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Me with Phil who did all the filming for Newsround

Last week I wrote an article for First News children’s newspaper and today I did some filming today for Newsround. Tonight there is a story about me and the recycling I do on the website and I’m on the TV too. You can see it too.

I spent all morning with Phil who was really nice and asked me all about the recycling I do. Then I spoke on the phone to Harriet who wrote the article about me. If you want to recycle crisp bags or toothpaste tubes like I talked about on Newsround, you can send your empty packs to the Philippine Community Fund in Southampton.

Instead of the things going into our landfill, they get sent to the Philippines where the ladies make them into purses and bags. Then the children of the women can go to school to be educated instead of having to live on rubbish dumps.

Today I’ve been to a website called ‘Cats protection league‘ and read that I might be able to join a branch and go and help out. I found out about the website because yesterday we went to a Cats protection league charity last week to donate some things.

I have decided to start drawing good pictures of cats, turning them into cards, selling them and then giving the money to the Cats Protection league for the cats.

I wrote about a cat called Ginger Mellow.

“Oh Hello I’m Ginger mellow, famous for my big tail.

I’m so proud of it! I’m the colour of my name and my nose is spotty.

My favourite food is fish which I catch myself and my favourite friend is Lemon.

I must be off, I smell mice in the air - Bye!”

I have been asked to write my first newspaper article!

It’s going to be in ‘First News‘ which is a newspaper for children. I had to write 250-300 words on recycling because we do it all the time at home.

About 760,000 children aged between 7 and 14 read the paper and the one with my article in it comes out on Friday. I hope you buy it so you can see what I have written!

I was also asked to write something for someone else’s blog. I wrote about trees for Reduce Footprints because I love them and I had 19 comments from people who liked my writing!