Once again, it is that time of the year where everyone is busy with preparing for exams and filled with the excitement of the end of term. On Thursday, December 8, 2011 our school is going to have a secondary school Christmas party which will be organized by the student council - Yeshav Seval and Tosin Femi-Lawal. We are unaware of what exactly they have got planned, but it is a highly anticipated event. In the internal news article for this month, you will see an interesting article regarding the effectiveness of the student council. 2 students in the student council… less is more? Or the more the merrier? Icicle is a Christmas production in the works with Mr. Govendor. The cast consists of year 7s and 8s in our school. It will be performed along side several acts during the Secondary School Christmas Show. The date is yet to be announced. We encourage you to support your children and your peers throughout this month and the next one as it is going to be a very busy one! There are many interesting things also going on around Lagos for the month of December! ‘For Colored Girls - who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf’ has been adapted for Nigerian audiences to hit the stage in December. The multi- award winning play written by Ntozake Shange will be on stage December 29th and 30th at the Shell Hall, Muson Center, Onikan, Lagos. Christmas Holiday Destinations! Top four Christmas Holiday destinations! 1. Caribbean Islands They have the best beaches in the world and you’re sure to have a memorable time there. 2. Goa (India) Sun, sand and delicious seafood. Does it get any better? 3. Holland A beautiful place has a picturesque countryside that is an ideal place for families. 4. Samoa The destination offers ultimate relaxation with the clear waters and white sand. November/December 2011 www.cislagos.com Edition: 3 MORE NEWS Advertising space available here. Contact: chukwumaha@cislagos. com Advertising space available here. Contact: chukwumaha@cislagos. com Santa giving toy to child This production will feature: Tiwa Savage, Joke Silva, Ireti Doyle, Matilad Obaseki, Marcy Dolapo Oni, Reanne Opia, and Olajumoke Ladi Bello. For more information about the production please visit: http://www.bellanaija. com/2011/11/22/bn- exclusive-for- coloured-girls- nigerian-adaptation- hits-the-stage-in- december-cast- includes-joke-silva- marcy-dolapo-oni- tiwa-savage-reanne- Christmas time is near! http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/ BBC Bitesize is a good way of revising for your exams. It has various subjects on it such as: English, Math, ICT, Business Studies, Science, etc. It has comprehensive revision material such as notes, videos and tests at the end of each topic within each subject that can definitely aid you with your revision. Advertising space available here. Contact: chukwumaha@cislagos. com
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Once again, it is thattime of the year whereeveryone is busy withpreparing for examsand filled with theexcitement of the endof term.
On Thursday,December 8, 2011 ourschool is going to havea secondary schoolChristmas party whichwill be organized bythe student council -Yeshav Seval and TosinFemi-Lawal. We areunaware of whatexactly they have gotplanned, but it is ahighly anticipatedevent. In the internalnews article for thismonth, you will see aninteresting articleregarding theeffectiveness of thestudent council. 2students in the studentcouncil… less is more?Or the more themerrier?
Icicle is a Christmasproduction in theworks with Mr.Govendor. The castconsists of year 7s and8s in our school. It willbe performed alongside several actsduring the SecondarySchool ChristmasShow. The date is yetto be announced. Weencourage you tosupport your childrenand your peersthroughout this monthand the next one as itis going to be a verybusy one!
There are manyinteresting things alsogoing on aroundLagos for the month ofDecember!
‘For Colored Girls -who have consideredsuicide when therainbow is enuf’ hasbeen adapted forNigerian audiences tohit the stage inDecember. The multi-award winning playwritten by NtozakeShange will be onstage December 29thand 30th at the ShellHall, Muson Center,Onikan, Lagos.
ChristmasHoliday
Destinations!
Top four ChristmasHoliday destinations!1. Caribbean IslandsThey have the bestbeaches in the worldand you’re sure to havea memorable timethere.2. Goa (India)Sun, sand and deliciousseafood. Does it getany better?3. HollandA beautiful place has ap i c t u r e s q u ecountryside that is anideal place for families.4. SamoaThe destination offersultimate relaxation withthe clear waters andwhite sand.
November/December2011
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Contact:chukwumaha@cislagos.
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This production willfeature: Tiwa Savage,Joke Silva, Ireti Doyle,Matilad Obaseki,Marcy Dolapo Oni,Reanne Opia, andOlajumoke Ladi Bello.For more informationabout the productionplease visit:http://www.bellanaija.com/2011/11/22/bn-exclusive-for-coloured-girls-nigerian-adaptation-hits-the-stage-in-december-cast-includes-joke-silva-marcy-dolapo-oni-tiwa-savage-reanne-
Christmas time is near!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/
BBC Bitesize is a good way of revising for your exams. Ithas various subjects on it such as: English, Math, ICT,Business Studies, Science, etc. It has comprehensiverevision material such as notes, videos and tests at the endof each topic within each subject that can definitely aidyou with your revision.
I don’t understandwhen people say theyhate the taste ofwater. How do youhate the taste ofwater? To me, it has,and always will, tastelike nothing. Maybe arefreshing nothing.Maybe a cold nothing.Maybe a hint of earthyor ‘chloriny’ nothing.Similarly, I don’t getwhy people like thetaste of a certain‘type’ of water. That’sjust me. But from what Igather, its not anuncommonphenomenon. Thething is, you needwater. You need a lotof it. And if you’reworking out, trying tolose weight or behealthier, you reallyneed it.Now, I want to bustsome H2O myths!1. You cannot drink toomuch water. Unless youdrink an entire
swimming pool in a fewminutes, but that ishighly unrealistic.2. You get enoughwater with the food youeat. Nope, this is false.You need to drink aglass or two with eachmeal minimum.
3. We don’t all need6-8 glasses of water. Agood rule of thumb isdrink a glass beforeand after a meal. Orask your doctor justhow much water youreally need.
To make water moreappetizing maybe addlemon to it, or flavoredpackets. Also, vitaminwater has variousflavors of water. Whichever way you like it,drink it. It’s all good!
H2O
As a member of ourplanet it is our duty tomake sure ourenvironment is clean atall times. Not only for us,but for our futuregeneration.
For our school, I think weneed to look at our eco-friendliness and create a‘go green pledge’ toinspire students andpeople around us.
A pledge is like ananthem except that it isshorter and spoken, notsung.
He is being transferredto the InternationalCourt in the Hague. Heis charged with theboycott of the generallocal elections. Thisboycott has led tostreet violence on thestreets which had costthe lives of 3,000people while 72 peopledisappeared, and 520were arrested.
A designer, called Priestman, has come up with anew way to travel around. He says, that theproblem with traveling in trains are not the speedthey go in, but the train stations themselves. Theidea is, that you are basically on a movingplatform, a tram, that people go on and the tramcomes right up to that train. He says, "The tramsspeed up and the high-speed train slows downand they join, so they dock at high speed,"explains Priestman.
"Then, wheneveryone's done
that, the doors shutand then the trainsseparate and the
tram then goesback into the city ortown and picks upmore passengersand drops off.”
Boarding a moving train?
Fighting in Yemen intensifies
People tended to protestersovercome by tear gas inSana, the capital of Yemen.Northern Sana has turnedinto a virtual war zone inrecent days, and even asthe government announceda cease-fire on Tuesday,explosions boomed acrossthe city. Yemeni attacksforces, attacked protestersand residents area on Fridaysouthern city.“Today youcan only call it a real waragainst civilians in Taiz, youcannot call it by any other
name,” said a local doctor,Abdul-Rahim al-Samie, whosaid that four women andtwo children were amongthose killed Friday by gunfireand mortar attacks.
Then, antigovernmentprotesters said, snipers shotdirectly into a demonstrationarea from the edge of theirencampment immediatelyafter Friday Prayer asthousands came out toparticipate. Artillery fire froma tank struck the eastern
Winter Fashion for men! Skinny jeans, jerseys and parkers.Are men becoming more and more predictable?
The Africa Fashion Awards,was held at the SandtonConvention Centre,awarded the continent’sbest.Bridget Masinga hosted theevent and music artistsMaleh and Zakes Bantwinientertained the audience.The winners are:
� Jewel by Lisa� Ozwald Boateng� Maki Oh� Angelo van Mol
True life exam stress… Real life story: Don't let exams stress you out!I’m a transition year studentand I sat my junior certificatelast year. Teachers repeated thesame sentence every day:“Your junior cert is in so manydays/ weeks/ months” and thatmade me panic about theexams.
I studied but it felt like I wasn’tdoing enough. I felt as if theexams were going to be on topof me before I knew it.
My mock exams were inFebruary. I studied very hardfor these exams but I was stillstressed out. I hardly slept atnight with worry and my eatingwas disgraceful. I wouldn’tmind if these were my realexams but it was just mymocks! Well, I got throughthem anyway.
When I got my results back, Istill wasn’t happy with myself.I honestly thought that I coulddo better. So what did I do,only get more stressed out! Isuffered from migraines everyweek thanks to not gettingproper sleep. I really did putmy head down to work though.
Soon I realised it was actuallymy junior cert. The day beforemy exams I felt sickness
coming on. I really couldn’tbelieve it: I was very weak,had sore bones and sufferedterribly with migraines.However, I thought it wouldjust be a day thing. I had theEnglish paper on the Mondayand I couldn't look at the paperproperly, but I did what Icould do. I got so upsetbecause I felt as if I didn’tmake a good effort of thispaper. I went home in tears.
I went to my bed that night atabout 8pm to get ready foranother hard day. I was sickfor most of the week, allbecause I ran myself into suchbad conditions.
I finished my junior certexams and I was just soannoyed for putting myselfunder too much stress andpressure. I got my results inSeptember last year and I wasso surprised with my results. Idid particularly well!
Born onDecember
25th?
These people areprivileged to share abirth date with our LordJesus Christ:
HumphreyBogart (108)
CabCalloway(100)
Sissy Spacek(58)
Sir Isaac Newton (365)
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When I’m in leaving cert, onething I know not to do is getstressed out over studying. Inow know to get plenty ofsleep and eat properly.
Future exam students take myword on this- don’t getstressed out over studyingbecause you don’t want thesame happening to you thathappened to me. Take it inyour stride. As long as you’reprepared, everything will turnout just fine!
After you have solved the puzzle, rearrange the circle letters tofind Squigly’s mystery word.
Send in your answers to:
Mihlali Mvoko or Kenia Puente
Three wise kings set forth fromtheir hometowns to the townof Bethlehem bringing theirgifts to the Holy Infant Jesusduring the first Christmas.They all started traveling atthe same time. The first wiseking traveled south at 3 milesper hour. The second wiseking traveled west at 2.2miles per hour. The third wiseking traveled north at 3.5miles per hour. After theytraveled 8 hours, they met atone place east ofBethlehem. When they hadrested for a few hours, theytraveled west together for 18
miles until they reached thetown of Bethlehem, and paidhomage to the Holy InfantJesus. What were thedistances from Bethlehem tothese three hometowns ofthe wise kings? Take notethat the routes taken bythese kings may not benecessarily the shortest pathto Bethlehem.
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The huge rugby matchthat was on the 24th ofNovember 2011. CISstudents against a superprofessional rugby club. Itwas a very sad match forour students for we lost 7-1.
A very important match indeed:Chelsea vs Valencia
Woeful away form hadleft a place among Eu-rope’s elite in jeopardy,but Chelsea rediscoveredits attacking flair just whenit mattered most against;Valencia CF.
Didier Drogba netted af-ter just three minutes, setup Ramires’ 22nd-minute
goal and then round-ed off the victory inthe second half.
“We finished top ofthe group against allodds,” said Villas-Boas, who was hiredin the offseason fol-lowing a four-trophyhaul last year at FCPorto. “There has
been a lot of criticismof our players and theygave everyone a slapin the face.”
The victory knockedBayer Leverkusen offtop spot, with the Ger-man club clinchingsecond place with a1-1 draw at RacingGenk.
The drama of the nightcame at Borussia Dort-mund, with Marseillescoring twice in theclosing minutes to win3-2 and advance asGroup F runner-up.
“Football is magnificentwhen you win,” Mar-seille coach Didier Des-champs said. “Youhave to believe untilthe end. What we didwas exceptional.”
Didier Drogba now acting?Following theagreement betweenhim and the SouthKorean company,Didier Drogba willpromote Samsung'sphones, and will alsoappear in Samsung'sadvertisingcampaigns.
“I think he has no tal-ent in acting andshould stick to foot-ball” stated Tami,Year 9
“The concept of theadvert, the onewhere he is advetisingthe Samsung TV, isreally cool, but Didiershould get voice
Ejovwo Obahor, Year9 reckons that DavidBechkam’s PEPSI ad-verts are the best TVadvert by footballers.