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The space where creativity flies Issue 1 July 2019

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I n this issue: ¦ Elmer’s big parade ………………..….……………………………………………………………… page 3 ¦ Lunch Time at MAP ……………..….……………………………………………………………… page 5 ¦ An English girl in Spain ………..….……………………………………………………………… page 7 ¦ Book review: The Gruffalo ..…………………………………………………………………… page 9 ¦ Book review: HeadKid ………………..….…………………………………………………….. page 10 ¦ Interview: Mr Keates ………………..….……………………………………………………… page 11 ¦ A Twisted Red Riding Hood …………………………………………………………….…… page 13 ¦ Little Red Rose ………………..….……………………………………………………….………… page 14 ¦ Draw a Comic ………………..….…………………………………………………………………… page 15 ¦ Little Bear and Watson ………………..….…………………………………………...……… page 17 ¦ Our Planet in Danger ………………..….………………………………..……………………… page 19 ¦ My Year 6 at MAP ………………..….…………………………………………...…………… page 21 ¦ The MAP Tuck Shop ………………..…………………………………………………………… page 23 ¦ Music Review & Letters ………………..….………………………………………..………… page 24 ¦ Things you didn’t know about… ………………..….…………………………………..… page 25

ELMER’s big parade
 St Luke’s hospice Elmer parades are a big thing because a lot of different schools all over the city are decora<ng an Elmer. For 10 weeks in the summer of 2019 a parade of 40 fabulously colourful and unique elephants shall be taking us on a lovely walk around Plymouth, from the hustle and bustle of the streets to the lovely peace and grandeur of the Hoe. Amy Jewell The big huge Elmer parade will navigate Then we chose different people to do a you around Britain’s Ocean City. St Luke’s different unique design that they have chosen Hospice, Plymouth is working in partnership with Wild in Art and Andersen Press to bring themselves so we can include everybody’s this mass parEcipaEon, family friendly, art trail unique idea and not just one idea. For example to life. Alongside Elmer, there will be 40 some people did a different paSern design, further sculptures on parade each featuring a some people did the Easter Bunny, some unique beloved design created by some of our people did a scene of a beach and some talented students. This is a fantasEc people did shapes, fruit and more… opportunity to explore all that the city has to offer, whilst being enchanted, inspired and A year 5 girl explain to us how she thought amazed by the sculptures themselves. At the of her idea for the Elmer Parade. She told us end of the summer each of the beauEfully that she was just drawing and then she started designed Elmer’s will be aucEoned to raise to get there and thought she would finish it, so funds for St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth, to she ended up with a design for the Elmer’s Big enable us to conEnue to provide our Parade. outstanding compassionate care. We have been really looking forward to At MAP we have been working hard on our puVng our Elmer in the big parade and lovely beauEful Elmer. For our showing it round the whole of Plymouth and s p e c i a l e l e p h a n t , w e Britain and now he is already out there! basically used a puzzle design for our base. We have gathered m a n y d i ff e r e n t people within our classrooms and had a secEon of Elmer to do our design on. We did about 3 or 4 people from each year group mainly 4, 5 and 6. 3

Who is Elmer? Elmer is a colourful elephant created by the author David Mckee. Elmer is unique and accepted. He is colourful and still he fits in. For some he is the symbol of acceptance. The story of Elmer is famous and his personality is too. He likes to hide in bushes and likes to blend in. He goes out in the rain every night and is brave. He enjoys to scare the other animals and huddle with his family to stay warm. So who knows what Elmer will do next? Recently, white model Elmers have been sent to schools around Plymouth to be designed and they are placed in areas all over Plymouth for a trail with unknown prizes. By Ada Fiteri & Holly-Mae Diston OUR ELMER 4

Lunch time at MAP: Eating like stars! By Ruby Brown-Tunnell Our cooks After all the food has been brought down to the Primary School, in the Our main cook is named Ryan. lunch hall, they start to serve it and The Academy council get to make it is ready to eat by the children. a decision on what they think the school would like and what the How we are given the Food cook/cooks could make for lunchtime for the Children. If Ryan All different ages go the dinner makes a decision, if he and the hall at different times to make it cooks want to make something, and they think they can make it, easier for teachers to get work they have a try. We have done and for play workers and around 5 cooks to help with the even cooks, all for no rushing making of the food and with the and not making anything bad servings to the children when you use some of your 5 at the primary and the secondary school. senses. When you grow up, you have to walk so you How it is made don’t knock someone else’s The play workers help food when they are going the cooks by bringing the to sit down at the table. food down in trays. The When it is a child’s class menu is made at the kitchen, next in lines turn the play which is at the secondary worker asks what you are, school, and the kitchen staff take it and then checks it on the to the primary hall on a food trolley. list which gets printed out once Usually the cooks come down the teacher has put the meals when they are finished or some if through to the people at the desk they don’t need to do their part in ant to the cooks so they can make making it. They go down and it. Once you have been given the maybe bring some ready to be food, you have to try to go straight cooked food to were it needs to be. to your table without being knocked by another child walking around.

The Meals Customers opinions The children use a colour We did a little survey with 110 children from year 3 and way of picking their meals year 4 about MAP pupils preferences regarding food. and and the colours are purple, what they think it may improve our menu. We asked the orange, green, red and children about the meal they usually order, the food they like yellow. better and what they would add to the menu, among other questions. Purple - is always the main meal like Roast and all of Our results showed that 26% of the children are super the Meaty options. fans of pizza, just like Mrs Meredith, followed by quite far by wrap (15%) and pasta (10%). Orange - is if you do not like purple or you fancy We also found out that 37% of the pupils asked would something else different add more sweets to the menu… Not surprising! At the end from the other options but is of the they children and sweet normally go together, and to usually still with a bit of be honest, who doesn’t like a good sweet? Not many meat. people! Happily for worried mums and healthy eaters, 23% said they would like to have more fruit, although not many Green – is normally a (3.5%) are very keen on veggies. vegetarian option so if you don’t like meat you can pick However, when asked how they liked fruit and veggies a green. 68% said they are ok with them or they loved them, which is a good sign of healthy eating habits in our school, Red – is a jacket potato meanwhile almost a 14% were very honest in recognising with cheese, beans or tuna. they don’t like them at all. You can pick two of them on your jacket potato. We wanted to know as well how our children see themselves as eaters: 25.5% describe themselves as Yellow – is a sandwich with “eating pretty much anything and everything” in front of 23% a salad on the side you can who said they were “really fussy or picky” with food. 41% pick between cheese, ham answered that they were good with food. but they were a or even tuna. You can only few things they never eat. Probably, just like the rest of us. have one in your sandwich. Sure everyone has something they do not like! I do! Even Mrs Meredith does!!!

An English girl in Spain By Ms Bell I lived in Spain for 10 years with my two I’m going to describe some of the children, Joe and Maggie, who were only 3 differences which I didn’t know about until I and 1 years old when we first arrived. lived there! There are lots of differences between Little babies get their ears pierced (if Spain and England – the weather of course is they are girls!) It’s not enough to dress warmer. Where I lived in Andalucia the them in pink, if a girl baby doesn’t have her temperature hardly ever fell below 10 ears pierced she’s assumed to be a boy – degrees and in July and August was over which happened to Maggie ALL THE 100 degrees. TIME!! The attitude to life is very laid back Children stay awake late into the night. mañana they say, which means tomorrow. No stress leave it until tomorrow. The Spanish families eat their evening meal at prices of most things is generally cheaper and the fruit and vegetables are fresher 9pm. During the balmy summer evenings, and more locally grown. Spanish people are generally very friendly and they join their parents in restaurants long l o v e to chat. past 10pm and play with other children on warm summer nights while their parents enjoy a drink or dinner with their friends. It is not unusual to find young children curled up in a chair fast asleep in a noisy bar or restaurant. This was hard for me to get used to and probably the biggest cultural difference that affected me, when I lived in Spain. The Spanish take wearing their 'Sunday Best' to a whole new level, decking their children out for lunch in a restaurant or a walk in the park in corduroy 7

knickerbockers, sailor suits and pinafores located far away behind a fence. In Spain in outfits that wouldn't have looked out of the laissez faire attitude to pyrotechnics place in Edwardian times. Brothers and means it’s not unusual to see a rocket sisters often wear matching shirts or whizzing through the crowds at a summer jumpers. festival. Yikes! I don’t miss that tradition. The tendency to overdress means that The school summer holidays stretch in winter, children will be wrapped up, as if beyond two months and the predominant for a day on the ski- situation of two working slopes even if it is parents, Spanish 10C outside and children are frequently even in the height of farmed off to the summer it’s a rare ‘pueblo’ to be looked sight to see a after by the Spanish child grandparents for at least running around a fortnight over the barefoot in the sand summer. Many spend or on the grass. It several weeks at a used to make me summer camp at the smile when the local start of the holidays children were Ms Bell, a proper Andalucian woman. before heading out of wearing bobble the cities and if they are lucky, to hats, scarves and gloves in May, when for the seaside, to be spoilt by their us Brits, it was a pleasant summer’s day. grandparents. With great summer weather and free childcare and a chance for the I learnt from Joe, that one of the older generation to spend quality time with greatest thrills of being a kid in Spain is the youngest it’s a win-win situation for the setting off firecrackers in a town square to whole family. I miss that! make unsuspecting foreigners like me jump out of our skin. While in the UK, the Spanish babies wear perfume! I never dangerous job of setting up the fireworks did find out why and it’s a custom I didn’t for the annual Guy Fawkes night firework get into, who doesn’t like the natural sweet display fell to an adult in protective clothing smell of a baby?
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Book Title: The Gruffalo T Author: Julia Donaldson Illustrator: Axel Scheffler By Ada Fiteri The Main Character Gruffalo The Mouse The Gruffalo easily gets tricked by the mischievous mouse who (at the end of the story) tells him that his favourite food is Gruffalo crumble! Owl The mouse is a brave character who tricks the Gruffalo that he is the scariest creature in the wood. Personality: Owl He almost gets eaten by a snake, an owl and a fox. would love to He was also about to get eaten by the fearsome devour the Gruffalo but a foolproof plan saves the mouse from delicious mouse being eaten… but like Fox, he gets terrified at the Snake sight of the Gruffalo once he hears the Like all of the three Gruffalo’s so-called terrified creatures of favourite food, owl the Gruffalo, snake ice cream! too scurries away when he hears about the fake arrival of the Gruffalo whose favourite food is scrambled snake! Fox Personality: Like most foxes, Fox is cunning and dares to eat the mouse no matter what but when he comes upon the Gruffalo he fears the worst when he heard his favourite food was roasted fox!

Title: Head Kid Author: David Baddiel Illustrator: Steven LentonBy Ada Fiteri Blurb They may be different but swapping bodies may change relationships with everything if swapping bodies changes their minds too. After all, a little bit of help from Dionna they get along but interfere with each others lives at the same time. The 2 Main Characters Mr Carter and Ryan Mr Carter Ward - the naughtiest Ryan Ward kid at school. When the school inspectors visit comes nearer, Ryan goes too far and the Headteacher (Mr Fawcett) just walks out! Then Mr Carter becomes Head. A music box swaps their bodies and relationships change. Will they be able to change their bodies or will they stay unhappy forever?

Mr Keates: “Playing an instrument is the only activity that uses every part of the brain”. By Maggie Southwood Most of our children know Mr Keates. Maybe they do not know his name, but sure they know the man that every Tuesday sits in front of the drums at the mula, waiting for his little and not so small drummers. MAPazine talked to him about his job and how important is learning to play an instrument for children’s development. MAPZ: Why do you like working at sixes, fives, fours, threes two… and this school? individuals for drums lessons too. Mr Keates: Well… the children are great, MAPZ: What is your favourite book? the atmosphere is wonderful and it’s a nice place to come to work. Mr Keates: That’s a difficult question as I have lots of favourite books… Let me MAPZ: What inspired you to have this think. I’d say the series of ‘The Last aspiration for teaching and music? Kingdom’ by Bernard Cornwall Mr Keates: Right. I’ve been a musician MAPZ: How busy are your working all my life and taught as well, alongside days? my playing. I want people to have the same pleasures I have had in music Mr Keates: Very! I start at about half past making. eight in the morning and I tend to not finish until Ten o’clock at night. I do have MAPZ: Are there any other schools some gaps, but I’m very busy! you have worked at? MAPZ: Did you have music lessons as Mr Keates: I teach in lots of schools and a child? have taught in lots of countries across the world as well! Mr Keates: Yes, yes I did. I started the Piano when I was MAPZ: What is about five and the your favourite class to teach? Violin when I was about seven, but I Mr Keates: Oho! stopped that at That’s a hard one to Eleven say… I’ve taught all because my sorts of children in parents could both different years! I’ve play it, so I wanted taught lots of to find something different unusual that classes… they didn’t know 11

about. I chose the French Horn and went Secondly, it is a way of relaxing, a way of on to have lessons on Saturday mornings developing cultural skills, social skills. up in London at Music College, then I You end up playing with other people and went on to full time Music College and learn all sorts of skills through that and it then onto Professional playing and can help later on in life. It can help you teaching. get into University, for example, if you get certain grade exams when you are doing MAPZ: How do you think music your UCAS, (Universities and Colleges benefits Primary age children? Admissions Service), form for University entrance. If you’ve got a grade five, six, Mr Keates: Well, there are many seven or eight they will actually take that benefits. Firstly, learning an instrument – into account which might give you or anything in the Arts – is stimulating for preferential treatment over those people the brain, as it make you use all aspects who haven’t got it, because it’s a skill that of the brain. This is especially true for shows you have self-control and can playing an instrument as it is the only actually do things for yourself! activity that uses every part of the brain, helps develop the brain and the way that MAPZ: Thank you for letting me you work. In fact, it benefits you in every interview you. other subject you work with. Mr Keates: My pleasure! 12

A Twisted Red Riding Hood By Aiden Hannigan (2AJ) 
 Once there was a girl called Little Red like Pinocchio you silly goose!” she Riding Hood. She was lying in her giggled. “Ok what do you want not so bed when suddenly “GET UP!” shouted her Mum. She got up scary wolf?” she muttered. in a rush. She ran “Where are you going downstairs. “I’ll get the rude girl?” asked the lemons, apples, grapes and wolf. “None of your pears.” said Little Red business.” she said Riding Hood. She was kicking his legs excited because she was open and sliding going to her Nan’s house. through them. She packed up and Then there was a chase thought about all her animal and it took 10 minutes at friends she might see on her least before the wolf caught journey. She was finally her. “You tell me where ready you’re going!” said the wolf. to go “Mwahaha!” she mimicked. so she They had a long chat until skipped suddenly Little Red Riding cheerfully to the ancient forest. Hood heard something as someone sneaked up from While she was there she played with behind the wolf. It was Grandma and she her beautiful, kind animal friends when just kicked the wolf in the back of the head. at that moment a wolf appeared. “He’s knocked out!” said Grandma proudly. “Wow!” said Little Red Riding Hood in “Oh look, what a big fat nose you amazement, “Now we can live happily ever have!” laughed Little Red Riding Hood. “It after!”.
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Little Red Rose Lola-May Trotter (2AM) One joyful morning, Little Red Rose “To my Grandma’s house! Why do you woke up from her comfy bed. She went want to know?” said Rose nervously. As down and packed her small, red, spotty the wolf zoomed off to the Grandma’s basket with delicious cupcakes, chocolate house, Rose said “Thank goodness he’s cookies and orange juice. She was going gone!” to her Grandma’s little house in the humongous, dark, haunted woods. She carried on walking until she arrived at Grandma’s house. Rose knocked on the She happily skipped along the woods door and Grandma muttered “Come in!” when all of a sudden a wolf jumped out of She went in and smiled at Grandma, but a bush! “Help!” screamed Rose in surprise. when she saw her, she was shocked The wolf asked Rose “Where are you because she looked so strange. Her eyes going?” were wide, grey and mysterious. Her ears were hairy and pointy like a pencil. Her hands were dirty, claw like and bony. Her teeth jutted out like fangs. Rose heard her Grandma shouting from under the bed. She shouted “Help!” A wood cutter suddenly smashed through the door! The wood cutter donked the wolf on the head! While he was doing that Rose was freeing Grandma. The wolf sprinted off fearfully and Grandma, Rose and the wood cutter happily ate the yummy food and drinks.
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Draw a comic C.J. (3MM) Maggie (5JP) 15

Alyssa (5JP) Kizzy (5AD) The comic strips included on these pages have been kindly donated by Mr Pryce and the members of his Draw a Comic Club. 16

LITTLE BEAR AND WATSON Little Bear is our school therapy dog. He works with Miss Mac on a daily bases. Miss Mac is one of the members on Marine Academy Primary Inclusion Team. By Taya Star Langford & Georgina Whitby One of the reasons Little Bear –also school. In September, LB will be visiting our known as LB for short– is our therapy dog is current Year 6 children when he will visit the that he loves children and playing games with Wellbeing Zone at MAP Secondary!”, says them. ”Whenever he’s at the park he always Miss Mac absolutely excited. runs straight to children and starts playing with them”, Miss Mac told the interview crew. No one really thought Little Bear and That’s why is not surprising how LB Watson would get on mostly because Little perfectly fit into MAP since the first day he Bear is so big and Watson is so small; but stepped on the school. “LB became a therapy they hit it off at first sight. Little bear and dog two years ago and he has recently Watson love going on walks together on our worked at the University of St Mark and St field. Miss Mac always plays ball with Little John in Plymouth. Whilst he was there, he Bear and Watson always seems to join in! was asked to go to Little bear is a brilliant the BBC and appear addition to our school he on Spotlight during is very well behaved as the evening news”, well. His “mum” explained explains Miss Mac. to us that he started to get Little Bear and trained since day 1. Miss Watson (also known Mac also told us what is as double trouble) LB going to do when the are best of friends school closes for the ever since they met. summer. “During the Actually, LB has Summer holidays, LB will more tan just one be spending his days at BFF: “LB’s best LB when he was a puppy. How cute!!! the beach, digging holes and jumping through the friends are Watson and Buddy”, points his waves. He may occasionally follow a surfer lovely “mama”. Buddy is Miss Mac’s other into sea; they may need rescuing!” dog and he is a Cavalier cross Labrador. “Buddy is a very shy dog and gets Our other MAP dog, Watson, is as well a nervous so he doesn’t like to come to great addition to our school. He is great fun to school. However, LB LOVES to come to have a little play with while we are walking

through reception. Marine Academy Primary students get to walk Watson on separate days depending what year your in. If it’s your day too walk Watson your teacher will pick the 2-5 well-behaved children to walk him. Our dogs at marine academy Primary are the best! They are great and really friendly. We have many more pets at Marine Academy Primary and they are all brilliant! Watson has grown so much since he was a little “furball\", and he is now a great fun member in our amazing school. Paws to Read Miss Maria takes children out regularly to read with Watson. Watson is a great companion for children and helps then with their worries. Reading to dogs can bring many benefits to children such as improving literary skills and public speaking skills, building confidence and discovering a motivation for reading. All that is what Watson does for the children, by listening to them, 3 days per week. Watson’s Outfits Watson has an outfit for every occasion. Here, some great poses from Forces Day, Wear it Wild and half term holidays. 18

Our Planet In Danger By Isla Wilkes &Taya Star Langford Planet Earth is a truly extraordinary planet and the only one we know for certain has life on it. Planet Earth has an extraordinary gift. That gift is called OCEAN. On planet earth there is 75% Ocean. People on planet earth like to take advantage of this blessing and decided to do unthinkable things to our beloved ocean. EG: Throwing there ‘Waste` onto the floor and it floats into the ocean, families also throw their lunch rubbish into the OCEAN! Plastic Pollution the environment by not using plastic straws and even using paper ones PLASTIC, is a big problem and or you could buy online or wherever we, Marine Academy Primary, need to help that! a metal straw! Also you might Our school has many ways of be thinking about reducing and not using carbon dioxide, which plastic, such as we use is also a big problem pack-lunch boxes for and it connects to plastic problems! compartments to put our food in to use at lunchtime/break. Carbon Dioxide We use these pack-lunch boxes like many other schools to help the Carbon Dioxide is a problem on environment (not using plastic bags) one certain problem on the solar and for many other reasons. We system, that planet is the one we also have many bins for plastic and live on right now…PLANET EARTH. such things inside and out of our People, who are using their cars school. Some of you may be asking instead of public transport, cause “How do we help that?” Well I’m this problem. These transports have about to tell you… YOU can help oil on their engines, which is a type 19

of fossil fuel. Aeroplanes are the block the sun from coming out like worst for damaging our environment the green house glass does. It (mostly because they have bigger allows the sun in but obviously not engines.) out. So the more gases we use the more the sun gets blocked, and the They are thousands of things more the sun gets trapped the more that realise co2 but I’m only going to the temperatures rise on planet go into depth of a couple of then, for earth -which as its separate name instance one of the massive GLOBAL WARMING- if these producers is factories. Factories temperatures keep on rising the have a lot of fire-powered polar ice caps will met which causes machines –which lets out co2. the water to rise. Factory workers are really trying to die down on the amount of co2 How can we help? machines they are using. Another high use of dangerous chemicals Us humans can help stop this are the radiators in our from happening, wind turbines are house! Radiators slowly but gradually building their have a dangerous way across Landscapes, and substance in them making it better for the environment, called oil. Oil is also along with Solar Panels, on top of used in cars and other houses, across Landscapes, just types of transport. Oil is a part of the like wind turbines. All of this going group Green House Gases. This on (turtles dying, plastic pollution, term is all of the dangerous sea rising levels, global warming) chemicals in our environment in one CAN BE STOPPED!! All you need big group. This term is the definition to do is help, of course, this could of a green- house -when the sun be hard at first, but really, it helps comes in it doesn’t escape-that is the planet so much! what is happening when we realise gas into the environment the gases 20

My time in Year 6 at Marine Academy Primary By Skye Webb her. She is very knowledgeable and makes our learning fun! I’m lucky to Year 6 has been a bit like a have her teaching me. Miss Watson rollercoaster, with lots of highs and is helpful and caring. She always a few lows but ultimately a lot of fun! shows an interest in each individual, Of course, there was a lot of drama, but we were able to pull together as often asking if we had a a team when it mattered good evening/weekend. most and that was This makes me feel mainly down to the important to her just as outstanding Year 6 staff. she is important to me. Miss Brunning is a There have been really kind teacher who other members of staff encourages the class to that have stepped in act as a team. when needed, all Sometimes she can be playing a vital part in strict but that’s only to my time in year 6. I am make sure everyone is so grateful to each and safe and doing their every one! best. I wouldn’t have her any other way. Mrs Stannard is The learning can be tricky and at really funny, she makes me and my times I felt as though I was never classmates laugh everyday by going to get it right but with telling jokes. I know that if I have a perseverance and hard work, I was problem, I can go to Mrs Stannard able to achieve my goals and felt because she is very understanding proud of myself for never giving up. and will help me, she expects respect and manners and When I first started year 6 I responds in the same way. I can was really worried about honestly say I wouldn’t have got my SATS. through my SATS as confidently as I did without her. Mrs Critchlow is Everyone from the a really happy person which makes previous year 6 had said it was me feel happy when I am around really easy, but I thought they were 21

only saying that because they were we travelled there on a small ferry. really clever, I didn’t think I was While at Mount Edgecombe, we had clever enough to be able to do it. a delicious barbecue on the beach cooked by Mrs Critchlow and Miss My confidence grew as I progressed through the year and I Brunning, we all rolled down a huge soon realised that I could do it, I just hill (started by Mrs Stannard) which needed to have a little belief in was hilarious, and we went myself…and it wasn’t as scary as I exploring. It was awesome! thought it was going to be, I think the bacon sandwiches helped! I still I am looking forward to my next get nervous and still doubt myself adventure at secondary school but I sometimes but I’m working on it. My am sad to be leaving Marine message to the next year 6’s is to Academy Primary. I am going to miss so much: Watson’s cute little do your best, don’t compare yourself face greeting me in the mornings; and believe in yourself. the friendships I have made; Mrs Stannard’s jokes; performing in the After SATS was completed, we Christmas plays; all of the teachers went on a trip to Mount Edgecombe, that have taught me and many more. Most of all I will miss being a part of Marine Academy Primary. 22

The MAP Primary By Isla Wilkes Our school recently held a brand new full of colourful and delicious sweets Tuck Shop. The Tuck shop was held every Tuesday after school outside the MULA. Children and adults reported there was a range of sweets to buy. They were priced 50p for a small bag for a selection and £1 for a larger bag of sweets. Children found that if they wanted a sweet treat on a Tuesday after school, they came with their parent/carer to the MULA to purchase a size of their choice filled with goodies. It brought more opportunities for the children to use their math skills for counting and show off their polite manners to their costumers… A huge success all around. 23

MUSIC REVIEW By Maisie Shaw ‘Love Is the Name’ is the debut single by American recording artist Sofia Daccarett Char, known professionally as Sofia Carson. Sofia Carson, released the song on April 10, 2016; she puts all her effort into this music video and the solo performance piece is done amazingly, Sofia Carson looks like she had a lot of fun doing it, she is just enjoying herself at the beach, dancing and just having fun like any young girl! A really great song that has ever-so catchy lyrics that are entertaining and lovely filled with heart hands throughout. I can't wait to see what the future brings for Sofia Carson! Letters Hi, I’m Alyssa, from class 5JP! this MAPazine is a great way to find out new stuff about the school, in case you I’ve been reading some of the wanted to know the clubs, extra articles, and honestly, they’re great! curricular activities, the lessons that go This magazine is a great idea, and I’m on in MAP, and maybe even the very grateful that I’ve been chosen to lunches! For lunch, there is a wide writer about this. range of food compared to other schools, of course, there is jacket This magazine is a great opportunity potato available every day, along with to tell people about our school, and why ham, cheese and tuna sandwiches its so great! The teachers in this school everyday as well. In MAP there are really do try their best, that’s what great school trips, one of my favourite makes them so great! First of, the head school trips was the Cinema trip, to go teacher- Mrs Meredith is such a nice, to watch Goose Bumps 2, and funny kind-hearted teacher, you’d be so lucky enough, they are all FREE! Which is a to have her as a head teacher! Lots of big help to parents, seen as some do people have worked so hard on this not have much money! Anyway, thank MAPazine, and I think that is really you for reading to what I had to say, good, even though them people are missing there lunchtime on some days , Sincerely yours, but honestly, it’s SO worth it! Anyway, Alyssa (5JP) 24

Things you didn’t know about… Mrs Meredith - Define yourself with an adjective… Friendly. - A food you’d - A movie you’d watch over and over… never get tired of eating… Cool runnings or Harry Potter. Pizza. - A favourite location to go - A food you can’t even smell… on holidays… Calamari. Vietnam or Jamaica - The music that makes you crazily dance… - Your special place in Plymouth or Devon… Taylor Swift: Shake it off. Exmouth. - A book that made an - If you were not a Headteacher, what impact on you at a young would you like to be? age… A Lawyer. Matilda by Roald Dahl.

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