Totally Tockington 36th Edition

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FairtradeBy Aditi Mehendale

This week’s theme, as I’m sure you will soon guess, ischocolate. Now, I don’t think that any of you need to knowwhat chocolate is, so this week I’m going to tell you about ‘Fairtrade’.

What is Fairtrade?

Fairtrade is another name for legal trading in which thepeople who produce the products, i.e. farmers, are paid the fair prices that they are due.

The Fairtrade Foundation

The Fairtrade Foundation is the group that organizes all of this. One of their latest campaigns is a paper march onParliament square- yes, you heard me, a paper march. If

you sign up, they put your name on a petition that they arehoping to send on to David Cameron, and create a paper figure to place on Parliament square, so that YOU canescape the rain while helping. The petition is to helpsmallholder farmers, and they want to:-

Increase the smallholder’s voice, influence and

organization – so that they are able to influence policy and

secure better deals.

Ensure farmers are empowered in value chains and

receive fair prices-enabling farmers to move up the

value chain and trade their way out of poverty.

Ensure access to timely and affordable credit-crucial

for farmers who wish to invest in their farms andbusinesses, but credits often poorly available.

Prioritize environmentally sustainable agricultural and

climate resilience-helping farmers adapt to pressure

on natural resources and a changing climate.

Increase and target national and donor government spending on agriculture- sufficient investment,targeted towards the real priority needs of smallholder farmers.

Smallholder farmers are farmers who have, say, an acre of land, on which they grow their crops, and often they liveabroad. I don’t know my way around African currency so I’lluse Indian rupees as an example instead. 1 pound can give

you anything between 70 and 80 rupees. Someone fromBritain looking for produce to sell can offer an Indiansmallholder 100 rupees for all of his produce – al lot morethan he can get locally. But this isn’t an act of kindness, 100rupees is under £2. Therefore, someone could buy 100potatoes for less than 1 penny each, and sell them for £2each, effectively cheating the farmer.

Totally

Tockin tonEdition 17th March 2013 Founded by Ben Owen

EditorialHello and welcome to another issue of Totally Tockington, the newsletter writtenBY students FOR students. Well....what aterm it has been and I would like to say ahuge thanks to all the reporters (and Ms

Case!) who have pulled out article after article in an incredibly busy term. We hopeyou enjoy this paper as it is the last one of the term.This week, you will be mouth-wateringlyindulged into the world of chocolate. I loveit, you love it, we ALL love it. So, learnabout the history of chocolate from LucyEngland and how big a piece of chocolatecan get from Antonia. Fancy a drive in our new car, the Lambococo Turbo

Dairy9000 ?... Alex Grocott talks aboutvehicles made of chocolate. We learn howto print our name in chocolate thanks to Amy. And now it is time for the big one.WHAT WE THINK ABOUT CHOCOLATE!I think we can all answer that one – especially you Miss Chard!Enjoy! And watch out for that Easter Bunny...Have a great holiday and well deserved break.

Tom Edwards

- -What can I buy that’s Fairtrade?

I’m hoping that this has started to make you thinkabout the food you buy. Here is a list of just some of the food stuffs so you can support the Fairtrade foundation.

Bananaso Sugaro Teao Coffeeo South African Wine

And of course, CHOCOLATE!!!

I would like to acknowledge:-

The main Fairtrade Foundation website(www.fairtrade.org.uk)

The main events Fairtrade Foundation website(step.fairtrade.org.uk)The Sainsbury’s ‘Live Well For Less’ website

(www.sainsburys-live-well-for-less.co.uk/products-values/responsible-sourcing/fairtrade)



Totally Chocolate Factsby Antonia Hopcraft

1. The World's Largest Chocolate Bar weighs

more than 12,000 pounds and measures21 feet long and almost three feet high.

That’s a big chocolate bar!

2.American Bob Brown has the record for the biggest chocolate bar collection with 770 different sorts of chocolate!

3.A train made entirely out of chocolate set a new world recordin 2012. The work of art was in Brussels South station and was astaggering 34 metres long and weighing in at 1,250kg!

4.The Festival of Chocolate and the Museum of Scienceand Industry in Tampa, Florida, USA, on 21

stJanuary

2013 made the most immense cup of hot chocolatecontaining 3,331.16 litres. Imagine how long it would taketo drink that!

5.On 17th

November 2011, Sun Plaza shopping centre inBucharest, Romania made the largest chocolate coinweighing in at 265kg. This monster of a coin measured1.35m in diameter and was 14cm thick!

6.On 13th February, the City of Vaudricourt and the RotaryClub of Bruay la Buissiere (both French) producedthe largest chocolate mousse weighing in at 142kg.

7. On 1st

December 2010 in Sceaux, France PatrickRoger created the highest chocolate Christmas treeweighing a whopping 4000kg and measuring a colossal10 metres high.

8.On 16th

April 2011, Tosca (Italy) made a terrifying towering

Easter egg measuring 10.39m. Weighing a colossal 7,200kgand a circumference of 19.6m at its widest point.

9.The Frozen Haute Chocolate ice cream sundae isthe most expensive dessert. It was created on 7

thNovember

2007 and was added onto the menu of Serendipity 3restaurant in New York, USA. This expensive dessert cost£12,000. Good luck getting your parents to by that dessert!

10.The largest individual chocolate was a Hershey’s Kiss.It was made for the 100

thanniversary. This chocolate

weighs 13852.71kg. It was displayed at Chocolate world,Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA, on 7

thJuly 2007.



Cadbury World Reviewed by Adassa Walker

Cadbury World is in Bournville near Birmingham.

It is an amazing place to have a day out. It’s funand also teaches you about where chocolate camefrom.

When you go in they give you loads of freechocolate. You go through a cool world full of chocolatey dreams; this is any kid’s dream (if youlike chocolate that is!). You can see how chocolateis made, how it is packaged and you can see theworkers who make all of the wonderfully deliciouschocolate.

It tells you the Cadbury’s story and how thecompany formed to be Britain’s most wonderfulchocolate factory ever.

It was great fun going there with loads of freechocolate and there was a lot to do and see.

I would go there again only if it was a lot closer toBristol.

So I would like to give Cadbury world 5+ chocolatebars.

Transporting of Cocoa

by Alex Jacobi (professional chocolate eater!)

This week on Totally Tockington we havechosen chocolate as our theme.

An important ingredient in chocolate is cocoafrom the cacao plant. But have you thoughtwhere it comes from and how we get it?

Cacao is grown mainly in South America and Africa where it is turned into Cocoa.

This is then shipped in giant container ships toall parts of the world where chocolate factoriesuse it to make delicious chocolate!

Bennie’s Jokes By Bennie Sanzo

Where did Mr and Mrs Cadbury meet?On a double decker bus!

What did the KitKat run away from?A Bounty!

Why did the doughnut shop close?The owner got tired of the hole business!



If you want to see these done for real, then

Just Ask Jack!by Jack Knight with photos by Libby Knight

1. With a pack of cards you are going to take the odd cards

out of the deck. Get a person to say a number, let’s say

between 1 and 8, which has a pip in the middle e.g. Ace,

three, five, seven and nine. You can use any suit except

diamonds. Make sure you put the pips in the middle

so they are all facing the same way up

2. Now shuffle them maybe by cutting them, then get a

spectator to choose one.

3. When they aren't looking turn the packet round.

4. Get them to place the card back then shuffle them.

5. Now have the packet facing you and look for the oddcard sticking out which will be the card with the pip upside

down.



T.T. Chocolate tastingby Abby Blackwell and Ijeoma Ogbogbo

On Thursday morning at break, Totally Tockington had a chocolate tasting session to find outwhich chocolate we liked best. Below you will see a pie chart of the average preferences for the different chocolates. All of the chocolates came from different countries, for example from

Great Britain - the well-known Cadbury’s, and some less well-known chocolate from Peru.

We all tried the chocolates and marked them on a little sheet out of five. We then added up themarks and created a pie chart. The favourite was definitely Swiss chocolate followed very closelyby Belgian, with a score of 4.8 stars, and the least favourite was the Peruvian chocolate with 2stars.

Below are the full scores (stars):

Swiss chocolate 4.9Belgian chocolate 4.8Great Britain 4.6Organic chocolate 3.4

Ivory Coastchocolate

3.2

Peruvian chocolate 2.0Spanish chocolate 2.1

YummyChocolate

Eaten During ourSurvey

Photos by

Olivia Campbell



The Origin of Chocolateby Lucy England

Chocolate is one of my favourite things to eat. But does anybody know where it actually camefrom?

Chocolate first began in Mesoamerica. Chocolate became very popular in Maya and Aztec royaland religious occasions. Priests presented cacao seeds as offerings to the gods and served

chocolate drinks during sacred ceremonies.

People in Europe added sugar and milk which the Mesoamericans did not use. In the 19thcentury, John Cadbury developed a process to make solid chocolate creating the chocolate bar.

Chocolate remained unchanged for hundreds of years until the Industrial Revolution which iswhen it became solid.

Although chocolate is originally from America, almost two thirds of today’s chocolate comes from

Western Africa.

Mesoamerica Cacao Seeds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest



by Nkechi Ogbogbo

Has there ever been a vehicle made of chocolate ?by Alex Grocott

Making a vehicle out of chocolate wouldn’t be easy. It’s much too melty and sticky and wouldn’tbe good to sit on. Having chocolate wheels would also be a problem. I searched on the internet

to see what I could find.

This Porsche 911 has been covered in chocolate. It happened at a Porsche showroom in theNetherlands. The Porsche was covered in cling film, and then lots of chocolate was poured over until it went hard. They used the same amount of chocolate as 1,100 Dairy Milk bars and had to

turn the radiators off in the car showroom to stop it from melting.

I also found some other cars that have had the same done to them.

This VW Beetle got covered for Valentine’s Day.I managed to find a Crème Egg car, but only a picture of a model. I think a real car was made the

same as the model, but it was only used for advertising, and wasn’t made of chocolate.

Happy Easter, everybody!If the Easter Bunny brings you a car made of chocolate, please let me know.



How to Make Your Name out of Chocolateby Amy Horler

Step 1Get some milk chocolate. The amount of chocolate depends on how long your name is. Peoplewith longer names are lucky because they can have more chocolate. People with shorter namesneed to make the letters bigger!

Step 2

Break the chocolate up into small bits and place in a heatproof bowl. This helps it melt.Step 3Get some boiling water in a pan. Place the heatproof bowl over the water. Stir until thechocolate melts.

Step 4Carefully remove the bowl of melted chocolate. Pour the chocolate into letter moulds and placein the fridge to cool down.

Step 5Once the chocolate has cooled, remove the letters from the fridge. Place them on the side toallow the edges to loosen.

Step 6Break out the letters by patting the shapes.Then just EAT!

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Review by Nkechi Ogbogbo

This book by Roald Dahl is about a boy called Charlie who lives in a small house with his entirefamily.

Willy Wonka is the owner of a very famous chocolate factory. Although the factory is closed, itstill manufactures chocolate.

One day, Willy Wonka puts five golden tickets in five chocolate bars. He announces that thegolden tickets could be anywhere in the world and the five lucky people who find the golden

tickets will win a trip around his entire chocolate factory. Then, the world goes crazy!

Will Charlie find a golden ticket?

Overall, I really like this book and would love to read it again.



Max ReportsBy Max Curtis

U13 Boys FootballThe boys played St John’s at home. They had a disappointing start but, as the game went on, they gottheir act together and started to play well. By half time they were at their best and they managed toscore a goal. Disappointingly, this was their one and only. The end result was 9-1 to St John’s.

U13 Girls FootballThe girls played The Downs. They worked well as a team winning 11 goals to 5. Seren Clayton andFreya Belcher had a cracking game scoring all of the goals between them and so were bothrecognised as Players of the Match.

U11 Boys FootballThe under 11 boys played St John’s College at home. St John’s should have brought 2 teams but theyunfortunately came with only one in the end. The first game therefore was the As. They had a slowstart but then gradually grew in confidence. TMS scored 3 quick goals but went on to win by 5 goals. Alex Grocott scored 3 goals, Max Curtis scored one and the remaining 2 goals were scored by AlexJacobi. It was clear that TMS started to switch off because they were winning which allowed St John’sto score 2 very easy goals. Man of the Match was Max Curtis for leading TMS Under 11 team asCaptain throughout a great season.

U11 Girls NetballThe Girls A and B team played Colston’s at home.

The As had their first defeat of the season by losing 12 -5. The Colston’s goal shooter was very goodso Abi Blackwell, as goal keeper, had a difficult job defending. Abi, however, had such a good gamethat she was nominated by Colston’s as Player of Match. Lucy Allan-Jones and Amy Horler wererecognised as the most improved players throughout the whole term.

The Bs also had a good game working well as a team showing great determination to win whilst theend result was that they lost 1-0 to Colston’s. Olivia Banks and Aditi Mehendale were nominated asPlayers of the Match.

U9 Boys FootballThe boys played St John’s at home. The As played both their games well with a 1-0 win then evenbetter with their second game resulting in a 6-0 win. Man of the Match was Ceredig Jones (top goalscorer).

The Bs and Cs both had a very close game drawing 0-0. Man of the Match for the Bs was Otis Walker and for the Cs, Vivian Boudon.

U9 Girls NetballThe girls played St John’s away. They all battled really well and really wanted a win, constantlyfighting for the ball. Despite their determination, the end score was 7-0 to St John’s. Player of the Match: Dalis Jones

U8 Girls NetballThe girls played The Downs. They tried really hard and were determined in their approach. They lost2-0 but played well.Player of the Match was Carmen Rey-Jones.



Jenson ButtonBy Oliver Shutt

Jenson Button was born on the 19th

of January

1980. He is a British Formula One driver and is

signed for McLaren. In 2009 he was the World

Champion for formula One racing and was driving

for Brawn GP.

Button was always good at karting at the age of

eight he had an early success before going to

progress to a Formula One driver.

Buttons’ first F1 drive was with Williams F1 in the

season 2000. Then, in the next year, he switched to

Benetton, which in the next year(2002) became

Renault, and in the 2003 season became BAR. But

they were renamed Honda for the year 2006. Thiswas also the year Button won his first Grand Prix in

Hungary.

Competition Winner

The winner of last week’sCompetition is Tabitha Hubywho got all of the answers right.

There were ten entries thisweek, including one from a staff member!

Let’s double that for this week’s

specially commissionedchocolate bar!

Is Eating Chocolate Good For You?

Franz Mezerli from Columbia Universityclaims that :

"There is data in rats showing that they livelonger and have better brain function whenthey eat chocolate, and even in snails youcan show that the snail memory is actuallyimproved."

Now, there’s a thought…!!

My thoughts on Totally Tockington are…

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Chocolate Box Anagramsby Roshan Patel

Can you discover what chocolate bars are in the quiz this week? We have a specially commissionedbar of chocolate from Choccamocca to give away to the winner of this week’s competition, so get

puzzling! Answers must be in by Thursday.

Many thanks to Mrs Auburn for making us a special bar of Totally Tockington chocolate.

Write your answers on the lines provided, put your name on the bottom of the sheet and pop your answer in the TT box on the Signing Out desk.

Name : ________________________________

Bun Toy _ _ _ _ _ _

Nickers _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Arms _ _ _ _

A Ore _ _ _ _

Eroded Buckle _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Yaw Milky _ _ _ _ _

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Scuba Dry

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A Cam Car _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Gigs Mine _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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