Dixons Kings Academy Appreciations!
Integrity, Diligence, Civility... 01 December 2017
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The Climb... Events at DKA this week!
Family Members of the Week!
Year 7
Zara Ahmed – civility shown in family dining
Safwan Choudary – Diligence shown throughout the week. Many teachers have praised him.
Year 9
Salman Mahmood 9.3 - 100% attendance, no behaviour logs and always displaying the core values of the school.
Ishrat Kaur 9.2 - An outstanding student who is extremely diligent and civil at all times – 100% attendance and no behaviour logs!
Year 11
Yusuf Javed for improved effort and focus
Fayzah Siddique for diligence
The Dixons Academies first ever Gifted & Talented Conference!
Diligent Year 11 Students preparing for Frank Danley's visit next week!
Drumming Practice in full swing!
Drama Students practicing scenes from Bouncers, by John Godber!
Antibullying Week - Some pledges made by Year 7 and 8 students!
Year 7 Student Appreciations!
Miss Probst:
I would like to appreciate the following students for their outstanding progress on their reading ages after their recent reading test:
Angelina Rehman
Umar Ali
Abdul Salam
Ayaan Rafiq
Mustafa Mughal
Ismail KArim
Abdullah Mazhar
Saad Rafiq
Hanna El-Sayed
Arissa Khan
Hashim Ullah
Sumiya Kauser
Haider Ali
Miss Hickey:
Malaika Akhtar in my Spanish class for working diligently on using accurate AR verb endings in her writing and speech.
Lydia Gayle
Malaika Akhtar, Malaika Awan, Imran, Imaad, Sana Bi, Ifrah Jahangir, Alisha Kaiser, Mariam Khan, Muhsin Rauf,
Miss Cronin:
Y7: Hamza Mahmood for his perceptive analysis.
Mr Alam:
I would like to appreciate 7B / Pe2 and 7A / Pe 1 for excellent effort in class.
Miss Dykxhoorn:
The whole of 7A/En4 for their amazing DIRT yesterday
Ashba Ali, Kaif Mohammed and Sumiya Kauser for their civility during lessons
Mr Alam:
To the year 7 football stars
Ismail Karim Waleed Raja Benyameer Hussain Safwaan Choudry
Kaiser Zaman Azeem Ahmed Muhsin Rauf Ariyaan Sahib Sufyaab Bashir Hasmath
Mrs Malik
Appreciate Imaad for always putting effort into his work in science and showing excellent diligence in his DO NOW answers.
Humaira for always producing outstanding work in science and showing civility in class.
Haseeb for always trying in science as well as producing excellent presentation of work in his book.
Mrs Malik appreciates 7.6 for being very organised in clearing up during family dining. Also appreciates the students putting her food in the plate before she arrives.
Year 8 Student Appreciations!
Mussa Khan, Hannah Rasaq, Arusa Hussain, Farah Wallace, Kamesha Thompson, Humairah Ali, Farah Hussain and Janis Ifrahim for always making an effort to make polite conversation at family dining.
Umar Mirza for his huge improvement in behaviour since the start of the year.
Mohammad Muawiyah for getting all 1’s in his report yesterday.
Mr Rafiq:
All students were amazing and showed great diligence in helping out at the Y7 Parents Evening:
Zainab Shakoor
Humairah Ali
Iqra Mazhar
Maryam Khan
Ibraheem Azim
Abdulrehman Ali
My 3 year 8 IT classes; 8A/it1, 8A/It2 & 8B/it1 for this week working well this week on their database task
Alishan Mehmood for a great start in a new Geography class
Shayraz Ahmed for going the extra mile and never leaving a question half-answered
Alishbah Tahir for not giving up on a GCSE task in Geography
Miss Probst:
the following students for their outstanding progress on their reading ages following their most recent reading test:
Mohammed Amaan
Sehr Sadeer
Alisha Tahir
Well done to all of them!
Miss Lopez:
Humaira Ali (Y8) for effort and diligence shown in formative assessments.
Year 9 Student Appreciations!
Humayrah Ali- very diligent all term, keep it up!
Muhammad El Sayed- very creative stretch project yet again!
Duha Mahmood, Zaynab Dad- very good effort and creativity shown with their stretch board
Miss Parmar:
Year 9 Business:
Laiba Mughal, Zahra Mahmood, Momina Fatima, Saffiya Mussa for all showing diligence in their work and presentations of their books.
Year 9 Finance:
Zain-Ul Abidin, Zeeshan Suleman, Fiza Vaseem, Sara Butt, for all working diligently in lessons and always giving above and beyond in lessons. Well done and keep it up!
Miss Knowles
9C/En3
Laraib Ahmed for showing diligence in her creative writing.
Miss Riley
Y9:
9ª/sp2 for always working extremely diligently and making excellent progress in a difficult topic. Especially Henna Hussain who has made an outstanding start to Spanish only having started it at the beginning of the year.
Burhaan Saghir for working hard to produce material for Spanish podcasts.
Laiba Mughal, Noor Sharif, Umna Zamir, Aalia Hussain, Momina Fatima, Inayah Jangir, Amina Sidat and Amila Kauser for being exceptionally polite and civil.
Shazaib Ahmad for leaving an inspirational quote on the board at the end of the lesson.
Mr Fieldhouse
I would like to appreciate all of the people who have expressed an interest in doing SUSOMAD this year in Y9 - this has been the best year for sign ups. The final 20 will be announced next week, applications close at the end of the day today.
All the Y9 students who have been given purple PRAGS across the board in their student appraisal. Keep up the good work!
9BSc3 - for completing dirt to an very high standard. In particular well done to Mariyam and Harris for much improved marks in their tests.
Y9 the vast majority of the students in the class who are producing great work in lessons and getting settled to work straight away and only asking useful questions.
Year 10 Student Appreciations!
Miss Khan:
Usman Akhtar- for always showing enthusiasm to learn more and share more in lessons
Aniqa Rehman and Humaira Mahmood- thank you for all your help!
Miss parmar:
Year 10 Business:
For having two excellent lessons this week where all students were engaged and taking an active part in the class discussions. In particular, Muhammed Shaheer and Maryam Jamadar.
Year 10 Finance:
The whole class for being on 4LOP due to their hard work, determination and commitment to the course. Very impressed with you all – well done!
Miss Clynes:
I woud like to appreciate Danyal Nazam, Luqmaan Maroof and Gamal Elazari and Sameer Nadeem for really showing what they're capable of in their most recent English essays. However, they've not quite beaten the girls yet so they need to work a bit harder to do that!
Miss Malik
10OX2 - Science
Appreciate Hamza Latif for being very diligent in his class work and has immensely improved his attitude in learning. Very impressed with how much enthusiasm he puts into his work lately and takes part in class discussions.
Appreciate Mustafain for always trying hard and keeping his work to a high standard. Always positive in lessons and showing civility to other students in class.
Appreciate Hamza Shaukat and Haseeb for always behaving very mature in class and never complaining about a single thing. Always completing their work to a high standard.
Miss Gayle
Y10: Awais Yaqoob for sensibly settling into his English lessons yesterday. Shamukh Khurram for an excellent piece of descriptive writing.
Miss Hickey
Diraar Ahmed, Itizaz Khan, Eman Troug, Tauseef Hussain and Reece Corrigan for writing excellent formative assessments using the future and conditional tense.
I will also pass you some anti-bullying pledges that can be read out alongside appreciations.
Miss Knowles
10C/En3 Hasan Moman for a considerable improvement in the level of diligence shown in lessons.
Mr Khan ICT
Both of my Year 10 Computing classes for their diligence whilst completing their cida mock exams
Stephens
Please can I appreciate Humairah Ali for her fantastic book review. She always shows great diligence in the presentation of her work.
10 Cam PE class for their excellent team work and problem solving skills.
Mr Ellis
Fakhir Ali for his beautiful rendition of a 17th century radical song.
Zahra Mansur for her never ending enthusiasm to complete history formatives
Armaan Ali for his enthusiasm for helping others
10ocCh1 - well done to wajid, juweriya, danyal/Danish and awais for putting in extra effort to catch up with missed work.
Miss Labella:
Usman Akhtar for his eloquent explanation of the perfect tense
The y10 Trailblazers for their preparation and help for the Spanish radio show
Mr Harrap:
Y10 in general, there has been a great improvement and lots of staff have mentioned this
Year 11 Student Appreciations!
Staff Appreciations!
An appreciation in for the RAK to the person who kindly paid my final instalment for the Christmas Party.
Miss Labella for her support over the last few weeks with her year group in Reading Plus.
All staff who have kindly covered lessons on such a busy week.
Mrs Sutton for providing extended cover of reception at short notice, ensuring staff, students and parents get the required support throughout the day
Big thank you to Mrs Wharton for covering the extra time in the library at end of school enabling students to have the access to study
The IT team for working really hard in making sure all the IT issues are solved in 0.09.
Mrs R Khan – for stepping into the role of a translator at the very last minute!
Mr A Crossland – For competing my copying before the requested time and then bringing it to me – thank you!
Miss A Dykxhoorn – for always stopping to have a conversation and putting a smile on my face!
Mr C Harrap – for being my saviour this past week; helping me to the office, bringing my water bottle to me and for generally making me laugh every day without fail!
Miss E Hickey – for stepping in to cover the start of my lesson last week when I didn’t feel too great – thank you.
Mr C Harrap, Mr H Khan, Mr J Ellis – all for helping to run a lunchtime detention club for years 9, 10 and 11.
Mrs Stables for her last minute help with photocopying.
Thanks to Miss Summers for her diligence with cover.
Thanks to Mr Wilson for R2D2!
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