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Easter Island Statues By Georgina Loring

There are mysterious statues on Easter Island.

Easter Island is one of the most remote islands in the

world. It is more than 2,000 km away from the closest

inhabited island and more than 3,600 km away from

mainland Chile. The island belongs to Chile. Nobody

knows how these statues got on the island, or what

they were for.

The statues (maoi) may appear to be just heads but

actually they are whole bodies as well! Each maoi is

believed to represent a different ancestor. Maoi

aren’t just on the Easter Island; they are actually on

different parts of the world too, just not as many.

Only one has legs and ‘he’ is called Tukutori. The

biggest one is unfinished but would have been

twenty-one metres tall and would weigh 270 tons!

The biggest finished one is called Paro, and is ten

metres tall and weighs 75 tons. The heaviest is 86

tons.

In total there are exactly 887on the island. They are

made out of lots of different stones. 883 are tuff (A)

(volcanic ash) 13 basalt (C), 22 trachyte (B) and 17

red scoria (D).

Makao (topknots) are hats made of red scoria that

the Maoi wear. It is very fragile, so not many have

survived.

Acknowledgments: howstuffworks.com ; easterislandquest.com

Teams A & B Edition 79 March 26th

2015

Founded by Ben Owen 2011

Editor in Chief’s Comment

Hello and welcome to another issue of Totally

Tockington. Now as this is our Easter issue, I

wanted to draw your attention to something

before you begin ploughing through your

Easter Eggs. Over 60 hours of work goes in to

making a single chocolate bar. The workers

that make them in some places only get 1% of

the profits made. And this is all done by people

in the poorest of countries, such as Ghana and

the Ivory Coast.

This has been the cause of debate for many

years now, and with cocoa prices falling, soon

we may not have the eggs we enjoy so much

at Easter. The average age of a Cocoa farmer

is 50, and as young people don’t want to take

up the trade due to poor prospects, something

has to be done. That is where Fair Trade

comes in.

They are helping farmers regain their

livelihoods by increasing prices for

supermarkets to buy the chocolate bars, and

making sure that, after all their hard work, they

get more money back. So I urge you,

whenever next you buy chocolate, try to look

for the Fair Trade sign, as this will change the

lives of people around the world.

Have a great holiday everyone!

Tom Edwards Editor-in-Chief

by Ellie Parker

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C

B

D

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Top 10 Easter Eggs by George Symonds

As Easter is coming up soon, I thought I would try 10 Easter eggs. During this tasting I needed

some help so I had three helpers:

Oliver Shutt (aged 13)

Geneva Wareing (aged 8)

Florence Wareing (aged 6)

So I’ve got the tasters and I’ve got the eggs, let’s start tasting!

1. Cadbury’s caramel egg: 8/10 too sticky and messy!

2. Milky Bar: 8.5 /10 too big!

3. Smarties: 10/10 delicious!!

4. Aero: 9/10 Ollie said it was proper lush!

5. Kinder: 6/10, the chocolate was too soft.

6. Galaxy: 3/10, the caramel was sticky and bitter said Florence!

7. Dairy Milk Buttons: 7/10 too rich and left a weird taste in your mouth.

8. Ferrero Rocher: 10/10 very good - no faults but did contain nuts!

9. Creme Egg: 9/10 good, but the chocolate wall was too thick!

10. John Lewis’s own: 7/10 too heavy!

From these results we can see that Smarties and Ferrero Rocher are the

Must-haves for Easter this Year!

By Isabelle Preston

Ms Case says : “Genius

idea for an article,

George!” And thank

you to the chocolate

supplier!!

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Tabitha’s Top Tip for the Readathon is…

The Chocolate Touch

by Patrick Skene Catling

This book is about a boy called John Midas. He loved sweets! One day John came across a sweet shop that he had never seen before; he bought some chocolate from it. When he got home, he ate the chocolate and found it was the nicest chocolate he had ever tasted. But when John brushes his teeth the next morning, he finds that the toothpaste tastes exactly the same as the chocolate the night before. Everything that touches John’s mouth turns to chocolate! John loves his new power, but will it always be good? And will John ever get rid of it? Read this book from the library to find out!

Borrow this for the holidays – just ask the librarians to find

it for you – it’s a great story!

The Great Creme Egg Scandal. By Isabel Browning

Cadbury has recently announced that they are downsizing the Creme Egg packs from 6 per pack to five and are ONLY charging 20p less!!! They have also changed the outside chocolate egg layer so it is now not Dairy Milk but an unspecified milk chocolate mixture.

The reason is that prices of cocoa are increasing and manufacturers are trying to maintain their profits. Cadbury is doing this by using cheaper ingredients in their products. For example, the creme egg bar; they are now using ingredients such as Dairy Milk Oreos, Dairy Milk Popcorn… The same is happening to the Creme Egg. It is up to you, buy a new creme egg and see if the changes are really that bad or if it is a bit of an over-reaction. I’ve tried one recently and I personally don’t think they’re as good as the original. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

The Rabbit By Ben Jacobi

The rabbit is also called the bunny. Rabbits usually live in meadows, woods,

forests, grasslands, deserts and wetlands. The European rabbit has been

introduced to many places around the world. They are not naturally found in most of Eurasia, where a

number of species of hares are present. More than half the world's rabbit population lives in North America.

The rabbit's long ears, which can be more than 10cm long, probably evolved for detecting predators. The two

front paws have 5 toes; the extra one is called the dewclaw. Rabbits have large, powerful hind legs. Their

size can range anywhere from 20cm in length and 400g in weight to 50cm and more than 2 kg.

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“CROSSY ROAD” By Alex Jacobi

When a game designer creates a game that is:

1. Great fun AND 2. Leaves you wanting to play again,

they leave you with a game called Crossy Road

I can honestly say that Crossy Road is my favourite

go-to-pick-up-and-play game. This game relies on the

same format of FROGGER, an arcade-style 80’s

game where you have to control a frog through a

series of death-defying challenges on a danger-filled

road.

Crossy Road uses the same base as that, but the

makers - Hipster Whale - have given the game a 21st

century taste with 3D graphics and the fashion of

pixelating the objects!

I would strongly recommend downloading this game

as it gives hours of endless fun and hey, maybe you

could beat my record of 173!

PRICE : FREE

PLATFORMS : IOS, ANDROID

RELEASE DATE : NOVEMBER 2014

The First Easter Eggs By Toby Gaulton

Easter eggs nowadays are chocolate, but I have been

looking at the firstt Easter eggs.

Decorating egg shell is ancient - people did it even

before more most Christian traditions.

Ostrich eggs, which used to be engraved with

decoration, have now been found over 60,000 years

old in Africa!

Decorated Easter eggs and representations of ostrich

eggs in gold and silver were often put in tombs of the

ancient Sumerians and Egyptians as early as 5000

years ago.

The Christian adaption of decorating Easter eggs can

be traced back as early as ‘ The Early Christians Of

Mesopotamia’, who stained eggs red as blood , in

memory of Jesus and his crucifixion.

The Christian church officially adopted the custom.

The traditional Easter eggs are dyed or painted

chicken eggs. Now most people don’t use chicken

eggs. They use chocolate instead. This means more

work for factories and less for chickens. That means

more money for factories and more ‘Please buy my

eggs. They’re fresh. Honest!’ for chickens. Have a

nice Easter!

Drawn by Ellie Parker

THE ART OF ILLUSION

Here’s an optical trick that you can easily draw yourself.

Looked at one way, you have a bird, looked at another, you

have a rabbit. Ingenius!!

By Isabelle Preston

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Easter Around the World By Olivia Campbell

Easter in Spain Easter is regarded as the most important festival in Spain. Known as ‘Semana Santa’ in Spanish, it is an occasion of celebration.The celebrations start with ‘Domingo de Ramos’, or Palm Sunday, and finish with ‘Lunes de Pascua’, or Easter Monday. France The entire country celebrates the Easter festivities and shops are beautifully decorated with white and dark chocolate rabbits, chickens, bells and fish. Children wake up on the Easter Sunday morning and look in the nests they have placed in their yards or gardens, expecting to find beautifully decorated Easter eggs placed in them. In France the Easter “cloches” (bells) ring down the chocolate Easter eggs. Russia Easter egg decoration is an important part of Easter traditions in Russia. The main colour for egg dyeing in Russia is red. The red dye is chosen because it symbolizes the blood of Christ. People crack the eggs open using nails, in order to remind themselves again of the death of Christ. Another Easter celebration in Russia is the family Easter dinner which involves the whole community the Church itself. The Easter dinner is a feast, in which the entire community celebrates together. Russian people traditionally bake Easter cakes, known as “kulich”and make curd “paskha” and bring it to church along with them and asked the priest to bless it. Netherlands On Palm Sunday, children search around their

area to collect eggs for Easter sports. Also, kids

carry a decorated stick known as a “Palmpaas”

or Easter "palm". This stick is attached to a hoop

which is covered with boxwood and covered with

coloured paper flags, egg shells, sugar rings,

oranges, raisins, figs and baked dough figures or

swans. They also colour real eggs which are

hidden by the Easter Bunny. A popular Easter

game in the Netherlands is when people knock

eggs together to see which breaks first.

Sounds like a lot of fun!

Cadbury World By Lucy Allan-Jones

Last Sunday I went with the boarders to Cadbury

World all the way to Birmingham. After the long

bus journey, we went in and looked in the gift shop

for things that we might buy later. Our tour started

at 12:20 and we were taken into a replica of a

rainforest where cocoa beans were growing. It

was very warm and humid just like the real

rainforest would have been.

Next we went onto Bull Street, which is where

Cadbury’s had their first shop. We then went to a

4D cinema where we were taken through the

process of making chocolate complete with

shaking and hissing as the beans were washed

and dried.

After that, there was a chocolate tasting where you

were given a small amount of melted chocolate

and you could choose any two toppings

marshmallows, crunchies or jelly babies. The end

result was a delicious gooey mess.

Finally, we finished at the shop where there were

loads of great offers on buying in bulk as well as

creations such as chocolate high heels and even a

chocolate football.

Overall it was a good day out and I would

recommend it to others.

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Bird Eggs By Otis Walker

Bird eggs come in all shapes and sizes: big, small, wide, long and here are some examples

Big Eggs

I think that eggs laid by big birds like the ostrich, cassowary and emu are the most interesting because their eggs

are so massive. Here is an ostrich egg compared to a chicken egg and a big emu’s egg, bigger than a cricket ball:

Ostrich Egg Ostrich

Emu Egg Emu

Biggest egg ever

A rare sub-fossilized Elephant bird egg is more than 100 times the size of an ordinary chicken egg and it became

extinct sometime between the 13th and 17th centuries.

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Small Eggs

Zebra finches eggs are too small to eat.

Smallest eggs ever

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the bee hummingbird lays eggs that are 0.275 inches long

and weigh only 0.0009 ounces.

Bee Hummingbird eggs Bee Hummingbird

Easter Eggs

At this time of year Easter Eggs are every one’s favourite egg. That is if you like chocolate! Did you know that a

whopping 90 million chocolate eggs are sold in the UK each year?!

In a week of great activity, with Bugsy Malone and Hatherop and all of the other things which have kept us all

busy and exhausted, I would like to say a huge thank you to both of our SPECTACULAR teams for managing to put

out this excellent newspaper. I hope you all have a very restful break and have lots of EGG-CITING adventures.

DEFINITELY THE BEST NEWSPAPER IN THE WORLD!! Ms Case

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How To Make Chocolate Fudge Cake

By Carmen Rey-Jones

What you will need:

175g Self raising flour

2 Tbsp Cocoa powder

1 tsp bicarbonate soda

150g caster sugar

2 eggs beaten

150 ml [1\4 pint] sunflower oil

150 ml [1\4 pint] semi skimmed milk

2 Tbsp golden syrup

Method:

1. Pre-heat your oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark4. Grease and line two 18cm [7 inch] sandwich tins.

2. Sieve the flour, cocoa and Bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Add the sugar and mix well.

3. Make a well in the centre and add the syrup, eggs, oil and milk. Beat well with electric whisk until smooth.

4. Spoon the mixture into the two tins and bake for 25-30 minutes until risen and firm to the touch. Remove from oven, leave to cool before turning out onto a cooling rack.

5. To make your butter icing, place the butter in a bowl and beat until soft. Gradually sift and beat in the icing sugar and cocoa powder then add enough milk to make the icing fluffy and spreadable.

6. If the cake has risen a little too high then use a serrated knife to even off the top. Now sandwich the two cakes together with the butter icing and cover the sides and the top of the cake with more butter icing.

For the topping and filling:

75g unsalted butter

175g icing sugar

3 Tbsp Cocoa powder

drop of milk

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Faberge Eggs by Archie West

Around 1885 – 1917 a Russian artist and jeweller,

Peter Carl Faberge, took the decoration of eggs to

new levels. A series of lavish Easter eggs were

created for the Russian Imperial family. The House

of Faberge produced around 50 imperial eggs, 43

are known to have survived. Peter Carl Faberge’s

reputation attracted royalty, tycoons and artists

from all over the world.

Each and every egg would contain a surprise, the

first Faberge egg was crafted from gold. Its white

shell opened to reveal its surprise of a yellow gold

yolk which then opened to reveal a multi-coloured

gold hen. The Hen then opened containing a

diamond replica of imperial crown, suspended from

this crown was a ruby pendant.

Teachers’ Favourite Types of

Chocolate

By Talia Curtis

Milk chocolate:

Mr Glanville

Ms Gooch

White chocolate:

Mrs Glanville

Milk chocolate with nuts:

Mr Jones

Dark chocolate:

Mr Cann

Mint chocolate:

Mrs Mockridge

Doesn’t like:

Ms Fox

So now you know what to bribe your teachers with –

and Ms Case is not fussy AND likes ALL types of

chocolate!

pie chart

milk

white

milk with nuts

dark

mint

doesn’t like

Amazing, aren’t they?

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’s Crafty Corner

A reco-reco

What you will need :

Coloured wavy paper (or coloured cardboard and a machine to make wavy paper)

Scissors

A ruler

Coloured paper

Glue stick

Cardboard tube (from kitchen roll)

1. Measure the tube then cut the wavy paper

the same width. Put the wavy paper around

the tube, but don’t stick it! When it made it

around, cut the rest that didn’t make it through

and throw it away.

3. Stick it around the tube after

gluing the cardboard.

7 Easter Traditions

by Henry Allan-Jones

1. Easter Bunny: The Easter Bunny is

a chocolate rabbit that goes around

to each and every house around the

world and delivers Easter eggs to all

the houses.

2. Going to Church: Easter is all

about remembering how Jesus died

for everyone’s sins to be taken away

so lots of people go to church on

Easter Sunday.

3. Easter Egg Hunt: lots of people like

to hide their Easter eggs and find

them for fun.

4. Egg Rolling: eggs at Easter are

meant to symbolize new life of the

spring and so egg rolling can

sometimes symbolize the rolling

away of the stone in Jesus’ Tomb.

5. Easter Eggs: Easter eggs

symbolize the new life of the spring

and how Jesus gave us a fresh start,

but now most of the eggs are edible

and made of Chocolate.

6. Maundy Money: this is when the

Queen gives money to all the poor

people symbolizing when Jesus

washed the feet of his disciples.

7. Egg Blowing: this is when children

blow out the contents of an egg and

then decorate or paint them.

Everything you have ever wanted to

know about hot cross buns!

By Lily Edwards.

I love hot cross buns. But I have never really thought about the

meaning behind hot cross buns, and I wanted to find out a bit

more!

Hot cross buns date back to the ancient Greeks who used to

mark the top of a spiced fruity bun with a cross. Christian

countries eat them at Easter to remind us that Jesus died on

the cross for us - this is why we eat them mainly on Good

Friday, as this is when Jesus died. They were traditionally made

without dairy products and were just plain buns, as during

Lent, Christians were forbidden to make things using dairy

products. But nowadays you can usually buy hot cross buns all

year round! When Elizabeth the First was queen, she banned

the sale of hot cross buns at any time except for burials, good

Friday and Christmas.

There are also lots of superstitions surrounding hot cross buns.

Here are some of them.

If you say "Half for you and half for me, Between us two shall

goodwill be’ and share a hot cross bun with your friend, it is said that

you will be friends for the whole of the next year. I might try that.

Another one is one we could definitely have done with this week at

school – if you give a bit of bun to someone who is ill, it is supposed

to make them better! Perhaps if we had all brought in hot cross

buns, we might have not got the horrid bug!

One that I will NOT be trying, is that if you make a bun at home on

Good Friday, it will not go mouldy for a year…Now that is just GROSS!

Go ahead and try it as an experiment, if you are brave enough!

Now I know a lot more about hot cross buns than I did, and it has just

made me love them even more! Happy Easter everyone.

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Top 10 Weirdest

Chocolate Sculptures

By Antonia Hopcraft-Guest

1. The Camera:

2. A Chessboard:

3. Han Solo from Star wars stuck in

Carbonite:

4. Nike Shoes:

5. Barack Obama President of the

United States:

6. The Leaning Tower of Pisa:

7. This Dress:

8. These Heels:

9, Life size Lionel Messi:

10. The Arc De Triomphe in France:

I would like to thank buzzfeed.com for

suppling me with the information to do my

article.

Isabelle’s Easter Egg

Hunt

By Isabelle Preston

Isabelle had a very cunning idea to hide a lot

of eggs in the paper. Your job is to find them

all and cut out and fill in this corner of the

paper with the number of eggs which you

think you have found. To win a prize, give it to

a TT Editor as soon as we get back. This is

what the eggs you are looking for look like…

Name : __________________________

I found _________ eggs.

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The Easter Story by Hannah Williams

One day, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey to

celebrate the Passover. As he came by, people lay

palm leaves in front of him, like he was a King.

Judas was very jealous of Jesus because he was

treated as a King and decided to make a plan to kill

Jesus. Jesus had twelve disciples and told them to

come to an old man’s house and go to the top floor.

“There is a spot for our dinner party” he said.

When the dinner started, Jesus broke up some bread.

“This is my body, it will be broken up like myself when

I die”. Then he poured some wine – “This is my blood.

Remember I will die for you”.

When the dinner finished, Jesus went to the garden

to pray. The guards found Jesus when Judas kissed

Him on the cheek. Immediately the guards arrested

Jesus for claiming to be the Son of God. They took

him away and ripped his clothes off and nailed him to

a cross.

Jesus hung on the cross until he died. When the

disciples went to collect His body, the tomb was

empty. Many people saw Jesus alive three days later,

before He was taken back by God.

Romanian tradition by Anya Constantinescu

Romania is quite unknown to many people so I thought that I would tell you a bit about what we do at Easter.

A traditional Romanian game is: • First get some eggs. • Put them gently into some boiling water and let them boil for a few minutes. • Once the eggs have boiled, paint them red. • Make sure you have a fake egg one which is really hard, solid and red. • Place all of the red eggs into a bowl and mix them around so you don’t know which is the hard one. • Let everyone take an egg from the bowl. • Get into pairs and knock eggs with each other. • The one with the egg which hasn’t been cracked wins.

Easter in Poland

By Abby Blackwell Easter in Poland is celebrated almost like we celebrate it, but the festivals and rituals are not limited to one day. Easter-related traditions take place for more than a week in Poland. from Palm Sunday to “Wet Monday”. On Palm Sunday, you would symbolise the day with bouquets of flowers or willow branches. On Easter Saturday, people would take a basket containing hard boiled eggs, meats, salt and babka (a sort of cake containing around 15 egg yolks!). Easter Monday is a family holiday and is called Smigus day, or Wet Monday, appropriately named as girls and boys would pour water on each other. People also may paint Pisanki eggs, traditionally painted with designs that recall pagan symbols of spring.

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By Jacob Browning

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Cracking Jokes for Easter!

(get it ‘cracking’ as in eggs cracking)

By Ryan Hann

To end this term I have written some jokes for you to enjoy – have a great Easter everyone!

Q: What is a duck’s favourite snack?

A: Quackers!

Q: Why did the chick like to shop in Poundland?

A: Because it is cheep!

Q: What season is it when you are on a trampoline?

A: Spring time!

Q: What is a duck’s favourite dip?

A: “Quack”-amole!

Q: When do monkeys fall from the sky?

A: During the Ape-ril showers!

Q: Why did the bunny turn bright red?

A: Because he was hopping mad!

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How many words can you make from:

CHOCOLATE EASTER EGG?

[must be 4 letters or above]

By Roshan Patel

1. 16.

2. 17.

3. 18.

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

10.

11.

12.

13.

14.

15.

6.

17.

18.

19.

20.

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By Isabelle Preston