Most improved

As LC 10 & LC 2 were away on their Marae trip on Friday, they missed out on a special part of the assembly. Most Improved student. 

That's ok because Mrs Jackson came and presented Ted and Ryan their certificates. We also got to sing our waiatas we sung at the Marae. 

Well done Ryan, you are LC10's most improved student!

A proud Dad! Ted received LC 2's Most Improved certificate. 

Our athletics

Runing, jumping, throwing, team player and being a self believer was present yesterday at our Pukeko team athletics. 

A few snaps capturing the children in action. 

Jess jumped .95cm!! Well done!

Athletics champs!

Congratulations to our high jumpers! 

Well done to our champs of shot put!

Our long jumpers did very well! 

Congrats to our sprinters! Fastest in the Pukeko team!

Our middle distance winners! They did so well considering it was over 23oC while they were running. 

Our discus champs! Well done to Molly McPherson who threw the furthest on the day. You had Annalise Day, our year 8 Canterbury rep for discus in awe!

A BIG well done to our year 2's who showed amazing perservance and gave everything ago. Can't wait to see you in action next year! 

Final Pukeko presents for 2013

Congratulations to these children who consistently display how to be great KC kids!

We were also invited to listen to the guitar group playing, Something Special.

A special CONGRATULATIONS to Bradley Hamburger who has worked incredibly hard with his reading and writing this year and completing Multi Lit. We are very proud of you Bradley!!!

Our assembly

It was our turn to host assembly. LC 1 showed their kowhaiwhai patterns, LC 2 shared a photo story about their recycled creations they made with Kay. LC 9 showed us their trip to Christchurch's unique gap fillers and also the found rat babies in the compost. Ewwwwww!  Finally LC 10 shared how to make a worn farm from fizzy bottles.

We also sung a beautiful waiata that we will sing at our Marae visits shortly.

LC 1 sharing their Maori art

FABULOUS RECYCLED CREATIONS

The Pukeko team has been lucky to have had visits this term from Kaye of Zero Waste, who has been teaching us all about re-using objects in new ways, as a way to reduce or avoid waste. One of the awesome activities we did was design our own creation using re-used materials, such as plastic milk bottles, cans, old bottle lids, etc. We had such fun planning and making our creations! What do you think of the end results?

Look at this great pig, designed and made by William.

Jess was thrilled with her fun creation!

Ruby loves the superb lion she has designed.

Kohbyn was proud of his super creation!

Matthew designed an amazing creation!

Emma created a wonderful bunny.

Don't you love Eliza's clever horse?

James and his incredible rocket pencil tin.

Masterchef Fun!

On Friday, children were able to come to school dressed up with  Masterchef theme. There were

Fabulous Masterchefs Ted Ward, Max Spence

 and Mckenzie Hoskins

The colourful chefs of LC2

lots of aprons and spatulas and whisks. Some children went all out with their costumes and looked as if they really belongs in a professional kitchen, with people saying "Yes, chef" to them!

Zero Waste

Kay Marsh visited us from the City Council to help us explore how we can reduce our rubbish. 

An old pair of jeans turned into a bag! Imagine a library book bag made out of your old jeans!

A tin can phone? How could this work?

Kay told us that for all the rubbish created by all us New Zealanders for 1 month it could fill one rugby field wide

and 30 stories high! That is a lot of rubbish!!

How do you reduce rubbish at your home? Comment below to go in the draw for 2 KC coupons, 1 team player and 1 thinker! 

Pukeko's singing

Proud Pukekos!

These children received certificates at our final Pukeko Presents for term 3. They have all demonstrated how to be KC kids. What have you done to be a KC kid this week?

A stunning result from Caitlin Parrett who received a distinction for ICAS English exam!A big congratulations to Lisa Howden who received a credit for ICAS English exam!

Celebrating our Wackiness for our Whanau reward day.

Our Head boy Tait and Head girl Kacie along with our Deputies Ally and Danny having morning tea with the staff. This is  one of the many perks of being our Heads of West Melton School.

Have a safe and relaxing holiday!

Making things with clay in LC2

"My tile is one of those processors for computers - a computer chip, with a circuit board and a background. I like that I got the circuit board finished and I think it all turned out a bit better than I thought it would," commented Max Spence.

Mackenzie Hoskins said, "I did a plaque of Geronimo Stilton. I like the glasses on him and how they stuck on. I like how I etched the name in too."

Angus Turnham commented, "One of things I made was a sword because I felt like it and I had some spare clay left after making my other things. I really like the shape of it. I liked making a tiles as well. I like doing stuff with clay because it feels really squishy and you can mess up and still fix it."

Mia Chee-Quill said, "I made a cat because I like cats. It turned out how I wanted it to be. I especially like its face. I  like doing stuff which clay because it's fun."

In Term 3, LC2 have been making things with clay for visual arts.
We have been doing this on Wednesday afternoons with Mrs Johnson.
We looked on the internet at different things you could do with clay.
We had a go at using different clay-working techniques such as etching, layering and pinching.
We made coil pots and we made tiles.
We really like making things with clay and had lots of fun.
Here are photos of some of our work.

Leaning with team NZ

Holding our breath as Team NZ made a dash for the start with Oracle hot on their heels. 

We thought leaning might give the Kiwis the advantage. 

Let the battle begin!

Our Physical Activity Leaders (PALs) help organise, promote and ref games for us to play at long plays on Wednesdays. The latest activity was Battle of the Whanau. There was egg and spoon, sack races and the final leg was a 3 legged race. Here are some snap shots of the Year 1-4 races. Leave a comment telling us what games or activities you would like the PALs to play. BATTLE of the Whanau on PhotoPeach

Rob the nest hockey style

As part of interchange children have been learning how to strike (hit) with a stick. 

Hockey is a relatively new skill to most of the Pukeko children. 

Children were checking their buddies were using correct grip, making eye contact and stepping forward to push the ball to their partner.  Peer assessment is a great tool to help remind  the 'assessor' what they need to do. 

I'm a big believer in using games to help reinforce skills that have been taught. Also asking children how modifying games can make it easier or harder. 

LC 9 playing rob the nest using eye contact and trapping to stop the ball.