Welcome to the Learner's section

Kid Grid

Kid Grid is a new place on MGrid written by young people.

To start with we have six categories for you to explore: Arts, Comedy, General, Hobbies, Pop and Sports.

The content currently on this section was submitted by pupils at Green Lane Primary school.

If you would like to add your own content please email support@mgrid.org.uk, but remember to ask your teacher first.

Arts

Jacqueline Wilson by Jade

Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945 but spent most of her time at Kingston-on-Thames.

She is a very good author and has sold millions of books. She has written lots of good books that children enjoy, but the most famous books are “The Story of Tracy Beaker”, “The Bed and Breakfast Star”, “Double Act” and “The Illustrated Mum”.

She has written books for all ages, but mainly writes for children. Jacqueline is writing new books all the time, and people always in excitement to read her next story.

Jeremy Strong by Thomas

Jeremy Strong is a very famous children's author and has written many books such as, “Smith's Tale”, “My Dads got an Alligator”, “My Mums going to Explode”, “My Grannies great Escape” and “My Brothers Famous Bottom”.

Born: Eltham, South East London, November 18th 1949
Jobs: Head Teacher, Teacher, Caretaker, Strawberry Picker, Jam Doughnut Stuffer (yes, really!)
Lives: Kent
First book: Smith's Tail, 1978

He is very good at encouraging kids to read because he visits public libraries and schools talking to children about his writing.

Beware! Killer Tomatoes won the 2008 Cumbria Spellbinding Book Award, the 2008 Leicester Book Award and the 2008 Gateshead Book Award. It has also been shortlisted for the Sheffield Book Award. Yay! (Result in November!)

Stuff won the very first 2006 Manchester Book Award. Children themselves voted the six shortlisted titles on.

My Granny's Great Escapre won the 2004 Prix Chronos Award at the Paris Book Fair. My mum's going to explode won the 2002 Nottingham Experion Big 3 Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2002 NFCBG Children's Book Award.

Mad Iris was shortlisted for the 2003 Portsmouth book Award.

The Hundred Mile an Hour Dog won the 1997 NFCBG Children's Book Award.

Living with Vampires won the 2001 Short Novel Award, Sheffield Children's Book Award.

Pirate Pandemonium won the 1998 short novel award at the Sheffield Children's Book Award, and was also shortlisted for the 1998 Birmingham Book Award.

My Granny's Great Escape was shortlisted for the 1998 NFCBG Book Award.

Dinsaur Pox was highly commended at the 2000 Sheffield Children's Book Award.

Krazy Kow Saves the World - well, almost, was listed in the fifty best children's books for 2003 by the Federation of Children's Book Groups.

I'm Telling You, They're Aliens! Was listed in the fifty best books, 2001, by the Federation of Children's Book Groups.

He is my favourite author because his books are really funny my favourite book is “My mum's going to explode'”

Book Review - The Princess Diaries by Rachel

The Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot is a great selection of books.

In the Princess Diaries Book 1, Mia is just a normal New York City girl and about half way through the story she has the shock of the century finding out she is the Princess of Genovia.

The worst part is she has to take princess lessons with her Grandmere (the dowager princess of Genovia). Her Grandmere thinks Mia can learn a thing or two before stepping up to the throne. As well as having to cope with normal teenage problems, such as will the boy she's always loved ever notice her, she also has to cope with her Grandmere planning to take Mia to Genovia.

So does she make a good princess?
Does the boy of her dreams love her back?

Find out in The Princess Diaries.

Top 5 Jacqueline Wilson Books By Lorna

  1. My Sister Jodie
  2. Story of Tracy Beaker
  3. Double Act
  4. Candyfloss
  5. Cookie

Top Ten Films for Kids Compiled by Heather

  1. Nims Island
  2. The Spiderwick Chronicles
  3. Bee Movie
  4. The Golden Compass
  5. Penelope
  6. Mr Magourium's Wonder Emporium
  7. Water Horse: Legend of the Deep
  8. Ratatouille
  9. Enchanted
  10. Alvin and the Chipmunks

Comedy

Jokes by Heather

Why did the cross-eyed teacher get fired?
Because he couldn't control his pupils.

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Boo.
Boo who.
There's no need to cry it's only a joke.

What did the astronaut have for dinner?
A pack launch.

Why did the sand blush?
Because the sea weed.

What did the water fairy have for a snack?
A sand witch.

General

Christmas by Lorna

Christmas Australian Style !

In Australia Christmas is celebrated on the beach in early summer. They barbecue the turkey and have ice-cream with the Christmas pudding. However heat is not going to stop the decoration which is an important part of Christmas and it is possible to see windows sprayed to look snowy in the heat wave. Most carol services are performed by candle light out of doors.

An African Christmas!

On the west coast of Africa, in Liberia, most homes have an oil palm for a Christmas tree, which is decorated with bells. On Christmas morning, people are woken up by carols. Presents such as cotton cloth, soap, sweets, pencils, and books are given. Dinner is eaten outdoors with everyone sitting in a circle to share the meal of rice, beef and biscuits.

My typical Christmas!

This year on Christmas morning my brother will probably wake me and my dad up at 4:30. Then he will run and grab his stocking and leave mine down stairs. Then at 12:30 I will go to my mums then before presents I will have to climb up to the top of Rose berry topping. At the top I will probably have ham sandwiches and hot chocolate. Then me, mum and sandy will go home to have PRESENTS!

Titanic Written by Poppy

The Titanic was made by Harland and Wolf. The company was the White Star Line. If you look to your left you will see the Titanic setting of on her maiden voyage.

She weighed 45,000 tonnes and had 3 million rivets in the making of her. The Titanic had three working funnels and the fourth was to make the ship more stylish. One of the White Star Line secondary leaders said that the Titanic should have 48 life boats, but Bruce Ismay the White Star Line Leader said that people didn't pay money to see the ship look cluttered with life boats so he reduced the amount to 16 life boats.

In 1910 they started making her. In 1912 the Titanic set sail with about 3,500 people on board, even though she could hold up to 5,000. The Olympic Crew wanted to come onto the Titanic and work but because the Olympic Captain chose not to sail that day, it meant that the crew was demoted and one member sent off the ship. As it happened, that member had the key to the cupboard that held the binoculars for the crows nest.

When the lookout, Fredric Fleet, needed some binoculars he could not get into the cupboard, and as the Titanic was heading for the iceberg, the lookouts could barely keep their eyes open because of the coldness of the Atlantic air.

If Fredric Fleet had decided to hit the iceberg straight on, the Titanic would not have sunk, just the hull would have been crushed, but because the Captain decided to try and avoid it, the iceberg gashed through 5 of the 16 watertight compartments. The damage caused the ship to sink in two hours.

Hobbies

Cub Scouts - By Jade

What are Cub Scouts?
Cub Scouts are a group of children that get together once a week to play games and learn many things. Sometimes Cubs go camping - this is a real good way of making new friends because the Cub Scouts are separated into groups but all join together at camp.

Who founded Cub Scouts?
Lord Baden Powell founded Cub Scouts on 1st August 1907. He decided to test out his ideas for Scouts at a very first Scouts camping trip. He took a group of boys to Brownsea Island and it was very good. He was born in Paddington, London, England but unfortunatly he died in 1941.

What are Cubs for?
Cubs are to teach children to prepare for everything. Cubs have badges that they get after they had worked on a particular thing like helping at home.

Where are Cub Scouts?
Cub Scouts can be mostly found at different churches or anywhere with a big hall that is suitable for playing and doing lots of activities.

What do they do at camp?
At camp Cubs do lots of different activities at different times including: mountain biking; archery; art and crafts; wall climbing; and lots more.

History of Mario - By Jake

Mario first appeared in “Donkey Kong”, a game where Jump-Man (A.K.A Mario) had to rescue his ex-girlfriend, Pauline from Donkey Kong's great Grandpa. The game started with Mario jumping across construction cranes while Donkey Kong threw barrels at him. It offered great skill.

Mario next appeared in “Mario Bros.” A game where Luigi, Mario's brother, first appeared. Luigi looked like a grumpy old man and was short and plump. In the game you had to kick evil turtles and crabs in order to score points.

Mario then appeared in perhaps the greatest game of all time, Super Mario Bros. It threw in enemies such as: Buzzy Beetles, Goombas, Koopa Troopa's, and the games first proper villain, Bowser!

People loved the Mario games and they kept coming, from “Mario land” to “Mario Galaxy”, the history of Mario keeps on going- and always will.

Music Lessons by Olivia

Green Lane Primary School has many different music lessons, such as violin and brass lessons!

The teachers are great and they make you very confident, it is good that they love to play as well!

They even say if you play the violin it makes you good at maths! Why don't you try to play an instrument – Come on, it's fun!

Patrick Star, Written by Josh

Patrick Star is Spongebob Squarepants` best friend in the Nickelodeon TV show “Spongebob Squarepants”. Patrick is about the same age as Spongebob and lives under a rock. He is pink, plump, and friendly.

Although he is very stupid Spongebob is regularly fascinated by his silly ideas. In the TV show, Spongebob isn't Patrick's only friend - he has four other friends. They are Sandy the squirrel, Gary the snail, Mr Krabs (as you've probably guessed he is a crab) and finally Squidward Tentacles who is a squid.

Gary the snail is also Spongebob's pet snail. Patrick and Spongebob are also big fans of the underwater sea show “Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy”.

Shoes by Lorna

There are lots of shoes in and around the world. There's high heels, sandals, slippers, low heels, flats, flip-flops, trainers, lace ups, velcro, slip on, funky and fashionable. These are just some of the amazing shoes that are available in the big wide world.

Remember you can never have too many shoes.

There are shoes for every occasion.

TOP TIP: when you're out shopping for shoes with your parents remember to say, “Now I've got shoes for this outfit I neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed some for my other outfits!”

Pop

Girls Aloud - By Rachel

After five years, a greatest hits CD and three albums, Sarah, Nadine, Kimberly, Nicola and Cheryl are not stopping there, their latest album Out Of Control is #1 in the UK! It sold over 85,000 copies, 27,000 more than their rival “Pink”!

Also they have released an autobiography “Dreams that Glitter”. Kimberly Walsh and Cheryl Cole are set to climb a mountain for Comic Relief. The girls are going to climb the highest peak in Africa. Cheryl Cole is already on X factor and has been voted our favourite judge! It's really good that she has started working on the X factor as Girls Aloud started as a group on “Pop Star the Rivals”!

My favourite song is the new one “I Promise”, however “The Sound of the Underground” is still a favourite to get ready to!!!

You can buy their new single “I Promise” in stores now!

Hilary Duff biography by Jade

Hilary Erhard Duff was born on September 28th, 1987 in Houston, Texas. Her parents are Bob and Susan Duff and her sister is called Haylie Duff.

Hilary was travelling with her sister at the age of six when she decided she wanted to be an actress, (that was her dream). Hilary had a part in a show called “True Women” where she played the Soul Collector.

She next played young Wendy in the famous show “Casper meets Wendy”. The #1 series on the Disney channel is “Lizzie McGuire”; she also starred in the film of the same name. Hilary Duff is a very famous actress and a wonderful singer; her future is bright and will last forever!!

Sport

Football - Written by Joe

Football is a great sport it requires full participation and full concentration to be a great footballer.

I play football for my school team, which is Green Lane Primary, and a Sunday league team Kader FC. We are at the top the league, and I am the top scorer. I love football it's a great sport, really fun and exciting, and good exercise as well.

If you like the idea of joining a football team, Kader training is on a Saturday – we hope to see you there soon!

Tag Rugby by Joe

Tag Rugby is a great sport that requires speed, skill and brains. I play tag rugby for my school team (Green Lane Primary). We are going to the Middlesbrough finals to represent Acklam in a cup.

The rules of tag rugby are simple:- you are only allowed to pass the ball backwards, not forwards. You have to stick your belt at the side, not at the front or back, and when you get tagged, you are only allowed 3 seconds to pass the ball to someone on your team.

Tang Soo Do by Lorna

It is a Korean Martial Art. Tang Soo Do literally means "The Way of The Chinese Hand"

Master Alliton is the Grand Master, and he lives in Cyprus. The martial art teaches you to defend yourself in an appropriate way. There are 12 belts to collect, including the Master's belt. To get to the next level of belt, you have to do a grading, which is like an exam.

The higher the belt the trickier it gets. You learn forms, basic movements, kicks and what your belt actually means.

TOP 10 F1 DRIVERS by Alexander

POS DRIVER NATIONALITY TEAM POINTS
1 Lewis Hamilton British Maclaren Merc 98
2 Felipe Massa Brazilian Ferrari 97
3 Kimi Raikonnen Polish Ferrari 75
4 Robert Kubica Finnish BMW Sauber 75
5 Fernando Alonson German Renault 61
6 Nick Heidfeld Finnish BMW Sauber 60
7 Heikki Kovalainen Spanish Maclaren Merc 53
8 Sebastien Vettel German STR-Ferrari 35
9 Jarno Trulli Italian Toyota 31
10 Timo Glock German Toyata 25