At Dixons Kings, we live by our core values. Integrity is always doing the right thing and keeping true to your moral principles. Diligence is the necessity of giving attention to detail in order to avoid error and overcome obstacles. Finally, Civility is about showing everyone consideration and respect. Our appreciations newsletter celebrates the members of our academy family who exhibit these values and climb the mountain to success. We also champion the family members who, during their climb, have shown themselves to be unique, ambitious and creative.

M Clarke would like to appreciate

7A/En3: Noor Ul-Ain Ahmed, Simrah Ahmed, Sahil Ahmed, Hasan Ali, Abdur Rehman, Aiqah Usman for superb contributions, diligence and modelling.

7B/En1: Marwah Awan, Manha Ibrahim, Mohammed Ibrahim, Mueed Malik, Haider Naieem, Sheraz Qureshi: for excellent ideas, use of skills and diligence

Ms Peake would like to appreciate

Jameel Pandor and Rosmeesa Noor in 7.7 for their diligence in my Drama lesson this week. They were the first to finish and to such a high standard.

Ms Zahid would like to appreciate

Lamar Abdelkarim and Madiha Nawaz in 7.7 for being consistent and diligent in their RE work.

Ms Shved would like to appreciate

The following student who has been nominated as Mathematician of the week

Alisha Ali Y7

For a brilliant start at DKA, and showing resilience in learning a new topic.

Ms Razaq would like to appreciate

Romeesa Noor in 7.7 and Jameel Pandor in 7.7, for doing amazing in the bleep test. They pushed themselves and didn't give up.

Ms Ali would like to appreciate

Humayra Hussain

Hamza Ajmal - for showing diligence amazing work and contributions in lesson

Aroosa Ali

Umar Nawaz - for showing integrity working extra hard on the trailblazer tasks and challenging themselves.

Ms Binns would like to appreciate

Miss Binns would like to appreciate all the following students for demonstrating the core value of diligence in completing their home learning work whilst self isolating last week. This is really important that you complete this work to ensure you keep learning. Well done to all of these students:

Saara Abrar

Ibrahim Ahmad

Ridhwan Al-Baghdadi

Zaina Al-Yousaf

Farhan Chaudhry

Sinaan Idrees

Zakariah Kasim

Haroon Mahmood

Aizah Mamrez

Najim Saqib

Duaa Sharif

Samiha Asif

Saleeha Awan

Abdullah Muhammas

Ms Tahir would like to appreciate

8BRE1 – Thank you for the consistent diligence demonstrated throughout RE lessons. You are a pleasure to teach!

Ms Herbert would like to appreciate

8A2 for their diligence and trying very hard with their eye drawing tasks last week

Ms Maclean would like to appreciate

Awais Makoom and Abdulahad Rangrej (8E) for their hard work in English.

Mr Rossell would like to appreciate

The following students:

• Abdulahad Rangrej
• Faizan Khan
• Meisam Khan

for their excellent start to Music lessons this year

Mr Clarke would like to appreciate

8B/EN2:

Faaris Khan

Maryam Khan

Sara Suleman Nafeesah Batool

Yaseem Akram Arooj Butt

For their continued diligence and enthusiasm when studying Of Mice and Men.

Ms Akhtar would like to appreciate

Meisam Khan 8.2 for his excellent effort in Numeracy intervention this year. He has made a great start.

HOY Star of the Week

Umme-Hanni Hussain for earning 7 positives this week for showing great diligence in her brilliant effort in all lessons, completing challenging tasks, showing integrity, giving great explanations and being appreciated by several members of staff.

Abdur-Raheem Mahmood for his lovely new attitude since coming back as a mature Year 9 student, showing integrity and doing the right thing even if others around him may not be showing the same level of maturity

Mr Clarke would like to appreciate

9A/En3: Muanes Abrahem, Aamna Ahmed, Hafsa Fatima, Hasnain Hamid, Hasnain Hasnain: for positive contributions, creative thinking.

Waqar Wafi for making the right decision and showing diligence and integrity when he didn't feel like doing so.

9B/En1:Sana Malik, Alaa Drbal, Umme-Haani Hussain, Mustafa Naeem, Zaina Zamir, Usman Salim, Ayaan Hussain: for excellent contributions, alternative interpretations and demonstration of skill.

Ms Herbert would like to appreciate

9C Photography class for their enthusiasim and their conduct whilst taking photographs...not our usual way of taking photographs but they adapted really well to taking photos in the classroom!

Ms Zahid would like to appreciate

Waqar Warfi (9.6) and Iqra Hussain (9.3) for fantastic contribution in History and working diligently every lesson.

Mr Kitson would like to appreciate

9A/Ge4 for showing diligence in all completing their homework for last week. Now they all know about the hotel in Scarborough that fell into the sea.

9B/Ge2 group for their diligence – every one of the group had their new revision guides and are using them well so far.

Ms Maclean would like to appreciate

Murtaza Khan, Haris Shabr and Alisha Ali for their hard work in English (9A/EN4).

Mr Rossell would like to appreciate

• Alisha Ali
• Hannah Ahmad
• Haashim Hussain
• Usman Salim

for excellent effort and progress in Music so far this year.

Ms Salhi would like to appreciate

9B/3 Gulshan Khan for excellent work in class.

Ms Ali would like to appreciate

9A/EN1

Zoya Minhaz

Esa Ahmed - for showing diligence and always challenging themselves and making an effort in class

9B/EN2

Hafsa Aslam - improved behaviour and showing integirty

Haider Dad - showing diligence and challenging himseld with trailblazer tasks

Ms Parker would like to appreciate

Aminah Rashid, Sarwar Choudry, Manhoor Khan for producing very accurate written work in their Spanish formative this week.

Ms Tahir would like to appreciate

10BRE1 – They have started this year with a positive attitude towards their learning. I am really please with their diligence and effort and contributions within lessons.

I would also like to appreciate Zain Wilkinson in 10BRE1 for his improved behaviour and effort within lessons especially taking the responsibility to catch up with any incomplete or missed work.

Miss Herbert would like to appreciate

From 10D photography, aliza, muminah, leena, dayaan, asmaa and sara for their diligence and had work in lessons and who all got onto the challenge experimental tasks last week

From 10C Photography, baile, nimra, ifrah and madia for the same as above

Ms Shved would like to appreciate

The following student has been nominated as Mathematician of the week

Ifrah Jahangir Y10

For an excellent start to Year 10 – she has worked extremely hard every single lesson and always completes Grade 9 tasks and the extension

Mr Clarke would like to appreciate

10A/EN2:

Imran Siddique

Mariam Khan

Khadijah Saleem

Ifrah Jahangir Hashmi Ali Hassan

For their continued diligence when studying Animal Farm.

10B/EN2:

Sameer Asif

Musa Farooq

Ismail Bashir

Sana Bi

Zain Hussain

Rayhaan Saghir

Owais Bostan

Alisha Kaiser

Urwa Shahzad

For their continued diligence with their homework and studying Animal Farm.

Ms Salhi would like to appreciate

10A/SC3 for maintaining excellent behaviour and attitude towards work.

10B/SC 1 working diligently this week.

Ms Parker would like to appreciate

Abu-Bakr Farakh for working more independently in this weeks' lessons.

Laiba Nakeeb for always having a positive attitude and working hard.

Ali Akbar Raja for asking excellent questions to further his understanding in lessons.

Ms Shved would like to appreciate

The following student has been nominated as Mathematician of the week

Muneebah Khan Y11

For achieving a Grade 8 in her Maths C1 GCSE assessment. All through lock down Muneebah did all the home learning lessons including Hegarty Maths homework tasks and this has contributed in this fantastic achievement. Well done Muneebah, keep up the great work!

Mr Gayle would like to appreciate

Ibrahim Azim (yr 11) – great start back and mature attitude to conflict with others.

Mr Clarke would like to appreciate

11.4

Tyisha Khan

Aniqah Kauser

Raihan Sadiq

Muneebah Khan

Barirah Irfan La-Raiba Awas

Zahra Iqbal

Iqra Imran

Sehr Sadeer

For continually being punctual, organised and polite students during form time.

Ms Parker would like to appreciate

Danesh Mustaq and Mohammed Qasim for always working diligently in Spanish lessons.

Mr Ayaaz in IT for helping me to fix my computer by putting a new battery in it, even though it took ages.

Ms Crossley for always being so efficient and planning the news line up .

Mr Barnard for fixing my Bromcom,

Mr Riach for giving me his Y9 booklets and giving good advice.

Mr Ayaaz in IT for his tireless work on my behalf sorting out complex tech issues, and always with a smile on his face!

Mr Ellis for planning and delivering an induction session on literacy this week.

Ms Knowles and Ms Lopez for supporting with exams on Monday this week.

Ms Willets for her support at the start of detention on Wednesday to ensure this runs smoothly.

All Y8 and Y9 tutors this week for delivering the home learning IT tutor session and supporting with IT logins.

All members of staff who have covered lessons or tutor groups this week.

Mrs Bowley for being not only the most helpful ever since returning but also being a superstar this week and offering to mark a set of exams for y11.

Karen Summers for booking the cover & lecture theatre for the MFL Hub events this term. As always, she has been super helpful and accommodating.

Please note that it is parental responsibility to inform the Academy of changes to addresses or telephone numbers so that we can keep our records up to date, however the Academy cannot put any of the changes onto your Parent Pay accounts, this has to be done by you as the account holder. It is important that you do this immediately as your details change so that you can receive important text messages and letters sent to you via Parent Pay.

We are very proud that our year 7 and 8 students dine together every day. Family dining gives students a chance to demonstrate integrity, diligence and civility while eating together with their tutors. They serve each other; clean up together and get a chance to talk about their journey up the mountain of success!

To show our appreciation, we give our family members 'two claps on three'. Here are year 7 demonstrating it!

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