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Word Count: 150

Win:

Topic: My favourite heroine

Age: 9 years and below

Winsuper books from

Horrid Henry’s Nits by Francesca Simon

Horrid Henry’s Nits, is one of a series of books about the mischief a boy called Henry gets up to. The book contains four stories. Henry’s fiendish plots will make you ache with laughter.

Funday Times C/O the Sunday Times P.O. Box 1136, Colombo. Or 8, Hunupitiya Cross Road, Colombo 2.

Please write the name of the competition and the date clearly at the top of your entry and include

the following details:Full Name (including Surname),

Date of Birth, Address, Telephone No. and School.

Please underline the name most commonly used.

All competition entries should be in your own handwriting and

certified by a teacher or parent as your own work.

Competition entries without the full details requested above,

will be disqualified.Closing date

for weekly competitions:

March 25, 2020

Please note that competition entries are not accepted by email.

Telephone: 2479337/2479333 Email: [email protected]

[email protected]

Please send competition entries to:

nBook Competition nEssay TopicWrite at the top of your essay

Word Count:

When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her gothic nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors; after all, Ada is a very difficult old lady.

But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about ‘something behind the fireplace’, Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in a spine-chilling adventure.

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Age: 13 - 15 years

By The Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie

150 – 200Word Count:

Age: 10 - 12 years

Visiting the old house at Smuggler’s Top is thrilling – there are hidden passages and underground tunnels to explore.

Then not one, but two, people disappear from the house and the children notice a mysterious signal out to sea. What secret is Smuggler’s Top about to reveal?

Win: Five Go to Smuggler’s Top by Enid Blyton

The actress I like bestTopic: Topic:

Win:

A famous woman I admire and why

200 - 250

This is your chance to get your poem published here. Entries should be in your handwriting and clearly

certified by a teacher or parent as your own creation. Your poem should be posted to Funday Times with

‘Poetry Competition' written at the top of the entry. The winner of each age category will be awarded a

British Council Young Learner's Library membership.

Age groups: 6 - 10 years 11 - 15 yearsWord limit: 100 Words

6 – 10 years

Poetry competition

My kittenMy kitten is cute and cuddly,Her name is Fluffy White.I found her in the city,When I went outside.

She adores a little titbit,And a huge amount of fish,Licking through the gravy,She finishes the whole dish.

My kitten is adorable,A nice little creature,And she is so soft,A lovely feature.

She loves a game of hide and seek,Which she plays with my cousin Jack,But most of all she loves me,And I love her back.

Isali SiribaddanaMusaeus College, Colombo

Wonder EarthA long time ago,The space itself thought,To create something new,That sustains life and biodiversity.

She joined pieces of rock,And formed a spherical object,For this object,We call Mother Earth.

It had lush forests and dazzling rivers,Ice-capped mountains and amazing creatures,Tropical, hot and cold climates,And also oceans which held secrets.

Later on, humans also inhabited the Earth,And ruled different parts of it,So long live ‘Wonder Earth’,Our planet of glory and secrets.

11 – 15 years

Please write the date at the top of your entry when sending poems for this competition.

Book Competition

Please note that copied poems will be disqualified.

Hesara PereraLyceum Int. School, Ratnapura

9 years and belowMy favourite event at the school sportsmeetArham Razlin Lyceum Int. School

10 – 12 yearsMy favourite holidayNisma Nawfar Fathima B. M. V., Puttalam

13 – 15 yearsThe importance of sports in the school curriculumSinadi MethduniMusaeus College, Colombo

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News in PicturesMarch 3

March 2

Sources : The Guardian / Reuters

Seoul, South KoreaPresident Moon Jae-in (third from right) and his ministers wear face masks at a cabinet meeting at the government complex. South Korea’s coronavirus case total – the largest in the world outside China – approached 5,000 on Tuesday as authorities reported 477 new cases.

Hubei province, ChinaA sports stadium that has been converted into a makeshift hospital to treat patients of the coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak.

Worcester, BritainSwans gather on flooded riverside streets, following Storm Jorge, in Worcester, Britain.

Vladivostok, RussiaA man climbs up a wooden pole to get a prize in front of an Orthodox cathedral during celebrations of Maslenitsa, also known as Pancake Week, which is a pagan holiday marking the end of winter.

Edirne, TurkeyMigrants cross Meric river as they walk towards the Turkey’s Pazarkule border crossing with Greece’s Kastanies, near Edirne, Turkey.

Lesbos, GreeceMigrants wait to leave from the village of Skala Sikaminias. People hoping to enter Greece from Turkey appeared to be fanning out across a broader swathe of the roughly 200km-long land border, maintaining pressure on the frontier after Ankara declared its borders with the European Union open.

Addis Ababa, EthiopiaA parade in King II Menelik Square to mark the 124th anniversary of the battle of Adwa, which was a victory over Italian forces.

Paris, FranceModels present the Stella McCartney collection. The brand bills itself as vegetarian and says it never uses leather, skin, fur or feathers.

Thousand Islands, IndonesiaThe KRI Dr Soeharso hospital ship ferrying evacuees from the coronavirus-hit World Dream cruise ship.

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Some Famous WomenThroughout the years, history has seen some intelligent, powerful and inspirational women who have been

pioneers for women’s rights and racial equality and have defined the worlds of science, mathematics, aviation and literature.

Jane Austen (1775 – 1817)

Jane Austen defined an entire literary genre with her shrewd social observations and wit.

Born into a family of eight children in England, Austen started writing her now classic novels, such as ‘Pride and Prejudice’ and ‘Sense and Sensibility’, in her teens.Her novels are funny, endearing and questioned women’s roles within society.

Austen had to hide her identity as the author of some of the most popular novels of her day and it wasn’t until her death that her brother, Henry, revealed to the public that she was the real author.

The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most honest, powerful and poignant accounts of World War II and was written by a German teenage girl. The Franks were a Jewish family living in Germany, then Austria throughout Hitler’s rise to power and during World War II. The family hid in a secret annex with four other people throughout the war but were discovered and sent to concentration camps in 1944. Out of the Frank family, only Anne’s father survived, and he made the decision to publish Anne’s diary.

The Diary of Anne Frank has been translated into almost 70 languages and is an intimate portrayal of one of the most inhumane moments in history and is able to educate us on the universal human qualities of emotion, passion, love, hope, desire, fear and strength.

Anne Frank (1929 – 1945)

Maya Angelou (1928 – 2014)

Maya Angelou is one of the most influential women in American history and was a poet, singer, memoirist and civil rights activist, whose award-winning memoir ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ made literary history as the first nonfiction best-seller by an African-American woman.

Angelou had a difficult childhood. As a black woman growing up in Stamps, Arkansas, Maya experienced racial prejudices and discrimination all throughout her life.

Malala Yousafzai (1997 – )

Malala Yousafzai was born in Pakistan on July 12, 1997. Yousafzai’s father was a teacher and ran an all-girls school in her village, however when the Taliban took over her town they enforced a ban on all girls going to school.

In 2012, at the age of 15, Malala publicly spoke out on women’s rights to education and as a result, a gunman boarded her school bus and shot the young activist in the head.

Malala survived. She moved to the UK where she has become a fierce presence on the world stage and became the youngest ever recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014, at 17 years old. Malala is currently studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.

Marie Curie (1867 – 1934)

Polish-born Marie Curie was a pioneering physicist and scientist, who coined the term radioactivity, discovered two new elements (radium and polonium) and developed a portable x-ray machine.

Curie was the first person (not woman) who has won two separate Nobel Prizes, one for physics and another for chemistry, and to this day Curie is the only person, regardless of gender, to receive Nobel prizes for two different sciences.

If there was ever a true hero who dedicated her life to helping others, Florence Nightingale is it. Born in Italy in 1920, Florence went against what was traditionally expected of her, by becoming a war-hero nurse.

She was born in Florence – which was the inspiration for her name – into a very wealthy

family who frowned upon her entering into the nursing profession. She moved to London to work before receiving a letter from the Secretary of War asking her to put a team together to go to work in a place called Crimea during the Crimean War, and look after British soldiers. This was the first time that women had been officially allowed to serve in the army.

Florence Nightingale (1820 – 1910)

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Some Famous Women

Sources: Marie Claire/ takepartworld/ CBBC Newsround and Biography.com

Throughout the years, history has seen some intelligent, powerful and inspirational women who have been pioneers for women’s rights and racial equality and have defined the worlds of science, mathematics, aviation and literature.

Rosa Parks (1913 – 2005)

Rosa Parks was on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, when the bus driver asked her to stand up and give her seat to a white man.

Parks, a black seamstress, refused and in doing so sparked an entire civil rights movement in America.

At the grand age of 93 years old, Her Majesty is incredibly deserving of her place on a list of women who have left their mark on the world.

She has been sitting on the throne of the UK for 68 years, making her the world’s longest serving monarch. She has seen the country through good times and bad, as well as sitting with 14 different prime ministers. She was just 25 years old when her father died and the crown was passed on to her – and she has been in the spotlight almost every day of her life.

Queen Elizabeth II (1926 – )

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and the world’s first computer programmer. Ada was a charming woman of society who was friends with people such as Charles Dickens, but she is most famous for being the first person ever to publish an algorithm intended for a computer, her genius being years ahead of her time.

It took nearly a century after her death for people to appreciate her notes on Babbage’s Analytical Engine, which became recognised as the first description for computer and software, ever.

Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852)

Amelia Earhart was the definition of a rule breaker. An American aviator who became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic and the first person ever to fly solo from Hawaii to the US, Amelia was a pioneering aviator and a true female trailblazer.

Earhart set multiple aviation records, but it was her attempt at being the first person to circumnavigate the globe which led to her disappearance and presumed death.

In July 1937, Earhart disappeared somewhere over the Pacific, her plane wreckage has never been found and to this day, her disappearance remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century.

Amelia Earhart (1897 – disappeared 1937)

Mother Teresa, born in Albania, was a Roman Catholic nun who lived in India for most of her life. In 1950, she founded the Missionaries of Charity which attracted many sisters who took vows of chastity, poverty, obedience and free service to the poorest of the poor. The work that the order undertook, in over 130 countries, included managing homes for people who were dying, soup kitchens, orphanages and schools.

Although criticised for her opposition to abortion, her charitable work changed the lives of many of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Mother Teresa (1910 – 1997)

Chanel emerged from a difficult, nomadic childhood in France to become an internationally famous designer, whose eponymous brand spans fashion, jewellery and perfume.

Her importance and contributions to female fashion is complicated by her suspected collaboration with German intelligence operations during the Second World War.

Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971)

Sirima Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, commonly known as Sirimavo Bandaranaike, was a Sri Lankan stateswoman. She became the world’s first non-hereditary female head of government in modern history, when she was elected Prime Minister of Sri Lanka in 1960. She served three terms: 1960 – 1965, 1970 – 1977 and 1994 – 2000.

Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916 – 2000)

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February 2020 – Independence Celebrations

Vethmi SenanayakeMusaeus College, Colombo

Esandi RanasingheMusaeus College, Colombo

Years8 -11

Buthmi NicoleSt. Joseph’s B. M. V., Kegalle

Binadee AlahakoonVisakha Vidyalaya, Colombo

Livinu AlahakoonSt. Sebastian’s College, Moratuwa

Disnu SivakumarHindu College, Colombo

Place1st

Place2nd

Place3rd

Thenuli PeramunugamaHoly Cross College, Gampaha

Thinadhi RathnaweeraLyceum Int. School, Wattala

Andriya AppuhamySt. Nicholas’ Int. School, Negombo

ArtWinners please contact us on

2479337/2479333 and arrange to collect your prizes. Please remember to certify your entries as we

had to reject several good entries that were not properly certified.

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Years12 -15

Topic for March - Wildlife Closing Date : March 31, 2020

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New Year Cover 2020

As the Sinhala and Tamil New approaches, it is time once again to think of the Funday Times New Year Cover.

Would you like to send in a picture for our New Year cover? If so, here’s what you have to do.

Paint a picture to depict the traditions of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year and send it in to us.

The painting should be on A 4 size paper. You could use any type of paint, crayons or chalk. Please make your picture bright and colourful.

All entries should be certified by a teacher or parent as your own work. Uncertified entries will not be

entertained.The best entry will be used for the cover of the

Funday Times New Year issue. The winner will also receive a book voucher.

Wish you all happy painting!

TIMESClosing Date : April 1, 2020

Suhanya Gamaarachchi8 years on March 9

Hamna Imran7 years on March 6

Yoshitha Ranaweera10 years on February 27

Akindhu Liyanaarachchi7 years on March 13

Kavishka De Silva6 years on March 7

Sakithma Liyanaarachchi5 years on March 2

Photographs of members and non-members between 4 – 15 years, for the birthday page, should reach us

at least ten days before the birthday, along with a letter from a parent giving full details. Please note we do not take

photographs from the membership files for publishing birthdays.

The Annual Sports Meet of Buddhist Ladies’ College, Colombo 7, was held on February 13, 2020 at the NCC Grounds.

Pix by M. A. Pushpa Kumara

Fathima Aaliya of Unique International School, Nawalapitiya won the Junior Level Championship

in the International Abacus Competition held in Pune, India on December 15, 2019.

She represented ICAM Abacus Center Nawalapitiya. Many competitors from India, Bhutan and Nepal

participated in the competition.

Young Achiever

Printed and published by Wijeya Newspapers Ltd. on March 8, 2020 at No. 8, Hunupitiya Cross Road, Colombo 2 ( 2479479).

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Winners please call Funday Times on

2479337 and arrange to collect your prizes.

4 – 6 years 4Rahal Perera, Kotte 4Abrar Riyaz, Mt. Lavinia4Nihinsa Stephani, Kotugoda4Rizan Lubaab, Matara 4Akain Bowatta, Wattala

4 - 6 Age group

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Help the Prince find his Princess.

Two lucky winners will receive brand new

Tomahawk Mountain Bikeswith the compliments of

Tomahawk Bicycle MallAll Funday Times readers between

8 – 15 years are eligible to participate.

(Those who have already won a bicycle are not eligible to participate.)

Tomahawk Quiz No. 171Questions for the Tomahawk Quiz No. 171 are based on articles appearing in the

Funday Times of February 2, 9, 16 and 23, 2020. All you have to do is to find the answers to the questions given. Write the answers neatly on a

postcard. Cut the strip ‘Tomahawk Quiz No. 171’ seen at the top of this page and paste it on your

postcard.Please get your entries certified as your own

work by a teacher or parent.

Closing Date: March 31, 2020

1. Name four local leaders who were involved in fighting for Independence of Ceylon.

2. What are the symptoms of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus?3. What is a Snow Moon?4. Name two storms that recently struck countries in Europe including

England.5. The Terracotta Army was a part of which Emperor’s burial tomb and

about how many statues were found?

Questions n Quiz No. 171

Tomahawk Quiz No. 170

4Shyla Ravichandran, Batticaloa4Asokan Durgka, Colombo 6