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The Falkner Flyer Edition Eleven: 12.06.2020 1 T H E F A L K N E R F L Y E R LONDON FRIDAY 12th JUNE 2020 WELCOME to the eleventh edition of built by Stan Winston's team. Following The Falkner Flyer. CONGRATULATIONS its’ 3D re-release in 2013 to celebrate its 20th to Claudia in Year 5 for winning our new anniversary, Jurassic Park became the masthead competition! See her brilliant work seventeenth film in history to surpass above. Thank you, Claudia! $1 billion in ticket sales. The film won more This week we look at The Best of than twenty awards, including Everything in film, literature and more. three Academy Awards for its’ technical achievements in visual effects and sound THIS WEEK: design. Jurassic Park is considered a landmark On the 11th June in the development of computer-generated 1993 the film imagery and animatronic visual effects. (Click on film poster left for the trailer.) Jurassic Park, directed by Steven VIDEO: Spielberg, Watch The starring Sam True Story of Neill and Jeff Jurassic Goldblum opened. Park's It set a T. Rex Animatronic for a behind the box scenes account of the creation of the T-Rex. (Click on photo above for a YouTube video.) office weekend record of $502 million. Jurassic Park is an American science fiction adventure. It is the first instalment in the Jurassic Park franchise, and is based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Michael Crichton, and a screenplay written by Crichton and David Koepp. The film is set on the fictional island of Isla Nublar, located off Central America's Pacific Coast near Costa Rica. Filming took place in California and Hawaii between August and November 1992, and post-production rolled until May 1993, supervised by Spielberg in Poland as he filmed Schindler's List. The dinosaurs were created with groundbreaking computer-generated imagery by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), and with life-sized animatronic dinosaurs THE FALKNER FLYER EDITION ELEVEN: 12.06.2020 1 T H E F A L K N E R F L Y E R LONDON FRIDAY 12th JUNE 2020 FAMOUS PERSON: Books by Eva Ibbotson: (Click on book EVA IBBOTSON covers for links) Journey to the River Sea It is 1910 and Maia, tragically orphaned at thirteen, has been sent from England to start a new life with distant relatives in Manaus, hundreds of miles up the Amazon. She is accompanied by an eccentric and mysterious governess who has secret reasons of her own for making the journey… The Secret of Platform 13 Born: 21st January 1925 Died: 20th October 2010 Under Platform 13 at King's Cross Station there Eva Maria Charlotte Michelle is a secret door that leads to Ibbotson (née Wiesner) was an Austrian- a magical island . born British novelist, known for It appears only once every her children's books. Some of her novels for nine years. And when it adults have been successfully reissued for opens, four mysterious the young adult market in recent years. figures step into the streets of London…. For the historical novel Journey to the River Sea (Macmillan, 2001), she won the Smarties One Boy and his Dog Prize in category 9–11 years, garnered unusual commendation as runner up for All Hal ever wanted was a the Guardian Prize, and made the Carnegie, dog - but a dog would Whitbread, and Blue Peter shortlists. She damage the expensive was a finalist for the 2010 Guardian Prize at carpets in his parents' the time of her death. Her last book, The glamorous home, and they Abominables, was one of four finalists for the refuse to consider one. same award in 2012. That's until they discover (Click on her photo above for more information on Easy Pets, a dog-rental agency and the her books.) adventure begins… THE FALKNER FLYER EDITION ELEVEN: 12.06.2020 2 T H E F A L K N E R F L Y E R LONDON FRIDAY 12th JUNE 2020 EXPLORE: (Suggested by Mrs Hankey) The Little Prince, Le Petit Prince, is by French aristocrat, writer, and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime is one of the best- Emmy®-nominated and award-winning selling and most children’s literacy website, Storyline translated Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated books ever actors reading children’s books alongside published, selling creatively produced illustrations. Readers an estimated 140 million copies worldwide. include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen It has been translated into 361 languages and Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, dialects. (Click on book covers for links.) Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and LEGO: (Provided by Miss Day) dozens more. Storyline Online receives over 100 million views annually from Challenge Twenty-One: You children all over the world. are hired to build a brand-new (Click on logo above for the link) hospital. BOOKS: Challenge Twenty-Two: The garden fence is broken, and your The Lord of the dog keeps escaping. Build a fence Rings is one of that no creature could escape the best-selling from. novels ever written, with over Send photos of your models to: 150 million copies [email protected] sold. It is an epic high-fantasy novel APP: (Click on logo below for the link) written by English author and Reading Prep scholar J. R. R. Comprehension Tolkien. The story Try the most advanced began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 fantasy reading comprehension novel The Hobbit, but eventually developed tool in the App Store into a much larger work. for free! THE FALKNER FLYER EDITION ELEVEN: 12.06.2020 3 T H E F A L K N E R F L Y E R LONDON FRIDAY 12th JUNE 2020 The Reading Comprehension app series: MUSIC: designed for students and their families who are looking for an advantage in solidifying Best-selling Single Worldwide their reading and understanding skills: • Start with free original stories White Christmas • Choose between fiction, non-fiction, (1942) by Bing or a mix of both Crosby is the best- • Read and test your comprehension selling single with a variety of questions about the worldwide. It first selected passages featured in the 1942 film Holiday Inn. • Study anywhere and learn at your According to The own pace Guinness Book of • Each passage and question set takes Records, White approximately 5-8 minutes to Christmas has sold over 50 million copies. complete It was released before music charts were created. The song was made more famous in TWEET OF THE DAY: a new version which featured in the film White Christmas (1954). This Cuckoo American musical film was directed Scientific by Michael Curtiz and starring Bing name: Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney Cuculus (Aunt of George Clooney), and Vera-Ellen. canorus Filmed in Technicolor, it features the songs of Irving Berlin. (Click on bird for more information) The cuckoo is a dove-sized bird with blue grey upper parts and head and chest, with The song Candle in the dark barred white under parts. With their Wind 1997 (1997) sleek body, long tail and pointed wings they by Elton John, is the are not unlike kestrels or sparrowhawks. biggest-selling single Sexes are similar and the young are brown. since UK and US singles They are summer visitors and well-known charts began in the brood parasites; the females laying their eggs 1950s. The recording in the nests of other birds, especially was a tribute to Princess meadow pipits, dunnocks and reed warblers. Diana who tragically Their recent population decline makes this a died in a car crash that Red List species. year. It has sold 33 million copies, making it the second best-selling single of all time. THE FALKNER FLYER EDITION ELEVEN: 12.06.2020 4 T H E F A L K N E R F L Y E R LONDON FRIDAY 12th JUNE 2020 SONGS OF THE DAY: And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind White Christmas Never fading with the sunset Sung by Bing Crosby When the rain set in (Click on image for And your footsteps will always fall here YouTube link) Along England's greenest hills Your candle's burned out long before Your legend ever will (Extract from Candle in the Wind 1997 by Elton John) Candle in the Wind 1997 MUSIC: Sung by Elton John (Click on image for YouTube link) The Voice LYRICS: The Classic FM Chart of the Century revealed Russell Watson’s ‘The Voice’ as Goodbye England's rose the single best-selling classical album of the last 20 May you ever grow in our hearts years. You were the grace that placed itself (Click on Where lives were torn apart CD cover image for You called out to our country the YouTube And you whispered to those in pain link and the logo to Now you belong to heaven discover And the stars spell out your name more music) THE FALKNER FLYER EDITION ELEVEN: 12.06.2020 5 T H E F A L K N E R F L Y E R LONDON FRIDAY 12th JUNE 2020 MUSIC: GEOGRAPHY: Katherine Where are Jenkins has the Poor been Knights revealed as Islands? the classical artist who’s A: New sold the Zealand most albums this (Homeland of century so Miss Miller far, at over 2.6 million. Head of Nursery and Mr Philips, Head of Sport at FHB!) (Click on CD cover image for the YouTube link) The Poor Knights Islands are a group of PHOTO OF THE DAY: islands off the east coast of the Northland Region of the North Island of New Zealand.
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