Edited by Sam Lupson
Bonus Section! Children of the World Written By: Louie Bailey So then, here we are, and after a sneak peek at the Pre-Prep Christmas play I can tell you readers all about it.
was accompanied by the amazing Pre-Prep teachers, and the brilliant drama/music teacher, Mrs Lund. The show was also It all started when Lochinver for- supported by a slide-show, which got the true meaning of Christ- helped keep the play together. mas, so six angels win the right Down below we have a picture of one of the slides, and for the first to search the globe for the real time ever, a few sentences from meaning. Each angel was asthe editor, Sam Lupson! signed to a country and there were a lot of fun and games, like dancing, singing, finding out tra- I thoroughly enjoyed the perforditions and working out the true mance. It was a heart warming meaning of Christmas. and uplifting example of what DANGER, by watching the proChristmas is about. Each line was duction we were exposed to spoken with passion and heart large amounts of incredible cuteness! All of Reception, Year One and Two were involved which made for a very enjoyable play. Lochinver eventually find true Christmas spirit and hence could enjoy Christmas once more! The show
Gaming Space Invaders Written By: Eddie Hodgkiss I know this is a really old game (it was made in 1978) but it is still considered to be one of the best video games of all time.
certain number of points. The aim of the game is to get the most amount of points before you die.
Overall Space Invaders is a pretty The storyline is that aliens attack decent game, even though the Earth. It is your job as player to graphics suck and it was made in make sure they don't. 1978. Despite it being a bit reEvery wave you complete more petitive at times and bad aliens attack you. The aliens get graphics (but it was made in the harder over time. Some have so seventies, however, so was Star much health it takes 10-50 shots Wars, but their effects still hold up), this to kill one. Different variants cost different Like Pac-man, Space Invaders has had a lot of different variants amounts, but get one of them. including Mininvaders and Space RATING: 3/5 Invaders DX. The houses protect you from the invaders. How? Well, the aliens must go around them, but there is a twist,. The houses take damage from every alien goes around it. Every alien you kill you get a
Science Is there water on Mars? Written By: Aman Patel Scientists may be celebrating that there is water on mars. Liquid water runs down canyons and crater walls over the summer months on Mars, according to researchers who say the discovery raises the chances of there being life on Mars.
terns. Scientists are unsure where the water comes from, but it may rise up from underground ice or salty aquifers, or condense out of the thin Martian atmosphere.
Michael Meyer the lead scientist The trickles leave long, dark of NASA Mars exploration said stains on the rocky terrain that “The only way to prove there is can reach hundreds of metres , water on Mars is to get a group but they now face some serious questions about how they can in- of astronauts to check and bring back samples with them” vestigate further and look for signs of life on the red planet. downhill in the warmer months, before they dry up in the autumn as surface temperatures drop. Images taken from the Mars orbit show cliffs, and the steep walls of valleys and craters, streaked with summertime flows that in the most active spots combine to form what look like pat-
Science How is lava formed? Written By: Aman Patel Rocks in the mantle and the core are still hot from the formation of the Earth about 4.6 billion years ago. When the Earth formed, material collided at high speeds. These collisions generated heat (try clapping your hands together they get hot) that heat became trapped in the Earth. There is also heat within the earth produced by radioactive decay of naturallyoccurring radioactive elements. It is the same process that allows a nuclear reactor to generate heat, but in the earth, the radioactive material is much less concentrated. However, because the earth is so much bigger than a nuclear power plant it can produce a lot of heat. Rocks are good insulators so the heat has been slow to dissipate. This heat is enough to partially melt some rocks in the upper
mantle, about 50-100 km below the surface. We say partially melt because the rocks don't completely melt. Most rocks are made up of more than one mineral, and these different minerals have different melting temperatures. This means that when the rock starts to melt, some of the minerals get melted to a much greater degree than others. The main reason this is important is that the liquid (magma) that is generated is not just the molten equivalent of the starting rock, but something different The magma then rises to the surface and becomes lava (lava is just magma above ground level).
Sport Jona Lomu Written By: Avi Shah Jonah Tali Lomu was a boy of Tongan decent who lived in New Zealand. He was the youngest ever New Zealand rugby player making his debut at the age of 19 in the year 1994. After representing his under 19 side the year before.
superstar rugby player and was the person that made rugby a professional sport. He is said to have made thousands of people interested in rugby.
His first international try came on his third appearance. In his first game of the 1995 world cup against Ireland. He also went on to score again against them. In total he ended up scoring a staggering 37 trys in international rugby for the All Blacks. Of these, 15 came in World Cups in only 11 world cup games, the most by anyone ever.
land where he bulldozed through the English back row to score.
There are only two top tear rugby teams against which he hasn’t scored a try. They are South AfriDuring his early career he was a ca and Wales. Number 8 until he played for the In the 1995 World Cup he was All Blacks under 19s when he made famous by scoring the first played on the wing. try in the semi final against Eng-
He is also said to be the first ever
It was voted the try of the tournament. In the final, against the Springboks, there was no tries scored and the game was decided by a drop goal in the 80th minute to win it for his side, 15– 12.
Sport Jona Lomu Written By: Avi Shah In 1995, after the World Cup, the Tri-Nations tournament between South Africa, Australia and New Zealand launched the professionalism in international rugby.
sional rugby in 2005. He went to his provincial team in New Zealand, North Harbour. He also went all the way round the world to play for the Cardiff Blues. His stay there Unfortunately in 1996, he was di- was riddled with injury and he agnosed with a serious kidney dis- went back the North Harbour, hoping to reclaim his All Black place in order which stopped him taking part in the sport. He came back in the side. Unfortunately he was left a game against Wales at Wembley out of the 2007 World Cup. He reand England at Old Trafford on the tired from professional rugby in that year but still played in charity All blacks tour of the Northern matches. Hemisphere. In the 1999 World Cup he came on as a sub and scored two tries in the semi-final. Despite this they lost and did not progress to the final. There was speculation that he would move to America to play American Football and ditch rugby. He did no such thing and went back to New Zealand. He retired in 2002 because he needed a kidney transplant. He made his comeback to profes-
He was hospitalised for a over a week in 2011. His condition caused him to pull out of a charity boxing event. Unfortunately he died in 2015 due to the same condition which ended his career.
Fantasy Origins T.I.E Written By: Louie Bailie Earlier I promised that I would do a T.I.E fighter article, so now I am. A single T.I.E is no match for an X-wing, yet they are designed to be mass produced. They are speedy, have a standard amount of firepower, but don’t have life support, a force field generator, or hyperdrive, so pilots have to rely on their decidedly basic lifesustainer, built into their suits. A T.I.E has a distinctive sound, so they can be heard from almost a mile away, which is both a strength and a weakness. Just so you know, ‘T.I.E ‘ Stands for “twin ion engine.” Each squadron contains ten units, and each unit consists of one fighter. Almost two-thousand generic T.I.E fighters protected the original Death Star, another three-thousand variants of it were there as well. That’s excluding all the shuttles and
support craft, also T.I.Es, but not based off the fighter. If I knew how many variants of T.I.E there were, of course I would tell you but new types are being invented all the time, but I can tell you that there are more than 12 different types. If you readers found that boring then you’re in luck, as there will only be four more articles on the Star Wars universe that I have planned. Until next time, so long.
