Impact 5

Hall Mead School Volume 5

Welcome

By the Pupils, for the Pupils

NEWTOWN SHOOTING

This issue promises to be even more exciting than our last Christ-mas themed edition! It is packed with even more film and gaming reviews alongside a few serious News articles like the horrific ‘Newtown shootings’. Alongside these we see the return of the popular ‘Film corner’, ‘Gaming page’ and ‘Music page’. So here’s to hoping this issue will be even better than the last one! Happy New Year

Contents Page1 Newton shootings: effects of GUN CRIME Page 2 Tweenies: Jimmy Saville Blunder Page 3 Facebook and Twitter Page 4 Internet Page 5-6 Hall Mead Charities Page 7 War Horse Page 8 Game Cube Page 9-11 Film Corner Page 12–14 PC Reviews Page 15 Music crave Page 16 Wall of fame Page 17 Horoscopes Page 18 YouTube Page 19 Winter fashion Page 20 Celebrity Worship Syndrome Page 21 Red hair man comic

Welcome to edition 5 EDITOR’S NOTE

Gun crime in the states: What do you think?

Gun crime– can we stop it? You probably heard about the recent, tragic shooting in Newton but it really makes me so mad! So many chil-dren lost their lives that day, so many parents lost their most precious possessions and let’s not forget the heroic teacher who lost her life, trying to save her students. BUT WHY? Why did all these people lose their lives…. GUNS! THAT’S WHY! Due to the recent shooting in Newtown, Connecticut , some statistics have been posted online: The US has the highest gun ownership rate in the world - there are 89 guns for every 100 Americans, compared to 6 in England and Wales. There were 12,664 murders in the US. Of those, 8,583 were caused by firearms. The figures show that California had the highest number of gun murders last year - 1,790, which is 68% of all murders, that year and equivalent to 3.25 per 100,000 people in the state. The problem that people are forgetting is that the gun used in this awful case, wasn’t just used for sport or protection, this was an assault rifle that the military use. Why should this be allowed? Don't you think their should be tighter reins on gun selling? I think that not all guns should be banned but definitely these assault rifles and guns that are unnecessary, have no place in OUR society. Have we leant nothing form previous wars?

The USA have suggested to arm more people in case this should happen again, in-cluding teachers and there’s another sugges-tion: armed police should be posted outside schools. Personally, I think that the police idea is wrong because that is a waste of resources and who will be dealing with crime that’s actu-ally going on whilst the police wait for it to happen again! Are we not encouraging a vio-lent society: violence breeds violence...doesn't it? Please write in to Impact (box in foyer) and tell us what you think. By Andrew

Here’s a shocking image of the students and teachers going for cover as the shooting took place.

BBC SHOWS Jimmy Saville spoof on chil-dren's programme

More complaints against the BBC for Jimmy Saville spoof shown on the Tweenies programme, this was a repeat of the an episode made in 2001. One of the characters from the Tweenies Max was dressed in the trade mark Saville tracksuit wearing a blonde wig and using Jimmy Saville’s catchphrases. The Tweenies, which was a co-production between Tell-Tale Produc-tions and the BBC was cancelled in 2003 but episodes have been re-peated regularly since then. The programme was shown before the 9:00 on Sunday 20th. The BBC have apologized for their actions and promised to never do it again. But should that be the end of it? Police say DJ and presenter Saville sexually abused hundreds of peo-ple during 60 years in entertainment. Considering the BBC are already under fire about the Jimmy Savile investigation, this is obviously not going to help matters any further, the BBC know exactly what they are putting on T.V. What are you’re opinions? Let us know! By Eloise

Beware...watch out for: • Hackers - they can get all sorts of personal info and

do anything to your account! • Getting addicted - you can spend hours on the com-

puter and it’s bad for you. • Cyber bullying - as soon as you let them be friends

with you they can post anything on your wall! • On Twitter, once you have posted something any-

one can see it! Tips on how to stay safe: on Facebook set up your pri-vacy settings so that only your friends can see your pro-file and don't be friends with people that you don't know and never never agree to meet up. They may not be who they say they are. On Twitter, if someone follows you and you don't want them following you block them! Also, be careful what you tweet! By Zoe

E-SAFETY– IT’S NOT

A JOKE !!

Internet: do you know what you’re getting to

know?

The internet can be a fun place to go to. You can find something cool or something to share, but there are dark sides to this new online environment. The internet may seem fun but if you click on the wrong links or talk to the wrong people, you may find out that the internet can be stressful and overall disturbing. On the internet, there’s nothing stopping most people for posting whatever they want on any website or any program. You could get a virus or simply see or experience something that could mentally scar you . It is this that can make the internet a dangerous place. The internet is clearly a great place if used right! As I explained earlier, it’s a good way of finding information or having fun and to meet new people from all over the world. You have just got to use it in a safe way to enjoy it and stay safe. To stay safe, when surfing look at the links that your clicking to see if there's anything suspicious or negative. Do this when other people like friends are sending links in case its some sort of joke. Install a web safety program like Norton or Avast to be safe from viruses. I would recommend Avast. Know how to block/delete people in case its someone who wants to know your personal information. If you use a website regularly, have a look through it and get to know it well. Good luck and if in doubt ask parents/older brothers and sisters. By Sam

Recently all Year 7 forms have chosen their charities to sup port and raise money for, with bake sales, book sales,

sweet sales and much more. Year 7 have worked really hard and have each raised a tremendous amount for their charity. The next page is listed with some year 7 forms,

which charities they have chosen and how they have raised money for their charity...

7CS—Mrs Sharma- 7CS supported ‘Children In Need’ and raised an amount of £89 with ‘Guess How Many Shells In The Jar’ a Cake and Sweet Stall, and a Bookstall!! 7CK—Mr Kwan- 7CK are planning to support ‘Cancer Research’ by selling cakes and milkshakes. 7TC—Mrs Clifton- 7TC supported ‘Cancer Research’ with bake sales and a non-uniform day and they managed to raise £115!! 7DJS—Mrs Smith & Mr Jones- 7DJS are going to support ’Starlight’ with a book store, a brownie stall, a cake stall, a DVD stall, and a sweets stall. We will look forward to seeing how much all the other forms will raise with their contributions to support their charity. Last year we saw a spectacular performance from the current 8DF form. After doing lots of fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital, which made their Sweet Stall and Bag Pack-ing they raised a school record amount of £486! This year they are supporting a charity called ‘First Step’ who support disabled children and their parents while they are under five. They have lots of plans for charity events and they aim to beat last year’s total! You better watch this space!!

By Jessica

War Horse is a spectacular book that will knock you out of your seat.. or should I say saddle! This engrossing book, written by Michael Mor-purgo, is narrated by a horse called Joey. Albert, a boy on a farm is his master and they build a fabulous relation-ship. This story is charming and a real tear jerker. It is story not just about their amazing relationship but the strength of that relationship; the extent they will go to for each other! Suddenly, they are separated when he is sold to the army by Albert’s fa-ther during the First World War. Now Joey must fight through the war and take on the challenges he faces alone. Can he lose any more friendships? Will he survive through the war when so many have died? Will he ever see Albert again? Buy the book or grab a copy form the Hall Mead library to find out! In January, the creative writing group went to watch the theatre produc-tion in London with Mrs Sharma and Mr Jones! If you love the book then get out and watch the show. It’s amazing! By Daisy

War Horse book review

A MUST READ!!

You’ve heard of it, watched the

film– make sure you READ it too!

Rating: 10/10

The Game Cube! This amazing and sadly outdated console deserves a small page of its own on its past glory! It was basi-cally Nintendo's number 1 console until the Wii came out in 2006. This memorable and loveable console mustn't be forgotten and so I'm going to review a couple of memorable games that you may have played! If you haven't, I suggest you buy them, seeing as the Wii can also play GameCube games and you can plug in a GC controller to the side of the Wii.

Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Legend of Zelda: Wind Walker was one of GameCube's most famous games in my opinion. You play as Link or whoever you call your character, travelling the seas to earn the triforce of courage and defeat Gannondorf, with LOADS of side quests along the way. The king of red lions

helps you along the way and gives you a special conductors stick. What starts out from saving your sister from pirates turns out to be a journey to save Hyrule from Gannondorf!

Luigi’s mansion Luigi’s mansion was fairly memorable, one of the first games where Luigi was the star of the game! He wins a new mansion and finds out it's haunted. He must find his brother who he finds out is hidden in the mansion and get rid of any ghost that blocks his path. A new 3DS sequel will be re-leased soon too!

Sonic adventure 2 Sonic adventure 2 battle is a famous game in the sonic se-ries. The characters were easy to control and you could choose to play on the good side or the bad side and a final level. This was also the first game where Shadow the hedge-hog appears, and Rouge the bat. What the hell is a

Sonic?! .Dr Eggman wants to charge a super laser in a space station called the ark using chaos emeralds so he can hold the world hostage. He used the help from Rouge and Shadow who was said to be the ultimate life form. So clearly Sonic, Knuckles and Tails have to stop them at all costs! By Sam

Overall; 9 /10

SKYFALL

Overall this film is amazing and delivers a very unpredictable ending that sets up a sequel perfectly and ends classically. It is mostly faultless although the plot is a bit underused for such a good premise.

Plot; 9 /10

The plot is different to any other Bond film and is based around a cyber criminal. He starts terrorising MI6 by blowing up offices by hacking in and releasing secrets.

Action; 10 /10

The action in this film is outstanding, Well planned, written, directed, performed and ed-ited. The best I have seen in a bond film for years! The action is spread out quite well and generates some tense moments that lead up to the sequences unlike the previous instal-ments. The film opens up with a massive ac-tion sequence that finishes after fifteen min-utes. And after you’re ‘blown’ away by that, the story starts to unfold. Although there is a bit of a wait before the next sequence...it’s well worth the wait!. By An-drew

By Andrew Jones

Skyfall • $272,366,000 million

earned in North America • ‘Skyfall’ cost over $200

million to make. • $678,700,000 million

earned internationally • ‘Skyfall’ is the third highest grossing movie of 2012 • ‘Skyfall’ has earned nearly $100 million more than 2008's Quantum of

Solace • Bond 24 confirmed for 2014 The Hobbit • To be made into three films • Took £52.4 million at the US box office from Friday to Sunday. The Expendables 3 • Jackie Chan confirmed in role • Nicholas Cage however is not going to be in it Fast and Furious six • Fast and Furious 6 has been shooting in the UK for the last few

months, but this week it moved back to the States and has been shoot-ing scenes in LA.

By Andrew

Movie news

Overall; This film seems not to know what genre it wants to adhere to and to be honest, fails at the combo of action and thriller! It does however manage to, mildly, entertain an au-dience but doesn’t cover any new ground. It is a good watch but has obvious flaws.

The plot is taken out of the ninth book in the Jack Reacher series called “One Shot” . In a book, this plot definitely works but didn’t seem to gel well on screen. I think this was probably down to the way it was adapted by the director.

There is not a lot of action in this film and when it does occur it seems lacking in style and excitement. Nonetheless, the action is watchable. The main problem, I think, with viewers being disappointed with the action in this film is that they have really high ex-pectations after seeing the Mission Impossi-ble franchise. In comparison, this doesn’t match up. Saying that however, there is a good car chase later on….so keep your eyes peeled for that!

Plot; 8/10

Overall; 7/10

Action; 6/10

By Andrew

9.5/10

Storyline: 6/10 There are three different game modes in single-player: Survival, Creative and Hardcore. Survival is where you wake up on a ran-dom island and you have to survive by making shelter and finding food. In creative you can fly and you have unlimited supplies so you just do what you want. (Perfect for building awesome struc-tures) Hardcore is survival but on the hardest difficulty and no respawning (coming back to life).

Game play: 9/10 The game play is awesome!. For survival and hardcore your goal is to survive. First thing you must do is chop down a tree with your bare hands! Then you can make a crafting bench and you can craft lots of tools and other stuff to help you. You can build a house and mine for minerals in caves, but watch out! In the dark-ness, monsters attack you! But most monsters burn in sunlight (like a vampire)

Extra Bits: 9/10 There are so many extras I might run out of space! You can go online on multiplayer to play with your friends, you can change the appearance of your character, you can download mods to change the game play and add more stuff into the game, you can download texture packs to change the appearance of the game, you can download and play other worlds other people have made and you can even build portals to other dimensions such as the Nether (Hell) the Ather (Heaven) and The End (A scary place where you fight a dragon!)

By Noah

Overall rating:

Storyline: 8.5

9.5 Although there is no storyline, you can do campaigns. In these you choose which country you would like to represent, play many Olympic sports and try to top the medals table. It’s really fun and almost like being there.

Gameplay: 9.7 The game play is great. The graphics are amazing and very realistic. This gives the gamer a realistic and enjoyable experience. You feel like you are actually there, competing in the Olympics. You can break Olympic and world records and play with your friends online.

Along with the campaign mode, there is also a party mode. This is great for playing with friends and family. It is fun, very different to the main game and create a variety for gam-ing.

Extra bits: 8.7

By Zach

These are a list of some games that we are looking forward to in the future!

This zombie-survival game from Naughty Dog (the creators of Uncharted) is out on 7th May 2013 and so far looks amazing!

The new addition to the Crysis series looks the best yet and we can’t wait!

The new Slender man game by Blue Isle studios looks really scary! Improved graphics, different levels and a storyline makes this the best Slender man game yet!

The third Bioshock game is taking the world by storm and this time is set not under the water, but in the air!

Watch out for these….some are suppose to be brilliant!

By Noah

Not everyone has the same opinion about these numbers. Here are some opinions about what we think about these top 5: “Not the best in my opinion!” “ These were my favourite!” “I like most of them!” “ I rocked to these every morning before school!” “ Awesome!” By Lucy

The best songs 2012

Gang-nam style PSY

Call me maybe Carly Rae Jepsen

What makes you beautiful 1D

Wings Little Mix

Somebody that I used to know GOTYE

Wall of Fame Amelia Barnes 7WB: for completing her map, in PSHE at a fantastic standard. Millie was not even set homework and used her own initiative to create something wonderful. Well done Ms Barnes Some Year 10's have been working with 7TK in a trial to help them improve their literacy skills. Emma Burns (10TPT), Tom Walker (10CD), Tahlia Clark (10CD), Felicia Ababii (10WB) and Kathe-rine Moss (10TP) have been looking at the Year 7's extended written work in Science and helping them identify mistakes and how to improve. The Year 10's have been doing a fantastic job and 7TK have been benefitting from the trial greatly! Mrs King and Miss James Owen Beedle - for a great performance as lawyer in the mock trial of Harry Truman in his History lesson. Mrs Shearing Yr 8 Karisma Ram - puts 100% in everything she does and because of this is making excellent pro-gress. Alban Cena - cannot fault his enthusiasm for participating in class. Yr 9 Owen Beedle, Erin Corney, EllieGiles — all three work really hard, put 100% effort into their les-sons and their homework and participate on a regular basis. Charlie Burgess - cannot fault his enthusiasm. Yr 10 Lily Maguire, Daisy Earwaker both are enthusiastic and participate constantly in class. Hannah Wright - will go the extra mile to ensure her work is of the highest quality Tom Walker - will go the extra mile to understand complex grammatical structures and vocabu-lary Rhianna Dennis - will ask questions to improve her understanding. Chloe Matthews - fantastic improvement in meeting deadlines!! Yr 11 Natalie Keeling - puts 100% effort into her work and participates (all the time) in lessons. Mrs Machin

Georgia Midson in 8WH did a day of sponsored silence for her form's char-ity, Cystic Fibrosis Trust, and raised an amazing £56 all on her own. She also didn't crack all day! We're all very proud of her for this achievement and raising so much money by herself.

Mr Hughes

Well done to all of the year 7s who produced an outstanding Myself project and were awarded a gold certificate. Well done. Senior House Tutors

If you are a bully , YOU better change now or else you’ll suffer the conse-quences

Whenever you wear green you will have good luck

When it’s a full moon you will stay awake all night

When you do some-thing good you will receive a special reward

Look for the big star and all your wishes will be granted

When you’re older you will succeed in life

You will be married to someone that’s rich

You will under-stand all animals

Pay attention in class or you will not suc-ceed in life

In 19 days you will be floating in the air in-stead of walking

As soon as you get home you will have a bubbly hot tub wait-ing for you.

When you buy a Lexus it will speak and you will feel like James Bond

By Daisy

By Sam

Youtubers part2! In your last issue of Impact, we had an article about youtubers and now we are going to continue with a few more channels to kill your boredom. BrocksDubs

Brock Baker is a comedy youtuber who dubs over famous videos or music videos such as Rebecca black– Friday or the royal wedding, his work usually comes out hilarious! Go check him out for some laughs! He also has a second channel which shows him doing voice acting for his videos or

funny little sketches. Danisnotonfire

Danisnotonfire is a British youtube blog-ger who speaks from his mind about situations and problems he or other people have had. He tries to do them in a funny way and his videos usually cheer you up or even help you out so go check this dude out!

Zeurel Zeurel is an animator that creates all sorts of different kinds over the years, although he doesn't’ post many videos- perhaps 5-6 videos a year. However they are usually very entertaining and sometimes long. He’s created horrors like “Bear Bear” or actions

like “a robot western” Even comedies like Adventure babies!” Check this guy out!

This winter’s fashion

These Ugg boots are perfect for this winter. They come in all different colours and styles and keep your feet nice and cosy. You can get these from lots of shops and websites on the internet.

This scarf is so important to use in the winter, I wear it because it looks brilliant and because it keeps you warm -that's the whole point of the scarf ! .You can get scarves from a lot of places because they are so popular so if you get cold in the winter, then go and buy yourself a cosy, warm, fashionable scarf to wear.

Don’t forget, Hall Mead school allow you to wear any coloured scarf as long as it is plain– so go and indulge–

especially with all the snow we’ve had!

This cosy warm coat is ideal for the cold weather this year. It looks brilliant with skinny jeans and also jeggings. You can get these from the internet... just type in ‘fashionable winter clothes for women’ and you will find a coat very similar.

By Lily

It seems like a very insignificant type of syndrome, who cares if you are obsessed with 1D or Justin Bieber? But what if you can effect people in a more harmful way, making teenagers more vulnerable to get affected by the actions of our favourite celebrity idols. It’s fine if you stalk them on twitter or watch the Twilight saga on repeat all day, but what if it turned into some-thing much more serious? Recently young teenagers have been self harming themselves due to pop icon Justin Bieber smoking weed, this only proves how celebrities impact teenagers lives. But Justin is not Jesus Christ– no matter how hard our culture promotes him as such. In the past a crush on a pop star or movie star etc would be meditated through a teenage magazine run by adults (with an agony aunt on the back page to remind you to keep your fanta-sies in check) Teenagers are can be quite vulnerable, but then again it’s not just us teenagers that can be absorbed with the media, its also some adults as well that like to aspire to their role models. It can be a man in his twenties wanting to be-come in the shape of his favourite athlete. Lots of people want to be as attractive and successful as their favourite celebrities, therefore this can lead to lower confidence levels, cases of anorexia and other problems that we still face as a community. Self harming is a very serious issue and shouldn’t be taken lightly, if you are worried about a friend or you have any question’s about the issue please don’t hesitate to ask your parents or a teacher at school. You can also speak to the cyber mentors every Friday lunch-time. No one should suffer in silence. For help and information: Childline: 0800 1111 (24 hours) www.childline.org.uk Young Minds Helpline: 0808 802 5544 www.youngminds.org.uk

By Eloise

WHAT WILL HAP-PEN NOW?

OMG HE JUST GOT STRUCK BY LIGHTNING I HAVE TO QUICKLY FIND THE DYING MAN!!.

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!

QUICKLY IM LOSING BLOOD PLEASE!!!!!

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Impact Team

Georgina : Fashion page

Hannah Wood: Assis-tant Editor and Re-porter

Megan: Editor

Billy : Comic

Jess : Cyber men-tor pafe and re-

Sophie : Reporter

Daisy Asante: re-porter and photog-rapher

Noah: Expert Gamer and story writer

Sam: reporter

Eloise : Director, reporter and re-viewer

Katharine : Assis-tant Editor and Wall of Fame

Zoe: reporter

Zak: Game Reviewer

Amy : News Page Eliza: sports page Ross: Gaming reporter Lily: Fashion page