Super Heroes in the Ngaio Community

'Power Up - My Super Powers'

In the Ngaio Community we had to first identify some cartoon super heroes. We were looking at their characteristics and what they do to help others. The class then looked at how they could be superheroes at school using the West Melton KC Kids and Driver. Everyone put a list together about the things that they do and then we wrote an individual word down. Everyone used really amazing illustrations for their words. We would like to share some of these superhero words with you:

Welcoming, Believe in Yourself, Be Happy, Kind, Being Nice, Strong and Never Quits.

Written by Hayden Douglass and Nikita Savage

GETTING STARTED WITH GOOGLE

A guide to using your West Melton Google Account...

Click this picture link to read the guide

ODERINGS SCHOOL GARDENS SHOW

This week Mrs Coster, Ms McKendry, Ms Sutherland and Mr Tomlin (from the Kiwi Team) supervised the construction of our Oderings School Gardens entry at the Woolston Club.
Our garden design began last year in Term 4, when the 2015 Pukekos submitted designs for the garden theme "Our World". Many of the initial designs included globe motifs, native plants, rivers, mountains, and our local farm crops. The final design incorporated all those wonderful creative ideas! Last week, the Pukekos donated and painted recyclable plastic bottles, which have become a rainbow (in our school whanau/house group colours) as a backdrop to the garden.

Here are some photos of the different School Gardens entries - which are currently on show at the Woolston Club... head on over this weekend to vote for the People's Choice Award!

Shirley Intermediate

Opawa

Casebrook Intermediate

West Melton!

West Spreydon

Sumner

Halswell

Northcote

Parkview

Oaklands

PLASTIC BOTTLES

Today you will have received a notice about sending Coke bottles to school on Friday for making flowers for the Oderings Garden Competition.  We mentioned Coke bottles in the notice, but any bottle that has that sort of lobed base is fine.

Please send empty bottles to school either tomorrow or Friday. Let us know if you can help us out on Friday at 2pm. Thank you.

BIG THANK YOU'S

From the Pukeko team teachers:

Many, many, many thanks to all the wonderful parents who have assisted us in any way with Pukeko team activities and events over the first few busy weeks of the new school year. The triathlon, our camps and the swimming sports, along with the Community Fun Day and the meet the teacher evening were all well-supported by you - thank you.

We really rely on your support to help events run smoothly and make them the best they can be for our children and we greatly appreciate all your help.

Please get in touch with your child's teachers if you can offer to help in the class this year or in any other way, eg helping with testing, making resources, returning books

Once again, a thousand thank yous from the Pukeko team teachers!

YEAR 3 CAMP FEEDBACK

This Thursday, you will get a form home requesting your feedback regarding our Year 3 camp experience (day trip, overnight camp, pool party, etc).  Please fill in and return to the school no later than Wednesday 2 March.

Here's a link to the form in case you miss it, (or your child loses it!): 2016 YEAR 3 CAMP PARENT REVIEW FORM

Time for munchies at the overnight camp

Swimming Sports Wednesday 2nd March

Pukeko Swimming Sports is going to be held on Wednesday 2nd March (Postponement date 3rd March).
We would love you to come along to support your child and to help out on the day.
The link below is to the letter that you will receive a copy of on Thursday.
If you can help, please return the slip on the letter or email Anna Jenkins at anna.jenkins@westmelton.school.nz

Click on this link below: Swimming Sports letter

Becoming Digital Citizens!

Welcome to a new year and new learning in the Pukeko Team!
With all the wonderful new technology available, it is important that we become tech-savvy cyber-citizens.
Today in Ti Kouka we discovered that the internet can be used to visit lots of places to learn new things, and that online we need to keep ourselves safe - just like we do in the real world!
We talked abut our favourite websites to visit and what we do there and we also learned the rules for travelling safely on the internet.
If you remember the three rules, you could add them below in a comment.
You can click on Jeremiah's video to remind you...