@KCJSWimbledon JUNIOR VIEWS NEWSLETTER FRIDAY 15 May 2020 #452

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As part of our VE Day 75 street party celebrations, Vid-han made the street graffiti design and the VE fan, while Aryan made the VE bunting and poppy wreaths. Aryan & Vidhan

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Last weekend, my triathlon club, Optima Racing Team did a spon-sored charity event where we vir-tually ran/cycled the distance from Kew to Tokyo (where one of our members should have been com-peting in the Olympics this year), a total of 9,556km. I contributed 100km of cycling over the weekend which helped enable the club to not only complete the distance but ac-cumulate over 12,000km. More im-portantly, nearly £10,000 has been raised to date for two excellent charities, the Princess Alice Hospice and Duchenne UK. Harry 3OH

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what have your teachers been up to?

Mr Baker

What I’ve been Reading: Simon Jenkins - A Short History of England. Fascinating re-telling of England’s story since the Saxons.

What I’ve been watching: The Crown (again)

What I’ve been listening to: BBC podcast ‘13 minutes to the Moon’ about the Apol-lo Moon landings.

Something new that I have done: Zoomed all over the world from my kitchen table.

Mrs Gordon

What I’ve been reading: Ant Middleton ‘First Man In’. I love anything to do with adventure and survival! My Everest phase passed last year and now it is SAS.

What I’ve been watching: Call My Agent

What I’ve been listening to: my 14 month old learning to talk! Currently ‘more’ is the fa-vourite..

Something new I’ve done: family quizzes every week on Zoom.

What I’ve been reading: Feersum End-jinn by Iain M. Banks.

What I’ve been watching: Succession and lots of Teletubbies with my son.

What I’ve been listening to: Ludovico Einaudi when working and Khruang-bin.

Something new I’ve done: lots of new curry recipes...

Mr Jay

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www.instructables.com/id/Recycled-Magazine-Pages-Bowl/

Being in lockdown is a great chance to try something new to have to fun! Why not use your recycling to make a fantastic piece of art?

Use bottle caps and buttons to recreate famous works of art

Turn your old magazines and newspapers into colourful bowls and vases(link with instructions below)

Create a beautiful garden from tin cans and plastic bottles

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abundance – “a large quantity of something (usually something good)”

From the Latin abundans (= “overflowing”), which is in turn based on the word unda, meaning “a wave”.

Johnny wondered at the abundance of birds which seemed to be visiting the garden every morning. There certainly seemed to be more around now there was less noise from traffic and planes.

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Monthly Maths Challenge for May

Well done to those who completed the challenge last month! Some of you even modelled the first task using matchsticks! Here are a few challenges for this month, lots of words to work your way through:

1. Jack sells Jill something for less than £1. She pays with a £1 coin.

What coins does Jack need in his pocket to give any amount of change from 1p to 99p? Answer:_______________

2. This number consists of three consecutive digits – though not in ascending or descending order. The middle digit, which is the largest, is a factor of the number.

Find the four numbers that fit this description.

Answer:_______________

What coins does Jack need in his pocket to give any amount of change from 1p to 99p? 3. Tom’s birthday was on Christmas eve 2005 and his mother was born on June 4th 1978.

On what day should Tom reach exactly half his mother’s age?

Answer:_______________

www.youngclimatewarriors.org

Suggested schools’ newsletter text – Friday 15th May 2020

‘a true ecological approach … must integrate questions of justice in debates on the environment, so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor’ Pope Francis, Laudato Si This week is ‘Laudato Si’ week – recognising the 5th anniversary of Laudato Si – a letter written by Pope Francis, the head of the Catholic Church – to everyone on our planet. It asks us to take better care of our common home – the Earth. This 4-minute CAFOD animation explains how ‘the world can’t wait – so let’s make our start today’ - https://youtu.be/KOgF2Kgel6k. It could be a good conversation-starter around why small changes in the way we live can make a difference. This week’s Young Climate Warriors challenge recognising that ‘the world can’t wait’ encourages children to make small changes to the way they live – and to ‘make a start today’. They are challenged to reduce their use of plastic by helping to ‘banish the clingfilm and plastic food bags’- and come up with inventive alternatives to store leftover food.

In the Arctic, each litre of sea ice contains as many as 12,000 pieces of microplastic – this is reducing the ocean’s ability to ‘store’ carbon.

Globally, over 90% of plastic goes unrecycled, even if it’s put in a recycling bin, partly because some products are really tricky to recycle.

This Ted-ed video shows what happens to 3 different plastic bottles after they have been thrown away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6xlNyWPpB8

In 2019, annual carbon emissions from plastic

production and disposal had the same climate

impact as 189 coal-fired power stations.

Around 40% of the plastic produced was for single-

use packaging.