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Contribute to the newspaper! 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 Nintendo 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 Shulk 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.

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