Maths Extension

Today the year 7 maths extension group learnt about Pythagoras' Theorem. The theorem works with right-angled triangles and side a2+side b2=side c2.
Reporter: Justine

Northwest Music Festival

The Orchestra and Senior Choir have been very busy rehearsing for the Northwest Music Festival that was held on Wednesday at Burnside High School in the Aurora Center. There were other schools like Cobham Intermediate, Avonhead School, Christ the King's School, St Josephs and of course Burnside High school. We were very proud that 2 of our senior Westburn Students (Kate & Jonathan) were the announcers for the evening and they did a fantastic job! The Westburn Orchestra, Cobham Orchestra, and the Burnside Junior String Orchestra all peformed. The Westburn Orchestra performed 2 pieces; the well known theme from William Tell Overture, and Pomp and Circumstance by Edward Elgar. Cobham orchestra also performed a well known piece- the theme from Harry Potter (Hedwigs Theme), as well as the Russian Sailors' Dance. The Junior string orchestra from Burnside performed 2 classical pieces, and one of the pieces was conducted by Evie Hay (an ex Westburn Student!!!). Mrs Pritchard of course was accompanying us on the piano and we had Mrs Wilford conducting the massed choir. We were also fortunate to have 4 Burnside High School Band Members on Bass, Drums, and other guitars.

Kaelan Eketone and Michael Cai accompanied the Westburn Senior chior on their own item: Top Of The World, and Clouds with drums and guitar. They were amazing too. We all had a fantastic time!

Reporter: Selena & Rebecca

Ballroom dancing

This year the year 7's and 8's are learning Ballroom dancing. We are having half hour sessions on Tuesday mornings. We are learning 3 dances which are the Foxtrot, Samba and Chacha. They are all lots of fun and improve our dancing skills.

Reporter- Ellie

Art Extension 2011

This year at Westburn School a new extension class has started - Art Extension. Students have applied to be in Art Extension by entering one of their best pieces of artwork. The students who have been chosen to be in the class go to the Common Room (a.k.a Room 1) to draw different objects (for example, a steering wheel, a chess piece or a violin) and learn different styles of art. Finished artworks are put on walls and some have been on displays at the school expo.

Reporter: Helena

Tug of war House Assembly

Today the year 5 to 8's competed in an exciting house assembly where they played Tug of War with a huge piece of rope. All the year 5's from each house competed against one another, then the year 6's competed and so on. Teachers versed different sports teams including the senior Hockey Team, Senior Basketball and Senior Soccer Team. Brothers and sisters went head to head by themselves and Mrs Newlands and Julia versed Mrs Boyd and Kate. We all had a lot of fun despite our rope burned hands and our ringing ears from all the screaming and encouraging.

Reporter: Ellie and Lauren

Reporter-Rachel W

Maths Extension

Maths extension commenced at the start of the year. There are three groups, year 6, 7 and 8. We are taught by Mr Bill Ellwood, who has retired from being the head of department of maths at Burnside High School. Recently, the year 8 students have been learning about quadratic equations and the year 7 students have been studying about prime number theories and also the great mathematicians that discovered those theories. Today the year 7s also learnt about happy numbers. This is how you know if a number is a happy number....
You square each digit in a number and add them together. If in the end the numbers add up to be 1, it is a happy number.

Reporter: Justine

ICAS Competitions

Thie year's ICAS competitions are fast approaching, with 2 competitions already underway. In the next few weeks, we have Writing and Spelling, and then lastly we have the mathematics exam. We are very anxious for our results!

Reporter: Rebecca

Expo's mini CONCERTS!

On Wednesday night, the Senior Choir, Orchestra and S.M.P performed at the Expo. They did a fantastic job and all the songs sounded superb. Thanks to Mrs Wilford and Mrs Prithard for all the hard work they put in and the Friday practises for Senior Choir certainly paid off! The songs have been videoed and are will be posted later on, so look out for them!

Reporter: Rachel

Media Team 2011 is here!

Media Team for 2011 is finally here!

June 13 Earthquake

We would like to thank all our families for your calm response to today's aftershocks.
As of 4pm today (Monday 13 June) we expect that school will be open. Please check our school website for updates.

We hope that all our families and friends are safe and well.