By Sofia, 6B stated that, “All four political parties hold Inspired by the general election coming up strong views on how to make our country a better place, and it has been so inspirational on the 12th December, Mr Shiel has set up a Coleridge election. A general election is listening to the views of young people who where adults, who really care about the world we live in. I’m are over the age of hoping the voters will get a eighteen, can vote chance to go over their f o r a n e w policies and make Government. informed decisions about which one is right for At Coleridge, four them!” political parties are th currently competing On Monday 25 to win your vote. The November, a debate took four parties are: the place about the Freedom party, the environment, with the Unite party, the different parties proposing Change party, and their policies in that area. nd last but not least, On Monday 2 December, the National party. All of the parties are a second debate will take place, focussing on the parties’ other campaigning on key issues such as climate change, homelessness, equality and others. priorities. This will allow Coleridge children to hear from the competing groups, and help With help from Mr Shiel and Ms Horton, our them to decide who to vote for. The committed and enthusiastic Year 5 campaigns will culminate in an election politicians are spending large amounts of taking place on Monday 13th December 2019. their lunch play, assembly time and even sometimes Golden Time preparing for their Remember, whoever you choose, make sure you vote! debate in a chosen classroom! Mr Shiel has Page 2&3 – Climate & Environment Page 4&5— Page 6&7— Page 9– By Leon, 5B at the hospital between August 1st and 10th. However, this Between January 1st number went up to 380 and August 25th 2019, between the 11th of August the Amazon recorded and the 23rd of August, due 57.509 fire outbreaks. to the increased burning of While forest fires are the Amazon. The smoke in not uncommon in the Porto Velho also caused Amazon during the Carlos, a 5 year-old boy, to dry season (July to the hospital. In an October), this year’s interview, he stated "I had flames are thought to a sore throat and a tongue be caused by farmers full of little balls. I also and loggers clearing didn't go to school for a land for crops or grazing. After all, Brazil is week." one of the world’s largest agricultural exporters. Burn and causes This matters so much because as the In South America almost all the burnings world’s largest rainforest, the Amazon plays are caused by humans for various reasons, a vital role in slowing down global warming, such as deforestation (when fire is used to and is home to many animal and vegetal clear a forested area to be used for cattle) species. and garbage burning (fire can get out of control and reach areas of the Amazon Smoke signals rainforest). The sky darkened in the city of Sao Paulo on August 19th, around 3pm. International reaction Sao Paulo residents who collect rainwater The world has reacted with fury and realised that on that day the liquid turned outrage at the terrible sight of “the lungs of black. The University of Sao Paulo pointed the Earth” going up in smoke. A group of to ashes similar to those of fire, but in the powerful nations such as Germany, Canada, water. France, Italy, Japan, and the United Kingdom spent 20 million dollars to try to Health help the Amazon. According to France most Smoke also affects health. At the Cosme of the money will go towards funding and Damião Children's Hospital in Porto firefighting aircrafts. Velho city, doctors reported the number of children with respiratory problems Let’s hope it’s not too late to save the increased. About 120 children were treated Amazon! By Ella, 6R Politicians and businesses faced calls to take action. We asked Benjy in 4R, who On the 20th of September 2019, a massive strike took took part, about his thoughts on the matter place. Schools and he said “I felt really proud to be there.” One hundred and eighty-five countries took around the world found part. “Millions of children’s worlds are pupils missing. sinking into the sea because of our actions,” Millions of stated a climate protester in London. children and Greta Thunberg has encouraged people to people were campaigning for our planet. protest outside their local town halls and Greta Thunberg said “This is not a single urged for the protests to be peaceful. generation job, this is a humanity job”. Over 7.6 million people took part worldwide in countries from Istanbul to Quebec. Over 100,000 people protested in London, 100,000 in Brighton, 200,000 in Edinburgh and an amazing 300,000 in Australia. By Sofia, 6B pollution is one of the causes of climate Twelve people were arrested in September change). 2019, all for the same reason, drone protests In addition, Heathrow airport was going to at Heathrow airport. They were part of a expand by making more runways and the group called Heathrow Pause, whose role protesters said this wasn’t good for the was to disrupt flights in and out of the environment in any way. This was another airport, to highlight how much pollution is reason they protested. caused by planes. Thankfully the drones, which the protesters You might be wondering, “What actually is a used, were flown far away from the runways, drone protest?” Well, a drone protest is when so they didn’t damage the actual planes, they only stopped them from flying. people fly drones on the parts next to a runway of the airport, in this case Heathrow, to stop aeroplanes from flying. The reason people did this is that they didn’t want the aeroplanes flying in the sky because they pollute lots more than cars and they pollute right into the sky , by flying so high (this By Aoife, 6P Over-fishing means fish meal prices are In 2009, Jason Drew founded a company rising. In the early 2000s, fish meal sold for called AgriProtein, which helps the £325 a tonne. Last year it peaked at £1,562 environment. The a tonne, according to Bloomberg. first industrial factory was built in The company sells Black May 2014 and it was Soldier Flies and produce even invested in by Mag Meal, a chicken-feed Bill Gates, the made of fly larvae, not founder of Microsoft. fish like many other In this fly farm, they chicken food. harvest flies using Each factory can house organic waste (such as leftovers from more than 8 billion flies and produce 22 supermarkets and restaurants). Eggs tons of larvae a day! The company has been rapidly turn into larvae, eating rubbish as so successful it has opened the world’s they grow, and maggots are then dried and largest fly farm in South Africa. Jay is so produced into “Mag Meal”. busy, it’s thought that he has spent around The reason why this company do this is to 28 days in the air, flying to different help the fish in the sea. It is thought that countries. 30% of all fish taken are not consumed by The company is trying to find antibiotics humans which is a huge waste. which may be produced by flies. Scientists think flies might have antibiotics in them because they can land on poo and not get ill. It would be a ground- breaking discovery if they found an antibiotic. We wish this company the best of luck for the future. By Molly and Sophie, 5B learn, and has even given the In Singapore National Gallery, Ella, one of c l e a n i n g the 100 fully-functioning robots that cleans, robots a sense talks, raps and tells jokes, is being used of humour. more and more often. Ella has been helping ‘‘How do trees Singapore with their labour shortage of access the cleaners. internet? They log on!’’- Ella the Robot Dylan Ng, the co-founder of the local Singaporean company LionsBot explained a Some people adore this invention, with one bit about it, saying ‘‘They clean well, work commenting ‘‘I think it’s fabulous, we should have one!’’. Another Singaporean stated ‘‘I think it’s cool, amazing and a bit funny!’’. But not everyone agrees, as one person explained, ‘‘I have a fear of robots taking over the world and I feel it’s starting already.’’ ‘‘You will see more and more robots in different workplaces outside factories,’’ says Chen-I-Ming, a robotics expert, and a professor in mechanics. ‘‘But they will not totally replace humans, they’re pretty much as a team and they also support the human human assistants.’’ workers to do the mundane, boring and dangerous jobs so the human cleaners can do a lot more and be more productive.’’ Do you think that creating Ella was a good idea? Or are robots about to take over the world? Artificial Intelligence, better known as AI, is the ability to make a machine think and By Ellie, 6B On Sunday 29th September, a tiger march in China. took place in the Russian city of Ecologists say that thirty to forty Amur Vladivostok. Held by children, this 15,000 tigers are being killed in Russia every year. people march was to raise awareness for They are often exported to China, where the Amur tigers, who are deeply their bones and body parts are believed, by endangered.