Pegasus Post: October 02, 2018

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Tuesday October 2 2018
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PEGASUS POST
SCHOOLS
Waste solution at Haeata
A PROJECT is under way to
help reduce the amount of waste
made by 3D printers at Haeata
Community Campus.
Objet D’Fox designer Michael
Fox has taken up residency at
the school’s designer space to
build a machine aimed at turning
plastic into filament for 3D
printers.
It is due to the school having
three 3D printers which are
constantly in use with students
creating, tweaking and revising
designs for numerous projects,
including rockets, jewellery and
more.
Year 10 student Ethan Matten
said the process creates a lot of
waste.
Having a designer in residence
has given Ethan a chance to see
all sides of the design process.
“The machine that Michael
is making will help reduce our
waste,” he said.
Designing and testing his
product in the school’s design
space has allowed Mr Fox to
speed up the testing phase.
“The more minds focused on
it, the more results we’ll get and
the quicker we’ll get to them,”
said Mr Fox.
GREAT WORK: Pupils Shikarna, Lila, Brooke, Julia and
Chloe helped raise more than $800 as part of Queenspark
Primary School’s annual Jump Jam Cupcake Sale. Two
teams from the school will compete at the Jump Jam
regional competition next month and the money raised will
go towards the pupils’ costumes for the event.
Chisnallwood puts on its
• By Georgia O’Connor-Harding
A NEW twist has been taken
on one of the world’s most well
known fairytales.
A modernised production
of The Wizard of Oz was
brought to life by Chisnallwood
Intermediate pupils last week
with the aim of showcasing the
school’s values.
Head of arts Kate Thomson
wrote the original play, Dorothy’s
Journey, over the Christmas
holidays with a goal of making a
production more relatable to her
pupils.
“It is just really a story about
what children go through.
Learning about responsibility,
respect, resilience and relationships,”
she said.
Set at Emerald Intermediate,
the story featured modernised
personalities inspired by the
original characters from The
Wizard of Oz.
Pupils played the roles of
Scarlett Crow, who lacked
responsibility; Tim ‘The Man’
Steel, who thought friendship
was overrated and lacked
relationships; and Leon King
who lacked courage and
resilience. The antagonist is Will
Wicked, the school bully who
makes hurtful posts online about
other pupils in the school.
The plot sees the protagonist,
Dorothy, bring the three unlikely
characters together to stop Will
Wicked.
Miss Thomson said she
thought she would adapt the
NEW TWIST:
Chisnallwood
Intermediate
pupils performed
a modernised
production of
The Wizard of Oz
last week. ​
version of famous fairytale
show as she knew buying the
rights to a script was “out of the
question” in terms of budget.
It is the first production she
has written, produced, directed
and choreographed.
“I have always loved The
Wizard of Oz. As a kid, I
danced as Dorothy in one of
my ballet productions . . . so it
has always been a production
close to my heart,” Miss
Thomson said.
About 40-45 pupils featured in
the cast and worked backstage.
“Just seeing them bring it
to life, what I imagined, is so
rewarding,” she said.
Miss Thomson said the shows
on Tuesday and Wednesday at
the school hall were successful
with a “great turn out”.
Annie
6TH TO 13TH OCTOBER 2018
ANNIE is filled with humour and heart
and features some of Broadway’s most
memorable musical numbers, including
“Little Girls”, “It’s the Hard Knock Life”,
“Easy Street”, ‘Maybe”, “I Don’t Need
Anything But You” and the legendary
anthem of optimism, “Tomorrow”.
The show remains one of the
biggest Broadway musical hits
ever. It ran for 2,377 performances
after it first opened, and has been
performed in 28 languages and has
been running somewhere around
the world for 40 years.