THE CANARY CRUNCH NEWS - INTERVIEWS - ENTERTAINMENT - FUN & GAMES - GOODBYE YEAR 6 t l's ou choo r! S umme for S RACHEL ROONEY TEACHER TOP TRUMPS! talks about her poetry book , memories of Collect your cards inside this issue! school and top tips for wanna-be-writers. CLARE BALDING CHRISTOPHER EDGE shares her love of talks about his mind-bending sci-fi books & horses and writing we have a special review of his NEW book! with The Crunch! CANARY WHARF COLLEGE'S TERMLY MAGAZINE - RUN BY KIDS, FOR KIDS! ISSUE 03 EDITORS' NOTE For the first time in Crunch history, there are TWO editors! Here's a quick hello to all our Crunch Munchers*! This is the last Crunch of this year (and the last one for Year 6) so we're here to make it our best one yet! So lose yourself in a funny, witty, fascinating and fantabulous issue of the Crunch. We wish you all a lovely Summer! Maud & Daria *readers M E E T T H E T E A M The Crunch Bunch... This is the final term of Media Club for this academic year. Our editorial team consists of 12 budding journalists, including: Oliver, Maud, Bella, Daria, Emma L, Issy, Safiya, Amber, Giulia, Tabitha, Natalia and our newest member Sofia! We also grew the leadership team to include two editors this time around and Maud and Daria have done an excellent job of proofing writing and keeping everyone on task! Absolutely everything you read in this magazine has been written, designed, proofed and edited by this brilliant 'crunch bunch'! Pretty amazing, right? Sadly, this will be Miss Phillips' last term serving as the magazine's publisher as she will be leaving Canary Wharf College at the end of the school year. The team running Media Club this year have been instrumental in setting up the school's first ever professional termly magazine and our Year 6 members will be sadly missed! Even though they'll be leaving us to, they have certainly left a legacy behind that will be hard to live up to! If you would like to join The Canary Crunch Team next term (Y5 and 6 only), then please write a letter of application to Miss Atterton explaining WHY you would make an excellent member of the Crunch Bunch. Make sure you proof read your letter for spelling mistakes and use your best vocabulary! Miss Atterton is accepting applications NOW! THE PLAYGROUND Miss Phillips wrote this poem last year for her Literacy Group (these children are now in Year 6) on National Writing Day 2018. It was inspired by James Coles' The Staff Room. The Playground Do you know what happens THE at half past ten? When those pesky kids PLAYGROUND head out to their concrete den? Well, just this morning, A POEM BY MISS PHILLIPS I decided to creep out onto the top deck to take a quick peek and this is what I saw... Edgar had turned into a Tasmanian devil. He was running so fast, his hair was dishevelled! He ran rings 'round Miss Hadley; she was in peril. I thought to myself, 'These kids are the devil!' Tabitha and Maud were sat eating slugs. Yoana and Amber strode about like two thugs. Bella and Kai stood guard like raging bull dogs, whilst Clemence forced Mr. Payne to eat bugs! Oliver stood proudly upon his little soap box. He was forming an army - that sly little fox! These children were traitors, it made me so cross! I couldn't believe it. I fainted in shock. Giulia and both Emmas threw stones at the glass, Natalia and Gabriel just stood there and laughed. I saw Henry and Daria erecting some sort of mast, a flag that read, 'NO MORE TEACHERS!' Oh no, will I last? Lukas was screaming loudly. What's that he said? 'DOWN WITH THE TEACHERS! OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!' Arianna was cheering. My heart filled with dread. I'd better tell the others before we all end up dead! Now I know what happens by ten forty five. To be honest, I'm lucky I made it through break time alive! By Miss Phillips Goodbye Year 6! Wishing you ALL the very best of luck for Secondary school - and beyond! Christopher Edge by Natalia 6EA Christopher Edge is an award-winning children’s author whose books have been translated into more than twenty languages. He has authored articles on reading and education for publications such as The Guardian and Teach Primary- magazine. Christopher grew up in Manchester, where he spent most of his childhood in the local library dreaming up stories, but now lives in Gloucestershire, where he also spends most of his time in the local library dreaming up stories. Are your characters based on a person or thing, or are they pure imagination? Most characters come straight from my imagination, although the next-door neighbor's cat in The Many Worlds of Albie Bright was based on a real cat... When/how did you gain interest in writing? When I was growing up, I loved reading and filled myself with so many stories that my own started spilling out of my head. Every writer is a reader and every reader can be a writer too. What is your favorite book you've written so far? My new book, The Longest Night of Charlie Noon. What book are you currently reading and what is your favorite book you've read so far? One of my all-time favorite books is 'The Dark is Rising' by Susan Cooper and I've just started reading 'Kat Wolfe Takes The Case' by Lauren St John. In all the characters you've created so far, which is the most like you? Did you make them like that on purpose? I think every character has a part of me in them, but maybe Charlie in The Longest Night of Charlie Noon. How long (on average) does it take to write a book? It's always different. The first draft of The Infinite Lives of Maisie Day was written in six weeks, but that's the fastest yet! Did you have trouble finding a publisher, or were your books just too good? ;) Most writers have a file of rejection letters and I'm no different. One of the most important qualities you need to be a writer is persistence. Do you ever get bored writing books, or is it more of a hobby? My head's still full of stories, so I'm not bored yet! Who inspired you while writing books? Every story that I've ever loved has inspired me in some way. So many writers such as Neil Gaiman, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Ursula Le Guin and Jan Mark to name only a few. the longest night of charlie noon: a review and a sneak peak I've had the chance to read this adventure of a book and YOU are getting an exclusive glimpse into this endless experience of time, a torrential expedition of humor, horror, adventure and magic. "If you go into the woods, Old Crony will get you." Charlie,Dizzy and Johnny venture deep into the woods, what will they find there? Secrets, spies, a monster? With codes to crack, and trees to climb, they must survive through the pitch black of the night; completely unprepared... IT'S TIME TO COOL DOWN Do the Summers seem to be getting hotter and hotter? Feel like you need more ice cream? That is probably because the summers are increasing in temperature due to a environmental problem called global warming (or climate change). Due to how we are treating Global warming (or, more commonly known our only world, our the as the climate crisis) is the process of our temperature is rising, world heating up. In each decade, our world causing all kinds of has heated up approximately 0.15-0.2°C, I unexpected natural know that sounds like a little amount but it disasters like floods and has a major impact of the environment and droughts. But this is animals. happening now, all over the world, and its up to our Icebergs are melting, animals are dying and generation to fix it (sorry you are going to make a change once you teachers). In this article you have read this page. I hope you enjoy my will find out how it's caused, last article as a Canary Crunch member. what it's doing and how to stop it. Are you ready to save the world? I hope so. The count down to stop climate change: 5. Don't use single-use plastics, this is a global problem, plastic releases toxic chemicals into the air that cause climate change. 4. Recycle, you know how to do it. 3. Cycle to school, unless you are too far, no greenhouse gases. 2. Plant trees, you can never have to many. 1. Don't leave the television on standby, and turn out the light. Many people know about this catastrophic problem, and fortunately, they are making a change. Over the time we were on spring holiday, there were many Extinction Rebellion environmental protests. My dad went on one of them and brought our puppy. So they protested with many other environmentalists for eco dreams. This is a carbon dioxide chart, carbon is a toxic gas, it's deadly. It has change shockingly in only 70 years The truth: Global warming affects you, animals and our world. It is making start to eat seals and food from Britain may go down in literal and figurative smoke! THIS IS REAL! ACT NOW, OUR WORLD DEPENDS ON YOU WWF (World Wildlife Fund) Do you know what the World Wildlife Fund is? If you don't then feel free to read on! The WWF is an amazing charity that you should totally donate to.