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Publisher’s note:
Dear Readers,
Welcome to the first edition of the Monthly Blah, the magazine created by St
Mary's Catholic Primary School Press Club. The kids have worked hard to
create a fun and interesting content for you. Some of the information here are
facts, and some are written tongue-in-cheek. I have guided on what to do, but
the ideas are all theirs. So, I hope that you will enjoy reading the Monthly
Blah.
The press club is free to join and aims to give the kids an outlet for their ideas
and creativity. Thanks to Mrs Wray, and Year 5 teachers (Mrs Hunt & Mr
Wilson) for supporting the club.
Hope Varnes
Content:
P3 - Gossip
P4 - Interview with Reception
P5 - Interview with Mrs Wray
P6 - How to be a good friend
P7 - Friendship quiz
P8- Word search & sudoku
P9 - Why we like sports
P9 - Why we don’t like sports
P11- Weird & wonderful facts
P12 - Cartoons
P13 - Advice to parents
P14 - Christian Friendship
P16 - Number Cruncher
Members:
Editor: Katie Slade
Art: Rachel Lane
Communication: Lin-ay Varnes
Quizzes: Amber Lowen
Interviews: Keira Billington
Competition: Grace White
Features: Maddy Hewlett
News: Amelia Denton
Photos: Daniel O’Conell
Sports: Jacek Kulik
Boy Friday: Grey Varnes
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School News
What is happening at St Mary’s
School?
Receptions are learning about mini
beasts and super-heroes. Soon they
will learn all about fish.
Year 1 are making butterflies using
primary colours and reading the
Jungle Books.
Year 2 are learning about
lifecycles. They are focusing on our
local environment, mapping and
investigating our woodland.
Year 3 are writing letters and
stories about adventure and
mystery.
Year 4 are learning about Anglo-
Saxon settlements, lives, homes
and food. Some are also getting
mad about Club Penguin.
Year 5 are learning about WWII, &
building an Anderson bomb
shelter. They are also writing
about Macbeth. A little bird told us
Macbeth is boring.
Year 6 were very busy preparing
for SATS. They’re relieved it’s
finally over.
In the community:
St Mary’s school raised
£651.42 during its Change4change
campaign. The money was divided
between its work with Ghana and
CAFOD.
Harrogate Symphony Orchestra
presents the Summer Concert: A
children’s matinee concert with
puppetry, raising awareness for
the “No Strings” charity.
Tickets available from your local
school music coordinator or from
Harrogate Theatre Box Office:
01423 502116 or online:
harrogatetheatre.co.uk
See you next issue!
Grace, Amelia D & Maddy
Birthday mentions:
Advance happy birthday to Grace
White and Amber Lowen
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An interview with Reception
During the spring term, St Mary’s Reception Class studied all about
mini beasts. Keira Billington, 10, sat down with Grey Varnes, 5, to
find out all about mini beasts.
Keira: What is the longest mini
beast?
Grey: The longest mini beast is an
Indonesian stick insect.
Keira: Can you tell me about bees?
Grey: Only female bees have the
stingers.
Male bees don’t collect honey and
they get kicked out of their hive
Keira and Grey also found out
together that there are two species
of rhinoceros beetle, the first one
has a spiky horn and the other one
has two horns that aren’t spiky.
By Keira Billington, Grace White &
Grey Varnes
Did you know… scientists think
that Dung Beetles use the Milky Way
to go on a straight line when they roll
pooh - better than using the
curlywurly
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Interview with Mrs Wray
Q: What did you want to be when
you want to grow up?
A: I always wanted to be a nurse
Q: What were your hobbies and
what did you like and dislike?
A: I liked sports, and didn’t like
dolls
Q: Did you get good grades?
A: No, because in those times we
didn’t have as good education as
today
Q: What was your favourite
subject?
A: PE & History
Q: Who was your favourite
author?
A: C.S Lewis
Q: What was your favourite food?
A: Irish stew
Q: Do you have any brothers or
sisters?
A: I have a brother and a sister
Q: What was your favourite sport? A: Football
Q: Why are you a teacher?
A: When I started teaching
children to swim I realised I liked
teaching kids so I went to
university
Q: What is your favourite thing
about being a teacher?
A: I love to get to know the
children
Q: Do you have any children?
A: Yes, a boy and a girl
By: Amber Lowen, Keira Billington
and Grace White
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How to be a good friend
By: Keira Billington and Grace White
Our friends are important. So, how do we
make sure that we are being a good friend to
our friends? Here are some of our tips:
1. If your friends are upset, cheer them up
2. Make sure they are always included in
your games
3. If your friends are being bullied, or have fallen out with another friend,
try and cheer them both up
4. If your friend is alone, invite them to
play with you
5. If you have fallen out with your friends,
say sorry first before they do and it will be ok!
6. If you recently had a baby brother or
sister don’t let her come between you two, look
after the baby but don’t look after the baby too
much(because that’s mum’s job!), but hang out
with your friend. If you do, your friend will
think that you have stopped being friends. If so,
say sorry and explain the problem with the baby.
‘Good friends try to be kind and trustworthy. Good friends will try to share
and listen to each other.’
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Friendship quiz
By: Amber Lowen & Amelia Denton
How well do you know your friend? Get your friend to answer these
questions with you, but don’t tell each other your answers until you finish.
When you’re finished, match your answers.
1. Q. If your friend sees
something funny, he or she…
A. Laughs out loud (LOL)
B. Giggles quietly
C. Try not to giggle at all
2. Q. If your friend is upset do
you…
A) Try to be kind and caring
B) Ignore them
C) Try to be extremely kind
and caring
3. Q. If you are good at something
would you…
A) Help and support your
friends
B) Say they’re rubbish
C) Or don’t do anything to
them
4. Q. If your friend is good at
something, do you…
A) Ask them to teach you
B) Say that they’re good and keep
encouraging them to do what they
like doing best.
C) Say that they are rubbish and
hurt their feelings to make them
stop them doing it so you will look
better.
How well did you do? How many
of your answers matched?
1-You need a new friend.
2- Have you just met?
3- Were you friends who split
up and just recently got back
together?
4- You two are besties forever!
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SUDOKU By: Amber Lowen
Use numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 ,9
Word Search
By: Katie Slade
Clubs
Teachers
Children
Monthly
Classroom
School Blah
See answers on page 15
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Why we like Sport?
Daniel O’connell and Jacek Kulik tell us why they like sports.
Daniel: I like to watch sport because it is fun. And I love football because my
anger goes into one kick. It takes all my anger out.
Jacek: I really like sports because I like to help my friends in the team. I also
like sports because I can score points and win.
Why we don’t like sport
By: Lin-ay Varnes & Rachel Lane
Most people love sport but we don’t and here are 11 things why. And it’s not
because we’re lazy.
1. Sport is very, very tiring.
2. Sport doesn’t have very good
uniforms.
3. Sport gets boring if you do it for
too long.
4. Sport is too competitive.
5. There are too many rules to
learn in sport.
6. Long jump hurts our legs.
7. Running can make you fall over.
8. It is embarrassing if you lose a
sport race.
9. Cross country really hurts our
legs.
10. In team sports, you are very,
very rarely put with your friends.
11. We are always picked late
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Weird and Wonderful facts
Collected and illustrated by Lin-ay Varnes
Did you know…?
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Cartoons
Concept: Lin-ay Varnes Illustration: Rachel Lane
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Advice for parents from children who know better… (or think
they do)
By: Lin-ay Varnes & Katie Slade
To our dearest parents,
You are always telling us what to do, So, we would like to have our turn too.
Here are 8 important things that we think you should do…
On a school night, let us go
to bed when we choose
Never shout at us
More pocket money
More art stuff
More teddies, toys, toys, and
more toys!
More ice-cream and sweets
and chocolate and biscuits
Let us eat whatever we want
BAN GREENS!!!
And when we are sick and tired,
you can tell us ‘we told you so…’
Your lovely children
What is irony?
It’s like coppery but harder…
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What are we really up to on a Thursday…?
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Solutions Sudoku
Word Search
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Christian Friendship David and his son Solomon are two of the
most familiar names from the Old
Testament. David was King of Israel in
about 1000 BC. Solomon was King David.
They made the same kind of mistakes. But
David’s life ends in brilliant success, while
Solomon’s life ends in disaster. Why the
difference?
David had something of great value that
saved him from disaster: a good friend
who was prepared to come up to him,
even though he was King, and told him
off. That friend was Nathan.
Nathan was loving and brave enough to
tell David that he was doing wrong.
Nathan got David back on the right path.
So, David went on to lead Israel into
happiness and prosperity, and he is
remembered as the greatest king.
Solomon also had friends, but none of
them was brave and loving enough to take
him aside and tell him off. Solomon
started a great king, but slowly declined.
The Kingdom of Israel disintegrated and
was unhappy.
We all need friends like Nathan who are
prepared to tell us the truth about our
behaviour or ourselves. We need to know
true friendship when we see it. We need
to have the courage to pull up our friends
when necessary if we want to be a true
friend to them.
Christian friendship is not an easy us.
None of us wants to risk losing a friend by
speaking to them a truth that we know
they need to hear. But Christian
friendship demands this of us. It requires
us to put the best interests of our friends
first, often at cost to ourselves, and even at
the risk of putting that friendship on the
line.
Many people, both children and adult,
don’t have this understanding of
friendship. So, they avoid speaking the
hard truths that risk self-isolation or that
might cause a ripple of discomfort. This is
even more so for youngsters. As parents
and educators we need to be aware of this
and to be compassionate and
understanding, while at the same time
holding up to them the ideal of Christian
friendship that we all strive for.
Also, when it comes to speaking the truth
in love children need to learn sensitivity,
affirmation, compassion, and timing. And
we need to show them these qualities. As
parents and educators, let us take
whatever opportunities arise to be an
example to them. In this way, we can help
to ensure that their exercise of Christian
friendship is a positive one. Then, God
willing, they will learn that speaking the
truth does not weaken true friendship but
strengthen it.
Father William
May 2013