Pep Talk Issue 4

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Monday Morning Assembly An assembly about..

Soil Erosion

by Reid Hagelberg 6B During the heavy rains we have suddenly received a lot of brown rain water and soil onto our plot (blue arrow in Figure 2).

It came into our plot from our neighbour’s side (white arrow in Figure 2) and in Google Earth I can see the reason why. The soil does not have any trees covering rain from filling up in the soil, and there are no plants keeping the soil firm and together.

For the last 12 months, there has also been road construction and they have dumped soil into the river leading to the beginning of Mbagathi River (Figure 3 and yellow arrow and Figure 4). This has had an impact on the lake close to our house which has turned brown (Figure 4 green arrow) from all the soil as can be seen from the Google Earth picture below from 1 January 2020. In comparison with a remote sensing picture from July 2019 where the lake water is clear and more natural. (green arrow)

Figure 3: Soil dumped in riparian land

Figure 1: Soil erosion

Figure 2: Soil erosion from neighbouring plot

Figure 4: Soil erosion impact on nearby lake

Figure 5: Nearby lake before increased erosion due to soil dumping

Chef Ali’s

Recipe of the Week

ONION TART (Serves 6)

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Ingredients: 1kg white onions 400gm Spring Onion 400gm Parsley 1 Tbsp Thyme 1 Tbsp Black pepper Puff pastry/short pastry (supermarket or check out homemade recipe) Butter 300ml Cream (double or whipping cream) Stock cubes Directions: 1. Chop onions and spring onions 2. Melt butter and cook the onions, thyme and black pepper on low for 20min or till they are lightly browned

Ingredients : 3/4 cup plain flour 3/4 cup whe at flour 1/2 cup oil 3 extra ripe ba nanas 1/4 cup suga r Pinch of salt

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Directions: Pre-set the ov en to 180°C. Peel and chop the bananas in a big bowl. up and add th M e sugar. Whi sk the banana ash them till a smooth s and sugar mixture is fo rmed. Add oi mixture. l to this Then sieve in all the dry in gredients into mix- flours, so the wet da cinnamon,and bicarbonate, baking pow der, mix together .

Finally add th e walnuts and chocolate ch ips.

Pour the mix ture into a sm al l cake tin that with butter. is greased Bake at 180° C for 35 min utes.

It is yummy war m or cold !

3. Add the cream and stock cubes and continue cooking till the cream deglazes or thickens completely 4. Adjust seasoning and finish with fresh pastry and leave to cool 5. Using a flan or cupcake tin for individual tarts roll out you pastry and lay it on the greased tins ,top with the onion mixture and cheese.

6. Bake at 180 degrees till they start bubbling and sets.(20-25mins)

6G’s Cartoon Competition In in 6G we had a Cartoon Drawing competition throughout last week after discussing World Cartoonist Day in PSHE. The cartoons were all so good it was difficult to choose the winners. Well done 6G! Charlotte Round-Turner

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Florence did an amazing presentatio n about clim ate change in h umanities. S he is very passionate ab ou Mr Fisher ch t conservation, so allenged her to present from the op posite persp ective.

Imaginativel y, Florence acted as a science adv isor to Don ald Trump, presenting a good argu ment that climate chan ge to do her ow is a myth! She had n research an d go against her own strong beliefs. This is higher ord er thinking at its most impressive.

Well done, Florence!

Vice-Presidential Elections 5P Persuasive Speeches

The citizens of 5P wrote a speech to show how we will overcome COVID-19 and campaigned for the position of Vice President of 5P. President Pannu chose four of the best speeches to be read out and the citizens had to vote for the winner.

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The Covid 19 pa ndemic has affec ted almost every you may go to. An country d this is our tim e to prove that we a strong and po werful country we are will rise with all defences and sh our ow that we are a proud country.

We will fight!

We will not be de feated!

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I am very sure yo u don’t. so, com e fight! I need ev person in this co ery untry to show th at they are worth being in this coun y of try.

This vir us has hu rt and separated people. I know fact and you dese that for a rve to be with wh o you love. This will not fright, it vir us won’t scare, it wo n’t do anything strong - if we sh if we are ow courage. Ove r 100 people a we dying from this ek are vir us, and we ha ve to solve this pr If you want to ha oblem. ve a country that is empty, a coun has no life then try that sit down wait fo r the vir us to att But if you love ack. this country and want to keep it ali stand up and sta ve, then nd by me and I will happily lead that glory! you to So be with me, sta nd with me, fight with me and you have the country will you deserve.

Thank you.

What have you been up to?

Arwa and Miqdad have been busy farming mushrooms, tomatoes and mulberries. They have also made a video for mushroom noodle soup. You have both been so busy. Well done!

Hello this is Harnek Singh, I thought I would let you know what I have been up to. Rebuild ing my RC car has been quit the challenge.

It took me two days to complet ely rebuild the front of the car and rebuild the engine and find the righ t idling speed which proved to be a challenge.

This car is built with a high performance engine and built on race on attested diet track. I had the option of changing the engine but decided a rebuild would be a bett er idea to rebuild it.

Mah i a 15 finished 00 p iece puzz days le in 10 help with th e of h er da d.

Jainam made his robotics out of lego and can control it from his ipad!

Amazing!

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Raina Jutley 5R

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The Hand Sanitiser Challenge The staff have started a new challenge, one that we would like to keep going as long as possible. As more and more staff send us their videos, we will add it to our video.

How can you be part of the challenge? Get together with your classmates and decide who is going to throw to who and whether you are catching from the left and throwing to the right or the other way around. Send me your video and let me know who you are catching from and who you are throwing to. Let’s see how long we can keep the bottle going - and don’t forget to sanitise your hands before you send the bottle on! Enjoy yourselves. We can’t wait to see your videos coming in.

Please send your video to Mrs. Bush on registrar@peponihouse.sc.ke

Sports News Mrs. Boyd-Moss has made a video of some of you doing your sports at home...

last week who These are the sports stars from get an online earned house points and will ons to you all! merit certificate. Congratulati

ROLL OF HONOUR Week 3 YEAR 2

Radhika Chotai Dario Tellez Natalia Karauri Kianna Shah Kayaan Vohora Kaylen Shah

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Mumbi Kenyua Tizita Musyoka Theuri Kanyogo Radha Pearson Amani Gikunda Andre Maina Kamau Reyan Bulsara Yash Gathani Nathan Karauri Aanya Shah

YEAR 3

YEAR 4

Akosua Eshun Wamaitha Waithaka Anaya Parekh Sebastian Cox Ollie De Vise Lewis Kai Charles Ukumu

YEAR 6

Yuv Galaiya James Barratt Keya Kantaria Isaiah Geller Ndiritu Kamwere Norma Kenyatta Aanya Shah Ari Ligale Japjot Sandhu Aariyana Patel Raahi Shah

Shravan Kotecha Aar ush Matoo Flynn Gardner-Hutchinson Ayden Khalfan Yasmin Mugambi Aryaveer Arteja Alonso Galiana Elya Doyen

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Aahil Aziz Jessa Darsh Shah Rohan Shah Wanjuki Kanyogo Yara Vohora Peper Granskog Natalie Ngunjiri

YEAR 8

Netania Mwaura

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Tizita 5P

Mukarrum 6G

Saanvi 7D

Raheel 5R

Maia 5P

Agamjot 6A Peper 7T

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Japjot 6G

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Music for #musicbeatscovid with Rohan Shah

Please join Rohan and raise money for this amazing charity.

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Ollie’s Marathon Update Sunday 17th May. Yay! Today is da y 7 of my marathon so I’m half way there! So far I have run 143 lap s around my garden, that’s approximately 21.

5km. I had a bit of a setbac k on day 2 when I managed to bang my head run ning under my tre e house after lap 6. But otherw ise I’ve been runnin g about 20 minutes a day. My record number of laps was on Saturday when I did 25 laps.

It was my sister’s birthday yesterda y so I ran with balloons and I was superman on dress-up Friday!

Just as a remind er, I’m raising money for Ol Pejeta and Shikil ia, an organisation supporting vulnerable familie s affected by cor onavirus.

Thank you so much to everyone who is sponsoring me.

Love Ollie x

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Spot the Difference There are 10 differences between the two photos of Mrs Blake with Spaniels.

See if you can find them! (I will send the answers next week!)

That’s it for this week. Work hard and see you all again next week!

If you would like to send any messages, drawings, photos or videos for next week’s Pep Talk, please send them to me, Mrs. Bush on registrar@peponihouse.sc.ke.

I can’t wait to hear from you all.