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DCGSChatter Edition 9 May 2019 ONEderful Chatterers! Congratulations on your first birthday party! FIND THE CUPCAKES! Simple really...find FIVE hidden cupcakes! Email the five page numbers to [email protected] The first correct answer will win £10.00 CASH. Be quick and you can collect it before 4pm on Friday 24.5.19! GOOD LUCK! 1 In this love DCGS Chatter edition… Pages 3-4 Words from Birthday celebrations - cake, of course the Editor Page 5-6 Charity Fundraising - more cake Well dear reader, this issue is certainly a Page 7 celebration, and the best way to do that is with a Easter competition winners delicious bit of cake. We finally celebrated our first birthday with Page 8-10 plenty of cake and, of course, a candle. There are Geography in action so many Chatter reporters now, that it is hard to get a quarter of us together at any one time. Page 11 Therefore, only the lucky few ate (more like Chatter School Council Representatives vacuumed!) up the cakes on offer. Just as we go to print, we celebrate our very Page 12 first charity bake sale, this time in support of The Frighteningly good student actors Cheerful Sparrows Ward Thanet. One of our readers, Mrs Janice Lee Miller, was courageous in Page 13-18 completing the London Marathon on behalf of the Eggciting Easter Experiences: birds, alpacas, charity, so when asked, we jumped into action. Japan, Hong Kong & Thailand, The Chatterers have loved it so much, look out for Mabelthorpe! our next Chatter Charity Bake Sale next term! We have so many delightful articles with many Page 19 Easter adventures and escapades so have as much Ellie’s Kitchen goes spicy with a tasty fun reading as we have had putting this edition Chilli con Carne together for you. Page 20 Happy bank holiday weekend and half term, and The Ravenmeister’s Tale: **Classified** we will see you all back on Monday 3 June. Pages 21 Contact us at [email protected] Anne Frank & her legacy - the lasting impact The Ed. on readers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Chatter Team… Page 22 Lilah Ainsworth 7N * Joe Baker 7D Library update with Carnegie reviews Thomas Cadby 7N * George Hall 7N Ellie Heath 7N * Ethan Ryan 7H Page 23 Eloise Walters 7S * Oscar Whitehall 7S Avengers: Endgame - everyone you need to Jenny Allan 8D * Tim Allan 8H know! Erica Cousins 8D * Tasneem Daud 8H Summer Gibbins 8H * Eleanor Golding 8H Page 24 Mei Lee Miller 8S * Faith Philpot 8T Entertainment - chart battle gossip straight Sophie Tyler 8T * Rebecca Wells 8S from the birds (it was tweeted!) Skye-Louise West 8T * Jamie Raven 9S Grace Williams 9S * Jessie Cherry 10B Page 25 Jacob Cherry 11S * AONM 11D Bad ‘Yolks’ that will ‘Quack you up! Maeve Brewer 6S2 * Ffion Cousins 6D2 Angel Foster 6B2 * James Isaacs 6H1 * Jay Lau 6B1 Page 26 Mr Alderson * Mrs Holmes * Mr Hutchings Greenfingered students looking for supplies Mrs Jellett * Mrs Lee Miller * Mrs Radley - please can you help? with a little help from Mrs Cronin, Mrs Finlay and Mrs Hutchings 2 Other graphic images credit: Clipart Panda Chatter’s First Birthday! That Guy, Jacob Cherry 11S It truly is shocking to queen, and many more think one whole year people who we have in our has passed since our arsenal who always seem first edition. Especially to find some way to confound, yet as it still feels like entertain us, repeatedly. yesterday when we had In the Chatter newspaper club we our original Chatterers have made many memories, created charge into their friendships and unraveled mysteries, notebooks marking off and panicked at the deadlines. But one everything we can do. But in the year we mystery always remains - WHO ATE THE have had we gained many, many LAST BISCUIT?! members. All of which are always raring But in all seriousness, it has been a to go and get their articles done. But wonder working with so many especially to chow down on the biscuits. wonderful people all year long, and I But truly, it is amazing. would not change anything. When I first joined with the original So, when you see the Chatterers, don’t dozen I thought it would be a simple fun forget how much hard work they all put way to pass the time. But was I wrong. It into giving you the next lovely and quirky took but seconds for that to change. The edition to read. But it goes without crazy things that happen when DCGS mentioning, none of this would be Chatter gets on the warpath are quite possible without the woman who gives outrageous. From a dozen interviews a up large amounts of her time to make day, to writing articles in minutes, we sure every edition is as good as it can be. truly have a great and wonderful So, for that, and I think I can community. Always, and I do speak for all the Chatterers, we mean always, willing to lend a thank our founder, hand and having loads of fun in Mrs Hutchings, for the process. the days (and nights!) of hard We have had many work she puts into every fascinating things happening edition, and especially for this year, including our resident making sure the biscuit tin is animal-mad reporter, our always full! Expert knitter, our baking 3 Happy Birthday Chatter! Birthday cake is the only way to celebrate! 4 Chatter Charity Bake Sale On Thursday 22 May we raised over £110.00 for Cheerful Sparrows! Thank you to everyone who supported our bake sale. 5 Fantastic Fundraiser! Mrs Janice Lee Miller - fundraising for The Cheerful Sparrows Thanet Charity This my the second time of running in the London Marathon. The first time was a ballot place in 2016 and I decided to run for a local charity in Ramsgate - I raised £1,000! It was amazing but very hard work putting in all the training. I didn't think I would ever want to run it again but for some reason last year I submitted my name into the ballot obviously never expecting to get another ballot place - but yes - I got another ballot place! I think this is almost unheard of so.... how could I not run! I began my training on 11 January. I have run through snow, frost, rain and sunshine... mainly in the cold and dark with my head torch on; feeling pretty isolated and vulnerable…most of my running takes place around 6am! I have again decided to raise funds to motivate me and do some good at the same time. The Cheerful Sparrows are based in Margate and they have an incredible history. They need funds so I do hope you will help me raise some money whilst I put in the leg work! The Cheerful Sparrows (formerly the Brotherhood of the Cheerful Sparrows) was founded during the Boer War. Mr Sparrow, a friendly, popular porter at Honor Oak Railway Station joined the volunteer corps to fight in South Africa. There was no provision for his family whilst he was away, and so the city commuters made regular weekly collections to support his wife and children. This idea gained popular appeal and Cheerful Sparrow branches were formed countrywide, to provide financial help for the poor and needy. The Thanet (formerly Margate) branch was formed in 1925. It is believed that this branch is the sole remaining of the Cheerful Sparrows Charity. By 1939 The Cheerful Sparrows (Thanet) Charity had raised almost £25,000 of which £20,000 went towards building the Margate General Hospital. As a thank you, and as a constant reminder, the Cheerful Sparrows Ward was named. The Cheerful Sparrows (Thanet) Charity still supports all who live in Thanet who are in exceptional need and patients in the Cheerful Sparrow Wards by providing essential items. “Thank you for supporting the Chatter Bake Sale to raise more valuable funds for my chosen charity.” 6 Easter Egg Competition Competition Guru Erica Cousins 8D The ‘Design an Easter Egg’ competition was judged in The Conservatory by more than 30 students. The winners were Tabitha Prince 9T with her clever ‘Spot the Difference’ entry, and Connie Chesters & Daisy Marsh 7D with their joint entry of an Easter bunny. The winners received Giant Cadbury’s Mini Egg Easter Eggs. Aoife O’Sullivan 7S won a special prize for her entry featuring Albert Einswein, our school mascot! Take a look at the fun designs people entered - well done to everyone! 7 Y10 in Herne Bay Jessie Cherry 10B On 3rd May 2019 Y10 Geography GCSE students went on a trip to Herne Bay. On arrival we walked along the coast and studied how effective the sea defences were. We looked at rip rap, groynes and sea walls. Also, we studied the erosion on the cliffs due to physical and environmental factors. We could see multiple layers in the cliffs, e.g. London clay and sandstone. Sea defences are placed in different locations along Herne Bay's coast depending on civilisation and buildings near the Herne Bay Pier - Then coast. After that, we worked out how effective the groynes were at preventing coastal erosion. We measured the distance and angles of the stones built up by the groynes showing us how effective they were, recording our results, and repeating this three times. Groynes = a low walls/barriers built from a beach out into the sea stop erosion and drifting Rip rap = granite boulders that break the energy of the waves Later on in the afternoon we carried out multiple tasks to do with the development of Herne Bay.