KC Kid Activity Afternoon

The KC Kid’s Fun Day
Yesterday the whole school participated in the “KC Kid’s” Fun day. The children participated in range of different activities such as board games, soccer and octopus, treasure hunts and artwork. We also had a lot of great leaders both running the bases and taking the groups round the fun activities. It was great walking round the activities and seeing the smiles on every ones faces. Everyone had fun even the organizers.
Holly from room 10 said”I liked doing the KC kid fun day because you get to do fun activities I haven’t done before.”

Duncan from room 3 said “The day was fun….”



By Harriet Watson

Book Sale at School

Last Friday Kacie and I held a book sale to raise money for a primary school in Uganda who need to buy library books. Thanks to everyone who donated books and games for our sale and to all those who came on the day to buy books. We are pleased to tell you that we raised $162!
Esther Blain & Kacie Austin – LC5

Student Executive Mufti Day

The school Student Executive held at Mufti Day at school

to raise money for the Chomondeley Children's Home.

Students were asked to bring along coins to be used to make

a coin trail on the front court of the school. The generosity

of students and their families ensured that there were

plenty of coins to make the words for the chosen charity and

a total of just under $390 was raised.

Pictured: Photo 1: year 5 students with Senior class teacher Mrs Kim

Busch and Student Executive members.

Photo 2: Mufti day organisers: Georgia Doocey, Gemma Waters and Rachael Phillipson.

Mothers Day raffle winner!

Congratulations to our Mothers Day Raffle winner - Daniel Holland from LC7.

We are sure your Mum would have loved getting all those

goodies for Mothers Day!!

Special thanks to Viv Titmus and Janet Bryant from the PTA

for organising the raffle.

Judo at assembly!!

During our last school assembly the whole school were

treated to a judo demonstration by Will Spinks, Zoe Spinks,

Zita Spinks and Cole Spinks, under the guidance of Graeme Spinks.

The children flipped through the air, hurled each other around and

demonstrated some very fancy judo moves!!

The the end of the assembly, pupils interested in learning judo were given

pamphlets about the judo club held

weekly at the Yaldhurst Memorial Hall.

Rugby Funday

Rugby fun day
On Friday the 7th of May, three West Melton rugby teams went to Ilam rugby fields to compete in 3 rugby games. There were two year 5 teams and one year 6 team. I was in the year 6 team. We played Halswell in the first game. We received the ball and I ran the ball up and got tackled. I scored one try in that game. We won 19-7. Then we had a morning tea break. Our second game was against ST Albans. I subbed for the first 10 minutes. I played winger in that game and got a run away try and set up another try. I got a drop goal over the posts. We won that game as well and the score was 21-7. Our last game of the day was against Sumner. It was a really hard game but we still won.
By Jack Kelliher

Kiwi's Jump Jam

The Kiwi team continue to 'Jump Jam' every morning at the

beginning of the school day. Ably led by Mrs Moore, even

the youngest of school pupils gets fully involved and energised whilst

practising their coordination skills. A fun way to exercise!

Space Camp Visitor speaks to Kiwi and Moa Team, plus Writers Group

Steve Hurd, a pupil at Cashmere High School, visited our school and

talked about his experience on 'Space Camp', which he attended from

26March - 14 April. Steve was fortunate to go to the Huntsville Space Centre

in Alabama and attend the Advanced Space Academy, along with 30

fellow students from around the world.

Steve shared a Powerpoint slideshow of photographs and ancedotal information

about his trip, and pupls were able to ask questions about his experiences.

Some of the noteworthy points of interest were facts Steve learnt from astronauts,

which included astronauts needing to wear nappies as they cant' use the toilet

in zero gravity conditions. The students particulalty liked this point of interest!

Steve spoke to the Junior School, Middle/Senior School and the school Writer's

Club. The Writer's Club asked questions and used clipboards to record the

answers - just like real jouranalists!

Joshua Foundation Leadership Training Year6-8

Year6-8 pupils have just spent the past week engaged in a variety of leadership activities under the guidance of Chirs Allen from The Joshua Foundation. Pupils were involved in a myriad of activities which focused on team building and developing leadership skills as part of a developing leadership programme of work. Chirs Allen commented that the pupils were highly receptive to the prgoramme and were readily involved insupporting each other and developing confidence in unfamiliar situations that ofteninvolved 'thinking outside the square'. The 4 day programme of work concluded with a
raft building exercsie, where pupils were split into two teams and challenged
to make a raft that would sail across the pool to deliver and
receive a number of large objects.
Pictured: Photo 1 Dylan Simpson-Mabey and Sam Robinson aboard the
blue team' raft sailing to retrieve the first object.
Photo 2: Toni McKee, Kate Jenkins and Gemma Waters attempting to
get to the other side of the pool on their raft primarily constructed of tyres.
The winning team was eventually the blue team.

School Cross Country

The West Melton School cross country was held on Monday 4 May on acalm, still autumnal day at Preston Farm. All students from Year 1 throughto Year 8 were entered in their age specific event. Competitive and spiritedperformances were evident in all events and their was a great turn-out ofparents and friends/family to form part of the cheering squad. There waseven a teachers running event at the conclusion of the afternoon which wasmet with great enthusiasm from the students!1st placegetters in each of the events were as follows:Year 1 Girls: Rebecca WrightYear 1 Boys: Callum SummerfieldYear 2 Girls: Hannah KingYear 2 Boys: Logan HollandYear 3 Girls: Sophie IltonYear 3 Boys: Cody AustinYear 4 Girls: Grace HorsbrughYear 4 Boys: Sam Clarke9 Year Girls: Kacie Austin9 Year Boys: Sam Darry10 Year Girls: Georgia Shinn10 Year Boys: Jack Manera11 Year Girls: Toni McKee11 Year Boys: Dylan Simpson-Mabey12 Year Girls: Gemma Waters12 Year Boys: George Watson