Ideas these Holidays!

Funky ideas for the upcoming holidays!

The holidays are coming up! Hurray! So we brainstormed a few awesome activities to amuse yourself during these holidays!

Have a go at the Media Team Writing competition

With three different categories (Report/Article, Creative short story and Poem) There is no limit to how many items you write. Present them in your best way, handwritten or typed. Slot them into the 'Media Team box' in the school library, by the door. Hand this in by the second week of Term 4.

Organise a Movie Night

A great way to spend the holidays with your friends is to organise a movie night. Bring along your favourite movies and popcorn and have a blast with your friends or family.

Some movie suggestions:

Marmaduke, Karate Kid, Princess and the Frog, Boy, Shrek Forever, Letters to Juliet.

Camp out in the garden

Get some friends or family together, and your tents, torches and stories, for a fun night camping in your garden. Sleep under stars, with the spring air with your mates.

Visit Hagley Park

Now that it is spring there are thousands of blooming flowers in the park. The beautiful daffodils and blossoms are out and a worth taking a look at!

Grow your own garden

Visit your local garden centre or weekend market, and purchase some delicious vegetables or fruits! Now is the ideal time to grow many vegetables such as; strawberries, tomatoes, cabbage, radishes, capeskins, lettuces , all types of herbs/spices and many more. Talk to parents/caregivers about this

TIP: Make sure you water your vegetables/fruits daily, and they get plenty of sun! A great location to grow them in, is the old, small green reycling bin.

Make Playdough

With one cup of flour, half a cup of cooking salt, one cup of water and one tablespoon of cream tartar. Mix together and cook on a saucepan on the stove at medium heat. Allow to cool once well cooked, then add a few drops of oil. Knead the playdough well. Add food colouring to colour your playdough!

Discuss this with an adult or parent before you start at this, and make sure an adult assists you while cooking the playdough.

Reporters: Daniella and Rosa

Media Team Writing Competition!

Is writing a passion of yours?

Then i think you need to read on!

The Media Team are hosting another competion, this time though, a Writing Competiton! There are three different categories:

1) Creative Short Story
2) Article or Report
3) Poetry

The age groups are:

Age group one: Years 0-3
Age group two: Years 4-6
Age group three: Years 7-8

Hand your stories in any way you wish to be published in the Media Team box in the school library.

Winners recieve a funky prize as well as your story being published on the blog!

For Westburn School students only

Bible in schools Voki

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Reporter:Matt B

4,000 visitors

The Westburn blog now has over 4,000 visitors!
Reporter: Daniel

Help Us Reach Our Goal!

Media Team is aiming to reach 5000 visitors so we need your help. Tell your classmates, friends, cousins, grandparents and neighbours about our blog!
After we reach 5000 visitors, we will give out a very special 'Media Team' post every 1000 visitors we get.
Please spread the word!

Thanks, Media Team

Canterbury Earthquake Word Search

Make Your Own Word Search

To highlight your word click on the first and the last letter of it and if it was correct is will turn yellow but if not it will turn red.

Reporter: Matt B

Canterbury sports compettiton!

The Canterbury Primary Schools Sports Competition was held on Tuesday and Westburn sent along four fantastic sports teams to compete against other schools for the top prize. One of the teams that went along to compete was the senior A netball team they had a fantastic day and won most of their games, they came 3rd in their pool and 9th overall! The senior A hockey came 5th in their pool and won and drew a couple of their games. The senior A soccer team won a few of their games and the junior A hockey won one of their games. Well done to eveyone who participated in the Canterbury competition you all did a awesome job!!

The Jump Jam Idol Winners!

The Jump Jam Winners 2010 on PhotoPeach





Jump Jam is an aerobic style of fitness! At least once a week, students of all ages get together in their classes or year groups and move and groove.
Reccently, thanks to Miss. Du Plesis, a jump jam challenge was planned! Students in groups from ages 9 to 13, practiced hard to perform in front of the judges! The group 'Guys in Leotards/Togs' were the winners of this whole challenge!

Congratulations to Jessica, Caitlin, Cassie, Libby, Hannah and Sophie, winners of the 2010 Jump Jam Idol!

Reporters:Rosa and Jess

Room12's Kiwiana display

Westburn School Room 12 Kiwiana on PhotoPeach



Reporter: Kaelan

School Production Postponded

The Westburn School Production of 'Toy Tales' has been postponed until Week Nine, Term four. The reason for this postponement is due to the earthquake. We were orginally going to have the production on the 15th and 16th of September.

We apologise for the inconvenience and hope to see you then!

Earthquake Wordle

http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2474462/Untitled
Reporter: Daniel

Where in the Westburn World am I now??

Thank you for helping me last time. When the big Earthquake happened I had to find shelter but once I was in I couldn't find my way out. I was just about to come out from where I was when people started walking around the room checking for damage. I was too scared to come out so I stayed there for ages. When the big aftershocks came, I tumbled down the back of this shelf. Luckily when Selena and Laura came looking for me they helped me out but they couldn't remember where we were either. I decided to stay as they left the room and my friend the bear kept me company. Please help me find my way out of here.
PS: My brain is expandable, so the more you tell me the more I remember.

Please leave your FIRST name and house to receive a housepoint.

Reporters: Selena and Laura

Check Out These Websites!

Website Mania!

Media Team have recently found a few interesting websites we recommend having a look at!

http://www.minimonos.com/
This is a fun website that encourages children to recycle and learn about our worlds problems aswell as being able to play games, chat with other members and dress up your own little monkey! This site has used money from memberships to adopt an oragutan! If you become a member of minimonos a newsletter will be sent to you every so often with their updates!. Not only that, recently they have been giving out free memberships for 6 months, but you'll have to be quick!

http://www.befunky.com/
Recently, the senior school have been using befunky to create this years calendars. Befunky is a great, photo editing website. Not only can you add awesome effects, you can add cool frames, stickers and text most of which will come for free. You can sign up on befunky to get the 'premium effects'. It's worth taking a look at!
http://www.geonet.org.nz/
On Geonet you can look up christchurchs quakes and take a look at a list of all the aftershocks, their centered town, the exact time and date and what they came on the richtor scale! Did you know we've had 679 aftershocks so far?
http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/
This is another incredible website, visually showing you all the quakes we have had, represented with different sized orange and red circles in their exact time and centre! Have a look and you'll be amazed at the aftershocks you may have missed!

Reporter: Rosa

Where in the Westburn world am I ? Results (at last!)

The results for last weeks Where in the Westburn World am I now? Results comfirmed!!
The answer for the last Where am I? was..... in the RESOURCE ROOM!!!
Congratulations to the people that commented because they got the answer correct!

Rutherford:
1

Hillary:
4

Tekanawa:
2

Shepard;
2

Rutherford, you have to work harder!!

Reporter: Selena & Laura

Security Camera Shows Traumatic Earthquake!

This is one of the security cameras at New World Redcliff Supermarket! I'm glad I don't have to clean this up!

Reporter: Rosa and Matt

Earthquake up close

Earthquake

Look at the damage...

Reporter: Laura

Westburn School Wordle

Reporter: Helena

Weekly books released

The new books released this week, which are avaliable to be issused from Week 9.

Climate Change - 'In the Tropics' and 'In the Antarctic', by Stewart Baker.

Kings and Queens of Enland.

Car Mad Jack - 'The Speedy Sports Car', 'The Marvellous Minibus' and 'The Ragged Off-Roader', by Jenny Alexander. (4th, 5th & 6th books in series)

Lucy The Lie Detector by Marianne Musgrove

We hope you enjoy these books

Reporters: Emma and Daniella

EARTHQUAKE

Earthquake!

At around 4:30am on Saturday 4th of September, disaster struck all around Christchurch. Walls were shaking, things were falling over and then the power went out. This is said to have been the biggest earthquake in years as it was felt all over the city. People were taking precautions even after the big shock, sitting in door ways and under hard tables clutching torches with loved ones. Farther away from the Westburn area, over in Avonside, many roads were leaking with water and whats said to be black sludge. In other parts of Canterbury, sewage pipes have come up from roads and old houses have been wrecked.
The airport is closed until 1pm and it is not suggested that people go out on the roads unless completely necessary. New Zealand is said to have been 10 years overdue for a big earthquake, was this it?

We hope everyone is safe,

keep others safe,

from the MediaTeam.

Daffodil Day Chalk Squares on PhotoPeach




Well done everyone!

Reporter: Rosa

Where in the Westburn World am I now?

Let me properly introduce myself. My name is Sleaura Pursner and I am from Planet Tederweamorm. I was travelling in my new spaceship when I was suddenly sucked through a black hole and I ended up in Westburn School. I need you to help me find my way around the school. If you tell me correctly where I am, I will reward you with a Housepoint for your kindness. Thankfully I have met the really helpful Laura and Selena from the Media Team and they are telling me all about their new blog (and Earth)!

Please tell us your FIRST Name and your HOUSE by commenting.

Reporter: Selena & Laura

Westburn School Wordle

Reporter: Chloe