Month: March 2015

Dear Mr Dastagir,

I would like to write to you about three problems: the lunch hall entrance, bullying and banta. Do these troubles affect our school? I believe so.

As a student of yours, I have been concerned. I have also witnessed and happen to be affected by these subjects. These issues can create lots of problems like being late for an activity during lunch or that someone has bullied someone and they’re not admitting it. This whole letter will show how I would like to resolve these problems.

I would like to complain about the entrance to the lunch hall first. I wasn’t aware that the year 10s and year 11s can go to lunch with the entrance in front of the reception office. This is bad because people may be late for not hurrying to go to the club or the extra lesson. I believe that if both the entrance in front of the playground and the one in front of the reception were two different entrances then life would be much more peaceful. As an extra, we can use the door by the canteen as an exit so there won’t be any trouble. Easy as banoffy pie!

I would also like to talk about bullying and how it can affect other students that can’t help themselves. I have been bullied many times in the past and kinda still am. I know anti-bullying week is already real but even during then, bullying still has an effect on many students. I believe that if a PSHE lesson was created to help bullies to stop being bullies then it can also help the victims who have been bullied. As well as that, the idea can help the bullies whether they have bad grades because they wouldn’t have time for these things: giving kids paralysing wedgies, make victims do their homework or make them wear kick-me signs.

The final thing I would like to complain about is banta. Many bullies use banta as a way to get out of trouble even when the victim doesn’t believe that is so. mainly, if a bully uses the word banta as a way to get out of trouble, then they have done a serious thing and it can be really harmful. The idea for resolving the bullying act is a great idea for this situation as well because it can show the bullies by telling them that they should be responsible for their actions. Also, it can help them to show what will happen if they continue with this. Great.

I know you will like the new lunch time exits and entrances and the anti-bullying PSHE lessons. If it still continues, these sanctions must be made by these steps:

1.) Thirty minutes detention.

2.) Hour detention.

3.) Referral.

4.) Exclusion.

I hope this works. Don’t forget to tell the children that they can’t redeem themselves at that point. The list only affects when the bullying/banta PSHE lessons has not worked.

Your sincerely,

Yonatan .T

One of your London Nautical School students in year seven.

The way Salman Rashdie prepares us for the events in chapter 1 is how everyone in the city is sad but one family who are happy everyday. Then, all of a sudden, the family breaks up. The mum leaves the family and runs away with the nextdoor neighbours husband, the dad is unable to tell stories to the town who forgot it’s name and Haroun is so sad that the family has spattered.

The way he shows the familys problem is that he made Haroun ask his dad how he got these stories. His dad, Rashid Kalifa (The Ocean of Notions), told him he had a water genie give him a story water tap so he can drink some story water so he can tell a story from the sea of stories. Haroun didn’t believe him so he kept asking his dad how he came up with these stories until Soraya, Harouns mum, had enough. That is also why she left.

“Maybe the sadness of the city finally crept in through their window.”

This shows how the city is know to its people as sad ones and now the family has got the sadness, they can not get away from it.

Storywater was one of the things that Rashid told Haroun about. He said that who ever drank the water will be able to tell stories from the sea of stories. He also said that water genies have him a tap to get the water. As a class, we thought that this was a lie but when we got to chapter 4, story water was real. The water genie thing was true as well. There is a genie called Iff the water genie and he has a disconnecting tool that allowed he to makgenies distroy a disconnecting tool. There is also a Gup city where water genies live.

The theme is like an Arabian nights, fairytale and modern theme.

Arabian nights: genies

Fairytale: Rapunzal

Modern: factories, buses and cars.

This shows us how Salman Rashdie prepares us for the events in chapter 1.