The children of Year Three are all huge fans of Doctor Who and in English one day we started to think about what it would be like to time travel in the Tardis. As the school had recently celebrated our 40th Birthday, we began to imagine what the school would be like forty years into the future...
Read our adventure stories to find out what we envisaged.
THE TARDIS
by Paul Brown
When our class was invited to the Hancock museum we were all excited. When we got there we saw the Doctor Who’s time machine. I said “Ben, Finlay and Joseph, I’ve found the Doctor Who’s machine!�
“Wow, is this the real thing?� they chorused.
I said “I don’t know. Do any of you want to do inside the box?�
Ben said “Yes it will be fun.�
I said, “Ok let’s go inside.�
We all pushed the battered blue door and there was a metallic clicking noise. Joseph tripped and fell on a lime green button on one of the flashing control panels and there was a loud whooshing noise, we were all stunned for a minute and stared at each other in silence. Then I looked out the time machine’s window then discovered to our horror that we were indeed in space. I was frightened I can tell you. Then we stopped with a bump and then we curiously opened the door and peered outside. It was amazing! All the buildings were very high, soaring into the clouds and instead of cars there were flying pods. We decided to look around the strange futuristic town then to our surprise we found a school called Fellside Primary. We realised we were in Whickham but not as we knew it. We ventured in, it was huge! When we were walking around we saw an assembly and discovered the school was 80 years old that day! We saw a big assembly was taking place. All the hall walls had pictures and drawings all over them. The head teacher opened a box in it was a new school uniform for the Fellside Primary. The children clapped in approval.
We looked outside there were hover bikes in the hover bike shed. There were different kinds of trees such as palm trees, orange gloves, banana trees and cacti. The climate was hot and tropical the result of global warming. We also saw the Tardis then we went back and went back to the past we told everyone of our adventure. Ben said in an excited whisper: “That was the best trip I’ve ever been on!� No body else believed it.
Tardis Discovery
by Bailey Charles-Jones
Click! The battered door opened. Emily, Annabel, Mia and I were curious to find out what was in the navy blue Tardis. We all stepped in determined to find out what was inside. You could see flashing lights everywhere. Mia found a lime green button and pressed it by accident. The others, who were at this point speechless, stared at each other in disbelief! The Tardis started to shake and soon it slowed down. Annabel, who was the bravest, opened the door. Creek!
We stepped out with shock and trepidation, the atmosphere was misty and it was quite frosty on the leaf green field. We had landed in the grounds of Fellside School. We peered through the school window all the children were eating their lunches but not ordinary lunches like your crisps and sandwiches. Oh no! They had violet pills that they sucked with boredom. We decided to go in. The scarlet red walls were decorated with work done in ways that haven’t been invented before. A teacher was coming down the corridor. We hid behind a coat peg until we were safe. But we weren’t there was an army of children coming down the corridor. When they had gone we peeped in a classroom. Instead of writing books there were laptops with names on such as John and walls with more words and phrases on them. We took the next exit, it was all too much for us and we needed fresh air to calm our nerves. It took us to the play ground. It was dull and bare. Like a desert in fact, the result of global warming. No lush field was in sight. We decided to go home, we had seen enough for one day so we stepped inside and Mia pressed the same button. The Tardis did its job and we landed and Annabel opened the door but we weren’t at the museum Oh no!
My Adventure
by Emily Dodds
One day when my friends Bailey, Annabel and myself went to visit the Hancock Museum, there was a real Time Machine there! You see Dr. Who has this machine on his programme that he uses to travel in time and space. We thought it was just make believe but it turned out to be not the case. My friends and I went in and I accidentally pressed the flashing green button I saw on the control panel. I didn’t mean to do it but the button seemed to be begging me to press it. When I had pressed it and the Tradis started to move. Bailey, Annabel and I were feeling scared and frightened.
When the Tardis stopped are hearts stopped beating as fast as they were before and we started to feel nerves so Bailey said “Come on let’s go and explore and see where we are .So we had a little peep outside and there was no people in the place. There was just a yard with a big sign saying HAPPY 80TH BIRTHDAY so that’s when we realised we were at Fellside Community Primary school there were no children in the yard because they where all waiting to see what was the time capsule. When we entered the enormous hall which was clad in a white plastic coating with marvellous 3-D pictures obviously produced by the pupils, the teachers called for quiet. They were robots. You could tell by their metallic voices that echoed through the vast hall in monotone. The children had been cloned they all looked the same we did not want to disturb them so we crept out of the school and went back into the Tardis and I pressed the red flashing button, we zoomed off back to the museum found the class 3 and went back to school.
We never did tell of our adventures, but kept them a secret, until now.
A Trip in the Future
by Laura Wilkinson
With a sudden creak the Tardis door swept open and there, standing before us was a huge room. We couldn’t actually believe we were seeing the same thing, small on the outside but big on the inside- Wow! I asked my friends Rachel, Mia and Charlotte if they would like to come in with me, they of course said yes. As we walked in we saw a flashing lime green button, I told my friends we shouldn’t press it. So we tried not to. Then Rachel accidentally knocked Charlotte and she hit the button. All of a sudden it started rocking furiously and suddenly we zoomed up into the bright sunny sky. We were all shocked.
We whizzed through the sky and after five minutes of shock and excitement we landed. When we opened the door we saw a school. We looked at each other a couple of times and then we got out of the Tardis and saw that we were at Fellside Community Primary School and it was its eightieth birthday! Should we explore like we did in the Tardis or shouldn’t we? We didn’t know but eventually we decided that we would have a little explore since it was so quiet and the coast was clear.
First we saw the playground. It had perfectly wonderful palm trees because the leaves were bright green. There were cacti plants and orange trees that had really ripe oranges on. We really couldn’t believe we were in 2047 the year. It was wonderful. Next we explored in the school as it was so quiet. On the classroom walls were hologram pictures that moved when you walked past them. We felt so excited we were smiling all the time. The floors were made of orange rubber and nobody used books anymore instead they used there own personal computer. Would you like to use your own computer at school so you didn’t have to write with pencils? Then after walking round most of the school we eventually saw the children, they were in the hall looking through the time capsule. They were wearing uniform just as I designed with a little screen on your sleeve and a flip down screen on your cap. Hover shoes that turned into ‘Heelys’ and buttons on your dress to control the shoes.
Finally we went back outside and got back into the Tardis. We really needed to go back to the Hancock but we didn’t know which button to press. We decided to press the button we pressed to get here, so with a quick click I pressed the button. In about five minutes we landed with a thump on the ground. We opened the door and luckily we were at the Hancock were we started. “Phew what a journey,� we all said.
“Just what a shame we had to leave then.�
At that moment our teacher called us to leave. We were quite happy to go because we had the best time in the world.
A Trip in the Tardis
by Liberty Caithness
Once, my friends and I were on a school trip, my friends were called Lucy, Abbi and Anna. The trip was to a museum to see the Dr. Who exhibition. We had five minutes to see each exhibit and finally we came to a last model but it didn’t look like a model, in fact, it looked very real. It was the Dr. Who’s Tardis! The four of us were very excited but we were even more thrilled when a man said that we could go inside. We all dashed inside it. Lucy said “It looks much bigger than on the outside of the Tardis.�
Then suddenly, Anna accidentally tripped on something and pressed an emerald green button and then the door slammed shut and everything started to shake! We bumped into walls and banged our heads on the sealing when it turned upside down but finally it had all stopped. Abbi nervously opened the door and we found ourselves in the year three classroom only it looked very different, the lights were off and no pupils were in it. The four of us walked along the quiet corridor and then we all realised that every class was in the hall wearing party clothes, dancing to music and singing their favourite songs but what was the most amazing was a huge pretend birthday cake with a massive 80 on it! It was when we had found out that we had travelled into the future. The flashing disco lights were floating in mid air and the pictures on the walls were dancing too! We all looked at each other, sparkles were surrounding our clothes and when the sparkles had gone we all realised that we were wearing party clothes as well. We all looked amazed at each other. We decided to join in the dancing and so we walked nervously through the corridor and stepped carefully onto the dance floor were everyone was sweating and going crazy. After five seconds, all four of us were dancing a little bit as well. We were having a whale of a time until the DJ said that it was the end of the disco. We all realised that our party clothes started to change back into normal clothes!
“Let’s get out of here!� yelled Abbi and we all ran for the exit.
“Phew, I’m hot enough to get in a cold bath!� said Lucy but there was no more time to talk, everyone was walking through the exit as well! We all ran for the Year Three classroom again. We all rushed into the Tardis and I pushed the emerald green button once more, the door slammed shut, the Tardis started to shake and we were off.
We bashed into walls and banged our heads on the ceiling when it turned upside down but it had all stopped eventually. We were so relieved. We walked cautiously out and discovered the rest of the class milling around the other exhibits. Time had stood still. No one had even missed us. We smiled secret smiles to one another and made a pact never to tell that we had been to the future!
Forward to the Future
by James Baister
I was walking around the museum all bored with my class because we had been there for some time. Suddenly Dan, Jack, and I, noticed a Tardis in the Dr. Who exhibition. We touched the door and to our surprise the dark blue, wooden door swung open!
I said,
“Why don’t we go in?�
So we did! We started to push each other in the gigantic space inside. Yes it was just like the Tardis we’d seen on the television – small on the outside and enormous on the inside. As we fooled around, I got pushed onto a lime green button near the control desk. The Tardis began to move!
“What is going on?� I said in great surprise.
“I do not know!� said Dan, looking both shocked and a little green.
We landed at school but only it was 40 years after, the date we left it. We knew because there was a sign that said ‘Fellside at eighty’ and this was projected on the hall wall. We got a shock when one of the paintings started to speak to us!
It said:
“What kind of uniform is that? Hey where is your hover board?�
The bike shelter had turned into a hover bord shelter we noticed these strange boards, all lined up and children arriving at the school on them. Things had certainly changed. We discovered that the teachers were robotic, the head teacher was a Darlek! It was too silly to be true, we ran back to the Tardis and pressed the sky blue button but arrived back on the museum just in time to join the class leaving to go home. We didn’t let on where we’d been, not to anyone, until now.