Wyvern TV #8

Christmas

Now as you will all know we have just exactly seven days until we break up for the holidays. But until then we have a few things left here at DSMS to look foreward to. One of them is Christmas dinner next Tuesday lunchtime. We have a menu for it which will make everyones mouth water however we will be releasing it onto the blg later on with reviews form both students and teachers on there. Also we will be releasing the next episiode of the Wyvern which will be full of 2012 cheer and liam's bad christmas jokes.  Now we hope that you have enjoyed the last year with the Wyvern and we hope that you will continue following us over the christmas as we have some great things to come. If not we hope to blog to you when we come back in January.

We Wish you a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year! 

DSMS Prize Giving Evening

I recently attended the DSMS awards giving evening, a night when a number of awards were given out to past and present students. Martin Grey was the award-giver and also the guest speaker. Students of all year groups won awards and GCSE students who were also present, received their certificates. The event was well attended with many parents and governors as well as the staff and pupils and the Mayor and his wife. Refreshments were also served by the kitchen staff. Overall, it was an entertaining and enjoyable evening.

By Poppy Hutchinson

Matthew Currey's Review and View on 'Full of Life'

The Darlington “Full of Life Day” in my opinion was a great idea. For people who don’t know what this is it an annual event aimed at elderly people on the fourth of October. Although not all of the things there were a great success it still helped a lot of people fill in their day. There were things like and NHS stalls to check people’s blood pressure and things like that.

 When we first got to the hall our first task was to set up tables and chairs. When I asked Sam Wears what he thought of this he replied “No well, well, well it’s not bad”. After that we were set about the task of setting up a projector, which is considerably hard to do when you don’t have all of the cables. In the end we decided to ask a man with a computer to set up the projector as at the time me, Sam and Bradley didn’t know we were short of some leads. The problem was nobody dared ask him. After around ten minutes of rock, paper, scissors and bagsy not me it was decided that Sam should ask. After half an hour of setting up a projector we were informed that it was technically impossible to do.

After that me and Sam sat down together so I could repeatedly beat him at dominoes. Sometime into the fourth game the mayor arrived (or just somebody with a massive gold necklace). When I went to speak to him I was side-tracked by a member of the council. In the end I ended up talking to an elderly lady called Jean. She was very appreciative of the service provided; the people from the NHS informed her that she had high blood pressure and helped her with the treatment.

I then spoke to a man called Harry Longmoor, an old Branksome caretaker. He was a member of GOLD, (Growing Old Living in Darlington) although he was mainly there to meet a friend. After talking to him for some time I realised none of what I was writing down was of any great importance, so I decided to go back and talk to Sam and Bradley. After a quick chat we realised that all we had done was set up tables and play dominoes, so out of boredom we decided to try something new.

So Sam and I tried just Dance 2. We got really good at it, but sometime around the third game we realised that half the room was looking at me and Sam dancing to M.C Hammer’s’ Can’t Touch This’. In humiliation we sat down and made a really big domino run.

After that it was time to go back to school. The Darlington “Full of Life Day” was ok, but I don’t think it lived up to the expectation of the council or any of the people setting up. Many of the stalls were unused and not many people that I spoke to visited the market. I also don’t see the point of the school going, but I still had a good time.

New School Reward System

The previous award system at DSMS meant that if pupils behaved, did well in lessons or deserved a praise they would get achivement points which would build up until they wanted to spend them on a DSMS Mug, a pen, pencil or even iTunes vouchers if they got enough points. However this system has been scrapped.

The new system is called Vivo and they currently have 1,172,578 users around the globe. Pupils build up their points the same way and they get logged on a computer however the main difference is that it is an online system so pupils can see how many points they have from home. When the points have built up, pupils then use them to buy prizes of the Vivo website. They have loads of options of things to do with their points including getting phone top-ups, donating money to charity, buying footballs and even buying camping mats. All of the options will be available for pupils to see when they log in.

Planet Leisure Review

A few months ago I decided to go to planet leisure with a couple of my friends. We all had a great time, and got to experience multiple facilities’ it had to offer. It is a great place with a fun and exciting atmosphere. The furniture was all really comfortable with a great colour scheme to match. The only down side was it still felt strangely like the owners other business rough and tumble, so after a while you started to feel a bit childish and out of place. But apart from that the place itself was really nice.

One of the things that I really enjoyed trying out was the bowling. It was great fun with an easy to learn start up system, so you weren’t standing around idle for 10 minutes waiting for someone to set up the scoring and barrier system.  When you started bowling it was really great fun. The pins set up really quickly so you weren’t standing around waiting for your next shot, whilst the pins got cleared out of the way. Whilst other people are taking their shots there are sofas around the alley, so there is a place to sit (instead of stood up or on wooden seats). Overall I thought that the bowling was great and I would certainly do it again.

The best part of going there was the food. It was really tasty. It was as good as the food that I had when I was little in rough and tumble. It was really nice but it still felt strangely like rough and tumble so again it felt weird. It still tasted really nice though.

The final thing that I did there on my visit was the ice skating. That was brilliant fun and great to learn. The ice there was a sort of plastic which had a slippery liquid sprayed on it which was weird. I had gone ice skating before but that was on real ice so it kept you cool. But here though with special ice you got tired quicker. The spray that was on the ice was annoying. When you fell over it got stuck to your clothes, so I wouldn’t wear anything good to go in. All in all, I thought the ice skating was absolutely amazing.

There were a couple of other things that planet leisure had, that I didn’t get to try out. A high wire sort of thing had been built above the ice rink. A sort of obstacle course suspended in the air which you had to work your way around whilst being help by a rope. It looked quite good although in my opinion it was definitely overpriced. Also there was an arcade there. It looked ok but it wasn’t amazing, it definitely didn’t live up to the standards of the rest of the place.

Also there is a laser tag opening up. I’m not sure if it is open now but it will defiantly be something to look into if you are thinking of going. It should probably tell you on the website so check it out on the internet if you have some spare time.

Simple Chicken Caesar Salad

As we are getting nearer the holidays I thought you would like a simple dish for one of those summer days!

 

Ingredients

For the salad

• 4 slices of speck (or prosciutto)
• 2 cornfed chicken breasts, bone and skin removed
• 1 tsp butter
• 2 thick slices white bread, cubed
• 2 cos lettuces

For the dressing

• 2 garlic cloves
• 75ml/3fl oz white wine
• 2 eggs, yolks only
• 1 anchovy fillet
• 75g/3oz parmesan cheese, grated
• 150ml/5fl oz extra virgin olive oil
• 2 tsp Dijon mustard
• salt and pepper

Preparation method

1. Preheat the grill to high.
2. Place the speck or proscuitto onto a baking sheet and place under the grill for 3-4 minutes, or until crisp. Remove speck and place on a plate lined with kitchen paper to drain.
3. Cut both chicken breasts through the middle, without cutting through, to form one large flat piece. Season, to taste, with salt and black pepper and brush with olive oil.
4. Heat a griddle pan until hot then place the chicken breasts on it and cook for 2-3 minutes on each side, or until just cooked through.
5. Heat a frying pan until hot and add the butter and then the cubed bread. Fry until golden brown, then remove.
6. Separate the leaves from the lettuce and cut into chunky pieces.
7. For the dressing, in a medium saucepan, bring the garlic and wine to a boil and simmer for about 5 minutes, until the cloves have softened. Leave to cool.
8. Combine the wine and garlic with the egg yolks, anchovy and cheese in a mixing bowl. Blend with a hand blender or food processor until smooth. Drizzle in the oil in a thin steady stream, taking care not to add it too quickly, otherwise it could split and curdle. Stir in the mustard and add seasoning to taste.
9. Add the crisp-fried speck, croutons and lettuce to the dressing and toss to combine. To serve, place salad on plate, top with chicken and pour the dressing over.

School Awards 2012

Earlier on this month we went to theNorth east school awards. We were nominated for the school newspaper award and Mr Kipling for the head teacher of the year. They were presented by Metro radio presenters Steve and Karen. Our newspaper was shortlisted in a list of two schools. The other papers name was Hetton headlines. It was a great day out and both us and Mr Kipling came runners up in our categories.

DSMS Zulu

On Wednesday 11th July 2012, 5 people from South Africa were running singing and dancing workshops for pupils at DSMS.

Wyvern Feedback

Since the Wyvern won a Shine Award on the 25th June 2012 and we received Quark XPress 9 for 1 year, we've decided to re-vamp the newspaper so we would like some feedback so we can make the Wyvern even better. So please could you fill in the form below...

'Changes Meeting'

On the way home from the Shine Awards on Monday 25th June, the Wyvern team came up with some new ideas for the paper which will start a new era for media at DSMS and in the Cockerton Area. So 2 weeks later, some of the Wyvern Team and a new teacher talking over the job of overlooking the Wyvern had a meeting where the Editor, Liam Pape, showed them a presentation with their ideas summarised. (Above) The meeting started off with a video about the Wyvern (Newspaper, TV Show and Website) and what they have achived so far in the last 2 years of the paper. (Below) Then we started the presentation. The main changes that will hopefully be happening to the newspaper are that it will be made 16 pages, include advertisements and once again be mailed to the community. The TV Studio is going fine at the moment however getting it out to the community is the main problem so we are going to try and get it embedded onto the homepage of the School website. Finally, the Wyvern Website, we hope to buy our own domain for personalised e-mail addresses and a personal web address so the website is easier to find.

Shine Awards

For the last few months the Wyvern team has been looking forward to visiting London for the final of the Shine Media Awards.

So on the 24^th June 2012 editor of the Wyvern Liam Pape, sports correspondent Sam Hutchinson, Secretary Katie Appleyard, Head Journalist Rebecca Parkinson, Librarian Mrs Surtees and Head teacher Mr Kipling got on a train to Kings Cross Station in hope that the next day they would be making an acceptance speech.

Before that though, they decided to have a look around London. Their hotel was less than 500 meters away from the London Eye and their closest tube station was next to Westminster. The evening before their big day they had tea at the Hard Rock Café where many of them almost exploded.

Rebecca Parkinson quotes “The atmosphere in the Hard Rock café was immense and the music was so loud it was like being on the front row of a concert.”
Liam and Sam had the legendary 10oz burger and they said it definitely lived up to its name.

The next morning everyone was up early to get breakfast, later they caught multiple tubes and finally arrived at Stationers Hall near St. Pauls Cathedral. They went in and received loads of freebies from different sponsors, the freebies varied from HP Beach Towels to BBC Top Gear magasines.

On that morning the Wyvern team attended publishing related presentations.

At around 12:15 all the schools helped themselves to a buffet lunch and then it was finally rime for the award ceremony.

Nervously, the Wyvern team sat at the back waiting for their categories. The first category they were mentioned in was ‘The Best Overall Content’ and amazingly they were in the top 4!

Next time they were mentioned it was for ‘The Most Outstanding Pupil’ where Liam Pape had been nominated and surprisingly he won! He received a plaque and newspaper publishing software for the school.

Mr Kipling quoted “I’m really proud of Liam for winning the shine award”

 LINK TO PHOTOS!

Evening Gazette

http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/2012/05/14/darlington-students-nominated-for-award-84229-30965185/

Full Peter Barron Interview

On Tuesday 22nd May Liam Pape (Presenter for the Wyvern TV) interviewed editor of the Northern Echo, Peter Barron. The full interview is on the 3rd Episode of the Wyvern TV but here it is…

So what first got you into journalism?

When I was at school, about 11, we were doing a school newspaper project and I wrote a story about a horserace. The teacher who was running the class just said to me ‘you should do this for a living’ and that was it really. It just stuck on my mind. I could go on and be a journalist. So that was it really, I wanted to work for a newspaper.

What’s the best thing you’ve ever reported on?

You look back and you remember all of the big stores, September the 11th I’ll never forget, Princess Diana, I’ll never forget. I like stories that change things and that make a difference. The one in my career was a campaign that we launched after one of our photographers called Ian Wear died at 38.  He died because he needed a heart bypass operation and he needed to wait 8 months. He died whilst he was waiting. This lead me to launch a campaign looking into how long people were waiting for heart bypass operations in this country. I found that the average waiting time was 12 months in this country however in other parts of Europe it was 3 months. So I realised that that was something that needed to change. We launched the campaign in Ian’s memory and it lead to the government launching an initiative which lead to heart bypass waiting times to being cut and the government acknowledged that it was the Northern Echo’s campaign that caused that.

So I look back at that and it makes me think if nothing else happened that made my career worth while.

The Northern Echo has recently got an iPhone app. What do you think the chances are of the Northern Echo or other newspapers moving completely to apps and the internet?

I think it is the way that we are moving however I think it will be a long time until they completely replace newspapers. I think we all know that newspapers are in decline and we do need to look to the digital future. But I think it will be very slow.

In terms of the iPad app. We lanched it around 2 months ago and the numbers are very small but it is a start and you need to be in there and make a start. The numbers online are growing all the time. The Northern Echo gets 2 and a half million viewers online and 10% of our revenue comes from online. It is becoming serious.

I do think though that newspapers do have a decade or 2 to go before they do stop. When people talk about the death of newspapers they don’t realise that the Northern Echo is making more money now than it was 5 yeas ago.

The Northern Echo is moving out of it’s current building to make way for a Debenhams in Darlington. Will that affect the Newspaper in anyway?

I don’t think that it will affect the newspaper at all. You can produce a newspaper from your bedroom these days. You don’t need a big office. The echo has been based there for 130 years and over that time the number of people based there have diminished. We don’t print there anymore, we haven't printed there since 1990 so we don’t really need the space anymore. It’s not going to make any difference to the paper. The question is (because of the economic situation in our country) when will we be moving and when will Debenhams be moving in? It is all up in the air. All we know is that they have put a down payment on the building. They want it sometime in the future but it could be ages away.

You’ve been editor of the Northern Echo for around 13 years now. So what is the best bit of the job?

The best bit of the job is doing stuff like this, coming out into the community and meeting people. I think the great thing about my job is that when I go to work in the morning I don’t know what is going to happen. News is unpredictable. You can come to work thinking you are going to do one thing and then something changes that. The unpredictability and the verity is great. I love the fact that I’m in a very privileged position. I’ve been to 10 Downing Street, Buckingham Palace, I’ve met famous sport’s people. It is a very privileged job.

Before you did the Titanic production earlier this year you quoted “I can’t sing, I can’t dance and I can’t act” so how did that go for you in the end?

I loved it! I have never done a theatre production before and I’m a great believer that you need to experience things to understand the. I was asked to perform in Titanic by the Darlington Operatic Society and I need to say that it was one of the best experienced in my life. There is a real camaraderie that comes out of performing with a group, I made new friends and loved the experience. It also showed me how important the arts are. I underestimated Darlington Operatic Society and they bring people together, improve people’s confidence and they generate a lot of money (£30,000) into the Civic Theatre. If it wasn’t for that group of people, where would the civic theatre be? It is a lot of money to loose. I think it is very important for the community to appreciate the importance for organisations like that.

You went on horse back to work one day for the production. What was that like?

Scary. It had been a long time since I’ve been on a horse. I rode to work in my costume of William Stead because it was around 100 years ago when William Stead rode his horse to work and he ties it up outside crown street library. So we re-enacted his journey to work to promote the show really and also to commemorate his death because it had been 100 years since he died on Titanic. We did that and I was amazed how many people turned out to watch me ride this horse. It was a bit scary because I don’t think the bus drivers were particularly nice. They hooted their horse a little which made the horse a bit skittish. But I did it and I got through it and it generated a lot of publicity for the show.

DSMS Cycling Tournament

On Thursday 23rd May 2012 it was the DSMS Cycling Tournament on the back field of the school. There were year 7 and 8 pupils from DSMS, Longfield, Haughton and St. Aidens taking part in the event. The Wyvern team were there to report and the event and it will be going into the 3rd Episode of the Wyvern TV. Above is a video from the head cam of one of the bikes showing you around the track. (It is filmed by Liam Pape who was a Marshall at the event).

Shine Awards

Well A few weeks ago I wrote about the Wyvern being shortlisted for the Shine Awards. I am now extremly happy to announce in all three categories we were shortlisted in we have won a prize in each. However we don't what award it is. It either could be Highly Commended or we have Won it. So on the 25th June 2012 we will be traveling to Sationers Hall London to collect our prize.
The other Finalists are here below-

Finalists were chosen for the second Shine School Media Awards, a national competition for secondary school pupils, by a panel of 16 judges chaired by Simon Heffer of the Daily Mail.  A national competition for secondary schools, The awards recognise key aspects of the secondary school curriculum as well as promoting the development of publishing skills and generating interest in publishing as a career.

 The judges praised the commitment of young people engaging in projects of this kind and were particularly impressed with the team work which projects had engendered.

Blackpool Sixth Form College

Brookfield Community School and Languages College

Budmouth College

Caistor Grammar School

Caistor Yarborough Academy

City of London School

Darlington School of Mathematics and Science

Dean Close School

Exmouth Community College

Farringdon Community Sports College

John Summers High School

Kingsbridge Community College

Langley Park School for Boys

Norbury Manor Business & Enterprise College

Ovingham Middle School

Sherborne School

St Paul’s Girls’ School

The City Academy

The Latymer School

The Right Choice Project

Tonbridge Grammar School

Withington Girls’ School

Wymondham College

Shine Awards

Earlier in the year I told you about the Wyvern being entered into a Competition Called the shine Awards. Well I am please to say that we have been shortlisted in three categories. In each categories seven entries got shortlisted so it is an honour to get this far. We will find out later on in the year if we have won any of them. The Categories we have been shortlisted in are- Overall Content, Comercial stratergy and Outstanding Pupil. We are now really hoping that we win however for now fingers crossed for the Wyvern!

Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows is a new film which has recently came out into the cinema. It stars the likes of Johnny Depp and other big names. Johnny Depp plays the gripping character of Barnabus Collins who moves to America from Liverpool in 1752.   They set up a fishing town called Collins Port and begin work on a house named Collins wood. As he gets older he has an affair with a maid named Angelique Bouchard who is also a witch. When Barnabus ends the affair she turns her love into hate for him and as he falls in Love with another she kills his parents and puts a curse on Barnabus. The curse is to live the rest of his life as a Vampire. She and the town then lock him in a coffin where he lives 220 years before he is re-diged up. Once he is he faces a battle to save the family business and reverse the curse, while trying to sway the lovely Victoria Winters to as in his day court him. Overall the film is full of action and comedy.

So I give Dark Shadows a fantastic Four Star rating!

By Katie Jayne Appleyard

DSMS Flying

For 3 weeks from Thursday 26 April to Thursday 10 March, 9 Year 9 pupils had 3 sessions at the Queen Elisabeth 6th Form building a hover craft.
After 1 week of planning and working out the maths of the hover craft and another week of building, they finally got the opportunity to sit on a hover craft. Engineers from local companies such as Mechtool and Cummings were working with Science and Maths teachers from the QE to assist the schools building the hover crafts.
Their brief was to make a hovercraft using provided materials which could hold 100kg. DSMS was split into 2 teams and were up against Woodham school. The DSMS Boys team finished first and made a working hovercraft however snapped in 2 after it was sat on. It completed the objectives though and they worked out it help 103kg.
The DSMS Girls team however took a while longer however their hover craft eventually help approximately 136kg making them the joint winners with Woodham.

Gooey chocolate mousse cake

Here is a simple recipe for a chocolate Mousse cake which is divine. Hope You like it!
Ingredients
·         6 free-range eggs, separated
·         150g/5oz caster sugar
·         50ml/2fl oz orange liqueur
·         400g/14oz chocolate, melted
·         300ml/10fl oz whipping cream
To serve
·         strawberries, raspberries and cream
Preparation method
1.      Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Grease and line a 20cm/8in springform cake tin. Wrap the outside of the cake tin in two layers of aluminium foil so that it will be waterproof when placed in the bain-marie in the oven.
2.     In a bowl beat together the egg yolks with two thirds of the sugar until creamy.
3.     Add the orange liqueur and beat for a further three minutes.
4.     Stir in the melted chocolate and half of the cream.
Technique: Melting chocolate
5.     In a separate bowl, whip the cream, then fold this into the mix.
6.     In a clean bowl, whisk the egg whites until stiff peaks form when the whisk is removed. Beat in the rest of the sugar, then fold this into the chocolate mix.
7.     Spoon the mixture into the lined, foil-wrapped cake tin and place into a deep baking tray. Set the baking tray onto the oven shelf. Half fill the tray with boiling water from the kettle to make a bain-marie.
8.     Place in the oven for 45 minutes at 180C/350F/Gas 4 and then reduce the temperature to 150C/300F/Gas 2 for 45 minutes more.
9.     Turn the oven off but leave the cake in for another 20 minutes.
10.   Remove from the oven and allow to cool completely. Remove the cake from the tin and peel off the paper. Serve with fruit and cream.

Army Trip

Visit to the Army on Wednesday 7^th March

By Robyn Smith (our Business Admin Student)

Along with Mrs Gray, Mr Burford, Miss Wright and about 30 pupils, I head off to Catterick Garrison to spend the day at the army camp. We set off at 9.00am and arrived around 9:40am, once we got there we were told what we would be doing throughout the day and were put into two teams, I decided I was going to take part!

The first activity was a 2 and a half mile run in the rain, down roads and through fields which had obstacles along the way, we had to do things such as sit ups, press ups, pull ups, climb up ropes and climb over objects. Along the way Mrs Gray, Mr Burford and Miss Wright drove behind us in a car watching us suffer and beeping if anyone started to walk!  We were then picked up and taken back by minibus and had some dinner.  After dinner the pupils took part in command tasks where they had to work together as a team and think carefully about what they had to do.  We had another short break after the command task activity then we had to put on our army green overalls and set off for another 1 and a half mile run where we had to stay in the correct order or we got shouted at.

 After the run we arrived at the assault course. Watching the demonstration made me change my mind, I didn’t want to do it anymore! However, Stacey who is a Royal Military Police Officer in the army who was working with us throughout the day made me take part! We ended up crawling through the mud, climbing over walls, running through water, rope swinging over water, walking over wooden planks which were really high, climbing down ropes and jumping onto objects over water and getting onto the other side. After we were all drenched in muddy water we walked all the way back to the room where our things were, it seemed to take forever to get there! We then cleaned ourselves up and changed into our spare clothes. We got back onto the coach at 2.30pm and head back to school. The next day I was aching everywhere! But I would definitely go back and do it all again!

The School Food Trust

The School Food Trust came into school some time ago to do a national survey of school meals. The survey looked at pupil choice, recipes school kitchens use, produce used and the uptake of school meals. The results of the survey can be found on the school food website, the results are for surveys done across the country. After the visit the school food trusted requested a recipe that they sampled here, the recipe was Winter Vegetable Soup. We sent off the recipe and it has been printed in the School Food Trust ‘Recipe’s for Success Series’. The recipe can be viewed following the link

www.schoolfoodtrust.org.uk/resources/recipesforsuccess

The Recipes for Success series provides tried and tested recipes to help schools offer a popular menu and overcome common challenges with meeting the school food standards.

By Julie Hill Canteen Manager

Wyvern TV Episode 2

An Interview With Miss Ford about our New GCSE Textiles

Earlier on today while gathering things for our latest editions fashion page we interviewed Miss Ford on her new subject GCSE Textiles and also any new things in the technology department.

These questions and the answers given by Miss Ford:
What Is Your Favourite Part Of teaching textiles-
Textiles is my specialist subject so it's really good teaching pupils that are enthusiastic about the subject. The pupils are fun and there is never a dull moment in the lesson.

Is it a hard course to teach-
The coursework can be difficult and hard to explain at times but most pupils grasp it well.

Is GCSE textiles the only new thing in technology-
We now have a new laser cutter in resistant materials which we will be showing in the a later issue.

If you could make up a textiles sylubus/choice of make what would the design brief be-
In my last school we designed and made outfits /dresses for prob. This was realy goodand the clothing that we made we included into a school fashion show. I'm hoping to do a fashion show next year with this years and next years products.

Is this your favourite technology subject to teach-
Yes this is my favourite subject to teach but I do enjoy teaching graphics too.

On behalf of the paper we would like to thank Miss Ford for doing an interview and it will be featured in the next fashion page which will be coming out soon. We also will be doing another interview including some pictures of the laser cutter in a future edition.

By Katie Jayne Appleyard

Wyvern News Programme

Here at DSMS we have loads of new things going on around school. One of them is a media suit where we will be able to kmake our own television programme. It isn't finnished been constructed yet and work is still in progress putting in the technology and green screen and kitting it all out with work benches and electrics. However hopefully in the next few weeks it will be up and running and we will be creating our own programme. We will keep you updated on this and once the programme is compleate we hope to upload it.

By Katie Jayne Appleyard

Shine Awards 2012

Here at The Wyvern we have been entered for loads of different things over the last few years and 2012 is no different. Mr Kipling has entered us into a competition were you have to create a special edition and write a piece about why you deserve to win. You then send it off London with some paperwork and let it be judged. Once it has been judged the winner (hopefully us) gets a trip down to London to recieve our awards. We really hope we win however just taking part is a great experiance.

By Katie Jayne Appleyard

Issue 12

Issue 12 of the Wyvern is out now starring Harry M (Young Apprentice) and Jason Bradbury (The Gadget Show)!

Save Darlington Football Club

On Firday 27th January 2011 DSMS and many other schools around the local area will be raising money for Darlington Football Club. DSMS will be hosting an 'own-clothes' day with a donation of £1 with that. All money raised will go to the rescue fund.

OAP Party 2011