Why you should choose me ?

Hello everyone i think i should be the editor of our club because i am top-set in English and am able to efficiently and quickly rectify mistakes in any types of reports and am also very considerate in others speech and take in and approapriately use everything which is said to me .


Thank you .

BBC SCHOOL-REPORT WEBSITE URL :

http://stringerbbc.weebly.com/index.html

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Meeting of Ally Kennen!

Some Sidney Stringer students, who are part of Book Club on Thursday lunch times went on a trip to Ernesford Grange Primary School on 21st October 2011 to meet 36 year old book writer, Ally Kennen.

Ally managed to write her first book at the age of 29 in 2005. She is now a famous, inspiring writer to many children around the world.

When students from other schools asked her about her constant inspiration she gets, Ally replied “I grew up with lots of foster children and so I was obviously inspired by my childhood, brothers and sisters.” She also stated “when I was young, I was deeply passionate about books.”

Ally grew up on a farm and the way she described when she is writing a book is by ‘writing simple plans’ and that ‘ghosts come into my head, gives names and characters’.

Ally Kennen also studied Archaeology and history at Birmingham University. Her first book, Beast, was created during an MA in creative Writing at Bath Spa University.

The few questions that were asked by many young students were as follows:

• What’s your favourite part of writing a book?

Here Ally replied – “When the Editor says ‘right Ally we need a new book.’”

She said “It’s like arriving on a completely different landscape.”

• What book did you enjoy writing the most?

She stated ‘the book that I enjoyed writing the most, was ‘Beast’.”

Ally Kennen is an enthusaiastic, captivating writer. She mentioned that the first time she heard one of her books was going to be published she ‘lay on the floor and hyperventilated.” She has still kept her diary from when she was a 7 year old child, still containing many of the stories she came up with at that age.

During the trip, before the students got time to ask the young writer any questions they had, she made it a sort of challenge amongst the group of kids that ‘whomever asked the most intriguing , most brilliant question may get my new book; signed and get a picture taken with me.’

But amongst all the students competing for this moment of fame, a Sidney Stringers pupil manages to steal away all the praise from the writer, herself, Ally Kennen. Liam Kelly, a Lanchester student in Sidney Stringer Academy asked the writer ‘Why did you choose to add plot elements, such as the wasp or Judges list, and then not follow them up?’ He won the challenge.

Liam Kelly got his signed book, ‘Bedlam’, and photograph taken with the writer, along with other students of Sidney Stringer that attended on the trip.

At the end of the day, everyone had a great and enjoyable time and all schools got a signed poster for their school library along with signed Ally Kennen books.

Visit To Transport

On Thursday 10 November 2011 at 3:30 the BBC News Reporter went to the transport museum and found some great facts.

The facts we found were really interesting and I am going to now share them.

Here is one of them which is called The Phoenix

In 1948 Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) opened a new city square in Broadgate. This was the symbolic beginning of Coventry reconstruction. The city chose as its symbol a phoenix rising from the ashes.

Another one is called Standard vanguard phase II

In February 1954 Standard became the first British car maker to offer a diesel engine as a factory fitted option. The chassis was stiffened to take the weight of the heavier engine and performance suffered with 65 mph (105 km/h) about the top speed. Like the petrol engines, the diesel was a Standard-built "20C" engine developed for the Ferguson tractor. Whilst diesels fitted to the tractor were restricted to 2200 rpm and developed 25 horsepower (19 kW), road-going engines in Vanguards had no limiter and so produced 60 horsepower (45 kW) at 3800 rpm. However, they retained the tractor's "Ki-Gass", de-compressor and over-fuelling systems, all of which had to be manually operated when starting the engine from cold. 1973 diesel Vanguards were made.

And this is all from Monazzam Khan,

Than you

Pool Fight

Pool Fight???

On Thursday 10 November 2011 at 3:30 their was a gang fight with teenagers included in Coventry town centre right next to the transport museum and across the old fire station.

At the scene we saw people with bats and beer bottles. Their were approximately 10 people included in both gangs. They were about to hit each other until one of the staff of our school had called the police and had put an end to the scene as soon as possible.

That one call had saved the day!!!

We heard many swears at the scene and many foul language being used and as the police approached the teenagers had fled and thrown some bottles in a bush and were running with some which we never knew where they were.

The police had come in 6 cars surrounding the area and speaking to the eye witnesses. The people which had witnesses were 5 boys in Miss Benson's class 1 girl in Miss Benson's class and 2 news reporter's from Mr Aires class. We also had seen an undercover cop on the old fire station rooftop looking down at the situation. Their were many weapons involved such as steel poles, base ball bats and many more...

When we interviewed Miss Benson she said ''I had called the police to save my fellow class students from getting in danger and I was shocked at that moment''

After we found one of the beer bottle across Swanswell park laying on the concrete.

At 4:22 their were 5 police men standing outside the museum investigating.

And this was all from Monazzam Khan,

Thank you

Ever heard of a flying fish?

Flying fish are what scientifically known as Exocoetidaes and are mainly found in the world’s tropical and sub tropical oceans. They are coated blue and have large fins that are similarto wings. Flying fish are mostunique for their defense mechanism for when escaping predators in the ocean. They have found that the best way to avoid other fish in the water is to get out of the water itself.

This is what a Flying fish looks like.

By using their large pectoral fins (wings); they are able to take short gliding flights through the air,above the water and around 50cm. Flying fish are occasionally beating the surface of the water with its tail fin (caudal fin) in long their flights. Their main diet is Omnivore & they grow up to 18 in (45 cm).

Some flying fish are able to reach an approximate speed of 30km/hour (20mph). The recorded time for maximum airborne was 45 seconds, filmed by a NHK TV crew near Yakushima,Island,which is the Southern tip of Japan in May 2008.

which one will win

Bonfire night

The 5^th of November is a special occasion in memory of when Guy Fawkes was caught guarding explosives underneath the House of Lords. This saved the life of King James I. November the 5^th in a day of thanksgiving for the failure of the plot.

Nightmare for St Paul

The dean of St Paul's quit on Tuesday due to the protst on the chathedral's doorsteps. the Rv Rev Graeme Knowls said 'I hope and pray that, under new leadership, these issues might continue to be addressed and there might be a swift and peacful resolution.'

The protester have been camping out since the 15th October were given 48 hours to leave or the would be charged.
Who knows what the people will do next?

111-year-old Christmas pud found in back of a cupboard

A 111-year-old Christmas pudding found in the back of a cupboard in Dorset is believed to be the world's oldest.

The limited edition tinned treat was one of only 1,000 sent to Royal Navy personnel in 1899.

The woman who uncovered it at her home said the tinned "Peek, Frean & Co's Teetotal Plum Pudding" had been in her late husband's family for years.

It's thought to have been ordered by Agnes "Aggie" Weston, who was famously kind to sailors during the Boer War.

The pudding's decorative tin carries the message: "For the Naval Brigade, In the Front, With Miss Weston's Best Christmas & New Year, 1900, Wishes."

The family who owned the pudding have now donated it to the National Museum of the Royal Navy.

The museum's collections manager, Victoria Ingles, said: "It is quite remarkable that the pudding has survived for over 100 years.

"It is the only example we know of issued to the Naval Brigade still in existence and quite possibly the oldest surviving Christmas pudding, too," she said.