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A 10 minute story rarely covers 10 minutes of events from beginning to end - some parts are compressed and others expanded. Not only that, but flashbacks and other effects are used to jump backwards and forwards in time. J.M. Coetzee wrote that " For the reader, the experience of time bunching and becoming dense at points of significant action in the story, or thinning out and skipping or glancing through nonsignificant periods of clock time or calendar time, can be exhilarating - in fact it may be at the heart of narrative pleasure . I think some short-story writers underuse these effects, so I'd like to talk about them now. Speed Changes of speed are so common in all forms of storytelling that we hardly notice them. Here are some examples compression: "So we lived in Texas for five years, and then we moved to California." expansion: "All of the sudden it occurred to me in a flash of insight that she never really loved me and had only been using me to make h...

On Monday, Mr Miles Kau Kau, a tutor in Maori Arts came to school to show children from Rooms 9, 10 and 11 how to do soap carving. First we put a piece of paper over the soap and drew over the pattern. Then when we took the paper off, we could see the pattern on the soap. Next we got a special tool and carved over the lines. We had to cut away more of the soap around the pattern we wanted. At lunch we cut around the outside to make it stand out more. Next we smoothed it over with a chisel. We added three pieces of paua , two for our parents, and one for ourselves. We carved more patterns to show how many brothers and sisters we had. Lastly we decorated the base. It was awesome and Miles was lots of fun. We sang heaps of Maori songs with him as we did our carving.

Well what a great day was had by all! It started off with a very early rise for everyone involved (the bus left from the school grounds around 5.50am to transport the group to the airport). They arrived in Wellington in time for breakfast and from there they were taken on a guided tour and lunch at Te Papa. They also had a ride on the “High Ride” and visited several of Te Papa’s Discovery Centres. The highlight of the afternoon was a great tour of the Rugby Union Headquarters where the group were shown some very fascinating memorabilia and given a very interesting tour and talk. They were fortunate enough to be able to have their group photo taken with the Tri Nations Cup and some of the students even had their photo taken wearing on of the gold medals recently won at the Commonwealth Games. The group later travelled to Parliament and although there was not time for a tour of the buildings they did have their photo taken on the steps of parliament buildings and were able to view the be...

Yesterday 17 Senior students travelled to Hillmorton High school for the Zone Athletic Sports Day. Our students competed in Sprints, Long Distance, High Jump, Long Jump, Discus and Shot Put. Everyone showed their Addington Attitude and had a wonderful day. Congratulations to Grace Sorby who came second in the Long Jump and Caleb Gregory who came second in the 50 m Sprint. Both Grace and Caleb have qualified for the Central Zones. Well done! A huge thank you to those parents who helped with transporting our team down to Hillmorton and were able to cheer our children on. It was much appreciated.

This afternoon Amanda Teear was farewelled at a full school assembly. Mrs Teear had taught at Addington for almost 7 years and said that they were the best teaching years of her life! Te Tipuranga, Whanau Kowhai, Room 10, and the Green Team all paid tribute to the wonderful contributions she had made to life at Addington school. Ms Heath thanked Mrs Teear for being such a great teaching practitioner, collegue and friend. We will all miss her sense of fun and fantastic contributions to teaching at our school and wish her all the very best for the future.