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WELCOME to the tenth edition of FAMOUS PERSON: The Falkner Flyer. In this week’s offering we JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY look at famous events that have changed history in relation to space. “To infinity and beyond!” (Buzz Lightyear, toy astronaut in Disney's 1995 film Toy Story)
ON THIS DAY: On June 5th 1968, Sirhan Sirhan shot Robert F. Kennedy, brother to the famously assassinated President of the USA, John Fitzgerald Born: 29th May 1917 Kennedy (See famous person opposite). Died: November 22nd 1963 Robert Kennedy, also known as Bobby, was shot three times at the Ambassador Hotel in John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – Los Angeles, California. He died the next November 22, 1963), often referred to by his day. He is best known for his advocacy for initials JFK and Jack, was an American the civil rights movement, the fight politician who served as the 35th president against organized crime and the Mafia, and of the United States from January 1961 his involvement in U.S. foreign policy related until his assassination in November 1963. to Cuba. (Click on photo above for a famous Kennedy served at the height of the Cold ‘Bobby’ speech video.) War, and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet VIDEO: Union and Cuba. A Democrat, Kennedy Watch represented Massachusetts in the U.S. House President of Representatives and Senate, prior to John F. becoming president. Whilst in the Senate, Kennedy Kennedy published his book, Profiles in discuss his Courage, which won a Pulitzer Prize. On vison for November 22, 1963, he was space travel assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Vice (Click on President Lyndon B. Johnson assumed the photo right presidency upon Kennedy's for a video) death. Marxist and former U.S. Marine Lee
Harvey Oswald was arrested for this state
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FRIDAY 5th JUNE 2020 crime, but he was shot and killed by Jack League) player Colin Kaepernick as a protest Ruby two days later. The FBI and against racism. Police officers joined the the Warren Commission both concluded protesters to show solidarity, see photo Oswald had acted alone in the assassination, opposite. UK chief constables said they but various groups contested the Warren stand alongside all those "appalled and Report and believed that Kennedy was the horrified" by George Floyd’s death and that victim of a conspiracy. After Kennedy's the right to lawful protest was a "key part of death, Congress enacted many of his any democracy". proposals, including the Civil Rights Act and the Revenue Act of 1964. Kennedy ranks highly in polls of U.S. presidents with historians and the general public. (Click on his photo on the previous page for a video on his legacy.)
NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:
FACTS: 3 Litle Known Facts About JFK
Following JFK’s death, in 1964 congress pushed through his Civil Rights Act. This bill would become the most-far reaching act of legislation supporting equality in American History. He would have been shocked by the events unfolding over the last week. 1. He donated his congressional and Thousands of people in America and the presidential salary to charity. UK have been protesting. In London, this Kennedy’s father built a family fortune, and was peaceful and respectful. It was organised when the young politician entered Congress by the campaign group Black Lives Matter in 1947, he earned sufficiently ample annual to show support and solidarity with those income from trusts established by his father, in America protesting against racial that he decided to donate his entire inequality and police brutality after the death legislative salary to various charities. of George Floyd. Campaign group Stand Kennedy quietly maintained the practice as Up To Racism encouraged people across president after becoming the richest man to the UK this week to kneel down on their ever take the oath of office. doorsteps. This gesture was made famous by former NFL (The National Football
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2. Kennedy installed a secret taping man’s first flight to the moon be a matter of system in national competition? Why should the the White United States and the Soviet Union, in House. preparing for such expeditions, become Richard involved in immense duplications of Nixon was research, construction and expenditure?” not the first president to SPACE: (Click on images for videos and more record his information) private White House conversations. In the summer of 1962, Kennedy secretly installed a taping system in the Oval Office and Cabinet Room, that transmitted recordings to a reel- to-reel tape recorder in the White House basement. The president likely installed the system to aid him in writing his future memoir, and it captured many historical discussions between Kennedy and his staff, including discussions during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In May 2014, 3. Kennedy proposed a joint Soviet Elon mission to the moon. Musk (owner of Tesla cars) Although Kennedy famously challenged the unveiled the seven-seat country in the first months of his presidency Crew Dragon concept to land a man on the moon by the end of the during an event at 1960s, by September 1963 he had such SpaceX's headquarters concerns about the space program’s high in Hawthorne, cost that he proposed partnering with the California. Last week Soviet Union on a joint expedition to the SpaceX began a new moon. “Why,” he asked in an address to the chapter in the history of United States United Nations General Assembly, “should spaceflight. On Saturday, together with NASA, Musk’s private space company launched astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into orbit, successfully beginning SpaceX’s first crewed mission. The company’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft took off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:22pm on Saturday 30 May 2020. Beyond the achievement for SpaceX, the launch represents the first time NASA has launched
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FRIDAY 5th JUNE 2020 its’ own astronauts since the end of the APP: (Click on logo above for the link) space shuttle program nearly a decade ago. I suggest you explore with NASA and discover the latest images, videos, mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV and featured content with the NASA app.
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TWEET OF THE DAY: LEGO: (Provided by Miss Day)
Challenge Nineteen: The city Skylark wantsd you to build a new bridge. Scientific name: Challenge Twenty: Pizza Party! Alauda Make a Lego pizza fit for a feast. arvensis
Send photos of your models to: (Click on bird for more [email protected] information)
The skylark is a small brown bird, somewhat larger than a sparrow but smaller than a
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FRIDAY 5th JUNE 2020 starling. It is streaky brown with a small In other words, please be true crest, which can be raised when the bird is In other words, I love you excited or alarmed, and a white-sided tail. It is renowned for its display flight, vertically MUSIC: up in the air. Its’ recent and dramatic population declines make it a Red List species.
SONG OF THE DAY:
"Fly Me to the Moon” The Planets by Gustav Famously sung by Holts Frank Sinatra Written (Click on image for between 1914- YouTube link) 1916 by British "Fly Me to the Moon", originally titled "In composer Other Words", is a song written in 1954 Gustav Holst, ‘The Planets’ represents all the by Bart Howard. Kaye Ballard made the first known planets of the Solar System seen recording of the song the year it was from Earth at the time, and their written. Frank Sinatra's 1964 version was corresponding astrological character, closely associated with the Apollo missions including Jupiter and Mars. (Click on CD to the Moon. cover image for the YouTube link and click on the Classic fM logo for a guide) LYRICS: Fly me to the moon FILM Let me play among the stars Let me see what spring is like A Grand Day On a, Jupiter and Mars Out In other words, hold my hand Wallace and In other words, baby, kiss me Gromit
(Click here for Fill my heart with song clip!) And let me sing for ever more You are all I long for All I worship and adore
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This is a 1989 British stop-motion PHOTO OF THE DAY: animated short film starring Wallace and Gromit who travel to the moon. It was directed and animated by Nick Park at the National Film and Television School in Bristol.
This short film premiered on 4 November 1989, at an animation festival at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. It was first broadcast on 24 December 1990, Christmas Eve, on Channel 4. A Grand Day Out is In this photo from the July 1975 scientists followed by 1993's The Wrong Trousers, round up tundra swans in Blackwater 1995's A Close Shave, 2005's and many other National Wildlife Refuge, Maryland. The productions. birds, sometimes called whistling swans, were given tracking bands so that their The film was nominated for an Academy migration patterns could be studied. Award for Best Animated Short Film in (PHOTOGRAPH BY B.LAVIES) March 1991, but it lost to Creature Comforts, (Click on image above for YouTube of a swan in another animated short film made by Nick flight) Park and Aardman Animations, also released in 1989. WILDLIFE: (Provided by Mrs Kelly)
Osterley Park Lake - Sunday Evening 17.05.2020 The series centres on Wallace, an absent- I take my dogs for a walk to see if the eggs minded inventor and have hatched. I have been watching this cheese enthusiast, along breeding pair of Mute swans with baited with his companion breath all through Lockdown. Gromit, a silent yet intelligent anthropomorphic The swans are dog. Wallace was first voiced by residents of veteran actor Peter Sallis, but this role has Osterley Park and been handed down to are often seen Ben Whitehead as of gracefully 2011. swimming across the lake. I (Click on logo above for the YouTube photographed the Channel and the pair building their image right for nest on 26th the website.) March.
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26th April: - As time passes, the couple spend all of their day feeding close to home or incubating the eggs. It is hard work. Seven eggs still in the nest! The reeds They had successfully nested here last year are much more and raised two cygnets out of a clutch of five visible now and eggs. Predators such as crows, herons, surround the nest site. magpies and foxes will take cygnets and ducklings. They have babies of their own to The clutch of seven bluish/green eggs were feed. incubated for six weeks. Both the male (cob) and the female (pen) took turns at keeping In this shot below, the female is testing out the eggs warm. the nest for size whilst the male is off collecting vegetation. The trees are just (To find out more about the Mute Swans click on the beginning to bud, and the surrounding reeds two swans image right) are last year’s growth. She makes good use of the reed bed to build the nest. Lo and behold, I first glimpsed these little baby the eggs on cygnets were born sometime 12thApril, seven in all. The pen, a between 14th - female swan, 15th May. At gently turns first, only one them over in the was visible on nest whilst she his mother’s stretches her back. legs.
Notice how the reeds are shooting skywards now around the edge of the nest. Then a week later, the pair are in the nest together.
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When she stretched her wing, the others QUOTE OF THE DAY: came into view underneath it. They look like little bundles of grey fluff. I counted seven – they all hatched. Let’s hope that more of them survive this year.
STEPHEN HAWKING, (Scientist, Born: 8th January 1942 – Died: 14th March 2018) The Daily Telegraph, October 16, 2001
WORD OF THE DAY:
BOOK CLUB: hypnagogic
(adjective hip-nuh-GAH-jik) Children's Definition: Encyclopaedia of relating to the state immediately before Space falling asleep. by Giles Sparrow
MINDFULNESS MOMENT: (Click on book cover for the link)
Bedtime Sleep Music (Click on the image) From asteroids to auroras and moons to the Milky Way, this fact-packed Encyclopaedia contains everything you need to know about space! Throughout the book, a galactic gallery of photographs makes exploring the universe a breath-taking experience.
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POEM: VIDEO: Evening Star by E. ALLAN POE (1809 - 1849)
'Twas noontide of summer, And mid-time of night; And stars, in their orbits,
Shone pale, thro' the light National Geographic Solar System 101 Of the brighter, cold moon, How many planets are in the solar system? 'Mid planets her slaves, How did it form in the Milky Way galaxy? Herself in the Heavens, Learn facts about the solar system’s genesis, plus its’ planets, moons, and asteroids. Her beam on the waves. (Click on image above for link) I gazed awhile ROCKET FACTS: On her cold smile; Too cold- too cold for me- There pass'd, as a shroud, A fleecy cloud, And I turned away to thee, Proud Evening Star, In thy glory afar, And dearer thy beam shall be; For joy to my heart Is the proud part Thou bearest in Heaven at night, And more I admire Thy distant fire, Than that colder, lowly light.
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PUZZLE:
MATHS CHALLENGES:
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NOTE FROM THE EDITOR PHOTOGRAPHY: (Provided by Mr Larcombe)
My neighbour is a marvellous photographer and recently took the photo of the moon below right. I thought you may like to know how he did are a kind of rock called basalt, which was it and a little about the produced by volcanic activity early in the moon, so he kindly sent this in for me to moon’s history. The very bright areas, share with you… especially on the right-hand side, are just caused by the bright sun being reflected by “I took the moon picture using what’s called the moon’s rocky surface. The dark area in a “spotter scope” which is a small the middle of the picture, left and down a telescope usually used for watching birds little from the disk shaped “sea”, is called and other wildlife. It shows the moon very Mare Tranquillitatis, which means The Sea clearly and I wanted to photograph some of of Tranquillity. (Early astronomers used Latin the beautiful sights you can see. But it is names because it was the easiest way to difficult to attach a camera to a telescope so communicate between different I decided to try using my mobile phone countries). The Sea of Tranquillity is camera. I just held it to the eyepiece but it where the astronauts, Neil Armstrong is surprisingly tricky to hold it steady enough in just the right place. You can buy special attachments for holding the camera in the right position but I don’t have one of those! Eventually I managed to take this picture, which I am quite pleased with.
As you know, our view of the moon changes each night as the moon goes round the earth. This picture is taken at the half moon stage, seven days after a new moon, as the moon is growing bigger - known as waxing. When it’s getting smaller again, that’s called waning. In the picture you can see some dark areas which are known as seas, because the earliest astronomers thought they might be made of water. We know now there is no water on the surface of the moon and the dark areas
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FRIDAY 5th JUNE 2020 and Buzz Aldrin, landed in July 1969, 51 ART: (Suggested by Mrs Hankey) years ago. They were the first people to walk on the moon.
The most well-known features of the moon’s surface are the craters and you can see a lot of them here. They are caused by rocks, Over half term Charlie from small pieces to giant asteroids, hitting Mackesy hosted for The the surface. The very clear one on the Royal Albert Hall a live video session on slightly upper left-hand side of the picture is how he creates his stunning illustrations. We called Copernicus after Nicholas featured Charlie’s work in our very first Copernicus, the Polish astronomer who was edition of The Falkner Flyer! (Click on the born in 1473, who argued that the earth image below of the Albert Hall to watch his went round the sun, rather than the sun video.) round the earth.”
ART: (Suggested by Elizabeth Year 1)
Elizabeth wanted to share with you a short video that Alex Brychta recently created for children. This video is about how to draw Floppy. Enjoy!
FACT: (Click on image for 41 more facts!)
Also worth exploring is The Royal Albert
Hall’s YouTube channel. You will find
exclusive sessions by your favourite artists,
streamed from their homes to yours.
(Click on image above for the link.)
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ART: (Provided VOCABUARY: See below some great by Mrs Ter words related to space, Averst)
You can interpret the prompt below however you like, using paints, pencils, collage or even 3D. Be as creative as you can!
Maps have been used for centuries to present information in a visual way. Some can be very detailed with beautiful illustrations and words, others can be very simple with no words at all.
You could create a map of something very small like a section of your bedroom or a map of the world showing the places you have visited.
You could create a treasure map for someone or even a map of a new land.
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RECIPE: METHOD Welcome to the fifth 1. Heat the oven to 190C/fan170C/gas set of 5 and line two baking sheets with recipes non-stick baking paper. and demonstration videos, provided by our very own chefs at Falkner House, Sarah 2. Put 150g softened salted butter, 80g Wigmore and light brown muscovado sugar and Stuart Harding. 80g granulated sugar into a bowl and beat until creamy, then beat in the STUART’S egg. CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES 3. Sift 225g plain flour, ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda and ¼ tsp salt (Click on image into the bowl and mix it in with a above for a link to wooden spoon. Add 200g plain a STEP by STEP chocolate chips or chunks and stir demonstration by well. Stuart) 4. Use a teaspoon to make small scoops of the mixture, spacing them well INGREDIENTS apart on the baking trays. This mixture should make about 30 cookies. For a more uniform result and the method we use at school, divide the mixture into 3 and roll into a sausage shape using clingfilm. Place into the freezer for an hour and then slice discs and bake. This can be kept in the freezer and you can slice off cookies as and when needed.
• 150g salted butter, softened 5. Bake for 8–10 mins until they are • 80g light brown muscovado sugar light brown on the edges and still slightly soft in the centre if you press • 80g granulated sugar them. • 1 large egg • 225g plain flour 6. Leave on the tray for a couple of • ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda mins to set and then lift onto a • ¼ tsp salt cooling rack. Enjoy! • 200g plain chocolate chips or chunks
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SARAH’S MEXICAN TORTILLA METHOD BAKE 1. Preheat the oven to 160C/140C Fan/Gas 3. Pour the oil into a large ovenproof frying pan over a medium heat, add the onions and fry for 3 minutes. Turn up the heat, add the mince and fry until brown, breaking the meat up with a wooden spoon and stirring occasionally.
2. Add the chilli, red pepper, garlic and Inspired by Mary Berry spices and fry for 5 minutes, or until all the moisture has evaporated and INGREDIENTS the mixture is quite dry. Stir in the tomato purée, mango chutney, For the mince tinned tomatoes and salt and black • 1 tbsp olive oil pepper. Cover with a lid, bring to the • 2 large onions, chopped boil and transfer to the oven to • 500g/1lb 2oz beef mince simmer for an hour.
• 1 mild red chilli, deseeded and finely 3. Remove from the oven and stir in chopped half the coriander. Increase the oven • 1 red pepper, deseeded and diced temperature to 200C/180C Fan/Gas • 2 garlic cloves, crushed 6. • 1 tbsp ground cumin • 1 tbsp ground coriander 4. Spread a third of the cooked mince • 2 tbsp tomato purée beef mixture over the bottom of the • 1–2 tbsp mango chutney ovenproof dish and lay one tortilla • 2 x 400g tins chopped tomatoes wrap on top. Spread a third of the mascarpone over the tortilla and • 1 small bunch fresh coriander, sprinkle with a third of each of the chopped mozzarella and Cheddar cheeses. • salt and freshly ground black pepper Repeat twice more so you have 3 layers. To assemble 3 large tortilla wraps 5. Bake in the oven for about 25 250g/9oz full-fat mascarpone minutes until golden-brown and 100g/3½oz mozzarella, grated bubbling. Set aside for 5 minutes 100g/3½oz cheddar before serving and garnish with the remaining coriander.
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RELIGION: back at the end of the World Cup final from (Idea suggested by Mrs A) 2019. This is a beautifully made mini film that will help you relive the greatness of last All rational beings, angels and men, possess summer! (Yes I know, I’m obsessed with two faculties, the power of knowing and the cricket but this is just magical!!) (Click on image below left for the clip) power of loving. To the first, to the intellect, God who made them is forever unknowable,
but to the second, to love, God is completely SPORTS CHALLENGE: (Provided by Miss knowable, and that by every separate Gardner) individual.
(Extract from Quaker Prayer)
LIFESTYLE - TELL ME MORE:
• What is this photo of? • Which planets are next to it? • How large is this planet?
Send in answers to: [email protected]
SPORT: Sporting Highlights (Provided by Mr Greenlees)
As the cricketing summer continues to be delayed, now is a perfect opportunity to look
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EDITION NINE ANSWERS: Maths Challenge Puzzle
Life Style Tell Me More Answers
• What is this photo of? A: Spider • Which film character wears it? A: Spiderman, Peter Parker • Which company makes these films? A: Marvel Comics (Click on logo below for more information)
Disney – Lion King
Disney – Princesses FACT: Shhhhhhhhhhh
SPACE IS COMPLETELY SILENT. There is no atmosphere in space, which means that sound has no medium or way to travel to be heard. Astronauts use radios to
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FRIDAY 5th JUNE 2020 stay in communication while in space, since radio waves can still be sent and received. ANNOUNCEMENTS: Keen artists among our readers, I The following people will be celebrating challenge you with the task of creating a their birthdays over the coming weeks. The NEW header, known as the masthead of a Falkner Flyer hopes they have a marvellous newspaper, for future editions. Please follow day and wishes them many happy returns: these rules … (Click on balloon for a very famous Happy Birthday sung to JFK!) Designs must be:
1. In black and white STEPHANIE – YEAR 2. A line drawing created using a fine 6 black liner pen MIKHAIL – NURSERY 3. Fill a plain white A4 page And the sublime 4. Include no text, just an image which MISS TIDEY could include a crest, animals or foliage. 5. Be suitable for both Falkner House
FINAL THOUGHT: Girls and Boys 6. Include a falcon! Welcome back. I hope you had a splendid half term and enjoyed some of the films listed in our last editions. DO feel free to Must be summited by 12.00pm on send in your thoughts or reviews of any Wednesday 10th June 2020 films you liked… they may get published! Email entries to: [email protected]
The winning entry will be used on future editions! I look forward to see what masterpieces you come up with. You may have noticed the header for The Falkner Flyer has changed! This is to launch a Good Luck! COMPETITION! (The four-leaf clover is a very rare variation of the The previous graphics were inspired by The common three-leaf clover. Times newspaper and different news According to traditional sayings, such publications use different designs to head clovers bring good luck!) their papers both online and in print.
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