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COMPETITIONS You must be an AQUILA subscriber to enter our competitions. Class entries accepted if the school subscribes. 10 e Win a copy of Do Nice, Be Kind, Spread Happy Divine is the only Fairtrade chocolate company that is also owned by cocoa farmers, dedicated to making every chocolate occasion a moment to cherish. Each bar is made using the ‘best of the best’ cocoa from Ghana, where it is grown with pride by Kuapa Kokoo, a co-operative of 85,000 smallholder farmers who own 44 per cent of the Divine company. by Bernadette Russell Following on from the article on Respect, on pages 16-17, Do Nice Be Kind Spread Happy: Acts of Kindness for Kids is all about spreading joy and kindness throughout the land – spiced up with a little dash of magic and mischief! Have you got what it takes to pull ww w.iv ypress .co.uk off a reverse robbery by sliding a treat into someone’s bag? Do you have the guts to undertake a serious smile collection mission by smiling at every person you see all day long? How about leaving one of your favourite books on a bus or train, with a note for a random stranger to find explaining why you think they should read it? Jam-packed with ideas, you’ll be smiling from ear-to-ear and LOLing your socks off in no time – and hopefully making other people smile too! Now, we all know that chocolate should be consumed in moderation and tastes even better when shared, so with this in mind the lovely team at Divine have kindly given us 3 family hampers filled with some of their extra-special chocolate treats to give away to you! To be in with a chance of winning all you have to do is answer this cacao conundrum: How long does the Theobroma cacao flower live for? a) 1 week b) Forever c) 24-48 hours Our friends at Ivy Kids have kindly given us 10 copies of this book for you niceness ninjas to win. All you have to do is think of a random act of kindness that you would like people to do and write in telling us what it is. We will pick the ten most fun and inventive answers and publish them on our website. Please send your idea together with your name, age and address to: AQUILA Be Kind Competition, Studio 2, 67A Willowfield Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 8AP Closing date: Monday 8 May 2017 Please send your answer on the back of an envelope with your name and address on the inside to: AQUILA Divine Competition, Studio 2, 67A Willowfield Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, BN22 8AP The Divine chocolate hamper consists of: • 1 x milk and 1 x dark choc baking bar • 1 x cocoa • 1 x drinking chocolate • 1 x tasting set – this has 12 little bars of 6 flavours • 3 x Shaun the sheep lollies • 4 sharing bars (100g) mixed flavour chocolate • A recipe book Once again, AQUILAnauts, you well and truly surpassed yourselves in creativity, inventiveness and downright wackiness with your designs for an eco-friendly treehouse. We had a really tough time choosing a winner. Our final winner was Roberta Jenkins from Cornwall for her mixed media at the Centre for Alternative Technology in Mid-Wales See your tremendous treehouses at aquila.co.uk/ readers-page entry, which had some fun touches such as methane-powered (yes, that’s farts, ed) light bulbs, dancing chickens and a bicycle-powered clothes dryer! Congratulations! EcoWeek will be in contact with you shortly to arrange your trip! SOLUTIONS Pages 12,13 – Brainfeeders Quick chocolate quiz 1, b. 2, c. 3, True. 4, b. Captain Magnetron is strictly for weekends probably. 5, c. 6, c. 7, True, but the sugar in chocolate more than makes up for that. 8, c. 9, b. 10, False, it’s actually 8!! www.divinechocolate.com Closing date: Monday 8 May 2017 EcoWeek HOLIDAY FOR 2 RESULTS hampers to win! to giv away! 3 Get your (soon to be) sticky mitts on one of three family treat hampers from Divine chocolate! Cocoa conundrum Pick ’n’ mix mashup Rattlebrained riddles Roots. Rain. Heat Ix Chel’s cheeky chocolate pyramid 1, Pod. 2, Cake. 3, Roast. 4, Market. 5, Truffles. 6, Manufacture. Secret message: I may be small but I am 7, Confectioners. responsible for all your choccy so watch it, ok? Editors: Freya Hardy, Benita Estevez Total = $910.00. Profit after agent’s fee taken = $819.00. $819 ÷ 78 staff = $10.50 per person. AQUILA is aimed at children between 8 and 13 years old but experience shows that both older and younger children enjoy many of the challenges. Some of the activities are more challenging than others and suitable for sharing with friends or family. A special thank you to Felicity Butler for sharing her knowledge on fair trade. Writers: Sarah Bearchell, Philip West, Tessa Pugsley, Gillian Hovell, Hi-lo Piccolo, Drs Shemane and Craig Neal, Kate Daniels, Amy Sparkes, Liz Strachan Illustrators: Cover, pp2-3 Briony May Smith; pp4-5, 12-13 Sophie Bryant-Funnell; pp6-7 Emily Nash; pp10-11 Amber Cooper Davies; pp14-15 Beena Mistry; pp16-17 Dave Hill; p17 (IAN) David Armitage; pp18-19 Daniel Duncan Photos: pp4-5 Sarah Bearchell; pp8-9 Tessa Pugsley Every effort has been made to find the copyright owners of images used in AQUILA. Please email us if you have any queries. Page 15 – It all adds up Chocolate fondant-filled egg (40 g) = 6 tsp. 150 g shop-bought pasta sauce = 3 tsp. 500 ml flavoured vitamin water = 4 tsp. ½ tin of baked beans = 2½ tsp. 80 g peas = 0.3 tsp. 500 ml energy drink = 13+ tsp. 150 g of organic vanilla fat-free yoghurt = 5 tsp. 1 bowl of frosted corn flakes = 4 tsp. Word morphs CAKE TREE CAVE FREE COVE FRET LOVE FEET FEAT HEAT BEAT HEAD BEAN HEED SEED Dippy’s date with destiny AQUILA is dedicated to encouraging children to reason and create, and to develop a caring nature. It is an interactive magazine and welcomes children’s correspondence. We publish as many contributions as quality and space permit. Please remember that the magazine is prepared in advance and it may be several months before letters appear in print. Submis- sions may also appear on our website. Subscriptions: AQUILA is published monthly, and is available on subscription only. 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