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Francesca and Ben tak
e a chess challenge
KONNICHIWA
by
Francesca Glover, ag
ed 13
Young Reporter Daniel met and
interviewed maths presenter Johnny
Ball and PPUK Chief Executive Denise
Yates for the Young Roots Project
I love anything Japanes
e,
so I was thrilled to get
the
opportunity to go to a
real
Japanese class and lea
rn a thing
or two. We tried the pr
oper way
to do calligraphy, with
ink and
a brush, made origami
hats out
of newspaper and, for
the first
time, I got to write kanji
. In Japan
there are 2,136 comm
only used
kanji, I’m so glad that
in English I
only need to know the
26 letters
of the alphabet! We th
en had to
use our newfound know
ledge
of writing kanji to fill in
a quiz on
Japanese. The whole
experience
made me love Japan ev
en
more. I learned a lot of
new
skills which I will aim to
improve in the future.
Johnny Ball on the bal
l
with a great maths tal
k
That was the highligh
t for me,
but the food and othe
r activities
in which I participated
were
great too. For example
, I didn’t
know that I could like
maths
until I went to Johnny
Ball’s talk;
he definitely makes it
much
more interesting than
my maths
teachers (sorry teachers
!), I
heard a great talk on
Big Cats
and I enjoyed the chan
ce to
challenge my older br
other
to a game of chess. It
was a
stalemate in the end bu
t I really
liked trying to beat him
!
Off to practise my Jap
anese now
- Sayōnara
exploring calligraphy
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