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Experts studying the stained glass windows of Canterbury Cathedral in England have concluded that they are the oldest in the UK and could be among the oldest in the world. Using a special technique that does not damage the windows, the researchers estimated that the panels picturing the Ancestors of Christ could date back to the mid-1100s. It was thought for centuries that they were made by craftsmen in the 13th century. In the 1980s, an art historian called Professor Madeline Caviness said the windows might be older than first thought. These suspicions have now been confirmed, thanks to a team of researchers from University College London (UCL). They created a device called a “windolyser” to analyse the windows. Using this device, they shone a beam of light on the…

• In July, the charity The Literacy Trust released a report about audiobooks and their use among eight to 18-year-olds. The report said that one in four young people listened to them in 2020. • The report also highlighted that one in five young people said that they became interested in reading books through audiobooks and podcasts. They also reported that listening to audiobooks helped them to relax. • Whether a book is read on paper or listened to makes no difference to a person’s ability to read and understand a text, according to research from the University of California, in the US.…

Aleesha Gadhia is on a mission to save the world’s rainforests by riding her scooter. The six-year-old from Nottingham, England, plans to ride 50 miles in total to raise money for a charity called Cool Earth, which helps protect rainforests. She has received support from both the Queen and Sir David Attenborough, after she wrote to them asking them what they were doing to help the rainforests. Gadhia was aiming to raise £1,000 but has already more than doubled the amount. At the time The Week Junior went to press, more than £2,500 had been donated to her cause.…

Although most mammals can breed through their adult lives, giraffes, elephants and several whale species all have females that live for a long time after they stop producing young. Scientists think this benefits species with complex social lives because “grandmothers” don’t need as many resources as mothers raising young but still contribute to the group’s safety and ability to feed. Experience of earlier hardships can be especially useful in tough times.…

“Chameleons can manipulate the colours of light they reflect by altering the structure of their skin. The top layer of skin contains two layers of special cells that contain colourful pigments and tiny ‘nanocrystals’. The crystals have a variety of sizes, shapes and arrangements, which the chameleon can alter to reflect light in different ways and change colour. They mainly do this to communicate.” Enjoy unlimited visits to ZSL London and Whipsnade Zoos, plus a host of other benefits with ZSL Membership. Find out more at zsl.org/membership/zsl-membership…

During the last ice age, which ended about 10,000 years ago, sea levels were much lower than they are today. What is now the North Sea was once a landscape of gentle hills, marshes and wooded valleys known as Doggerland. Modern fishing boats, oil drilling rigs and divers installing wind turbines often discover traces of life in this ancient lost world. The remains of animals such as mammoths and walruses have been found, along with tools used by Stone Age people who hunted, fished and gathered food in the area.…

The world’s first 3D-printed steel bridge has been installed over a canal in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Printing in 3D is a way to create physical objects by building them up layer by layer. In this case it took four robots six months to build the bridge by gradually welding layers of metal together. The finished bridge is 12.2 metres long by 6.3 metres wide and made from six tonnes of stainless steel. It was completed in a factory before being sailed along the canal on a barge and lifted into place using a crane. Enjoy these stories? Find more in this month’s The Week Junior Science+Naturemagazinesciencenature.theweekjunior.co.uk…

Leicester City Kelechi Iheanacho scored a penalty in the 89th minute as Leicester beat Manchester City 1-0 in the Community Shield. South Africa rugby union team They won the third Test by 19 points to 16 against the British and Irish Lions to win the series 2-1. Allyson Felix The US sprinter won bronze in the 400 metres Olympics race. It is her 10th Olympic medal, which is a record for a female track-and-field athlete. England golf squads They won all three events at the Home Internationals tournament against Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The women’s, seniors’, and girls-and-boys’ squads all won.…

Amelie, aged eight, is no stranger to boredom. During lockdown, Amelie felt “bored all the time”. She looked for things to do around the house and came across her stepdad’s DJ equipment. “I was watching Fatboy Slim’s little girl having a go on the decks and I thought, ‘That looks really fun!’ so I had to try it out,” she told The Week Junior. With practice, she learned how to DJ and has now appeared on BBC radio. She says that taking up a hobby is a good way to respond to boredom. “It’s something really good to distract you, otherwise you’re just sitting there.”…

If you could travel to any country, where would you go? I would like to go to St Vincent. It’s a small island in the Caribbean where my parents were born. A volcano erupted there recently and then there were floods. I would like to go there and help. If you could only keep five possessions, what would they be? I would keep my laptop, my notebook, a hair scrunchie that belonged to my mum, a funny Father’s Day cardd my son made for his dad – it makes me laugh every time I look at it. I would also keep a piece of rawhide (used for dogs’ chew toys) to remind me of my dog, Margot. What was your favourite subject in school? Why? English, definitely. We got to…

Any fan fiction tips? Always write about a book or a subject that you like and that interests you. Being a “fan” is obviously an important part of fan fiction! Share your written stories and ideas with your friends and family to see what they think. It may help and inspire you further. How can the Summer of Reading challenge help? It’s a brilliant campaign that encourages you to choose any three books to read, then simply rate and review them. You could also win a cool prize. Go to theweekjunior. co.uk/summerofreading for details and competition closing dates.…

If you’ve got this far in the magazine and haven’t yet voted in this week’s Big Debate, I urge you to go back, take a read and get involved in our online poll. The summer holidays are always a great time to let a few hours slip away in the company of a great story, whether that’s curled up on the sofa or outside in the sunshine, but do you prefer plugging in your headphones and hearing a narrator read the story to you? Or is it much better to escape into your own head with a physical copy of a book and read at your own pace? For me, I would always slightly prefer a hard copy of a book, complete with dog-eared pages and inscriptions on the inside…

Name: Sonny and Marcia “Lewisham Council in London was planning to close our swimming pool, so we campaigned to keep it open! It’s really important for kids to exercise and families to have affordable activities. In school council we made a petition and a film about what the pool meant to us. I read in TWJ about swimmer Alice Dearing, we thought she was so inspiring and asked for her help with our campaign. She has just competed in the Tokyo Olympics. She made a video explaining the importance of keeping our pool open. Our campaign worked! We saved our pool! #savewavelengths! ” What have you been up to lately? Which books have you enjoyed reading? What have you made? Have you written a poem or drawn a picture that…

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1 Which animals in China are returning home after a long journey? □ a) Golden snub-nosed monkeys □ b) Chinese sturgeon □ c) Elephants 2 True or false? Some of the stones at Stonehenge are up to 1.6 billion years old. □ True □ False 3 Which football team has Lionel Messi just left? 4 Who is credited with creating the first spoken audio recording? □ a) Thomas Edison □ b) Bruno Mars □ c) Ludwig van Beethoven 5 True or false? John Whaite won Strictly Come Dancing in 2012. □ True □ False 6 What type of monkeys are known as “snow monkeys”? 7 The world’s first 3D-printed bridge has just been installed in which city? □ a) Amsterdam □ b) Brussels □ c) Copenhagen 8 True or false?…

Before COP26, there will be a UN Youth Climate Summit from 28 to 30 September. Almost 400 young people from 197 countries will be coming up with ideas for world leaders to consider at COP26. Representing the UK is the 17-year-old climate activist Dylan Hamilton. Speaking to Sky News, Hamilton said he’s hoping for “even more radical action” at COP26 than in Paris, France, in 2015, when more than 190 countries pledged to keep global average temperatures from rising by more than 2° C this century. That pledge is called the Paris Agreement.…

A GOOSEBERRY GROWER Bryan Nellist’s white gooseberry has won heaviest gooseberry at the Egton Bridge Old Gooseberry Show in Yorkshire, England. The 85-year-old’s fruit weighed 47.72 grams, and was his seventh title. “I thought my winning days were over,” Nellist said. AN UPSIDE-DOWN GOOSE A goose flying upside down was snapped by Dutch photographer Vincent Cornelissen. One expert says the manoeuvre, known as whiffling, may have been the young goose showing off. “I was absolutely surprised! I never knew a goose was capable of doing this,” Cornelissen told BBC’s Newsround. CHRISTIAN ERIKSEN On 4 August, Danish footballer Christian Eriksen returned to his club, Inter Milan, in Italy. Eriksen suffered a cardiac arrest (when the heart stops beating) and collapsed on 12 June while playing for Denmark in the European Championships.…

Rocco Greene was inspired to start cooking at the age of 11 by a combination of his Italian heritage, watching the chef Gordon Ramsay on TV, and his mum’s tomato sauce sandwiches. A tomato sauce sandwich, Greene tells The Week Junior, is a typical Italian treat of bread dipped in the sauce that is being made for pasta. It is one of his earliest memories of food. “Every year I visit where I am from in Italy,” says Greene. This is a place called Rocca d’Evandro, in the Campania region. “I love the food, the warmth, the spirit,” he says. Greene has a pizza oven and has been perfecting the art of making pizzas “like a proper Neapolitan pizzaiolo” (a pizzaiolo is someone who makes pizzas). Rolling pins are forbidden…

The Crackledawn Dragon by Abi Elphinstone (Simon & Schuster) In the third instalment of The Unmapped Chronicles, 11-year-old Zebedee is trying to escape from the evil harpy, Morg. She drags him into the kingdom of Crackledawn and Zeb boards an enchanted boat on a quest that will involve fire krakens, underwater palaces – and a dragon. Otherland by Louie Stowell (Nosy Crow) When his baby sister Shilpa is kidnapped and taken to the Otherland, Rohan and his best friend Myra must rescue her, although Otherland is a dangerous realm of gods, vampires and fairies. There, the pair face a series of impossible challenges set by the Fairy Queen – and if they lose, they’ll be trapped in Otherland forever. The Strangeworlds Travel Agency: The Edge of the Ocean by L.D.…

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott “Little Women is a classic about four completely different sisters who have ups and downs in life just like any other family. This is a great book that I love.” YOUR TURN Email your book review to hello@ theweekjunior.co.uk. If your review is printed in the magazine you’ll receive a Roving Reporter badge. Tell us what you liked about the book and why you’d recommend it to others, and don’t forget to include your name and address.* Join our reading challenge at theweekjunior.co.uk/ summerofreading *If you are the competition winner, we will only use the details you provide to contact you and arrange delivery of your competition prize. Further details about how we manage the data you provide can be found at www.dennis.co.uk/privacy-policy…

On 4 August, the UK Government said that 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK would be invited to receive a Covid-19 vaccination. A vaccine is a type of medicine that trains the body to fight a disease using its own defences. Who can have the vaccine? In the UK, people aged 16 or older can have a Covid jab. The first people to be vaccinated, in December 2020, were the oldest people and those most at risk of falling seriously ill. Young people aged 12–17 can already have the jab if they or someone they live with is at risk of serious illness. Why are 16 and 17-year-olds getting the vaccine? Now that most people aged 18 and over have had at least one jab, the UK’s Joint Committee on…

On 8 August, a UK couple finished their own version of the Olympic Games. Charlotte Nichols and Stuart Bates challenged themselves to do 101 Olympic events in 17 days, which included BMXing, cycling and skateboarding. They called it the Spennylympics, in honour of Bates’s brother Spencer, who died of motor neurone disease (MND), which affects the brain and nerves. Bates and Nichols raised more than £140,000 for an MND charity.…

The author Lemony Snicket once said, “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.” Nowadays, anyone can bring a book just about anywhere, thanks to audiobooks. An audiobook is a recording of a book that is listened to via a digital device or smart speaker. Instead of looking at words on a page, readers listen to a book narrated by its author or an actor. Some people feel that listening to an audiobook doesn’t really count as reading and that it’s not as good as reading by yourself. However, audiobooks are becoming more and more popular and several researchers and writers say they are not only equal to printed books but can have more advantages. So what do you think? Are audiobooks better than printed books? Yes…

Summer is an ideal time to get outdoors and immerse yourself in the wonders of nature. To give you ideas on what to look out for and where to explore, The Week Junior Science+Nature team has launched a fun scavenger hunt competition with a magnificent prize. All you need to do is take a photo of an interesting object or scene on one of these topics: wild places; animals in action; nature and people; signs of summer; and natural treasures. Send your best picture in to Science+Nature and you could be in with a chance of winning a Canon PowerShot Zoom camera, or a brilliant book bundle. For more information about the Scavenger Hunt and how to enter the competition, visit tinyurl.com/SN-Hunt2021…

• Do think of ideas in advance. Having a “boredom box” with activities that you enjoy or would like to try can provide inspiration. • Don’t turn on the TV or reach for a device at the first sign of boredom. • Do head outside for a walk to allow your mind to wander. If the weather is miserable, try “window watching” (daydreaming). • Don’t confuse boredom with other emotions. At times we say we’re bored when we feel stuck. Take a break or ask for help. • Do practise. Plan for “down time” each day and see what creative and fun activities you come up with.…

The History of Science Museum, Oxford The Art of Science exhibition features a sculpture of a tiny particle of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, which was developed at Oxford University. The sculptor said it was a tribute to the scientists and medical teams working together to fight the virus. Discovery Museum, Newcastle Check out the Red Arrows flight simulator and experience a virtual flight with the famous daredevil flying team. Plus, learn about the Enigma machine that was used to decode secret war messages. Glasgow Science Centre Visit the Planetarium and “connect with the cosmos” through a huge digital projection of the solar system. Live shows take you on a guided tour of the solar system and our Milky Way galaxy. There’s also the chance to watch the film We Are…

Introduced by Sharna Jackson (Knights Of Media) What makes you happy? This joyful collection explores exactly that. Bringing together 10 stories and poems by black British writers, it’s a brilliant celebration of family, friendship, home, laughter and magic. The stories are in different styles. You’ll find a thrilling “choose your own adventure” sci-fi story by E.L. Norry, and Patrice Lawrence’s magical The Ever After Bureau, inspired by fairy tales and legends. There’s poetry from Dean Atta; mystery and adventure from Joseph Coelho; and a thoughtful family story from Kereen Getten, all with illustrations by black British artists. Uplifting and inspiring, this is a real treat. The publisher, Knights Of Media, has teamed up with reading charity BookTrust and the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) to ensure that a…

Have you ever read a book you enjoyed, then wondered what it would be like with different characters, ending, event or plot? Well, fan fiction does exactly that. It’s a style of writing where someone other than the original author plays about with the story of an existing popular fiction book, producing imaginative new twists and outcomes. You can read other people’s fan fiction – you’ll find it in libraries and bookshops – or you could try writing it yourself. With The Week Junior’s Summer of Reading challenge running at the moment, it’s the perfect time to explore different stories. It doesn’t matter which books you’re into – all you need to do is get creative with your pen and paper, or type away at a computer. Have fun writing…

Baker cooks up sweet deceits A baker in Somerset, England, has amazed customers with her sweet creations that look like savoury dishes – including cakes that look like a fried breakfast, a cheeseboard and a sandwich. The baker, Zoë Burmester, says that her cakes can take months to complete. However, the finished product should be cut up and eaten like any other cake. Burmester explains that she loves what she does because “it brings out the child in everyone”. Stylish haircuts for fancy goats A video of a goatherd giving his goats fancy haircuts has been viewed around the world. Adem Telek, who is from the village of Kirkkavak in south-west Turkey, uses scissors and trimmers to sculpt intricate (complicated) patterns into the animals’ fur. It takes Telek between 10…

The Head to Toe Clubfoot Charity The Head to Toe Clubfoot Charity is devoted to raising awareness of CTEV (congenital talipes equinovarus), or clubfoot, a condition that causes the foot to bend inwards. The charity was set up by Elsie Harvey-Tait’s parents after Elsie was born with CTEV in 2012. It helps children with the condition by promoting correct treatment, and encouraging them to feel positive and included in all aspects of their life. To find out more, visit head2toecharity.org.uk…

Taking part in our Summer of Reading challenge is super simple, but be quick – the deadline is fast approaching. To get started, pick three books or take a look at the 50 books our experts have recommended. Once you’ve read three books, rate and review them. Then send your reviews to us and you’ll be entered into a prize draw to win an epic book bundle and National Book Tokens. You’ll find our recommended book list and all the details on how to enter at theweekjunior.co.uk/ summerofreading. The deadline for entries is midnight on 3 September.…