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Film review – The Truman Show

4:01pm Wednesday 13th March 2013

The Truman show (1998) is a movie where in which Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is living a fake life. As he was an unwanted pregnancy he was adopted by the network and raised on set which meant the audience came to love him at a very early age.

Why do we have Fashion Weeks?

3:56pm Wednesday 13th March 2013

London, Paris and Spain, just some of the fashion weeks held. With models too skinny to be normal and clothes that are weird enough to come from outer space, why would anyone in the age range of 11 to 18 buy the clothes? They are not old enough to earn a living and as the clothes that have been exhibited are going to be very expensive when they go on sale, students will have no chance of being able to buy them. This means that their hopes may have been set high and this realisation of the price will bring them out of the clouds and crashing back down to earth.

Why work experience is a good thing...

3:52pm Wednesday 13th March 2013

Many people do not enjoy the thought of spending time in the workplace and having to put lots of time and energy into it with the days being longer than the average school day. But where else are you going to get the same experience again? Only when you get to University will you have the chance to go out on placement and not everyone always gets that chance.

Off to university

Katherine Armstrong

12:40pm Thursday 31st January 2013

Exams are fast approaching and then it will once again be time to get thinking about university.

A Biography of Brunel

12:37pm Wednesday 28th November 2012

In the year of 1806, it was as if a miracle had happened in the Victorian era. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born. Brunel had two sisters, Emma and Sophie. His parents were called Mark and Sophie Brunel. Mark Brunel was a famous French engineer and from an early age Brunel was encouraged to help his father.

Brunel’s biography

Brunel’s biography

12:33pm Wednesday 28th November 2012

Isambard kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth on the 9th of April 1806. His parents were Mark and Sophie Brunel he also had two sisters, one called Sophie and the other called Emma. When he was in school the teachers thought he was a bright and inquisitive boy.

Brunel's father flees from the French Revolution

Brunel

12:30pm Wednesday 28th November 2012

Ismbard Kingdom Brunel was born in 1806, on the 9th of April. His original birth place was Portsmouth, but he came to England to be a famous engineer.

Brunel almost died when performing a magic trick

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

12:02pm Wednesday 28th November 2012

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born on the 9th April 1806, in Portsmouth. His parents were Sophie and Mark Brunel. He also had two older sisters called Sophie and Emma Brunel. His father was a famous French Engineer.

Story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

11:58am Wednesday 28th November 2012

Isambard Kingdom Brunel was born in Portsmouth in 1806.

Albert and Victoria’s Story!

Albert and Victoria’s Story!

12:52pm Friday 12th October 2012

Imagine a town with smog every where, imagine a town where the streets are dirty and finally, imagine only owning one room; that’s what it’s like for Albert and Victoria. They’re twins and their ma and pa were called Jim and Elizabeth. Well they never new there ma as she died when they were born and they never really new their pa as he died of grief a month later.

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