Imagination

GEMS Winchester School Abu Dhabi, English Department
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Issue 19
IMAGINATION
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination”


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Imagination is quite possibly a uniquely human ability. In essence, it allows us to explore ideas of things that are not in our present environment, or perhaps not even real. For example, one can imagine the cup of coffee seen the day before, or one can imagine an alien spaceship arriving in the earth's orbit. The key is that what is imagined is generated from within rather than perceived based on input from
without.
Noor Fatima- Year 9g


Kelsey Bella
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Ibad Ur
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01 March
Melissa
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01 March
Arsenii
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Saif Mohamed
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02 March
Shantelle Faustina
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02 March
Youcef
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Abdullah Javed
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Maria
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Esha
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Omar Taufiq Assiddiq
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Mohamed
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Sarah
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Mohamed
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Muhammad Maaz Hassan
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Yash
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Emaya
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We hope your special day will bring you lots of happiness, love, and fun...


Books never go like I want them to. They go around my mind, Making me feel like a fool.
Times like this always make me feel rage, When all the books end with a dismaying page
.
As I open a new one there’s a little hope. But it slowly drifts into anger,
And runs back down saying, “NOPE!”
Though I found a way to make myself happy,
By imagining the story,
That I’d read gladly.
Aayrah Akhtar- 6G2


WINDFALL, BY JENNIFER E. SMITH
What’s important in life? Money, success, popularity are all words
that float to the top of the list yet friendship, empathy, kindness and
love are possibly where happiness resides. This warm, heart-lifting
novel from Jennifer E. Smith encourages us to question what is really
important in life.Alice buys best friend Teddy a lottery ticket for his
birthday as a joke. She doesn’t believe in luck and the last thing she
expects is for Teddy to win and win big. Suddenly the comfortable
life she has come to know is thrown in to disarray and things begin
to change and the Teddy she thought she knew so well and who
she’s secretly been in love with for years, begins to change. As she
sees his popularity rise along with his bank balance and their hopes
and dreams change, she begins to feel that she is losing him. But
soon Teddy discovers that using his newfound wealth committing
random acts of kindness is the way forward and Alice joins him on
helping to change the lives of random strangers. This thoughtful,
inspiring story follows them on their adventure as they grow,
sometimes together and sometimes apart, but both discovering a
little more about each other and themselves along the way.For me,
Alice and Teddy’s story highlights the changes we can all make within
our world and the knock-on effect that can have. It’s a wonderful
message about love, hope and friendship, and ultimately about
acceptance; acceptance that we can’t always control what happens
in our lives but that our actions have the power to change, maybe
not the whole world, but certainly the world for at least one person
through the kindness we can share. And that is a wonderful power to
have indeed. Imagination is quite possibly a uniquely human ability.
In essence, it allows us to explore ideas of things that are not in our
present environment, or perhaps not even real. For example, one
can imagine the cup of coffee seen the day before, or one can
imagine an alien spaceship arriving in the earth's orbit. The key is
that what is imagined is generated from within rather than perceived
based on input from without.
Compiled by Zainab- Year 9G


The call of the wild
Released by: 20th century studios Release date: February 20, 2020
Description
Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life gets turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Alaskan Yukon in the 1890s. As the newest rookie on a mail-delivery dog sled team, Buck experiences the adventure of a lifetime as he ultimately finds his true place in the world.
Playing with fire
Released by: Paramount Pictures Released date: November 8, 2019
Description
When straight-laced fire superintendent Jake Carson and his elite team of firefighters come to the rescue of three siblings, they quickly realize that no amount of training could prepare them for their most challenging job yet -- babysitting. As their lives, jobs and depot get turned upside down, the three men soon learn that children -- much like fires -- are wild and unpredictable.
Compiled by Melissa- Year 9G


Minions: The Rise of Gru
Comedy/Animation July 3, 2020
A continuation of 2015 film, this time in the heart of the 1970s, a twelve-year-old Felonius Gru is growing up in the suburbs. When the Vicious 6 fire their leader, legendary fighter Wild Knuckles, Gru interviews to become their newest member. It does not go well and only gets worse after Gru steals from them and suddenly finds himself the mortal enemy of the apex of evil. On the run, Gru will turn to an unlikely source for guidance, Wild Knuckles himself, and discover that even bad guys need a little help from their friends.
SCOOB!
Comedy/Animation May 13, 2020
With hundreds of cases solved and adventures shared, Scooby and the gang face their biggest, most challenging mystery ever -- a plot to unleash the ghost dog Cerberus upon the world. As they race to stop this global dog- pocalypse, the gang discovers that Scooby has a secret legacy and an epic destiny greater than anyone could have imagined.
Ashly- Year 9G


1. VIDCON
Submit a 3 min video on how to make the world a better place. Create a synopsis (a brief summary on your video by Tuesday)
2. STUDENT PLANNER
Front Cover Design Competition) - Competition and
chance to get your name published on every planner is here! Design the front cover page and submit on or before 6th March 2020. Criteria: Must have a school name and logo, title and key stage mentioned. (It must be half of the A4 size)


ShowMe Interactive whiteboard app is an application that allows teachers and students of any age to create presentations called ‘ShowMe‘ is that can be shared via the device on online privately or to a community audience. The user can record and create engaging voice over presentations of their chosen topic by using some of the many tools such as adding text, drawings, photos and images.
Notability is one of the most versatile apps available for notes taking. You can type or write notes on notebooks and organize them into folders inside the app. However, it also lets you annotate PDFs, which can be great for grading student papers. Notability also records audio and lets you take notes at the same time. So, you could be having a reading conference with a student, or testing their reading fluency with the audio recorder, while taking notes at the same time on your iPad.
Zainab – Year 9G


Use Money and Budgeting Apps to Stay Organized
As a finance beginner and even expert, you should use some sort of money or budget app. These can organize everything into one big picture for you. Apps like Personal Capital, Mint, You Need A Budget, etc. can keep you focused on financial goals and monitor your spending.
Invest In Yourself Before Anything Else
Before you get crazy with investing any of your money, invest in yourself. Whether that is your financial education, taking classes, buying courses or books, starting a side hustle to make extra cash, etc.
The best asset you have is yourself.
When it comes to Finance Don’t get overwhelmed, take a deep breath, and work at your own pace!
Noor – 9G


Staying healthy can be a challenge but, with a few simple guidelines, is possible.
Get Educated About Your Body
The first step in taking control of your health is understanding your body. One of the most important and powerful things we can do in this new year and new decade is to get familiar with what's happening inside our physical bodies. If you don't know the intimacies of what's happening inside your body and how things are functioning, then you don't know what to give it from the outside. so many people are taking supplements and herbs, eating trendy foods, and following fad diets because they've read about it—but might not have taken the time to really look at all of their levels and body mechanics to know if it's actually right for them. One of the best gifts you can give yourself this new year is a deep-dive into your own inner system and better awareness of what it's doing so you can give it what it needs. A functional medicine doctor is a great place to start!.
Noor – 9G




• 1st March 1901 – The Australian Army if formed
• 1st March 1936 – the Hoover Dam is completed
• 2nd March 1972 – American spacecraft Pioneer 10
blasts off for Mars & Jupiter on a 21- month lifespan.
• 2nd March 1990 – three weeks after his release from
27years in jail, Nelson Mandela is elected Deputy
President of the African National Congress
• 3rd March 1887 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6-
year-old blind-deaf Helen Keller
• 3rd March 1960 - 9th largest snowfall in NYC history
(14.5")
• 4th March 1861 - Abraham Lincoln is inaugurated as
the 16th US President
• 4th March 1975 – Charlie Chaplin is knighted at
Buckingham Palace.
• 5th March 1968 - US launches Solar Explorer 2 to
study the Sun
• 5th March 1982 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands
on Venus sends back data
Ashly- Year 9G


ZAYED SUSTAINABILITY PRIZE
The Zayed Sustainability Prize, an evolution of the Zayed Future Energy Prize, is the UAE’s pioneering global award in sustainability and a tribute to the legacy of the late founding father of the UAE, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
Established in 2008, this annual award recognizes and rewards the achievements of those who are driving impactful, innovative and inspiring sustainability solutions across five distinct categories: Health, Food, Energy, Water and Global High Schools.
Melissa- Year 9G


Thirty miles off the coast of Queensland, Australia, a small piece of history was made last summer: Scientists transplanted hundreds of nursery-grown coral fragments onto the beleaguered Great Barrier Reef.
The process itself is not new—coral transplants have been used to help restore damaged reefs for decades. What’s new is that it’s happening on the world’s largest reef, an icon of marine life that has been dubbed one of the seven wonders of the natural world.
Almost a third dead
In 2016 and 2017, the Great Barrier Reef experienced back-to-back “marine heat waves”—periods of elevated sea temperatures that resulted in the death of almost a third of all the reef’s corals.
The question the research is trying to answer, says Suggett, is whether propagation and out planting of stress-surviving corals can speed up reef recovery, rather than having to rely on the slower natural process of coral reproduction to replace the individuals that died.
“The success of the project won’t be known until we have another marine heat wave,” says Suggett. That’s likely to be sooner rather than later.
Melissa- Year 9G




“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.” Thomas A. Edison
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” ―Albert Einstein
“Imagination creates reality.” ―Richard Wagner
“The man who has no imagination has no wings.” ―Muhammad Ali
“Live out of your imagination, not your history.” ―Stephen R. Covey
Imagination


Riddle:
What 8 letter word can have a letter taken away and it still makes a word. Take another letter away and it still makes a word. Keep on doing that until you have one letter left. What is the word?
Answer: STARTING (starting, staring, string, sting, sing, sin, in, I.)


Why Birds Fly
Q: Why do birds fly to warmer climates in the winter? A: It’s much easier than walking!
Smarter Than a Parrot
Q: What creature is smarter than a talking parrot? A: A spelling bee.
The Friendly Ocean
Q: How does the ocean say hello? A: It waves.
The Fake Noodle
Q: What do you call a fake noodle? A: An im-pasta.
The Problem With Atoms
Q: Why can’t you trust atoms? A: They make up everything.
Plate Whisperer
Q: What did one plate whisper to the other plate? A: Dinner is on me.
Sized Right
Q: What kind of tree fits in your hand? A: A palm tree!
Aaqib- Year 9B1


v the word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'
v 56% of typing is completed by your left hand
v The average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites
v Not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks)
v A sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph)
v 1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year
v the first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmph (5 mph) v African elephants only have 4 teeth
v men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women
Mohammed Hatim- Year 9B1


At our school, we come up with various opportunities to showcase the wonderful talents of the students at Winchester.
Listening to radio stations is a terrific way to improve your ability to understand spoken English. Listening to the radio provides opportunities to listen to many different people speaking English at a normal rate of speed and in many different dialects and accents.
Apart from giving this exciting chance of learning in a fun way, we also entertain parents, teachers, and students with our songs and laughs, that will be added to our radio.
We will be broadcasting our radio station at the end of each week. If you want to be a part of the radio station, please send your audio with your name and class to [email protected] . For more information, please talk to any of the WSA Magazine Team members (names on last page).
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