Front Page

Volume 2

By the Pupils, For the Pupils

Katherine Moss

GamePage!

Contents

Page 1: The Making Of Harry Potter Warner Bros; studio tour.

Page 3 : Bio Page

Page 4: Gaming Reviews

Page 5: Fashion

Page 6: Art zone (NEW)

Page 7: The Wall of Fame

Page 8: Games page (NEW)

Page 9:Top ten and film corner

Page 10: Review zone– Kindle

Page 11 :Student voice page

Page 12: Review Zone– books

Page 13: Agony Aunt

Page 14: Sports and trips

Page 15: The Impact team!

Editors Note

Welcome to the second issue of Impact! This time we are

covering several stories ranging from the author visit, Bolly-

wood Day and the Warner Bros Studios tour—which is our

personal favourite article; being HUGE Harry Potter fans!

As usual this issue has come with many surprises and the in-

troduction of our very own puzzle page; also remember to

check our new sections on fashion, sport and saving the

planet! Hope you enjoy!

Editor & Director (Megan & Eloise)

Introduction: On Friday 13th 2012 Megan Isherwood, Billy George

Standage and myself went to the Warner Brother studios to check

out the newest and in my opinion, the most brilliant attraction this

year, the one all muggles have been waiting for: The Making of

Harry Potter! Warning this article includes spoilers!

Megan being run over by the

night bus.

Billy and George in the

Weasley’s Ford Anglia

car.

The muggles (non-magical people) being

crushed, the Ministry of Magic statue.

When we first entered we watched a film including

the comments from the cast and crew about the films,

books and how it had become so famous, but after

the film was when the real magic started to happen;

the cinema screen rose up to reveal the entry to the

great hall. We went through the most beloved sets

from the films such as Dumbledore’s office, Hagrid’s

hut, the Weasley’s dining room and many other bril-

liant sets that made the movies so great. We also saw

the very detailed costumes of all the characters in-

cluding Harry’s invisibility cloak and the make-up

and hair really showed how much detail they put into

the looks of the muggles, witches, wizards and crea-

tures.

We took as many

pictures as we possi-

bly could and spent

as much time as we

could taking pictures

on the famous night

bus as possible.

Overall, this attrac-

tion was an amazing

experience for the

whole family and we

would recommend it

to anyone, even if

you’re not keen on

the movies, as this

experience is fun,

uplifting and interest-

ing to be a part of.

BHANGRA DANCING!

SOME OF THE TEACHERS

WEARING SARIS

HENNA! SOME AWESOME

PATTERNS!

INDIAN CUISINE!

YUMMY!

Year 8s were lucky enough to have the op-

portunity to take part in the annual Bolly-

wood day organised by Mr Hales. All year 8

classes got to experience 5 periods of either

Henna, Cooking, watching a Bollywood film,

Bhangra dancing and playing the Indian

drums; the Dhol.

Sam in year 8 described the day: “It was a fantas-

tic day and we had lots of fun. I never ever had

Indian food so that was really cool. I wish we can

do it again next year”

Amy, who also enjoyed the day said: “Yeah, it

was a cool day, I think the teachers looked really

nice too– perhaps we should have got bindis to

On the 23rd of may the famous comic book writer and author Tony Lee came to Hall Mead

school to talk to the year 7’s. It was an exciting and inspirational talk about how he became the

amazing writer he is today. At the start of the talk Tony explained to all the year 7’s that when he

was aged 10 he hated reading. He detested English lessons and writing. He never read a book and

enjoyed it until he was about 10, when an author came into his school and told him the wonders of

reading and writing. He started reading comics and as time went on Tony challenged himself and

stated to read more ambitious books such as Lord of the Rings. I spoke to a couple of the lucky

year 7’s after hearing the New York's times number 1 writer . They said “Tony was very funny”

and has “inspired us to read more”.

By Jessica Hickey

Tony Lee has written various novels including “Dodge and Twist” a sequel to the famous Charles

Dickens novel “Oliver Twist”. He is also famous by writing graphic novels such as: Doctor Who,

X-men and Sherlock Holmes. After his 30 minutes of talking about his struggle of writing and

becoming an author he then involved the kids by doing an activity. He picked 4 people from the

audience and made them act out a certain story Tony made up on the spot. Not only were the chil-

dren in hysterics but found the whole experience rather entertaining. After the hilarious story about

a super hero and sidekick saving a princess from an evil villain, he settled the pupils down by tell-

ing them a scary story. The story started off with an old lady who loved playing puzzles, one day

the old woman had a knock on her door and as she looked down there was a whit box. The lady

opened up the box and there laid a new jigsaw puzzle, so naturally the women started the puzzle

and realized the puzzle was a picture of her doing a puzzle. Then to our horror half way through

the story Tony screamed and made the whole room jump!!

Overall Tony really made a difference to these young people’s thoughts on English, reading and

writing. He truly is an amazing writer and author and deserves being the New York Times bestsel-

ler author. If you feel interested in any of Tony’s work we recommend : Doctor Who, Star ship

Troopers, Sherlock Holmes and Danger Academy. Log onto his website for more details...

Dwane Johnson ‘The Rock’ was

born on the 2nd of may 1972 and his

grandfather was Pete Maivia; former

wrestler and his father Rocky John-

son was also a pro wrestler. So it

was in the Rocks blood to wrestle.

He played in the Canadian football

league for a few years too. In 1996

he made his WWE debut competing

in Madison Square Gardens and a

few years later he won the intercon-

tinental title. He has won the WWE

and world heavyweight title

throughout his career. However, he

came back 7 years after being gone

for 7 years to host Wrestle mania.

He’s very inspirational and has

achieved so much. He also has acted

in a number of films for adults and

children. He has played a vast

amount of roles but is famous for

his big muscles, high eyebrow and

‘hard’ persona.

The BIO page...

Noah Pellicci’s

Now, Portal 2, this is just simply a great game! The storyline is the

second best thing about it! It follows on from Portal 1 with you ‘Chell’

waking up in Aperture Laboratories and you meeting this blue eyed

core called ‘Wheatly’, he tries to help you escape but to do that you

have to go through the room where the main robot GlaDOS is de-

stroyed. She is evil and you accidently wake her up and she starts to

give you tests to do with the Portal Gun. Later on, Wheatly becomes

evil and takes over GlaDOS’s body, at the end, *SPOILER ALLERT*

you send Wheatly to space and put GlaDOS in her body.

The gameplay is the best thing about the game! You have this

‘Portal Gun’ which shoots portals. There are two portals, an

orange one and a blue one. Once you shoot both portals, you

can walk through one and come out the other, you use that to

solve puzzles and tests.

There is not much extra stuff, there is a co-op mode where

you and a friend can play as robots to solve tests together,

and there is a new make your own levels DLC that came out

on the 8th of May!

Storyline: 9/10

Gameplay: 10/10

Extra stuff: 7/10

Other APPS.... Talking tom cat is a very popular app that has got millions of downloads. All you have to do is say something into the microphone and it repeats it in a funny voice. You can also record what you say and upload it to face book, YouTube or twitter. Overall I think that this app is very good, enter-taining and funny. I would rate it a 9.4/10 By Jamie

Overall Rating: 8/10

Storyline: 6/10

The storyline is alright, but I think it isn’t as good as

some other stories. The storyline is basically, you play

as this character that you make and you are a rookie at

racing. You join the Modnation Racers championship

and try to win the grand prize of $100,000. You are

coached by a retired cart racer who won the champi-

onship a few years in the past.

Gameplay: 8/10

The gameplay is pretty good. You can do lots of

stunts when you are racing and go over ramps, you

can get power ups and shoot missiles or create force

fields to distract the other drivers. The main reason I

gave this an 8/10 is because it is a bit too much like

MarioKart with all the power ups and tracks.

Extra stuff: 9/10

This is a good game to everyone who likes crea-

tive games. If you like littlebigplanet and racing

games, you will love this. You can create your

own tracks, racers and cars with simple tools and

share them with your friends!

Noah

Cannes film festival 2012. Where some of

the biggest names go to watch and judge

new young inspired directors latest’s

films. But we were more interested in

what the celebs were wearing at the big

event...

Supermodel Eva Herzigova glittered in

Dolce & Gabbana. She looked so flawless

and definitely made an impression.

Russian model and author Elena Lenina

thought she picked the winning dress to go

onto the best dressed list...should have gone

to Specsavers!

Jessica

'Desperate Housewives' star Eva Longoria

looked amazing in a floor-sweeping master-

piece by Marchesa. She definitely stole the

show.

The Art PAGE

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF ABOUT THESE TOTALLY

AMAZING OPTICAL ILLUSIONS-PAINTED BY REAL

PEOPLE!! Time to appreciate some COOL ART!

The Winner of the Library's Olympic themed poetry competition is;

George Chachanidze (8DT)

Come and collect your £10.00 Amazon voucher and poetry book

The runners’ up of the Library’s Olympic themed poetry competition are…

Sarah Kennedy (7WA)

Faith Cole (8TH)

Ella Thomas, Erin Corney and Anna Wise (8WM)

Come to the Library to collect your chocolates!

Miss Noller and Mrs Adam

Wall of Fame

Yet again teachers have come to us with countless amount of students who have exceeded them-

selves! Good work everyone!

Congratulations to Ryan Saunders! He has made a super human effort and has moved from an E

grade to a B grade since taking his Year 11 English mock! Keep up the good work!

A massive well done to Tilly Jones and Alice Coleman for their fantastic castle which netted them

first place prize of a £20 Lakeside Gift Voucher. The castle exceeded itself with its creative de-

fence system and its great use of natural resources.

Ms Wooton would like to recommend a number of people:

Elle Andreo for working consistently hard in German and always having a positive attitude.

George Heath has worked very well this year and always has a positive attitude.

Max Dean for all of his hard work and always ready to participate in class.

Nathan Merry has also worked very well this year.

Kieran Riddell has been working consistently hard in French.

James Davis for coming to every lesson with a positive attitude.

Keep it up!

Mrs Sharma would like to say a massive well done to Thomas Livesey, Jessica Hickey, Megan

Wood, Sam Brotherston and Daniel Pollock. These students amaze her every week! They work

extremely hard and produce some brilliant work. Well done guys!

Stephanie Tomlinson of 9WP achieved the first Level 8 that I have EVER given in Citizenship for her essay on

whether cannabis should be legalised. She must have spent hours on it and wrote pages of excellent, well argued

analysis.

She was followed by other students who also achieved level 8: Katie Jones of 9CJ, Megan Da-

vies of 9TP and Katharine Moss of 9TP. AMAZING...

C E E A A M R A H S S R M H G R

V E E N C G D I E E E Q I E P E

S D G O P S N O S R A P S S I M

X F R D E O A E D R A W S R M O

E N I N S E W C E T O B S J T N

S E N O J R M P U T C N H A A T

K S C L Y J N M W L F G E Z C I

U V O R D M H T E Z S W A G Q O

L C F M P R S R A N C S R T A L

Q H I L B B P R E K Y S I B C N

E Z T R M R H U S S A I N M J P

A C C N F O Y D U E Q A G R V E

V V T J N O O E L I T C L G R M

H Q L P C K P I T O K V X S P I

Z Z R L H S W S E O W H G T N A

T N I E S O E X H Q G E M I Y H

Find the following teachers’ names:

Mr London, Mrs Ward, Mr Brooks, Miss Par-

sons, Mr Hussain, Mrs Sharma, Miss Lucas,

Miss Shearing, Mr Jones

2 6 8 4 1

4 1 3

8 5

5 9 6 8

7 3 2 4 1

1 4 6 3

3 5

1 4 9

1 9 6 7 2

SODOKU CHAL-

The Games page

Have you got what it takes???

Answers in the next edition

Solve the riddle....

The man who invented it

doesn't want it, The man

who bought it doesn't need

it, The man who needs it

doesn't know it.

What is it?

Have a laugh....

Sam: Would you punish me for

something I didn't do?

Teacher: no, of course not.

Sam: good, because I didn't do my

homework

Rating: 8/10

Age Certificate: 12a

Review;

This film promises to entertain and doesn’t fail. I was pleasantly surprised! I enjoyed

this film because I am not a comic book fan at all. The basic plot is them being as-

sembled after a energy source is stolen from a CIA weapons facility that could help

the villain take over the world. The film is packed with humour and enough action to

keep you happy. Why I didn’t rate it 10/10 is it loses pace in the middle but it does

make up for it in the awesome ending.

By Andrew

Film Corner

By Andrew Jones 1. Safe

2. The hunger games

3. Fast and furious 5

4. Sherlock Holmes; a game of shadows

5. This Means War

6. The Woman in Black

7. The Muppets

8. Breaking Dawn

9. The Green Lantern

10. Shrek 4

Amazon Kindle Review Ease Of Use

I'm going to start with the first thing you notice on a device, its ease of use because, if you can't

use it, you won't use it. The Kindle has 14 buttons: Home, back, keyboard, options, up, down, left,

right, select, next page (X2), previous page (X2) and power. Now to some this may seem confus-

ing but trust me, it is very easy to understand with all buttons (except power) labelled, you can't go

wrong. This gives a very good user experience that anyone can get to grips with very quickly, I

wrote all of this 5 minutes after getting the Kindle, that's how easy it is to understand. The other

good thing is that it only has 1 connection port in it, for the power/USB into computer which

means no confusion when trying to plug it into various machines.

Display

This is the second most important thing, if you can't see anything, you won't be able to read any-

thing and this is lovely to look at, it looks just like paper and the E-ink looks really nice as you

switch from page to page it has a nice inverse effect that turns blank and then comes onto the next

page, all in under a second. Whilst reading it shows how far through the book you are at the bot-

tom which is always nice to see how much you have read. The one problem I have with it that

really annoys me is that it seems like it is constantly off and though that is good because it is effec-

tively off, this really annoys me but it is something you will get over if you give it time and it's a

matter of getting used to the machine.

Features

Yes, believe it or not it is more than just a book reader. You can view images on the device and

you can also surf the web! The internet browser is experimental and therefore I was not allowed to

try it but the 1 flaw I see, without even having to try it is that to press letters, you need to navigate

to them using the arrows so it can take some time to type in a web page. You can archive books

and images, create a collection, go to the Kindle store, enable Wi-Fi or search through your books

from the homepage all of which can be done in a book but you can also: Change font size, view

book description, add a bookmark, make a note and highlight certain parts for future use.

Battery Life

This thing lasts up to a month and can be charged in three hours which, no matter how you look at

it, is pretty amazing. This is because unless you are changing pages it is, in effect, off. The E-ink

stays in place so there no need to use electricity.

Overall

This is an amazing device that doesn't take ages to charge yet once charged lasts for ages, is very

easy on the eye to read as it is very much like paper, very easy to use, customisable and cheap at

£89 , so it definitely worth it for anyone wanting to try an e-book reader so take a look!

Look out for our very own set of Kindles at Hall Mead’s library!

They can be used by anyone during lesson time, so be on your best

behaviour to be in with a chance to check them out!

Mrs Ward had kindly funded nine new Kindles for the Library, making a total of fourteen!! Thank you!

By George

The Student voice

Here’s what’s on our student government’s agenda at the moment: We’re currently in discussion with the Senior Management Team about the best ways to help fairly distribute the 150 Olympic tickets that have been allocated to Hall Mead School. We are always taking suggestions from the whole student body, so please don’t hesitate to contact any member of student voice. We’re currently also trying to increase the profile of our student gov-ernment through the Logo Competition – the winner which will be de-cided on Tuesday May 22! There is a great prize for our winner. Furthermore, we are calling for volunteers to assist Hall Mead’s Olympic Garden party on Saturday 30th June – we need students to help marshal events, organise cars, do guided tours of the Academy and various other small jobs. Student Voice is also trying to streamline and help boost awareness for all the various charities Hall Mead students support. We have started a new Charity Committee open to all students to help link forms together and get the ideas flowing on the best ways to raise money for our charities. Finally , we hope to become involved with the Havering Youth Coun-cil to give Hall Mead students a bigger voice in Havering. Wow...that’s a lot of stuff! So readers...please help out and do what you can to support STUDENT VOICE

Book Reveiws

By Sam Crow and Eloise Standage

In this part of the paper, Eloise and I will be writing book reviews. A lot of these books will be available

in the library. Keep on reading!

Gone

By Michael Grant

School bus Sam is a hero. At least he is until everyone over the age of 15 disappears. And then the chil-

dren start developing strange powers... Can Sam hold Perdido Beach together?

Gone is a brilliant book. It is the first in the “Gone” series. It features a fantastic array of characters in-

cluding the treacherous Caine, heroic Sam, intelligent Astrid and evil Drake. There are a lot of different

powers included as well such as superspeed, invisibility, telekinesis and heat beams. I would highly rec-

ommend this book. I absolutely loved it!

The Hunger Games

By Suzanne Collins

Katniss lives in District 12. She has to hunt to keep her family alive. Then she volunteers for the Hunger Games and her life

changes forever...

This book was AMAZING! The writing is impeccable and the characters are fabulous. You can really connect with Katniss

and her emotions. All the different characters have such different personalities like drunken Haymitch, caring Peeta and

extravagant Effie. The whole series is amazing! This book could be aimed at boys as there is a lot of violence in it but girls

will like it too as there is also a love story included! The Hunger Games is also a great

movie which has recently come out! Read this book!

The movie “The Hunger Games” is in cinemas now!

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen:

I watched this film not long ago with my friends last year and enjoyed the film so much that I wanted to read the book as

well, this book is definitely a must read for anyone who loves action, romance and animals.

This book is basically the story about a guy called Jacob Jankowski a veterinary student becomes homeless when his parents

are killed; he abandons his studies to join a travelling circus.

I really liked the way different chapters changed from different points in time, when the main character is ninety or ninety in

a care home and then when he is a young student on the run. The romance between Jacob and the other main character

Marlena, a married woman with an abusive husband gradually builds up during the novel, not just the relation between

Jacob and Marlena, but also the connection with Jacob and the elephant Rosie is the main reason why I love this book, a

great read.

Carrie

Stephen King:

The author Stephen King is well known for his psychological thriller and horror books, this is one of my all-time favourite

books and would suggest this book to anyone who loves disasters and horror.

Carrie White is a girl with a special power of telekinesis, but when you have an unstable Christian mum

that thinks you’re cursed by the devil this power can haunt your life. Carrie is picked on for having a

deluded mother, her bad sense of clothing and the way she appears to everyone, but when she finally has

her first period and her hormones pick in Carrie can turn into something way out of this world.

I liked Carrie’s character the most because throughout the whole book Carrie’s expectations of becom-

ing normal grows and grows, Carrie does earn some respect from other characters in the book, but ends

in a massive climax at the end of the novel, this book great to read if you like disaster and prefer shorter

books.

Dear Agony Aunts

I am having trouble fitting into my form. Some-

thing has happened over the last few weeks and

I don’t seem to have any friends. They leave

me out in form time and I am forced to be alone

during lesson. They make up lots of rumours

and mean things about me, which I don’t think

they realised how much it hurts me. I don’t

know what to do. I don’t want it to go any fur-

ther, but I don’t want my

form to hate me more than

they already do.

Dear Nervous Pupil,

There is a group of people

called Cyber Mentors who

can help you when you are

getting bullied. every Fri-

day, the Cyber mentors meet and allow you to

come and tell them anything you would like to

know. What you should do is tell someone the

problems you are having and not bottle it up

inside. You need to stop your form, before they

hurt someone else.

Agony Aunt

Dear Agony Aunt,

I’ve had this problem for almost 2 years now,

and it’s really starting to get me down. You see,

I like this boy; but he’s really popular and I’m

not. I don’t know why I like him. I don’t want

to like him. I get angry when I see him flirting

with other girls but I don’t know why. Why do

I even have feelings for him?

Anonymous yr9

Dear Anonymous yr9

All girls have boy trouble at some stage in

their life and boys go through the same thing.

It is part of growing up and it is not unnatural

to like someone. You say whenever you see

him with other girls you get jealous, try not to

get jealous he is probably just being a typical

teenage boy. He probably doesn’t know that

you like him so if you want to go out with him

just tell him how you feel. The worst thing is

that he could say is no. It’s good to take risks

in your life.

Agony Aunt

P.S This is the same for boys too!

Dear agony aunt,

I am having problems with a pupil in my

form. At first our friendship was fine then I

heard that she has been spreading rumours

about me. I keep on asking her to stop but

she denies all of it I don’t want to lose her as

a friend I’ve known her since we where lit-

tle. Can you please help? I don't know what

to do.

Anonymous

Dear anonymous pupil,

This sounds very complicated try to speak to

her about it and tell her your feelings and you

don't have to be best friends you could just get

along. If she carries on then go see your form

tutor and tell her you don't like the things she

has been saying about you behind your back.

Hope this helps

Agony aunt

Got a Problem? Well our Agony

Aunt is here to help...

Horoscopes Your luck will come in

the near future. The one

you love will become

true to you.

Don't ignore those

around you who are

trying to notice you.

You may have your ups and

your downs today but every-

thing will be ok.

You will have a great deal

of money in your bank ac-

count and your luck will

come true and you will be

rich .

Good things will come to

those who wait. But be

careful of wearing yellow.

People who mess with you

will always get it back in

some way.

don't beat yourself up

about the small things

that will come in time.

If you are having

some doubts go with

what you think is best

for you.

You need to express

yourself by your emo-

tions today

Libra

22nd sep-22nd oct

Try your best today

people will realise

this and in return you

will get rewarded

Sagittarius

go and reach for your

dreams you never -

know they might

come true.

Capricorn 22nd

dec-20jan

Encourage others to

be their best they

will appreciate you

more.

For the last couple of weeks Year 8s have been going to the Museum of London Docklands in preparation

for their History assessments. As a Year 8 myself, I have been to the Docklands and found it a little boring.

Although the talk by the museum curator was quite interesting (I never knew that people used to paint their

teeth black!), walking around the slavery exhibition was a little boring and some of the information was

hard to find. However a lot of us had fun on the coach and at lunch, and overall it was quite a good trip.

3 Stars!

By Sam Crow

Sports at Hall Mead Coming soon In early June there will be the Havering tennis championships for boys and girls. Dates for this event will be announced soon. Good luck to everyone who will be taking part in the event . Paige Beaumont and Katie Nicholles: These two girls have just recently left the school. Miss Gidley says “ They are the two greatest badminton players in the school. Also they took the team the team to the national badminton finals last year.” They will be missed very much for their loy-alty, dedication to the sport and they do have a good sense of humour! Jamie

Yr 8 Trip to Museum of London Docklands

ART TRIP REVIEW

The year 7s went to an art trip last week to TATE BRITAIN.

They had a fantastic time as the weather was great and even the

teacher's were caught sunbathing on the grass after lunch.

The trip entailed a lovely trip through London, a short walk

through the gallery and a period of time in the Picasso lounge.

This part was truly fantastic as we got to draw some of Pi-

casso’s weird cubic style paintings. Later we had time to let off

some energy outside and a very long trip back to Upminster!

Overall a great trip 4 stars

Thank you Mrs Davidson and the Art department for arranging

this.

Page Impact

Team

Film reviewer and

researcher:

Andrew

Gaming Expert:

Noah

Game Consultants-

Jamie

Director: Eloise

Editor: Megan

Fashion expert and

Columnist:

Jessica

Columnists and re-

porter : Sam

Game Consult-

ant: Jack

Columnists and

reporter: Freddie Musical Expert and

Artist: Jack

Puzzle Page: Aaron

Reporter: Rachel

Bio Page: Oliver

Wall Of Fame:

Katharine

WATCH OUT FOR....

-All the game answers

-Woman in black theatre trip review

-Hall Mead’s Sports day review

-The garden party....and much much

more!! All in the next edition ...

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