Movie review: WALL.E

WALL.E is a great movie for people five years or older. It is about a little robot named WALL.E and he is left on Earth to clean up all the rubbish, because all the humans have gone up to space and got really lazy. Then 700 years pass and all the humans get very fat. One day, after WALL.E has finished cleaning for the day, he met a little robot named EVE (pronounced EVE-A). She has been sent down to look for a special plant. WALL.E then finds the plant and takes it to EVE, but then a whole army of bad robots take the plant and WALL.E goes to find it for EVE. I can’t tell you more, so you should just go to the movies and watch it... Watch out for our poll on this movie on http//:thorringtontimes.blogspot.com/

By our movie expert, Jakob Purcell

The Christchurch Schools’ Music Festival

Now, a lot of you are wondering what the poster on Room 9’s window is about. It is about the Music Festival in the Town Hall that people all over Canterbury go to. It consists of many groups such as choirs, an
orchestra, a concert band, a recorder ensemble, plus some other groups joined together to make a piece. The theme is Pathways. The Orchestra is going to play Pirates of the Caribbean, and the Concert Band is playing Cartoon Symphony, which includes two Bugs Bunny themes, The
Simpsons, (Meet) The Flintstones, The Jetsons, The Pink Panther, and Animatics. So now you know heaps about the festival, but how do you get into the orchestra, choir or concert band?? A lot of people try to get in but most don’t. What you have to do is to do an audition with someone. After that they judge the best
people to be in the festival. About two months after you did your audition, they tell you if you were successful. Some people in Thorrington School got into this festival. These
people are Jonty Schmidt, Benny Schmidt, Millie Peate-Garratt and Ella Somers. Jonty and Benny got in for the Concert Band, Millie got in for the Junior Choir, and Ella got in for the recorder ensemble. Also all the choirs in Christchurch schools go to the festival to make the massed choir. So we will see the Thorrington School choir there. The festival will be on the 15th, 16th, 17th, 21st, 22nd and 23rd of October. So now you know heaps about the festival and I hope you tell your friends and come along. This is their website, where you can see photos, read about
everybody who is playing and more… http://musicfestival.school.nz/
By Jonty Schmidt

Room 14's Totem Poles

I have interviewed Annabel Philips from Room 14 to ask her these questions about their totem poles displayed on the corner of room 14 on their windowsill.
LS: Why did you make the totem poles?
AP: We made them because Linda McIntyre designed them and then our
student teacher Ms Farmer wanted to make some poles, just like the ones by the jetty.
LS: How did you make them?
AP: First of all there was just a wooden pole, and then we painted pictures and put on the background colour. Then Mrs Wilson thought they would look good with tops, so we made some out of paper mache. We also outlined the pictures with vivid.
LS: Why were they outside on Wednesday, last term? We were interested to know why.
AP: Because they were being varnished and they were out there to dry.
LS: Will you use the totem poles for a project or role play?
AP: Probably not. They’re just art.
By Laura Sutherland

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction

For the past few years global warming has been popping up in the news. Now we want you to have your say on what you think about global warming. There will be a new discussion every week. To enter, hand it in to Thomas Moot in Room 15 or someone in the paper in Room 12. It must include what and why you think about global warming and your opinion could be in the paper!
BY THOMAS MOOT

The Dream City

Ben, Leo, Chris, Elliot, Benjamin, Reuben and Cameron spent over two hours of their own time to build a Dream City, which includes a rugby field, a soccer field, a hospital, a police station and other city-like things. The city was created out of coloured card, paper and sticky tape. The amazing looking city is very detailed with cars and people. They often thought about where things should go, and the colour of the
buildings and the ground. It started as a little house, then as more people joined in making it, it got expanded to an overpopulated city!
By Aaron Gyles and Thomas Moot

Boy electrocuted climbing pylon

A 15-year-old boy has been electrocuted while climbing an electricity pylon in South Yorkshire.
The incident happened in the woods in Hollins Lane, Sunnyside, near Rotherham at about midday. The boy, from the Rotherham area, has not yet been named. In a joint statement, the police and fire service said: "It is believed the boy was climbing the pylon and may have been electrocuted before he fell." Police said the cables attached to the pylon carried 66,000 volts. Supt Keith Lumley said: "We have been in touch with the boy's family. We have a family liaison officer with them now. "They will be offering any support they need and obviously answering questions they want answering." South Yorkshire Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident.”
By Riley Payne
Source:www.bbc.co.uk

Mrs Smith’s Orienteering

Mrs Smith has been running orienteering for the year fives and sixes. All of the kids who signed up trained about 8 times. From all the training, they went to Halswell Quarry and got timed for how fast they did the course. The hills were 50 metres high and the whole course was 1.6 kilometres. We interviewed Olivia Richards from Room 16 (OR) and Alex Lee from Room 15 (AL) to ask them these questions.
BW + JP: What is your goal for Halswell Quarry?
OR: To finish and not get lost.
AL: To have fun and complete it.
BW + JP: What was your favourite part about
orienteering?
OR: Finishing.
AL: Going to a championship and having fun.
BW + JP: Why did you want to do orienteering?
OR: To have fun and my friends were doing it.
AL: Because I did it with Mrs Smith.
BW + JP: What or who inspired you?
OR: The instructors at Wainui camp.
AL: Mrs Smith.
By Bridget White and Jakob Purcell

Art Competition Winners

Ski Tournament

Haydn Boul from Room 7 went to the Mt Chessman Ski Tournament on Sunday 10 August and came a wonderful 2nd place. He started to ski when he was four years old! The fastest time that he has done on skis is an amazing 32.38 seconds. He has skied at least 100 times and he rated the ski hill a ten out of ten. His worst injury while skiing was when he broke his leg. His all-time favourite place to ski is Broken River Mountain. He thought the course was hard, but it was still easy.
Zoë in Room 14 came 17th at the Mt Chessman Ski Tournament. Zoë started to ski when she was only three years old! She has skied about 60 times and rated the course a nine out of ten . Zoë’s first ever ski was at Mt Hutt and it was her mum and dad who inspired her to ski. Her favourite place to ski is Vancouver Island in Canada. Zoë would like to go to the Olympics in the future. She thought the course was easy and really fun. She also has an Atomic ski board.