Orchestra comes West

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra have taken their time to come to West Melton School. They were amazing. There were four great musicians who played the harp, violin, viola, flute and piccolo. Some lucky students had a go at playing the violin, playing the mini harp and conducting!
We learnt that:
*the orchestra has played at the Airforce Museum
*Helen the harpist plays in restaurants sometimes
*they all played recorder and piano first
*the harp has different coloured strings
*flutes have been around for 40000 years and they used to be made of bone or bamboo
*Violin bows have horsehair strings
and much more...

by Learning Community 12

CTV Stardom for Science!

Follow the link to check out the item about our fabulous new science lab on CTV News. You will need to choose Thursday 10 May. The item starts 13 min 48 sec in. Enjoy!
Science Lab on CTV News

School Cross Country Results

Kiwi

Year 2 boys 1^st = Jackson Austin and Hamish Earnshaw 3^rd Ted Ward

Year 2 girls 1^st Molly Macpherson 2^nd Isla McPherson 3^rd Eliza Frew

Year 1 boys 1^st Seb Marr 2^nd Max Sharpe 3^rd Alex Neale

Year 1 girls 1^st Celia McPherson 2^nd Jody McCarthy-Dempsey 3^rd Alissa Slaven

Pukeko

Year 4 boys 1^st Calum Murdoch 2^nd Logan Holland 3^rd Felix Varley-Clapp

Year 4 girls 1^st Hannah King 2^nd Emily Waters 3^rd Salma Mohammed

Year 3 boys 1^st Callum Summerfield 2^nd Liam Murdoch 3^rd Campbell Horsbrugh

Year 3 girls 1^st Caitlin Parrett 2^nd Stella Futter 3^rd Emily Sharpe

Moa

9 year and under boys 1^st Oliver Blain 2^nd Cody Austin 3^rd Jesse Gray

9 year and under girls 1^st Charlotte Darry 2^nd Sophie Ilton 3^rd Alexandra Walker

10 year old boys 1^st Sam Clarke 2^nd Lachlan Summerfield 3^rd Benjamin Visser

10 year old girls 1^st Grace Horsbrugh 2^nd Zoe Spinks 3^rd Taylor McKenzie

11 year old boys 1^st Sam Darry 2^nd Samuel King 3^rd Danny Richards

11 year old girls 1^st Kacie Austin 2^nd Sarah Pearce 3^rd Ally Taylor

12 + boys 1^st Jack Ryder 2^nd Joshua McAlpine 3^rd Kade Purcell

12+ girls 1^st Isabella Hurley 2^nd Nicole Cochrane 3^rd Barah Mohammed

Here are the proud 1st placegetters!

Science Lab Opening

Congratulations everyone on another huge achievement for West Melton School! Our opening ceremony for our Transpower Science and Technology lab was a great success on Monday with many honoured and invited guests sharing our success. We look forward to teaching Science and Technology in our great specialist with lab with all ages from New Entrants to Year 8 students into the future.

Once the formalities were over, guests, parents and children had great fun trying out some science activities.

Fantastic New Field

Our resown school field is finally open! We are very thankful to the wonderful King family for their hard work and commitment to this project. Look at the before and after shots!

Thank you King family!

It has been great to see the children (and teachers!) out enjoying the field.

Awesome Assembly

Learning Community 8 ran a great assembly including a wonderful Photostory about their learning in Term One.

Zero Waste

Today Kay came into LC8 to talk about zero waste. 

Zero waste is zero rubbish. 

Kay gave us some recycling to see if it had a triangle on it.  Kay had a honey pot in her hand and she said “put your hand up” and I put my hand up.  I said “you can make it into a vase”.

by Adam W