Writers Awards - Term 3 Week 3

Writers Awards - Term 3 Week 3

Congratulations to these exceptional learners in receiving a Writers Award from Mrs Jackson today.

Jensen M - Kiwi - Her determination to succeed in reading and writing.  What an amazing reader you are becoming Jensen!

Yvette D - Piwakawaka 1 - Yvette is a star writer in Piwakawaka 1.  She always has lots of interesting ideas to include in her writing and likes to share her stories with others.

Eleanor B - Kiwi - Her determination to write clear and concise instructions and a positive writing attitude.

Kyden B - Ngaio - An outstanding effort with his writing all term.  He has done his best to finish all his work.  He even wants to finish it in his own time!@  He is on task and is improving with each new writing task.  Keep it up Kyden!

Outstanding work everyone!!

Numeracy Awards - Term 3 Week 3

Numeracy Awards - Term 3 Week 3

Congratulations to these exceptional learners in receiving a Numeracy Award from               Mrs Jackson today.

Ethan S - Piwakawaka 2 - Ethan is a great problem solver.  He comes up with creative solutions and communicates these effectively.

Joe H - Rimu - For enthusiasm and quick-thinking problem solving, and for trying hard to do the right things at the right time.

Well done boys!!

Wero o te Wiki - Challenge of the week Term 3 Week 1

Wero o te Wiki - Challenge of the week

Here is our te reo Maori weekly update!

The Wero o te Wiki ~weekly challenge is to encourage our learners to use more te reo use around the school, especially in the playground! There will be challenges every week for the rest of the year.

The phrases over the term break were: "Ira! ~Look at that!" and "Kei reira! ~Right on!

There were fantastic videos sent in before the break. It is tau kē to hear you kōrero Māori! And the winners this week are Amira, Ella and Tayla!  Here is their winning entry (link for video)

The new phrase to try is "Koia kei a [koe]" ~You really nailed it! 
(You can change the "koe" to someones name if you like!)

Come on West Melton, Ākina te reo ~Give te reo a go!

New Build - What's been happening...

New Build - What's been happening...

Thursday 28th July 2016

The builders have been really busy during the school holidays.

The roof is nearly finished and the the framing for our new offices are up.

 Office/reception

 Teachers workspace/staffroom

Break out rooms

Lift area

 The view from the top

 View from Westview Cres/ Weedons Ross Rd

Principal Award - Term 3 Week 10 - Grandparents' Day special

Principal Award - Term 3 Week 10 

Grandparents' Day special

To celebrate Grandparents's Day we gave out a special award to a special Grandad. We also celebrated three of our outstanding students with their writing.

Reuben H  & Hamish E - Writers Award - For researching and presenting an excellent speech. They researched their chosen topics using various resources to make their presentation interesting and meaningful.

Brain E - Being the best Pop on Grandparents' day at West Melton School.

Amy A - For her outstanding effort towards all areas of her school work and the way in which she demonstrates the KC's towards other learners.

Art Enrichment Programme

Art Enrichment Programme

In Term 3, West Melton invited schools from the Rolleston cluster, to send students who were passionate about art.

Each student had a chance to create a Giacometti Wire and Plaster Sculpture.

Each student would develop observational drawing skills, then would have to transpose their drawing skills to 3D artworks.  

In the end they would have created a wire and mache sculpture with a graphite finish.

Mrs Busch our experienced Visual Art teacher, facilitated the course.

Principal & Writers Awards - Week 10 Term 3

Principal & Writers Awards - Week 10 Term 3

Principal Awards

Isabella R - LC 7 - Isabella is a wonderful example of a West Melton KC Kid.  She has excellent classroom manners and always tries her best in all areas of the curriculum.

Lulu O'D - LC 2 - Lulu is a super West Melton KC Kid.  She is friendly to everyone and always includes other people.  Lulu is kind and helpful to other people.

Jody M - LC 1 - Jody consistently works hard in class and is always willing and eager to help out. An asset to LC 1.

Harley G - LC 14 - Harley has worked hard and improved in all his learning and has a positive attitude.

Taylor M - LC 15 - Has a can do attitude and is happy, respectful, caring, involves others and shares!

Jordyn M - LC 11 - Jordyn has developed great resilience this term!  She is a fantastic self-manager and always makes good learning choices.  She is a respectful citizen and helps other children to organise themselves in the morning.

Writer's Awards

Austin C - LC 2 - Austin is a keen writer.  He enjoys writing and is very capable at it.  Austin has very interesting ideas, which he organises well.  He understands lots of interesting words and sometimes uses them in his writing.

Alexander V - LC 14 - Alexander has worked very hard with his writing working on his punctuation, working on google docs and sharing his work with others for feedback.

Greta B - LC 14 - Used great questions and punctuation and shared her story about Grandparents Day on google docs.

Meg R - LC 15 - Outstanding story of a kidnapping using many adjectives hooking the audience into her story.

Taylan E - LC 7 - Taylan has worked very hard to learn his alphabet letters and sounds and is now able to independently sound out words when he is writing his sentences.

Fergus J - LC 11 - Fergus takes great delight in sharing his writing and writing independently.  He can write more than three sentences, uses interesting words and knows how to write a story that other people will want to read.  Fantastic writing Fergus!

Oliver N - LC 1 - Oliver wrote an amazing, interesting narrative story with lots of thought put into it!! 

Principal’s & Writer’s Awards – Term 3 Week 6

Principal’s & Writer’s Awards – Term 3

Week 6

 Cameron G – L.C. 8 – Cameron is a fantastic writer in LC8.  He has worked really hard to improve his writing this year and likes to share his stories with others.

Madelyne W -  L.C. 8 – Madelyne is a great KC kid.  She is a kind and respectful member of LC8.  She is always willing to help others out and is an excellent role model for the other children in LC8

Jax d W – L.C. 10 -  Jax is a great reader. He asks thoughtful questions.  He is making links with his reading and writing. What a star.

Isaac W – L.C. 6 – Isaac is a true KC Kid as he displays all six competencies every day from the time he arrive at school by being a self manager.  He has become and awesome self believer and now takes risks to improve his learning.  Furthermore he is always respectful and a super team player.  I am so proud of him.  He is an awesome KC Kid.

Kendra C – L.C. 6 – After student conferences Kendra has worked very hard at school and home to improve her writing.  She adds extra detail to her stories to make them interesting and longer to get to the next writing level.  Kendra is now learning to write in sentences.  She is a writing Superstar!