Winter Sport Zones

A couple of weeks ago, all the winter sport teams from Westburn went to the Winter Sport Zones. There was the Junior and Senior Hockey, Netball and Soccer teams, and the Junior Rugby and Senior Basketball teams. Everyone did really well. Some teams even made it through to the Canterburies that will take place next Thursday. These teams are:
Senior Hockey,
Senior Netball,
Senior Soccer,
Junior A Soccer,
Junior A Netball

This is an awesome achievement- well done everyone! Good luck at Canterburies!

Reporters: Lauryn and Julia

Cantamath 2012

We have had great success here at Westburn with Cantamath this year. All students from years 6-8 were required to make a Math project, such as Written Work, a Mathematical Poster or a Mathematical Model. The teachers then judged these projects and decided which ones would be sent to the CBS Arena, to be on display with student's projects from all around Canterbury.

43 awards were given to projects created by Westburn students. These were a mix of Highly Commended and Excellences, and one extremely hard working student was awarded a very prestigious prize indeed. This was Helena, and her "Epcot Ball". Helena received an "Outstanding Award", which is only awarded to one person in each year group. This is an amazing achievement. Well done, Helena!

Westburn also did exceedingly well in the Cantamath Team problem solving competition. The year 7 team, Gabe, Jem, Akshat and Kate B placed 6th, with an awesome score of 95/100 questions. Well done, guys!
The year 8 team placed 5th, with a remarkable score of 100/100, with 3 minutes of the competition left. The year 8s involved were Chloe K, Yoon Su, Justine L and Olivia. What an awesome achievement!

Reporter: Lauryn

Stars in their Eyes? Movie

This video was created on iMovie as a task while Year 7's were on Ski Trip. It is a spoof on various movies, and don't take offense if you are a Justin Bieber fan!

Hope you enjoy!
Reporters: Jasmine and Lauryn

Recording Studio

Yesterday, The RDU came to record Some of Westburns most talented musical groups.  RDU is the radio Station at the university, with two awesome guys to record called James and Nic. There were three groups recorded, the first was Kaelan and Mr Ward! After that was the Westburn Jazz Band, and last but not least were the SMP Chior. The Unit is all part of the 'Christchurch Methodist Mission'

Reporter: Jasmine

Lit Quiz

WASP Update

Winter Sport

English- A crazy Language!

Does the head of a flower have any hair?
Does the eye of a needle ever stand and stare?
If the plural of mouse, is mice,
Then shouldn’t the plural of house be hice?

To see more than one goose, you would see geese.
So shouldn’t the plural of moose be meese?
Can you cross the bridge of a nose?
And does the foot of a bed have any toes?

A tooth is one and a whole set are teeth.
So why isn’t the plural of booth, beeth?
And if teachers “taught”…
Then shouldn’t preachers “praught”?!?!

Since writers write, and singers sing,
Then shouldn’t hammers ham, and fingers fing?
And since a father can also be known as “Pop”,Imagine if a mother was also known as “Mop”!!

A man is one, and a whole crowd are men,
Then why don’t we call more than one pan, pen?
If people from Poland are called Polish,
Then why aren’t people from Holland , Hollish?
And if we say ring, rang and rung…
Then shouldn’t we say bring, brang and brung?
Since the male pronouns are he, his and him…
Then shouldn’t the female be she, shis and shim?

English is a very weird language, I mean come on!
It’s a language where alarms go off by going on!!
Isn’t it funny that boxing rings are in fact square?
I challenge you to master the English language- if you dare!!
Poem by Lauryn Sinclair

Reporter: Jasmine

Sausage Sizzle

SMP

Reporter: Justine

Working bee

Reporter Jasmine

Science Night

 On the third Monday of the second term, Westburn school is having a science night. From 7-9pm the competition is open to all year 7-8 students, who have to bring a adult along with them.

Mrs. Glasson is running it, but she has not told us what we’re doing. However, she has given us one clue. We will test out our creation by having a race off, and after that we can make final changes to our project; we will then have a final race. The winners will then be announced and they will have the glory of being the grand winners!

Reporter:Ellie

Garden Club

The Garden Club is a group of children from Year 1 to 8. It is taken by Mrs Houlston, who comes in every lunch time. The Garden Club trims bushes, plants flowers and takes care of plants around school. They also are growing a vegetable patch. This includes tomatoes, beans and a range of herbs including chives, parsley, thyme, and many more. Once a week the Garden Club comes together to look after the plants and flowers. The Garden Club plants flowers like sunflowers, and replaces dead, old plants with live ones.

Year 8 Camp

The Year 8 camp is fast approaching! On Monday, the Year 8s will travel to Wainui Heights and do many different activities for the four days they are staying there for. The bunk rooms and activity groups have been decided and everyone is very excited!

Some activities include coast steering, archery, canoeing and a bonfire night. Most of us have started packing the many many MANY different equipment and clothing (we're not leaving our cuddly toys behind!) we need on the days.

Reporter: Helena

Dodge Ball

The School Council came up with the idea of weekly sport games at lunchtime every Friday. There are two teams, one team consisting of some students from the School Council, and the other team consisting of students from Year 5-8 that has signed up to participate.

Today, at lunch, there is going to be a game of dodge ball, and we have successfully acquired 16 members for each team. Thanks to the event organizers from the School Council who have set this up!

Reporter: Justine

Mufti Day

Junior Cross Country

On Thursday the 29th March, another exciting event also took place. Can you guess what it was? That's right - the Junior Cross Country! This is a big event for the Team 2 students, as it involves a lot of training... but is very exciting for all our aspiring sports stars! Here are the results:

Year 3 girls
1st place- Yasmine (Room 10) 
2nd place- Holly (Room 9)
3rd place- Emily (Room 10)

Year 3 boys
1st place- Josh (Room 9)
2nd place- Jackson (Room 10)
3rd place- Jacob (Room 10)

Year 4 girls
1st place- Caitlin (Room 14)
2nd place- Mikayla (Room 15)
3rd place- Alex ( Room 15)

Year 4 boys
1st place- Ethan (Room 15)
2nd place- James (Room 15)
3rd place- Riley (Room 14)

These are awesome results, well done everyone! Maybe one day we'll be seeing you at the Olympics!

Reporters: Lauryn and Julia

Touch Rugby

Recently, a touch rugby team was put together. Today they have their first game and after a early lunch, have set off to Jellie Park to play. They are versing Christ the King and Russley schools.
We hope they come back with a victory!

Reporter:Justine

Book Fair

For the whole of this week, there has been a book fair in the library. It is a fundraiser for the school. It sells books and stationery. The items are provided by Scholastic.

The library has been very busy in the past days. We went and asked Mrs Junovich, the librarian, some questions.

Q.How much money did the fair raise?
A.The total is undetermined but it has raised at least a thousand dollars.

Q.Is this the first year of the Book Fair? Is it going to be continued in the years to come?
A.This is the first fair in at least five years. Not next year. It is good to give rest to parents from spending money but it was a very good way for raising money for the school

Reporters: Justine and Helena

 

Canterbury Swimming Sports

On Thursday the 29th of March, seven talented swimmers, Julia N, Julia H, Suzy A, Kate B, Matthew T, Hanna C and Louisa C,  represented Westburn at the Canterbury swimming sports. We had some FANTASTIC results, especially from Julia H, who placed 2nd in the 50m backstroke. Well done, Julia!
This took place at Wharenui, and was a great day, however it was a bit chilly!

Reporter: Julia  and Lauryn

House Leaders 2012

There are many responsible leaders this year here at Westburn. Today I am going to introduce the House Leaders for 2012.

House Leaders 2012
Rutherford: Adam and Lauryn.
Sheppard: Kaelan and Caitlin.
Te Kanawa: Olivia and Jasmine.
Hillary: Jesse and Justine

The House Leaders have many important roles throughout the school such as leading assemblies, and meeting and greeting visitors to the school.

Reporter: Lauryn

Hello everyone,

The Media Team has started blogging again this year! We will be bringing information from all around the school and putting it on our blog for you to see. This year we have ten members.
These are the members: Justine- Leader, Jasmine- Editor, Helena- Editor and in charge of Team 1 with Julia, Isobel and Lauryn-In charge of Team 4, Lorelei, Ellie, Niko and Cameron.
I hope you will enjoy viewing our blog!

From The Media Team