In the UK there has been a big vote

(referendum) about the European Union

(EU). The EU is a bit like a club made up of

lots of different countries in Europe. Anyone

who is over eighteen in Britain and was

registered to vote could take part. These

people decided whether they would like to

stay in the EU and go by their rules. The

European Union has also created its own

currency (a kind of money e.g. Dollars,

Pounds) called the Euro. A lot of people think

that the EU, which has grown from 15 to 25

members, is too big to make decisions like it

used to. These people believe that this means

the EU should make less decisions or change

some of their policies (rules). Those who

would like to stay in the EU say that it

makes selling to other EU countries and

buying from them, much easier. They also

think that we get a large boost from

membership.

We have learnt a lot about the Referendum

in school and Mr Malcolm’s Year 5 English

set went to Muswell Hill Primary School to

have a live debate on the EU referendum.

Unfortunately, Coleridge’s argument that we

should stay in the EU did not win over the

crowd, who voted to leave the EU.

Sadly, a few days before the debate an MP

was killed in Leeds because of her views on

the EU. Her name was Jo Cox and she was a

British Labour Party politician who worked

hard to help others. Her husband, Brendan,

will continue to build the values of tolerance

and respect that Jo believed in.

On June 23rd 2016, the country voted to

determine whether we remained or exited

the EU. The next day, the results were all

over newspapers and radios. The British

people decided that we were leaving.

After finding out the result of the vote, David

Cameron decided to resign as Prime Minister

because he thought that we should stay in

the EU.

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Page 7 - SATS - How were they for you?

Page 11 - The Rio Olympics 2016

On June 25th, Coleridge Primary School had a

summer fair. Pupils had the opportunity to

come in to school, have fun and raise money

for the school by setting up stools and fun

activities, such as bouncy castles and cupcake

stools. The theme is Glastonbury, or in other

words, Glastonridge. The children of

Coleridge took part in making and designing

props and other theme related art. These

were from home learning, art lessons or even

spare time during their school day.

All Coleridge pupils had the

amazing opportunity to perform with an act

of their choice, to show a talent. People have

worked very hard practising their acts during

or after school.

We interviewed some students who said

‘I like the sweets and rides. I also like the

talent show because it is

funny,’ and ‘I like it because

of the games and the fun

activities.’

In the run-up to the London Mayoral

Election, just like last year we held our own

mock General Election.

This time, the parties’ policies focused

mainly on housing, refugees and the

environment. One thing that the parties

agreed on was that we needed to fix the

refugee crisis by letting more refugees into

London and Britain.

The way the voting worked, unlike the

General Election, was that everyone would

get to vote once for their first preference and

then for a second. For a party to win in the

first round they would first have to score at

least half of the votes and the party with the

lowest number of votes is eliminated. In our

case, Focus was eliminated and as none of

the parties had

the number of

votes needed to

win, we went

onto the second

round. After,

Motion and

Aspire were

eliminated meaning that

Impact had won.

Impact had some great

policies, here they are:

Environment

• If you owned a car, it

had to be electric

• There would be more hybrid buses (buses

that run half on electricity and half on

petrol)

Education

• Teachers should be paid more

• More money should be spent on resources

for classrooms

• School dinners would be better

Housing

• Rent would have

to be 33% of the

renter’s wages.

Well done

Impact!

Guess the Teacher!

Mad Maze!

‘The Book With No Pictures’ looks incredibly

boring, doesn’t it? But it is actually a hilarious

book that makes adults look silly! Still bored? It

has funny phrases too! Like, ‘glug glug glug, my

face is a bug, I eat ants for breakfast right off

the rug!’ Still bored; are you sitting down, head

on the table, snoring? Ok, you are so difficult to

please. Well, at least I tried.

Do you like gory stories where people have to

fight to survive? If yes, then meet Thomas

and the Gladers. They have been dumped in

the middle of a huge maze and in the maze

there are some disgusting, evil creatures

called Grievers. Will they survive the

dreadful maze? Find out when you read the

book… if you dare.

The Jungle Book is the new and updated film

of the old classic about a boy who gets

abandoned in the jungle and is taken into the

wolf pack who live there.

But meanwhile, an evil tiger

called Shere Khan hunts the

abandoned boy, Mowgli, who

must escape to the man village

for safety. But danger lurks

behind every tree branch...

Zootopia is a new film about a rabbit called

Judy that has a dream of being a police

officer, despite every one (even her parents)

telling Judy that a rabbit police officer is a

very bad idea. But she

doesn’t give up and with the

help of a fox called Nick

helps to solve the most

dangerous case there is, but

only with a couple of bad

things. She shows what a bit

of resilience can do!

Released with a disappointing movie, the

new Ratchet and Clank game lives up to

fans expectations. As

a reimagining of the

first game (released

November 2002),

Ratchet and Clank

has movie-like

graphics and a

gripping story that

pulls you along until

the final moments. This PS4 exclusive is

one of the best kid-friendly games in

PlayStation history. Reviews on

www.metacritic.com said “Iconic return of

platform greatness,” and “If you love

Ratchet and Clank then this is a must

buy.” In conclusion, for fans of the

franchise, this game is highly recommended

and not a disappointment.

Over the years many sweets have been

created but which ones are the most popular?

The official rankings say that:

Number 1 is Skittles

Number 2 is Smarties

Number 3 is Galaxy

Number 4 is Minstrels

Number 5 is Toffee Crisp

Teachers’ favourites were:

Haribo, foam bananas, pink milkshakes, fruit

salad, pink shrimps, chocolate mice,

pineapple chunks, boiled rhubarb and

custard, Mars bars, Fry’s Chocolate Cream,

Crunchie, Snickers, Galaxy, Sherbet Dib

Dab, flying saucers, Marathons, Spangles,

Wine Gums and lemon sherbets.

The Coleridge Creative Writing Competition

has ended and we are proud to announce the

winners. Congratulations to Leo Hill, 3P, for

his winning story ‘My Baby Brother is a

Super Hero!’ Also, congratulations to the

runners up, Beth Steer, 3B, and Lucy Kirk,

3S, for their stories, ‘Alone’ and ‘Biscuits Can

Be Evil’ respectively.

In ‘Biscuits Can Be Evil’, one Christmas

morning, Olivia accidently travels into her

gingerbread house. Discovering the plans of

an evil Jammy Dodger, she is determined to

stop him. Enlisting the help of a lollipop, she

stops the delicious villain and returns to the

regular world. Lonely tells the story of a

black cat’s struggle to find his home. This

exquisitely worded story brought tears to our

eyes. Now for the winning story...

My Baby Brother is a Super Hero

Not many people know my baby brother is a super

hero. He has legs like overstuffed sausages, a

bottom like an overgrown pumpkin, and swirls of

golden hair on the back of his head like small sea

waves. He is full of courage and cuteness, and one

day he was given three REALLY! hard

challenges. He was taken to court, and three

plump judges told him the challenges. He went

out of court (in a rush) and ran back home,

although his plump bottom slowed him down.

He told his family about the challenges

“gfhjdhfherhgfjetgfstrfghsy.” My family could not

understand anything, so I translated what he was

saying, which was “I have been given three

challenges. Each time I complete one I will be

granted one wish.”

The first one was conquering the Lord of the

Underworld. The underworld is the place where

people go when they die. It is dark, gloomy and

full of very sad souls who go around, bent low like

zombies. Joe (my baby brother) went down to the

underworld. The Dark Lord confronted him. He

said, “You will forget your challenge and stay

forever!” But Joe was cleverer than an English

teacher. Despite the Dark Lord being powerful,

Joe turned around in a flash of cuteness and

knocked him out with his big pumpkin bottom.

Boff! Challenge one completed!

The next day, Joe woke up to a new challenge. He

had to beat Muhammed Ali in a boxing match.

Muhammed Ali is a boxing god. He had never lost

against anybody who didn’t have superpowers.

But as I have said, my brother is a superhero. Joe

got into the boxing ring, squished his fat sausage

legs like a spring and ping – threw Muhammed

out of the ring. Ouch!

Oh yeah! Second wish granted. Only one to go…

The third challenge was swimming the mighty

Pacific Ocean. He was swimming from China to

America. Nobody had ever done it before. Nobody

without superpowers, that is. The Pacific is not

only incredibly vast, but it also contains hundreds

of thousands of sharks. I was scared for Joe but

he smiled at me, jumped into the Pacific and

started swimming. Then some magic happened.

Because Joe’s curls were tight waves, they spoke

to the trillions of waves in the ocean to get him

home. Yippee, third wish granted!

Joe came home with his three wishes. He said one

of the wishes was so that me and my brother Sam

to be super heroes. Suddenly Sam and I did a

somersault and jumped to

the moon and back. His

second wish was for my

mummy to stop working.

The final wish was so my

daddy to never go away

with work again. Actually

none of that is true, but

when I am sad, my baby

brother gives me a hug

and one of his wet kisses

where he opens his mouth

and I feel warm and safe.

Now that's a superpower!

Annually, Years 2 and 6 do SATs. But what

are SATs? How do they work? Why are they

so important?

SATs are the government’s way of seeing

whether schools around the country are

doing well enough.

H e r e i s w h a t h a p p e n s :

Firstly, your SATs journey would start in

Year 2. This would mean that you did

English and Maths papers in your class, and

then again in Year 6. These papers would be

sent off to get marked, and the government

would observe your progress throughout five

years. They would then use this to judge the

school’s teaching quality. Remember: they

are NOT judging you.

Lots of teachers, however, disagree with

SATs. For example, TES (Times Educational

Supplement) quoted, ‘Teachers report that

even able children could not finish the test

and claim it was a 'demoralising' experience

for some pupils. Pupils were left in tears by

the first of this year's SATs, according to

teachers who branded the reading test,

“incredibly difficult” [and] “ridiculous”.

"Dreadful!" one teacher wrote. "Children who

had succeeded previously in the sample test

were sobbing! Most were not able to finish. If

ever a test was set up to prepare children to

fail, this was it.”’

It’s not just teachers that are against SATs;

parents are outraged too. A group of parents

under the slogan ‘Let Kids Be Kids’ refused

to send their children to school during the

tests, so that they would not have to do SATs.

This is known as a ‘parent’s strike’.

But what happened in our school? The

Coleridge interviewed children and teachers

to find out. Year 2 teachers stated ‘I think

they tell the teachers a bit about what

children know, but the teachers know the

children very well already... The children

seemed to enjoy doing them. We don’t call

them “SATs” we call them “Booklets” and we

don’t do it in the hall. They like the fact they

are a novelty, but I don’t think they would

want to do them every day.’

We also interviewed children from Year 6.

Amelie Seddon (6S), ‘SATs help to prepare

u s f o r s e c o n d a r y s c h o o l . ’

Scarlett Lloyd (6S), ‘SATs are interesting,

and quite fun.’

To conclude, it seems that the children in

our school seem to like SATs, however some

teachers and parents have views against

them.

Illustrator Chris Riddell’s Grammar monsters

The annual

Crouch End

festival was held

from 10th - 19th

June. This year,

the festival had

amazing art, and

the special Royal

Albert Hall choir.

Miss Munro and Miss Richert and some

very talented artists worked extremely

hard on producing the ‘Alexandra Palace

Theatre’, using your drawings and ideas.

On top of this, they created Charles

Darwin’s study, which included: a dodo,

his chair, specimens in bottles,

butterflies, his journal, a monkey and

lots more. They couldn’t have done it

without your help!

Mr Heidensohn, Mr Chamberlain, Miss

Bosworth, Miss Munro, Miss Anderson

and Miss Furlonge put together a Royal

Albert Hall choir. It was a tiring process

that included lots of auditions. The

children learnt five Peruvian songs,

composed by Kate Stilitz and Jilly

Jarman based on a bird flying from

Scotland all the way to Peru. The titles

to

these songs are: Home, Storm,

Returning, The Ballad, and Vuela Libre.

Apollo’s Arrow is another song these

lucky children got to sing, composed by

James Redwood. They first performed in

the Crouch End Festival on June 11th,

before they moved up to the Royal Albert

Hall on June 27th.

On the same subject, another Coleridge

choir performed at the Crouch End

Festival. The choir meets every Friday

morning at 8 o’clock. They sang

beautifully. The first song they sang was

from a highly popular musical; Wicked.

The song was called ‘Loathing’. They

styled it as if

half of them

were Elphaba

and the other

half were

Galinder. They

also sang a

song that had a

lot of different songs being sung over the

top of other songs. Very impressive!

Earlier this year, our School Council went on

a trip to the Houses of Parliament, where

they had a grand tour of the building. Molly

Frow (4G), a member of School Council, has

written an article about their visit and

explains what they did.

On May 11th 2016, Coleridge School Council

payed a visit to the Houses of Parliament,

where we were met by a tour guide who

showed us all around the famous buildings.

First on the tour: the House of Commons,

where School Council and I learned about the

Eight Minute Rule. MPs have eight minutes

to be present in the Chamber for voting.

The interior

is very

grand. There

are richly

carpeted

floors, ornate

furniture, decorated ceilings and lots of gold.

Second on the adventure: the House of Lords.

We saw the Queen’s throne. It was made of

wood, covered in gold leaf, and a bit in pure

gold. It was Enormous! We learned that the

Houses of Parliament used to be a palace for

Kings and Queens, before the Great Fire of

London. After the fire, it was rebuilt to house

Parliament.

Because it was raining, we had to eat our

packed lunches in the Houses of Parliament

café. It was a bit more posh than the

Coleridge school halls!

Coleridge will be holding yet another one of

their annual sports days. We will be taking

part in six events: long jump, quick jump,

sprint, hurdles, vortex and bean bag throw.

They are also considering an extra sport (the

name of which has not yet been released).

This year, unlike other years we’ve done, we

will have school records. This means that we

will have records like: ----- is the fastest at

the sprint, or, ----- throws the furthest in the

bean bag throw. The teachers decided to

make these records to challenge the

children.

We have Sports Day because it is a fun day

out, you can invite your parents along and it

is also fit

and healthy.

Mr Ibbotson

has done a

great job

running it.

The Annual Coleridge Sports Day!

LEICESTER CITY HAS WON THE

PREMIER LEAGUE! It was a long hard

fight, but Leicester city are the champions! It

wasn’t luck - although there may have been

some - but the Fantastic Foxes are the top

team. Arsenal came second with 71 points

and 20 wins, Tottenham came third with 70

points and 19 wins and Leicester came first

with an astonishing 81 points and 23 wins.

Leicester city’s top scorer was Jamie Vardy

with 24 goals; next came Riyad Mahrez with

18 goals and in joint third place were Shinji

Okazaki and Leonardo Ulloa.

The UEFA Euro 2016 is taking the world by

storm! 53 teams competed for 23 places in

the Euros. 24 teams qualified for the

competition - France got straight in since

they are hosting it. In each group there were

four teams and there were six groups. Two

teams from each group got through to the

knockout stages. The teams that came third

had to hope they got a good enough score to

go through to the knockout stages! At time of

writing, the semi final fixtures are: Wales vs

Portugal and France vs Germany. Our

England team were doing well until the

knockouts, where they lost against Iceland.

We can’t take away credit from Iceland,

because they were quite good. But still the

England team were rubbish, except Joe Hart,

who was appalling. Mr Malcolm a Year 5

teacher, and star player for FC Coleridge,

said, “It has been great to see smaller

footballing countries, like Iceland, do so well

in one of the biggest tournaments in the

world.”

Every four years, many athletes train harder

than ever just to get a special trip to the place

every athlete dreams of going to…The

Olympics!

The 2016 Olympics is going to be held in Rio

De Janeiro in Brazil with 206 nations and

over 10, 500 athletes expected to participate.

Rio 2016 will be the first time in Olympic

history that a South American country has

hosted the Games. The torch relay began on

April 21st in the birthplace of the games -

Olympia in Greece - before travelling across

Brazil for more than 90 days and finishing in

Rio on August 5th.

The opening and closing ceremonies will be

held in Rio's Maracanã Stadium, which holds

the world record for the most fans ever to

attend a football game. Although its current

capacity is around 78,000, the stadium

squeezed in at least 173,000 fans during the

1950 World Cup final. Maracanã hosted the

World Cup final again in 2014.

The competition will take place in four

different areas: Copacabana, whose world-

famous beach will host beach volleyball;

Barra, home to the Olympic Park; Teodoro,

for aquatics, BMX, and equestrian centres;

and of course Maracanã, which features two

large stadiums.

Unfortunately, in Brazil, there has been

evidence linking the Zika infection in

pregnant women, to a rare birth defect called

microcephaly, in which a new-born’s head is

smaller than normal and the brain may not

have developed properly. Despite the Zika

virus it has been decided that the Olympics

will go ahead.

This year’s Olympics, and Paralympics are

going to be great so make sure you watch it

on TV!

lympics

The Maracanã stadium, Rio De Janeiro

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The Coleridge is brought to you by this group of hard- working Year 5 and 6 children:

Year 6:

Freddie Davies, 6D, Saanvi Sethi, 6I, Katie Mercer, 6I, Joss Morgan, 6I, Mia Stacey, 6I, Liz-

ge Arslan, 6I, Hal Wilkinson, 6I, Sam Wolffe, 6I, Sophie Winch, 6S, Hannah Kearney, 6S,

Sasha Key, 6D, Flora Maxwell, 6D and Jamie Serlin, 6D

Year 5:

Ottilie, 5H, Olive, 5H, Daisy, 5H,

Ruby, 5L, Lola, 5L, Esther, 5N,

Theodore, 5M, Tilly Heath-born, 5N,

Oliver Schuster-Woldan, 5M, Isi, 5M

and Will, 5N.

And these teachers:

Mr. Skrein, 3S, Mr. Malcolm, 5M and

Charlene Baker - RA 11

As another summer

rolls around,

another 120

children will leave,

and 120 more will

replace them. And

as it is custom with

Coleridge, we give them a good send-off.

When reporters from The Coleridge asked

pupils about what they thought about leaving

school they said this:

“I love this school and I don’t want

to leave, but I am super excited

about going to my new school,” said

Jamie 6D, “My favourite things

about Coleridge are the amazing

trips and the iPads. I will really

miss Coleridge and I will visit

here soon.”

Freddie

in 6D

said “If

Ofsted

introduced a new rating which was better

than ‘Outstanding’, Coleridge Primary School

would be the first school to receive this high

rating. I feel privileged to have been here for

eight years.”

This year’s Year 6, who are either born in

2004 or 2005, have been a credit to the

school. We really will miss you.

Who will help make The Coleridge next year?