Thorrington School

Matilda's Christmas Article

2009-12-06T14:25:00.000-08:00

Hat Day

2009-11-10T12:42:00.000-08:00

Hat Day
Hat Day was a big success.
We saw tons of AMAZING hats.
Above you can see just a few wonderful hats!

Lock Out

2009-11-08T15:07:00.000-08:00

Ben's Chess

2009-11-08T11:51:00.000-08:00

Thorrington School of Rock Top 3 in NZ

2009-09-02T01:10:00.000-07:00

Our school band, "Thorrington School of Rock", recently came third in the Nickelodeon TV Nick Rocks competition.

Paul Sparkes, a school parent, was also recently in the top 3 for the Qantas Film and Television Awards for his editing of the Close Up documentary on Thorrington School of Rock.

Read the article about the Thorrington School of Rock in The Press, on 18 August

Presentation to Staff

2009-08-30T15:18:00.000-07:00

I was very impressed with the presentation that the 3 students gave to staff last week. You ran us through a very clear process with easy steps to follow. I hope that all staff have a go at "blogging" over the next few weeks. I can see a couple of examples from R1 and R6 where student work is being shared - well done.
It was also great to see learning through the "eyes" of our students - well done again Mr G! It is vital we continue to believe in the abilities of our students and provide them with opportunities to expand their cognitive abilities... after all one of our key goals is to keep expanding the capacity of all our students to learn.

Greetings from Room 1

2009-08-17T21:09:00.000-07:00

Check out some of our cool science investigations about bubbles.

Science: Candles

2009-08-17T20:59:00.000-07:00

One of Room 6's experiments.

SAM Animation

2009-08-17T20:54:00.000-07:00

Check this out!

How to Blog

2009-08-13T19:06:00.000-07:00

How to Prepare Files to be Blogged

2009-08-13T18:38:00.000-07:00

William's War of the Worlds Review

2009-08-10T21:44:00.000-07:00

The Giant ABCs

2009-07-28T14:52:00.000-07:00

Slideatopia

2009-07-26T17:32:00.000-07:00

Courtesy of Nick and Matthew, Room 13.

Room 16 Camp Arthur's Pass 2009

2009-06-11T19:21:00.000-07:00

Slideshow created and uploaded by the fantastic Courtney Johnson, one of our two chief bloggers. The other blogging genius is MataHana Tikao Calman. Check out her pivot review below.

The day we lost our moon

2009-06-07T21:35:00.003-07:00

The day we lost our moon

The horror of that day!
Here’s the story of the day we lost our moon… first one clear night I looked out of my bedroom window and saw something I’ve never seen before. The moon, it was tiny a dot in the sky, nothing else but total blackness. Then I realized the moon was losing the earths pull. It was getting smaller and smaller every night. One night, as I pulled back the curtain the dot was not there. The earth slightly moved, an earthquake I thought oh no not an earthquake but the moon went BAM! Into the sun. We went to the beach that day. I was thinking about nothing else but last night. I should tell my parents, I thought. No, maybe I’ll keep it a secret. I looked down at the sea, all bluish with white ripples coming closer to the fine, sandy shore. The ocean, still as a statue, hung there, right in front of me. I thought of the poor fisherman and how they might starve and go thirsty. I sat down on the sand and stared at the ship thing that scoops water out of the sea.

By Penny, R13

The Day We Lost Our Moon

2009-06-07T21:35:00.001-07:00

The Day We Lost Our Moon

It seems like yesterday was perfect, our last speck of light glowing in the dark black night sky. I can just imagine it, everyone, out there, in their PJs staring at it, our last moon. Now today every fisherman is poor, starving, cold, and tired.
I feel sorry for my friend Laura whose Mum & Dad are both fishermen. For the last few weeks I have been giving her half my lunch and we have been having lots of sleepovers. Today in about one minute my and I family are walking over to the beach, about one km from here, in fact about 1million years ago, every year the moon would go that distance 1 km from planet earth! We are now walking down to the beach. We live on the hill so I can just make out the beach sand. It is all yellow no other features at the moment. I can see lots of houses with spider webs in and on them because all the fishermen cannot pay the price of owning a house. I am now at the beach. The sand is burning and my feet don’t feel anything sharp because there is not much sea life. And now looking at the sea it is basically all flat and low plus warm. After a long day, I am in bed and the sky is black.

THE END
By Maeve Cleary Room 13

Pivot

2009-06-01T22:47:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard of Pivot before?
If you haven't its free to download just click this link: http://www.snapfiles.com/php/download.php?id=107965&a=7122592&tag=496085&loc=2

Here are some screenshots:

Click for full screen.

The Day We Lost Our Moon

2009-05-28T20:23:00.001-07:00

~The Day We Lost Our Moon~

2009-05-28T20:22:00.001-07:00

The day we lost our moon…

2009-05-28T20:21:00.002-07:00

THE DAY WE LOST OUR MOON!

2009-05-28T20:21:00.001-07:00

TSOR After What Now

2009-05-28T20:05:00.000-07:00

What Now Interview - Jono

2009-05-28T19:58:00.000-07:00

Emma from What Now Interview

2009-05-28T19:47:00.000-07:00

Room 16 Arthur's Pass Camp

2009-05-28T18:53:00.000-07:00

On Monday 25th May Room 16 went to Arthur’s Pass Outdoor Education Centre. We travelled by train there and back. The train trip took about 2 hours. Once we finally got to Arthur’s Pass we met Hamish and Briony, our camp leaders. After we had lunch the class went on the Devils Punchbowl / River Crossing, the water was really cold! At night Hamish took us to see the glowworms, after we played spotlight. The next day we walked the Bealey Spur day walk it took six hours. At the end everyone was tired so Hamish took half the class to a forest track for a blind trail. A blind trail is when you get blindfolded and set off on a track holding on to a rope. Then we got taken up to the old school to make a stretcher out of jackets and poles. In the morning we tidied up the lodge and did orienteering and then had lunch outside the chapel and met up with Room 15, then finished with going to the DOC information centre. We then went down to a bank and did a rock sculpture competition. After we left on the rain for the long trip home.

By MataHana

Ben Spencer's 8 Times Tables

2009-05-18T20:56:00.001-07:00

TSOR on What Now!

2009-05-18T14:38:00.000-07:00

Genevieve's 4X Tables Rap

2009-05-14T19:50:00.001-07:00

Interview with JO

2009-05-14T19:50:00.000-07:00

TSOR: Tim's Song for the Rockquest

2009-05-14T19:09:00.000-07:00

Eight Times Tables by Tom Burns - Click picture to play animation

2009-05-13T17:22:00.000-07:00

El Grego Interview

2009-03-31T19:06:00.000-07:00

This was recorded on a Dictaphone, hence the sound. MataHana and Courtney recorded from the tape onto Audacity on a school computer, then exported the recording as an mp3. Blogger doesn't let you upload mp3s, just pictures and video. So they made this slideshow using iMovie, then added the audio recording as the sound track.

It was a mission working out how to do this; and one we thoroughly enjoyed!

It's so good to have students making the blog posts. It's an example of the great eLearning going on in our school; as are the many samples of classroom work on this blog, which students have produced using the MacBooks.

If you're new, welcome to our blog: watch this space. (If nothing changes, hit refresh; if still nothing, bookmark the site, and check in a few weeks. We are uploading every few weeks at this stage.)

Tofa.

- Mr Gemmill

Room 17 Me Posters

2009-03-30T19:02:00.000-07:00

Room 16: Sock Wrestling & Orienteering

2009-03-24T16:42:00.000-07:00

Room 8's Science Discoveries

2009-03-10T16:50:00.000-07:00

Room 13's Treaty of Waitangi Inspirations

2009-03-05T20:12:00.001-08:00

More of Room 13's Treaty Work

2009-03-05T20:11:00.000-08:00

Room 13's Treaty of Waitangi Inspirations

2009-03-05T20:08:00.000-08:00

Room 12's Camp Movies, and All About Me Posters

2009-03-03T19:19:00.000-08:00

Welcome to Thorrington School's Blog

2008-12-18T21:25:00.001-08:00

We will be uploading video and audio files, student writing, pictures, and anything else we have to share with our school community, on this blog during 2009.

Watch this space.