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Hall Mead School
Volume 1
Welcome
Front Page: Laura Caskey
By the Pupils, For the Pupils
Contents Page 1: Important events
Page2: Sound Of Music
Page3: Sport Relief
Page4 Tribute to the Titanic & Film Reviews
Page5: Wall Of Fame
Page6: Game Zone
Page7: PS3 Gaming Reviews
Page8: PS3 Gaming Reviews
Page9: Top Ten & App of the week
Page 10: Agony Aunt
Page 11: Sports news
Page 12: Student voice
Page 13: the Impact team
Editor's note Our first issue! A huge milestone for the team behind “IMPACT”. After
preparing and putting off our launch for weeks-it’s finally here!
This edition has given us some brilliant stories-stories such as; Sport Re-
lief, The Sound Of Music and of course Mr. Lockwood’s hula-hooping com-
petition.
Although we’ve had a few issues along the way, our aim was to get out
this edition to you soon. We know, that our next edition will much better,
much bigger with much much more! So watch this space! We’ve printed
this first edition but our aim is to be ECO friendly so catch us next time
on Moodle or the Hall Mead website.
I hope that you’ll find this issue as action packed and interesting as our
time has been finally getting it out there to you!
Megan and Eloise
(Editor & Director)
Firstly, important events around
school!
WE need to say a BIG GOODLUCK to the year
11’s who will be and have been undertaking their
GCSE’s.
We wish all the best for your exams and hope you
make Hall Mead proud!
Mrs Read and others have been
working hard on the recent jumble
sale and has raised approximately
£900– all which will be going into
out faculties!
We’ve had to say bye to a few teachers
this term...thank you for all your hard
work! You will be missed! Good luck with
your future endeavours and don't forget
to pop in and say hi occasionally!
This Saturday staff are run-
ning in the Brentwood’s ‘race
for life’ in the memory of Mrs
Tynan. Show your support!!
A quick message to raise awareness about a
past student James Riley! He’s been putting
exhibitions up in Havering and even made it
in the newspaper last week. He will putting
up another exhibition in the ‘flat’ soon so
look out for that. Well done James, another
Hall Mead success!
The sound of music is a story about a young lady
called Maria. She wants to be a nun. Her task to be-
come a nun involves her looking after seven young
children. Captain Vonn trapp the father of the seven
children is desperately searching for a new wife and
is unable to look after the children. The story is about
Maria looking after the seven children and then fal-
ling in love with the Captain. Maria and the children
have many adventures along the way but as soon as
the Captain and Maria fall in love the family is com-
plete.
This show was extremely popular and had people
talking about it for ages. Gareth Withers said “ I
had fun being a part of the sound of music, there
were many laughs and I became friends with others I
never expected to get to know.”
We have to say Mrs Lucas’ daughter was the
CUTEST Von Trapp of all!!
Thanks for all your hard work. We thoroughly en-
joyed it!
What’s on next year Ms Garred?
By Laura
The Sound Of Music
Hall Mead School Presents….
Sport Relief
So many students helped during this years sport Re-
lief week. Some of the activities were Cake sales,
teacher challenges, sponsored sporting activities Hula Hoop-
ing, Sponsored silence, car washing and many more...We are
so impressed at the level of contribution from all of the Staff
and pupils here at Hall Mead. At the moment we’ve made ap-
proximately £1,200– but the money is still piling in everyday.
Even Ms Trafford had a go!!
Top Ten
Hi and welcome to the very first edition of impact. I will be doing a top 10 every issue! For
each edition the subject will be different but this time it will is top 10 subjects at Hall Mead
school as declare by the students of Hall Mead
10–Maths
9– Religious studies
8– Art
7– Foreign languages
6– D.T
5– English
4– History
3– P.E
2-ICT
1– Drama
by Jamie
And that is the end of the first top
10 here at Impact newspaper. Check
out the next edition for another top
ten!
The passenger ship R.M.S Titanic were among approxi-
mately 2223 who sailed on the maiden voyage of the
second of the white star line Olympic class ocean liners
from Southampton to New York. Halfway through the
voyage, the ship struck an iceberg and sank in the early
morning of April 15th 1912. Resulting in the deaths of
1517 people including approximately 832 of the passen-
gers. The Titanic passengers were divided into three
classes determined not only the price of their ticket but by
their wealth and social class. Those travelling in first
class were the wealthiest passengers on board were
prominent members of the upper class including busi-
ness men politicians high ranking military personal indus-
trialists bankers and professional athletes. Second class
passengers were middle class travellers including profes-
sors authors clergymen and tourists. Third class or steer-
age passengers were primly immigrants' moving to the
United States or Canada.
by Oliver Rose Grand Staircase of the Titanic
Captain of the Titanic.
A Tribute To The Titanic
Rating: 8/10
Certificate: 12a
Genre: Horror
Review; The story centres on a London lawyer called Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) who has to
take a job in the countryside involving a recently deceased widow. Once there the horrible
truth regarding the town begins to surface and Arthur has to find out who the woman is
before she takes revenge on the people he loves.
By Andrew Jones
Rating: 9/10
Certificate: 12a
Genre: action/comedy/ romance
Review;
This film is about two spies who are also best friends and a woman
caught between the two. One of the spies enters onto a dating web-
site and gets a date with the girl. But his best friend follows him and doesn’t realize that she
was the one he had a date with! Naturally he falls in love with her; that spirals into a very
funny war!!!
SPY VS SPY
Woman In Black
Film Reviews
We know Mrs Sharma is taking her
creative writing club to watch this at
the theatre next month...let us know
what you think!
Wall of Fame
The wall of fame is where we show pupils who have
amazed teachers. So far this year countless of pupils
have been nominated for the Wall of Fame. Well done!!
Here are just a few...
Ms Lucas would like to thank the Head Boy for helping with the fundraising for Can-
cer Research UK. So far Ms Lucas has raised nearly £3000!
Well done to Karisma Rae (7DF) and Bethany Preston (7TL) from the year 7 French
classes have worked exceptionally hard this year, especially to Bethany Preston who
has really put an immense amount of effort in.
Well done to Maisy Port in 8DG who is just a cheerful and energetic girl; always there
to help out in a crisis. Maisy joins in with activities such as the school production and
knows the benefit of working in a team! Thanks Maisy
Ms Fanning would like to mention her class of Year 11s who are voluntarily doing an
extra half GCSE in their own time with her after school! (wow– truly inspiring)
Mr Lockwood would like to say well done to Neida Zelvyte who always works hard
every lesson, always produces great homework and always does her best. Neida
you’re doing brilliantly!
Mr Lockwood would also like to nominate Robert Kenwood in Year 11 (‘who will
probably hate the idea’ says Mr Lockwood). Robert is so focus and his concentration
has improved so much! He’s working positively and productively which means he is
making great progress towards his GCSE target grade! (keep it up)
Well done to Jessica Watkins in 8WMC who produced an excellent assessment that
placed her top of the class.
Mr Rogerson would like to mention 8I because he thinks they are an amazing class.
In particular; Simren Samra, Eliz Hall and Ed Barnes.
Mr Wells would like to congratulate Keenan Ngo who succeeded in Grade 8 piano,
which is very exceptional at Keenan’s age.(congratulations!)
Will your name appear in the next edition...stay tuned for
more wall of fame!
By Katharine
GameZone.
Now I know that many of you who play games would play them on a console like Xbox or ps3
but others (like me) play on their laptop too!
I’m going to start off with a couple of personal favourites, First off it’s...
Team Fortress 2!
“A, crazy, hat collecting, first person shooter!” A common phrase used to describe this game.
It’s on console in a game pack called The Orange Box but the best experience is on the PC.
This is where the customization begins hats, guns, weapons, badges, paint, watches that
make you turn invisible and more! As well as it being FREE on the PC. And on console there
are a couple of bug updates and that’s about it. The game play is quick and explosive and
every class has a pro and a con.
There are 9 mercenaries set into three differ-
ent class’s offensive: The Scout, the Soldier
and the Pyro,
Defensive: The Demoman, the Heavy, and the
Engineer
Support: The Medic, the Sniper and the Spy
There is no storyline it’s
just download, join a
server and play this
frantic game!
But you do need to
download steam first
(the game platform its
run on) search for
steampowered.com!
If you don’t know what portal is, where on earth
have you been for the last decade!
Portal is a game for almost all consoles. You are
a girl named Chell who is trapped in an unknown
facility called ‘aperture science
laboratories’ filled with robots
addicted to testing. In the
game you must complete many
tests involving a gun which
fires portals and complete vari-
ous rooms, which does get very,
HARD.
By Jack Pittaway
Portal A robot named
GlaDOS is the only
thing that seems to
be alive and talking
throughout the first
game and tries to get
you to complete the
tests by taunting you
with cake.
By Samclops
Start thinking with portals!
Overall Rating: 99%
Noah Pellicci ‘s
I really loved the story to this game, it had everything; all
the characters, all the action the makers of the game
even gave a shocking end of *SPOILER ALERT* kill-
ing a character! And as we all know, when there are
bad guys, there will always be good guys. The game
includes; Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Catwoman, and Alfred.
Sadly, you can only play as Batman and Catwoman, Robin
and Nightwing Can only be playable through an expansion
pack.
Storyline:100%
Reviews
Gameplay: 99%
The gameplay is also very good. You can glide, use
your batarang, zip-wire, explode brick walls using your
explosive gel, see through walls with your detective
vision, and much more. The range of gadgets and abili-
ties is massive.
Extra stuff: 100%
Now, where do I begin? If I could, I would give this
section a 101% and the reason I say that is because
of the side missions. Even after you complete the
game, there are still loads of side missions to com-
plete and secrets to discover, you will never get
bored! Also, there are riddler challenges and sepa-
rate Catwoman levels to do as well.
Overall Rating: 100% The storyline in all of Naughty Dogs ‘Uncharted’ series is amaz-
ing, The Characters of ‘Nathan Drake’ (the main character)
‘Elena Fisher’ and ‘Victor Sullivan’ are really good trio. Nathan
Drake is a fortune hunter who claims that his ancestors go back
to Sir Francis Drake and that he has left lots of treasures be-
hind for him to discover. But, in each game there are bad guys
claiming that the treasure is rightfully theirs. There are even
magical creatures stopping Nate and his gang! They have to
travel all over the world to find the treasure and that even
results in a massive plane crash into the desert. (See pic-
Storyline: 100%
Plane Crash Level.
Gameplay: 100% The gameplay is also immense. The graphics are like none
other! Well none I’ve ever seen! The game uses motion cap-
ture technology to make the animations so great.
‘Uncharted 3’ is a third-person adventure game with a bit of
Extra stuff: 99% The extra stuff is very good. There is a co-op mode, an online
multiplayer zone and a shop where you can buy costumes and
weapons for the multiplayer using points you get from playing
the game.
Katherine Marlowe
Nathan Victor Sullivan
Elena fisher
Overall Rating 95%
Storyline: 67%
The story is good, but it is the old, original adventure
story. A happy world; then evil strikes- one man is sent out on a
journey to save the world.
Gameplay: The gameplay is, I think, excellent and entertaining. I especially
love the fact that you can change your little characters facial ex-
pressions and clothing. The online play is very good as well. Nor-
mally online play in most games can only let you play certain
levels online and with friends but LittleBigPlanet lets you play
all the levels online that you can play offline.
The main thing that made me give this category 100% is the
make your own levels bit. The whole game of LittleBigPlanet
or LBP is based around making your own games and sharing
them with the world, the game’s tagline is ‘Play, Create,
Share’. There are literally millions of games people have
made from all over the world and you can play, comment on
them and rate them.
Extra Bits: 100%
Game play:
Because this is an app the game play is limited but it is still very fun to play. I would rate
it a very well deserving 7/10
Storyline
I don't really like the storyline that much because it is just really cheesy, when you finish
the game you just get a cup with something that looks like spaghetti so I would give it a
5/10
Graphics
Like the game play the graphics are limited but they are kind of basic but its the game
play for it that makes it good and its still good graphics 6/10
Overall
Overall I really like this game and its very addictive and fun to play. However I do think
that this game is too much like gravity guy witch is available for iphone and ipod touch but
this is 2d but gravity guy is 3d but I still really like this game so I would rate it a good 9/10
By Jamie Hall
App of the week
PAPI JUMP
Game play You have to
complete a series of challenges in this game. The game play is very good with 6 levels.
There is ‘normal fall’ which is where as soon as you jump on the podium it falls so you can’t
go on it again. There are loads of enemy’s and you have to eat ham burgers to get fire
power, there’s ‘right’ which is like fall but only your moving right. Also there’s ‘down’ where
a walls coming crashing down on you and you’ve got to move down and there is also ‘right+’
enemy where your moving right and there are enemy’s.
Story line
the story line is pretty good. You are called Mr Papi and you have to get through all tricky
situations.
Grapics
The graphics are pretty good but they can do better.
Overall
Got A Problem? well our Agony
Aunt is here to help..
Dear Agony Aunt,
I’m getting really stressed about the
GCSE Exams. I haven't even begun
to revise and wouldn’t know how to
start. Everyone around me seems
confident but I’m not sure what to do
to feel the same way. Please help.
Anonymous (yr11)
Dear Anonymous Year11,
I know this seems like a really difficult time but
you need to take a step back and BREATHE!
Others around you may seem confident,, but , I
promise you they are not. Yes, some may have been
organised and have been revising for a while-they
are not so stressed. But, there is no point in stress-
ing now...action is BEST. The best thing to do if
you haven't already is to create a revision timeta-
ble. This will help you to get organised and know
where to start. Revise at least 2 hours per day. En-
sure you have all your revision resources made up
and organised, then use this every time you revise.
Being disorganised can really be a bad thing at
this stage. Talk to your friends and your teachers!
They will help you.
Good Luck-I’m know you’ll be fine!
Agony Aunt x
Dear Agony Aunt,
I know this sounds stupid but I can’t
help always worrying about the way I
look. Everyday it takes me ages to get
ready and I hate looking at myself , yet
I stare at myself all of the time. The
longer I stare the worse I feel. Even at
school I’m always worried about what
others will think about the way I’m
dressed or how ugly I am. How can I
stop always worrying and feeling so
ugly? I just want to enjoy teenage life.
Stressed student
Dear stressed student,
As you said , you want to spend your teenage
years being happy. I’ve been told that these are
the best years of your life! You’ll have an entire
lifetime of worrying about things but the way you
look should not be one of them!
Trust me when I say you are NOT the only one
who worries about the way they look. Every stu-
dent, I bet, looks in the mirror to make sure they
look good each morning but making it an obses-
sion is a bad idea. School is school and you have
to be realistic about looking ‘Perfect’ each day. If
you looked your best all of the time, then those
‘special occasions’ would be boring. You are who
you are and excepting your looks is the first step
to being happy. Nobody's perfect! We all have
our bad days. Think about all of your friends and
family, they love you no matter how you look-
that’s the next key to being happy.
Do me a favour, tomorrow look in the mirror af-
ter you get ready and tell yourself that you are
beautiful and kind and your family and friends
love you for who YOU are! Then walk away and
don’t look back!
Good Luck
Agony Aunt x
SPORTS NEWS
Hall Mead year 11 girls won the overall bad-
minton league championships just before the
Easter holidays, BEATING Coopers and
Bower park. the team included Katie Nicholls,
Paige Beaumont, Nicole Zweistra , Lauren
Weatherly and Victoria Towey.
Mrs Gidley says: “a big WELLDONE ladies”
Isabella Woods just came 71st for the under 17’s
in the mini marathon last weekend. This
is AMAZING considering there were 200
other under 17’s running!
Isabella: Inspirational
The Virgin London Mini Marathon results:
The Borough Challenge: there were Teams of 6 per age group
for each London Borough
Results:
Under 13 Boys: Lewis Deacon 7DF - 105 and Ben Ellis 8TH -
69
Under 15 girls: Louise Lear 9WP- 55 and Heidi Surman
Wells 9DT - 61
Under 17girls: Isabella Woods 11CDC - 9th
Well done guys...you’ve made us proud
Isabella was also 78th in the National Intercounties at Bir-
mingham - Isabella was competing for Essex!
ANOTHER achievement for Isabella and... for Hall Mead
The year 11 netball
team played their final
Net ball rally this week
and WON! That's 4
out5 games WON since
being at Hall Mead...
We've got some big
shoes to fill!
The Student voice Page
For those who don’t know Student Voice is a student-run group which strives to help pupils in the
school. In these articles we will be reporting about some of the matters the Student Voice has dis-
cussed in the latest meeting.
On of the main things that Student Voice is focusing on at the moment is getting themselves more
well-known. They will hopefully by doing this by going round to forms and telling them about what
they do and how they can help. They are also hoping to do some assemblies for Yr 7 to tell them all
about themselves and they may be planning an open mini-meeting or party for you to get friendly
with them! Hopefully some new Student Voice members will have been elected from Yr 7 by the time
this paper comes out. They are also doing a competition to design a logo for them which should be
really good fun! Make sure you take part!
We asked the Student Voice what they wanted from being in it and this is what they said: “We want
to represent our forms and help them communicate with us. We want to become more well-known
throughout the school. Everyone has an opinion and this is one of the only places where those opin-
ions can be heard. We want everyone to be connected to the school through us”
Well read up... If you have a problem then these are the faces you need to know. Come and find them;
they are a friendly and helpful bunch.
Just a few other up coming events and things you should know:
1.Year 7 student voice representative elections - will have all the names of newly elected by Monday
2.Whole school student voice 'Logo' Competition - design a logo for the Student Voice - there is a prize
- deadline is May 18th and submissions can be given to the office, Mr Hughes, Miss McFadden or any
art teacher
3.Trying to boost communication between student voice members and student body - student voice
reps trying to be more visible during form time - attempting to gather info from students about what
changes they'd like in the school - any further comments/ideas can be emailed to student-
4. Helping to prepare for the Olympic garden party and the whole school Olympic themed sports day
at Hornchurch stadium
Thanks guys..we know you’re there. By Sam
Impact
Team Director: Eloise
Editor: Megan
Reporters: Freddie Sam
Columnists: Sam, Freddie
Photographer: Noah
Artists: Jack, Laura
Agony Aunts: Agony Aunts
Game Consultants: Noah,
James, Jack
Researchers: Andrew
Musical Experts: Jack
Gaming Expert: Noah
Film reviewer: Andrew
Dont forget you can contact
us any time if you have a
story you want us to publish,
any questions or if want to
join our fabulous team. We
run every Tuesday lunch-
time in E6 from 12.45. just
pop in or drop a note in the
little box next to the plan-
ning office window. It’s la-
belled ‘agony aunt and un-
cle’. Alternatively you can
catch the team anytime—
our names are on the right.
We look forward to hearing
from you!
Watch out for the next edition. There is so
much yet to come...
Adverts
We need some fashion ex-
perts to run their OWN page
on the latest fashion and
gossip in the fashion world.
If this sounds like you then
please pop in to our next
meeting!
We also need some more
sports experts who will cover
any sports stories around
the school and Havering.