RVHS Exposed Easter 2020

In this Issue: 

Easter Food

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Climate Activists Across the World

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British Science Week

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International Women’s Day

Editors Note: Happy Easter Everyone! I hope that everyone enjoys their (probably slightly longer than usual) Easter Break!

We have some great Easter Articles for you, such as Easter Photography, Easter Food and an Easter Quiz!

We also have some other amazing articles for you in this issue, with one on International Women’s Day (See opposite), on how you can get involved with creative arts at Roding Valley throughout the rest of this year and on the many young climate activists doing their bit to help save our planet!

A huge good luck is in order for all of the Year 11 and Year 13 students who will be taking their GCSE’s and ALevels soon! They’ve worked so hard over the past few years and I’m sure that they will all do amazingly.

I hope that you all enjoy the first RVHS Exposed of the decade! Here’s to many more across the 2020’s!

Joseph James, Editor

1.Easter Bunny 2.Easter Eggs 3.Spring4.Chocolate 5.12th April 6.( any Easter movie) 7. a birds nest 8.a bunny 9.no one knows who he is 10. Cadburys

Easter Quiz Answers:

International Women’s Day 2020 International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day and celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women every year on 8th March. This day has occurred ever since the year 1911. No one government, charity, corporation or academic institution e.g. is solely responsible for IWD. In fact, many organisations declare an annual IWD theme that supports their agenda, and some of these are adopted more widely with relevance than others. For example, the 2020 theme is ‘Each For Equal’, recognising all of the actions we can take as individuals to challenge stereotypes, fight prejudice and celebrate women’s achievements. This year is an important one for gender equality. International Women’s Day is a collective day of global celebration. It is a day all about unity, celebration, reflection, advocacy and action.

Participants worldwide search for exciting IWD events to attend, or they publish their own.

From concerts and conferences to fun run festivals, IWD is celebrated all around the world.

Groups worldwide raise awareness, celebrate achievement and rally for change to help forge a more gender-equal world and show their commitment to being ‘Each For Equal’.

By Annie Mills

On Tuesday 3rd March 2020, Skye Salek-Haddadi, Jensen Margetts, Louis James and I went to the annual UKMT Maths Challenge at Bancroft’s School. We arrived early and raring to go.

The competition was split into 4 rounds: The Group Round, The Crossnumber, The Shuttle and The Relay. The Group Round involved working through 10 questions as a group. For the Crossnumber, we were split into pairs and worked through a number version of a crossword. The Shuttle involved working in pairs and passing answers back and forth in a rush. Finally, the Relay involved completing questions really quickly as we tried to finish as many as possible.

At the end of the day, we found out that we had came 2nd out of 25 schools. I’d like to thank Mr Ryan for driving us there and Mr Quereshi for helping us practice and taking us to the competition.

By Joseph James

Drama, Music and Art this Spring: Drama: This spring, there is a very exciting opportunity to get involved with the drama department at Roding Valley High; We have the school 'High School Musical' production taking place during May, put on by students and the drama teachers - come along and watch! Here is an interview with Natalie Moffat, a member of the cast: What's your part in the 'High School Musical' production and what are you having to do for it?

I'm part of the ensemble. It's organised into different groups. I'm part of the drama group. Since we have just began, I don't know exactly what I have to do for my main scenes but I can spill that there is a great dance number at the end!

Wow, I can't wait to watch it! So would you say a lot of effort is going into this performance?

Yes, the six-formers doing it have worked so hard to make the production their dream and run smoothly!

And how are you feeling about doing this huge performance in front of so many?

I feel so calm and that's only because we have a team of such great performers - the cast is so amazing and the six-formers are so caring and always make sure you're okay!

It sounds like there's such a great atmosphere during your rehearsals, we all can't wait to see all your efforts come together!

Music: During this month, the choir is also taking part in the High School Musical production - they will be performing the songs from the musical!

Art: This term in art, the regular clubs are continuing (pottery and cartoon club) and anyone is welcome to join!

Easter Food: Easter egg brownies: Ingredients:

 185g unsalted butter, cut into small chunks, plus extra for greasing  185g dark chocolate, broken into pieces  3 large eggs  275g golden caster sugar  85g plain flour  40g cocoa powder  5 Cadburys creme eggs  150g mini eggs

Method:

1. Put the butter and chocolate in a heatproof bowl and set over a pan of simmering water, stir occasionally until melted. Then leave melted chocolate to cool at room temperature.

2. Heat oven to 180C. Grease a 20cm square tin with butter and line with baking paper.

3. Break the eggs into a large bowl and tip in the caster sugar. With an electric whisk, whisk the eggs and sugar for around 5-8 mins or until it looks thick and creamy and has doubled in size.

4. Pour the cooled chocolate mixture over the egg mixture, then gently fold together.

5. Sieve the flour and cocoa into the bowl and then continue to fold the mixture gently with a spatula.

6. Pour the mixture into a prepared tin. Put in the middle of the oven and bake for 20 minutes.

7. Meanwhile, cut the creme eggs in half and set aside and then crush mini eggs. Leave a few uncrushed. After 20 minutes take out the brownie and press in the in the creme eggs, cut side up. Scatter over half of the mini eggs and then put it back in the oven for a further 5 minutes.

8. Once baked, top with remaining mini eggs and place it in the fridge for up to an hour.

Easter egg rocky road: Ingredients:       

225g dark chocolate, broken into pieces 100g unsalted butter 2 tbsp cocoa powder 2tbsp golden syrup 100g rich tea biscuits 50g mini marshmallows 200g chocolate mini eggs

Traditions:  On Good Friday, hot cross buns are served.  Easter day: for breakfast, boiled eggs are usually served. For the main meal, lamb is usually served, it is also the main dish for a Jewish Passover. Finally, tea is served with Simnel cake.  It is tradition to adapt bread recipes to suit each religious celebration.  The Polish eat a ryemeal soup called Źurek.

Interesting facts about Easter: Some eggs are dyed red to represent the blood of Jesus.  Giving eggs is a symbol of “rebirth” in many cultures.  Pretzels are linked to Easter, this is because it looks like arms crossed in a prayer.  The world’s largest easter egg was made in Italy in 2011, which weighed approximately 7,200kg.  Decorating eggs comes from a Ukranium tradition  80 million chocolate eggs are sold each year. This accounts for 10% of Britain's annual spending on chocolate  Medieval eggs were boiled with onions to give them a golden shine

TEACHERS’ FAVOURITE EASTER EGGS:  Mr Melvin = Smartie  Ms Langlet = Twirl  Mr Dennis = Cadbrey’s creme egg  Mr Liddle = Lindor  Miss Cain = Lindor and galaxy  Miss Sellears = Twirl or any cadburys  Miss Barron = Creme egg  Ms Gregori = Galaxy  Mrs Patel = Flake :)

By Amber Giddy

Spring and Easter Photography Happy Spring! Happy Easter! Spring is a time for new beginnings and a great opportunity to do photography!

Here are some tips:  Bokeh – Bokeh and detail photos go well together, especially when you photograph flowers. The easiest way to achieve to this to photograph a flower in the foreground, with other flowers in the background.

Then using a large aperture you should achieve a nice soft background.

This works better with macro lenses or prime lenses with a large aperture.

Patterns – Nature is full of nice patterns so use this to your advantage. The repetition of flowers can make for a nice pattern, or indeed petals on the ground once they’ve fallen. Alternatively, at a spring festival, the produce can often be laid out in a pattern, ideal for photography 

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Background – As with all photos the background is important. Aiming

in a certain direction you can create a clean background and a much nicer image. Shooting up at the sky on a clear day will give a blue background, or perhaps aim down towards the grass for a green background. 

Light – Using the light is what photography is all about. The way it may

shine through petals can give you nice details, as the sunlight picks up all the textures of the flower. You can also use shards of light, if you spot a leaf that’s lit up on its own it can make a nice photo.

Things to photograph in Spring: 

Flowers

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Insects

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Cherry blossoms

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Birds

Hope you give photography a try! The cover and other photos on this article are also examples of spring photography taken by me.

By Bianca Nedelcu

Science Week Competition: British Science Week lasted from 6th to 15th of March. It is a celebration of everything to do with science, technology engineering and mathematics.

Roding Valley held many competitions to help celebrate science week. One such competition is the Discovery Competition, where students can write a story that involves a discovery. You have until Friday 20th to enter.

There is also a poster competition that is being held. The theme of this competition is ‘Our Diverse Planet’. The deadline for this competition is the 6th of April, so you still have a long time to enter.

By Joseph James

Young Climate Activists From Around the World: There are millions of young people around the world doing their part to take action on the world’s rising climate.

Greta Thunberg is one of the most famous. However there are so many more young activists behind her, here to show that no matter how young you are, you can make a difference.

Lesen MutunkeiKenya-15: Lesen combined his love of football with the outdoors after hearing about climate change, deforestation and plastic pollution. He has now encouraged and inspired his school and classmates to help do more to help our constantly changing environment. Lesen plants a tree for every goal he scores. He has taught his classmates that, just as they improve their football skills, they can also improve our environment.

Alexandria VillasenorUSA-14 Fourteen year-old Alexandria strikes for the climate every Friday outside the UN headquarters in New York. She organised a campaign called ‘’Fridays for Future’’ and said ‘’I'm too young to vote.

When I strike, I feel like I am taking back some agency in

Holly Grillibrand-UK-13: Holly Grillband leaves school every Friday for an hour so that she can protest for our future. Holly lives in Fort William in Scotland which has quite a small population of 10,000 people, every week 40 people join her to protest. "I want to get Scottish leaders to take climate change seriously and know that they're destroying my future," she told the BBC.

Aditya Mukarji - India - 15: In early 2018 when Aditya was 13 he campaigned to get rid of plastic cutlery and straws in his local community. He went around to cafes and restaurants in his town to ask them if they would be up for using more sustainable products. The fifteen-year-old now promotes alternatives to plastic, campaigns against trees being cut down and supports the climate strikes that are happening all over the world.

By Ava Towner

Easter Quiz: 1.Who hands out the Easter Eggs on Easter?

2.What do you collect at Easter?

3.What season does Easter take place?

4.What do you make Easter eggs out off?

5.What day is Easter on this year?

6.Name an Easter movie:

7. What is an Easter basket meant to resemble?

8.What type of animal resembles Easter?

9.What happens to the Easter bunny in the movie ‘Guardians’?

10.What is the biggest chocolate company?

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Answers on Page 2

By Joshua Conway.