Search by Author on Google News

Posted by Nemanja Petrovic, Research Engineer

The Google News home page is a good place to go to find headlines from publications around the world. But what if you're interested in the work of a specific journalist in addition to perspectives from different publications? Last Thursday, we launched a feature that highlights the contributions of journalists everywhere by allowing you to find more articles by individual reporters.

If you spot an article by a specific journalist, you can click their name to bring up other articles they've written:



You can also search for articles by a specific journalist under Advanced Search or by searching their name after "author:" in the Google News search box. For example, this feature allows you to follow the most recent stories by your favorite columnists or local journalists. Here I searched for content by Seattle Post-Intelligencer columnist Joel Connelly:



As with any search on Google News, you can sign up to get the latest results through an RSS feed or email alerts.

We're constantly working to increase the ways in which you can interact with the news, and we hope you'll like the new ability to search by author. With over 25,000 news sources crawled on Google News, we value the diversity of perspectives on the news, but there's also something to be said for being able to find and follow the voices of the journalists you like best!

New Pages for Addington Citizen Passports

At today's senior assembly, four children were awarded  Addington Article Reporter pages for their Citizen Passports. These children have had articles published on the school blog, and are now official Addington Article Reporters. Melissa, Damon, Bayleigh and Zane received their pages from Ms Heath. 

Addington Passports recognise children's achievements towards their citizenship at our school. This begins as soon as they start  within the Junior school, and continues throughout their time at Addington. Other awards include, learning milestones, achievements within various school activities, both  sporting and cultural, and leadership roles within our school.

 By the time children leave Addington School at the end of year six, they will have amassed a wonderful collection of pages within their passports reflecting their achievements during their time with us.

Also receiving an award today was Khale for his amazing work as our official "Wet Grass Manager".

Walking School Bus

Addington School has a new school bus. A Walking School Bus!

Every Wednesday morning at 8am children from Addington School are meeting at three different places around the Addington area and walking together to school. The PTA have organised this activity. The children wear reflective vests and walk in lines to school. During their walk they sing, chat and get to meet other children from different classes. 

A-Tunes save best till last

On June 16^th 2009 the Addington A-Tunes performed a beautiful song, ‘Welcome Home’ by Dave Dobbin.

The A-Tunes have been practising every week for the past two terms. The children have all made a huge commitment and showed a great passion for singing.

Every member of the Addington A-Tunes, should be very proud of their performance. Their efforts were outstanding and have been acknowledged by other schools as the standout performance of the night. They received the loudest applause and a standing ovation. Ka pai A-Tunes!

Junior Literacy Boost Celebration

On Wednesday the Literacy Boost Programme invited  parents along to a celebration of their children's learning. Twenty three children had been involved in the programme which ran for 10 weeks, and was aimed at boosting letter knowledge and letter sounds. The children met three times a week for 45 minutes each session to learn and practise a variety of skills.

At the celebration the children displayed these skills to the many parents who attended. Each child was rewarded with a certificate of congratulations which was presented by Ms Meachen. The celebrations were finished off with fruit kebabs for the children and tea and coffee for the adults.

Cook up at Conductive Education

It has been a busy week in conductive education as usual.  We had a great time on Monday when we made potato paprika a Hungarian dish.  The children chopped the onions, peeled the potatoes and cut up the sausages.  They really enjoyed stirring up the stew but most of all they enjoyed eating it!!

The Green Team Trip to the Strickland St Gardens for World Environment Day.

On Friday afternoon the “Green Team” walked down to the Community Gardens on Strickland St to find out some tips for our new school vegetable gardens, and to help celebrate Environment day.

The people who work there, told us that seeds need to be sown at twice their size into the soil, and that we could sow broad beans and sweetpeas in our new school plots.

We looked at their composting heaps and the size of their vegetable beds. We have started our own compost heaps at school, and collect foodscraps from the classrooms and lunch area. Mr Sinclair, our caretaker, puts the garden waste on the heaps too. In the spring we want to put our new compost onto the gardens to help our vegetables grow.

At the community gardens we helped plant parsley into pots and then painted the pots to take home.

We made coloured hand prints on a wall to celebrate Environment Day.

We had a busy afternoon, and even tried some rhubarb and apple muffins, and parsley pesto. They were yum!!

We are all looking forward to planting in our own school vegetable plots when they are made over the next few weeks.