Innholdsfortegnelse for No. 84 i The Week Junior

THE LIONS The British and Irish Lions rugby union team beat New Zealand’s All Blacks for the first time since 1993, in Wellington, New Zealand on 1 July. The Lions won the game 21-24. A final game will be played on Saturday 8 July to see who wins the series overall. BUTTERFLY SPOTTERS Butterfly experts are thrilled after spotting a purple emperor butterfly at Bookham Common in Leatherhead, Surrey, on 11 June. The butterfly, which is thought of as the “rock star of the butterfly world”, has put in its earliest appearance of the year for 124 years. TAKING ON THE BULLIES When nine-year-old Ollie Hope-Smith’s dad posted on Twitter that his son needed some birthday wishes after being bullied, his post was retweeted 8,000 times. Lots of people got…

Claire McSweeney, keeper at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo Flamingos are actually grey when they hatch. They gradually gain their distinctive pink colouring because of what they eat. A flamingo’s diet mainly consists of shrimp and algae, and it is these foods that contain pigments called carotenoids that eventually turn the birds’ feathers pink. Do you love animals? ZSL London Zoo’s Junior Zoo Academy is a great way to learn about creatures from all over the world. Find out more at zsl.org/experiences…

More than 150 years ago, a man called Henry Cole was put in charge of a museum like no other, one he wanted to be like a “schoolroom for everyone”. Founded by Queen Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, the museum was to be a place where visitors could learn all about the arts and sciences, with lessons they could take away and apply in the real world. From 1857 to 1873, Cole was the director of what was then known as the South Kensington Museum. Today it’s best known as the V&A, or Victoria & Albert Museum. From Prince Albert and Cole’s original dream, the museum has grown into the finest collection of decorative art and design in the world. With more than 2.3 million objects, spanning a whopping 5,000 years…

Spider-Man: Homecoming In cinemas now After finding new-found fame as part of the Avengers, Peter Parker (aka Spider-Man) returns home to live with his Aunt May. Under the watchful eye of Iron Man, also known as Tony Stark, Parker tries to get back to normal life. That’s until a new enemy emerges threatening everything that Parker holds dear. Horizon: Dippy and The Whale 9pm on 13 July, BBC Two For the past two years, the BBC has been given special access to the Natural History Museum in London as it underwent one of its biggest changes – replacing Dippy the Dinosaur with the real skeleton of a blue whale. The whale is to be unveiled for the first time on 14 July. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle trailer tinyurl.com/TWJ-jumanjitrailer Some…

How much do you think teachers and nurses should be paid? That’s been a big story in the news recently. Lots of Members of Parliament (MPs) are urging the Government to increase the pay of people who work in the public sector. What is the public sector? The public sector is the part of a country’s economy controlled by the Government. That includes some schools, local authorities, the National Health Service, the armed forces, and the emergency services. That means the Government gets a big say in how much most teachers, doctors and police officers, among others, should be paid. More than five million people work in the public sector. Who decides what their pay should be? There are eight independent groups, known as pay review bodies, which study public…

Pumas Pumas living in the Santa Monica mountain range in Los Angeles, US, are getting trapped by busy roads, which divide the city in two. This means they can’t roam and breed with other pumas. A £46 million wildlife crossing has been proposed to help the big cats prowl the city safely. Koalas Over the past 15-20 years, the number of koalas living wild in Australia has declined by 50%, with fewer than 40,000 remaining today. Koala conservationists hope to stop this alarming reduction by creating a koala park in Queensland, in northeast Australia, to protect them.…

Spiky species The head of a nembrotha cristata, a type of sea slug, gets an extreme close-up. Star struck The Milky Way in all its glory, as captured by a photographer in New South Wales, Australia. Dedicated fan A supporter of Racing Club, a football team in Argentina, shows his true colours. Super squirrel This gymnastic squirrel looks like a superhero in this picture taken near Vienna, Austria. The Big Apple This aerial photograph shows the colour and vibrancy of New York, US, from an unusual perspective. Loud outfit A performer at Brazil’s Parintins Folklore Festival, which started on 1 July. Sunflower selfie These sunflowers attract many visitors to the Olympic Forest Park in Beijing, China.…

Where is your favourite place in the world? Malibu, California, US. What makes you bored? Paperwork, too many emails, tasks that steal writing and painting time. If you were stranded on a desert island, which one book would you bring with you? The Once and Future King, by T.H. White or East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I would probably try cheating by building a raft from books, brushes and paint cans. Can you tell us a crazy thing about yourself? That I desperately wish I could shift shape and be another creature every day and that I actually don’t believe the human shape to be highly desirable. What are you scared of? Snakes and big spiders, but California helps to get over that. And deep water... Malibu helps with…

Creature Garden iOS (£2.99) Imagine an animal with the body of a tortoise, the legs of a leopard and the head of a zebra. You wouldn’t know where to put it in the zoo, that’s for sure. In this app, that kind of mixed-up animal lives in a garden. Your garden, in fact. Creature Garden has more than 100 different animal parts to put together: heads, horns and hooves through to paws, claws and wings. This isn’t just something for young children dreaming up imaginary animals, though. The more you play with Creature Garden, the more you’ll learn about how real animals work: for example, the effect of different legs on their movement. You can race your animals against one another to see which is fastest, and cross them together…

The last few weeks of the summer term can be lots of fun, with end-of-year shows to perform, special assemblies, and perhaps – if you’re lucky – a bit less homework than usual. Getting to the end of a school year means getting ready to move on, too; some of you will be moving towards the top of primary school and others, starting at the bottom of secondary school. It’s a time when you may be saying goodbye to some friends, but looking forward to making others in a new class or school. You might be feeling a bit nervous about the changes ahead, but hopefully a little bit excited as well. Your teachers are no doubt looking forward to a break, too. You may not realise it now but…

On 1 July, to celebrate what would have been Princess Diana’s 56th birthday, 750 exceptional young people from around the world were honoured for their kindness and compassion. This was all part of something called the Diana Award. Princess Diana died on 31 August 1997 in a car crash, and this year marks 20 years since her death. The Diana Award was set up in 1999 in memory of her life. It honours young people who have the ability to change the world around them, and is supported by Princess Diana’s sons, Prince Harry and Prince William. One of those honoured was 11-year-old Andrew Dane from Portsmouth. After visiting a fire station in Hampshire in 2014, Dane decided he wanted to raise money for the Fire Fighters Charity – a…

It’s difficult to imagine a world without Paddington Bear. One of the world’s best-loved characters, the bear from Peru, with his familiar duffle coat and love of marmalade sandwiches, has inspired children since 1958. The bear was the brainchild of Michael Bond, who passed away on Tuesday 27 June at the age of 91. The idea for Paddington came to Bond while he was sitting at his typewriter and his eyes settled on a little bear puppet he’d given his wife for Christmas. During the Second World War, many children from cities, were sent to the countryside to keep them safe. “I had memories of children being evacuated from London with labels around their necks, and all their possessions in a suitcase,” said Bond. The children wore labels with their…

The UK is filled with lots of species of trees that are native, meaning they originated here, and nonnative, which are ones that have been brought in from somewhere else, usually by humans. Redoak This non-native tree can reach 25 metres high and can take 40 years to begin growing acorns. Wild cherry Flowering white petals in April, this native tree’s flowers become cherries when pollinated. Horse chestnut Conkers, encased in their famous green spiky shells, fall from this nonnative tree. Crack willow This native tree gets its name from the sound its branches make when they fall off. Monkey puzzle Victorians believed monkeys would struggle to climb this nonnative tree.…

Also known as the whale-headed stork, this prehistoric-looking bird sports an impressive shoe-like beak that can be up to 23 centimetres long. It features a sharp hook at the end, which helps the bird catch its prey. ● LIFESPAN IN THE WILD: Up to 35 years. ● HABITAT: Among papyrus grass and reed swamps in parts of central and eastern Africa. ● DIET: Traditionally feeding at night, shoebills eat fish, water snakes, turtles, rats and even young crocodiles. ● FUN FACT: Shoebills have completely divided and incredibly long toes that have no webbing between them. GREAT HEIGHTS Shoebills can grow to be almost 1.5 metres tall.…

You’ve probably heard of the Olympic Games, the famous international sporting event that’s held every four years. But have you heard of the Island Games? It’s an event held every two years for athletes from islands all over the world with populations of less than 125,000. From 24 to 30 June, the 2017 Island Games were held in Gotland, a Swedish island in the Baltic Sea. There were 2,339 competitors from 23 islands taking part in archery, athletics, badminton, basketball, volleyball, beach volleyball, cycling, football, golf, gymnastics, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis and triathlon. The youngest competitor was 13-year-old Alicia Scott from Jersey. The oldest was 69-year-old Martin Nielsen from Froya. Some 26 records were set, including by sisters Lisa and Zoe Gray, from Guernsey, who set six records between…

My Headteacher is a Vampire Rat! by Pamela Butchart. Illustrated by Thomas Flintham (Nosy Crow) Izzy and her friends are sure there’s something funny about their new head teacher. He’s slightly scary, keeps the blinds drawn in his office in the daytime, and he’s banned garlic bread from the canteen. There’s no doubt about it, he must be a vampire rat. Tom Gates: Family, Friends and Furry Creatures by Liz Pichon (Scholastic) Everyone’s favourite doodler is back, in this brand new Tom Gates story. Mr Fullerman has given his class a new assignment: create a family tree, but Tom soon finds that learning about the Gates family for his school project leads to all kinds of crazy goings-on. And then there’s the strange squeaking sound coming from his shoes... The…

A Bug’s Life Disney Life, DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes, Google Play Cars 3, which comes out on 14 July, is the 18th film from Pixar Animation Studios since its full-length debut, Toy Story, in 1995. You’re probably familiar with most Pixar movies but one that tends to be forgotten is its second, A Bug’s Life. The 1998 film is inspired by the classic Aesop fable, The Ant and the Grasshopper. On its release, many reviewers also drew comparisons with famous old films such as The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven. Each of these stories focuses on a group of outsiders brought together to protect a community from bandits. A Bug’s Life was also the first Pixar film to include spoof outtakes over its end credits, a practice it stopped a…

Karate kid “I love karate because you learn a lot of new skills. I am a blue belt. For each new belt you have to learn a routine called a kata. I know five katas and have trained for two years. I do competitions all over the country and have won ten medals: six bronze and four silver. I have some for kata and some for kamite (fighting). I enjoy karate because it’s fun! My sensei (teachers) are inspiring and I like doing my best when I train, it makes me feel good about myself. ” What’s going on at your school? Have you taken part in a sporting event, put on a show or done something fun to raise money? Whatever you’re up to, we want to hear about…

Follow The Week Junior on PopJam @TheWeekJunior You can download the free PopJam app from the App Store or GooglePlay. On 1 July, 198 riders set off to complete the Tour de France. We asked PopJammers if they enjoy cycling... “I love cycling. It’s not only a good way to keep fit, but it can also bring families together on a nice trip” @EagleEyes8880 “I like to set myself goals and push myself harder each time” @marshmallow222 “I’d prefer to ride a motorbike” @TheCandyFlossUnicorn This Ed Sheeranshaped cake took around 500 hours to make. You said... “Woah” @real_ artist “Some things are just too good to eat!” @profpuplex “I love Ed. That cake looks yum” @Booklover109 “In love with the shape of this cake” @Beautiful_emoji Tell us what you think…

Star Wars fan rebuilds R2-D2 If you were asked to build a model of the Star Wars robot R2-D2 from scratch, do you think you could do it? Well, a Star Wars enthusiast from the UK has spent the last seven years building a 110 centimetre-tall R2-D2, which recently sold for more than £2 million. To rebuild the famous robot, he used real parts from at least four different Star Wars films. Spotted: a T-rex in a kayak During recent floods in Michigan, US, some people stranded in their homes may have thought they were seeing things. Travis Spry wanted to lift his neighbours’ spirits after their town flooded as a result of heavy rain, so he paddled through the water dressed in a Tyrannosaurus rex costume. Spry’s watery antics…

1In which year was the first all-female British Army unit formed? a) 1915 b) 1916 c) 1917 2How old is the emergency services number, 999? 3True or false? Germany is the 14th European country to legalise same-sex marriage. 4Roughly how many languages are spoken around the world? a) 7,000 b) 8,000 c) 9,000 5What is Paddington Bear’s favourite food? 6What are shoebills also known as? a) Boat-beaked birds b) Whale-headed storks c) Big-billed herons 7True or false? Ex-Twitter emoji designer, Emma Hopkins, has created emojis of the Queen and William Shakespeare. 8In which year was the World Wide Web made available to the public? 9When did Brazil’s Parintins Folklore Festival begin? a) 1 June b) 1 July c) 1 August 10True or false? The first Island Games took place in…