06/09/2017 Newsround

Hello, and welcome back to Newsround.

I'm Hayley, and I've got all the best news from around

How solar storms could have confused these whales.

And should fashion stationery be banned from the classroom?

People in the Caribbean and Florida in America are getting ready

for the arrival of Hurricane Irma, which is one of the most powerful

The hurricane is moving across the ocean, and has just hit land.

In Caribbean countries, like Antigua and Saint Martin,

people are preparing for strong winds and heavy rain,

and overnight, some places have already started to flood.

Officials in Florida have told people they need to prepare.

The storm is massive and the storm surge is predicted to go

Right now, it is travelling at around 15 mph and the track has

it forecasted to move just south of the Florida Keys on a westerly

Do not sit and wait to prepare, get prepared now.

Scientists think they've figured out why a big group of whales got

stranded on Britain's coast last year, and it's all to

They might look amazing, but these solar storms caused a lot

Last year, 29 young whales were stranded on the coasts

of northern Europe and nobody could work out why.

But now scientists think it could have been down to large solar

storms caused by the sun, which are known as

These storms in space could have affected the way the sperm whales

That's why they got lost in shallow waters and beached themselves.

Beaching is when whales get stuck on sand and can be very dangerous.

It can happen for lots of different reasons.

For these sperm whales, it was down to the solar storms.

But some whales become stranded because they're sick or injured

It's thought changes in the environment could cause them

If there's not enough food, if temperatures are particularly

high or low or if their environment has become polluted.

And sometimes it's just down to mistakes.

They can sometimes lose their way into shallow waters by accident

whilst travelling to warmer waters to mate.

Whales are very sociable creatures and often travel

Marine scientists think that if one is affected by any of these things

then others travelling with it will copy them, which

could be what happened to the sperm whales last year.

Now, some of you are already back at school, but for others,

One of the most exciting and most nerve-wracking times in your life,

so we asked some of YOU to describe it - in emojis!

When I started high school, I felt like this. I felt like this. I felt,

don't feel stressed, it is going to be bigger than primary school, and

it takes a while to get used to, but after a while you got used to it. I

felt... On the first-day, then be by yourself, find new people, make new

friends. I felt like this. Obviously, it's going to be a change

but it's not as big as you think it will be. You are worrying too much

about it. I felt like this. LAUGHTER Well, many of you may have got

new pens or a new pencil case for the first day back at school,

but one teacher thinks fancy stationery should be banned,

because it's too distracting First, it was the bottle flip, then

it was the giant mega-hair bows, But has it been taken

a step too far? One teacher wants to ban

your stationery as well. I think some of the stationery

shouldn't be allowed in the classroom because it's really

only a distraction. Nobody really needs a rubber

shaped like a macaron, nobody really needs a pencil

sharpener that is shaped like nail polish and nobody

really needs a pencil case So what do these guys

from Lancashire think? My favourite piece of stationery

is a rubber because you can get very My favourite stationery is this

because I feel cool when I have it. I like these highlighters

because if one side runs out, you can use the other side,

it's double sided. When you have a special one,

it makes you feel special. I don't think the stationery should

be banned because some people would have to fiddle

with stuff to concentrate. If it gets banned, it's fine,

because you've still got pencils to write with and you've got

rubbers to use. You shouldn't have, like,

pink things like that, or blue You need to save it for playtime

because that's when you can play but when you're in class,

you have to learn. If it was banned,

how would you feel? A bit sad because you'd just have

boring plain pencils That's all from me, Newsround's back

this afternoon at 4.20pm.