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From Jess, our editor-in-chief:

Hello again and welcome to the SECOND issue of

The Glenthorne Impact. The theme of this

month’s issue is ‘New Year, New Beginnings’.

This is a new year for all of us and I hope we can

make it the best year possible, by putting 100%

effort into everything we do and making the most

of this valuable time in school.

In this term’s magazine we’ve got some more

exciting features for you: Lucy Jones carries on with

her amazing cartoon strip and shows you the funny side of life; Eleanor

Cuzner talks about different and weird New Year traditions.

This is all in addition to our regular features: Cliffster’s conundrums,

puzzles and games; our reviews section, where this term Alyx Mullen

reviews a book series called, ‘Morganville Vampires,’

We hope you enjoy this term’s magazine! Remember, if you want to get

involved then Magazine Club runs every Tuesday lunchtime at 1.30 PM in

A22. If you have any ideas to put into the magazine, email Mr Crook

(OCR) or myself (11cliffordj).

- Thanks, Jessica Clifford

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Book review: Best Book Day Ever! (Asim Ahmed) - page 4

Cosmic Comic Corner (Lucy Jones)- page 5

Feature: New Year Traditions (Eleanor Cuzner)-page 6

Jewellery course (Megan Staden)- page 7

Cliffster's Conundrums (Jessica Clifford) -page 8

Christmas and New Year crossword(Sarah Harris-Cardew)-page 9

Amazing Anagrams(Jessica Clifford)-page 10

Chinese New Year Word search (Asim Ahmed)-page 11

Puzzle Answers (Jessica Clifford)-page 12,13,14&15

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The book ‘Best Book Day Ever’ is about a boy, Tom gates, who needs a

costume for the dressing up like a book character competition.

Last year, when dressing up like a book character for a competition, his

costume went wrong. He wanted to dress up like the Iron Man (who has a

really shining costume) but his mother started making the costume the

night before the competition and they ran out of foil, so it went wrong.

This year Tom Gates wanted to wear the costume of an alien monster.

They started a week before the dressing up like a book character

competition. Tom needed an old pair of pyjamas to put the scales on. He

asks his mum to make the costume but she takes a pair of pyjamas with

kittens on it.

After the competition finishes and everyone is waiting for the results, all

of Tom’s scale fall down, revealing the kitten pattern underneath.

Unfortunately for Tom, he wins competition and he panics that he has to

go to the stage wearing kitten pyjamas. Rather than face the

embarrassment, he throws mud on himself so that he looks really scary.

I enjoyed the part when all of Toms scales fell off because it was really

funny. He was trying to impress a girl he liked but when his scales fell of

he got really scared that the girl will laugh at him but he fell down in the

mud and he stood up again and he saw he was looking really scary

I would definitely recommend this book to people who like books; book

fairs competitions, lots of pictures as well as fights. If that’s you then you

will really enjoy this book

(By Asim Ahmed)

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Chinese New Year is celebrated on the first new moon of the

year, normally at the end of January or beginning of February.

The sequence in which the New Year animals fall is based on an

ancient story:

The Emperor decided he needed a way of marking his birthday

so he made the animals have a swimming race; the first twelve

animals to cross the finishing line would have a year of the

zodiac named after them. The animals finished in the following

order: the rat, the ox, the tiger, the rabbit, the dragon, the snake,

the horse, the goat, the monkey, the rooster, the dog and the

pig.

One iconic event that happens every year in London is the New

Year’s Eve fireworks. Although these are considered now by many

people to be a tradition of New Year they only began in the year

2000 to celebrate the millennium. In fact after 2000 due to

arguments and disputes about certain issues surrounding the

fireworks, there wasn’t another fireworks display until 2005.

Other countries and cultures celebrate the New Year in different

ways. For example a tradition in Spain is that at midnight on New

Year’s Eve each person will eat 12 grapes, which is thought to

bring them 12 months of luck for the next year.

In Holland it is tradition to make bonfires out of Christmas trees,

and set off fireworks. This represents saying goodbye to the old

(last year) and welcoming the new (the new year).

(By Eleanor Cuzner)

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As a part of me trying something new for the New Year, I decided to make a ring by

attending a silver jewellery course in October. There are an array of different treatments

you have to give to the silver to keep it malleable and in to cut it etc that may surprise you.

To make my ring I first had to draw out my design so that it could be approved by the

instructor to see whether it wasn’t too difficult to actually make. Originally I wasn’t allowed

to put a stone it because it’s a very difficult process but by the end I had enough time and

had shown her my determination to make the ring so she agreed. After this I was given a

sheet of silver which I had to saw the right amount I needed being very carefully not to

break the ultra thin blade. Followed by intense hammering to give the ring the curvy shape I

wanted. After these jobs were done I could finally use some pliers and a mandrel to start to

shape the ring further into something we would recognise as a ring

Once I had completed this I was then allowed to make an embellishment. This by far was

the most complicated after making the tube the correct size and shape I had to drill into it

to make a ridge for the stone to sit on and then I had to very carefully place the stone in and

then press as hard as I could to fold the edge of the silver over the stone to hold it. After

completing this time consuming process came the buffing, filing and polishing.

There were a lot of times where it was very fiddly: one time in particular was the soldering.

In order to solder I was given : a blow torch , flux-which is the equivalent to a glue to put it

simply, and tiny flakes of solder ; with this I was expected to place these tiny flakes of solder

with the flux in its position on my jewellery. By itself is ridiculously fiddly but then I had to

put my jewellery under the blowtorch in order to melt the solder. This was the most

daunting part of the process; the blowtorch easily makes the flakes fly off and you have to

be extremely careful not to overheat the silver otherwise your whole piece will melt and go

to ruin. To avoid this, you have to ensure that you are keeping the flame moving - believe

me it’s harder than it sounds.

Annealing the silver is the process used to keep the silver pliable, again by using a

blowtorch. You must then dropping your piece in very hot acid, this process turns the silver

white, but this can be polished later. This is followed by putting the silver in water so that it

has no acid on it and its cool enough to hold.

I liked the course because it was a great experience and we were allowed to make whatever

we liked according to our capabilities. We were given an individual demonstration and then

left to finish that task unless we needed help. I also learnt a lot of new skills whilst really

enjoying myself (By Megan Staden)

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(By Jessica Clifford)

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Across 2. The start of 2014. 3. You make at the beginning of the year to achieve for the rest of the year. 6. You receive them from Santa. 7. You use to decorate. 9. The day after Christmas day. 10. What you use to make snowmen. 14. Helps Santa in the North Pole. 15. Santa puts your gifts in it. 17. Animals that pulls Santa’s sleigh. 18. You usually eat this on Christmas day. 19. You use snow to make it.

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1. Something you do on very special occasions.

4. You set these off to celebrate.

5. Something that you decorate at Christmas.

6. Animal that lives in the North Pole.

8. Has wings and a halo.

11. You open a door on it every day up until

December 25th from December the 1st

12. Red nose.

13. The season which Christmas is in.

16. brings you presents.

(By Sarah Harris-Cardew)

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Teachers Trims - 2 words

Anew rye - 2 words

Glean - 1 word

Serpents - 1 word

Isle no tours - 1 word

Re twin - 1 word

Owns - 1 word

Mans won - 1 word

Bracelet ions - 1 word

Workers if - 1 word

Rack Recs - 1 word

Tan as - 1 word

Erase envy we - 3 words

Marquees sit - 2 words

Sequences hep - 2 words

Radio tint - 1 word

Cite font - 1 word

Hark word - 2 words

Validity id I nu - 1 word

Finder Ship - 1 word

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Across 2. The start of 2014. New Year 3. You make at the beginning of the year to achieve for the rest of the year. Resolution 6. You receive them from Santa. Presents 7. You use to decorate. Tinsel 9. The day after Christmas day. Boxing Day 10. What you use to make snowmen. Snow 14. Helps Santa in the North Pole. Elves

15. Santa puts your gifts in it. Stockings 17. Animals that pulls Santa’s sleigh. Reindeers 18. You usually eat this on Christmas day. Turkey 19. You use snow to make it. Snowman

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1. Something you do on very special

occasions.

Celebration

4. You set these off to celebrate.

Fireworks

5. Something that you decorate at

Christmas.

Christmas tree

6. Animal that lives in the North Pole.

Polar Bears

8. Has wings and a halo.

Angel

11. You open a door on it every day up

until December 25th from December the

1st

Advent Calendar

12. Red nose.

Rudolf

13. The season which Christmas is in.

Winter

16. brings you presents.

Santa

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Teachers Trims - Christmas Tree

Anew rye - New Year

Glean - Angel

Serpents - Present

Isle no tours - Resolutions

Re twin - Winter

Owns - Snow

Mans won - Snowman

Bracelet ions - Celebrations

Workers if - Fireworks

Rack Recs - Crackers

Tan as - Santa

Erase envy we - New Years Eve

Marquees sit - Times Square

Sequences hep - Queens Speech

Radio tint - Tradition

Cite font - Confetti

Hark word - Hard Work

Validity id I nu - Individuality

Finder Ship - Friendship

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