Pixarthon A Great Success!

On Friday the 11^th of May until the Saturday the 12^th of May, Dinnington Comprehensive School held a Pixarthon to raise as much money as we can for Bluebell Wood Hospice and the Canada Tour Trip.

Students could either come in comfy clothes like PJ’S or they could come in fancy dress (a character off a Pixar film) to be in with the chance to win the fancy dress contest. The event started at 5:00pm on the Friday and lasted to 3:00pm in the afternoon on the Saturday. During the Pixarthon, students from DCSCH could stay up all night and day and watch back – to – back Pixar films, (with breaks for meals). The films we watched were; Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Finding Nemo, Monsters Inc, Up, A Bugs Life, Cars, Cars 2, Wall E, Ratatouille and the Incredibles.

Also during the event, there were 3 competitions you could enter, they were a fancy dress contest, a contest where there was a sheet of paper with Pixar characters from different films and you had to name all of them, and lastly there was a contest where the teachers/helpers from school hid pieces of paper with a Pixar character on it around a certain part of school and you had to go and find them all. All the results were collected in and we are now awaiting on the results of who won each contest.

If students couldn’t keep their eyes open, they wanted to get away from the noise or if they just needed a break for a bit, there was a room where students could go to do any of these. Overall all of the students had a great time, everybody enjoyed themselves and we all were absolutely shattered by the time it finished because quite a few people didn’t go to sleep at all during the full 24 hours of films!

But how about you... Has your school ever done anything similar to this? What is your favourite Pixar Film? Feel free to post your comments!