Hello and welcome to a very special episode of The Week Junior show.

I'm Bex and I'm here at an end-of-year party with the team behind the Week Junior,

the magazine Making Sense of the World for 8 to 14-year-olds.

And while we're here, I thought we could do a little roundup of our favourite stories and moments in the magazine this year.

So we've got some members of the team that have all featured on the podcast through the year.

There's Joe, Eve, Elena, Vanessa, Laura and Rahul.

So, guys, great to see you all together in one place, obviously.

First of all, I've got to ask, seeing as we're approaching the end of 2025 and, of course, the beginning of

26, I want to know what are your New Year's resolutions. Rahul, what do you have for me?

Hi, Bex. New Year's resolutions feel a bit like, they're a bit pressured, aren't there? It's a bit

intense. It's a lot to take on. So I think I'm thinking about more like New Year's intentions or aspirations.

So, and I think something I'd like to do that hopefully won't be too tricky is do a bit of

do a bit of volunteering.

So there's a community kitchen near where I live.

And I think I'd like to cook some food for them and head down to the community kitchen

and help

serve up food and spend some time with their clients. That is my intention and it feels achievable.

What a lovely and noble thing to do. I might steal that one from you, Rahul, to be honest. I might

take that one from my own as well. Elena, how about you?

Can I just say, Rahul, I love that way of thinking about it because resolutions just feel like you're pressuring yourself to do something.

And then at the end of the year, you look back and you're like,

oh, no, why didn't I achieve that?

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