World Vision 40hr Famine

World Vision 40hr Famine

On Friday the Moa team had a visit from Ben at World Vision 40hr Famine.  This year the 40hr Famine is 40 years old!!  All money raised will be sent to Malawi to help with village projects.

This is a great West Welton Challenge to do!

These kids are taking up the challenge!

PMP starts for Term 2!

PMP starts for Term 2!

This week the Kiwi team started PMP for the term.  Perceptual Motor Programme (PMP) is a set of activities for children.  They need to follow a sequence of instructions, do eye tracking, climb through and over obstacles, jump in and out of hoops and walk along a straight line.  These activities have been designed to help develop gross and fine motor skills.

Check out how these children are doing!!

Thank you to the wonderful parent helpers!
We couldn't do it without you!

Snow Flurry!

Snow Flurry!

A bit of excitement this morning, as we had our first snow flurry of the year!

Wedding Bells for Ms Crosby!

Wedding Bells for Ms Crosby!

Congratulations to Ms Crosby who got married during the school holidays 

to Wayne.

We wish you both love and happiness from this day forward!

Pink Shirt Day - Class photos!

Pink Shirt Day - Class photos!

Check out the class photos!

 LC 1

 LC 2

LC 3

LC 4

 LC 5

 LC 6

 LC 7

LC 8

 LC 9

 LC 10

 LC 12

 LC 14

 LC 15

 LC 17

 The whole school.

Even the staff got into the act!

Thanks James & Logan for taking such great photos!

Pink Shirt Day!

Pink Shirt Day!

Friday 23rd May 2014

James & Logan from our Student Council organised our fantastic Pink Shirt Day - which is about taking a stand against bullying and fostering positive relationships with the people around us.

Thanks James & Logan for a great day!

Science Alive with the Moa Team

Science Alive with the Moa Team

Our senior classes were lucky enough to have a visit from the Science Alive team this week for Science Week.  As part of our 'Forces' science unit, they were able to participate in the 'Science Friction' programme.

The students were able to do simple experiments to see how forces work.

Science Week in LC 10

Science Week in LC 10

Science Week was a great success, with lots of classes doing their own science experiments.

Here is what LC 10 learnt:

After reading that plants need water, we followed the experiment to see what happens when you placed celery into water with food colouring.  Our variables were carnations and blue dye.

Our hypothesis: The celery was going to turn red all over and the petals on the flower was going to turn red.

After a short time the leaves started to change to red.  The blue dye didn't do anything at first.

Our conclusion:We think the red works better because it was powder and maybe it was stronger than blue liquid dye.

Great work LC 10!!

Walkathon Prize winners!

Walkathon Prize winners!

Our Walkathon prize winners couldn't be happier with their bikes!

Moa winners - Cameron & Toby (they both get a bike each!)

Pukeko winner - Hamish

Kiwi winner - Nikita

Well done!

Cross Country Cup Champions!

Cross Country Cup Champions!

Junior Girls Cup Champion - Charlotte H
Senior Boy Cup Champion - Michael C
Senior Girl Cup Champion - Meg R
Junior Boy Cup Champion - Calum M

Congratulations to our Moa Team Cup Champions!

LC 1's Assembly - Friday 16th May 2014

LC 1's Assembly - Friday 16th May 2014

Our first assembly for Term 2!

 Oliver & Caleb welcome everyone.

 Marshall talks about our school values: Excellence & Respect.

 Tasman shows us some of the marvellous self portraits created in LC 1.

 They learnt how to shade with a pencil.

 Molly invites Mr D to talk about Rugby Fun Day.

 

 The Year 4's had an awesome time!!

 Aydan invites Ms McKendry & Mrs McKee to present the certificates for the school cross country.

 Our fantastic Cross Country KC Kids - Zane, Matthew & Natalie win a prize for showing outstanding sportsmanship.

Congratulations to the Moa Team first place getters & school cup champions

and Pukeko Team first place getters!!

Saskia invites Ms Crosby for Mathletics. 

WOW! We had 26 Gold certificates this week!

These are our top Mathletes for Term 1: Stacey who mastered 90 maths concepts, Isabella who mastered 101 concepts and Brin who mastered 82 math concepts!!
Some interesting facts about Mathletics at West Melton:
In Term 1, 357 students utilised Mathletics.
The average score was 71% with 95% finishing their concepts.
LC 9 was the top NZ School last week and 5th overall in the world!

Congratulations Will for being our Mathlete for the week! 

LC 1 shared a song with us 'E manaki ana'.

A great big welcome to all our new students!

There were lots of outstanding KC Kids this week!  Fantastic!!

Jim invites the head students & Mrs McHarg to draw the KC Coupons.

Pizza with the principal for these lucky children!

Riley asks where we are with the Whanau points.

Macy & Gemma announce the points this week.

Kowhai - 4th place 307

Whero - 3rd place 328 points

Kakariki -2ns place 352

Kikorangi - 1st place 390 points!!

Overall winner for the year is .... Kikorangi with 1900 points!

Thomas is wanting to find out who won?

WooHoo!!  Congratulations

Nikita, Hamish, Cameron & Toby!!!

Our student councillors, Logan & James tell us about 

Pink Shirt Day on Friday 23rd May.

The Eco team, Braiden & Shane announce the winning recycling class - LC 7!

Thank you Max & LC 1 for an informative assembly this week.