Yenice Times

YENICE TIMES

Hi everyone! I want to talk about myself and our school on this page. I was born in
Afyonkarahisar in 1987. I completed my high school education in Çanakkale Anatolian Fine Arts
High School. I received my bachelor's degree from Çanakkale 18 Mart University, Faculty of
Education, Department of Music Education. In 2010, I was appointed to Cizre Mehmet Akif Ersoy
Elementary School as a music teacher. I continued my duty at Gelibolu Yahya Çavuş Visually
Impaired Secondary School and in 2014 at Darende Aşağıulupınar 75.Yıl Cumhuriyet Secondary
School. I have taken part in various cultural, artistic and musical activities where I have worked,
and have taught piano at the Gallipoli Public Education Center and violin course at the Darende
Public Education Center. In 2016, I was appointed to Yenice Secondary School as Deputy
Principal. In 2018, I started to work as a manager and I still continue to my duty.
Our school is located in Yenice neighborhood. In addition to the students living in Yenice,
students from Yavuzlar and Şuğul neighborhoods also come to our school. There are 161 students
and 17 teachers in our school. Besides academic success, our students and teachers take an active
role in social, cultural and sports activities. Many eTwinning projects in different fields have
been carried out in our school for 2 years and we have obtained both quality and European
quality labels for these projects. Due to the hygienic conditions in our school, our school has
been awarded with the white flag award. Our school regularly organizes art exhibitions that
consist entirely of student works. National festivals are celebrated in a colourful and
enthusiastic way in our school.
You will learn more about our school in this newspaper and you can also visit our school website.
I hope you will enjoy reading this newspaper.
School Principal
CANSU ÖZER

Did you know these facts?
1. Chewing gum is forbidden in Singapore in an effort to keep
the city clean and orderly.
2. The longest place name in the world is 85 letters long.
3. Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.
4. Einstein’s brain was stolen by Thomas Harvey, the pathologist
at New Jersey’s Princeton Hospital when he died.
5. There is a Guinness World Record for the stretchiest skin.
6. There is a planet called Haumea that’s shaped likea potato.
7. “Strenghts” is the longest word in English language with one
vowel.
8. There is a toilet museum in New Delhi.
9. Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
10. Cats spend 66% of their life asleep.
11. Giraffes have black,35 cm length tongue.
12. According to the research, it is likely to get bitten by a
mosquito if you eat banana.s.

EVALUATION OF
FAILURE
EVALUATION OF FAILURE
As a result of the evaluation report of the reasons for failure survey,
students showed some agglomeration. A separate study is shown at the
rate 27 percent number of students who say ‘they don't have one’. I
talked to the parents of these students and stated at the parent
meetings that the rules should be followed while the students are
studying. By providing silence in the house at certain times, these
students will be able to study comfortably anywhere in the house.
The number of students who say that ‘I learn in class but I forget
immediately’ is shown as 38 percent. Afterwards, these students were
interviewed and the correct study and listening methods were explained.
It was also explained that simple notes should be taken while listening to
lectures or lessons should be listened by drawing a concept map. ‘The
place where I live in the classroom not a suitable place for me to follow
the lessons’ is marked as 30 percent. The students who have marked this
item have been interviewed and a solution has been found with the
guidance of a class guide teacher. Appropriate solutions have been
developed for these students

KEYS TO SUCCESS
Do you think of yourself as a smart student?
Probably yes or surely not.
People believe that successful students are born smart. No matter what else is going
on, they always get good grades. Grades are only one part of your education.Be sure
that successful students aren’t more intelligent than other students.They are just
more disciplined and focused, and they have developed winning habits. So even if you
don’t feel as if you’re a smart student, don’t worry. These are some important keys to
success:
1. Be organised
Students who aren’t organised waste time looking for items or notes, or doing
last-minute work they forgot about.Use a planner (calendar) or do a ‘brain
drump-brain storming’.
2. Get at least 8 hours of sleep every night
Students who perform well are effective learners. As the research shows, sleep
is a vital part of becoming an effective learner. Sleep improves memory and
enhances learning. So go to bed at roughly the same time every day, and
make it a priority to get 8 hours of sleep a night.
3. Eat healthily
Research shows that the better you eat, the better your brain functions. And
the better your brain functions, the better your performance will be in school.
Here are some basic tips to eat more healthily:
Eat vegetables and fruit
Eat meat and fish
Avoid packaged foods
Avoid sugar
Drink plenty of water
4. Manage your thoughts and emotions
Students who lose focus or motivation are typically discouraged. They’re often
discouraged because they feel as if they can’t do well academically, so they
lose hope. Manage your thoughts and emotions effectively – especially when
you are disappointed. Or if you enjoy doing sport, after you finish your math
and science homework, you’ll do sport that you love.

5. Have a purpose
Few students have purposes.They feel as if their school life is only getting god
grades. But this is not true.How can you develop a sense of purpose?Think
about…
How do you want to live ?
Which long-term purposes do you have?
What are your duties and responsibilities?
What kind of person you’d like to become?
If you answer these questions you’ll have a better idea about your future life.
6. Manage your stress
Students who don’t manage their stress well, usually have bad performance
and get worse grades. To manage your stress levels:
Perform deep breathing exercises
Listen to music
Spend time with friends
7. Give yourself rewards
Give yourself small rewards whenever possible. For example, you might
decide that after 45 minutes of work, you’ll reward yourself with a 5-minute
YouTube video or something you like.
After all, the road to success is built step by step. Success – as a student and
in life in general – is about daily choices and habits.
Success is not the key to happiness.Happiness is the key to success.If you
love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Be organised
Eat healthily
Manage your stress
Have a purpose
Give yourself rewards
Get at least 8 hours of sleep every night
Manage your thoughts and emotions

I LEARNING
ENGLISH
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO
LEARN ENGLISH?
There are many reasons to learn a foreign language and include it in the
curriculum such as being able to communicate with other people from
other countries, getting a deeper understanding of another culture,
improving memory and keeping the mind sharper for longer. But the
significant question is why we learn English in particular. You can find
many reasons to learn English below:
English is the official language of 53 countries in the world, which
means it is the most commonly spoken language. Also, it is the second
language in other countries. According to the research, one out of
five people can speak and understand English. As a result, we have
more chance to communicate with people from other countries by
speaking English.
English is the language of the Internet and the media. Many websites
are written in English. Most of the popular films, songs, newspapers,
magazines and TV shows are all in English- language. That is, if you
know English, you will not need translation and understand them in an
easier way.
As for education, we also need to know English because the language
of education in many well-known universities is English. Most of the
current books and academic articles are in English, so it is essential
to know English to have an easy access to information and to get new
skills.
In today’s world, English is a must if you want to move on your career.
International conferences, fairs, exhibitions and business meetings
are all in English language due to globalization. Besides,the level of
language competency is a substantial criteria for taskmasters.
Finally, English is the easiest language to learn because it is based on
a simple alphabet and grammar. Also, we have the highest possibility
to learn it because of over-exposure to it everywhere.

DO YOU HAVE
A DREAM?
I h a v e . L i k e e v e r y o n e . S o m e p e o p l e
d r e a m o f b e i n g r i c h b u t i t i s s i m p l y a
d r e a m t h a t t h e w o r l d w i l l s t o p a n d
a l l p e o p l e w i l l n o t g o o u t f o r a f e w
d a y s w a t c h i n g n o w a t a w a r m p l a c e .
L e t t h e m a d m i r e o n c e a g a i n h o w
s u b t l e a n d d e t a i l e d t h e n a t u r e o f
o r g a n i s m i s . L e t e v e r y o n e l o o k a t t h e
d a r k n e s s o f t h e i r h e a r t s . A f t e r w a r d s ,
l e t t h e m i m a g i n e p u r i f y i n g w i t h t h e
w h i t e n e s s o f t h e s n o w a n d b e i n g a s
w h i t e a s s n o w . B e i n g o u t o f i n n o c e n c y
l e t e v e r y t h i n g l i k e e n m i t y , g r u d g e ,
j e a l o u s y , e g o - c e n t r i s i c i m , h y p o c r i s y m
e t c . , b e b u r i e d i n t h e s n o w . L e t t h e
w h o l e w o r l d c l e a n s e o f a w f u l n e s s a n d
e v i l n e s s .
L e t m y d r e a m c o m e t r u e !

DOWN
1. to arrive on the time
2. a traditional lndian meal
3. very big
4. nowhere
9. a person that produce something new
ACROSS
5. land that is outside of cities and towns.
6. to drop a few pieces of something over
the surface.
7. pretty
8. a person that tells the truth all the time.
EDITORS
-FİRENUR KOÇ AKPINAR - SEMRA ŞENER -SEBAHAT KAYA
We would like to thank Göçer ofset for their contributions.