Edited by Sam Lupson

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.