Welcome to the Spring 2025 issue of the Archer Eye!
Here at Stanwell School, a group of Year 13s have created the latest online School Newspaper. Located at the heart of Archer Road, the team at The Archer Eye is eager to share your stories, celebrate your achievements and show the wonderful, exciting and newest scoops of each term.
In the UK, March is a month normally associated with new beginnings, St David's day and the start of spring, but for us students we're bound to start feeling the pressure of exams looming. When the revision is going no where or your brain just needs a good break, why not give some of these books a read this spring?
With only a drop of flare, one can light the night sky with fireworks . . . or burn a building to the ground -- and seventeen-year-old Ingrid Ellis wants her fair share. Ingrid doesn't have a family fortune, monetary or magical, but at least she has a plan: Rise to the top on the arm of Linden Holt, heir to a hefty political legacy and the largest fortune of flare in all of Candesce. Her only obstacle is Linden's father who refuses to acknowledge her.
So when Senator Holt announces his run for president, Ingrid uses the situation to her advantage. She strikes a deal to spy on the senator's opposition in exchange for his approval and the status she so desperately craves. But the longer Ingrid wears two masks, the more she questions where her true allegiances lie.
Will she stand with the Holts, or will she forge her own path?
Fifteen-year-old Ilyas is under pressure from everyone: GCSEs are looming and his teachers just won't let up, his dad wants him to join the family business and his mates don't care about any of it. There's no space in Ilyas' life to just be a teenager. Serving detention one day, Ilyas finds a kindred spirit in Kelly Matthews, who is fed up with being pigeonholed as the good girl, and their friendship blows the social strata of high school wide open. But when Kelly catches the eye of one of the local bad boys, Imran, he decides to seduce her for a bet – and Ilyas is faced with losing the only person who understands him. Standing up to Imran puts Ilyas' family at risk, but it's time for him to be the superhero he draws in his comic-books, and go kick the moon.
Kick the Moon, is Muhammad Khan's explosive second novel, with original comic-book art from Amrit Birdi, bestselling illustrator of Username:Evie
This year's editors for The Archer Eye are looking to expand the newspaper team and take on some new writers!
Being a writer requires you to be able to meet deadlines, communicate with your peers and, of course, write informative and entertaining articles! Guest writers, however, will be able to submit articles for upcoming editions without having to commit to being on the team, and will be featured in their own section.
We are currently looking for students in just year 12 to apply as full-time writers, but articles from guest writers will be accepted from pupils in any year groups.
Below you will find a table of contents. Under each section, there is a list of the articles you will find in this edition, alongside the reporters who wrote the story.
New this Term:
Tackling Controversy: Josh Thomas
The Psychological Appeal of Populism: Millie Dowdall
Editor's Pick:
Sylvia Plath's 'The Bell Jar': Abigail Cannon
What is the point of poetry: Megan Russill
Student Section:
Horror: the overlooked genre: Millie Hughes
-The Archer Eye-
Est. 2022