ books especially with half term fast approaching. Voting for your favourite book from the list will open after half term, and you have until 3rd March to cast your vote. Pupils who have shown the most commitment to reading the shortlist will be invited to a special award ceremony in March where the winning author will be announced.Happy reading! Ms Richards, Librarian
BUG HOTELSA group of Yellow and Blue Ties have made Ernest Bevin a more friendly place for insects by building bug hotels. They were working with Green Up and the Princes Trust and learnt about the decline of some insect populations in the UK including the Large Blue butterfly. They then constructed special boxes that aim to attract insects and placed them in the college grounds.
SAFER INTERNET DAYThis year’s theme for Safer Internet Day ‘Unite for a better internet: be the change’ draws on how people interact with one another online, and the positive outcome in collectively calling for a ‘better’ internet. During the week there will be assemblies and activities about staying safe online, using social media responsibly and the PREVENT agenda against extremism and anti-radicalistion. There are resources and links to helpful websites on the college website.
THE BETT SHOWBETT is an annual exhibition that showcases the use of Information Technology in Education. Most schools sent representatives as visitors to see what is out there and bring back new ideas to school. Ernest Bevin was extremely proud of Ms Munday, head of Science, who presented at BETT 2017. She has been working with a company called NanoSimbox to develop a Virtual reality chemical world at atomic level and was asked to present the work at the show. Ms Munday & her students are really working hard to shape the future of education!
VOLLEYBALLThe U16 team has qualified for the Last 8s stage of the National Cup. They secured their place in round 2 held on Sunday 15th January.Over the Christmas break three players from EBC attended England Cadet trials having been successful at the trial stages earlier in the year. They attended camps at the end of December and from 28-29th January.
Those players are: Christian Ioannou 11BXB, Nasir Khan 10CJW & Visman Thivaharan 10SV.
On Sunday 22nd January we attended the U15s London Grand Prix, one of 12 teams in attendance and played some great volleyball. Well done to everyone involved.
Coach Ashley
ATHLETICSWell done to our Year 7 &8 Indoor Athletics Team who took part in the Wandsworth Indoor Athletics Championship held in our sports hall on Thursday 26th January. The boys competed against other teams from Wandsworth schools and did very well; the Red Tie team won the Year 7 boys event and will go on the represent Wandsworth on 23rd Feburary. The Green Ties took second place in the Year 8 boys’ competition and were presented with silver medals.Congratulations also to Jaden Kennedy 8SKS who took a Silver medal at the London Schools Cross Country competition on 1st February.
RED TIE FOOTBALLWell done to the Red Ties who won 2-1 against Platanos College. Goals by Herbie Howard 7CP and Deondre Date 7JT. Man of the match was Tai Flanagan 7AO.
They also played superbly at their tournament at Southfields Academy and won every game. The team were absolutely gutted to lose on penalties in the semi-final. They are a very strong group of players and will learn from this experience and come back stronger. Well done and thank you to all the parents who came and supported the team in the cold weather.
JUDO- LONDON DEVELOPMENTOn Sunday 22nd January we took a full team to the London Area Development Championships held at the University of East London - Sports Dock. Fourteen boys representing Ernest Bevin took part in this Red and Yellow belt tournament and all fought brilliantly. It was 100% success rate with every member of the team bringing home a medal. Well done! Sensei Mike
Gold medal Luca Birchall 7CP, Christiano De Silva 7CE
Zakareya Ahmed 8AAB, Kevin Tasccon 8PCBKamare Perkins 9JDB, Amar Loukrichi 9SAA
Silver medal Youcef Dafallah 7HS, Noah Assurreira 9TM
Ahmed Raja 9SHBronze medal
Seliyan Mathivannan 7HS, Nabil Annich 7HSAbdullah Mirchi 8SYS, Mohammad Zaman 8SYS
Samuel Brooks-Gilzeane 9DD
CRICKETOn Tuesday 10th January Year 7/8 went to the Oval to play in an indoor cricket tournament against 8 other schools. They played well winning 3 games out of 4, beating Charter School and Lillian Baylis. The boys who attended were:
Taha Suleman 8CFD, Sheraz Ahmed 8PCB, Habibullah Chaudhry 8CFD,
Shahryar Khan 7CP, Humza Syed 7CP, Tahsin Uddin 8AAB, Mohammad Rashid 8BC, Sajeel Ahmad 8ML,
Sameer Qadeer 7HS.On Thursday 12th January it was the turn of Year 9 cricketers who played in the same tournament for their age group. They won their group but then unfortunately lost in the final to Kingsdale. The boys who played were:
Azeem Muhammad 9SAA, Mirsab Danyal 9SAA, Yasim Ali 9JDB, Faraz Kaleem 9SAA.
Diary DatesThursday 9th February Year 11 Parents Evening
Monday 13th-Friday 17th February Half Term
Monday 20th February College reopens
TABLE TENNISThe Table Tennis squads have really started the New Year on the right foot with two teams qualifying for the Jack Petchey Regional Team Finals at the beginning of March.The Under13 boys team came runners up in the London Zone finals. They beat Wallington Grammar School in the semi-finals but lost 3 games to 5 against University College School. Second position is enough to see them through to the Regional finals in Bristol. The Under 16 team also won their group stage to take on Burlington Danes in the Semi Final before beating Sacred Heart 5 games to nil in the final. They qualify for the Regional finals in Bournemouth in top position from the London finals. We had 3 outstanding Individual victories from Nahom Goitom 9SAA who beat the number 7 and 39 seeded Cadets in the UK and currently representing England and Kamal Annich 8KH who beat the number 25 in UK in U13 age group.The Under 19 team made it through the group stages but lost to Harefield in the semi-finals. In the 3rd and 4th place play offs they beat Morpeth to secure the third place.All three teams had qualified for the London Zone finals which is the second stage of the competition having first come from the Central London round. They need to be on top form in March as only one team from each of the four regional finals will progress through to the National finals.Well done and good luck. Coach Renan
U13 Team: Kamal Annich 8KH, Benjamin Boutrolle 8KH, Jeremiah Forson-Prempeh 8SYS & Abdul Hameed 8PCBU16 Team: Zion Boumpoutou 11CMK, Joel Attah 10YC,
Nahom Goitom 9SAA, Howard Onweng 9SH and Adam Benmohamed 9SH.
JUDO – MIDLANDS OPENThe weekend of the 28th & 29th January saw the Ernest Bevin Judo Squad travel to Walsall, Wolverhampton for the Midlands Open Age Banded Judo Championships. We took six boys but the stand out performance was from Ayoub Dafallah 9SAA fighting in the weight category above the one in which he achieved a National Bronze Medal back in December.Ayoub starting in blistering fashion, winning his opening contest in a matter of seconds, he then continued his fine form, winning all his contests by maximum scores all the way to the final where he dispatched the under 50kgs national champion with two amazing foot-sweeps to clinch the Gold Medal in style. It was a decisive win and he made his mark in the U50kg competition. Mr Bonti
RUGBYCongratulations to the Red Tie rugby team who beat Bolingbroke Academy 35-5. Great win! We were also pleased to be able to host the England 7s Academy players for an indoor training session when their training pitch was frozen. Some of our rugby players enjoyed seeing a full on training session in the dojo. Coach Dom
