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Send us your thoughts, comments, suggestions and games and you could see them featured in NewsDover. All entries must be appropri- ate for all audiences and must be handed to Mr McCarthy or Ms Small our first day at school can be a real experience! But for most of us our Yfears prove to be unnecessary. Nat Natassja Lauren Setiadji tells us about her first day at Dover International School.

Pulling into the driveway, I took in my surroundings as how a typical kid would do on their first day of school. Sporting my uniform with the school badge, I made my way to the senior block, nervous about meeting my class for the very first time.

Setting foot into the air-conditioned classroom, I was greeted by my homeroom teacher, Ms Small. She helped me to settle in, and I waited for the first bell to go.

We walked down to the Cooper Hall, where we began our senior singing. Lessons carried on. Everything went well, the pupils were friendly and before I knew it, it was lunch time. I had paid for the lunchbox a week before, so my friend showed me the table where different people’s meals were waiting to be collected. Mondays: chicken rice. Gobbling it all up, I took a little stroll around the school to have a feel of the school layout. 3.00pm. The dismissal bell rang. Students packed their things as they hurried to catch the school bus home. I gathered my books By Natassja Lauren Setiadji, Year 7/EA39 and made my way back to my homeroom. Waving goodbye to my new friends, I dashed downstairs to where my parents were waiting, eager to fill them in with the details of my first day at Dover Court International School.

2 NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 o you have a favourite be a popular ballerina and in her It hurts a lot but Billie doesn’t want book? Yutong Wang first ballet lesson their teacher lets to cry in front of Miss Dainty. She tells about her favourite the girls move around like dainty sits down and rubs her head until Dread... the Billie B Brown book butterflies. She lets the boys move the pain is gone. I think all fans of series. like fierce, stomping trolls: to catch the series will enjoy this moment! the butterflies! Miss Dainty plays the piano. With her right hand, Billie is a very active and fun she plays a twinkly butterfly tune. character. Later in the book, Billie With her left hand, she plays a deep climbed through a hole, which stomping troll tune. Billie races was in the fence around Jack’s around the room, flapping her garden. Billie saw Jack eating, but arms. I love the way she sometimes when Jack saw Billie outdoors, he accidently crashes into the other quickly finished his dinner and butterflies that get in her way, she is went to welcome her. They started not as graceful as the teacher would practising ballet. Billie ran through like her to be! the air and crashed in to Jack’s Lego. Jack teaches her how to be a One of my favourite parts is when dainty butterfly, and Jack does well, Billie runs and she looks to see if he looks like a real butterfly. Billie Miss Dainty is watching. She wants is often surprisingly clever and has a Miss Dainty to see what a good super doo-per idea. Can you guess butterfly she is but then –CRASH! what they do? Billie runs straight into the mirror! If you like the Billie B Brown series “Oh dear!” says Miss Dainty as The next afternoon, when they’ve you will love The Bad Butterfly. she rushes over. “I think you’d finished their lunch, they go to ballet Billie starts a ballet class with her better slow down, Billie! Are you all again. When they went inside the best friend Jack, she really wants to right?” Billie has banged her head. classroom the children were about to start work. Miss Dainty says, “Ok: join in!” “ We have another idea “ They both say “I move more like a stomping troll and Jack moves more like a beautiful butterfly, “ said Billie ”So we decided to change, ”said Jack “Ok, that’s fine, ”said Miss. Dainty, and they start the lesson. Of course this is not like any usual lesson! Especially with these two characters.

I have enjoyed this book very much. I love all the accidents Billie has, and how she carries on regardless. Other books in the series can be seen to the left.

Yutong Wang

NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 3 LITERACY

iteracy is an extraordinary week at Dover Court LInternational School. Douglas Ramchandran finds out more...

Literacy Week is a week where we do lots of fun things to do with literacy. These things involve a writing challenge, where you could win a prize. There is also a dressing up parade. You have to dress up as your favourite book character from any book of your choice. about a group of thirteen year figure out that the criminal likes the Another thing, that is very important, old spies who go undercover and USA football team, so they decide is the Oscars. It is where every class play for the England football team to lose to them in the finals so they votes for a favourite character or to stop a terrorist who is trying to can stop him from exploding the author or book and at the assembly attack the professional England bomb. it will announce which character, team. They have a coach, who was author and so on won. Finally there a former English player, and later This book was really exciting and is a thing called D.E.A.R. It stands on betrays them and goes away there was lots of suspense. I would for ‘Drop Everything And Read’. forever. The second book in the recommend this to any reader who Whatever subject you are in, you series is called White Fear. It’s about really likes spies and action. stop whatever you’re doing and the squad being summoned to the start reading your chosen book. Arctic Circle to stop a criminal that By Douglas Ramchandran will make World War III happen. In The book I’m reading is called their mission they meet their former Black Op by Tom Palmer. It is coach from the last book. They also

4 NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 in streetsmash, attack, block and SUPER SMASH BROS 4 About Streetpass counter. If you attack you can hold the button and do more damage. THE 3DS VERSION Streetpass is a special thing that If you block an enemy attack and uper smash bros for the 3ds is a game S is only the 3DS has. When you attack straight afterwards you do a with almost all the characters. walk past someone with a 3DS powerful counter attack! you get a streetpass. Streetpass uper smash bros is a works differently depending on the Since there are too many characters unique fighting game. game you have. If you want to get to list I decided to just list the new Instead of lowering a streetpass for a game, you have characters: Ssomeone’s health bar, you to meet someone with the game increase their damage you have. You have three moves percentage.

The only way to stop someone is to knock them off the stage. The higher their percentage the more they fly. There are multiple game modes but the main one is smash. You can play two types of games in smash, stock (where you have lives and the last player standing wins), and time (where you try to defeat as Little Mac many people as possible while not dying). There are different game Little mac is from Punch Out Shulk is my favourite character modes depending on which version and is amazing on the ground, and has lots of different moves you got but I’m doing the 3DS but in the air he is almost referencing his game... version so I’m going to do the 3DS useless. game modes. The special two game modes in the 3DS version is smash run and streetsmash.

NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 5 The Rules

Goal To correctly name the murderer, murder weapon, and murder location.

Setup Sort the cards by type and shuffle each pile face-down. Without looking, take one suspect card, one weapon card, and one room card, and slide them into the secret envelope. Shuffle the rest of the cards together, and deal them to the players until all cards are dealt. Place the murder weapons in rooms randomly, no more than one per room. Place the suspect tokens on the assigned starting squares.

Play On your turn, roll the dice, and move your playing piece that many spaces on the yellow squares. You can move through a doorway to enter a room, but this ends your movement.

6 NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 Board games remain a popular favourite and now many exist in digital format. Cluedo is a game where players try to figure out the three main facts of a murder: the murderer, the location of the murder, and the murder weapon; characters run around a mansion and gather evidence

Kyle Mascarenhas investigates this traditional game...

You can’t move through a yellow space occupied by another player, but multiple players can be in the same Tips and Tricks: room. How to Win the If you start your turn in a room with a secret passage, you can use the secret passage instead of rolling the dice. This will put your character in another room Game! across the board, ending your move. When you make a suggestion, your goal is to get more Suggesting: If you end your move in a room, you get information. If your opponents can show you the to make a suggestion. To do this, name a suspect, a same card you’ve already seen, then you get no new murder weapon, and the room you just entered. information, and your turn is over.

Once a suggestion is made, the cards in the secret The only cards that you have already marked off on envelope are checked and if the suggestion is correct your list that you should still ask about are your own then the player is correct. cards, since nobody else will know about them. You can only make suggestions in rooms, if someone suggests you and drags you to a new room: make a suggestion there on your next turn.

NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 7 Pokemon to raise their happiness and help them level up faster and Super Training can help your Pokemon Do you love Pokemon? get insanely strong without having is all about the battling. This is Jack Griffin finds out more in to go through the trouble of battling. one of my favourite parts of any this awesome article….. Another small, but cool feature, is the Pokemon game. Combined with ability to change how your character the amazing graphics I’ve had fun I love Pokemon. Be it a game, a spin looks. You can go to barber shops or with every Pokemon battle ever. In off series or the anime: it’s certainly clothes shops. This can also affect every Pokemon game your goal is to one of my favourite franchises! how people talk to you or the price beat all the gyms, beat the Pokemon Every single game has brought of things like stones or medicine. League, beat the Elite Four, beat something new, like a phone, the the champion, and beat the game. physical/special move split, reusable Amazing quality In X and Y, I beat the game faster TMs, and most importantly, the new than you can say “!”. I mean Pokemon. The new Pokemon X and Pokemon X and Y not only plays seriously? This game can be beaten Y games sold 100 million copies well, but it looks amazing! The game in less than three days. The gym in the first two weeks. Well, people plays in 3D and the landmarks like leaders specialise in some of the most really liked these games! I got Y Prism Tower and the Shalour City beatable Pokemon types in the game. version for my birthday, and I loved Tower of Mastery look amazing too. The only battle I had trouble with every bit of it. But now that I look But that’s only the start. Wait until was Elite Four Siebold. He had great back on it, I found a few things that you see the graphics of the battling. defence and offense and he could weren’t as good as I thought. So, was cover his weaknesses pretty well. So Gen 6 of Pokemon hit or miss? Let’s One word: WOW! I’ve seen good on reflection: yeah, this game was find out… graphics before on a console like pretty easy to beat! the Xbox, but on a handheld!? The New features second I saw this quality, my mind The Pokemon literally exploded into a million Pokemon Gen 6 introduced quite pieces! Boom! a lot of new, awesome stuff. My So we’ve talked about how amazing favourites are the things you can do the little things are. Let’s get to the on the bottom screen. The Player game itself. Search System is basically a grab bag Pokemon Gen 6 has brought some of online features that allows you to The battling great things, here and there, but find random people online faster what’s the best thing about any than Usain Bolt can run. Pokemon About 90% of any Pokemon game Pokemon game? The new Pokemon. Amie lets you play with your

8 NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 Pokemon villain but he is still one your opponent! These Pokemon of the only interesting characters look amazing! Mega X in the story. The other characters (right) is an excellent sweeper, Mega aren’t even strong trainers - as I Aggron is bulkier than Shuckle, Mega Gen 6 only brought 69 new Pokemon. have mentioned when I talked about Mawile’s attack is off the charts, When I looked at the new Pokemon the battling above. What makes a and Mega Gallade (left) also looks online and it said 69 Pokemon were character interesting? Well, if they awesome!!! I will admit, these new introduced, I said to myself “69? do something that was relevant to Mega Evolutions are unbalanced, That can’t be right. They’re probably the story that’s okay, but if they don’t but who cares? They’re just plain, still in development.” Well, turns out really have a personality: they’re not you guessed it: awesome! there are only 69 new Pokemon. very interesting. But: these are some of the most Overall thoughts creative Pokemon ever! An inverted Changes to Pokemon squid thing, an avian luchador and So that’s everything I have to say a ninja frog were put into the game. Gen 6 introduced the new fairy type. about X and Y! Was it a hit or a miss? The guys at Game Freak really have Nice stuff with the sparkles! The new Well, I’d say it’s a little bit more of a put their imagination into this! type is one of the most powerful hit than a miss. There are some good I’ve ever seen, and it even helps to and bad things in this game. I have The characters balance the types. It gives poison to say my favourite part was the new and steel types an advantage, and Pokemon introduced, including the There are a lot of characters in the anything that counters dragon type Fairy types and the Mega evolutions. Pokemon series I really like and ones is something I definitely want on my I can also say that the remakes of that I find interesting. My favourite team! Ruby and Sapphire: Omega Ruby characters from the Pokemon and Alpha Sapphire, were actually series include: Blue, Barry, Steven, But there’s another change that a little bit better than X and Y, but Cynthia, Wallace, and Wally. In happened to Pokemon, and it’s quite that’s another story. Well, this is the Pokemon X and Y, there weren’t possibly the greatest fan service I have end of my review. I hope I get to that many interesting characters in ever seen... MEGA EVOLUTION! share my opinion with you another the stoy. Most of them you either time! barely knew, or just thought they were annoying. The rival trainer is good, the professor is…okay, and the villain team is just…well, you can decide. The only character I sort of Look at this. LOOK! This is the best liked was the main villain, Lysander. thing I have ever seen in Pokemon! Jack Griffin He’s not really my favourite It’s an awesome way to finish off

NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 9 at Dover Court International School has heavy paper, thin cardboard, plastic-coated paper, cotton-paper blend, or thin plastic, marked with become a huge success. Boys, well it is distinguishing motifs and used as one of a set for mainly boys, have been bringing cards to playing card games. Playing cards are typically palm- sized for convenient handling. school and playing with them and doing cards tricks. A complete set of cards is called a pack (UK English), deck (US English), or set (Universal), and the subset of cards held at one time by a player during a Michiel Olieslaggers finds out why this game is commonly called a hand. A pack of cards old-school favourite has found a sudden may be used for playing a variety of card games, with varying elements of skill and chance, some of come back... which are played for money. Playing cards are also used for illusions, cardistry, building card structures, History cartomancy and memory sport.

The history of cards started in China and spread to The front (or ‘face’) of each card carries markings India and Persia - from Persia to Egypt, from Egypt that distinguish it from the other cards in the pack it went to Italy and then Spain (called Iberia at that and determine its use under the rules of the game time). Most cards at that time were hand painted being played. The back of each card is identical for which meant they were very expensive. all cards in any particular pack, and usually of a A playing card is a piece of specially prepared single colour or formalised design.

10 NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 10 (facing down). You do this 3 times.

Step 3 Then add up all the face up cards for example 3+4+6=13 so you count down 12 cards and The ‘Final Three Trick’ is an easy card trick to learn. the 13th card is the 7th card you remembered when Here is a quick tutorial to do the trick, and impress you were counting down 26 cards. your friends. Right, go and get your cards ready to use them! Note King, Queen, Jack and Ace are all counting as a ten. Step 1 Tell the spectator to pick 3 cards and tell them to memorise it. (Maybe you can give a paper for Here is a YouTube link (sorry for the bad quality). them to write on so they can memorise it easier). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Dv1KvNcKE

Step 2 Now make 4 piles, the first one will have 10 cards the second and third will both have 15 cards and the remaining pile will have 9 cards.

Step 3 Tell the spectator to put 1 of the cards on one of the piles and take a part of the second pile. Do the same for the next pile. For the last pile you tell the This card trick is very easy but it requires some setup. spectator to put the last card on the third deck and This might be one of the best card tricks to start with. take the remaining 9 cards and put it on top. Preparation Take out all the queens and one card Step 4 Take 4 cards and move them to the back of you like. Put one queen on the top and the bottom of the deck. the deck. Take out all the jokers as well. Put one on the 25th place and put one on the 26th place. Put the Step 5 Flip one card so that it is facing upwards like card you chose between the 2 queens in the middle this. And flip one card so that it is facing downwards and turn it face up. like this. Keep on doing this until the deck is divided into two equal parts. Then take the facing downwards Step 1 Tell the spectator that you are going to riffle cards and do it again until you only have three cards the deck and when they say stop, you will take out the left which are the cards that the spectator chose. card where your riffle ends (go quickly through the top half of the deck so that their card will be in the For a YouTube tutorial about this, visit the link below: bottom half of the deck) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLjEulT6ssM Step 2 Place the spectator’s card on top of the deck and take a part of the bottom half of the deck and place it on top of the spectator’s card.

Step 3 Divide the deck in half and lay the 2 piles next to each other. Count the cards off, one card per This is another card trick called 26 cards. This is pile, until you reach your facing up card. Turn the an easy card trick. It requires no setup. This is a card that is next to your facing up card around and it mathematical trick. will be the spectator’s card.

Step 1 Tell the spectator that you’re going to count Special Effect Turn the 4 cards which surround off 26 cards (facing up). Remember the 7th card you your facing up card and the spectator’s card and they count off and then continue until you count off 26 will be the 4 queens. cards and put the cards on the bottom of the deck. For a video about this card trick, visit the link below. Step 2 Turn over 1 card so it’s faced up and add the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP62ItKghhM remaining amount of cards until you reach 10. For example you have a 3 so you go 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and

NEWSDOVER TERM 2 2014/15 11 re you game? We all We all know this classic game, According to a 2011 British know this game, and but did you know it has a trick to study, we tend to copy each that is now popular it? People are not good at being other. Psychologists worked with Awith children and adults ‘random’ or predictive. If you’ve thousands of people in RPS all around the world. It has just won with paper then you’re trials. In some, only one player come to replace the old ‘flip more likely to use paper in the was blindfolded. a coin’ routine to decide on next round. But if you’ve just lost Those who could not see won who initiates anything from with them, you’re more likely to the majority of games! a school debate to a game of immediately change weapon. football. Natassja Setiadji Moral of the story: wear a finds out some interesting Surveys have shown that most blindfold whenever you play a facts about the game… male players throw rock at game of rock, paper, scissors. their first go, mainly because it is the manliest of the moves. Natassja Setiadji

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