THE BLAZER the Blazer How ‘The Blazer’ Made Its Way to You the New Magazine Exclusively for Lower School, Made by Lower School
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THE BLAZER The Blazer How ‘The Blazer’ Made Its Way To You The new magazine exclusively for Lower school, made by Lower school. Welcome to the new, exclusive first edition of the our sections. Then, we assigned roles to pairs for Blazer! Made by Lower School, for Lower School! different articles. In this first edition, we are going to show you how Step 2 - First Stages this magazine got to your hands. The different pairs then got on to their computers and started writing drafts for their pages. They Step 1 - Ideas used a template created by the Editors. First of all, the Blazer team gathered together and brainstormed the different things we could have Step 3 - Editorial on the pages. This was then narrowed down into The drafts were shown to the Editors and corrected for any mistakes. Special Feature Step 4 - Transfer 4 whole pages dedicated to sport The finished articles were emailed to the Editors, who then copied and pasted the text and images into the main magazine template. Pages 8-11 Miss Lusk: This school is a bit like Hogwarts! Pages 2-3 20 Qʼs Rugby World Puzzles Cartoons Film Reviews Top 10 Songs 1st Yr. Opinions Sports Events G-term/B-Term THE BLAZER The New School Week By David Mackney And Charlie Quarterman Hello and welcome to the debut of the Blazer! This term our topic is the new school week.We decided that the most obvious person to ask was going to be the head, Miss Lusk. We arranged a meeting with Miss Lusk. For the first years, last year lessons were 35 minutes, lunchtimes were an hour, and there were eight lessons per day. There was no week A, week B structure. As you may have realised, most preps don’t have to be in the next day, because the main curricular lessons are on an alternate day basis. We decided that to get the real perspective of how the new school week is going, we would go straight to the top. So armed with questions, and ready we went to the Head! So here are the highlights of the interview. Miss Lusk interview The school has just started up. You are the first Head, the history is blank, there are no traditions, no pupils. Would you change anything from what the school is like today? I would find it difficult to set up an all boys school in this modern era. But of course I would keep many aspects of Abingdon. The Other Half, and academic side are great. I would make the buildings bright and vibrant places to learn in, and I would keep lots of outside space. When you first saw the school what was the biggest flaw in your eyes? Well I was shown round on a gloomy Sunday morning, when the school was almost lifeless, but I still saw character. I remember one of my first thoughts was that it is almost Hogwarts like. Originally the school was built for three hundred students. But most of all I saw potential. 2 Can you see the comparison? Can you see the timetable lasting many years, or do you think that it won’t last out that long? I think that with this new timetable we have got it pretty good. Of course we will always review, and make changes if needed, but I think we have got it. Miss Lusk would like to thank all the staff, but in particular Dr May ( academic deputy head ) and Dr Willis ( director of studies ) Mr Jenkins Interview As a teacher do you think your pupils benefit from the 55 minute lessons? I think that the longer lessons are allowing for a greater variety of activities and I get the impression that more detailed work is being done. Have any complaints been raised concerning the new timetable with you? No I think the Lower School boys have been pretty positive about on the whole. Do you have any ideas for next term’s opinion page??? If so email them to the ‘[email protected]’ 3 THE BLAZER Good Term, Bad Term by Ray Ren and Piers Clark GOOD TERM : For The Be The Best BAD TERM: For 35 minute Lessons and Legacy Saturday School To celebrate the launch of Be the Best 35 minute lessons along with Saturday Adam Whitehead, a CommonWealth gold school have been abolished. We think along with many others, that this is a great decision. Piers and I thought 35 minute lessons were way to short for some subjects but for others we don’t enjoy (not naming any) 55 minutes is way too long. For subjects like DT and sport in particular, 55 minutes is too short. Saturday school has ended! For many of us this is very pleasing, but it has ended for a reason. It has ended because many of us have sports matches on Saturday so lots of us still come into school on Saturday. medalist, Olympian and former world number one swimmer, came to visit our school. He talked about his success story and how he got there. I think the whole of Lower School would agree that it was an inspiring and in some cases slightly moving talk. The Be The Best Legacy is one of the many things that enabled London to host the Olympic Games. The campaign is a scheme where Olympians come to schools around the country. Writing this after the first session of Be The Best, I can definitely say that this course is going to give us a big boost in confidence to help us achieve our goals and also educate us on how to do so. 4 Film Reviews By Alexander Dalgliesh And Ben Pearson Johnny English Reborn Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Running time: 137mins Review: Johnny Depp returns to his iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow in an action-packed adventure. Crossing Running time: 101mins paths with Angelica (Penélope Cruz), he's Review: not sure if it's love or if In the years since MI7's top spy she's a ruthless con artist who's using him vanished off the grid, Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) has been honing his to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But she forces him aboard the "Queen Anne's when his agency superiors learn of an Revenge," the ship of the legendary pirate attempt against the Chinese premier's life, Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds they must hunt down the highly unorthodox himself on an unexpected adventure in agent. Now that the world needs him once which he doesn't know whom to fear more: again, Johnny English is back in action. Blackbeard or Angelica, with whom he With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to shares a mysterious past. unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect us all. For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is. 5 THE BLAZER My Top 5 Youtube videos By Rory Patisson Storm freerun volume 1 by stormfreerun A great video with amazing freerunners at their best with great editing good music, jaw dropping stunts, good quality camera angles and millions of views and subscribers, this is the ultimate video! Asdf movies by Tomska Amazing animation combined with comedy makes a very good and a very funny video. It is very, very popular and millions have subscribed this is definitely worth watching! Dubstep Guns - CorridorDigital Dubstep Guns is a video that shows a secret agent who is sent to kill a terrorist leader but fails. The Organisation then sends in “Drop Squad” a team that uses guns that shoot dubstep. This is an amazing video with great special effects that shows how good people can be with editing and music. !!!Danny Macaskill Industrial Revolutions - cutmedia1 This video shows a mountain biker at his best with great editing, an amazing environment and a huge amount of skill this has got to be one of my top 5. The rider, Danny Macaskill has been a YouTube sensation over night with his first video and has been on channel four’s concrete circus. laser pointer dog attack - tbert03 There is only one way to describe this, hilarious. When I watched this I nearly fell out of my seat with laughter. Who thought dogs could be so funny! If you know any good videos, please email us with suggestions...@ ʻ[email protected]ʼ 6 Songs of October and November! By Abi Gunurajah & Matty Johnson 1. Song: Moves Like Jagger!! ! 6. Song: Someone Like You Artist: Maroon 5 (feat. Christina Aguilera) ! Artist: Adele Album: Hands All Over Album: 21 2. Song: Sexy & I Know It!! ! 7. Song: Without You Artist: LMFAO Artist: David Guetta (feat.Usher) Album: Sorry For Party Rocking!! ! ! ! ! 3. Song: We Found Love 8. Song: With Ur love Artist: Rihanna (feat. Calvin Harris) Artist: Cher Lloyd (feat. Mike Posner) 4. Song: Earthquake 9. Song: Good Feeling Artist: Labrinth (feat. Tinie Tempah) Artist: Flo Rida 5. Song: Stereo Hearts 10. Song: Paradise Artist: Gym Class Heroes (feat. Adam Levine) Artist: Coldplay Album: The Papercut Chronicles II Album: Mylo Xyloto 7 THE BLAZER England’s On and Off Field Behaviour: Right or Wrong? Over the course of their 2011 Rugby World Tindall had disrupted their campaign. Three Cup campaign, England’s team and team members had to be reprimanded after management made some very controversial inappropriate behaviour towards a chamber decisions, on and off the field.