The Week Junior - UK (2022-06-11)

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Editor’s note

Did you have a good Jubilee
weekend? We’ve got a report on p5
about the celebrations that happened
up and down the country. I had a great
time, meeting my neighbours – and
sampling all five entries to the local Jubilee pudding
competition. (Five helpings of pudding are too many,
it turns out, although it was a delicious experiment.)
I thought the Jubilee felt fantastic after the last couple of
years. Socialising with neighbours at the lighting of the
beacon – and then again to discuss puddings – felt like a
happy follow-up to Covid, when all we could do was
wave to each other during lockdown. The chance to meet
and talk and have fun showed us all how important
community is. According to a new study by Save the
Children, young people don’t need to be told this. It was
so heartening, refreshing and beautiful to read the story
on p3, that a huge majority of young people wish they
could do more to help others in their own country and
across the world. This week has been all about
friendship, forgetting our differences and celebrating
how brilliant we are when we work together, and it’s
been wonderful.

What have you been up to lately? Which books have you enjoyed

reading? What have you made? Have you written a poem or drawn a

picture that you’d like to see published on this page? Whatever you

have to show or tell us, get in touch at [email protected]

“

I love writing because it is

a good way to let my ideas

flow and I get

transported to a world

with no limits. Writing

helps me unblock all

my thoughts, it is as if

I’m talking to myself! I

also like getting into the

minds of my characters and

giving everyday objects

emotions. Sometimes I find it hard to

continue writing a story without getting distracted

by other ideas for a new story, so I end up writing

more than one story at a time.

My favourite books are The Lion Above the Door

Reading

my way to

a writing

award

Name: Amara

Junior

Roving Reporter

CHARITY WEEK

OF

THE

Acting editor

The Week Junior • 11 June 2022

Go wild in nature.

by Onjali Q. Raúf, and Nevermoor by

Jessica Townsend. Nevermoor inspired

me to start writing fantasy stories.

When I am older, I would like to write

novels and poetry. I would like my first book to be

a fantasy novel, which I have already started

planning out. Recently, I came second place in the

ISA Essay Competition for my

story entitled ‘Mysterious

Matilda’.

”

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Amara with her

ISA award.