Friday 22nd

January 2016
Edition 92
Team A

Founded by
Ben Owen in
2011

Our header was made by Billy Rowe and it is an artwork made from orange peel.

The First Imported Oranges

Editorial

by Harry Mather

Hello and welcome to another issue of

Totally Tockington! The paper written BY
students FOR students! This weeks theme
is orange! Love cute and cuddly animals?
Then Anyas article on ginger cats is for you!
Do you drink a glass of orange juice every
morning? Then find out about just what
youre drinking in Angus and Jeannes
articles! If youre more of an arty type, then
gaze at Jacobs beautiful watercolour of a
sunset- done just in different shades of
orange! Finally, if you want to find out which
of your favourite celebrities are ginger, then
read James and Gemmas article on ginger
celebrities! All this and more in this weeks
issue of Totally Tockington!

Oranges are a very old type of fruit. They originally

came from China but they were not introduced into
Europe for a long time when the Romans imported
them. The Arabs from North Africa re-introduced
oranges into Europe in the 8th century when they
conquered Spain and Portugal.
Some of the first Englishmen to eat oranges were
soldiers who fought in the Crusades with King
Richard the Lionheart in 1192. Citrus fruit first came
to England when Queen Eleanor ordered fruit from
Spain which included oranges, lemons and dried
fruits. This type of fruit was very expensive, so only
rich people could afford to buy it.
Rich people in the 16th century attempted to grow
orange trees in northern Europe by building
greenhouses called orangeries. At this time, for
ordinary people, oranges were a special treat so if
you got an orange, you were very lucky.

Georgina Loring
Editor

In the 19th century, because of transportation being

improved, oranges became less expensive and were
imported to northern Europe in greater numbers as
they were grown more widely in southern Europe
and the Mediterranean. Oranges are now imported
from all over the world, from countries such as
America, Brazil, Morocco and Spain.

Team A

What People Think When the

Word Orange is Mentioned
by Rachel Shutt

Teacher:
Ms Case A warm fire
Mr Spencer Juice

Editor-in-Chiefs Comment
HELLO!!! good readers of the worlds best paper
(wellprobably). So this weeks theme is a hard one
to get your head around, but I think it is quite a fun
one too. ORANGE. Yep, thats right, orange! Its a
great theme as you will read about anything and
everything that is orange! So sit back, relax and eat
an orange, if you want to!! But make sure to enjoy
this ORANGETASTIC edition of the world best
newspaper (wellprobably!)

Mrs Mockridge Citrus

Mr Jones No word rhymes with it

Alex Jacobi

Let's Concentrate on Orange Juice

Pupils:
By Jeanne Vron

Tabitha An orange racing car

Dalis banana
Ella pear
Georgina Banana
Erin Peel
Talia Peel
Carmen bath bomb
Angus Orange paint

Have you ever seen an

orange banana?
It seems Dalis and
Georgina have. Were
they wearing SUN
glasses at the time?

Eighty-five per cent of all oranges produced in the world

are used for juice. It is made by squeezing the fresh
orange. Fresh orange juice is the richest source of vitamin
C and fulfils an entire day's worth of vitamin C in just one
serving. Vitamin C is the key ingredient for healthy bones,
skin, ligaments, tendons and blood vessels.
In the mid 1910s there was an overproduction of citrus
fruit in California. It used the crop for juicing; the juice
would only last for a day and start to rot! Fresh orange
juice needs to be kept in the fridge. Fridges had not been
invented yet!
Brazil makes more than half of the world's orange juice.
In the UK, each one of us drinks 13 litres each year. The
problem is sugar! If we drink too much juice, we can
damage our teeth. The healthiest orange juice is the one
we make ourselves!
Juice world record: longest time gargling orange juice:
20.91 seconds. Jacob Santiago from the USA drank a full
pouch of Capri Sun in 4.28 seconds! Speed drinking can
be extremely dangerous, please do not attempt this
record. Time for a joke: Why was the girl staring at the
carton of orange juice?
Answer: it said CONCENTRATE!
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Allens Ginger Celebrities

By James & Gemma Allen
Ed Sheeran
He is an English singer-songwriter and musician. He reached
the top of the UK singles with Thinking out Loud in November
2014. He received 2 Brit awards. One was for British solo male
singer and the other Best breakthrough act.

Henry VIII
We all know he had six wives right? But do you know the song? It goes
like this: Divorced, beheaded and died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Im
Henry the Eighth, I had six gory wives, some you say I ruined their lives.
You can hear it on the Horrible Histories website. Did you also know that
Henry the VIII needed to be winched on to his horse when he was old
because he was so fat!

Garfield
All hail the funniest cat alive after Bud and May Allen of course.
Garfield has starred in many movies and at one time had his own
TV show. His owner is called Jon and his favourite food is Lasagne.

Boris Becker
Boris Becker was born on November 22, 1967, in Leimen in
Germany. He became famous in 1986 when he won Wimbledon,
because he was only 17!

West

He won five more Grand Slam championships among his 49

singles titles.

career

Source: Wikipedia

For this weeks theme, I made a delicious orange

cake that is so easy to make. I call it the

QUICK & EASY ORANGE CAKE

by Ben Jacobi

You will need:4 eggs

1 cups sugar
cup vegetable oil
2 cups self raising flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt
cup fresh orange juice
2 tablespoons orange zest, from 1- 2 oranges
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
Beat together the eggs and sugar until thick.
Slowly mix in the oil.

Heres another tasty morsel drawn by Harry

Bloomfield it is, of course, the gingerbread man
who ran away from his parents who loved him
and got eaten by a hungry and cunning fellow
ginger friend - the fox! We think this picture was
taken in happier times!

Stir in the flour, baking powder and salt, and

then the orange juice. Beat until smooth, and
then mix in the zest and vanilla.
Pour the batter into a greased baking tray, and
bake for about 40 minutes, or until the cake is
done.
Let the cake cool in the tray for about 10
minutes, then turn out onto a rack to finish
cooling. Slice & serve! Yummy!

This beautiful sculpture of children singing and playing to

the tune of Oranges and Lemons can be seen at Ramsnest
Common in Surrey.
It is a bronze and it was made by Christine Charlesworth.
The photograph was taken by Colin Smith.
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Orangutans

Georginas Pointless Points

by Elodie Preston

Why are Oranges Named

After Their Colour?

The orangutans are the Asian species of great apes.

Like the other great apes, orangutans are highly
intelligent. Orangutans share round about 97% of
their DNA with humans. Its common name is based
on two separate local words, orang (people or
person) and hutan (forest), and translates as
man of the forest. Orangutans live in Indonesia and
Malaysia in the rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra.
Orangutans were once thought to be one species.
Since 1996, they have been divided into two species:
the Bornean orangutans and the Sumatran
orangutans.
The Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) is an
endangered species, because of deforestation, palm
oil plantation and hunting. There are estimated to be
between 45000 and 69000 alive today.
The Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) is found only
on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. It is rarer than
the Bornean orangutan with only 7500 in existence.
These orangutans almost never travel on the
ground, preferring to move around in the trees.
Elodie was helped by the World Wildlife Fund and
Wikipedia when she wrote this article.

by Georgina Loring

Oranges are part of the citrus family and

their scientific name is Citrus Sinensis but
why is their common name named after
their colour? A banana isnt called a
yellow and a strawberry isnt a red, so
why is an orange called an orange?
It turns out that an orange isnt the only
fruit named after its colour! For instance,
there are blueberries and blackberries,
but they are called that because they are
berries that are blue and black, it isnt as
bad as calling them blues and blacks!
There is an amazing answer to my
question! An orange isnt named after its
colour, the colour orange was actually
named after the fruit! The colour orange
used to be called geolhread which
translates to yellow-red! The fruit name
was from the Spanish for orange which is
naranja (pronounced na-ring-a) which
came from came from the Sanskrit
nranga which meant orange tree. The
English dropped the n and it evolved into
orange.
I hope that you now know something that
you didnt know before!

Acknowledgements
Today i found out

Japanese Spider Crab

by Isabel Browning
I love cats, at home I have two of the loveliest
cats that I could ever wish for - Biscuit and
Muddle! Biscuit is a ginger tom cat which is why
I decided to do this topic on ginger cats (are
they rare now? Are gingers mostly males?) and
the story of how I ended up with two cats
instead of just one.

The Japanese Spider is the largest anthropod. It

has a leg span of up to 3.8 metres; its body can
grow up to 40 cm and it can weigh up to 19
kilograms!
The Japanese Spider Crab is, of course, found
mostly on an island on the southern coast of
Japan called Honshu. Adults can be found at
depths between 50 and 600 metres.
The crabs colouring is much like normal crabs,
orange with white spots.
The Japanese Spider Crab is occasionally
collected for food and in some parts of Japan it is
considered a delicacy.
In 1976, a total of 24.7 tons of this crab was
collected but in 1985, only 3.2 tons. These crabs
have been known to do some damage so I
wouldnt get on the wrong side of one!
These crabs are gentle giants. They can be as
big as a mini and live to one hundred years old.
They eat shellfish and dead animal carcasses.
If you want to see a Spider Crab in action, then
take a look at the video clips on Youtube!

I know five people all of whom have male ginger

cats. Is it true that you can only get male ginger
cats or is that a rumour? I have been
researching ginger cats and people have said
that there are a few female ginger cats around
but they are extremely rare but more to the
point a few weeks ago when I took my Biscuit to
the vets for a check-up the vet said that you
dont find many ginger cats (not just females)
around which I was really shocked to hear. But
Im proud of having a ginger cat in the family!
When I was about two and a half I had a black
cat called Trixie. I loved her dearly, but
unfortunately when I was 5 she died. I was
really sad to see her go and I really wanted
another cat .One day when I was walking
from school with my child minder we saw a
note in a shop window which read KITTENS FOR
SALE. I was soooooo excited, so when I got
home I told my mum about the advertisement
and the next week we were walking to the
house where the kittens were! I really wanted a
ginger cat. I had planned it all out. I was going
to call him Biscuit! So we walked in and there
they were - all five kittens meowing at me and
my mum. I sat on the cold floor stroking my
soon-to-be-mine cat and my mum knelt down
on the floor beside me. Suddenly my mum
made a small shriek of surprise as a small tabby
cat jumped on to her back. He climbed all the
way to my mums head just like in The Lion
King. So we decided to get two cats instead of
one!
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The Orange
A Story by Hannah Williams

Once there was a man called Kensuke and he had been marooned on a desert island for
months after a shipwreck. He was desperately trying to find a way to get off the island and
return home, but so far had no idea how he was going to manage this.
One day he noticed a box that had washed up on the beach. He ran down to see what it
contained and after trying for some time he managed to open it. Excitedly he looked in, but to
his dismay, all he found was peelings from various fruits. He desperately put his hands in all
four corners of the box (he wasnt sure what he was looking for, apart from maybe something
fresh to eat) and he felt three hard pips. He wasnt sure what fruit they came from but decided
to plant them to see if they could grow. He found three different spots on the island and looked
after them in the hope that they would grow and provide him with some kind of fruit.
Two of the pips didnt grow but one did and Kensuke spent his days looking after it, watering it
and covering it with palm leaves when it got too hot in the sun. The plant grew and began to
flower and after some time Kensuke saw it had grown a healthy looking orange. Carefully he
picked it, peeled it and ate it slowly while looking out at the empty sea it was delicious!
Although he enjoyed eating the juicy orange, it made him feel even more homesick and
determined to find a way to return home. He took the pips from that orange and planted them
near the same spot so they would grow too. As he looked after his plants and ate the oranges
they produced, he saved all the peelings and eventually had enough to spell out HELP ME in
very big letters across the top of a hill on the island, hoping that one day someone would see it
and rescue him.
One morning he was woken up by the sound of a helicopter overhead and to his delight
realised his message had been seen. Just before taking off with his rescuers, he asked them to
wait and ran to the orange plant which he carefully dug up to carry home with him, since it had
been the only living thing he had cared about all the months he had been marooned on the
island. He left the other plants just in case someone else ever found themselves in the same
situation.
Kensuke felt very lucky to have made it home, and he lived in peace and happiness and cared
for the orange plant for as long as he lived.

Hannah says a big thank you to Ms Case for providing the inspiration for this story and to
Michael Morpurgo for supplying the name of our shipwrecked hero!
Kensukes Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo is a great book which you might be interested in
reading. You can find it in the library.

Orange Juice
by Angus Duncan

We all like orange juice but do we know what is in it?

Orange juice, as you know, is made out of a citrus
fruit called orange. Oranges are squeezed and
turned in to juice. Lastly they pack up the juice into
containers and they go to shops around the world.
Try not to drink frozen, canned or concentrate
because some add additional chemicals, sugar and
get rid of some of the goodness. Tropicana is a big
culprit of doing this.

Fact
Orange juice has been around for 4500 years

What does orange juice

do for your body?
Orange juice has lots of benefits.These include;
- Boosting the immune system
- Reducing signs of ageing
- Protecting from cancer
- Improving blood pressure
This is a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller of King William III, who was
also known as : William of Orange! You might be interested to know
why that was the case. William of Orange lived from 1650 to 1702.
He inherited the title of William of Orange from his father, William II, who
dies a week before he was born. The House of Orange was created
when Henry III of Nassau-Breda from Germany and Claudia of ChlonOrange from French Burgundy were married in 1515.
William of Orange was a Stadtholder which means he ruled over the
republics of : Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Gelderland, and Overijssel in
the Dutch Republic from 1672. He also became King
of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death at the age of

51.

Orange Sunrise
A fanta-stic watercolour painting by Jacob Browning

Another original cartoon by the talented

Isabelle Preston

One day you might see people dressed all in orange robes like
these. These people are followers of Hare Krishna. Krishna is
their Supreme and he represents happiness and harmony.
People who follow Krishna believe Krishna has a divine (godgiven) energy which they want to share. Just as the sun shines
on us through its energies like heat and light, the Supreme
reveals Himself through His many energies. If the Supreme is
the source of everything, then whatever you can see--and even
what you cant see-- belongs to the energy of the Supreme.
When followers of Hare Krishnna place themselves in harmony
with Krishna and Krishna's energy, they believe they return to
theirr natural, pure
10 state of consciousness. This is what they
call "Krishna consciousness." The followers of Krishna have a
mantra which they chant. You can see their happiness in this
image.

Archies Great Experiment

by Archie West
Archie had fun this week with a little experiment to find the sweet which tasted most like an orange.
After school Mum took us to Olveston stores where I had to find all the sweets with an orange flavour. After
spending 6.67 on sweets (yes, mum paid!) we emptied all the packets to sort the orange sweets from the rest.
Toby then piled them up and we were ready to start our challenge! I decided to get a fair test we should
blindfold each other & mark them out of 10 on how orange they tasted. My little brother LOVES oranges and
I HATE them so this was interesting. I was surprised that I only scored 5 for wine gums & I was very surprised jelly
tots were only 1.
You decide whats your favourite

First Archie (or Archies mum) bought lots of

packets of sweets poor Archie (or poor Archies
mum!!)

Then, he emptied them into little pots.

Next he had to take out just the orange sweets

and he had to eat all of the others, so they werent
all wasted poor Archie!

So, which orange sweet

does taste most like the
fruit?
See the next page

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After all this hard work, Archie had to put on a blindfold,

so that he wouldnt be able to tell which sweets he was eating.

Sweet
Fruity polo
Jelly tot
Wine gum
Skittles
Fruit pastilles
Fruitella
Smarties
Soft fruits
Tic tacs
refresher

Toby taste out of 10

Only 1 in the packet & Arch had
it!
2
9
10
10
9
0yukkkk!
Be Be ate the last 1!!
10
10

Archie taste out of 10

9
1
5
8
6
10
1
10
7
10

Competition: draw a picture in which this orange

features in any way you like. Be as imaginative as you
can for a great prize

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