Southall School Pupil’s Magazine
Issue 2 April 2017
new e h T in. o c nd u o P
Let’s get crafty
Loads of Spring-time fun inside
What’s inside….
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Welcome to the second edition of your very own school magazine. Spring Jokes The new Pound coin
I hope you enjoy exploring the pages and doing the activities. If you would like to be part of the next issue , pop along and chat to Mrs Norman. See you soon
Movie review Sing!
I’m a celebrity! Find out about what Michael Morpurgo is really like and take a look at our top pick from his books Easter facts. YUM YUM! Spring spiders!
Weird Animal Facts
Lets get crafty! The science of eggs. Reporters wanted
Q . When do monkeys fall from the sky? A. During APE-ril showers!
Q. What season is it when you are on a trampoline? A. Spring-time!
Q. What flowers grow on faces? A. Tulips (Two-lips)!
Q. Why is the letter A like a flower? A. A bee (B) comes after it!
Q. What bow can't be tied? A. A rainbow! What do you get when you pour hot water down a rabbit hole? A hot cross bunny
What does the Easter Bunny order at a Chinese Restaurant? Hop Suey!
If you have a joke that you want to share for the next issue write it down and give it to Mrs Norman.
New Pound! Fun facts about the new £1 coin The new 12-sided £1 coin will finally be here on 28 March. It's the first time the pound coin has been changed in more than 30 years. The old coin became a problem as they were easily illegally copied. So what's so great about the new coin? It’s got 12 sides. It’s made of two different coloured metals. It’s been designed to make it very difficult to make fake coins. The new design includes the four countries that make up the UK: ● ● ● ● It was designed by David Pearce, a 15 year old schoolboy from Walsall who won a competition. By the end of 2017 1.5 billion of the new coins will have been made. October the 15th of this year is the last day you will be able to use the old style pound coins.
Don't worry! You can swap your old pound coins at the bank for new ones.
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Numbers fun
An exciting creative writing competition with prizes for the top 3 stories in KS4 Well done to everyone that took time to write their stories for the competition. Here is just a taster of the winning entries for the Weird Beast competition.
A scary tale of Zelda Door the dragon who has green scaly skin, ruby red eyes, razor sharp teeth , pointy black wings and a scorpion tale. To find out if good conquers evil‌read more.
Ella is a girl monster with sharp teeth and lives alone in the dark. Her life changes when she meets Erin another girl monster who lives in the light. Will Ella change for good?
The Chocolate monster lived in fudge land , had brown fur and big teeth. Find out what happens when he gets too greedy
A koala named Buster recruits his best friend to help him drum up business for his theatre by hosting a singing competition.
‘Sing’ is the story of Buster Moon, a dapper, down-onhis-luck koala whose theatre has fallen on hard times. In a last-ditch attempt to save it, he organises a singing competition.
It’s open to everyone, and everyone turns up: Rosita, a pig who used to sing but gave it up to have a family; Ash, a punk rock porcupine; and Johnny, a gorilla torn between his family’s criminal gang and his showbiz dreams.
If you have a movie review that you want to share for the next issue write it down and give it to Mrs Norman.
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Our favourite Michael Morpurgo books…. n a cosy den under a garden shed lives a family of foxes. They love to watch football – all foxes do. But their favourite team keeps losing and losing, and it seems like things will never look up. That is, until Daddy Fox finds the ghost of a king, buried underneath a car park. A king who wishes only to be free. “Release me,” says the Ghost King, “and I can do anything. Just tell me your greatest wish.” For these football-loving foxes, might everything be about to change…? Kaspar the cat first came to the Savoy Hotel in a basket - Johnny Trott knows, because he was the one who carried him in. Johnny was a bell-boy, you see, and he carried all of Countess Kandinsky’s things to her room. But Johnny didn’t expect to end up with Kaspar on his hands forever, and nor did he count on making friends with Lizziebeth, a spirited American heiress. Pretty soon, events are set in motion that will take Johnny - and Kaspar - all around the world, surviving theft, shipwreck and rooftop rescues along the way. Because everything changes with a cat like Kaspar around. After all, he’s Prince Kaspar Kandinsky, Prince of Cats, a Muscovite, a Londoner and a New Yorker, and as far as anyone knows, the only cat to survive the sinking of the Titanic... It all began with a necklace, made of glistening pink cowrie shells. A long, long necklace that had taken Cherry days – weeks – of careful, painstaking work. It was nearly complete, and Cherry was determined it would be the longest necklace she had ever made; that it would be fit for a giant! But the end of the holidays had arrived. "You've only got today, Cherry," said her mother. "Just today, that's all." Cherry didn't mind, a day would be enough – she only needed a few more shells. So, amidst the taunts of her older brothers, she set out to search for them. Then the clouds grew dark and the waves grew large, and as the storm blew in, Cherry realized, to her horror, that she was cut off from the shore. From then on, events began to take a decidedly dark turn. One from which there was no turning back
Animal Facts A chameleon’s tongue can be as long as its body.
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur
The electric eel can deliver jolts of electricity up to 600 volts, enough to knock a fully grown horse off its feet.
The longest-living Galapagos tortoise lived to be 152.
Anteaters eat 35,000 ants a day.
Snow leopards can leap up to 50 feet in one jump
Elephants can smell water from several miles away.
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Lets Get Crafty ! Toilet paper roll Black paint Paintbrush Black paper Yellow paper Cream paper Black marker Scissors Glue Two googly eyes Black pipe cleaner
Paint toilet paper roll black. Draw wings on black paper and cut out. Cut three strips that will fit around toilet paper roll from yellow paper. When paint is dry, glue yellow strips on toilet paper as shown. Cut a circle from, the cream paper and draw a smile with the black marker. Glue two googley eyes above smile. Cut the pipe cleaner in half and glue behind face for antennae. Glue the face onto the top front of the toilet paper roll.
Easter Facts
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Oreo or chocolate sandwich cookies White icing Black liquorice laces Smarties
1 Open up the Oreo cookie carefully and push in eight small liquorice pieces. 2 Place top back on cookie and dab a little icing on the front top cookie. 3 Push Smarties on to the icing for eyes
All About Eggs 1 egg (hard boiled is less messy if you accidentally break it, but you can use a raw one) 1 cup vinegar
Pour 1 cup of vinegar into jar Add the egg Record what you see (bubbles rising from the egg) Leave the egg in the vinegar for one day. Remove the egg and feel it.
Eggs contain something called "calcium carbonate". This is what makes them hard. Vinegar is an acid known as acetic acid. When calcium carbonate (the egg) and acetic acid (the vinegar) combine, a chemical reaction takes place and carbon dioxide (a gas) is released. This is what the bubbles are made of.
Spot the difference Can you find them all?
We need reporters from both Key stage 3 and Key stage 4 to help Mrs Norman produce the next edition of the Southall magazine. Your job will be to report and take photographs of events in the school and interview visitors.
To apply for the job as reporter , ask your teacher for an application form.
Once you have completed the form and made sure that all the details are filled in and it has your full name, post the form in mrs Norman’s post box.
Once the application forms have all been looked at , the final few will be interviewed to see who will be Southalls team of reporters.
GOOD LUCK!
Mrs N
If you have any ideas or stories that you think would be good to feature in the next issues of S3 and S4 come and have a chat to Mrs Norman.