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Globe Robes Interviewing a costume designer for the Pop Up Globe Bob points across the room to a massive purple and blue striped farthingale. “So that’s worn with a bum roll underneath,” (another point, this time towards a puffy curved garment relaxing on a rack,) “And you start off with a corset.” Each statement is punctuated by Bob suddenly disappearing between racks of costumes, pointing out each and every undergarment. “In fact, under the corset goes a smock, then your corset goes on top, then your bum roll, then your farthingale, then your petticoat, then you’d have a top skirt on top, then your doublet -- ” Bob breaks off at this point, wondering if there are such things as female doublets, and if so what are they actually called? “ -- Then you have your gown on top, and this is super heavy, try this on…”  Bob lifts a velvety black gown (which is usually worn by Maria in Twelfth Night...the play where all female characters are played by men,) off a coat hanger, and ...

Activities to do in the Winter Holidays: 1) Make a hot chocolate. 2) Go ice skating. 3) Go to the movies. 4) Read lots of books. 5) Go skiing. 6) Make cheese (dip vegetables or bread) or chocolate fondue (dip marshmallows & fruit) 7) Bake sweet treats. 8) Have a sleepover. 9) Go for walks up mountains or through forests. 1 0) Have a game night with friends or family. 11) Light your fire or BBQ and toast marshmallows over it. 13) Have a cookie making/decorating party. 14) Have an indoor snow ball fight with sock balls or cotton balls. 15) Knit a scarf. 16) Make soup. 17) Have a spa day. 18) Have a movie marathon. 19) Decorate house with paper snowflakes. 20) Learn how to origami. 21) Light scented candles and listen to music. 22) Make a scrapbook. 23) Go for a walk on the beach and make a snowman out of sand. 24) Start a new hobby. 25) Play football, netball or other winter sports with friends or family. 26) Go cycling or mountain biking. 27) Go up the ...

Random thought of the week Over the holidays, you are no longer under the restrictions that you would usually be under during school. What does this mean? This means that you can spend TWO WHOLE WEEKS doing WHATEVER YOU WANT (as long as it's legal, and your parents say it's ok). You could choose to spend this time with all your best friends having a great time and creating new memories, or you might choose to spend it by yourself in a secret hide out reading a book that takes you into different universes as your mind travels through dimension and time . . . Or you could try some homework. Whatever you do, remember it is YOUR DECISION! So have an awesomely fantastically fun holiday and stay safe guys😎

Holiday Reads As term 3 draws to a close we have come up with a list of the best books to read during these school holidays: Fantasy The Percy Jackson series b y Rick Riordan The Mortal Instruments b y Cassandra Clare Inkheart by Cornelia Funk His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Sci - fi Divergent by Veronica Roth The Uglies by Scott Westerfeld The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer Romance The Fault in Our Stars by John Green If I Stay by Gayle Forman I Was Jane Austen’s Best Friend by Cora Harrison Dystopia The Maze Runner by James Dashner The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Comedy Tiffany Aching b y Terry Pratchett Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams and Eoin Colfer   Classics Alice's Adventures in Wonderland b y Lewis Carroll ‘The Hobbit’ by J.R.R Tolkien ‘The Princess Bride’ by William Goldman ‘Watership Down’ b...

Before the Exam... Revision - make sure you know what you're being tested on so you prepare the best you can. Make sure you know what you're doing first so you can pracitce for that first. Eat and sleep properly. Don't get TOO tense.  Look back on past exams and exemplars.  Before the exam... Make sure you're there early to be in time, and that you're in the right place. Be well rested. Make sure you remember to bring all the right equipment - in a see-through plastic bag. Turn off your phones. During the exam...

Grimm's Tales is on now! Don't miss it - there is still a show tonight and tomorrow night, as well as a matinee at 1pm on Saturday. Order your tickets now on iticket - https://www.iticket.co.nz/events/2016/may/grimms-tales.

By Claire Sauer Hundreds of students are staring at me expectantly as I walk up the stairs and onto the stage. Hundreds of faces the don't know the obstacles I had to overcome to get to this point. Well, that is, if you count forgetting the guitar and having to make a trip from the hall to the music room and back again.  Then realising the guitar needed a strap and having to make yet another trip to the music room and back. Meantime discovering that the guitar and microphone wouldn't even connect to the speaker.  Then with only fifteen minutes left until the bell to get all the equipment set up and to do a sound check and rehearsal, finding that the issue is the guitar itself so we needed to get yet another guitar for the performance, then finally noticing that the new guitar doesn't need a strap and that I will have to use a chair instead, with only two minutes left until everyone comes rushing in, as a “few obstacles”.  But nevertheless, here I am, about to perfo...