Canterbury Championships in Cross Country

Briar and Sam competed in the Canterbury Championships in Cross Country and were placed. Pictured: Briar (Sam absent).

Science Badge

George was the first studnet this year to be awarded a science badge. Georige is pictured wearing his new badge.

School Gymnastics team

This week several representatives from school competed in the gym competition held at QE11.

Pictured: Max, Georgia and Henry, with Briar upside down!!

Jump Jam enter National Competition

This week the WM School Jump Jam troupe were videoed performing their Jungle Boogie to the track, I Like to Move it, Move it. The video has been entered in the National Jump Jam competition in the Novice Year 2-6 category. Ten teams from throughout New Zealand will be selected to compete in the National Finals in November. Successful finalists will be notified at the beginning of Term Three. Go Jump Jammers - and awesome coaching Steph Rumble!!

Check out the Wed 1 July edition of the Central Canterbury News for more information about our great Jump Jam troupe.

School Achievement Sign

Our student success and achievement sign has been updated, with photographs of our Kids Congress representatives - George, Gemma, Kate and Shane. Mrs Jackosn is pictured in front of the updated sign.

Hockey and Soccer Tournament at Burnham

On Thursday 25 June West Melton School had several teams entered in the Hockey and Soccer Tournament at Burnham. Pictured, year 7-8 hockey team Jack, Georgie, Kirsty, Mariella, Lizzie and Shannon.

LC2, 7 and 11 assembly

At assembly we had a rakau performance from Learning Community 2, 7 and 11, accompained by the waiata e Papa Waiari.

Year 7/8 information evening

“Hello and welcome parents, board members and Mrs. Jackson” I stuttered nervously. Tonight it was the Year 7 & 8 information evening, an evening where parents and Year 6 children could have a glance at the wonderful opportunities that we have in Year 7 & 8. Hannah welcomed Mrs. Jackson and Ms. Riley and the evening had finally begun.

Mrs. Jackson and Ms. Riley were handing out Post-it notes and pens to those parents who had questions that they wanted answered at the end of the evening. The most common question was “Who will replace Ms. Riley in Term 3?” All of the Room 4 students wanted to know the answer to this question and we hoped that it would be answered.

The information power-point was made from the view of us Year 7 & 8’s that turned up at Room 4 that night. After all of the present students had shared their speeches, the ex-students shared how West Melton School had helped them transition into their current high- schools. The Year 9 students that came were Alice Darry, Lauren Brown, Kylie Duff, Jess Waters, Rochelle Waters and Anton McGeachen. Most of them shared a short speech with us and then Chris Allen came up to talk to the parents about West Melton School from the perspective of a parent who has children currently attending our school.

He showed the parents a short presentation of what West Melton School has in terms of Leadership. Chris talked lots about the important qualities that we learn at West Melton School and answered a few questions from the parents.

After that important information from Chris, Ms. Riley and Mrs. Jackson stood up and talked about the school curriculum. There were lots of questions for Ms. Riley to answer and she did a great job of addressing everyone’s queries.

Ms Riley then announced the new appointment: “The new teacher who is going to replace me is Mrs. Busch, the deputy principal of Branston Intermediate who used to do Art technology and Textiles Technology!”
We were flabbergasted! Mrs. Busch is an extremely nice teacher and we couldn’t wait to see how she would teach us! We all are hoping that she will focus a lot on Art in spare time!!

Recorder concert at WM Kindergarten

Today Learning Community 2 visited the WM Kindergarten and Learning Centre and performed a mini concert of 6 songs on the recorder - Hot Cross Buns, London's Burning, Mary had a Little Lamb, Bobby Shaftoe, Bell Horses and Mister Sun. They performed twice - once to the kindergarten, and once to the Learning Centre. This was a great opportunity for the children in the class to display their recorder skills and perform to a live audience. It was also a good incentive for some of the children to practise their tunes at home before performing to another group of children!

Shapes and Angles in Learning Community 5

In Room 5 we are learning about 2D shapes and angles. We started learning about them last week and have recently drawn some angles outside Rooms 4 & 5. There are 5 kinds of angles you can come and find out by looking outside Rooms 4 & 5. For example, an acute angle is an angle between 0˚and 90˚, and a revolution is a full turn, which is 360˚. We will be doing this for most of the term and if you understand what you are doing with them it can be useful information.

By Sam

Writer's Club sample - A musical in London!

Last Wednesday I went to the Queens' Theatre in London to see Les Miserable! I was fortunate enough to have a holiday in England for two weeks, where I stayed with my Grandma and Aunt.
I saw Les Miserable live on stage. It is a musical. It was quite noisy. There were lots of characters.
The story is about a man (called Jean Valjean) whole stole some bread. He goes to help a little girl called Cosette. But every man used to be a slave so a war soon rages. In the end all the slaves die except for two. Jarvert the Policeman tries to find Jean Valjean and lock him up for stealing a mouthful of bread.
Les Miserable is very popular. I went there with my Aunty Shani. We both enjoyed the muscial very much.
By Nicky, aged 8.

Homework challenge update

Matthew from Learning Community 5 shared his homework challenge Powerpoint during Moa Matters today. He made a claymation out of plasticine which featured a sequence of photographs. The plasticine figure was very slightly moved and then a photo was taken, and when all the photos are played rapidly in sequence a mini movie is created. Great effort Matthew - we loved viewing your 'Happy Man and his family' plasticine movie!!

Choir

WM School has a Year 5-8 choir. The choir are currently practising for the Chch Music Festival which is held in the 1st week of Term 4. Today the choir learnt the traditional Maori song 'E Papa Waiari'.

Moa Matters

Today during Moa Matters we learnt the song "You've got a friend in me" from the movie 'Toy Story'. Look at all those enthusaistic singing faces!

Hokey Tokey goes schoolwide!

Learning Community 4 led us in a whole school Hokey Tokey Dance. Can you spot Mrs Jackson swingin her hips to the Hokey Tokey??!!

LC3's famous New Zealanders assembly

Today Learning Community Three treated the school to a fun assembly with presentations from students dressed in character costumes. Each individual gave us clues as to which famous New Zealander they were dressed as....can you guess each of the characters based upon their costume?

Friday Friends in LC10

In Learning Community 10, Friday is friends day. Children are able to invite family or friends to speak to the class and children are able to practise their interviewing and questioning skills. This morning Chris Allan, a Captain in the NZ Army, came to speak to LC10. You can see them in the picture with Chris dressed in his full uniform.

Can you Jump Jam??!!

WM School has a Jump Jam squad, which is led by enthusiastic Jump Jam fanatic and WM school parent Steph Rumble. Selected students are now in training for a Jump Jam competition and have several training sessions (including some weekend practices) to ensure they will be ready to compete against the best of the best Jump Jammers! We look forward to seeing your polished performances! :)

Parachute Fun!

This afternoon Learning Community 11 took the parachute outside for some fun games - now you see them....now you don't!!

Learning Community 9 trip to museum and art gallery!

"Learning Community 9 had a wonderful day at the Museum and Art Gallery last Tuesday 26 May. This visit with LC 10 was part of our Inquiry Learning - "This land is my land". At the Art Gallery, we saw the wonderful Rita Angus art exhibition and were particularly interested in 'landscape' paintings. We were amazed at how she painted ithe same view in many different styles. At the Museum we linked so many different things into our Inquiry. The favourite places were the 'Paua House' and the Maori village and Moas. Overall we had a fantastic day and there were many very tired and happy children, teachers and parents. Here are some of our shots
From Learning Community 9 "