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ISSUE 5 THE ARC JULY 2020 SUMMERTIME SPECIAL Poems, Book Reviews, Handicraft and MORE… GOVERNMENT Catch them all: everything you need to ADMITS: MASKS know about Pokémon REALLY ARE A MUST Sword and Shield Page 7 “Government makes masks compulsory in shops from 24th July. By ARTHUR EAVES & EDITORIAL TEAM F rom the 24th of July, the government has made it mandatory to wear a face covering of some kind in shops across Help me out! England. Why we However, children under the shouldn’t forget age of 11 will not be required to wear about the face masks. planet’s health Those who fail to comply too during the with the rules can be fined up to pandemic £100.. The guidelines are designed to Page 3 minimise the spread of Covid-19 but also to encourage people to start going back to shops. Scotland has enforced this rule since 10th July. Italy and Germany have already made it mandatory too. Throughout the pandemic, arguments have raged over the wearing of face masks and unfortunately it has become political. In Britain, only 32% said they wore Why your face masks. Many Americans are also library just reluctant to don masks. got all cloudy Page 6 BOOK HISTORY MAKE AN THE SILENT REVEWS QUIZ ORIGAMI STAR ROLLERCOASTER PAGE 4 PAGES 3&6 PAGE 8 PAGE 9 1 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 IT’S TIME TO END PERSPECTIVE RACISM NOW: THE I love the smell of hand sanitiser WORLD WAKES UP in the morning… By Arthur Eaves 5L Going back to school is a great excitement for everyone. We get to see our friends, (although not all of them). We get to see our teachers and we start to do the things that felt so distant in lockdown. All over the nation, children have been attending school again after more than 3 months cooped up at home. Not everyone has been going back though with some people shielding others, or with family in very tight lockdown, or shielding By Jessica Deitch 5L donations and the email address themselves. The death of George Floyd has to the Minneapolis police so At school, there are the opened up the world’s eyes that people could express their anger social distancing measures although they are all worth it for seeing our racism is wrong and there needs about the death of George Floyd. friends. There is also hand sanitiser! to be a stop to it. But George These are only a few of the We go in and H.S. (hand sanitise) Floyd isn’t the only life that was gestures that have been made, but and do our work, H.S. before fruit, taken for granted. Breonna Taylor, still more needs to be said. H.S. before break, H.S. after break, Sean Monterrosa, Jamel Floyd, Protests are wordwide, while do work, H.S. before lunch, H.S. the list goes on and on. some are calm and peaceful, some after lunch, do work, H.S. before Celebrities have stood up are quite the opposite. going home. There is a lot of hand and spoke up for what is right, Protests in LA have been sanitising. And I mean A LOT of such as Jamie Foxx, John Boyega, teargassed and bombarded, hand sanitising🤲 🧴 😂 Jennifer Lopez, Bella Hadid, and innocent people have been shot, We don’t share equipment even popular tiktoker Charli cars have been set on fire. Luckily, and the school has a deep clean D’amelio put links in her tiktok slowly the protests are calming every two days. We wash our clothes bio for black lives matter down, but the need for real every day and have to bring in our change is now. clear. own food. And that is only a short list of the many things our school What is “systemic does. racism?” Learn about But still, despite all the how we can tackle safety measures, going to school racism by watching after an age is awesome,. 👍 other school kids -like us - asking experts in this BBC news video click here 2 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 PLANET Earth a better place then stop it from POEM being a worse one! EARTH: You can do this by not taking Jessica’s Magic Box the car for short journeys, remembering to switch off the lights I will put in the box “HELP when you exit a room, making sure WANTED” you recycle your rubbish and trying to take shorter showers to prevent The first cold ice cream eaten by a water being wasted. By Lorenzo Cottone 4I baby Although we are stuck at The first coin I collected from the tooth fairy home, we can still do our bit to help the world become a better place to CROSSWORD live in. VERTICAL: 2. lives under bridges For 3. the king of the jungle 4. makes The first flower I pick from a Princess’s example, honey 5. a rodent similar to a garden. you can mouse 6. eats mice water the 7. a magical creature similar to a I will put in the box plants to troll 8. an insect which could be h e l p red and dangerous 9. the first two The first seed that I give to a lovely pollination, letters of agile 16. a male cow bird or (if you don’t have a garden) pick some rubbish from the floor at your HORIZONTAL: 1. makes the local park-be careful about what you sound "woof woof" 10. eats The first movie star I see touch and always wear gloves, of carrots has long ears 11. similar course! You may think that to snake but lives in the water 12. The first silk dress I will ever wear a horse with a magic horn 13. the you aren’t able to do any of these animal that started spreading things, but if you can’t make the I will put in the box Covid-19 14. a striped predator 15. a herbivore with a long trunk 17. an animal similar to a monkey The first snowball I will ever see The first table I sit at and The first thing I made I will put in the box It is fashioned of sequins and has a golden lid With a trap door for fairies And a swing for the fairies to sit on in the evenings Its door is made out of a dragon’s wing - scaly and colourful. Jessica Barnes 2L By Lorenzo Cottone 4I Answers page 9 3 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 BOOK REVIEWS My favourite parts were Murder in the action-packed The 117- Midwinter shootout and car chase towards the end of the Storey By Fleur story and the part when the killer enters the Treehouse Hitchcock house, which was quite scary. By Andy Griffiths & I liked the main character as she was very Terry determined and brave as she faced the killer Denton himself, and managed to escape. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes murder stories and adventure stories. I think it is for 9 years and older as it is quite scary and violent. I would say the book is a By Louis Barrera 5L mystery genre and a bit of action and adventure. This story is set in I would rate the book England and the main 9/10. Hope you read the character is a girl called book and enjoy it as Maia. much as I did. By Ottilie Barrera 3H She takes a photo from This story involves lots of the top of a weird new levels, one of doubledecker bus of a them is an underpants colourful shop window level, a door of doom, a but doesn’t notice the giant robot fighting arena two people stood in front and 10 more. arguing. When the flash on the camera goes off, If you are interested in this, there are 8 other books they turn towards Maia from this series. My and she is convinced favourite character is Terry they mean to kill her, as he tries to keep everyone bringing trouble for her, positive and happy. the police and her family. Andy gets quite angry with Terry in every story. Jill I liked this book because (Andy and Terry’s friend) it had lots of thrills and has more than 55 animals. adventures. I also liked If you like the sound of this the suspense the author story, read it. It is quite has created in the book funny and very and I like the risks Maia adventurous. The takes to avoid being illustrations are very detailed and there is almost captured. one on every page. 4 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 POKÉMON Slumbering Weald to apparently ‘save’ a SWORD & Wooloo. I will not give away too much but SHIELD * then the champion comes and saves you. All you need to know about Pokémon Sword & Shield: Pokémon Sword & Pokémon The History of Pokémon: Shield are basically the same apart from a few Pokémon is very small features… Personal opinion: short for ‘Pocket When playing Personally, I would say that at Monsters’. Sword, at a certain the beginning it is a bit Pokémon point you receive the annoying because you have to started off in legendary Pokémon watch a whole video that lasts a gaming Zaican: about 20min and throughout magazine there are videos/clips too. which existed However, when Also, you can not jump which in the early playing Shield, at a in a way, stops you from 1980s in certain point you receive the completing the game in a Japan. It all started with legendary Pokémon disorderly fashion but also Satoshi Tajiri and Ken Zamazenta: gets on the players nerves Sugimori - Satoshi did the sometimes. There are brilliant writing, while Ken did the None of these Pokémon is graphics and you really feel illustrating. necessarily better as if you are doing what than the the person you are Awards: other because, controlling is doing as in the game, well. So far Pokémon GO alone has they live won 13 national awards and together in the I would recommend has been nominated for 11. ‘Slumbering these games to Weald’. At the 7-12year olds. beginning of either game you enter the By Alastair Schönherr 5K 5 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 POEM: Like a Rainbow Red like a cherry on a birthday cake. Orange like the sun setting over a lake. Yellow like the leaves in autumn, falling down to the soft ground. Green like the shimmering grass over a big field in a light rain. Blue like a blueberry on a pancake , juicy and delicious. Indigo like the wings of a butterfly flying across the horizon. Violet like the colour someone would wear on a cold winter’s night. Jessica Barnes 2F You can get fabulous books. You can either BORROWBOX IS borrow e-audio books or eBooks. You can also reserve books and BorrowBox tells you when it will be available YOUR LIBRARY to read. It is possible to book up to 6 books at a time and you can ONLINE THIS have as many reserves as you like. SUMMER Borrowbox is run by Islington library and anyone can join. By Annabel Schönherr 3G All you need is a membership card Have you not got the book you want to read? for Islington library Do you love watching the Ipad and your mum and dad and an e-mail address. You then need to text Islington keep on telling you to switch it off? You’ve always library for a password and a user name. When you have wanted to multitask? . got it - beware you might be stuck in it for 5 hours a day! Well then this is the app for you. BorrowBox is a free app and you can multitask - I like to draw or do For more information on Borrowbox and how to gymnastics whilst listening to a variety of books. register just CLICK HERE I like to listen to : How to survive summer camp , Hotel Flamingo and Old school from Diary of a Wimpy kid. 6 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 By Lorenzo Cottone What was the name of the machine used to encode messages in WW2? How fast was the Concorde? a Enigma machine a 1,354 mph b Bombe machine b 4,520 mph c The Encoder c 1,510 mph How many years did Queen Victoria`s reign last How long was the ground war in the Gulf War? for? a A year a 100 years, three months b 26 days, 7 hours b 75 years, nine months c 100 hours c 63 years, seven months When were women first allowed to vote? Who was the first person to climb Mount Everest? a 1918 a Edmund Hillary b 1943 b Frank Smith c 947 c Johnson Nicholas d 000 What was the name of the first spaceship to reach space? In what year were new coins announced in England? a Vostok 1 a 971 b The Discovery b 1954 c Apollo 13 c 1945 True or false, the Hindenburg was at less than 300 What was Margaret Thatcher`s nickname? feet from the earth when it exploded? a ''The Iron Lady'' a True b ''The Titanium Woman'' b False c ''The Metal Mrs'' 7 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 MAKE AN ORIGAMI STAR 1. Get 8 sheets of origami paper 2. .Take one of the sheets 3. Fold in half with colour on outside 4. Open it back out 5. Fold it the other way 6. Open that back out 7. Fold one confiner into middle 8. Fold the next corner in 9. Fold in the next one too 10. Then fold in the last one 11. Fold one edge into middle so it 12. Repeat the same fold on lines up with diagonal of square. opposite side - you have a star! 13.Follow the same process for the 14. Arrange and glue all the pieces other 7 pieces of paper until you of star - Congrats 👍 have 8 points in total. by Ottilie Barrera 3H 8 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 SILENCE! WANT TO WRITE YOU’RE ON A FOR THE ARC? ROLLERCOASTER Got something to say? By EDITORIAL TEAM We’re already calling for submissions for our autumn issue: Many people might find it tricky articles, stories, poems, reviews - keeping quiet through a school assembly, or something completely different. never mind an entire roller coaster ride! Get thinking, writing, and creating - then send to arcnewspaper@st- joanofarc.islington.sch.uk THE ARC But one Japanese theme park wants you to do that - and more. Fuji-Q Highland near Tokyo re-opened last month after its virus shutdown. It asked riders to avoid screaming when they go on its rollercoasters, to CROSSWORD Answers minimise spreading droplets, and instead "scream inside your heart”. Could you stay quiet on a rollercoaster, or would you just have to scream? 9 ISSUE 5 JULY 2020 Thank you to all the teachers and staff at St Joan of Arc for all your epic care, work and effort over these very tough months. And to Mr Heneghan for supporting The Arc 👏 See you in September ! The Arc Editorial Team 👍 THE ARC 10