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Branksome Youth Club is brilliant!!!

Its on every Tuesday and Wednes-

day, 7:30pm till 9:30pm. It has a 30p entrance fee. It is run by Paul

Hepper, who is also working as a

youth worker in school. There are

many things to keep you occupied

such as Xbox360, tuck-shop, Pool,

TV, Badminton and much more.

The kids enjoy going there as work-ers are kind and pleasant. So go

and try it out its at the Branksome

Community Centre!

By Chrissey Straw

SAVE OUR SWIMMING POOL

Issue 4

Supported by the Courier

BRANKSOME YOUTH CLUB

Friday! No school until Mon-

day and you might be a bit

bored. Well be bored no more because on a Friday night Sa-

rah Amiss and other youth

workers run a Girls’ Work-

shop at Branksome Communi-

ty Centre from 5:15 until

7:30pm. Activities include pool, nail arts and maybe even

a games console. There is no

charge and it is fun to attend. I

attend all nights and I would

like to say thank you to Sarah and other helpers for running

this club. Sarah would also

like to mention please could

you bring CDs as we would

like to listen to the music.

By Rebecca Parkinson

Girls Workshop:

On the 25th of February 2010, Mr Tucker’s year 10 group beat the year 11 record of the time of set-ting up chairs for a whole school assembly. The time to beat was 15 minutes set by the year 11’s and the year 10’s did it in 12 minutes!

Branksome Science College Record

As you all may know Branksome Science College is known for having a swimming pool, however if current plans go ahead there may not be a pool in our new school. This is because the estimated cost of the new pool could be £4,000,000! If we bought this our budget would be lower for the rest of the school.

The Branksome Bugle think it is important that the new school has a swimming pool because we don’t want to miss our swimming lessons or have to travel elsewhere.

The story is

moving,

entertain-

ing, one

minute you

are crying,

the next

laughing. It

is a lovely

story which both adults and

kids will enjoy. You see an old

man who embarks on an ad-

venture with a young kid and

the friends, enemies, and

problems and crazy things

that happen along the way.

The characters are well devel-

oped, each one bringing be-

lievability to the cartoon

which really takes this film to

the next level.

PAPE“R”MAIL

Feature on a Teacher

Name: Mrs S Grant

Subject: Learning Mentor

Years at Branksome: 6½ years

Most memorable

moment:

...is always still to come

Funniest moment: Being accidentally locked

in the music block after

school!

Pets: Inflatable parrot

Advice: Believe in yourself and be

happy.

Teacher’s pet…

Hello readers, in this issue I am

going to tell you a bit about my-self. If you do not already know,

I am the editor in chief of the Branksome Bugle and I love making the newspaper. I am al-

so a keen cyclist and I cycle to school and back everyday. I get at least one puncture every

month and every time I go up a

curb my bell rings.

My friends: James Allison and Katie Appleyard are the secretaries I also have a huge team of journalists writing

articles for you to read.

This is Mrs Philips’s six year old dog called Oscar and he is my

hobby so I call him Super dog. Over the winter holidays he

would pull the sledge.

All about me,

but mostly

the things I

hate!

This article is about you, the reader. It may be small but it

has a giant message to get across. On the news you see car crashes and many of the people involved were not wearing

seat belts. There were others on mobile phones or even just not concentrating. A clunk, click every trip could save your

life. By wearing a seat belt you might get hurt but you’ll have less chance of being

killed. I urge you this year to join the campaign. Just by a clunk, click. Every trip.

Katie

Appleyard

Branksome Girls Win Dance Festival

A group of girls from

Branksome Science College

won the overall trophy at the

Darlington Dance Festival

held at Darlington Arts Cen-

tre. Most of the town’s schools

had teams in the event. The

winning group were – Shayma Begum, Nayema Begum,

Shahnaaz Akthar, Tauhida

Akther, Shui Akthar and Ja-

mila Miah.

The girls choreographed their

own routine and gave up their

time during lunchtimes, break

and after school to practise.

Well done girls!

Haiti earthquake

by Rian Atkin & Jack Barker

The earthquake occurred at approximately 16:53 local time (21:53UTC). Its epicentre is approximately 25km (16miles). It happened

on 12th January 2010 at the depths of 13km (8.3miles).The international red cross has es-timated over 3 million people have being af-

fected by the earthquake. Help and support is coming in from anywhere to save other peo-

ples lives. Also JLS take that Joe McEldery and Leona Lewis and some more singers are

helping raise money for Haiti.

More exciting times in the science depart-ment since the last issue. We have now started to take delivery of some new and specialised equipment for the science col-lege and it is hard to say who is more excit-ed – the teachers, technician or pupils?!

The new equipment includes a hydrogen fuel cell model car that runs on water and gives out water. Crazy but true. There is also a brand new Van der Graaf generator for those who like their hair styled with static electricity, some new microscopes for looking at insects and other micro creatures from the local area, a laser for demonstrating properties of light, a ripple tank for showing waves and a whole suite of data logging equipment for making experiments in science more ICT related and interesting for all. All of these purchases will be integrated into lessons during the next few weeks so make sure that you look out for them.

Mr Burford took 5 year 7 pupils on a trip to Teesside University last week to attend an envi-ronmental issues event. The pupils were very successful and returned to school excited about their achievements. Congratulations to Liam Pape, Jay Reeves, Chloe Bradley, James Allison and Reece Cummings. 15 pupils in Year 8 will soon be attending a sports and nutrition event at Teesside University so we also wish them a successful day.

There were some interesting articles about science in the news this month. One story from the Times explains discoveries made about the Ancient Egyptians and their diets. Long be-fore fried food and McDonalds, the ancient Egyptians food habits meant that lots of them died very young from cardiovascular disease. Contrary to what lots of people believe, this shows that obesity and dietary problems are not a new problem!

In other news, the Guardian reported this month of the death of a trainer at Sea World in Or-lando. The trainer was killed by a killer whale that dragged her under water and held her there until she drowned. Some people think people could go to their environment with specialists who know the animal and their habitat.

Good luck to all Y10 pupils and those resitting in Y11 with their science modular exams next week.

Peter Haylock

Assistant Headteacher – Science Specialism

Game of the Month

This terrific game has now be-

come game of the month! Swords and Sandals 2 is an epic game

that is based on gladiators. It in-volves you making your own glad-iator that fights against other

gladiators for money. The money can then buy your man’s equip-

ment that he can use to fight.

By Jake Milner and Bradlee Goldsmith

Sport Reporter Tom Davis standing with head of sport

Mr Fitzmaurice to help raise the importance of health and fitness throughout the school.

Frankie is one of the best jock-eys in the world. His father was also a jockey named Gianfranco

Dettori they are both Italian. He was born as Lanfranco Dettorie

on December 15, 1970. Frankie had a head-start as his father, Gianfranco, was a top Italian

jockey who had won the 2,000 Guineas in 1975 & 1976. His mother was a professional circus performer. He became

good at being a jockey very quickly because his father was a very talented jockey himself plus his mother specialized in doing back flips astride two horses and he grew up with

horses.

At the age of eight Frankie was given his first horse, a palo-

mino pony every night he would practice on his horse for about half an hour. When he was thirteen he became a sta-ble boy and an apprentice jockey the next year he left Italy

for Britain to work for an Italian trainer, Luca Cunami, in

Newmarket

Frankie Dettori

Sports news wrote by Sam Hutchinson, Ew-an Barr, Carly Scott and Tyler Hutchinson.

Name: Cumby Rovers

Colour: orange and black

League position: 4th

Home pitch: Heighington, County

Durham

Biggest win: 11—1 over Mount

pleasant B

Biggest defeat: 6—1 against Prim-

rose

Teams of the week

Name: TSC

Colour: black and blue

League position: 11th

Home pitch: Blackwell

Biggest win: 5—1

north flyers

Biggest defeat:7—3

fishburn

Branksome Science College pupils meet Member of

Parliament

Why did you come to Darlington?

The main reason for coming here

today was to meet with people who

manage town centres from right

across the country. Because of the

recession lots of towns have prob-lems with empty shops. The Govern-

ment have given places like Darling-

ton money to help them get people

into the shops, to tidy up the city

centres and to make the places look

attractive. And I’m here today to look

at the best examples of what has

been going on. There is one example

here from Darlington, where the 6th

form college are taking over an emp-

ty shop and are putting art work for

the public to enjoy and make artist’s

work look more attractive.

How did you become an MP and why? Once I be-

came involved in politics, being elected to a council is

one of the ways to get things changed, and becoming

a Member of Parliament obviously gives you a bit

more of a chance to change things in your area.

What happened is the MP in my area said that he was standing down and I got the chance to take his

place.

If money was no object what would you change about Britain? That’s a very good question because in

practice in government, money usually is an object, and I’m not really sure that money alone is a central is-

sue. Probably the thing which would transform this country the most is to continue what we have done in the

last few years which is to raise, not just standards in schools in exam results, but the young people’s sense of

what they can achieve in their lives.

Tell us about your school education and any other jobs you’ve had?

I went to a local primary school in a village in East Devon, where my father was the head teacher at a two

teacher primary school, then I went to the local comprehensive school. After that I went off to Southampton

University and did a little bit of chemistry research, then after that I went into the voluntary sector, that’s

when I worked for organisations like ‘War and Wants’ and ‘British Youth Council’ and organisations like

Christian Aid and I did that up until the time I became an MP.

There has recently been a youth of parliament election, what advice do you have for the people who

weren’t successful? Well the people who weren’t successful, I hope they understood, because they want to

get involved with changing things and there are always other ways to get involved in changing things even if

you don’t win an election. What I would say to them is to look around and find what sort of problems they

want to try and tackle. They might not have got to the youth parliament but if you have a local issue go and

talk to the council, talk to the people in charge of your area and find other ways. Don’t give up in trying to

change things.

We interviewed

MP John Denham when

he visited Branksome Sci-ence College.

Here is what he

said:

John Denham

What pupils want in the new school. By Mrs. Philips, set 1 textiles class and Kayleigh McCarthy

What the School Council think:

The school council think that some of these are good ideas but some of them are a bit extreme. Overall they are all fundable and these will benefit all pupils whether

in sports or academic subjects. Also the school council are coming up with a list of positive and negatives. If you have any ideas please contact the school council

or Mrs. Surtees as soon as possible.

New School

Social

Rooms

Lockers

Computers

Separate

head of year to supervise

social rooms.

Big library with

computers.

More

books.

Voice command

computers

Science

Equipment

Blow stuff up.

Smart

boards

Vending

machine

Better

music

room

Touch screen

computers

Listen to

music

More

school

disco’s.

Escalators

More

holidays

School

radio

Slides Swimming pool

Jacqueline Wilson Jacqueline Wilson was born Jacqueline Aitkin in Bath, Somerset, in 1945. Her father

was a civil servant, her mother an antiques dealer. Jacqueline spent most of her child-

hood in Kingston upon Thames, where she went to Latchmere Primary School. She was

an imaginative child and enjoyed reading and making up stories. She particularly en-

joyed books by Noel Streatfeild, as well as American classics like Little Women and

What Katy Did. Even as young as six and seven, she knew that she wanted to be a

writer and would fill Woolworths’ notebooks with stories of her imaginary games. At

the age of nine she wrote her first "novel" which was twenty two sides long. The book

was called Meet the Maggots about a family with seven children. Although she was

good at English when she was young, Jacqueline Wilson had no interest in math's and

would often stare out of the window and use her imagination rather than paying at-

tention to the class, leading her final year teacher at Latchmere to nickname her

"Jacky Daydream". She later used this nickname as the title of the first stage of her

autobiography.

There are several Jacqueline Wilson books in Branksome Science College Library

Branksome Science College

ATTENDANCE

19 Tutor Groups had 90%

or more attendance in December

*STAR GROUPS* for December:

8CSO & 8JSA both with 96.6%

Year 9 Graphics

A year 9 Graphics class is taking part in a design competition against other schools in Darlington and across Teesside this term.

The competition is called “The 8th Wonder”

and is to design and make a model of a building that would impress and be used by the community.

Knickerbocker glory with chocolate sauce Ingredients For the chocolate sauce 3 tbsp double cream 2 tbsp cocoa powder 2 tbsp caster sugar 1 tbsp honey for the Knickerbocker glory 3 scoops ice cream 35g/1½oz hazelnuts, toasted

Method 1. To make the chocolate sauce, mix all the ingredients in a saucepan and warm through

to create a smooth sauce.

2. Take a large glass and place some ice cream into it. Drizzle the chocolate sauce, repeat the process till the glass is full, sprinkle with toasted nuts and serve.

NOT SUITABLE FOR PEOPLE ALLERGIC TO NUTS.

By Tom Davis

Ariel

Atom

Name: Ariel Atom

Price: £20,000/£45,000 (turbo

charged)

Top speed: 155mph or 249km/h

0-60: 2.7 seconds

Rating:

This year’s Year 10 Craft Construction class, comprising:-

Ross McKerchar, James Brown, Dean Ni-cholson-Dixon, Brady Gallagher, Adam Burton and Shane Madderson have formed their own construction company, calling themselves 10CC, to make a variety of items for the school staff to purchase for a nominal sum.

The items they have made so far have in-cluded clocks, garden planters, coat hang-ers, storage boxes, desk tidies, bird tables, and bookends.

There have been numerous satisfied cus-tomers and pupil job satisfaction has been obvious.

The order book is fairly healthy but if any-one is interested in placing an order please approach one of the above mentioned com-pany directors.

The class is visiting The Workplace in New-ton Aycliffe for some workshops to help them with their project on Wednesday 27th January.

By Mr. Clark

Car of the Month

Year 10 Craft Construction

Bella’s mother is going to

Florida with her new boy-

friend but Bella wants to

spend some time with her

dad so she went to a town were her dad lives called Forks.

She goes to a school called Forks High School where she

met Edward Cullen and he is a vampire.

Edward hated Bella at first because he was very desper-

ate for her blood. Edward has two sisters and two broth-

ers called Alice, Rosalie, Jasper, Emmett and his mother

and father are Esme and Carlisle. Edward falls in love with

Bella and Bella falls in love with him.

Edward takes Bella to play baseball with his family. After

a while 3 other vampires come and one of them called

James who is a tracker, hunts down Bella because she is a

human. Edward and his family try to help Bella get out of

this horrible situation, they rip him apart and burn the

pieces.

James bites Bella while Edward was down and the venom

was spreading quickly. Edward had to suck the venom out

but didn’t know if he could stop. Bella had to go to hospital

because she lost a lot of blood.

The best romantic story of the year!

Twilight:

Credits: Once again thank you to everyone who has helped with the newspaper. They have given up their time at break times and lunchtimes to come to meetings

and work on computers.

Liam Pape (Editor)

Mrs. Surtees (Librarian)

Katie Appleyard (Secretary)

James Allison (Secretary)

Elisabeth Davey (Secetary)

Ewan Barr (Sports Editor)

Rebecca Parkinson

Robert Archer

Bradlee Goldsmith

Jake Milner

Ryan Atkin

Roxanne Wood

Sarah Moitt

Chloe Ryde

Carly Scott

Robyn Thompson

Chrissey Straw