Pet Day

Pet’s Day Blog 2014

On the 31st of October at West Melton school it was pet day. Literally half of the school brought a pet. There were chickens, rabbits, dogs, cats, cows, horses and many more. The PTA were selling ice creams. Me(Emma) and Sophie were selling worm tea, tomato and strawberry plants and silver beet. Mrs Busch and Ms Crosby were doing face painting with some other kids too.

By Emma

!50th Moa Float

Wearable Arts

What it was like: It was a great time being on the float for the 150th celebration with Ruby, Aidriahna and Alessandra we had to wait a while to get on because they were setting it up a telling people where to go.

When we were moving: When we started to move it was scary because there were no sides and no roof so when we went around a corner  Mrs Moake and Macy were holding on to us well everyone else sat down doing tricks with netballs, bats and lots more, when it was the end are legs were so tired cause we were standing all day for about one hour.

Where it was: It was around Preston Downs and ended at the school for about one hour or less.

Who was on the float: There was some Kapa Haka people who were in their costumes on one side with two seniors who were in the corner holding posters, on the other side there was two netball girls holding balls and people representing the school in their uniform with bats and sport supplies, in that corner there were posters what were of students working and a poster what said West Melton School, in the middle there was the wearable arts girls standing there with make up on, not on the float there was some girls on one side with a teacher giving out lollies and going on stilts and playing with a hula hoop on the other side there was two boys and a teacher handing out some more lollies and playing on a mini bike all of the girls and boys where in the olden days costumes to represent 150 years ago.

By Molly

Tane Mahuta: The Maori God of the Forest

Introduction of our term 4 topic

http://youtu.be/y6_74CBpNwc

Rata and the God of the forest

Minecraft 2

Update 2. We now have done the library (the secret library.) We are also using the minecraft launcher tekkit we are using the furniture plus mod pack .

by Jack and Reece

Minecraft

minecraft   

Update 1.  we are making West Melton school in a computer program called mine-craft.

So far we have made the Totara  block and the office block and Weedons Ross rd. We are working on l.c 17 and the library, l.c 4 and l.c 5. we will update asap it’s gonna be awesome !

 

BY JACK  G  AND  REECE C  lc17

wearable arts - Beach Bliss

WEARABLE ARTSBy  Alessandra and Elise

  Introduction:   Every Tuesday a group of five girls do wearable arts, Ruby, Alessandra,  Elise, Aidriahna and Molly for the Cultural Festival. This was  the first year that we have done wearable arts for the cultural festival. This year there was two categories city scape and beach bliss, we did beach bliss, and the other three girls did city scape.

Beach Bliss:Our dress the skirt part of our  dress is made from chicken wire it is covered  in weed mat that was spray painted neon green and black to look like seaweed.  Then for the top of the dress it had blue waves with white tissue paper and little gems hot glued to the tissue paper for a shimmering effect. Then for the final touches there is a fishing net bustle multi coloured fish and lights.  We wore our togs underneath and to finish it off we had a umbrella.

Cultural Festival

Cultural Festival

Last Friday I took part in the cultural festival. Our teachers are Matua Maka and Matua Norm .We were trained in 2 and a ½ terms

We had to perform 4 songs  Takurako (Entry haka), Kapi oi oi e(Poi), Mataku reo (Action song), Tahu Potiki  (Haka), then we did He Honore the he mine.

Interviews, I interviewed Amelia about the Cultural Festival I asked her these questions;

Did you enjoy the festival?: Yes

What did you enjoy the most?: watching the other people perform

Would you do it again next year?: yes

thank you Amelia for your time

Now Emily will be interviewed;

How did you feel just before you're performance?;

I felt dizzy like I was going to faint

When you were dancing to happy were you embarrassed?;

no, I felt great!

Thank you Emily for your time

We would love to thank the sponsors that gave enough money  so the Cultural Festival could take place at the Horncastle arena.

Emily & Amelia

Buddy Time

Lachlan, Jordan and Will learnt how to make a perfect blog comment.

How to be a bucket filler!

How to be a bucket filler!

On Wednesday the 3rd of September in LC17.  Mrs Busch read us a book called ‘have you filled a bucket today’ it was a very good picture book and it taught me that everyone has a invisible bucket and if you do something kind to them there bucket will fill up and also yours will fill up too but if you are mean to someone you will be called a bucket dipper and when you are mean to someone you will tip there bucket but you might not know when you are mean to someone your bucket will empty too.

by Stella

Wearable Arts

Check out our girls at Cultural festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSC9TnnBILM

Netball semi finals

NETBALL SEMI FINALS

On the 30th of August my netball team had our semi finals at the lincoln netball courts.

The game started off well, in the first quarter they had to call time because I dove for the ball and grazed my hands and knees.  

But I kept playing and we were tied at halftime, I was taken of at half time because in our grade we have to swap round positions at half time .The suspense was killing me.

I watched closely for the next half of the game.

At the end of the game they won by a couple of points.

But last week we had played them and lost by more points so we had improved so much.

The season is over and we won’t play anymore games but I am playing again next season.

By Brooke

War Memorial

War Memorial

On the 29th August 2014 at West Melton school was the opening of the War Memorial. The deputy chief of Army came to open the War Memorial. At the start Mackenzie H played the Last post on his trumpet.

by Jamie

Brigadier Phil McKee

PHIL MCKEE

DEPUTY CHIEF OF ARMY

ON FRIDAY THE 29TH OF AUGUST 2014 PHIL MCKEE CAME IN AND OPENED OUR SCHOOLS WAR MEMORIAL. PHIL WORKS IN WELLINGTON ON THE WEEKDAYS AND COMES TO CHRISTCHURCH IN THE WEEKDAYS. HE TALKED ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO LEFT WEST MELTON AND DIDN’T COME BACK HOME. THEN MACKENZIE PLAYED THE LAST POST. THIS WAS USED WHEN THEY WENT TO BED, AND TO WAKE THE SOLDIERS UP. WE NOW USE IT AS A REMEMBRANCE TO THE SOLDIERS THAT DIED IN THE WAR. WE THEN TOOK THE FLAG OFF THE STATUE  AND THEN HE TALKED ABOUT HOW THE STATUE WAS IMPORTANT TO  THE COMMUNITY. WE THEN RAISED THE FLAG AND MACKENZIE PLAYED THE TRUMPET AND WE WRAPPED UP THE CEREMONY.  THIS WAS A GOOD THING TO LEARN ABOUT, THANKS FOR COMING DAD.

WELL DONE DAD!!!!!!

BY JESSIE

Brigadier Phil McKee was born and educated in Christchurch, New Zealand. He graduated from the Officer Cadet School, New Zealand into the Royal New Zealand Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers as a Second Lieutenant in 1988 and following graduation he completed his young officer regimental training. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in June 1990.

In 1992 Brigadier McKee was promoted to Captain and held technical, instructor and command appointments. During this time he also completed an exchange posting with the Combat Services Support Battalion, 24th Airmobile Brigade

in the United Kingdom.

Brigadier McKee is married to Chantal and they have two daughters, Toni and Jessie.  Brigadier McKee enjoys a number of sports, particularly rugby union and golf. Chantal is a school teacher and a keen sportsman.

PJ day

PJ DAY

Pj day  was a  jarmie day where the amazing West Melton school had to get dressed in pjs I came to school in my dressing gown  and everyone called me dragon dog  and  Jamie wore a plain dark blue onesie.

Angus & Jamie

Poetry

This week has had a poetic focus. Presenting our poems in front of the small groups and then the whole class. Well done everyone.

Our class semi finals were held today and we can happily announce the following students are now competing in the MOA team poetry finals.

Laura, Elise, Alessandra & Emily W year 6s

Emily M, Jorja, Amelia & Jayden   year 5s

Pink day!

Pink Shirt Day

Pink shirt day was a day where we got to support anti bullying by wearing a pink shirt.  Pink shirt day was on Friday the 23 of May.

Nearly everyone was wearing pink it was surprising how many people were willing to support bullying.

5 out of 5 people said that Charlotte H and Chelsea P were the best dressed in pink. On the day everyone got together to take a massive picture it looked amazing!

By: Charlotte H., and Chelsea P.

Weet Bix 'Tryathalon'

 
A few days before the tryathalon I received a parcel. In that parcel there was a shirt, my numbers, a tattoo, a bag, some vouchers and a block of energy chocolate. 

At night I couldn't sleep because I was so excited. Then in the morning my Dad wrote my number in permanent marker on my right arm and my right leg. After that we put my stickers on my bike, helmet and shirt. Then I had some rice bubble cake. Once I had some me and my Dad left. 

Then I met up with Molly who is racing with me. I am biking and she is swimming and we are running together. At ten minutes past ten Molly started swimming I had to wait in a tent for her. When she came I gave Molly her bag and I ran to my bike and did a four kilometre bike then I grabbed Molly and started to run. I was puffed. Then in the middle of the run Molly fell and I fell on her. I hurt my knee a bit but Molly’s arm was bleeding. The plasters weren't big enough so we had to go to the ambulance. 

Then we went on a rugby bouncy castle race. We snuck through the front without knowing there was a line and no one noticed. Then there was prize giving. Molly and I didn't win anything so we went home with my medal.

By Amelia

Elise and her challenges!

Visitors from Antarctica

 Carry and Dave

On Tuesday the fourth of March 2014 Carry and Dave from America came to Learning
Community Seventeen to talk about their awesome job working in Antarctica. We were very intrigued about the amazing animals they get to see while they are working on the ice.



Carry works in an office with lots of phones, speakers and computers she says she loves her job because she gets to answer all the phone calls from the other stations, about what they have been doing. Dave gets to go on the snow-mobile every day to check that the lights on the run way are still working. Dave also said that he loves to drive other vehicles around on the
ice.

Dave and Carry have been going down to Antarctica to work for more than twenty years. They go back to America when the weather starts to change into winter in Antarctica. I really enjoyed it when we got to try on some of their gear that they get to wear while they are outside in the snow researching and exploring the animals. 

By Elise

The visitors from Antarctica.

Carrie and Dave work in Antarctica and they took time off their holiday to come and visit LC17. They go through Christchurch to get to Antarctica because New Zealand is just above Antarctica. They come all the way from Oregon, North America. The environment down there is special so seven nations signed a treaty so no one will destroy it or harm it, and all of those countries own a bit of Antarctica.

No one lives there properly because it can get down to -90C. They work at McMurdo station and they get lots of people there in summer, sometimes 800. They must be wary because there is an active volcano on Antarctica. They leave New Zealand in a special plane with skis to help them land on the ice. To get around they also have pistonbullies which are like tractors to use on ice.

The people that travel to Antarctica have lots of different jobs. Palaeontologists find fossils like leaves. Some people study gases and other things by drilling in ice. People study animals like penguins and seals they also find other animals like Orcas and chicks that all cuddle up when their parents are away. Other people do diving in the icy cold water and they get very cold. Its so cold they have to wear many layers. The water gets down to -1 Celsius.

I think Antarctica would be an awesome place to work.

by Brooke