Silver on the Tree is the fifth and final book in Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising Sequence. The Dark is approaching its final and strongest rising. As a result, the Six (Simon, Jane, Barney, Merriman, Will and Bran) must retrieve Pendragon’s sword, Eriras, from the Lost Land. However, the Dark knows there is only … Read more
Alexa marches through the town, the tapping of her shoes echoing off of each and every building. Suddenly, she turns and swings open the doors to Noollab’s. ‘Can I help you Miss?’ asks a startled waiter. With pink, glistening eyes, Alexa glares at the waiter and demands the special. As the waiter turns towards the … Read more
On Wednesday, I purchased a newly-released game, Jurassic World Evolution 3 (JWE3). Today, I will be giving a review based on my first impressions of this dinosaur-park-building game and compare it to the previous release, Jurassic World Evolution 2 (JWE2). Upon loading into the game, the home screen immediately stands out. The game modes, settings … Read more
The Grey King is the fourth and penultimate book in Susan Cooper’s award-winning The Dark is Rising Sequence. While recovering from an illness, Will travels to Wales to live on the farm of one of his uncles and aunts. Soon, he meets Bran and the duo set out on a quest to find the Golden … Read more
Morning! Over the past few days, I have been working on relative frequency and theoretical probability. As the main task in this, I carried out a two-day investigation to discover the experimental probability of rolling at least one six with three dice and comparing it to the theoretical probability. What are relative frequency, and experimental … Read more
My scout troop and I went for a tour of Rotherham Town Hall yesterday, which ended in tea and biscuits with the mayor! First, the person giving us the tour (Tony) brought us into a main area where most meetings are held. It looked like a courtroom: long panels with seating reached to the end, … Read more
The Lost World: Jurassic Park is a masterpiece due to realistic dinosaurs and the perfect music for each scene. This film gives dinosaurs realistic appearances and movements. The stegosaurus initially appear to have smooth-edged plates. However, close up scenes show them to have small ridges on their plates. Also, the pachycephalosaurus lowers its head before … Read more
‘It looked, Jane thought, like a single representative of a fearful unknown species, from another planet, or from some unthinkably distant part of our own past.’ Greenwitch is the third book in Susan Cooper’s award-winning The Dark is Rising Sequence. As the Easter holidays begin, the Trewissick Grail is stolen. Coincidentally, Will Stanton, and Simon, … Read more
Today, I’ve been learning about the CPU. What is the CPU? The CPU (also known as the Central Processing Unit) is probably the most important component of a computer: the CPU is the brain. How does it work? The CPU is made up of three parts: the control unit (CU), immediate accesses store (register) and … Read more
The Dark is Rising, written by Susan Cooper, is the second book in The Dark is Rising Sequence. Unlike the first book (Over Sea, Under Stone), this book is split into three parts (The Finding, The Learning and The Testing) and also uses chapter titles instead of numbering them 1-13. On Midwinter’s Eve, Will Stanton … Read more