CASTLE PARK JOURNAL

Editorial

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Animal School !Schools return

DID YOU KNOW........ Just like humans, British cows moo in regional accents.

In this edition...Page 2 - Pupil diariesPage 3 -CrosswordPage 4 - Horrible Histories Page 5 - Logo competition

Logo competition!

see details on page 5

School has re-opened! Not everyone is back in school yet but on 15th June the teachers welcomed lots of children back. Children are in much smaller groups than they are used to and all the new classes have been named after animals.

Callum said “Squirrels have the best playground, it’s so big”

His sister Jessica is in Otters and said “Being an otter is great fun and I get to see a few of my friends every day”.

Mrs Richardson said she is “very proud” of the way children at school have adapted to new ways of having to interact with each other.

July 2020: Edition 01

Lots of things have been going on in Finlay, Georgia and Chloe’s house. For his birthday Finlay had a Harry Potter party at home, “I made potions with my sisters and one of them bubbled over! We ate Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans but I got a yucky skunk flavour one. Urrrgh! We practised saying spells and made our balloons float using our wands. We watched Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. My favourite character is Dobby!” Meanwhile Chloe and Georgia have been busy doing lots of dance practice. They both did an online dance competition, learned a new solo dance and have also completed a challenge from their dance teacher to make or modify a dance costume.

Dobby And Dance

Callum and Jessica outside the new classroom for the Otters

Robyn

Robyn

Potion class at Finlay, Georgia and Chloe’s house

Welcome to the first edition of the Castle Park Journal. This is a newsletter for you, by you, the children of Castle Park School.

We hope you enjoy this first edition.

We will be working on Edition 2 soon so please send us your photos, stories, puzzles and jokes Have a look at page 5 for this week’s suggestions.

Thank you for reading!From the CPJ Team

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Covid-19 Stone Snake Trail reaches 724 painted rocks!Sunday 14th of June 2020Today, my family and I walked to Dockray Hall end of the riverside walk where the Kendal rock snake is located. We had painted several rocks the day before that we planned to add to the end of the snake. We placed our rocks, looked at all the other beautiful - hand-painted – stones added by families, individuals and schools, then made our way back home along the river spotting several ducklings as we did so.

If you have not already, go and add your rocks (or if you have, you can always do more).

Help spread hope with positive, colourful rocks!

Pupil DiariesKaela

Kaela placing her painted stone

Cake recipeDrew and Rosie

Ingredients:

200g of caster sugar200g of butter4 large eggs200g of self-raising flour5 tbsp of cocoa powder1 tbsp baking powder½ tsp vanilla extract (optional)2 tbsp milk

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 190C / 170C fan / gas 5.

2. Butter / line your tins with parchment paper.

3. Put in your butter and your sugar into a bowl / mixer. Then gradually add in each ingredient separately until the mixture is light.

4. Bake for 27mins or until when a skewer comes out clean. Let them cool before adding any decorations!

YOUR JOKESQ: Why couldn’t the bicycle stand up on its own ?A: It was two tired !Q: Why did the student eat his homework ?

A: Because the teacher told him it was a piece of cake !

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Crossword FILM REVIEWA Monster in Paris5/5A wacky inventor and his film-maker best friend make a huge mess of a professor’s lab whilst looking after it for them. Together, with a clever monkey and the singer Lucille, they will set out on a mission to fix their mistake.

Art and Craft

Drew

Drew

Robyn

Using 5 different colour fluid acrylic paints, I began by squeezing them onto a canvas and then started to twirl it round, dripping it down to one corner and then te next until it made up this marbled effect. Then you can layer up the paints, for example I could put black over peach. After putting on the desired amount of paint I left it to dry, then put it on my wall.

Ella D

My JackI had a doggy friend named Jack,

That little fluffball was jet black,Us two always loved to play,

Through the night and through the day,I very much liked all his toys,

Even those that made a noise,I loved Jack so much, he was my friend,

I loved him till the very end,Unfortunately, he passed away,Leaving me feeling like a stray,

He always had a waggy tail,I loved that little Patterdale.

POETRY CORNER

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Furthest Left in above photo: Claire on set The filming of a scene starring Henry VIII

Your stories and news Please email your news, stories, photos to news@castle-park.cumbria.sch.uk

The interview: writing for Horrible HistoriesRobyn This week we will be interveiwing Claire Wetton, a comedy writer and script editor

What is your job?

I am a freelance comedy writer and script editor. This means I work on lots of different TV and Radio shows, such as Class Dismissed, Dennis and Gnasher Unleashed, Bad Nature, Scream Street, Crackerjack, Horrible Histories, and many more.

As a comedy writer, I write the scripts you see on TV or hear on the radio. This means I come up with lots and lots of silly ideas, and hope the producers like them enough to want them in their show. If they do, I get paid to write them into a script.

Do you ever see the filming?

TV shows take a very long time to make, the writing part happens months before the cameras start rolling. I’ve recently finished writing scripts that won’t make it to your TV screens until 2022! By the time filming happens, I’m usually working on a new TV show somewhere else. Radio shows are much quicker, so writers do usually get to see them recorded.

However, I was lucky enough to go and watch some sketches being recorded for Horrible Histories series 8, and was even allowed to be in one! I got to say 5 words, but two of them were edited out. Doesn’t say much for my acting career!

It was really exciting to go and see all the sets, and watch the actors make the scripts come to life. And I loved looking at all the costumes. All of the actors on Horrible Histories are really nice and fun to hang out with. Some of them even help to us write the show!

How do you come up with the material?

Each Horrible Histories episode is based on a theme, such as Fashion, or Food and Drink. We have a team of very clever (and funny) historians, who research all the fun and gross facts about that subject from throughout the ages. Then the writing team all head to London for the day, and like being at school, they teach us all the facts about the subject. Unlike school, they give us LOTS OF SNACKS, to keep us quiet. Although it rarely works, and we usually ask far too many questions and make far too many naughty jokes and get told off (although they never give us detention).

Then all of the writers go home and think of as many funny ideas about what they have learnt as they can. We each send those into the producers, who choose their favourite ideas to be written into sketches for the show.

On other shows, I sometimes use ideas from my own life to use as storylines for the characters.

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Please get your submissions to us for our next edition by

Monday 6th July 10pm

In 2019 Claire won a BAFTA for her work on Horrible Histories

Please get your submissions to us for our next edition by Monday 6th July 10pm

What is your favourite time period?

I’ve always loved the Tudors. Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII are my favourite historical characters. Although the 1920’s is very fun to write about as so much happened. We’ve just written a whole episode about the 1920’s for series 9, and I can’t wait to see it!

What is your favourite fact?

So many! But here are 2.

-James I wanted to ban all women from London, as he thought they should be at home looking after their children, instead of watching the theatre and going shopping.-Blackbeard the pirate wasn’t quite as bad as his reputation makes out. Instead of killing sailors to steal their treasure, he actually just used to put fireworks in his beard, and act really really scary. The sailors would be so terrified, they’d run away and he could just take their treasure without a fight! (Although if they didn’t run away he would fight them if he absolutely had to. He wasn’t all good).

-Queen Elizabeth I used to do 6 dance rou-tines in her bedroom every morning before breakfast to keep herself fit. Even when she was really old!

Logo competition!

Are you a budding designer?

we need a logo for our newspaper- please send us your ideas.

The design needs to be a black and white line drawing that is simple bold and eye-catcing. You could use the intials CPJ (CASTLE PARK JOURNAL) as a starting point

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