Summer 2014 l Issue 8

Your views l Your news

ShoutOut!

Win£10 Amazon

voucher

Get creative!

This issue: Talking about how you look and feel

Meet the

Kingsland Road boys!

Our thank you card competition winners

Expert advice from our nurse, Jeanette

A magazine for 7 to 13-year-olds who have, or have had, cancer

PLUS puzzles to try,stories to read

and jokes to enjoy

Hello everyone,

Welcome to the Summer issue of Shout Out!, the magazine

for 7 to 13-year-olds who have, or have had, cancer that’s

written with your help.

In this issue we’ll be looking at the different ways that having

treatment for cancer can make you look and feel. On p6 our

expert, CLIC Sargent Nurse Jeanette, has some great advice on

everything from getting your appetite back to feeling less tired.

Then on p12 Lara, 9, tells us how she coped with changes in the

way she looked and the different feelings she had during her

treatment.

Turn to p5 to read how the boys from Kingsland Road are

looking forward to touring the country in August (and about

wearing bright pink wigs for Wig Wednesday!).

If you’re feeling bored, why not grab a mate and try some

of the fun games and activities on p10? Or check out of the

brilliant drawings and paintings you’ve been sending in on

p14 (don’t miss your fab stories and poems on p16 too).

Hope you enjoy this fun-packed issue. Bye for now!

Alisha

PS: Did you send us a wig design for last issue’s Get

crafty competition? Turn to p18 to find out who won!

Thank you!A massive thanks to the children at the Oxfordshire Hospital School for your wonderful drawings, paintings, stories and poems. And big thanks to your hospital teacher, Caron, for organising everything as well.

Thank you card winners

Turn to p8 to find out the

winners of our thank you

card competition, which

was judged by singer

Sam Bailey (thanks

a million, Sam!)

Letterfrom the

editor

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know?Did you

Elephants are the

only mammal that

can’t jump

Try this at home or in hospital!With a friend, or your brother or sister, play our funny face food race...

c Take a small, flat piece of food like a biscuit or cracker

c Tip your heads back and put your biscuit or cracker in the middle of your forehead

c Try and get the biscuit or cracker into your mouth, just by wiggling and moving your face

c If it falls off, put it back on your forehead and start again

c The winner is the first to get the biscuit or cracker into their mouth!

Who looks the silliest?

Cats use their whiskers to check whether a gap is big enough for them

to fit through

A group of

rhinos is called

a CRASH

CRASH

Popcorn was invented by the

Aztecs

The tallest sandcastle ever

made was 11.53m

(37ft 10in) tall!Ants stretch and yawn when they wake up in the morning

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Your

Shout!Send us your reviewsTell us about your favourite book, film, game or show and why you liked it. Make sure you write down your full name, date of birth and postcode too, then send your review to us in the Freepost envelope provided. Or you can email it to us at shoutout@clicsargent.org.uk (oh, and don’t forget to tell us how many stars out of five you give it!).

Book review I read… Gangsta Granny by

David WalliamsFinlay, 9, Witney

This book is about a granny who smells of

cabbage, and her grandson Ben. They plan to

steal the crown jewels by climbing through the

pongy sewage pipe then blow up the bullet

proof glass. I wonder what will happen next?

I think people of any age would like this book

because it’s funny. People who like David

Walliams would enjoy it because he’s the

author. And also people who enjoy adventures

would like it as well.

Showing at a cinema near you!Pudsey the Dog: The Movie, PG Molly, George and Tommy adopt cute stray dog, Pudsey. When the gang stumble on an evil plan by their landlord, Mr Thorne, and his cat Faustus, it’s up to them to save their village.

The House of Magic, U Seeking shelter from a storm, abandoned kitten Thunder stumbles into a strange house owned by an old magician. He’s welcomed into the magician’s weird and wonderful family – but not everyone is happy to have him there.

The Nut Job, UYou’ll go nuts for this action-packed comedy in which Surly, a mischievous squirrel, and his rat friend, Buddy, make a daring plan to steal some nuts from a peanut cart. But, of course, their plan goes hilariously wrong…

Game review I played… MinecraftRuby, 10, ExeterMinecraft is a game where you can build amazing buildings.

In creative mode, you have unlimited bricks and you can make

your imagination go wild! But in survival, you have to find a

way to survive the monsters! Best game!4

Interview with Kingsland Road

The Kingsland Road boys talk about singing on The X Factor, their exciting new UK tour and – wearing wigs!

Who inspired you to start singing? CONNORWhen I was a kid there were a lot of different artists who influenced me. But Ed Sheeran was probably the artist who made me fall in love with singing. I have a tattoo to show for it!

What do you enjoy most about being in a band? MATTI enjoy the banter we have. There’s never a dull moment.

What was the best thing about performing on The X Factor? THOMPSONIt’s such a buzz! There’s nothing like performing with your best mates knowing

there are 10 million people watching.

It can be scary, but we feel very lucky.

Are you excited about your UK tour? JOSHThe tour in August is one of those big dreams that we all had for the band when we were starting out. It’s actually happening now, and we’re gonna make sure we put on a proper show for all those fans that have got us to where we are!

Did you enjoy wearing wigs for CLIC Sargent’s Wig Wednesday? JAYWe loved wearing wigs for Wig Wednesday! It’s also much better than our normal hair and, worryingly, suited Thompson far too well!

What does the future hold for Kingsland Road? THOMPSONThe future is very exciting. We are back with a new sound, our sound. And we can’t wait for the August tour to perform our new material to everyone. And our debut single and EP are out on 17 August.

Connor, Josh, Thompson, Matt and Jay having fun with their wacky wigs on Wig Wednesday.

See some of the wacky wigs you created on p18. 5

Q. What can I do to make myself feel more confident if my treatment makes my hair fall out?A: Going out and about and carrying on

with day-to-day life as much as possible

can actually help. Wearing a wig, hat or

scarf could help you feel more confident.

Getting your hair cut into a shorter style

before it starts to come out could help

you get used to the change as well. If this

is worrying you, you can talk to a nurse at

your hospital.

Ask theexpert

Q. Why does some treatment make your hair fall out? A: Treatments like chemotherapy and radiotherapy can make your hair fall out because they damage

the cells that make your hairs. Not

everyone who has these treatments

loses their hair, and sometimes it just gets thinner. When you finish treatment the cells that make your

hairs will fix themselves and your hair will start to grow again.

In this issue CLIC Sargent

Nurse, Jeanette, answers

some questions you might

have about how you look

and feel during cancer

treatment.

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Ask theexpertQ. The steroids I’m on make me very hungry. What can I do?

A: When you are taking steroids, you can

feel very hungry and like you want to eat

all the time. You may be worried about

putting on weight. Talk to the dietitian at

your hospital and ask for some ideas about

healthy and filling foods, and also some

treats. Remember, this hunger won’t go on

forever. Your appetite will go back to normal

when the steroid treatment stops.

Your Shout!Do you have a question for our experts? It could be about anything from losing

your hair to staying healthy. Send your questions in the Freepost envelope provided or email them to shoutout@clicsargent.org.uk. Remember to include your full name, date of birth and postcode.

Lara’s storyRead Lara’s thoughts about how she looked and felt during her treatment on p12.

Q. I used to love my food, but I just can’t eat. Help! A: Some treatments can make you feel sick or your sense of taste may change so that even your favourite foods taste horrible! If your mouth is dry or sore, soft foods like macaroni cheese and mashed potato, or cold foods like ice cream, are good. Or how about a homemade milkshake? See what the dietitian at the hospital suggests too.

Q. I feel tired all the time and not up to doing much. What can I do when I’m tired so that I don’t get bored? A: Feeling tired can be annoying, especially if you love being active! Watching a DVD with your family or friends is a good choice because it isn’t too tiring. It might sound strange, but getting a bit of exercise can help when you feel tired too. Your care team can give you some ideas if you like.

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Thank you card competition

– the winners!Getcreative

A big thanks to everyone for all your amazing entries for last issue’s thank you card competition. We were blown away by all the fantastic ideas for thank you cards and messages that you sent in.

It was really hard choosing the winning entries but in the end our celebrity judge, The X Factor singer Sam Bailey, chose two winners.

We are chuffed to bits to announce that the winner of the thank you card design competition is Scarlett from Whitby. Well done Scarlett! You will be getting the Popcorn Party Pack – hope you enjoy it.

And the winner of our thank you message competition was Aleksandra from London. Congratulations, Aleksandra– your prize is a cuddly Hamleys teddy bear.

Here are the winning entries. We’ll use these to create a card for supporters who raise money for CLIC Sargent, to say a massive ‘thank you’ for all their help.

Aleksandra’s thank you message

Scarlett’s thank you card design

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Getcreative

Thank you to Paramount Home Media and Metcalfe’s skinny for the Popcorn Party Pack, and also to Santander for the cute Hamleys teddy. A big Shout Out! thank you goes to our celebrity judge Sam Bailey too. Thanks for taking time out of your busy schedule to judge our competition!

Here are some of the other fantastic card designs and messages that you sent in. Well done everyone!

Joshua

Annabel

Martynka

Maria

Gabriella

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Don’t just sit there…

do something!

Squashed bananasGet together with friends or family

then take it in turns to ask each other

questions like, “What have I got on my

head?” or “What’s your favourite pizza

topping?”. There’s just one problem –

you can only answer “Squashed bananas”.

The first one to laugh is out!

Who am I?With a friend, each write the name of someone well-known on a sticky note. Swap notes (without peeking!) and stick them on your foreheads. Then you each have 20 questions to find out who you are. You can only ask questions that can be answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’ like ‘Am I a singer?’.

Drawing puzzleCan you draw the shape below without taking your pen off the paper or going over the same line twice? Answer on page 19.

Got a few minutes spare? Get busy with these

fun games, puzzles and activities

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Don’t be squareColour in the squares to spell

out and decorate your name.

pirate octopus treasure ship island

One day at the beach…Can you finish this summer adventure story using the words below?

One day I was sitting on the beach when

Your Shout!Send us your name in squares or your beach adventure for a chance to win a £10 Amazon voucher. See p17 for more details of how to send in your entries.

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Lara’s story

At the beginning of my treatment, I had to have five weeks of Dex (Dexamethasone). It made me feel very moody. The Dex makes your cheeks puff up but after a few weeks it goes down. Sometimes it makes you swallow your smile.

Dex makes you very hungry, and whenever I had a lumbar puncture I was really hungry and wasn’t allowed to eat. It was horrible. During that time I lost a lot of sleep because I kept on waking up in the middle of the night hungry.

I had a menu on my door so that I could choose what I was going to eat. Usually it was a full adult size roast dinner! I also got a craving for fried eggs. The most I was allowed was three a day.

The next medicine was called Septrin – banana or aniseed flavour. It made me sick as I hate bananas so I had it as tablets (so I didn’t have to bother with the aniseed).

The Septrin was quite hard to take. Sometimes you are about to take your medicine and you’re in a bad mood and you just want to run away. Now they are very easy to take – it must be all that practice!

Sometimes you can get a bit stressed because you think about yourself having no hair. You feel a bit sad and worried that people are going to laugh at you. Then

in the next few hours you try not to think about it, to forget it for a few hours.

Lara, 9, from Oxford has just finished

treatment for acute lymphoblastic

leukaemia (ALL). Here she talks about

how having cancer treatment made

her look and feel.

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When I was on my maintenance, my hair

started to grow back and then it fell out a bit again,

which was a bit of a shock.

The good thing about the hospital is that you have people who are going through what you’re going through. You can tell them how you feel and they can tell you how they feel too.

When it was time to put my port (portacath) in, I had a dream about King Portacath who was unstoppable and boiled you alive! I think I was a bit worried about it. But I had to take on my fear and you might too. When I woke up from the operation I said to my Mummy, ‘What was all the fuss about?’!

Now I have finished my treatment I don’t know where the time has gone. Two and a half years went quite quickly. Now I’m looking forward to being able to see my friends a bit more.

Lara

Sometimes you can get a bit stressed because you think about yourself having no hair.

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Your gallery

My name is Livy and I’m from London. I enjoy art. I was working on a piece of art inspired by Seurat’s Bathers at Asnières.

Take a look at some of the amazing

paintings and drawings you sent us.

There are lots of budding Shout Out!

artists out there!

Doughnut in a houseMartynka, 8, Cotgrave

SheepClaire, 12, Westhill

My dogJasmine, 11, Crediton

MinecraftAlex, 11, Cheadle

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Your

Shout!Send us you paintings and drawings for a chance to win a £10 Amazon voucher. Turn to p17 for details.

Clever with clay My name is Neythra and

I am making clay jewellery inspired by the Pitt Rivers

Museum in Oxford. It’s going to be on display

at the John Radcliffe Hospital and the Vision’s

Arts Centre.

I am Finlay from Oxford and I am making a

collage inspired by the painting St Michael and the Devil by Bartolomé.

HandEmre, 10, London

A unicorn and a dragonZane, 9, Scunthorpe

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My hobbiesBy Amy, 10, SuffolkI have many hobbies but my favourites are

writing and arts and crafts. In hospital I ask

the play specialists for arty stuff and I write

in my diary to say how I feel. I love writing

stories and researching anything. When

I’m older I would like to be an author and

illustrator for children’s books.

My new trikeBy Josh, 7, Cheadle Hulme“I’m really excited because we’ve just bought a trike that I ride by pedalling with my hands. I really love my new trike and ride it to school every day.”

Yum, yumMy name is Mikayla and I enjoy cooking at the Oxfordshire Hospital School. I made pizza - yum, yum!

Your stories and poems...

You’ve been sending us some

lovely stories and poems since

our last issue. Here are a few

of our favourites.

The MaskBy Neythra, 9, Amersham

The almond eyes are blinking

As the rounded ears hear you.

His large laughable nose sits in the

middle of his face,

Comical mouth smiles peacefully,

His forehead frowns frighteningly.

At the museum, the mask sees

everything.

My hobbiesMy name is Grace and I enjoy cooking and art at the Oxfordshire Hospital School. I am working towards my Explore Arts Award. In these photos I am making a lantern and a stained glass window and baking chocolate cookies.

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My dogBy Abbie, 11, Elgin

Paddy my puppy is very funny, And he

likes it when I tickle his tummy. Did you

know, he has big paws? Digging in the

garden, that’s okay, because you’re my

best friend.

Your Shout! Write a poem or story and

you could win a £10 Amazon

voucher! Just use the Freepost

envelope provided or email us

at shoutout@clicsargent.org.uk. The winning

entry will appear in the next issue of Shout Out!

Don’t forget to include your full name, date of

birth and postcode.

Little Red Riding Hood’s Unusual GrandmaBy Kirsty, 8, OxfordCast: Little Red Riding Hood (LRRH), the Wolf.

Scene one (Little Red Riding Hood is outside Grandma’s cottage)

LRRH: (Knocks on door) Hello Grandma I’ve brought you some bluebells and a basket of food.

Wolf: (Tries to make voice as high as possible) Come in dear!

LRRH: Oh Hello Grandma!

Wolf: (Squeakily) How lovely to see you my dear!

LRRH: (Sounds shocked) Oh my, Grandma what BIG ears you have!

Wolf: (Not quite so high) All the better to hear you with my dear!

LRRH: And… Oh Grandma what HUGE eyes you have!

Wolf: (Quite growly) All the better to see you with my dear!

LRRH: (edges slightly further away from bed) Oh… Gradma… What big… TEETH you have!

Wolf: (Huge growl and leaps out of bed) All the better to EAT YOU WITH!

LRRH: ARRRRRRGHHHHH!!!

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Earlier this year, on Wednesday 21 May, thousands of people all over the country put on wacky wigs for Wig Wednesday, making it CLIC Sargent’s biggest ever Wig Wednesday. Whoop! It was a huge success and raised lots of money for children and young people with cancer.

Lots of you also entered the ‘Design your own wig’ competition in our last issue and we’re pleased to announce that our winner is 10-year-old Amy from Bungay. Well done, Amy! A £10 Amazon voucher is on its way.

Wigtastic wigs

Thank you to everyone else who sent

in their wigs and for the photos of you

wearing your funky designs.

Here are some of your colourful creations.

We think you’ll agree they’re fab!

Go to p5 to see boy band Kingsland

Road posing in their wigs on Wig Wednesday.

Emilia

Scarlett

Aleksandra

Jasmine Sahba

Amy, 10, Bungay

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Your jokes...Could you do with a bit of a giggle?

Here’s are some of the giggle-tastic

jokes you’ve been sending in.

Your Shout!We love hearing your jokes so keep sending

them in. You can send them in the Freepost

envelope provided or email them to us at

shoutout@clicsargent.org.uk. Don’t forget

to include your full name, date of birth

and postcode.

Q: What’s the difference

between a fly and a bird?

A: A bird can fly but a fly can’t bird!

By Annabel, 7, Lincoln

Q: What does an egg

do if you tell a joke?

A: It cracks up!

Rishshi, 9, Southall

wigs Q: Why was the sand wet?

A: Because the sea-weed!Olivia, 10, Devizes

Q: What lives at

the bottom of the

sea and quivers?

A: A jellyfishBy Leah, 9, Boston

Answer: Drawing puzzle from page 10

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Find out more...CLIC Sargent – www.clicsargent.org.ukYour CLIC Sargent care team will be able to help with questions or concerns and can give you information about childhood cancer. This could be for you, your family, friends or teachers. You can also call CLIC Sargent on 0300 330 0803 or email info@clicsargent.org.uk

CLIC Sargent also has available a number of storybooks written especially for children to help them understand what cancer is and the treatment it involves. The storybooks include:

c Mary has a brain tumour c Joe has leukaemia c Lucy has a tumour c Tom has lymphoma c Chemotherapy, cakes and cancer

You can read the storybook on your own, or with the help of your parents, older siblings, grandparents and anybody else who looks after you. You can get a copy from your CLIC Sargent care team, or ask an adult to download or order a copy from our website www.clicsargent.org.uk

ChildLine – www.childline.org.ukYou can call ChildLine on 0800 11 11 or contact them online at www.childline.org.uk if you would like to chat to somebody privately about anything that may be worrying you.

Children’s Cancer and Leukaemia Group – www.cclg.org.ukYou can download lots of useful publications about cancer and treatment from their website, including many that have been written especially for children. Otherwise, you could order them through the CLIC Sargent website, or ask your care team for copies.

Bullying UK – www.bullying.co.ukBullying UK can be contacted by anybody needing information or advice about bullying in school. Call their helpline free on 0808 800 2222 or visit their website for more information.

Make sure you ask an adult before using the telephone or computer!

Shout Out! is CLIC Sargent’s magazine for 7 to 13-year-olds.If you have any questions about the magazine check with your parent or carer if they are happy for you to call us on 0300 330 0803 and then ask to speak to the Information Manager.

www.clicsargent.org.ukRegistered charity number 1107328 and registered in Scotland (SC039857)

Please note that everyone’s experience will be different and may not follow the order outlined in this publication, and that services will differ across the UK. CLIC Sargent cannot accept any responsibility for information and services provided by third parties, including those referred to or signposted to in this publication.

While we take every care to ensure that the information provided is accurate and up-to-date at time of printing, CLIC Sargent cannot accept liability for any loss or damage resulting from any inaccuracy or omission in this publication. Information should not be relied on in place of appropriate professional or other advice specific to your circumstances.

REF: SO01_14JB116. Issue 8, Summer 2014. Next issue: Autumn 2014