Magazine.8

CONTENTS

Introduction
Covid-19 Updates
Weather Forecast

Moral Theme
Social Conflicts

Birthdays
Recipe Of The Week

Brain Teasers
Fun Facts

Book Review
Game Review

Comics
Talents
Breast Cancer Awareness
TikTok Trends
Galapagos Islands
Going Down the Memory Lane
Tips And Tricks

WSA TIMES TEAM
MEMBERS

© WSA Times Team
Saanvi Kalura

Fathima Bushra Rila
Eshal Saadat

Suhani Ghansham Raja
Arham Ali Chowdhury
Isaiah Iverson Lumbre
Timothy Edward Bonner
Rayaan Ahmed Warriach
Sachit Vibhor Bhagat
Sabeer Ahmed Siddiqui

Sam Solomon
Faryal Mirza

INTRODUCTION

Welcome back to the WSA magazine! We hope
you enjoyed the last edition and enjoy this
one just as much. This week's theme

is respect, so remember to respect everyone.

If you wish to get your work featured or have
any ideas, please send them to us on:
[email protected]

(Make sure to send your Name,
Year and Section along with the rest!)

COVID-19 UPDATES

Fathima Bushra 9G

WEATHER FORECAST

Key: Bold = Highest

MORAL THEME

Respect, also called esteem, is a positive
feeling or action shown towards someone or
something considered important, or held in
high esteem or regard. It conveys a sense of
admiration for good or valuable qualities. And
it is also the process of honouring someone
by exhibiting care, concern, or consideration
for their needs or feelings. Respect can also
ignite kindness to others because it shows the

love and support for others. You can show
respect to others by doing the exact same

things you did to the others.

SOCIAL CONFLICTS

This week's topic: Teen Drug Abuse

More and more teens are getting addicted to drugs every
day. Many addictions develop from drug abuse that starts
during adolescence. It's important to know the difference

between drug abuse and addiction. Many teens
experiment with drugs but aren’t addicted. Teen drug

abuse can have long-term cognitive and behavioral
effects since the teenage brain is still developing. The
teen years are often a time to explore and learn more
about themselves as they approach adulthood. Often, this
involves experimenting and testing their boundaries. The
desire to do something new or risky is a normal part of

teen development. Teens who perceive little risk in
using drugs are more likely to use drugs. Teens may also

use drugs or alcohol to:
•Feel good

•Forget their troubles and relax
•Satisfy their curiosity
•Ease their pain
•Feel grown up

•Show their independence
•Belong to a specific group
Adolescents should avoid drugs because their body is
still developing, and intake of drugs may affect the
development of body and functioning of some other

organs.

Saanvi– 9G

BIRTHDAYS

Naresh Kumar Anahira Y02B 12 November 2013
Saleem Saamiya Fathima Y03F 12 November 2012
Shahzad Zubair Abdul Muiz Y06B2 12 November 2008
Sithu James Owen Y07B2 12 November 2008
Aamir Aamir Abdul Wahid Arwa Y06G2 13 November 2009
Hettiarachchige Kenuth Sathsilu Y01A 13 November 2014
Khan Irfan Aslam Khan Muhammed Huzaifa Y08B1 13 November 2006
Nathersa Mohammed Ayaan Y05A 13 November 2009
Anajemba Odirachukwunma Chikamso Y05D 14 November 2010
Palaran Barican Callum Joaquin Y03E 14 November 2012
Saad Lugein l Y06G1 14 November 2009
Sivakumar Sonam Y02E 14 November 2012
Umair Ahmed Sayed Fazal Y02F 14 November 2013
Ahmad M S Alhamadneh Hashim Y02D 15 November 2013
Dsouza Brandon Devon FS2B 16 November 2015
Girish Nair Ayana Y02D 16 November 2013
Haleem Muhammad Haleem Babar Muhammad Abdullah Y02C 16 November 2013
Hasnain Kashan Ali Mohammed FS2B 16 November 2015
Serrano Hipolito Johannes Jake Y02C 16 November 2013
Sherry Benjamin Andre Y01C 16 November 2014
Soliman Kamel Hemdan Mady Ahmed Y09B2 16 November 2006
Stalin Sabarish Y02F 16 November 2013
Caldas Quintal Larissa Y04B 17 November 2010
Mohamed Abdelzaher Sayed Seif Y04B 17 November 2011
Mohamed
Zainab Fatima Y09G1 17 November 2006
Shaikh Ishaq Al Mustafvi Noor Mohammad Y05C 17 November 2010
Wakeel Minhas Ayod Sandira Jayawickrama Y02A 17 November 2013
Wiyannala Gedara Ziyad Y04D 18 November 2010
Hansabi Vanya FS2D 18 November 2015
Khundyal Adam FS2F 18 November 2015
Osama Aly Eladl Ismail Sulaiman Y08B2 19 November 2007
Ali Cheema Reem FS2D 19 November 2015
Mady Clint Y08B1 19 November 2007
Menezes Nooh Y08B1 19 November 2007
Mohamed Rafeeque Chamodya Dilshani Jayawickrama Y07G2 19 November 2008
Wiyannalagedara

Fathima Bushra 9G

RECIPE OF THE WEEK

PIZZA IN A CUP

INGREDIENTS INSTRUCTIONS

•4 tbsp all-purpose flour 1. Mix the dry ingredients
•1/8 tsp baking powder in a mug.
•1/16 tsp baking soda
•1/8 tsp salt 2. Add in the wet
•3 tbsp milk ingredients and mix
•1 tbsp olive oil until mostly combined.
•1 tbsp pizza sauce
•1 tbsp shredded 3. Add the pizza sauce
and spread it around.
cheese
•Toppings of your 4. Sprinkle on the cheese
and toppings.
choice
5. Microwave for 1 minute
or until it rises, and the
toppings are bubbling

NOTE

Cooking time may vary
depending on the

microwave so make sure
to check before eating

BRAIN TEASERS

• Jail and prison are synonyms,
but jailer and prisoner are antonyms

• 2.What can you hold in your right hand and not
in your left?

• 3.Your fingers have fingertips, but your toes do
not have toe-tips. Yet, you can tiptoe, but you
cannot tip-finger

• 4.What has 13 hearts but no organs?
• 5.It belongs to you, but other people use it.

What am I?
• 6.Why do noses run and feet smell? Shouldn’t it

be the opposite?
• 7.What travels around the world but stays in

one spot?
• 8.What's in front of you but can never be seen?
• 9.When you transport something by

car it’s called a shipment, but if you transport
something by ship, it's called cargo
• 10. I'm tall when I’m young and short when I’m
old, what am I?

Sachit Vibhor - 8B1

FUN FACTS

• Banging your head against a wall for one hour
burns 150 calories.

• In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea
pig.

• Rabbits are nice and cute animals, but they do
something disgusting. They eat their own poop!
This process is called Hindgut Fermentation.

• Crows can hold grudges against specific
individual people.

• Scientists have found out that 10% of the world
population is left-handed, The other 90% are
right-handed.

• 29th May is officially “Put a Pillow on Your Fridge
Day”.

• Chemophobia is an irrational fear of fun or
happiness.

• 7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk
comes from brown cows.

• Scientists have found out that a day will last for
25 hours in the future.

• A year lasts for 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes,
and 4 seconds, to be precise.

Sri Varshini Vedula – 4F

BOOK REVIEW

MISS PEREGRINE’S HOME FOR PECULIAR
CHILDREN

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children is a very
interesting book. It involves action, mystery, kids with
peculiarities (basically superpowers!), and secrets
being unveiled. It starts off with a boy named Jacob
Portman, who grows up listening to odd tales his
grandfather used to tell him, yet as he grew up, he
began to stop believing. Everything, however,
changed when he found his grandfather dead in the
forest. The story continues with him finding out how
the stories he used to be
told were true, and he teams
up with the kids whom he
used to hear about, fighting
against an evil he couldn’t
possibly imagine. The novel
is a gem, and I highly
encourage everyone to go
and read it. It’ll be a
rollercoaster of twists; left,
right and center, and you too
will follow Jacob as he
uncovers more and more
about his Grandfather’s past.

Faryal - 8G

MOVIE REVIEW

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
4.5/5

Probably one of the best Jurassic World
movies ever, although I saw the big twist
coming and that's why I gave it a 4.5 score.
Overall a very good movie and one that
I highly recommend you watch with your

friends.

Awab- 9B2

GAME REVIEW

Toby and Gilbert
What is this game about?
Toby tries to show his friend Gilbert a video he
enjoys, but his pc suddenly breaks before he
can see it, and then they take an adventure to
PC repair land with lots of minigames and
challenges ahead of them. Well if you were
wondering toby is the cat/dog thing and Gilbert
is the crab.

Is this game any good?
This game is extremely charming and so easy to
like! Toby and Gilbert’s adventures take them
across several areas, completing all different
types of little challenges and minigames, the
game also perfectly captures the essence of
what the jam is about.

COMICS

The Inventor

Toby and Gilbert

TALENTS

Amazing Work by 9G

TALENTS

TALENTS

BREAST CANCER
AWARENESS

Cancer Awareness Month:
WSA participated in the worldwide annual

campaign to raise awareness and lay
emphasis on the importance of education

and research on Breast Cancer.

Staff and students celebrated the strength
and survival and supported the importance

cause by wearing pink on 12th and
14th October.

Breast cancer is the most common type of
cancer worldwide. With education we aim to

eradicate this disease and wish that all
cancers become manageable disease, and

provide opportunity for everyone to
continue to live healthily.

Ms. Maimoona

TIKTOK

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TikTok has now taken centre stage. This is especially true
for the younger demographic, with the short-form video
app hosting 66% of users under 30.
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send out every Thursday talking about the biggest trends
on TikTok at the time and what the trend is.
For the past few weeks, the # Teens have been
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the #Spookydance hashtag has about 243.1 million
views.
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The origin of the actual Spooky Skeleton choreography
that we currently see trending on TikTok remains
something of a mystery. From what we can tell, the
choreography appears to have been popularized. The
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And that is how the Spooky Scary Skeleton became a
trend/meme in TikTok.

Nemat 9G

The Galapagos Islands

By Faryal 8G1

• You’ll never believe what Y8 did during their half-term break!

During Year 8’s half-term break, Humanities teacher
Miss Naazneen assigned the classes the challenge to make a website
about The Galapagos Islands! We had to dive into the world of
knowledge to understand, explore, analyse, enquire, research facts
about the Galapagos island to create a website using to create this
website. We had investigated - How has the island survived in spite
of the coastal process working on it?We were told to make 5
different sections within the website, including things such as the
introduction, the Islands’ geographical location, it’s formation, rock
type, geographical processes, the biodiversity, ecosytem there, and
so much more! We stood up to the challenge and managed to create
our very own websites about the Galapagos Islands!
Interested? Want to know more? Then click the links below and find
out more about the Islands with these seven informative websites!
https://galapagosislandsaman.webs.com/environment-threats : By
Saman Rizvi! 8G1
https://galapagosislands.webs.com/ : By Nushara Ranasingha! 8G1
https://faryalmirza1.wixsite.com/website : by Faryal Mirza! 8G1
https://sarinarizwan27.wixsite.com/galapagos-island : by Sarina
Qureshi! Y8G2
https://galapagos-islands.webs.com/ by Laiba Khan! Y8G2
https://aaustria1686.wixsite.com/website-1/the-environmental-
threats-to-the-is by Y8B1
https://galapagos-island8.webnode.com/ done collaboratively by
Rayyan and Abdullah Javed! Y8B2

• Faryal 8G1

Going down the Memory Lane

By Ms. Nazneen Khan

• Those were the days when technology was not within a common man’s reach. We as
children did not possess any gadget to work and play with but still lived a carefree life. We
as kids had a wonderful childhood full of adventure and physical activities, unlike you
coach potatoes. After Homework completion we spent outdoors playing actual games like
football, cricket, tennis, badminton, etc.

• There was no internet to assist in learning new things, we did learn the hard way. Hard
copy books were our companions with whom we hours reading books as they were the
ultimate source of knowledge for us. We spent quality time midst nature observing,
exploring, analyzing things outside the four walls of our houses and getting hands on
experiences. We did not have Google to answer our queries or to copy paste answers to
the questions our teachers asked us. Creating a project meant digging ourselves into piles
of books in the school or the public library, or at a charity shop buying procuring
magazines and books to get the necessary information we wanted. When you got an ‘A’
Grade for the hard toil that was the joyous moment of all.

• Back in time friendship meant being in company and sharing space with actual friends in
flesh and bone and not the fake virtual friends. The friendship we shared was real and
you always had at least a shoulder to rest your head during difficult times. Blocking a
friend meant just tearing pictures of them you clicked together.

• We would actually ‘write’ letters to our friends and relatives which involved going to the
post office buying the stamps to affix on the envelope, put the letter in an envelope, seal
it, paste the stamp on it and drop it in the post box and wait for the postman to deliver
their reply back to us. Not to forget the wired telephone which sat in the corner of the
living room. How I wished I could carry that bulky, wired device wherever I go. We had to
glue ourselves in the corner just to communicate with others. The mobile phones haved
distanced the family member as each one is engaged on her/his own device whereas the
wired telephone brought used to bring all family together to be able to receive the call.

• There was rarely no concept of ‘use and throw’, if not everything but most of the things
we used back then were reusable. We would use and reuse stuff until it would turn
around and say, “have mercy on me”. How we used a single fountain pen for years
together by refilling ink once it ran out of it. I still possess one of my fountain pen. Every
time I tried to fill ink in it, I would get scolded by mum for spilling ink on myself and the
floor. We carried our own water bottles, lunch boxes, cloth bags with us. Another
interesting memory are the handkerchiefs we carried, especially those with your initials
embroidered in the corner. These are some of the memories still fresh in my mind. Hope
you enjoyed reading.

TIPS AND TRICKS

Effective Time Management

• Set goals correctly.
• Set goals that are achievable and measurable.

• Prioritize wisely. Prioritize tasks based on
importance and urgency.

• Set a time limit to complete a task.
• Take a break between tasks.
• Organize yourself.

• Remove non-essential tasks/activities.
• Plan ahead.

See You Next Week!