Dixons Kings Academy Appreciations!
Integrity, Diligence, Civility... 15 December 2017
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The Climb... Events at DKA this week!
Family Members of the Week!
Year 7
Mohammed Kaif – integrity – shown improvement in behaviour
Ghazala Hossein – Civility – polite towards peers during family dining.
Year 8
Arusa Hussain 8.1 for her random act of kindness offering her assistance to help me with any admin in a morning.
Ammaar Azhar for my first Christmas card of the year, what a lovely thought to give everyone in his form a card and extend this his teachers also.
Year 9
Eesa Mahmood 9.2 – An exceptional stretch project winner – well done!
Safa Hussain 9.3 – Consistently displaying the core values of the school; 100% attendance and no behaviour logs.
Year 11
Rukhsar Ahmed and Farzan Husnain for diligence and integrity
DKA has been featured in the Ofsted Annual Report. Thank you and Congratulations to all students, staff and parents at DKA!
Stretch Finals
Pictured below are our Year 8 Stretch Final Winners and our Governors Mr Gilpin and Mrs Anderson who judged the competition! It was a tough competition with a variety of excellent presentations! Well done to all students who participated!
Year 9 Stretch Finals!
Year 7 Stretch Finalists!
Parents Intervention Evening!
White Ribbon Campaign - Bradford Council
The Student below who produced a poem with regards to the White Ribbon Campaign by Bradford Council, was invited to read his poem at the Launch Day. Well done to you #Civility!
Getting Creative in Art with Mr Frank Darnley!
The Creative Club!
Year 7 Student Appreciations!
7B Science
Imaad - Always trying his best in science and showing excellent diligence in his work
Malaika achtar- Excellent behaviour and always being diligent in class.
Shehzad Khan - Always showing civility to other class members and completing his work to a high standard.
Armaan Najeeb - Trying his best to behave and take part in class discussions.
Haseeb - Always trying his best and taking part in class discussions.
Imran Siddique - Demonstrating excellent behaviour
Sana Bi - Always completing work on time and being very helpful.
Dylan Simpson - Showing civility to other students in class and always being fully equipped. Dylan is always kind enough to lend his green pens to those students who don’t have one.
Muhsin Rauf - Showing excellent civility in class
Alisha Kaiser - Always showing a willingness to learn and completes all her work to a high standard as well as asking interesting questions in science.
Malaika Seleman - Excellent presentation of work and an improvement in spellings.
Miss Cheetham
I would like to appreciate Sarah Ahmed, Anees Ahmed and Aqsa Waheed for the diligence they have shown in their recent end of unit assessment.
My Lexia/Reading Plus class for working so diligently this week. The progress is shining through and I am very proud of them all.
7BEn3 for their civility and diligence in English whilst reading Wolf Brother.
Mr Iqbal:
7.5 for always showing diligence during family dining, and having excellent clear up routines. A special thanks to all those who help out, in particular Aadam, Aisha, Hanfah and Bilal
7Esc1 – for always working hard!
Year 8 Student Appreciations!
Arslaan Khan- working diligently in RE at all times
Mr Rafiq woudl like to appreciate students who took part in the intervention parents evening. All students were amazing and showed great diligence in helping out in the evening:
Zainab Shakoor
Humairah Ali
Iqra Mazhar
Aniqah Kauser
Ibraheem Azim
Abdulrehman Ali
Mr Rafiq also like to appreciate Siaba Hussain for being the overall computing star of cycle 1. Well done.
Miss Labella would like to appreciate the winner and runner up of the Stretch final.
Winner – Maryam Haroon
Runner up – La-raiba Awais
Year 9 Student Appreciations!
Sa’d Mahmood and Saeed Habib- always working very hard every lesson and showing they want to achieve high results by making sure they act upon feedback given
Iqra Razaq- has a beautiful and exemplary book, well done!
Maria Fatima- showing diligence by coming to catch up with missed work
Mrs Malik Science class 9BSc1
Appreciate Seher Sheikh for always working hard and completing work to a high standard.
Momina Fatima - Always working hard and taking part in class discussions.
Fareed Ali - Giving excellent response to questions.
Nagina Faisal - Always working hard and never complaining.
Mohammed Raheem - Extremely helpful and always saying hello and bye.
Huzaifah - Very helpful and tries his best at all times.
Aalia Hussain - Showing Excellent diligence in class work.
Ihtisham kayani - An excellent improvement in written presntation of work in his book.
Hania - Always well behaved and working hard.
Miss Probst - I appreciate Henna Adrahis, faizan Abu-Faizan and Akbar Khan for their civility and integrity on Wednesday morning.
Miss Khan
Year 9:
Sa’d Mahmood and Saeed Habib- always working very hard every lesson and showing they want to achieve high results by making sure they act upon feedback given
Iqra Razaq- has a beautiful and exemplary book, well done!
Maria Fatima- showing diligence by coming to catch up with missed work
Year 10:
Maaria Iqbal, Samrah Mirza and Alisha Sharif- fantastic effort shown in their books
Elaine Hagan- always working diligently and completing trailblazer tasks showing she wants to succeed in RE
Hamza Jamil- always very focused in lesson
Ms Cronin:
I'd like to appreciate my entire year 9 class for their enthusiastic approach to work all year, and for being generally a fantastic class to teach.
In year 9, can I appreciate Imran Abbas, Hafsah Kauser, Abra Bhatti, Aishah Pandor and Samah Rauf for showing excellent diligence and writing really creative stories.
Imran Abbas, Hafsah Kauser, Abra Bhatti, Aishah Pandor and Samah Rauf for showing excellent diligence and writing really creative stories.
Year 9 Finance:
For being exemplary students during a cover lesson this week – well done!
Year 9:
All the stretch finalists this week and in particular, the winner Eesa Mahmood for an exceptional stretch project and the runner up Gerald Moyo for listening to feedback in a bid to improve his delivery for the final.
Year 10 Student Appreciations!
Desmond Okungbowa for showing Civility by helping a member of staff during the icy weather.
Maaria Iqbal, Samrah Mirza and Alisha Sharif- fantastic effort shown in their books
Elaine Hagan- always working diligently and completing trailblazer tasks showing she wants to succeed in RE
Hamza Jamil- always very focused in lesson
Usman jamil - For being very helpful in the laboratory by helping to clean up.
Umar Siddique - Very helpful at all times and always showing a positive attitude to learning.
Hassan- Demonstrating excellent behaviour in class and is always the first to complete his work.
Tauseef Hussain - Showing a lot of diligence in his class work and was the first student in class to work out the answer for the reacting masses calculations which was extremely challenging.
Desmond - Tries to work hard and attitude to learning is improving slowly.
Hamza Jamil - Always showing diligence in his work.
Diraar - Very keen in learning and shows a lot of dedication in doing well.
Mohammed Jawad - Always asking Questions when he is not sure and still trying his best to complete his work.
Appreciate Haris Ali for always completing his work to a high standard.
Appreciate Hamaad for always behaving very well in class and trying his best.
Ms Knowles
Please can I appreciate Iffraz Ahmed in Year 10 for his perceptive contributions in class on A Christmas Carol. Also, Aliza Saeed for her diligence in all tasks in all lessons.
Year 10 Business:
My year 10 business class for being extremely thoughtful asking how I am every lesson and helping to distribute the books.
Ms Gordon Jarrett
I would like to extend sincere appreciations to my entire yer 10 group for their diligence - they have demonstrated sustained diligence through the entire term. They have been focused; tractable and embraced the challenges of the course with aplomb. This has been rewarded as they have now develoed greater confidence started to show progress in the subject. Well done to all
Year 11 Student Appreciations!
Haleema Yasin, Rozeena Khalifa, Hafsah Ali and Hamiyah Usman- thank you for the lovely chat after school and a special thanks to Hafsah for the chocolate treats!
Hamiyah Usman- showing diligence by staying back after school to catch up with missed work due to being in an Art workshop all day
Sara Ali, Hanna Hussain- for having the neatest and most colourful books making it a pleasure to mark
Staff Appreciations!
All the Catering team, for their overall commitment to supplying the students and staff at DKA with healthy and varied menus each day
Miss S Hussain for working extremely hard to ensure that a large amount of data was inputted.
Mr L Fieldhouse – for covering the first part of my lesson this week at short notice – thank you!
Mrs K Kaur – for looking after me this week and for checking in on me to see how I am doing!
Mrs J Thompson – for asking how I am and making me smile!
Miss M Jennings – for simply being fabulous!
Miss Hickey- for the positivity and lovely messages given to students in line-up
Mr Carr- for listening and being very supportive
Miss Wharton- printing and organising all the data we need to help students make the best progress at DKA
Mr Crossland- for working diligently to complete all my requests ahead of time!
Miss S Bell for all her help with creating the data cards. Its helped me out a lot
Jamie Benson for being a great support over the last couple of weeks with SEN students.
Mr Wilson for buying everyone McDonalds on Data Day!
Thank you to everyone who helped with cover this week!
Mrs Gayle for producing QLA for the whole department.
Miss A Taj for making delicious cakes for Data Day.
Mr Sakab for getting me a drink from the vendor when my key wouldn’t work
Mrs Cheetham for the left over doughnut from family dining
Mr Smith for supporting me along the icy path
Miss Lopez for carrying my bag to lessons and coming up at break to ask if I needed sustenance
Miss Knowles for taking off my coat and hanging it up for me
Miss Binns for treating me to KFC
Mr Miller for taking me to the hospital
and everyone who offered me a hand and asked how I was - there is really a lot of generosity in the whole team at Kings
Mr Carr for dealing with an issue with diligence and efficiency!
Parent Notices
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