West Melton School : 2014

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Campbell Live @ West Melton!!

This week we had John Selwood interviewing Alexander V in LC14, for the Campbell Live show.

John Selwood and Christie Douglas the camera man.

Check our the link below to see to Alexander and his friends at school.

http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/campbelllive/christmas-dinner-for-the-boy-who-cant-eat-2014121620

Thursday, 11 December 2014

Congratulations Ms O'B!

A HUGE congratulations to Maree O'Boyle who has been offered a secondmet to UCPlus as the Primary School's Science facilitator for 2015!

We are very proud of you Maree!

Tuesday, 25 November 2014

New Students for Term 4

West Melton School welcomed all these new students in Term 4.

Mrs Randall started Term 4 as our new New Entrant teacher co-teaching with Mrs Cider.

We also welcomed Alonso & Aneliz, Amelia & Bridgetta,

William, Tyler, Quarteah, Charlie and Lucca.

Riley & George

Ben & Felicity

Edward & Louis

And our lucky last, Sophie.

Saturday, 22 November 2014

Thursday 20th November 2014

Representing West Melton, Hannah K, Kirsty and Jody MD, attended the Boys & Girls Agricultural Club Championship Day.

Competing with schools all over Canterbury, they are judged on care and attention, leading and handling, type (dairy) and a project book.

Kirsty received a 2nd for her project book.

Hannah received two 1st and two 3rd places and won the Senior Dairy Calf Championship.

Wow, future 'Farmer of the Year' candidates!!

Congratulations on your wins!

Tennis Winners!

Congratulations to our Y 7 & 8 Tennis Team, who recently competed at the Canterbury Summer Tennis Tournament at Wilding Park.

Macy, Meg, Sophie & Abbey came Third overall in the competition.

Well done!!

Pukeko Assembly - Friday 21st November 2014

The Pukeko Team hosted assembly and showcased their learning this year.

Alexandra & Bradly invite the Pukeko Team to share some Bio Poems they have written

What great poems you have written! We have gotten to know you better!

They also shared what they learnt about plants plus their artwork they created.

Sam & Tayla ask Mrs Herring to give out the Mathletics awards

Congratulations to our Gold Mathletes and to Megan who is our Mathlete of the week!

Brody & Dallas invite our new students up

Welcome Edward & Louis!

The continuous soccer winner is... Kikorangi with 55 points!

Sam & Emily invite Mrs Jackson to hand out the KC Kids certificates

What great KC Kids you all are!!

Best part of assembly - who is getting Pizza with the Principal??

Whanau results so far this term:

Whero - 4th with 458 points

Kikorangi - 3rd with 569 points

Kakariki - 2nd with 513 points

Kowhai 1st with 576 points!!!!

Elli wants to know who is the Enviro class this week... It's LC 14!

A reminder to not put glad wrap and food in the recycling bins please.

Mackenzie & Cru now share a collection of photos from the Pukeko Team

Thanks Mason, for a fantastic Pukeko assembly!!

Principal & Writers Awards - Week 6 Term 4

Congratulations on the following students who have achieved Principal and Writers Awards.

Principal Awards

Mitchell P – L.C. 6 – Mitchell has had a successful year in LC 6. He has learnt that by being a self believer and self manager you can do anything. He is also a wonderful team player and respectful citizen who helps with tidying up and uses good manners to his peers and leaders alike.

Camille Mc – L.C. 3 – Camille is a wonderful member of Learning Community 3. She displays all qualities of a great KC kid. She is going from strength to strength in her reading and is showing skill in other areas. She always has lovely manner towards her teacher and peers. She has great creative ideas when it comes to writing and often produces some lovely stories. Well done Camille.

Sophie H. – L.C. 5 – Sophie is a wonderful member of our learning community. She began the year as a shy and nervous wee bus, who, with hard work, self belief, resilience, good manners and kindness to others has blossomed into a highly respected and well liked member of our class. Well done Sophie, this is just the start!

Kaia Davis – L.C. 8 – Kaia is a great KC Kid. She is a kind and respectful member of L.C. 8. Kaia is always willing to help others out and is an excellent role model for the other children in L.C. 8.

Cushlagh Jennings – L.C. 10 – Cushlagh has shown huge improvements in all learning areas and continues to have a positive attitude towards her learning. What a SUPER star!

Megan A. – L.C. 12 – Megan has been chosen for the Principal’s Award because we (Mrs Adcock and Mrs Moake) have been very impressed with her calm, conscientious attitude towards everything that she does. Megan is organised and consistently makes good choices. When given a flexible timetable, Megan is able to remain focussed and responsible. She is respectful and kind.

Writers Awards

Molly T - L.C. 6 - Molly has worked hard and showed lots of self belief to become an awesome writer. She always writes interesting stories with lots of describing words. Molly is now able to write in sentences correctly. She is a superstar writer!

Edward H. – L.C. 12 – Edward is transferring his reading knowledge into his writing. He is also able to use and expand his vocabulary knowledge.

Bed I – L.C. 8 – Bed is a star writer in L.C. 8. He has great imagination and always has lots of interesting ideas to include in his writing. Bed likes to share his stories with the other children in L.C. 8.

Phoenix M-S – L.C. 3 – Phoenix has made a wonderful improvement in his writing this year. He has learnt to slow down to make sure he is getting the best ideas down on paper. We have had a big focus on descriptive writing and Phoenix always has such amazing creative ideas. We have looked at including as many adjectives as we can and I can see Phoenix is trying really hard with this. Well done Phoenix – keep up the amazing work.

Thomas R. – L.C. 10 – Thomas has continued to develop his personal voice in his writing. Thomas takes risks and used exciting vocabulary that HOOKS his audience. WAY to go!