WILLOW NEWS
The voice of the students VOL 1 · EDITION 1
MAY 2021
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Welcome to the first edition of Willow News
Willow News was once just a small idea that has grown into such a wonderful project where, as teacher and mentor, I am so proud of the students. I first thought of the idea of a school newspaper from the idea of a creative writing competition I did with year 8’s in English and wondered where I could publish the winners. As the school looked into extra-curricular activities I asked the students what they
thought of the idea and so many were so excited. I took the idea to Mrs. Riding, Head of the school, and away we were. I set the first meeting in motion and turned up to a full classroom of students eager to learn and work towards creating the newspaper. From the first meeting ideas have been thrown around and shared, leading each time closer and closer to this first edition of Willow News. If you could see the mess
Hard at work: an editorial meeting
and confusion from that very first day to this finished product you would be amazed! Well done
to the whole team of Willow News! And a huge welcome to all our readers as you share this journey
with us. Miss Natasha Jordan, English Department
Inside this month’s edition...
Sarah Everard: How a woman’s death triggered a global outpouring of grief and rage Social media has developed its own standard of beauty; eating disorders and body dysmorphia. Adopt a dog: Find out how you can help give a dog a new home for life AND MUCH MORE... ENQUIRIES: MISS JORDAN - N.JORDAN@WILLOWITERNATIONALACADEMY.ES · Willow International Academy, Pueblo Bravo, Ciudad Quesada
2 · NEWS
Assembly News roundup
A look back at recent Assembly news, awards and information · By Lily-Rose Friday Friday 26th March 2021 At a recent assembly, Mrs. Riding and some of our year 10 students did an assembly all about inspiration and motivation. The assembly was great and we even watched a video that was sent to us from one of Mrs. Ridings ex students from England talking about how much Mrs. Riding has inspired her to believe in herself and not care about what others think. We could all learn to take that motto on! Earlier in the week the year 8 and year 9 group had a cookie and cupcake Easter competition. There were four winners , so well done to …
to: Grace Friday, AJ Llewellyn, Arni Kristjansson, and … Nico Reed-Gibson for winning the platinum award. Well done to everyone that won an award! Thursday 22nd April 2021 In today’s assembly Mr. Torres did an assembly all about healthy eating and exercise. We were asked questions about our daily eating habits and sports activities that we do or don’t do to keep fit. The assembly was interesting and fun. Then came the awards, two teachers
received an award and so did four students. The results on the two teachers that were nominated the most were …. Mrs. Newman and Miss Hunston. Mrs. Newman is our History and Geography teacher and Miss Hunston is our science and psychology teacher. They are both amazing teachers at the school and definitely deserved the awards. Lastly the four students that won awards in today’s assembly were AJ Llewellyn , Freya Beck, Diego Rodriguez Pico and Dylan Corsor.
Bake off awards (above L-R) Grace Friday, Valeria Villaroel, Arni Kristjansson, Marta Siggurthardottir
Merit Awards (above L-R)Grace Friday, Alfred-Joshua Llewellyn, Nicolas ReedGibson, Arni Kristjansson
Grace Friday, Valeria Villaroel, Arni Kristjansson and Marta Siggi. And secondly the student of the term/ week awards went
Miss Ria Hunston and Mrs Suzanna Newman
L-R: Freya Beck, Alfred Joshua Llewellyn, Dylan Corsor and Diego Rodriguez Pico
LIFESTYLE · 3
Body image in today's society The impact of social media on body image · By Olesja Copeland Social media has developed its own standard of beauty and has pushed on to the people using it. Each person in their life will at some point get a negative comment told to them about the way their body looks. “Oh you’re naturally skinny? You look like a pile of bones. You’ve got a bit of chub on you? Lose it, you’d look so much better without it. You’ve got a natural “perfect” body? You’ve definitely had surgery. You’re fat? I bet you only eat fast food and 5 meals a day.” Most people have probably been told one of these comments before, some more than others. Reasoning to this is because each person has their own opinion on what “beauty” is. Eating
disorders and body Dysmorphia are very common diseases which a lot of teenagers sadly go through at one point in their life. There are many eating disorders but the most glorified and spoken about one is anorexia. Most people think that all anorexics never eat and are bone skinny, but that’s far off the truth. Anorexia is a disease which causes a person to be afraid of
weight gain and what food can do to cause weight gain. This is what causes the severe under eating. There are many severe consequences to under eating which are rarely ever spoken about, for example; severe slow down of the persons metabolism, insomnia, hair loss, severe acne, constant weakness and horrible stomach cramps due to starvation. Long periods of starvation
can cause a person severe hunger which leads to food binges, this is where a person eats a great amount of food in one sitting, this can be a continuous cycle for some people and will lead to another eating disorder called binge eating. This eating disorder isn’t widely talked about because people have a more negative outlook on it. Binge eating can then lead to another eating disorder called bulimia, which is where a person purposely throws up their food after binges, or even after hardly eating anything that same day. Bulimia has very similar consequences as anorexia but the worst one is the damage it causes to the person’s teeth. Vomit has a certain acid in it which
causes people’s teeth to decay overtime. If you find yourself purposely not eating to lose weight think about how severe this can be to your health, this is temporary weight loss that will go away once you return to your original diet. If you see yourself slowly falling into the habits of an eating disorder, please talk to someone and try to recover before its too late. Remember that most of the time you think people are silently judging you for the way you look, they’re not; it’s just you over thinking. No one is truly going to love you just based on what you look, appearance might attract them at first but the type of person you are is the reason they decide to stay.
4 · WORLD EVENTS
SARAH EVERARD
By Hannah Friday and Derry Robb Retracing Sarah Everard’s last known movements is confronting, to say the least. The death of 33-yearold marketing executive Sarah Everard, who was last seen on a busy south London street just after 9:30 pm on March the 3rd, has put many on edge. On 9 March, Wayne Couzens, a Metropolitan Police officer with the Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection unit, was arrested in Deal, Kent, firstly on suspicion of Everard’s kidnapping and later on suspicion of her murder. On 10 March, her remains were discovered in woodland near Ashford, Kent. Couzens was charged with kidnapping and murder two days later. Sarah was last seen wearing a green rain jacket, navy trousers with a white diamond pattern and turquoise and orange trainers. She was also thought
to have been wearing green earphones and a white beanie hat. Her disappearance shows that the precautions women take when walking home are still necessary even in 2021. A 2016 study from Plan International found that 63% of women in the UK feel unsafe walking alone after dark while 33% of men do. Furthermore, 32% of women said they have been whistled at or received comments of a sexual nature while in a public space. The roads she walked along side, during what should have been a 50-minute trip
dashcam of a passing police car. CCTV footage from a bus passing her route at 9:35pm also assisted the investigation. to her Brixton home in south London, are wide and heaving with traffic. Everard left the house of a friend near Clapham Junction to the west of Clapham Common. She spoke to her boyfriend on her mobile phone for about fifteen minutes and agreed to meet him the next day. At 9:28pm, she was seen on doorbell camera footage on Poynders Road and four minutes later on the
THE EDITORIAL TEAM...
Year 7 Dilja Kristjansdottir – History Year 8 Valeria Villarroel – Sport Patrick Leddy – Interview with a Guardia Civil Officer Derry Robb – World News Alfred-Joshua Llewellyn – Editorial assistant Nico Reed-Gibson - Sport
How a woman’s death triggered a global outpouring of grief and rage
Over 1,000 14-21-yearold girls also found that, despite the streets being emptier than ever, 1 in 5 girls who have experienced street harassment during this time say that it has got worse in the lockdown period in the UK. Sarah’s disappearance prompted a large operation to find her: Her body was found a week later inside a builder’s bag in an area of woodland in Ashford, Kent, and
was identified using dental records. The arrested officer, who was not on duty at the time of Ms Everard’s disappearance, is also being held on a separate allegation of indecent exposure. He was arrested at an address in Deal, Kent, more than 60 miles away from where Ms Everard was last seen. Also, a woman in her 30s, who was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of assisting an offender, has been released on bail to return to a police station on a date in mid-April. A vigil for Sarah Everard held on Saturday March 13 saw hundreds of Londoners laying flowers at a bandstand in Clapham Common including the Duchess of Cambridge. Pictures show the structure completely covered with flowers and messages from the public, one of which reads: “An attack on one of us is an attack on all of u’’
TO GET INVOLVED AND BE PART OF YOUR SCHOOL PAPER, SPEAK TO MISS JORDAN Year 9 Grace Friday – Psychology Hannah Friday – World News Lily-Rose Friday - Awards and Assemblies Marta Sigurðardóttir – History Olesja Copeland - Body Image Year 10 Sebastian Villarroel - Animals in need
WILLOW NEWS · 5
SMSC values at willow international academy
The Vision behind SMSC at Willow International School SMSC or Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural education is a central part of our philosophy at Willow. We believe that our students should be encouraged to base their personal relationships on trust, self/esteem and mutual respect. The vision for Willow is to raise the aspirations of our students by nurturing a passion for learning, enriching their
learning experiences and becoming responsible citizens. We want to create confident, resilient and well-rounded adults who are able to compete equally with their peers in a world beyond school life. We recognise that all students need to develop spiritually, morally, socially and culturally. This development allows them to make sense of their world. Our curriculum helps students develop an
informed and balanced view on world events, beliefs and values of others. Our exciting SMSC curriculum is led by Mrs Newman and involves a diversity of subjects, including promoting British values, Relationship education and the ´PREVENT´ programme. We welcome any questions or suggestions you might have about our SMSC curriculum. Mrs. Suzanna Newman, Head of SMSC
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INTERVIEW · 7
A chat with the Guardia Civil Patrick Leddy interviews Guardia Civil officer Francisco Morales shoulder, we turned around and eventually stopped him, he was under the influence of alcohol, if we had not managed to stop him, he could have caused a fatal accident.
We were lucky enough to interview Officer Francisco Morales from the Guardia Civil. We asked him various questions about crime, about what a student would need to do in order to join the Guardia Civil, and how a student would benefit from joining the Guardia Civil. We would like to thank Fran for giving us his time (and for the gift of a Guardia Civil pen and bracelet!). He is a busy man - apart from being a full time Guardia Civil officer, Fran also runs the N332 Facebook page which has over 185,000 followers!
How was the crime rate during the pandemic? Well, from March last year the crime rate has greatly depleted, because of the restrictions we are constantly around and doing checkpoints, so criminals have it really hard, because if you think about it we’re all out at night time patrolling so any one or car that moves will be easily detected. What has been the most frequent crime throughout the pandemic? The most frequent crime committed throughout the pandemic is theft and drug trafficking,
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because there are people that know no different and despite the pandemic, they are still doing it. What was the biggest arrest made recently? Our biggest arrest was about two or three weeks ago we were patrolling a r o u n d Orihuela Costa when a car came
speeding down the wrong lane in front of us. The car tried to drive into us, but went into the opposite lane’s
What is your personal opinion on the pandemic? What restrictions would you change? My personal opinion on the pandemic is that we are doing pretty well and there are few restrictions I would change, but one of them would be the travel into Spain,
because it is unjust that we cannot travel to different Spanish
communities whereas foreigners are allowed into Spain and are free to go where ever they wish throughout Spain. What would a student have to do to be able to join the Guardia Civil? For a student to be able to join the Guardia Civil, they would have to finish secondary with good grades and then study for a year an opposition, where they will value the knowledge you’ve gained over your past years in secondary school. What could a student benefit from by joining the Guardia Civil? There are many benefits of joining the Guardia Civil, like once you have a place in the Guardia Civil, you have a stable job for life and an economic stability that would permit you to buy a house and a car without worrying.
HOW TO CONTACT THE SCHOOL DROP IN: Pueblo Bravo, Ciudad Quesada CALL US: +34 865 758 026 EMAIL: info@willowinternationalacademy.es
8 · SOCIETY
Women’s Hist
In March it was women’s history month: a long celebration of women’s accomplishme refusing to be silenced. Many of these women were called the suffragettes who wer the law to raise awareness for the cause; with their motto being ‘deeds not words
Emmeline Pankhurst
was born on the 14th of July 1858 in Manchester. She founded the women’s social and political union, which used militant tactics to agitate for women’s suffering; this movement belongs to the women and the poor people who had to fight for the participation in government. During World War 1, the struggle for the right to vote was strengthened.. It became known for physical confrontations: its members smashed windows and assaulted
police officers. Pankhurst, her daughters, and other WSPU activists received repeated prison sentences, where they staged hunger strikes to secure better conditions, and were often force fed! A famous quote of hers is ‘I would rather be a rebel than a slave’ and ‘men make the code and they expect women to accept it’. Many people can interpret these in many ways but it shows that her empowering legacy still guides us today as well as many other women part of the suffragettes.
Kitty
Marion was born 12th of March 1871 in Germany. She immigrated to London in 1886 when she was fifteen and became known in the field for standing up for female performers against agents, corruption, and for better working conditions. In 1908, she joined the WSPU, engaged in selling their
Milicent Fawcett was NUWSS campaigned for the vote
born on the 11th of June 1847 in Suffolk, England. She was a politician, feminist and a union leader. When World War I broke out in 1914, the WSPU ceased all activities to focus on the war effort and Milliecent Fawcett‘s team replaced her political activity with support for hospital services in training camps in Scotland, Russia and Serbia. The
during the war.She held her post until 1919; a year after the first women had been given the vote under the Representation of the People Act 1918. After that, she left the suffragette campaign and started using her time to write books, including a biography of Josephine Butler. She died on the 5th of August 1929, then 82 years old.
newspaper votes for Women and became a prominent suffragette in the United Kingdom for her participation in civil unrest protests including riots and arson . As a result, Marion was arrested many times and is known for having endured forcefeeding a numerous 232 times while on hunger strike in prison.
SOCIETY · 9
tory Month
ents and contributions. Last year’s theme was the valiant women of the vote: re notorious for publicity grabbing militant actions and were willing to break s.’ By Hannah Friday, Marta Siggurthardottir and Dilja Kristjansdottir All these women amongst many others are the reason women have progressed so far in our world today, though there are many more battles to face we owe a moment to thank our sisters who fought and sacrificed so that we could learn and live equally to the men around us.
A strong woman who changed history is present in all our family history, one case that is closer to home is Vigdis Finnbogadottir… Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was born into a wealthy and well-connected family. Her mother chaired Iceland’s national nurses association, and her father was a civil engineer. After graduating from Reykjavík College in 1949, Finnbogadóttir attended the University of Grenoble and the Sorbonne in France and the University of Uppsala in Swe-
den. She also studied in Denmark and at the University of Iceland, where she later taught French, drama, and theatre history. BRITANNICA The Icelandic women’s movement has a long history. During the International Women’s Year in 1975 Icelandic women attracted great attention when they organized a general strike to show how important women’s undervalued work was. 90 per cent of the Icelandic women went on strike. And at the presidential election in 1980 the women’s
movement focused on electing a woman. After much persuasion Vigdís accepted to run against three male candidates. She was the first woman in the world to be elected president in a democratic election. She was narrowly elected, with 33.6 percent of the national vote, while her nearest rival got 32.1 percent. She became very popular and was subsequently reelected three times, unopposed in 1984, with 94.6 percent of the votes against another woman in 1988 and unopposed in 1992. In 1996 she decided not to run for reelection. She was the longest serving Icelandic president (with four terms) until Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson was elected to his fifth term in 2012.
Women, remember we are strong and we can move mountains when we work together and fight for what’s right, these women knew that pitting women against each other was not the way forward. When you feel like you can’t do it, look back at our history and remember that being a woman is a superpower not a weakness! – Hannah Friday, Marta Siggurthardottir and2Dilja Kristjansdottir
Another, very controversial women in the suffragettes, was Emily Davison who is notoriously known for when she made history throwing herself in front of the king’s horse (Anmer) at Epsom derby on the 4th of June 1913 to ‘protest’. Opinions remain divided over whether the 41-yearold intended to sacrifice herself or whether she just aimed to disrupt the race, the purpose remains unclear. However, there are several theories. Including: that she intended to cross the track, believing all the horses had passed, that she had wanted to pull the kings horse down, that she intended to throw herself in front of one of the horses and
that she was trying to attach the WSPU flags to the horse. She was arrested nine times in her life and force fed 49 times therefore she was evidently an active promoter of women’s suffrage. This would indicate that her jumping in front of the horse was a protest rather than an accident or suicide. But she still did! Some reasons why it could not have been a suicide was because at the time of the Epsom derby it was a tradition that once the horses had passed, the people would walk on the course and follow it down to the finish. But the main reason is because Davison had purchased a return railway ticket to Victoria station,
10 · COMMUNITY
Animals in need
This animal shelter takes in dogs and cats, also you can adopt from this shelter. Below are some of the dogs for adoption. You can adopt cats also, with a wide range of them to pick from. The shelter takes good care of these animals by walking them everyday and playing with them, they feed them the correct food for their breed. They are cleaned and given a good bed to sleep on. Some dogs are given coats if the weather is bad, dogs are also given blankets in their beds to keep warm and to sleep right. This is a
review left on Google: “A great place! The animals are cared for very well. I was able to take a lovely Labrador puppy for a walk with my 2 granddaughters. The cats also have lots of space to stretch out and enjoy the sun. Overall, an impressive place with staff who genuinely care for all their animals”.
If you want to get a dog like an American staff, or a Pitbull or any dog that is considered a PPP (Perro potencialmente peligroso) you will need a license, to get one of the dogs. Here are some of the PPP Rottweiler, Boxer, Pitbull, Dogo Argentino, Akita Inu,
A visit to Torrevieja Animal Shelter by Sebastian Villarroel
Tosa Inu, Fila Brasileiro, Staffordshire Bull Terrier and so on. I was lucky enough to be able to play and be with one of the dogs when I first arrived there, there were 2 American staffs that I will never forget about, they were playful and smart. They would never bite
All these animals need a home, but you can do your part by at least adopting one dog or cat, it would be better if you had experience with other dogs as these ones are not puppies and need more patience and good leadership from their new owner who could hopefully be you!
anyone unless they felt threatened. They were the most behaved and best dogs that I had ever spent time with in the whole shelter, which proves that not all-American staffs are bad dogs, if you treat the dog right and give it the training and socialization it needs it will be a fantastic dog and will not hurt anybody.
If you are interested, the shelter is in Av. Los Nenufares, s/n, 03184 Torrevieja, Alicante
LIFESTYLE · 11
BOOK OF THE MONTH
Our Selected Book Of The Month Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo: The Shadow Fold, a swathe of impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters that feast on human flesh, is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom’s magical elite— the Grisha.
By Hannah, Grace and Lily-Rose Friday
Students’ Choice... Movies of the Month
Godzilla vs. Kong A sequel to Godzilla: King of the Monsters and Kong: Skull Island, it is the fourth film in Legendary’s Monster Verse. COMING SOON
Cruella with Emma
Stone. Out the 28th of May, make sure you check out this new version of By Hannah, Grace and Lily-Rose Friday Cruella in cinemas!
12 · SCIENCE
PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS
Ethical or unethical?
Psychological experiments are used to conduct insight into anything from childhood development to social
Grace Friday investigates
issues, and are useful for an understanding of the human mind and behavior. The first discovery was in 1879 when Wilhelm
Wundt founded the first laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, Which established psychology as a science separate from philosophy and biology. Wundt is said to have conducted the first formal experiment in psychology, where he tried to assess the speed of thought by measuring how long it took test subjects to make a judgment. Many experiments have been described as both equally unethical as well as ethical. Most well-known examples are the Placebo Effect and the Milgrim Experiment.
The Placebo Effects main focus is the relationship with the mind and the body. First used in the World War II when Henry Beecher ran out of the pain-killing morphine while treating American Soldiers and used saline solution where 40% of the soldiers said that the saline solution eased their pain. This effect is caused by the belief of the benefit and expectation can trick your body into a fake treatment. Although prescribing people with placebo isn’t illegal, it would be considered unethical
when used to treat irreversible harm, pain and other morbidity or when it’s a doubleblind trial. A doubleblind study is one in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know who is receiving a particular treatment, which is used to prevent bias in research results. Double-blind studies are particularly useful for preventing bias due to demand of characteristics or the Placebo Effect but that, also, they wouldn’t know if they had been given the treatment or vaccination. Placebo
SCIENCE · 13 is in many forms like sugar pills, injections or something that could be considered as a medical treatment. The Milgram Experiment focused on obedience to authority and personal conscience. This experiment began 3 months after the trial of German Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, who has a major part in organizing the plan for the final solution (holocaust) in July 1961. The experiment was conducted with men of diverse occupations. The experiment involved the volunteers believing that they had to give electric shocks to other people called ‘learners’
who were asked questions. By getting an answer wrong they were shocked by the volunteers. Though the other side of the experiment explained how the ‘learners’ were actors and the shocks were fake, only sounding real to those who administered the shocks. Many pa r t i c i pa n ts would have fully administered fatal shock levels if the shocks were real, and obeyed all instructions. This experiment was said to be unethical because participants were led to believe they were actually administering shock to real people but Milgram argued that deception was key for the outcomes and
a non-biased result. This was used to try to explain the psychology of genocide and even posed the question of ‘could it be that Eichmann and his many accomplices in the holocaust were just f o l l o w i n g orders?’ The Stanford Prison Experiment was a social psychological experiment that focused on power roles, rules, symbols, group identity and situational validation. It began August 14th 1971 which quickly ended 6 days later; only half way through the experiment. This experiment was considered unethical as prisoners did not
consent to be arrested in their own homes before being taken to carry out their roles as guards and prisoners. The events that unfolded throughout the experiment shed light on human nature and how power and control works especially in the culture of military and authority. The experiment was led by Professor Phillip Zimbardo who claimed that it was aimed at perceived power and he instructed volunteers to embrace their role. However, the guards enjoyed crossing lines and took their role to new levels, subjecting prisoners to psychological torture and abuse. One of the prisoners began to
exhibit uncontrollable crying and rage 36 hours into the experiment, described by Zimbardo as “acute emotional disturbance”. The major flaw in his experiment was that he didn’t use a control group. Any of these experiments could be considered unethical which is why advances in human health and welfare ultimately depend on research with human subjects. Properly controlled studies with human subjects are essential to verify any conclusions about normal physiology, mechanisms of disease, effectiveness of treatment, learning, or behaviour.
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COMMERCIAL · 15
SPORT · 16
What is Football?
Football is a game in which two teams of 11 players, using any part of their bodies except their hands and arms, try to manoeuvre the ball into the o p p osing tea m’s g o a l . Only the goalkeeper is permitted to handle the ball and may do so only within the penalty area surrounding the goal. The team that scores
more goals wins. Modern football originated in Britain in the 19th century. Though “folk football” had been played since medieval times with varying rules, the game began to be standardized when it was taken up as a winter game at public schools.
New equipment for PE means we can play netball, hockey and more!
FUN FACT
Think you know? Find out the asnwer in next month’s edition!
Sport here at Willow Here at Willow International we do all kinds of sports in our P.E lessons with our teacher Alejandro Torres, we do all the sports any teen would enjoy, like volleyball, hand ball, rugby, football... Mrs Riding and Mr Torres take many
How has Covid affected football? By Nico Reed-Gibson and Valeria Villarroel
COVID has massively affected every aspect of football; from how the game is played, to how it is watched – with no fans, or restricted numbers – to the economics of the game, journalist and author James Montague told Al Jazeera.
As COVID-19 spread rapidly in early 2020, nearly every professional league around the world was suspended. Fans who were used to organising their lives around the regular rhythm and rituals of football matches were
In 1966 , the world cup was in England. Thieves stole the cup and tried to sell it. A dog found it under a tree.
left with the option of rewatching old games or watching the likes of FC Slutsk take on FC Smolevichi-Sti in the Belarus Super League, the only European league to play on by late March.
Covid and general safety precautions during these many sport activities, therefore all students can try and enjoy these sports in a safe environment. - For next month’s edition we are going to be asking our P E teacher some
interesting questions about sports and teaching sports. If you have any questions you would like to ask, send an email to n.jordan@ willow international academy.es Nico Reed-Gibson and Valeria Villarroel