WMS Moa Team Happenings: 2013

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Canterbury Athletics Team

On the 4 of December 2013 Some of West Melton Schools TOP athletes went to the Canterbury champs in Ashburton.

Here are the names of the team that got all the way to Canterburys: James W, Daniel F, Nik H, Ollie B, Max S, Caitlyn D, Hannah K, Annalise L, Ella B, Emily W, Kacie A, Cody A, Sophie I, Sophie C, Jorja P. All of those people went so well and represented West Melton School with pride.

They raced so well even someone got 1^st and 2^nd! Kacie A managed to come 1^st in 60m sprints in the 12 year girls (for the 3^rdyear in a row). And the 10 year old boys relay team got second in their finals. This was Ollie B, James W, Nik H and Cody A.

Max S said, “It was a great sunny day and fun to represent West Melton School. It was a good experience and it was awesome to see our school perform so well.”

We would all like to thank Mrs McKee for training the relay teams to get us in a place in zones and Canterburys!

Written by Cody A and Ollie B.

Wednesday, 20 November 2013

LC14 MAD Unit Update

LC14 receive an email in regards with our MAD unit on safety around buses.

Morning Amy,

I received your letter regarding the great work that was carried out by the pupils at West Melton Primary School. I think they have done an excellent job, and it is really good to see local children voicing their concerns and taking some action to address identified safety risks.

We will definitely go and see them and task the local Highway Patrol and Selwyn Sub-Area staff to increase speed enforcement outside their school. We will tag the students into anything we are doing so that they remain involved.

Thanks for the heads up on this.

Al Stewart

Inspector Al Stewart
Road Policing Manager | Canterbury District | NZ Police

Our Purpose - 'Be Safe, Feel Safe'

Monday, 18 November 2013

LC14's science learning

So far LC14 have made ice cream in a bag, crystal needles & blowin up a balloon with vinegar & baking vv

soda. Here is a poster that Kate, Katie & Taylor M.

Thursday, 12 September 2013

Years 5 & 6: Persuading us to 'Make a Difference!'

We blasted off with a great opening speech in the finals about litter from Caitlin and how we can become a litter pickup groups. 'Save the water race' was the topic for Jorja's speech, we had to think about how to "do the right thing".

Wow! Amazing information about endangered animals from Claudia.
A new playground would be very healthy choice for West Melton from Elise.
Deforestation was the topic from Chelsea. Calum's speech was about smoking, a very personal family story he shared with us.
The RDA (riding for the disabled) was Abbey's interesting speech topic.
And 'At My last school' was a humorous speech given by Charlotte.

Mrs Jackson was highly impressed with the standard and persuasiveness of the finalists speeches and how this can lead into the Selwyn speech competition at years 7 & 8.

Our winners are: 2nd place Calum M., and Jorja P. is the Winner of the Moa year 5 & 6 speech Cup.

Well done to all the finalist students.

Thursday, 5 September 2013

Year 7/8 Speech Competition

The Moa team sat down this morning to listen to highly polished speeches from the year 7/8 students about how charities and people can make a difference. We enjoyed topics like:

Make a wish foundation from Kacie,
Pedal power not petrol power from Ally
Sheep need drugs from Sarah
Deforestation from Taylor
Making a difference about the health of NZ from Sophie
Risks of diabetes from Zane
And a convincing argument against animal testing from Olivia.

It was exciting to have our ideas challenged with new ways to think about everyday topics and ways we can personally make a difference.

We concluded by announcing the the speech winners. The 2013 year seven winner was Zane T. and Ally T. the year eight winner. The winner of West Melton Senior Speech Cup was Zane T.

We want thank Mr and Mrs Overton for their judging and important feedback and congratulate all the year seven and eight finalists for their fantastic speeches.

Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Year 7/8 Zone Netball

On the 6th August the year 7/8 B netball team went to compete at the Lincoln courts. It was a great day to play. Our biggest loss was 12-2 but our last game was a draw 2-2. Everyone did so well and we were very tired afterwards. In the team there was Taylor M, Katie G, Kate C, Andrea C, Dana A, Paige C, Jemma C and Gemma L.

By Taylor, Katie, Kate, Andrea and Jemma.

On Tuesday 6 August the Year 7/8 A netball team went to the Lincoln Zone Winter Tournament. We played ten games and we won six of them. The people in the A team were Olivia W, Esther B, Ella B, Kacie A, Sophie W, Ally T, Kerryn T, Sarah P and Grace M. we played well as a team and got some amazing intercepts.

by Esther

Year 7/8 Zone Rugby

On Tuesday 6 August the Year 7/8 rugby team went to Lincoln Domain to compete in the Lincoln Zone Rugby Tornament. We won all six games. We had only four tries scored against us. We won the whole tournament in the B section!
In the team was Lucy J, Taylor B, Daniel F, Annalise L, Connor L, Carter D, Tait S, Ben W, Danny R, Max S and Sean S.

Monday, 29 July 2013

Welcome to Term 3!!

Welcome back to all our Moa students! A special welcome to our newest future Moa: Sacha Florence Millie Tomlin. Born on Sunday 14th July at 6:34pm weighing 6 pounds 8 ounces. A huge congratulations to Mr. and Mrs. Tomlin! We welcome Mrs. Jane Adcock to LC12 for the next two weeks, while Mr. Tomlin is getting to know his new daughter.

Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Moa Scientists!

Last week, LC 5, 12, and 14 participated in the Water Race programme run by Kelvin from Lincoln University.

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Cross Country

Congratulations to our Canterbury Cross Country competitors who did very well in cold and muddy conditions at Halswell Quarry. Children finishing in the top 20 were:
Calum M: 11th Year 5 Boys
Charlotte H: 19th Year 5 Girls