Brilliant Brainz

Brilliant Brainz is a much loved magazine for children aged 6 -12 years old. It promotes creative thinking and wellbeing and includes S.T. E. A. M. subjects and activities. It is available on monthly, 6 monthly or yearly subscription. Brilliant Brainz is inclusive, gender neutral and plastic free.

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NOTE TO PARENTS

Welcome

Brilliant Brainz

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The BRAIN GAME

Jean-Michel Basquiat • Jean-Michel Basquiat was a mixed media artist with both Puerto Rican and Haitian heritage, born and raised in New York City.

MIXED MEDIA PORTRAIT • Jean-Michel Basquiat was fascinated by human heads, and painted many head portraits. His style was fluid and free, mixing different materials, which helped to convey a sense of emotion, and show what the subject of the portrait might be thinking or feeling.

THE THINKING BRAIN

Odds and Ends

Playing an Instrument is GOOD FOR YOUR BRAINN • Do you already play a musical instrument? Are you thinking of taking one up? Here’s why it’s a great idea…

DEAD AND ALIVE: Multi-talented Musicians

Tuna Nicoise Salad • The word Niçoise means ‘of Nice’ - Nice (pronounced neese) is a lovely French city on the Mediterranean coast where this dish is said to originate from.

Healthy Happy Brains

Brains! • Inside our skulls sits a wrinkly, grey lump of matter. It might not look like much, but your brain controls everything in your body. It allows you to think, learn, laugh, feel emotions, and even controls every breath and heartbeat.

Mirror, mirror help me draw

WHAT’S THE SCIENCE?

LOOKING AFTER THE ENVIRONMENT: GOING UNDERGROUND • Brain are pretty amazing- full of billions of neurons and connections. Using all these neurons, our brains can communicate, sense the world, and learn. But it’s not just animals that have these amazing skills. Under your feet there is an entire underground network doing all those things – the Wood Wide Web.

SPORT NEWS

Stronger body, STRONGER BRAIN • Exercise is good for your body but did you know that it’s great for your brain too?

Who’s in Charge? • It’s sometimes useful to imagine your brain as being three different characters – with one of them being in control at any one time depending on what is happening. Let’s call these three characters:

READING CORNER

The Human Brain

BRAINZ FOR CHANGE • When you look around at the incredible technologies that fill our world, it’s easy to forget that each one of them started as an idea in somebody’s brain.

JOKES • If these brain-themed jokes don’t make you snort, go and eat a gristly wart! If you can’t even raise a smile, let alone a hoot or snicker, you and I are going to bicker!

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