Elena and Paige bake-off for charity

Elena and Paige had a baking sale to raise money for the City Mission. This was part of the WM School Challenge Awards. For the sale they baked brownies, muffins, fudge, and cookies. Heaps of mpeople came along to purchase the delicious cooking. The baking sale raised a total of $173.20. Great effort girls!!

Art Enrichment

Students from throughout the school have been selected to participate

in an Art Erichment Programme for two half days. The students

are working under the guidance of Mrs Kim Busch in Learning Community 11.

This week the Moa and Kiwi worked on planning and creating 3D sculptures .

They will continue on this work

next week during their final half day session.

Hockey and Soccer Tournament Training

Over the past few weeks the Moa Team from Year 6 -8 have been trialling for soccer to get into teams for the Zone Hockey and Soccer Tournament. We have all now been put into teams for our tournament this Thursday (today). We have a Year 7-8 teamand a Year 5-6 A and B team. We have been training every Tuesday and Thursday with Dave Murdoch and Janet Bryant and we really appreciate their efforts to give up their time to coach us. Everyone is looking forward to the day and we hope we will do well.By Georgia Doocey, LC3

Gym Competition

On Monday the 14th June 2010 a team of enthusiastic gymnists left to compete at the QE2, In the Lion Foundation School of Gymnastics. The weeks before the competition we have been practicing at the West Melton Community Centre every Thursday after school. The competition has four elements Beam,Floor, Bar and the Vault, plus warm up areas like the foam pit with a trampoline which was everyone's favourite.
In Grade 1 (amateurs) there was:
Toni Mckee, Sheree Tomlinson, Callum Sharp, Jack Manera and Kate Jenkins.
In Grade two, which has harder routines, there was:
Georgia Doocey, Rachael Phillipson and Steven Wanhalla.
While we did our routines we got marked in a score of 1-10. Jack Manera did the best by getting second in the valut.
Grade 1 Points overall elements:
Sheree- 34.1/40 points
Toni-31.9/40 points
Callum-31.8/40 points
Jack-34/40 points
Kate-29.9/ 40 points

Grade 2 points overall elements:
Steven- 12th/64
Georgia- 20th/64
Rachael- 46th/64

It was a great day and we had heaps of fun. Thanks to all the parents that helped and transported us to QE2. Hope to see everyone next year.

Toni Mckee
Yr 7

Whare opening

On Friday the 18th of June Rose Brown and Denise Sheet from Taumutu Marae came in to West Melton School to do a blessing on the moving of the whare.
They told us a story about Hari Hari school and a green stone-ponamu.
They gave us the green stone to keep on the steps of the whare where people can go and rub it.
And to finish it off some of us got some kumara.

By Gemma Waters RM 3

Matariki Celebration

On Friday 18 June RM 3 and RM 8 got together to celebrate Matariki, the start of the Maori New Year. Firstly RM 3 which later would be out onto wood using thread. Then our buddy class RM 8 chose which pattern they liked most to be put onto the wood. Then after morning tea we went back to our buddy class and started to thread it onto the wood. After we had finished we ate Kumara. There were Kumara fries, potatoes, and orange and yellow Kumara.
This was the ideal way to celebrate Matariki.

By Abbie Cider

RM 3

Writer's Club success

Congratulations to budding writers at West Melton
School who won prizes in the recent Mother's Day
Writing Competition held by the West Melton News.
Entries from Madeleine McCully, Andrew Rider and
Sophie Ilton (all of which featured on the front page of
the WM News!) were written during a Writer's Club
session at school, and two other entries (Nicole
Cochrane and Toni McKee) were written during class
writing sessions at school. Elena Bakker's poem was also
a winning entry, and was written in rhyme!
It is great to see our young authors getting their writing
published. We are sure all the winning students will
enjoy spending their reward vouchers! Thank you to
Mrs Haywood for motivating students to enter the
competition, and also for submitting the entries.
Special thanks to the West Melton News for supplying
such generous book voucher prizes for the winning
entries. Those students who submitted an entry but
were not winners were all given a chocolate consolation
prize. West Melton School appreciates this kind gesture
as a form of encouragement for our bidding writers.

Zone Cross Country

Zone Cross Country - by Grace Manera
L.C.4
On the 1 June 2010, some other children and I went to
the Zone Cross Country at the Halswell Quarry. When
we got there we set up the big and beautiful school
flag.
I took off my jacket and then my race was called. I
was nervous, we all lined up and then the call “On your
marks, get set” and then he smacked the two wooden
blocks together. Bang! We all raced down the track as
fast as the speed of light! We had to run two laps of
the quarry when I passed people. I could hear their
hearts pounding and people breathing very loudly.
As I was on the last lap I came down the line. I was
very tired when I had finished my race. I got 29th. I
had a drink and when all of the races had finished we
packed up and got into the cars and went back to
school. I had a great day at the Zone Cross Country
and I hope I get to go next year.

Enrichment Programme presentations

The Enrichment Programme students have been presenting their work about either topics related to Round and Round (Moa students) or a new school design (Kiwi students). Mrs McHarg was the invitedguest at the Moa presentation and Mrs Jackson attended the Kiwipresentations. All the students were able to clearly articulatetheir project ideas and concepts and competently answered questions fromboth guests and peers. Pictured: Mrs Jackson and the Kiwi Enrichment studentsshare ideas about their new school concepts.