Shacklewell 2012 £3.0 0 Makeover Magic: Exclusive! Bob & Mrs Thomas

EDITION FIRST Spy SHACKLEWELL 2012 £3.0 0 MAKEOVER MAGIC: EXCLUSIVE! BOB & MRS THOMAS

Flip ME Over ME Flip TALKS FIRST BETTY AS YOU’VE KISSES! NEVER “IT WAS YUK!” SEEN THEM BEFORE!

PLUS: YOUR TEACHERS’ BABY PHOTOS HOW TO BE AN ARSENAL FOOTBALLER MEET JAMES BOND’S STUNTMAN Two MagazinesTwo in One! Say hello to the people behind this first Meet the team: ever issue of iSpy Shacklewell!! Dear Readers,

ongratulations on a fabulous, fun packed first edition of the Shacklewell magazine. What better way to show off the array of Ctalent within our school and our parent/carer FEATURES community. To name just a few, we have artists, writers, designers, photographers and ideas people just busting to be seen and heard and this is a perfect way to do it. Beth Gibbon our launch Editor has worked tirelessly, her vision, commitment, loyalty to the project and her understanding of the children and how to showcase their work really FASHION shines through. The work is outstanding and I hope we see many more editions.

Nicole Reid: Head Of School …and don’t forget the grown ups! PHOTOGRAPHY, ART & DESIGN uge thanks to our team of mentors, whose time and talents have made this magazine possible: parent editor Beth Gibbon and Hher right hand women: Lily La, Sam Dubra and Jodie Cariss, along with Ally Scott, Arzu Tahsin, Adam Rutherford, Emma Light, Georgia Murray, John Sanders, Matthew Cain, Nasema Miah, Rooma Parmar, Ruth Fitzgerald, Samantha Dewhurst and Suat Soruklu. Also our designer Stephen Hall and BOOKS & ITV Creative. PUZZLES Special thanks to members of staff who rummaged through old photo albums, submitted to interviews, underwent drastic transformations (yes you, Bob and Betty) and generally allowed our budding hacks to cut their teeth on them. We hope it wasn’t too painful.

Shacklewell Primary School Shacklewell Row, Hackney, London E8 2EA 020 7254 1415 Tel: Layout and Design: Magpie Designs | http://magpiedesigns.co.uk

0 123 0 123 4 5 67 8 9 0 123 0 1234 5 67 8 9 Mrs Thomas guess who? Tells All! Aww, too cute! Can you match the staff member to their baby picture? Answers at the bottom of the page. Puzzle team: Temilola Olatunbosun, Patrick Mwangi, Zara Zaman, Metendeh Sarif Mentor: Sam Dubra The Shacklewell Superhead talks first kisses, teenage tantrums - and why bedpans turned her to teaching! Words: Chidera Nwanesi and Rozerin Bayram Mentor: Lily La

What are your mum and dad like? A 4 My parents are amazing because they did so many H things for me. My dad is very old-fashioned, he J 2 always said to me “You know, when you grow up you’re going to get married and have children.” He was very much “Career? No career!” But my mum was very much “You know, you have got to have a career and you have got to do everything for yourself.” 3 And nowadays - what does your husband 8 call you? My husband? Its babe! F When you were little, what did you want to be? 1 A nurse. I loved looking after people, and the only E What’s the naughtiest thing you did at school? reason I went into teaching was because I did I got into trouble for talking all the time. Every work experience in a hospital and I had to change year my reports said, “Michelle needs to learn to bedpans. I hated it! I am tidy and clean and I stop talking.” couldn’t do that at all!

And at home? When I was a little bit “ My first kiss? Oh yuk! But he was older and I wanted I 7 to do something and 9 C a good dancer “ B mum said ‘No you can’t’ I’d bang the door, storm off, all So you’re tidy then? those things. I’m very tidy, too tidy. People say I’m a little bit OCD. I don’t like mess anywhere. I’ve managed to control What was your it slightly since I’ve had children because sometimes favourite subject at your house doesn’t look perfect. 10 6 G school? D 5 Oh easy, writing. I Did you have a nickname at school? used to struggle a As a baby on my christening day A (No. 5) Mr. Disu, B (No.8) Betty, C (No.1) Ms.Gill, D (No.3) Miss. Fanny, E(No.9) Mr. Pernice, F (No.4) Miss.Murnane, I was called Harry because before I got married my bit with Maths but G (No.2) Miss.Begum, H (No.7) Mr.O’Garr, I (No.6) Mr.Middleburg, J (No.10) Miss.Dubra maiden name was Harris. English I loved.

0 123 0 12345 67 8 9 0 123 0 1234567 8 9 iSpy’s Columnists get passionate Tell us about What’s the first thing you about a topic close to their hearts your first kiss. do when you get home Shout About! What was it from school? like? Can you guess? I see my My first kiss!! children – and then I DON’T EAT MEAT! KEEP OLYMPIC SPIRIT ALIVE! Oh my goodness. tidy up. Simranjeet Kaur, OK – it was Words: Words: Ryan Neto Da Silva Parent Mentor: Arzu Tahsin at secondary What’s your favourite n my family we school, I went Shacklewell school dinner? only eat meat eam Great to an all girls I like Wednesdays because it’s Going on my first date, age 15 every few weeks Britain did secondary school roast dinner. I like the roast beef, Iand it’s a really good exceptionally and we had a roast chicken, all of it. Age 13, with a new hair do! idea – it’s better for Twell in the Olympics disco and that’s your health and for this summer. It’s where I had my Have you got a favourite fancy dress costume? our planet. Did you really important we first kiss at 14. And I didn’t get married to him, oh I love witches costumes, the blacked out teeth and know that by eating stay inspired! The no yuk! His name was Michael. Why did I like him? hat, all that. less meat and more Paralympics featured ‘Cos I thought he was a good dancer. fruit and vegetables amazing people with I liked Madonna when I was And fave pop song? you can help prevent disabilities who pushed growing up, and I do like Michael Jackson. yourself from getting themselves to do their certain diseases? best and that is a Quick fire round Why did you leave Australia for England? Vegan and vegetarian lesson for everybody, saying that you should never I went backpacking with some friends. We travelled diets can be naturally give up, always try your best. Winners never quit, Cat all round the world, to Africa, CAT OR DOG? low in fat and salt quitters never win. The all through Europe, camping TEA OR COFFEE? Coffee and that helps to Olympics inspired me to and staying in hostels. Then SUNSHINE OR SNOW? Snow reduce our blood try out new sports such I ran out of money. I was PEN OR PENCIL? Pen pressure and as basketball, Lacrosse already a teacher and improve circulation. and loads more. XMAS OR NEW YEAR? Xmas I knew I could work in Rearing animals The Olympics made my CRISPS OR CARROTS? Crisps England so I came here for meat takes up mother take me to the to do supply teaching. TRAIN OR PLANE? Plane lots more of our planet’s resources than growing park more to ride my bike And then I didn’t go JOG OR SLOB? Slob vegetables and crops to eat. Vegetarian food isn’t and play. The Olympics and Paralympics were exciting home. just healthy, it’s also really colourful and tasty. and well organised, especially the opening ceremony. In my opinion the 2012 Olympics was the best so far! Can you tell us a

If you weren’t a Head Teacher, what would you be? secret? I would probably have a shop with a cafe because I My middle like dealing with people and I like cooking as well, name is Jane. especially cakes. (whispers) But don’t let anyone Do you have any hobbies? know that! I love reading and shopping. I’m a real shopper. If I had loads of money that’s what I’d do. New Year’s Eve, when I was 26

0 123 0 123456789 0 123 0 123456789 Why is tap water sometimes Why don’t our cloudy and white? Why do we have seasons? It’s just air! The cloudiness is tiny eyeballs grow? The Earth spins round the sun once bubbles in the water as it comes out a year. But the Earth is not perfectly of the tap. It’s cold in the reservoir ….and why is the sky blue? iSpy asked straight. It’s slightly tilted in space. at the end of your pipes, but warms BBC One’s Superstar Scientist Dallas So that means that the top half is a up a little bit on the way to your Campbell to explain bit closer for half of the year, and the tap. As it warms up the air inside it bottom half is a bit closer the other half froths a bit as tiny bubbles form. If of the year. The Sun is hot, so the half Words: Nadia Hassain, Fahima Akthar, Asha you leave a cloudy glass for a couple that is closer is warmer, and that is Sarif, Evelyn Shlomowitz Parent mentor: Adam of minutes it will go clear as all the Rutherford Summer. Some scientists think that the air rises to the top. Earth is tilted because about 4.5 billion here are some things in life that even years ago, a giant rock crashed into it, teachers can’t explain properly. Like, what knocked a huge chunk off and made it If the earth is spinning wobble off balance. And that chunk flew are bones made of? And, why does my mum What are bones made of? Thave a higher voice than my dad? That’s when you why doesn’t the sea off into space and became the MOON! Bones are what keep us standing up need to call in the real experts - the ones from TV. fall out? rather than wobbling like jellies. They Dallas Campbell is brilliant at making difficult That’s because of gravity, the same look pretty rock solid, but if you cut one science seem simple on his BBC One show Bang force that stops you from floating off in half, they’re actually made of a kind Goes The Theory and we also loved watching him in the ground. Gravity is an invisible of a mesh of hard stuff, with all sorts of Supersized Earth. But what would he make of our force that means that objects are holes and channels inside them. That Shacklewell Science Challenge? Only one way to attracted to each other. The bigger keeps them slightly bendy, which helps find out… they are, the stronger the attraction. us run and jump. But also, the inside of So a planet like Earth is big enough bones is where lots of our blood is made, Why does my mum have a to hold us all down on the surface, so they have all the cells that turn into including all the seas. the blood that keeps us alive. higher voice than my dad? Next time you have a balloon, blow it up a bit and don’t tie it. But pinch Why is the sky blue? the end and let the air out slowly. The The Sun lights up the Earth, and even though it tighter you pinch, the higher the farty looks yellow (don’t look at it directly!) it actually is Why don’t our eyeballs grow squeak of the air coming out. That’s made up of lots of colours mixed together. You can how we make sounds with our voices. see them when it rains and the like the rest of our body? In our throats we have stringy bits light is un-mixed into a rainbow. Our eyes do grow after we’re born, but much slower called vocal chords, and when we talk The sky does that a bit too, but than the rest of us, and they stop when we’re it’s because air is blowing through only filters out the blue light teenagers. So when we’re born, our eyes are almost as them, just like on the balloon. Mums from the Sun, so we can see that big as they will be when we are grown up. That’s one of have slightly tighter vocal chords in the sky. It’s called ‘Rayleigh the reasons why babies look super cute, cos they have than dads, so they have slightly Scattering’ after the dude who such big eyes. squeakier voices. discovered it, Lord Rayleigh.

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Put your observation skills to the test and see if you can find the nine changes for each carpet... photo. Answers at the bottom of the page. It’s Christmas party season so the iSpy Parent mentor: Samantha Dewhurst fashion team gave Bob and Betty a fabulous festive makeover

Fashion team: Lee-Harvey May, Molly Clayton, Zenabu Salaudeen, Rukiya Ahmed, Simranjeet Kaur Photography team: Thomas Goodden, Nilesh Parmar, Sami Mansour _Parent mentors: Rooma Parmar (styling), Nasema Miah (make up), John Sanders (photography)

etty and Bob work so hard to make our school a great place to be that we wanted to give them something back to say thank Byou. We thought about chocolates, we thought about flowers, then we had an even better idea: a glamorous party makeover in time for Christmas!

We worked with a stylist to decide what looks to go for and how we could make Bob and Betty look really different. We decided we wanted Bob to look like James Bond and Betty to look like a celebrity.

Next we asked Beyond Retro, a vintage clothes store in Dalston, if we could borrow some clothes for an afternoon and they said “Yes!” So we wrote a list of all the things we wanted for each outfit and then searched the massive shop to find them.

Back at school we worked with a professional make up artist who had so much make up it was like being in Boots! She talked to us about how to use makeup and we explained how we wanted Betty and Bob to look.

With help from a professional photographer,

Sunglasses on treasure chest | Tie on treasure chest | Hair curl over forehead over curl Hair | chest treasure on Tie | chest treasure on Sunglasses

Different box IPC scrap paper | Picture on top shelf. top on Picture | paper scrap IPC box Different pictures would look amazing. Then Bob and Betty

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roll out the red Laughs Corner rack in the hallway. One hat said by Tavon NelsonIllustration to the other, ‘You stay here, I’ll go on carpet.... Let iSpy tickle your funnybone..... a head.’

What did the big tomato say to the Betty and Bob give their verdict... Jokesmiths: Ellie Maxewell and Thomas Gooden With thanks to Bob, Miss Choudhry and Miss Wiley little tomato? Come on Ketch-up

What did the teddy bear say when he was offered What has four wheels and flies? A BETTY some cake? No thanks I’m stuffed garbage truck What do you like about your What fruit can give you a shock? An electric currant new look? Two silk worms had a race. They I love the glitter and sparkles. ended up in a tie. What’s black and white and red all over? A It is totally different, but I sunburnt penguin A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to really like the bright colours a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask and glamour of the outfits. What do you call a fly with no wings? A walk how he was, a nurse said, ‘No change yet.’ Would you dress like this for a party? Yes. These are not things I would normally pick. But I really like the tops. What type of make up do you normally wear? I don’t normally wear make up so this is a real treat for me. BOB Would you wear this to the What do you like about your Christmas party? new look I might do yes. I loved It is comfortable and stylish. this experience. Would you dress like this How would you rate your for a party? look out of 10? 9 Senaby Soruklu Yes. I really like the shirt and trouser although the boots are a bit uncomfortable. What type of make up do you normally wear? Make up is not really my thing! Would you wear this to the Christmas party? Yes. I think the waistcoat is really brilliant and colorful. How would you rate your look out of 10? 8 Thanks to Beyond Retro for letting us raid their rails.

0 123 0 123 4 5 67 8 9 0 123 0 1234 5 67 8 9 ...footballer ...actor How do you get The First Division Arsenal Football Team, say: Scot Williams, who has appeared in Soldier Soldier and Casualty, says: to be a....… • Spend every spare minute with your football. Some players even slept with theirs as kids! You • Make sure you don’t want to do anything else. If want it to feel like a natural extension of your feet. there’s another job you’d like, do that instead! …stuntman, doctor, footballer, chef? Top • Watch Premier League players to see how they • Keep learning. The best actors treat work like tips from the people who’ve made it strike the ball, control it, head it, and how they get school. Watch actors who are better than you. past opponents. • Be versatile. Act in as many different type of Mary Jeng, Tommy Leonard, Haluk Enes Orhan Words: • Work on your weaknesses. No one knows whether roles as possible. Ruth Fitzgerald Parent mentor: Arsenal’s Santi Cazorla is left or right footed • Have a secret. It’ll make people wonder what’s ...doctor because he practised so much, he’s brilliant with making you smile. both. Dr Ranj from Cbeebies Get Well Soon, says: ...chef • Experiment - play with a tennis ball to improve …...soldier Stephen Fitzgerald, chef with Harbour & Jones, your technique. • Get interested in biology. You need to learn about Sergeant Louise Hill, a Royal Air Force Soldier says: • Join a local club team. Find one in your area at the way living things work. and Combat Medic, says: • Become a good, fast reader - you will need to read www.getactivelondon.com • Buy an alarm clock – it’s early starts in this lots later. • Keep fit, eat properly and exercise. You need to industry! • Get a hobby. Getting into medical school isn’t just be healthy to be a good soldier. • Use your imagination – your food should about good grades, you need to be an interesting • Take an interest in Geography. Look at a map, excite people and make them think, ‘Yum, I person too. recognise all the different countries in the world. want to eat that.’ • Do work experience in a doctor’s surgery or You could end up travelling to any one of them! • Don’t be afraid of mistakes. Some great recipes hospital to see how things really are. • Learn a different language – it helps you look have come from kitchen accidents. clever when you travel. • The best way to learn is to do. Crack an egg at • Be kind and care for everyone around you. home and make an omelette, cook some pasta for Soldiers are there to help others. tea with Mum or Dad - just cook, cook, cook!

...stuntman…for James Bond! Derek Lee, stuntman on seven James Bond films, says: ...sports journalist Simon Ellis-Jones from BBC’s Football • Be a daredevil. ‘When I was young I used to race Focus, says: bikes and do boxing.’ • Hone your acting skills. ‘I got myself signed • Work on your grammar and spelling. If you to the British stunt register and then went to apply for a job in journalism with even one acting school to get my equity card.’ mistake, your letter will go straight in the bin. • Get a head for heights. ‘The highest place I would • Be nice. You never know who is going to be jump from is 90 feet and I’ve done stunts on important so be friendly to everyone. almost every moving vehicle.’ • Buy some really warm underpants. You will • Don’t mind the cold. ‘On one film I was in a car spend a lot of time standing outside training that plunged into sub-zero water. It was freezing grounds waiting for a player or manager to cold and pitch black and I was down there for appear. eight minutes!’

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Think you know your school? iSpy’s photo team took these amazing images, but can you guess where in 2. Quit hanging around and get back to your SATs! Shacklewell School each picture was 4. Bob the Builder is the hero here taken? Answers at the bottom of the 1. Don’t be late – we can see you! page (but NO cheating!) 3. For visitors with muddy shoes

Photographers: Thomas Goodden, Betsey Patterson, Anna Hall Thorpe, Nabiha Malik, Nilesh Parmar, Sami Mansour Parent mentor: John Sanders

5. VIPs only!

6. There’s no escape…

7. Can you hear tummies rumbling? 8. Find a little fun-guy here

9. Good place to learn your colours

10. Time to monkey around 11. Let’s be friends

13. Top dogs inside

12. Welcome to Shacklewell!

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Wall behind behind Wall 14 building, 6 Year of Outside 13 school, of front at board Notice Parents behind Wall 12

Buddy Base in KS1 playground, playground, KS1 in Base Buddy 11 playground, KS2 in frame climbing to Next 10 14. Come on in - it’s always sunny here Nursery, opposite

Wall Wall 9 playground, Nursery in Toadstool 8 hatch, serving kitchen opposite Wall 7 gates, school

Wall by main main by Wall 6 door, Staffroom 5 playground, Nursery in area Construction 4 entrance, main by

Answers: Mat on floor floor on Mat 3 building, 6 Year outside bars Monkey 2 window, room staff in Clock 1 15. Next stop Year 6

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How to make By Karolina Klimczak Teacher

Ham & Rice Maisie Ingram reveals what happened By Patrick Mwangi when she turned Miss for a morning…and why she’d rather be a palaeontologist INGREDIENTS: Rice, Canned Ham Parent mentor: Matthew Cain INSTRUCTIONS: t was freezing cold and I had to do PE. Then First, you cook the ham. one of my best friends came in and said to the Then, you cut it into squares. teacher, “We need Maisie for the newspaper.” Add the ham to hot rice. II was saved! But to stay on the newspaper, I had Finally, have a nice dinner/ to come up with an idea. I know – a pupil teacher lunch! swap! There were just two tiny details: What was I going to teach? And who was I going to teach? How to make They listened well but now and then I’d hear a murmur, which I’d have to settle. About half way Egg & Bread Suddenly it came to me. Year Ones! They will pay through Miss put up her hand and asked a very attention to absolutely anything and they are really thoughtful question so I gave her a bronze! It felt cute! But what could I teach? That took a bit more By Temilola Olatunbosun amazing. I had power over kids a bit younger than thinking. Eventually I decided to read to them. My me and I even had power over A TEACHER. It INGREDIENTS: mum suggested one of the Alfie books because when was epic!!! Egg, Bread, Oil, Salt, Bowl I was six, I loved them. I chose Bonting, the perfect story for six-year-olds. INSTRUCTIONS: “It felt really weird being taught On the morning of the swap, I went into Miss Hulstrom’s Crack the egg in the bowl then class, 1W, shaking all over. I sat in the by a person younger than me. I was whisk it with a fork. When chair and waited for the children grateful to Maisie for introducing you’re finished put salt inside. and Miss Hulstrom to come in. me to the story, which was exciting. Next pour it in the frying pan Suddenly I was surrounded by and flip it with the frying stick what felt like 50 six-year-olds, I’d happily call on her when we need a and press it down. When it’s although later it turned out supply teacher.” - Miss Hulstrom cooked put it on the plate and there were only 25. I introduced cut the bread then this is what myself and explained what it will look like: I was doing in their teacher’s chair Overall it was really fun but I’ll never take and why Miss advantage of my teacher again because believe Hulstrom was now me it’s tricky to handle a class of children. Miss a pupil. Then I also said that she would choose me over a supply picked up Bonting teacher. But I think I’ll stick with my plans for and began… palaeontology. At least fossils don’t talk back!

0 123 0 123456789 0 123 0 123456789 ‘WE TOTALLY OWN THIS PLACE’ and make noise to grab our attention and snap a all about animals good photo. Luckily that doesn’t happen much. HEAD GOOSE ABIGAIL ON WHO’S REALLY I love it here at Hackney City Farm – especially IN CHARGE iSpy goes down on the farm to bring you during Christmas time. They give us extra straw to exclusive interviews with Hackney’s keep us warm, and they have CCTV everywhere to Of all the geese, I’ve been at Hackney City Farm hottest breeds keep us safe. The keepers are so lovely and the longest so I’m showing the two new girls how we get extra food things are done around here. We were really sad to Cam’Ron Johnson, Canan Ugurlu, Joy Words: for Christmas! lose Gregory earlier this year. He was the only male Cullinane, Precious Amadi goose and he’d been here right from the beginning – Mentor: Lily La 28 years altogether.

‘AS IF I NEED TO DIET!’ Although we’re quite small compared to some of the other animals, LARRY THE DONKEY TALKS POLOS AND we totally own this DIET PLANS I’m 15 years old and I share my stable with place. We’re known as protective and Clover, who’s new. feisty creatures, and we live up to that. We’re always on guard, and if Before she came, I Charlie, the Livestock Carer Farm Facts there’s any trouble, we deal with was really lonely, Charlie has worked at Hackney City Hackney City Farm is 28 years old it. No one messes with us! Don’t so I like having Farm for 5 years. She started as a It has: 7 sheep, 2 donkeys, 2 goats, 2 get me wrong though, we’re very her to keep me volunteer when she was 14-years-old. calves, 3 pigs, 50 chickens, 20 ducks, 3 friendly as well, and I love it company. Our keeper She looks after all the animals and geese, 4 guinea pigs and 8 rabbits. when the children come and wakes us at 8am. also helps with the pregnant animals. In the past, ducks and chickens have play with us. I’m not too keen on Her favourite animals are the calves, escaped but they’ve always been caught early starts so she donkeys and pigs. She wants to work Mascave the Goose flew away and went Everyday the keeper unlocks our tempts me with my with more animals in the future. to live in a canal. favourite polo mints shed bright and early so we can and apples. Me and go out on the concourse to play, eat Clover both have a and drink. We always know when it’s really sweet tooth time because we hear the keys jangling so we just can’t and we get ready to run. All the birds resist. It beats the hang out on the concourse. There are loads dry straw they’re of chickens and ducks so it gets really lively and always giving us. They fun out here. call it our ‘diet food’ and we hate it – as if we need to go on a diet! It’s almost Christmas and it’s getting cold, but we’re warm in our feather coats and At 10am, the farm opens, so people start coming to we’re looking forward to the decorations visit us. I feel happy when they stroke my face and and the extra food! back. They give us sneaky treats sometimes, which ...With huge thanks to the humans and makes my day. I sometimes get annoyed when animals of Hackney City Farm! visitors aren’t very caring. Some wave their arms

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Esme Brook invites iSpy round to show us a few of her favourite things Head of School, Ms Reid gives us a glimpse into her world. Cameron St.Hiliare , Polly Tolo is soft and cuddly. Words: Illustrations: Bunny hot water bottle keeps Sanders I have had him since I was a baby. , Beatrice Rutherford me nice and warm during winter.

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Jamaica. Heidi by Johanna Spyri is my Bobble is a sweet little cat favourite book. I love the story. Favourite Discoveries? who I sleep with every night. iPhone Applications.

My mummy painted this picture. I First thing you do when you get My granny gave this little have it in my bedroom. home? heart in a box to me. Kiss my children.

Favourite shops? ‘Cos’, for clothes and fashion, ‘John Lewis’ for everything else! What would you do as Mayor for a day? [mobile phone] My Ban emails! my stuff phone helps me keep Earliest London Memory? in touch with all my Arriving at Heathrow in the freezing cold. Where do you go to let your hair down? friends and family. I’ve I like going to posh restaurants or the theatre. Mr Cowdrill talks about the things that got lots of family but I Ever had a run-in with the police? mean the most to him try and talk to my close Yes – rushing my daughter to Which building would you like to be locked in Words: Polly Sanders and Beatrice Rutherford family every week. hospital and the cab driver overnight? got stopped by the police! The Gherkin. [bike pump] This [guitar] I really enjoy making music and I love the represents my bicycle, Biggest Extravagance? Which animal would you most like to be? sound this guitar makes. I’ve had it for nearly 12 which is really I spend a lot on Probably a rabbit because they are fluffy and warm. years. It comes with me on holiday, in fact it’s got important to me. I cycle holidays. I am off to bits of sand in it. everyday - to school, to Miami this year for Who’s your hero? see live bands and to go shopping. I’ve even gone on Christmas. My hero is my son, Ethan – who is only 3 years old! [orange] Healthy eating is really important to me holiday on my bike, with all my camping gear on the and I love fruit. It tastes delicious. back. It keeps me fit and healthy too. Best advice you’ve Favourite meal ever? ever been given? Has to be Tapas. [sewing box] My mum and Grandma taught me [pack of cards] ‘When life hands to sew and I use this sewing box lots because I like My brother and I grew up playing card games with you lemons, make What do you collect? to look after my clothes. If there’s a small tear I’ll our grandparents, and nowadays when I see my lemonade.’ I collect a lot of shoes. And clothes! fix it rather than buying new clothes that use lots of friends we play quite a lot of games together as well. resources.

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It’s darling! iSpy’s fashionistas talk us through their looks for this season

Style team: Heba Abdu | Ellie Granger | Nabilah Choudhury Janet Meadows | Danique Palmer | Ceyda Borucu

Parent Mentor: Ally Scott

Danique Palmer ‘I like the army look because everything Ceyda Borucu unky wunky matches, and I like the palettes.’ Ellie Granger ‘The face earrings are a nice feature, ‘The colours are very bright, and the nail varnish and I like the skates because they goes well with the dress.’ f match the dress.’ It’s driving me gaga F uri Furi Laces

Ceyda Borucu ‘I like that it is all the same fabric and it’s colourful.’ Ceyda Borucu Janet Meadows ‘The top and the skirt are really Nabilah Choudhury ‘I love the lacy look. I like the mask ‘This is a funky, babelicious look. It’s for 14-17 year colourful and the jacket has got olds so no older adults should try this look!” lovely patterns.’ the most because it’s furry.’

0123 0 12345 67 8 9 0123 0 1234567 8 9 DEAR EDA... I’m scared about my SATs I understand that taking SATs can be scary. I’m iSpy Agony Aunt Eda Dirgen puts your doing mine this year and I feel scared too! It’s OK problems in perspective to feel scared. When I feel scared, sometimes I find it helpful to talk to a friend about my feelings Parent mentor: Emma Light and I start to feel a bit better. Make sure you study ha rd!!! A new girl has started in my class who is really popular and I feel jealous of her because she has My little brother annoys me when I’m busy more friends than me. I have an annoying brother as well! He changes I know how this feels because when I was younger I the channel on the telly when I’m watching it! had a similar problem - I also felt jealous and very Sometimes, when your brother is being annoying angry of a new girl in my class because she had he might just want to play with you. You could ask more friends than me! I think you could chat to him to leave you alone whilst you are busy but say your friends in your class about what’s going on for that you will play with him when you have finished you. I think that they will understand that you are what you are doing. If he still annoys you, you could feeling left out, and will start to play with you again. tell your parents what’s happening and they will ask him to stop.

On the carpet my friend makes me laugh and I get I want a cat but my dad doesn’t let me. in trouble with my teacher

It’s a good idea to ask your dad why you can’t have First of all, you could ask your friend if she could a cat. There could be lots of reasons, for example: stop making you laugh because you want to be able cats are too expensive, your dad’s worried about to hear the teacher and not get in trouble. If she who will take care of the cat or he might be allergic won’t stop, it’s important that you say something to cats! When you know the reason, you could talk to your teacher because you are getting in trouble to your dad about it and you could agree what you and it’s not your fault. It’s also important that could do to help or you could save up your pocket your friend doesn’t distract you so you can do well money to pay for it. with your education. I think your teacher will Your dad might just understand what’s happening and will talk to your want you to wait friend as well to make sure she doesn’t until you are a distract you anymore. bit older.

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iSpy’s book reviewers give us the lowdown I loved this because it told me a on the latest releases lot about Anna’s house and about Africa. In every chapter it says Parent mentor: Georgia Murray “Anna Hibiscus lives in Africa, Fizzlebert Stump: the Boy Amazing Africa”. It was funny Who Ran Away From the because her brothers were called Circus (and Joined the Double and Trouble and she tied them to the table leg. Library) By A. F. Harrold My favourite chapter was ‘Sweet Snow’. Anna wanted to see snow so she wrote a letter to her Fizzlebert Stump is a boy that granny in Canada and said “Please could I come to lived in a circus with all of the see some snow?”. At the end, a letter comes from animals. He was the only child her granny and she finds out if she can go to see in the circus, all of the other actors were adults. the snow. And her cousins make pretend snow with Fizzlebert Stump did not have anyone to play with, leaves from the trees in the garden! except the sea lions. Fleur Fitzgerald Year 1 I enjoyed this book. I think it was marvellous, it makes you want to read more. My best bit is when The Mystery of he ran and joined the library. I am not giving away Wickworth Manor A big thank you to the children’s any information by telling you this because the title by Elen Caldecott publishers Hot Key Books, Bloomsbury tells you anyway. Overall I would rate it 5 out of 5 This is an adventure and Orchard for providing books. because it was fantastic. story. The main Ellie Maxwell Year 4 characters are Curtis and Paige. In the beginning they are Fire Spell Shrunk! By F.R. Hitchcock by Laura Amy Schlitz on a bus and Paige pressed a tarot card Shrunk! is about a boy called This book is about a young girl Tom who can shrink things on the back seat of the bus and spoke in her best Dracula accent. In the story a painting called Clara Wintermut. It’s her when he makes an O shape birthday and a puppet master with his hand, and does a of the Wickworth boy is found by Curtis and they want to solve the mystery in different and his two orphan helpers click with his hand. Here is come to Clara’s birthday party some stuff he has shrunk: ways. Curtis wants to go to the library and Paige wants to speak to the ghosts. They find to perform a spellbinding pumpkin, bench, planet. show. But that night when the He shrunk the planet Jupiter and he found out that clues. They are not friends at the start but my favourite part is when they become friends curtains close and darkness Earth was in grave danger. I liked all of it because falls Clara disappears. If you want to know any it made me feel like I was in it. Tom shrunk the and then they work together. Because it has everything I want I will give it 5 out of 5. more you will have to get the book. It’s for 8 to 10 mean kid because he had deserved it! His grandma year olds. I liked the book because it had loads Lola Light Year 2 can shrink things too! If I could shrink anything I of cliffhangers and was scary. I rate it 5 out of 5 would shrink a garden!I give this book 55,555 out stars. of 55,555. Betsey Patterson Year 5 Patrick Mwangi Year 3

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