The Juicy Word #13

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THE MAGAZINE FULL OF JUICY SURPRISES

ISSUE THIRTEEN

BICKERSTAFFE SCHOOL MAGAZINE

Global goals for global girls

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NEWS

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EVENTS

FASHION

QUIZZES

TOP TRUMPS

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ISSUE THIRTEEN

Features

Welcome!

04 Global Goals for

Welcome to the Christmas issue of the Juicy Word.

This term we have been busy putting together the magazine each Tuesday after school during Editorial Club. We especially hope you like the front cover, which was designed during our visit to Move Publishing in October. You can read all about our trip and also see some of the great photographs we took inside this issue.

We love sport at Bickerstaffe School and we have lots of sporty treats for you to read, including full coverage of the official opening of our new running track.

With Christmassy stuff to colour in, festive quizzes and a word search, we hope you have plenty to keep you busy during the holidays.

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Global Girls Juicy News Christmas fun for all Juicy Lifestyle Christmas Colouring My football boots Sport Snap Boy’s Fashion - Winning Style Christmas Around the World Meet & Greet the Gruffalos Winter Word Search

Photo Albums

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08 James Tartt opens running track 12 A Dahlicious Dress Up Day 16 Candles and song light up church

18 Runners race for cross country medal

Ho ho ho, From all the Editorial Team

20 How do we do it?

28 Pyjamas for Pudsey

The Editorial Team Freya Ramsden, Alex Berry, Olivia O’Brien, Isobelle Fagan, Lottie Brighouse-Jones, Sophie Ralfs, Lilly Cox, Lydiah Jones, Joel Roberts, Luke Clansey, Tace Cullen, Alishia Salamanca, Erin Martin, Erin McWalters

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Front Cover Design Olivia, Alishia, Erin and Lydiah

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Global Goals Goals for Global Girls!

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by Isobelle, Lottie and Lilly This year has been an incredible year for girls and an incredible year for progress made to fulfil the equal rights of girls.

On 11th October 2016 the International Girl Day was celebrated around the world, #GlobalGoals #DayOfTheGirl to promote equal rights throughout the world and be supported by boys, some who think they can rule the world for themselves.

All girls are important to the world; they help in many ways. What would happen to the world if there were not any women?

How the world has helped progress rights for girls so far: Action has been taken to ban child marriage in 2016 in Gambia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Cuba has commited to empowering 20,000 girls with disabilities.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gives $80 million to gender equality and to increase progress for women and girls. $190 million was promised to Education in Emergencies, a special fund which is an international network working to help provide education across the world during emergencies e.g. Syria. The UK government pledges £100 million for education to help girls in the world’s poorest countries. About 35% of women experience violence across the world, but by 2030 the target is for no girl to experience violence anymore.

Inspirational women: Pippa Funnel Jessica Ennis-Hill

Queen Elizabeth Nicola Adams Ellie Simmonds Rosa Parks Mary Seacole

Anne Frank Serena Williams Florence Nightingale Hope Solo Whitney Miller

Mother Teresa Alex Morgan Megan Fox

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JUICY NEWS

Taking a peek at our favourite recent news stories

SUPER CHOIR

by Sophie Ralfs

Outstanding Event On Friday 18th November Bickerstaffe Choir took part in an outstanding event including choirs from other schools and high schools.

When we all joined together we called it the Super Choir. The atmosphere was great and there were so many people watching. We stood on the platform waiting for one big clang of the symbol to tell us that we could start singing, and then we sang our first song.

Suddenly the room filled with the most beautiful sound in the whole world. As our second song, Adiemus, finished everyone started to clap and cheer. As we walked down the red carpet all the teachers that had come to see their school perform looked down with such pride, and the audience gave a standing ovation.

The Educate Awards is the biggest celebration of education in the North West and the ceremony was held at Liverpool Cathedral.

There were over 250 choristers and a 50 pupil orchestra from nine schools across Merseyside showcasing their musical talent as the Educate Awards Super Choir. Led by choirmaster Matthew O’Keeffe from The Belvedere Academy, performing schools included The Belvedere Academy, Bickerstaffe CE Primary School, Rainford CE Primary School, St Hilda’s CE High School, Liverpool College, Netherton Moss Primary School, Archbishop Blanch School, Whitefield Primary School and Academy of St Francis of Assisi.

PUPILS SING AT STOCKLEY CRESCENT

by Alishia Salamanca

Bickerstaffe C.E. School Choir went to Stockley Crescent, just up the road from our school, on Friday 9th December 2016.

It was amazing to see all of our choir with smiling faces. A group of the Bickerstaffe community were there at Stockley Crescent to listen to us sing a bunch of Christmas songs.

By their faces it looked like they enjoyed all of the songs, but the highlight was Let It Shine. Let It Shine is one of the Junior’s Christmas play songs and at the end they all said they really enjoyed it because of the lyrics.

At the end Miss O’Kane, head of the choir, said to everybody that is all we have for today but we have one final surprise song which is called Let It Shine.

A few of the people said, “Ahh”, because they liked us that much. At the end a few tears came to people’s eyes during the songs. It was also good to see a few people joining in with the songs. All our choir can’t wait for this moment again next year.

As we got back to school Miss O’Kane brought all the choir over to one side and read out a Christmas card. The card said thank you for visiting us at Stockley Crescent, “Merry Christmas to all from Stockley Crescent”. They also gave us some Haribos as a thank you for visiting.

‘Sing’ by Gary Barlow.

A community celebration

On Friday 18 November Bickerstaffe School were announced as runner up in the Community Partnership Award category at the prestigious Educate Awards ceremony. Over 500 guests gathered for the event, held at the Liverpool Cathedral, hosted by actor and comedian Neil Fitzmaurice.

The winners were chosen by an esteemed judging panel which included Henry Platten, founder of the multi awardwinning eCadet Scheme; Michelle Dow, managing director of All About STEM; James Tartt, Merseyside track athlete and architect; Radio City breakfast host Leanne Campbell; Olympian and managing director of Raise The Bar, Steve Smith; Councillor Gary Millar, Assistant Mayor, Mayoral Lead for Business & International Trade; Chris Walker, regional managing editor of Trinity Mirror North West and North

Wales; Lesley Martin-Wright, chief executive of Knowsley Chamber; Fiona Barnet, director of The Foundry Agency; Andrew Pimbley of Wirral’s Claremont Farm; and the education team at the respected Everyman and Playhouse Theatres.

The school was recognised for being at the centre of its community for 172 years and for marking the Queen’s 90th birthday earlier this year when the school brought together the whole community and celebrated in style with a weekend of festivities. From a traditional street party and Morris dancing to a bring and share sale as well as sporting events, judges liked the fact that the village of Bickerstaffe and the surrounding areas came together for this wonderful celebration and they were hugely impressed with the effort on the part of every pupil and teacher.

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Top 5

Quiz

Christmas Songs

by Erin McWalters and Lilly Cox

Santa Claus Is Coming to Town The song came out on October 24th, 1934 and hit the top of the charts in 1935.

Rocking Around The Christmas Tree This song came out in 1958 and was played in the film Home Alone.

All I Want For Christmas Is You The song was first performed by Mariah Carey.

Jingle Bell Rock The song was sung by Bobby Helms in 1975.

Rudolf The Red Nose Reindeer Johnny Marks sung it in 1972 without knowing how popular it would be.

TOP things to put on your Christmas list

by Alishia Salamanca 1. How many copies of Harry Potter books were sold in 2008?

2. How many languages were they translated into?

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3. Which book was released on July 21st 2007?

by Luke Clansey

4. How many copies were sold on the first day?

If you are struggling for things to put on your Christmas list you might want to read this list to give you a few ideas...

5. What is J. K. Rowling’s favourite animal?

• What about an iphone 7, a very expensive gift, but it’s worth it.

7. What does Dumbeldore tell Harry when he looked into the mirror?

• If that’s not good enough for you what about a Boosted Board. If you are a parent reading this you are probably wondering what this is! It’s an electronic skateboard which you can control with a little remote.

8. What ball does the seeker use in Quidditch?

• If you would like something which will make your imagination go wild, then Lego is a brilliant idea and great value for money.

• Or if you want something classical you can’t beat a good pair of socks (great gift for dads)

• And last but not least maybe even a puppy. BUT remember a puppy is for life and not just for Christmas!

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6. In the first book who did Harry meet and become friends with?

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9. What part does Ron play in trying to save the Philosopher’s Stone?

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Answers in the next issue

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JUICY LIFESTYLE Taking a peek at what’s happened in and out of school

CHICKENS ALL GROWN UP!!

by Tace Cullen

Rice Crispy, Muffin Junior and Peanut When we came back from the six weeks holiday the chickens had grown up at school. Before we finished they were still quite small, now they are really big. Mrs Hodgson has been looking after the chickens and they have been in good care. Also Muffin has been laying more eggs!

Here are some facts about them.

We have had the chickens since they hatched from their eggs, so we have had them for a quite a long time now.

Eco Council are now looking after the chickens as well as Mr Hall.

The chickens like to peck people but that’s not their fault.

Every morning we go and get the eggs that Muffin has laid.

The chickens live in a pen on the school field (playground).

SPLASH TIME

by Isobelle Fagin

On the third week back, at Ormskirk swimming baths (Park Pool), Bickerstaffe School’s Class 4 went for their weekly Friday fitness scheme.

Every two weeks Class 4 go to the swimming baths and have a lesson with swimming teachers Jenny and Emma. Class 3 also go the week inbetween Class 4.

It is important to keep fit and healthy and swimming is a great sport because it gets you active and it’s fun. Swimming is also in the Olympics!

A little quiz to see how good you are at reading articles in a report!

Where does Class 4 go to swim?

What are the two swimming teachers called?

Which classes go swimming?

How many teachers teach Class 4?

Is swimming in the Olympics?

Does swimming keep us fit and healthy?

What week back did Class 4 go swimming?

You should exercise regularly to keep fit and strong. You also have to eat some fatty foods to fight coughs and colds or more serious illnesses.

PUPDATE FROM VERITY

by Freya Ramsden In Bickerstaffe School we are very lucky to have a pupil called Sophie Ralfs who is partially sighted. She recently got a buddy dog called Verity.

Verity is a golden retriever crossed with a labrador. A buddy dog is a failed guide dog but is still very helpful to people like Sophie.

Verity has come to school quite a few times and she has a neon yellow lead saying “Buddy Dog” so people can see she is helpful for Sophie and know that she is in action. We hope for Sophie and Verity to have a good life in the future. Hopefully Verity will join Running Club soon too.

Healthy Eating

Facts About buddy dogs What are they: Buddy dogs help people to get used to dogs so they can have a guide dog when they are older.

How old are they when they start being a buddy dog?

Any age from a baby to an adult What training do they require?

None because they are a failed guide dog.

What do they like to play?

Tug and shoe chase What is their talent, can they jump high, sniff well and hear well?

All of them.

What is it like to have a buddy dog?

“It’s fun and funny because when my dad is lying on the couch, she always licks his face,” Sophie says.

Watch out for hidden sugars in food! by Lottie Brighouse-Jones and Alex Berry One in 10 American children and teens are obese now. Obesity is the number one health concern!

To have a healthy balanced diet you need to vary what you eat and how much you eat of it. Also you need to eat five portions of fruit or veg every day.

Here’s an easy way how: Drink a glass of orange juice for breakfast.

Have a chicken and sweetcorn sandwich.

Snack on some raisins.

Have some salad with your dinner.

Have an apple after dinner.

At the end of the week you can treat yourself with sweets, although you’ll need to have ate five portions of fruit and veg and drank eight glasses of water (2 litres). If you have a school water bottle drink, four of them.

Watch out for hidden sugars in foods! 55% of Nutella is sugar and that’s more than half of the tub!!

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James Tartt officially opens school’s new running track By Alex Berry Elite runner James Tartt officially opened school’s brand new running track on Friday 16 September.

Running Club were the first to run on the new track and pupils, Lottie, Olivia and Sophie were chosen to carry the flag for ‘Team GB’, having all been part of school’s Running Club since 2011. They proudly led the way dressed in red, white and blue followed by the rest of school clocking up a fair few miles!

The dream of a running track finally became a reality this year thanks to extensive fund-raising by parents, teachers and friends of Bickerstaffe School. It is 400 metres in length, with a shorter route of 200 metres for infant children. The track has been used extensively this term during PE lessons as well as by the twice weekly Running Club sessions, with quite a few PBs already achieved.

Popular at break times, as well as with parents and staff using the track before and after school, it has become a fantastic asset, helping everyone get more active.

James Tartt cuts the ribbon

James with Bickerstaffe Running Club

Ava and Alexia with Mrs Aisbitt

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James chats to pupils

Mrs Hall addresses everyone

Scarlett and Halle

Sophie, Olivia and Lottie carry the flag

Pupils run!

Daniel digs deep

A fast pace from Eddie

Miss Wilson takes it in her stride

Oliver Blain

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Lottie

Mr Draper at the back!

Here comes the team

Annie-Rose running

Running Club pals Noah and Jack

Elite runner James Tartt

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Madyson leads the way

Lydiah chases Alisha

Aaron tests out the new track

All smiles from Bobby

Lilly, Erin and Grace

Quick wave from Charlie while he runs

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A Dahlicious Dress Up Day Oompa-Loompas and Matildas take over Bickerstaffe School Photographs by the Editorial Team

On Wednesday 14 September children came to school dressed as their favourite Roald Dahl character in celebration of 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl. Pupils could either wear yellow, Roald Dahl’s favourite colour, or come dressed as a character from one of his books. As his books are hugely popular with pupils there was no shortage of ideas from Mr and Mrs Twit, the BFG to quite a few Matildas. Costume ideas were fantastic with his characters brilliantly brought to life by children, with a little help from their parents! The day was also a fundraising opportunity for school to support the Roald Dahl Marvellous Children’s Charity and, as always, the ‘small school with a big heart’ gave generously in helping to make life better for seriously ill children and young people around the UK.

Class 3

One or two Matildas!

Matilda hiding in the background

A witch catching some spells

That’s true

Twits make mayhem

Mrs Hall in her natural habitat

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Oompa Loompa Lottie

Millie and Erin

Dancing fox

The Golden Ticket

Have you got any chocolate!

The boys with the Golden Ticket

Happy Roald Dahl day

Strike a pose

The BFG with Charlotte

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Christmas Here’s our collection of festiv ve

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Candles and song light up church

by Freya Ramsden and Sophie Ralfs

Children take part in the Christingle service On Sunday 11ß∑ December Holy Trinity Church held its special Christingle service for children and families. The Christingles were made by Class 4 in school and were lit during the service. Christingles are made from an orange decorated with red tape, sweets, raisins and candles which each symbolise a different aspect of Christingle.

During the service the school’s choir performed two special Christmas songs led by Miss O’Kane and accompanied on the piano by Mrs Aisbitt. A joy to see and hear, the children filled church with their beautiful voices and delighted the congregation.

During the service the winner of Holy Trinity’s Christmas Tree Festival was announced, and to the delight of some of Bickerstaffe School’s pupils, the Bickerstaffe Brownies and Guides were announced as the winners.

Sing your hearts away

Christingles Galour!

Mr Hall lights the Christingles

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Voices of angels

Isabelle Aitken

Christingle service at Holy Trinity Church

Oliver McPartland

2nd Bickerstaffe Brownies and Guides, winners of Bickerstaffe Christmas Tree Festival

Singing loud and proud

Mrs Hall shares the good news with the congregation

The light of the world is risen in Isobel

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Runners race for cross country medals

By Freya Ramsden

On Wednesday, 12 October, Bickerstaffe School competed in a cross country race at Tarleton High. A strong field of runners represented Team Bickerstaffe from Year 5 and Year 6 and everyone ran a great race.

For each year the first two home collected the points to go towards school’s score, and the high number of strong girl runners racing helped the girls bring home silver medals.

The team Miss O’Kane organised included Freya Ramsden, Alisha Crosbie, Lottie Brighouse-Jones, Shauna Nagel, Lydiah Jones, Joel Roberts, Owen Sargent, Harvey Speakman, Olivia O’Brien, Harry James, Isobelle Fagan and Alex Berry.

Although the race was for Year 5 and Year 6, Year 4 pupils Owen and Alisha also ran. This year some of the girls, Olivia, Lydiah and Freya ran the boys races and put in strong performances following their own previous races.

And they’re off

Joel gets a great start

Freya in full stride

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Alisha charges to the finish

Lydiah with a strong finish

Close finish between Isobelle and Lottie

Go Harvey

Olivia powers home

Shauna gives it her all

The boy’s race

Lottie and Olivia lead the way

Great effort from Harry

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How Do We Do It?

By Freya Ramsden & Sophie Ralfs Photographs by the Editorial Team

Many people don’t know how we make The Juicy Word Magazine, so now is your chance to find out...

The first step is to get a hard working committed team, they include: Freya Ramsden, Sophie Ralfs, Joel Roberts, Alishia Salamanca, Lydiah Jones, Olivia O’Brien, Lottie Brighouse-Jones, Luke Clansey, Isobelle Fagan, Alex Berry, Tace Cullen, Erin Martin, Erin McWalters and Lilly Cox. But we can’t forget the person who made all of this happen... Kim O’Brien.

The next step was for all of the news team to get together and share ideas, some of the ideas were stories, photography and bringing good content to the magazine etc. We are then all set a task to start off with and some of the stories are: Christmas Around the World by Alishia Salamanca and Sophie Ralfs; Word Search by Lydiah Jones. You may think it’s an easy job to do but it’s really not, it can be stressful sometimes, it can also be hard to think of a story.

But not that long ago the Editorial Team got the chance to go to Move Publishing, Kim’s office were all the magic happens.

Sophie busy writing

Freya types up a story

Tace at the office

Joel and Lawrie

Lydiah

At school the team work hard

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Erin concentrates on her design

Erin designing a T-shirt

Olivia

Erin

A photo taken by a Bickerstaffe pupil

Editorial Team

The Exceptional Editorial Team Visit To Move Publishing On Thursday 13th October 2016 the Editorial Team went to visit Move Publishing (Kim’s office). There were many activities to do, Freya was in a group with Luke and Lilly, and Sophie was in a group with Alex, Erin Martin and Lottie.

The activities were very fun, we had people to show us around so we didn’t get lost and their names were Lydia, Sarah and Hannah.

The activities were fun and that was including photography. In photography we had the chance to learn about the different types of lenses. Even though the cameras were really heavy some of us managed to lift them,; we learned to use a zoom lens and a wide

angle lens, it was very exciting to learn.

The next activity we did was journalism. While we were journalists we had to research 10 different facts about Christmas which will probably be in another part of Juicy Word.

We also got to design a new T-shirt for Running Club which you will see later in the year, another part of the activity was designing the front cover of the Juicy Word, which turned out great.

We got to learn all about what the other workers were doing, it was very interesting. After that we had to go back to school but it was a great visit, we hope we can visit there again. Thank you Kim.

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A thumbs up from Lottie

Alishia in the office

Mr Draper tweeting

Natash Young, editor of Your Move magazine, working away

Busy bees working on cover designs

Alex taking a break

Lydia from The Foundry Agency helps run the workshop

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by Joel Roberts

In Bickerstaffe School we have lots of great sporting talent across many different sports. Compiling a Bickerstaffe Top Trumps was difficult with so much potential in each year. The aspiring competitors have been scored out of 100 for the different skills required by each sport.

The high levels of sporting ability range from cricket and running to football and tennis, and there is definitely a lot of talent in school!

Football Joel

Luke

Lottie

Shauna

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Pace

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90

Accuracy

87

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85

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90

Leadership

80

Leadership

80

Leadership

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Leadership

95

Cricket Alex

Tace

Grace

Harvey

Power

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91

Throwing

95

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86

Throwing

82

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91

Bowling

90

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84

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88

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Catching

91

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90

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75

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82

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Running Olivia

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Daniel

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90

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75

Power

70

Intelligence

90

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92

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72

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Pace

90

Pace

99

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91

Pace

88

Tactics

85

Tactics

82

Tactics

70

Tactics

77

Tennis Oliver

Aaron

Alisha

Isabelle

Power

79

Power

80

Power

74

Power

77

Pace

79

Pace

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89

Pace

88

Positioning

84

Positioning

86

Positioning

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Hand-eye

88

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89

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79

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Vision

85

Vision

87

Vision

74

Vision

60

Rounders Sophie

Freya

Leon

Harry

Power

81

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82

Pace

71

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Pace

86

Bowling

99

Bowling

85

Bowling

76

Bowling

81

Decision making 76

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Teamwork

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In Japan they have only been celebrating Christmas for the last few decades. They mostly eat fried chicken on Christmas day so it is KFC’s busiest time of year.

Christmas Eve is celebrated more than Christmas Day. Christmas in Japan is celebrated as a romantic day so couples exchange presents.

In Egypt only 15% of Egyptians celebrate Christmas. They don’t celebrate it on the 25th December, they celebrate it on 7th January. On Christmas Eve, 6th January, mass usually starts about 10pm and goes on until 4am in the morning. When the mass ends they go for a big Christmas meal usually with meat, eggs & butter.

In Africa Christmas carols are sung from South Africa to Ghana. Meats are roasted, gifts are exchanged and the most common present to buy is a Christmas outfit for church on Christmas Day. Goats are sold at the Christmas markets to be roasted for a Christmas meal later on in the day for family and friends.

In Australia Christmas comes just before the summer holidays, children have their holidays from midDecember to early February. They put a lot of decorations up and most of the time neighbours usually have a competition to see which house is the best.

China

Poland

Denmark

As only about 1% of the population in China are Christians it is not an official holiday or public event.

Christmas in China is very commercial and has become popular with the non- Christian Chinese population. People do get together but not in traditional Christmas ways. Christians celebrate it quietly by going to church and eating a special Chinese Christian tradition of apples. This is because the word apple sounds like the word peace in Mandarin.

In Poland they don’t really start celebrating Christmas until Christmas Eve. They share with other European traditions of a Christmas tree, carols and present giving. As Poland is mainly a Catholic country Christmas finishes on February 2nd with Candlemass Service when people carry candles to church. Candlemass is a traditional Christian festival and it commemorates the purification of Mary 40 days after the birth of Jesus and the presentation of Jesus in the Temple.

Denmark celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve and this is when presents are given and received. In Denmark a gold or silver star is used to decorate the top of the Christmas tree, not an angel and they also put flags on the tree. At the end of the day the Danes dance around the Christmas tree singing carols. In Denmark they also have a special Christmas seal which they use on mail during the month of December and it raises charitable funds for children in need.

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Pyjamas for Pudsey A special day of food, fun and fundraising

by Joel Roberts Photographs by the Editorial Team Children in Need and the famous Pudsey Bear is all about helping raise money for a special charity appeal to help disabled children and young people in the UK. On Friday 18 November school held a special breakfast, which included delicious bacon butties, and everyone wore their pyjamas. Staff, parents and children enjoyed the early start which was only the beginning of a special day filled with lots of fun.

The School Council organized a cake sale and selling out first were doughnuts, followed by star-shaped cookies and then some delicious carrot cake with yummy white icing. Selling cakes was a great way to raise more money for Pudsey!

This year the BBC Children in Need also asked people to do something that they are good at and Bickerstaffe, with its newly opened running track, chose running. Juniors ran a mile and the infants half-a-mile; a brilliant achievement from Team Bickerstaffe.

Aaron and Alisha

Louisa

The tiger who came for breakfast

Great fund raising

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The Roberts family

Mrs Hunter and Miss O’Kane

The girls

The cakes were a sell-out

The hair salon

Dance moves from Tace

Where have all the cakes gone?

The Year 6 boys and Mrs Smith

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Bickerstaffe C.E. School, Hall Lane, Bickerstaffe, Lancashire, L39 0EH tel. 01695 722957 www.bickerstaffe.lancsngfl.ac.uk With special thanks to our editorial team for the making of this magazine: Freya Ramsden, Alex Berry, Olivia O’Brien, Isobelle Fagan, Lottie Brighouse-Jones, Sophie Ralfs, Lilly Cox, Lydiah Jones, Joel Roberts, Luke Clansey, Tace Cullen, Alishia Salamanca, Erin Martin, Erin McWalters