Word on the StreetThe Newsletter of Bethnal Green Academy and Sixth Form

Monday 13th May . Issue 118

Primary Heads visit BGAConfident Year 7 students met Headteachers from their old primary schools on Wednesday.Last week was an eventful one for BGA. On Tuesday the academy welcomed Queen Mary University of London who held their “Away Day” in the main hall.

On Wednesday a group of Year 7 students had an early start as they met with local Headteachers at a breakfast meeting in the LRC. They talked about their experience of their transition from primary to secondary school and how they have developed confidence and learned a great deal in Year 7. Their primary school heads proudly presented certificates to their ex-pupils.

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BGA’s business students undaunted as they pitch their enterprising business ideas to a panel of fiery “dragons”.

“ When I say the word 'art' what comes to your mind? Lichtenstein... Picasso...? You know what comes to my mind when I think of 'art'? Bethnal Green Academy. Our Bethnal Green Academy. YOUR Bethnal Green Academy!” Babar Popal, 12Tol.

That was one of the lines used to woo the "Dragons" during his group's presentation. As part of their BTEC Business Level 3 qualification students are working to start their own small businesses. Suitably fiery, the dragons left no stone unturned as they picked apart our students' business plans and scrutinised their marketing strategies, market research and financial forecasts. Unwilting under pressure, our students showed resilience, tenacity and poise to exude a coolness that doused flames and won the dragons over.

The two teams - Colours of the Future & CBN Stylez - secured investments totalling almost £500. Both groups are celebrating the artwork of their BGA peers; using it as the cornerstone of their products. They will now manufacture their products before selling them for real in Spitalfields market in the coming weeks!

The following students presented on the day:

Sharmin  Aktar, Rahim Choudhury, Christopher Jamal Duguid, Marjharul Hoque, Mohammed Faizul Hoque, Christel Elizabeth Luke, Abdul Mamun, Mashu Miah, Mohammed Hiron Miah, Babar Popal, Abdur Rahat.

The Dragon's Den event was part of our wider Artbeat Enterprise project - supported and funded by Allen & Overy.

Mr Olomowewe, Creative Technologies

Into the Dragon’s Den

Sixth Form Reporter Sandhra SamkuttyAS Level exams start this week and all students are focusing on is their revision and exam practice. Everybody has a clear vision of how to handle exams the exams effectively, timekeeping and they are further improving their skills to achieve better grades. While the A Level

students are busy with their exams, our BTEC students have been on a programme with Allen and Overy to develop their own business ideas. They have been doing this programme for nine weeks and it was successful in terms of gaining skills for a future job.

Overall, last week has been very productive in the Sixth Form and all students are being positive about the upcoming exams.

Christel Luke said “At first I thought it was going to be stressful because I haven’t been part of any business groups before and I didn’t know how it worked. However, the group was given a mentor who showed us how to lead a team. For our business idea we won £250 and it was a great opportunity to gain the skills and practice which are needed when you go to a workplace.”

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Our Word of the week is sourced from our Focus Words list which is compiled by our teaching staff and is designed to include the sort of keywords, terms and phrases regularly used in their subject areas. The full list, complete with dictionary definition hyperlinks can be found on the Students page of our website.

Audiencenoun 1 the assembled spectators or listeners at a public event such as a play, film, concert, or meeting: he asked for questions from members of the audience.• the people who watch or listen to a television or radio programme: the programme attracted an audience of almost twenty million.• the readership of a newspaper, magazine, or book: the newspaper has a sophisticated audience.• the people giving attention to something: the report deserves consideration by a much wider audience.2 a formal interview with a person in authority: he demanded an audience with the Pope.3 [ mass noun ] archaic formal hearing.

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Dramatic opportunitiesToday, Monday 13th May, Mukul Ahmed will be coming into the academy during lunchtime to meet and speak to students and staff.Mukul is a theatre director from Bangladesh who creates bilingual Shakespeare plays in English and Bengali. He will speak about his career, the challenges he faces, his interest in Shakespeare and Bengali culture. He will answer any questions and give tips to students about directing, acting, writing and being a Bengali role model in the theatre.If you would like to meet Mukul and find out more about his career, come along to the Drama Studio on Monday lunch time. Bring your questions and ideas! 

On Tuesday 21st March students are invited to participate in a Performance Workshop with the All Stars Project, a successful youth organisation founded in New York. You can learn new ways to transform yourself, your school, your community and even the world through performance! If you would like to take part in this exciting workshop please speak to Ms. Jahangard, Head of Drama.

Theatre ReviewDrama Club attended a theatre trip last week so see an interpretation of Medea at the Half Moon Theatre. The director of the show commended them afterwards on their perceptive and insightful questions when they analysed the performance with the actors.Here is a review written one of the Drama Club members. On Wednesday 8th May we watched a play with everyone from Drama Club called Medea and it’s a romantic Greek Tragedy. It was a heart breaking story about Medea and the person she loved, wo she made a family with and then left her for another woman. He said it was for money for their children but no. It was to rule the kingdom and be the King.The acting was so realistic so you really felt what the characters were feeling. Medea felt so much pain the only thing that would mend her broken heart was for Jason to have the pain she felt. She killed his new wife with a poisonous gown to give Glauce a slow death. Jason held the gown and cried to much Medea got more angry and suffocated the children which were actually pieces of material.What I learnt from this play is to act your character in the play and show your feelings, like pain using your facial expressions. The actors didn’t say anything because they mainly used dance and mime with material so you can show your emotions in other ways in acting. Also we had to use our imaginations more which was really good. I hope to use these skills in my drama work.

By Cassi Latham, 7RJa

Good luckto all students who

will be starting their exams next week!

Well done to our Young Enterprise finalists.

Good Company

Talented Young Achievers: Tahmina Begum, Belal Robi, Nahima Begum, Shah Habibur Rahman, Anika Rashid and Rukshana Begum were one of nine teams that presented their business plans to a panel of judges at the East London Company of the Year Awards on May 2nd. Although they didn’t win an award they should be congratulated for delivering a confident, professional and convincing presentation as well as for being great ambassadors for Bethnal Green Academy.