Oystercatcher Discover Weekly

Oystercatcher Discover Weekly

Who loves music? Hopefully this article will get you reaching for your phone to download a new album, or buy a CD, that you haven’t heard before. Whatever your music taste there will be something for everyone to listen to.  Pop Music   Taylor Swift’s ‘Lover’    This album was released on the 23rd of August 2019 and has become the biggest selling album of 2019

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‘Mamma Mia 2’- You’ll Want To Go Again!

‘Mamma Mia 2’- You’ll Want To Go Again!

Iconic- a word that springs to mind when you step out of the cinema and back into the real world after almost two and a half hours of A-list actors and performers killing – in both the positive and negative sense of the phrase – ABBA’s greatest hits and lesser-known songs in the summer smash hit film ‘Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again’.

The Invasion of Voice Activated Home Assistants

The Invasion of Voice Activated Home Assistants

Niamh McGroarty | Reporter Since the introduction of Amazon’s Echo home speaker featuring ‘Alexa’ in 2014, there has been fast movement from other technological companies in order to produce their own version of this “Personal Assistant.” Companies such as Google introduced their ‘Home Assistant’ to the general public in May 2016 and later released it in November of the same year. Also, one of Apple’s more

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Welcome to Nowhere – A Story of Syria

Welcome to Nowhere – A Story of Syria

Shortly before the Christmas break, St Andrew’s and St Bride’s High School kindly distributed over 200 books to the S2 pupils, as part of the First minister’s reading challenge – which the High School is piloting for all secondary schools in Scotland. The year group was then set a challenge to fulfill by Mid-February of this year…

REVIEW: ‘Slates’ trilogy

REVIEW: ‘Slates’ trilogy

The ‘Slated’ trilogy was written by Terri Terry.  In a world where all people who make mistakes that don’t appear silly or accidental to the Governement have their memories wiped, slated, cleaned of all memories of family, friends and occasions, everybody is under surveillance. Kyla woke up one day, in the hospital bed.  She stayed there for a couple of weeks, adapting to her new personality

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REVIEW: ‘Children of Icarus’ by Caighlan Smith

REVIEW: ‘Children of Icarus’ by Caighlan Smith

Daniel Ingyang In the town where they worship Icarus, everyone is taught that the gods were jealous of the angels, and so captured all of them but one who they missed, Icarus. So, the gods decided to trick Icarus into flying into the Sun so his wings would catch fire and he would fall to his death. Icarus fell for the god’s cruel trap, and would’ve

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