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Team GB has made its best-ever start to an Olympics at the summer Games in Tokyo, Japan. What happened on “Magic Monday”? Swimmer Adam Peaty won Team GB’s first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics, coming first in the 100 metres breaststroke on 26 July, which has been referred to as “Magic Monday”. This made him the first British swimmer to defend an Olympic title – he won the same event at the 2016 Games in Brazil. Divers Tom Daley and Matty Lee won gold in the men’s 10 metres synchronised platform event. It was Daley’s first gold medal at his fourth Olympic Games. Daley said, “I feel incredibly proud to say that I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion.” (Gay means being attracted to someone of…

• In 2019, UK households generated 26.4 million tonnes of waste. • Around 46% of the 26.4 million tonnes of waste was recycled. • In 2019, around 67% of UK packaging waste (glass, metal, paper, plastic and wood) was recycled. • A 2020 study found that the plastic waste that the UK produces works out at 99 kilograms per person per year – that’s second highest in the world after the US. • The environmental group Greenpeace found that thousands of tonnes of UK plastic waste that is sent abroad is being dumped or burned, rather than recycled.…

This summer, the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) is asking you and your family to join its Wild Challenge. Get out to explore nature and help wildlife, and earn points towards certificates to show your contribution. Founded in 1889, the RSPB is the UK’s largest conservation charity, managing nature reserves and working to protect birds and other wildlife across the country. Ask an adult to help you sign up at tinyurl.com/ TWJwildChallenge and there you’ll find information sheets that you can download to guide you through a range of different activities. “Experience Nature” challenges give advice on how to get out and about on nature-watching expeditions, and how to identify birds, plants and other wildlife. “Help Nature” challenges show you how to make your garden or local…

• Environment: Kids Against Plastic is running the Plastic Clever Schools Challenge to help schools reduce how much single-use plastic they get through. Join at plasticcleverschools.co.uk • Animals and wildlife: Lots of animal welfare and wildlife charities run clubs for children and young people, like the RSPCA, RSPB and WWF. Or explore volunteering at a local nature reserve, city farm or community garden. • Arts and crafts: There are lots of free online art clubs, like Rob Biddulph’s Draw with Rob. Find art groups near you by asking at your local library.…

Jungle Cruise In cinemas and on Disney+ Premier Access from 30 July Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt star in this film based on a Disney theme park ride. Dr Lily Houghton, a researcher from London, enlists the help of Frank Wolff to journey down the Amazon river and find a magical healing tree. The Hundred: Welsh Fire vs. Manchester Originals From 11am on 31 July, BBC Two, Sky Sports Cricket and YouTube Welsh Fire take on Manchester Originals in the new cricket competition The Hundred. The match between the women’s teams is on Sky Cricket from 11am, and the men’s teams will face each other from 2pm on BBC Two. David Attenborough’s Global Adventure 8pm on 1 August, Sky Nature Watch unseen footage from some of the greatest moments of…

The new football season will be getting under way in August but fans of the top console football games will have to wait a little longer for their next versions to come out. FIFA 22 officially goes on sale on 1 October, although people who buy its “Ultimate” edition will be playing it a few days earlier. This year, however, it could face its strongest rival yet. The Pro Evolution Soccer (PES) series has been the nearest thing the FIFA games have had to a competitor. Now the publisher of PES, Konami, is trying something different. There’s a new name for the game – eFootball – and the biggest change is that it will be free to download and play, making its money from optional in-game purchases instead. The new…

What’s great about a list? Lists are amazing! Scientists have proven that by dividing information into bite-sized chunks, lists make things easier to remember. Did Listified! take a long time to write? Listified! contains 416 pages, 300 lists, 460 footnotes, thousands of mind-blowing facts and 19 illustrations of chickens. It took me six months to write (although I didn’t draw the chickens.) What is your favourite list in the book? My favourite is nine surprising things that have fallen out of the sky – which include fish, frogs and frozen iguanas. How would you change the world, if you could? I wouldn’t. In Listified! there is a list of sayings by the Chinese philosopher Laozi, who said, “Rejoice in the way things are. When you realise nothing is lacking, the…

1 Who won Team GB’s first gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics? □ a) Adam Peaty □ b) Tom Daley □ c) Chelsie Giles 2 True or false? A red flag means the sea is too dangerous for swimming. □ True □ False 3 Why were the Norwegian beach handball team fined? 4 The amount of plastic waste produced by the UK works out at how much per person per year? □ a) 77 kilograms □ b) 88 kilograms □ c) 99 kilograms 5 True or false? Gui Khury is the youngest person to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games. □ True □ False 6 The plateau pika eats the poo of which animal? 7 How many refugees were there around the world at the end of 2020?…

On 31 July, it is the women’s 100 metres sprint. Dina Asher-Smith, the fastest woman in British history and Team GB’s athletics captain, will be looking to win gold. The men’s 100 metres final will be held on 1 August. On 3 August, Asher-Smith will run in the women’s 200 metres sprint. Also on 3 August, cyclist Laura Kenny will compete in the women’s team pursuit, and her husband, Jason, is in the men’s team sprint. Team GB’s youngest summer Olympian, Sky Brown (13), will be the in women’s park skateboarding on 4 August.…

A SPECIAL SEA RESCUE A springer spaniel named Ollie was rescued on 17 July by a RNLI lifeboat crew in Wales, after three hours in the sea. Ollie had gone for a swim, but instead of returning to shore he swam three miles out to sea. The RNLI said, “He seemed happy to see us and enjoyed his ride on the lifeboat.” SPOTTING A VERY RARE VULTURE An extremely rare vulture has been spotted in Ireland for the first time. Egyptian vultures are the only type of vulture to migrate long distances. One was recently spotted in the Isles of Scilly, near Cornwall, England, and it is thought to be the same bird. The last official sighting in the UK was over 150 years ago. WINNING A WRITING COMPETITION On…

Now that you’ve read a bit more about it, tell us what you think by voting in our poll at theweekjunior.co.uk/polls. Vote YES if you think reducing is more important than recycling, or NO if you don’t. We’ll publish the results next week. The aim of the Big debate page is to present two sides of an issue fairly and objectively, in order to stimulate discussion and allow our readers to make up their minds. The views on the page do not reflect those of The Week Junior, and the page is not funded by third parties. The page is created in association with the English-Speaking Union, an educational charity helping young people discover their voice and realise their full potential. For more information, please see esu.org…

In the past decade, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Virunga National Park has become a remarkable wildlife success story, thanks to the work of rangers. Virunga was the first national park in Africa when it was founded in 1925. Alongside 217 other species of mammal and more than 700 bird species, it is home to around a third of the world’s entire population of mountain gorillas. Management and protection by rangers has seen their numbers rise from 480 individuals in 2010 to more than 680 today.…

Imagine being forced to leave your home, your friends, your belongings and moving to another country because there is war raging where you live. You don’t know where you will end up, but wherever it is, it’s with the hope that you will be safer and your life will no longer be in danger. As a special puppet is taken from Syria across Europe to highlight the journeys refugees have to make, read on to find out more about refugees and how people are helping them embark on new lives. What is a refugee? A refugee is someone who has been forced to leave the country where they live. This could be for several reasons, such as a war or because of their ideas and beliefs. “Refugee” is often…

Scientists in China have found a way to make plastic that breaks down when exposed to sunlight and fresh air. Most plastic is bad for the planet because it can take hundreds of years to decompose in the environment. However, Liang Luo and his team at Huazhong University have found a way to make plastic that is broken down by sunlight. The developers say the new material could be used in electronic devices, where it will be safe from sun and air during its operating life but will decompose harmlessly afterwards. Enjoy these stories? Find more in this month’s The Week Junior Science+Naturemagazinesciencenature.theweekjunior.co.uk…

In the summer of 1956, the Japanese artist Yoshihara Jirō placed a large white board in a park, next to a sign saying “Please draw freely”. Over the next week, adults and children covered the board with their drawings. Now, Tate Modern in London is inviting you to do the same, with a new interactive installation called Mega Please Draw Freely. The project was organised by the artist Ei Arakawa and it’s the first in a new programme of free art activities for families called Uniqlo Tate Play. The project is inspired by the work of the Gutai, a group of Japanese artists founded by Jirō. He asked them to “do what no one has done before” and experiment with their art. They used unusual methods, which included painting with…

The Royal Rebel by Bali Rai. Illustrated by Rachael Dean (Barrington Stoke) Discover the extraordinary true story of Sophia Duleep Singh. Born in 1876, Princess Sophia was the daughter of the last Sikh ruler of the Punjab and Queen Victoria’s goddaughter. Exiled to England, she fought injustice and helped women win the right to vote. Kiki Kallira Breaks a Kingdom by Sangu Mandanna (Hachette Children’s Group) Kiki Kallira is a worrier and the only thing that soothes her anxious thoughts is drawing mythical beasts. Life get strange when her artwork comes to life and Kiki is pulled into the mystical world she has created, where she must battle an ancient god. This wonderful magical adventure is inspired by Indian mythology (ancient stories). A Thousand Questions by Saadia Faruqi (HarperCollins Children’s)…

• Cardboard packaging boxes or cereal, tea, biscuit and pet food boxes are all ideal for making bookends in different sizes. The boxes don’t all need to match because you will be covering the pictures. • If the bookends don’t feel heavy enough to support bigger books, add more boxes as extra sections at the sides. • Putting sand and gravel in tall boxes can make the sides bulge out, so it’s better to fill them only halfway. • Personalise your bookends with lettering, decorative backgrounds or border patterns, or draw your favourite book characters onto card, cut them out, then stick them onto the bookends. • You can colour the bookends with paint or by pasting on strips of coloured tissue paper or patterned paper. • If you have…

As a keen swimmer, being beside a lake or loch or at the coast always strikes me as a good opportunity not to be wasted. A humble pond, and even an outdoor, unheated swimming pool in the depths of a very chilly winter will do. In fact, the thought of not having my swimming costume to hand if there’s a chance of a bracingly delicious dip makes me feel slightly annoyed. This year I have swum in a turquoise pool in Cornwall, the murky depths of a boggy tarn in the Lake District, a pond filled with happy ducks in London, and the big, crashing waves of the sea at both sunny Dorset and Folkestone. When the weather gets really hot, lots of people find the thought of cooling off…

Help solve the world’s water crisis Could you come up with imaginative, fun, and generous ways to raise money for charity:water? It’s a non-profit organisation working to provide clean and safe water to people in less well-off countries. Charity:water’s Tiny Heroes campaign celebrates young people who are raising funds to end the world’s water crisis. One in 10 people doesn’t have clean water, which can make them sick and keep them out of school. Charity:water spends every penny on sustainable water projects. To find out more about Tiny Heroes and take part, visit charitywater.org/tiny-heroes…

People are encouraged to recycle, and with good reason. Recycling helps cut back the need to use the planet’s natural resources. It reduces the amount of waste in landfills (rubbish dumps) and it saves the energy it would take to make more new products. Nearly half (46%) of the waste thrown out by households in the UK is recycled, but critics say recycling is often the first and sometimes only thing people think about when helping the environment. They say there’s a better way for people to protect the planet: by reducing, which means using and buying less stuff now so there’s less to throw away later. Others argue that reducing shouldn’t take away from efforts to recycle. What do you think? Is reducing more important than recycling? Yes –…

Growing up the eldest of three children, author Maz Evans was a “voracious bookworm”, she tells The Week Junior. She owns a first edition of Roald Dahl’s Matilda because she queued outside the bookshop on the day it came out. “Matilda spoke to me,” she says, “because I too had read every book in my library.” Evans identified with the girl whose superpower is reading, “a habit I wish I kept in adult life.” Evans always wrote stories but the skill takes practice. “I did not emerge fully formed as a writer,” she says. Applying yourself, she says, is the secret. “Just getting on with it,” is her writing routine. “The application of butt to a chair.” Evans learned this discipline while writing her first novel, Who Let the Gods…

Around the world, wildlife rangers play a big part in protecting some of the planet’s most endangered animals. It can be a dangerous job, and so 31 July each year is World Ranger Day – a time to celebrate the dedication and bravery of rangers in countries all over the world, including Australia, Nepal, the US and Zimbabwe. Rangers are professionals who protect wildlife and the environment. There are many thousands of them at work all over the world – it’s estimated that 15% of the world’s land surface and 7% of its seas are under ranger protection. Rangers’ roles include rescuing and treating injured animals, preventing and repairing habitat destruction, and working with local people to ensure that humans and wildlife can live in harmony. They monitor wildlife numbers…

Rita Ora The singer was born in the city of Pristina in 1990, which at the time was part of Yugoslavia but is now the capital of Kosovo. Yugoslavia was torn apart by war and violence. Thousands of people were forced to leave, so her parents fled to London when Ora was one year old. Sergey Brin Brin is the co-founder of Google. He was born in Moscow, which at the time was in the Soviet Union (a collection of countries in eastern Europe and Asia that were led by Russia). When he was six years old his family left the country because Jewish people were being treated unfairly. The family moved to the US and Brin grew up there. Yusra Mardini Mardini fled Syria because of the war there.…

Researchers have uncovered new information about a mysterious lemur that went extinct around 1,200 years ago. Lemurs are primates (mammals related to humans, which also include apes and monkeys). Today, wild lemurs only live in Madagascar, a large island off the coast of Africa. Megaladapis edwardsi was one of the biggest lemurs ever to have lived. It is known as the koala lemur because of its long arms, short legs and big feet for gripping tree trunks. At around 1.5 metres long and weighing 85 kilograms, it was one of 17 now-extinct “giant” lemur species. A team led by Dr George Perry, from P lvaniaStateUniversityin the US, extracted koala lemur DNA from a 1,475-year-old jawbone. DNA is a chemical that carries information about how a living thing develops, how the…

Going for a dip A diver enjoys the world’s deepest swimming pool in Dubai, UAE. Cooling off A giraffe enjoys a special ice lolly at Chessington Zoo, England. Knights in shining armour Medieval soldiers playfight in New York, US. Bursting out An inflatable art installation called Spiked, in Ripon, England. Square up Patchwork panels cover Llangollen Bridge in Denbighshire, Wales. Pebble pinnacle A scene from the European Stone Stacking Championships in Dunbar, Scotland.…

Are you passionate about sport, music or the environment? Being part of a community isn’t just about where you live, it also means sharing ideas and interests with other people and it can help you understand yourself. What is a community? A community might be an actual space where people connect, like your local neighbourhood orr school, or a virtual space where groups meet online. These groups, or communities, bring together people who share similar ideas and interests. You can also have a sense of community – which you can’t see but you feel – by belonging to a faith, for example, or being proud of where you live. Communities come in all shapes and sizes and make you feel like you’re part of something bigger than yourself. How can…

Beach This installation recreates a day at the beach – indoors. The centrepiece is an “ocean” of more than one million recyclable plastic balls. Beach first appeared in the US, at the National Building Museum in Washington D.C. in 2015. Loop A zoetrope was an early type of projector that was spun to make a series of still images look like a film. Loop works in the same way. People sit inside and pump a bar to make the images move around them. The Mifletzet With a name that translates as “the monster”, this sculpture in Jerusalem was designed to help young people face their fears. Visitors climb a twisted staircase and then go down one of three slides.…

Superman II (1980) DVD, Prime Video, Sky Cinema It’s expected now that superhero films will come with lots of sequels, yet that wasn’t always the case. When Superman II arrived in cinemas in 1980 it was something really different. For a start, most of it had been made at the same time as the first film, 1978’s Superman, when it wasn’t clear whether people would even want to see a second film. Then, Superman II was hit by lots of problems behind the scenes, which delayed its release. What emerged, though, is really special: a brilliant superhero sequel with some excellent villains. Plus, Christopher Reeve as Clark Kent/Superman has never been bettered. It’s an exciting treat of a film for the whole family.…

Listified! by Andrew Pettie. Illustrated by Andrés Lozano (What On Earth Publishing) Take a new and different look at the world with this big book crammed with intriguing and unexpected lists. There are 300 to explore, covering themes including bicycles, dinosaurs, rainbows, robots, sharks and volcanoes. You’ll find out about nine surprising things that have fallen out of the sky; eight amazing lost treasures that no one can find; and 11 languages that are now spoken by only one person. You can also learn the 17 steps to making an ancient Egyptian mummy; investigate 14 amazing gadgets used by real-life spies; and find out which 20 animals have travelled in space. Children’s author Michael Morpurgo called this book a “treasure trove of fun and fantastic facts”. If you enjoy…

When is the best time to build a den? Autumn (September, October and November) is a great time for finding fallen sticks and branches, but summer is good too because the weather is better. Spend a few minutes planning – don’t have an idea that needs more wood than you have and don’t make it too big and complicated. What about a den indoors? If you can’t get to a wood or park, make a den inside. Bed sheets can be hung or pegged across chairs, and a clothes dryer makes a good frame for draping blankets. Add cushions or pillows and bring a snack to keep you going. Always get permission before you build.…

Name: Ben “Rereading books is a fun thing to do. You already know what’s going to happen, so when you read it for a second time you can imagine that you are in the setting of the story (or a place if it is a non-fiction book), and you are watching the story take place (or if it is a cartoon, maybe you could notice things you haven’t seen before). It gives you an opportunity to just stop and think about whether the book has a moral or a deeper meaning. Stories can help you cope with your emotions as well. Rereading them is another way to feel good emotions and stop feeling grumpy. There’s always something new to find out and follow when you read it a second time.…

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