S- cool N ews Editor - Miss C Pitts
Welcome to the first edition of the lower school newspaper...
S cool News ! After much thinking and pencil chewing Ella came out with the catchy title and... WE ALL LOVE IT!!! Meeting for only a short time each week on a Monday, the journalists have decided on their own pages and worked really hard to complete them! We really hope you enjoy reading our first edition! If you have any suggestions for pages you would like to see do let any of the team know! To be a good journalist you need to have good ideas, be creative, work hard by yourself and be able to type/add images to a document! Is that you??
Our team at the beginning!
...and at the end!
Editor: Miss Pitts Journalists: Allie Leonard, Julia Beaugie, Tamar Shamir, Jake Hawkes, Shunta Okagaki, Arun Pattni, Magdalena Ticha, Riho Ishida and Ella Atsmon
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World News
By Tamar, Julia and Miss Pitts
The first female church of England bishop consecrated the church of England has held an official ceremony for its first female bishop at York Minster. The reverend Lane has been ordained as the new bishop of stockport in front of more than 2,000 people. This mare had a bit of a mare when she got herself stuck in an outdoor bathtub! The bathtub is normally used as a food container for the horse called Phantom who lives in California. She was dancing around when she fell in. Phantom was stuck for 25 mins
Walker, a polar bear at The Highland Wildlife Park, has been taken for a check-up to the dentist. But his wasn’t easy and it took 23 people to help get him into place at the park in Scotland. Polar bears are very powerful and dangerous animals so Walker needed to be asleep throughout the procedure. Some of the world's famous people have been caught using a selfie stick. From Barack Obama to Beyonce, they've become very popular over the last couple of years. But some places are now banning them. The National Gallery in London has announced it's banning the use of the selfie sticks - and as they can damage the art and and get in people's way. Even football team Tottenham Hotspur have banned the sticks because they block people's view!
What do you think about selfie sticks???
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Riho Ishida
For our interview page we have chosen to find out more about Mrs Becci! Q: What is your job at Dwight? What is the best part about your job? A: I’m the Classroom Assistant, the best part is being with such amazing children from all around the world. Q:If you could go anywhere in the world where would you go and why? Q: Have you always lived in London? A: Florida, because I love all the parks If not, how long? and Mickey Mouse! A: Yes, all my life. Q: What do you like to do in your spare Q: Do you like animals? If yes, what pet would you like? Also what is your time? favourite animal? A:I like to bake and sing in a choir. A: I do like animals. I’d like to have a Q:What is your favorite food and where dog, but my favourite animal is a horse. do you like to eat out? Q: What is your favourite book and a A:I like everything!! I do like to go to movie? restaurants both local and in town . A:My favourite movie is Polar Express, and my favourite book is The Island by Q:If you won a million pounds, what’s Victoria Hislop. the first thing you’d buy? A: I would buy a house.
Q:Can you tell us one thing that people may not know about you? A:I’ve been on stage at Wembley Arena and sung with Barry Manilow!
Barry Manilow is a singer.
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Weird & Wacky Animals By: Julia Beaugie and Allie Leonard
The Dodo Bird
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It is a bird that was native to the island of mauritius, east of Madagascar. The Dodo became extinct around 1690, about 325 years ago. It was related to pigeons and doves! The dodo bird couldn’t fly. The dodo became extinct because it wasn’t scared of humans and when humans started hunting them they couldn’t fly away. Dodo was about 1 metre tall. The dodo bird weighed 10-18 kg It finally became known for its role in the famous book and movie, Alice in wonderland. The last sighting of the bird was in 1662 The closest living relative is the Nicobar pigeon, much smaller and more colourful than the Dodo.
The Blobfish
● This is a Marine animal that lives at 800m deep in the ocean ● It lives with crabs, lobsters and other edible sea creatures ● it can grow up to 12 inches long ● The blobfish is endangered because when fishermen pull up the crabs/lobsters they can accidently pull up the blobfish ● It lives in the oceans off of southeastern Australia and Tasmania ● It is rarely seen by humans ● Instead of swimming its jell-o like skin allows it to float along with the currents instead of swimming ● To eat it simply opens its mouth and lets small crustaceans and particles float in
The Blobfish was voted the world’s ugliest animal. The Dodo bird is a large flightless bird.
Do you know of any unusual creatures?
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S- cool N ews Tech By Arun Pattni
Cool Apps Rules
Rules is an addicting game which tells you something you have to do, then you do it, and if it is done correctly and you advance to the next level, it will tell you another rule, then say now do rule no. 1. This is a great game and i really like it. Keep in mind this is a PAID game. NEVER download a paid app without your parents permission. Available on the App Store Cost: £2.29 Rating: **** Website: http://rulesgame.net/
Tune in Radio
Tune in Radio is an app that allows you to listen to any radio station wherever you are in the world. Available on all leading tablets, phones, and Windows Rating: ***** Website: http://tunein.com/
Top 5 games of all time!
1. Minecraft (Available on all major platforms)
Minecraft is an addictive game where you are in a world of blocks and you can build anything you want. You can play in multiplayer, and play cool mini games. You can also download texture packs which change the look of your world. Mods are another thing you can download. Mods add extra items to your game and make it extra fun. Also the minecraft community is massive, so you can find lots of things related to minecraft all over the internet Website: https://minecraft.net/
2. Monument Valley (IOS and android)
Monument valley is another addicting game where you are a princess called Ida(Keep in mind the character is just a princess. The game is not princessy) Ida goes around all the different monuments solving the puzzles in them. Website: http://bit.ly/LZcfdJ
3. The Sims 4 (Mac and Windows)
The Sims 4 is a game where you control a virtual character and choose whatever he/she does. Some things you can do are: build a rocket in your back garden, get a cool job, have a pool party and go to space Website: http://bit.ly/1tKDzMC
4. Terraria
(Available on all major platforms )
Terraria is basically 2D, except Terraria has loads of items you can get, tons of bosses to fight, and way more things you can do. You can also play with other players in your Terraria world. Website: https://terraria.org/
5.Clash of Clans
(Available on IOS and Android)
Clash of Clans is a game where you build a village with defenses against other players. In Clash of Clans the aim is to build up your village and destroy other peoples villages.
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S- cool N ews Tech 2 By Arun Pattni
Microsoft Hololens:
The Microsoft Hololens is a really cool new piece of technology that lets you have the power of a computer in a 3-D headset. While wearing the Hololens you can: watch TV, play Minecraft, look at lists, have skype calls and much more. It is really cool! Check out what it can do at http://bit.ly/15vmI9S
Oculus Rift
Do you want to learn
how to code? Well if you do you’re in luck!
The oculus rift is a headset that you put on and it takes you into a game. This is called What is coding? virtual reality. Coding is the language that makes any technology work! . What do we do? In coding club we make animations, games and A new Minecraft? websites. You may be thinking WHAT a new minecraft? Who can join? Well mojang(the makers If you want to learn how of minecraft) are working to code, the coding club with Telltale games To is for Years 46. make minecraft with a When do we meet? story. The coding club meets You can check it out at on a Wednesday http://bit.ly/1r2Wo0W lunchtime. Is Windows 10 just a Where do we meet? rumour? The coding club is in the No, it is true Windows ECO 1 classroom 10 will be coming out soon!
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B ook Reviews By: Julia
By :Allie
Fantastic Mr Fox
This awesome, fantastical fiction tale will
Dork Diaries Tales of a NotsoFantastic Life By: Rachel Renee Russell
By: Roald Dahl
definitely have any child from year groups 2/4 wanting to keep on reading it from start to finish! Mr fox misses going to the mean farmers’ farm for food, so he decides to take it up again. This gets him, his family and loads of other animals trapped underground and, unless he does something, all of them will starve. Can Mr fox come up with a clever enough plan to help them escape before it’s too late?
This awesome, fictional story by Rachel Renee Russell is great for children years 4-6. Nikki a new girl at her school is having a hard time trying to find a place to fit in. She has been getting teased by the popular girl, MacKenzie that everybody thinks is so perfect and Nikki is seriously thinking about switching schools, until she finally finds her friends. Now all she has to do is make sure nobody, even her BFFs, find out her horrifying secret. Can Nikki make sure that she has a permanent spot at her school or will MacKenzie get what she wants and Nikki will leave her school? Make sure you read all of Nikki’s awesome diaries!
Awarded 4 stars
Awarded 4 stars
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E ll a ’ s Jo k e s a n d R id d le s P a g e ! By: Ella Atsmon
Jokes by: Ella Atsmon
What do get when when you cross a lemon and a cat?
were so bright! Why did the music teacher need a ladder? To reach the high note! What do you get when you cross a pig and a karate expert?
A sourpuss! Why can’t you give Elsa a balloon? Because she would let it go!
Why did the teacher need sunglasses? Because her students
Where’s Tamar? Is she in……
A porkchop! What do you call an alligator wearing a vest? An investigator!
1. The Basement 2. The PE Shed 3. The Staff Kitchen What do you think?
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Animal Facts
by Magdalena Ticha
Butterflyfish
Butterflyfish Range
by: Magdalena Ticha
This time we’re going to talk about Butterflyfish. Don’t worry, it’s not a swimming butterfly!
Where do Butterflyfish live? See the yellow parts of the map to find out!
A group of Butterflyfish is called a ‘school’!
Quick Facts
Here’s some facts you need to know to become a Butterflyfish expert! fish Butterflyfish live near coral reefs, Type: Diet: O mnivore (tiny fish) which they peck with their snouts Size: 20cm and search for worms, polyps Most interesting fact: and other small creatures. Can you name these countries? At night, butterflyfish settle into dark crevices, and their brilliant This is a picture of a colors and markings fade to Butterflyfish! blend with the reef background!
Size relative to a cup: There are lots of types of Butterflyfish!
This is NOT a Butterflyfish!
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C ra ft Pa ge
By Julia and Allie
Valentines Owl
Equipment ➢ Toilet paper/ paper towels roll ➢ Valentines day coloured paper(red, white, pink) ➢ A piece of orange or yellow paper ➢ Googly eyes ➢ Scissors ➢ Glue Instructions 1.Take your toilet paper roll(if you have a paper towel roll you will want to cut it in half) and cover it in a Valentine’s day colour. 2. Fold the ends into each other. 3.Cut hearts out of the colourful paper 4.Glue the hearts on to the front of your owl. 5. Add on the googly eyes( if you don’t have googly eyes you can cut and make your own eyes out of paper ) 6. Cut out 2 oval shaped pieces of paper and glue them onto the side of your owl, they will become the wings. 7. Make a little diamond shape cut out of the orange or yellow paper and glue it in between the 2 eyes for the beak. 8.Add glitter or whatever else you want.
9. You could stuff your owl with candies! 10. Now give it to someone whooooo you love!
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Quiz page
By Magdalena Ticha
Endangered Animal Quiz
Let’s find out how much you know about endangered 5.How long do whales live animals! to on average? (Answers on the last page) a) 200 years b) 70 years 1.Where do leatherback turtles live? 6.Where do giant pandas a) Arctic ocean b) Pacific ocean live? a) Low points of India 2.What do orangutans eat? b)Some mountain ranges a ) Fruit and insects b) only meat in China 3.What are are rhinos the largest 7.What’s another name for species of? bearded vulture? a) Rhinoceros b)White pandas a)The black owl b) Lammergeier 4.Is the Iberian lynx a critical endagered species? 8.Chiroptera’ is a scientific a )No b) Yes name for what? a) Bat b)White owl 1) 2) Iberian Lynx Giant Panda 4) 5) Rhino Whale
Guess The Flag
Can you guess which flag belongs to which country?
Jamaica The Christmas Island Panama Sri Lanka
Whoops!
Our editors have mixed up the names of some animals. Can you fix it?
3) Leatherback Turtle 6) Orangutan
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Sports News and F acts By: Jake and Shunta
Football Facts by: Shunta
Football is the most attended and watched sport on TV sports in the world. Football was actually invented in China.Only three teams have won the FA cup without conceding a single goal the entire competition. The teams were Wanderers, who won in 1873, Preston North End in 1889,and Bury in 1903 - cool eh!
Premier League Football Leaderboard 1.CHELSEA 2.MAN CITY 3.ARSENAL 4.MAN UTD 5.LIVERPOOL 6.TOTTENHAM 7.SOUTHAMPTON 8. STOKE CITY 9.SWANSEA CITY 10. WEST HAM
Table tennis (also called ping pong ) is a sport where two or four people hit a light ball back and forth to each other using a table tennis bat. The game can be played on any table, but must have a net in the middle. Except for the first serve, players must let a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must bounce it back to the opposite side.
All about Cricket by: Jake
Cricket World Cup (ICC) The Cricket World Cup is an event that happens every 4 years. It takes place in
Australia and New Zealand in Feb & March. India are the defending champions although Australia have won it most times (4). Afghanistan are participating for the first time. Cricket has been played in Afghanistan since the mid 19th century. They play their home games in Sri Lanka because it is very dangerous there because of war. Cricket is a great sport to watch! Jake and Shunta playing table tennis at school!
Points are scored when a player doesn’t return the ball within the rules. The game is fast and you need quick reactions.
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D wi gh t N ew s W hat’s happening in Dwight? Riho Ishida
Ice skating to Alexandra Palace On Monday 9 February, some students went to Alexandra Palace for ice skating. We asked them for their comments on the trip! Did they enjoy it?? Let’s find out! Riho: I had soo much fun, I absolutely loved it!! I would love to go again, and I think we should do it next year as well. It was lots of fun because there were less people on the ice, so we had enough room to skate around. I think it is a great chance for everybody even those of you who haven't done ice skating before to practice. It was awesome!! Jake:It was great fun and the best part was we missed all of school. I am very proud about my badge. We also had table tennis tournaments and there was also a big quiz. I recommend this trip to anyone!
Allie: I really liked the trip and I had lots of fun. I think we should be able to go on it again. It was really fun because a lot of my friends also went on the trip. I think it was good because we were some of the only people there, so we had a lot of room to skate around. I think it was one of my favourite trips this year! Julia: I absolutely loved the ice skating trip and I really enjoyed going with school, especially since there was no one else there, so it was a great way to practice, and also a lot of my friends went as well, so it was really fun. I think we should definitely do the trip next year, because I think everybody who went enjoyed it! Dwight Skiing Trip 2015 Some of the students went on ski trip to France.
Dance Assembly On the Friday before we broke up, we had a dance assembly. We asked some students for their comments on the assembly! Allie: I had fun at the dance assembly. I think it was fun that the year 6s got to come up with their own dances. I liked watching all of the dances that everyone worked on. Ella:The dance assembly was really fun and I wish we can do it every term! I really liked it because everybody were really supportive by clapping and not looking back at the board. I can’t wait till next year! Riho: I was so nervous but when we started I wasn’t at all nervous, and I had so much fun! When we finished I was feeling like I want to do it again! This a link to watch the dances: http://bit.ly/1DNQm7I
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Keep an eye out for the next edition!