Westburn School News Blog

Bigfield Blackbirds

2011-11-18T11:57:00.001+13:00

The eggs a few weeks ago

The birds last week

A couple of weeks ago, we discovered some small, blue eggs, at the back of the big field. Quite regularly, we noticed a blackbird (mother) flying over to the nest every so often. So, in order to find out what was so interesting, we stedily climbed up the tree, making sure not to disturb whatever was up there, and took some pictures. Slowly, over three weeks, we found that the eggs had hatched. The second photo is of the birds when they have hatched.
Did you know that a blackbird grows up in only 3 weeks?

Reporter: Jasmine

Exciting Music

2011-11-18T11:53:00.001+13:00

The Westburn orchestra has recieved an exciting piece of new music written by the famous John Emeleus written especially for our orchestra. He is the granfather of Rebecca P in our orchestra. This song is called 'Parade', and it has a FANTASTIC ending, with a christmas song that everyone knows. You will hear the orchestra perform this piece in the final prize-giving assembly in the last week of the term. So come along and support the Westburn School orchestra.

Reporter: Justine

Maths Extension

2011-11-18T11:49:00.002+13:00

Today, as a part of the year 7 maths extension, we looked at Pascal's Triangle. This was not actually invented by Pascal. The Chinese invented it but Pascal worked on it so it was named after him. He was French.

This is the triangle.

1 1

1 2 1

1 3 31

1 4 6 4 1

1 5 10 10 5 1

1 6 15 20 15 6 1

(It keeps on going.)

We also realised that the first line is 11 to the power of 0, the second line is 11 to the power of 1 and ... it keeps on going. With two digit numbers you add it together. Take line 6 for example.

You add it together like this. So 11 to the power of 5 is 161051.

Reporter: Justine

Christchurch Schools Music Festival! Hooray!

2011-11-04T12:15:00.003+13:00

On the 27th of October (last Friday) Westburn School's Senior Choir performed with around 20 other schools at the CBS Arena. There were 3 nights in total, and they were all a great success! We performed some very well known songs, like Climb Every Mountain, Funiculi Funicula and A Te Tarakihi. Some students from Westburn participated in the special groups such as the orchestra, choir, recorder ensemble and concert band. Big thanks to Mrs Pritchard and Mrs Wilford for teaching our choirs so well.

Reporter: Rebecca & Selena

Maths Extension

2011-11-04T12:00:00.001+13:00

Today we learnt how to calculate the volume of prisms, pyramids and spheres and what makes a shape a prism or pyramid.
The rule for calculating the volume of a prism is the cross section's area times the height.
The rule for calculating the volume of a pyramid it the bass's area times the height divided by 3.
The rule for calculating the volume of a sphere is 4/3 times Pi times radius cubed.
For the area of a circle times Pi and the radius squared.
For the area of a rectangle just times the sides together.
For the area of a trapezium add the bottom and top edge together and times it by the height then divide it by two.

We then calculated the volume of some common things in all sorts of shapes.

2011-10-07T12:31:00.003+13:00

On Tuesday and Wednesday, nearly the whole school performed in the Junior Production, The Jumblees! The first falf was a show about kids who are couch potatoes, and the second half was a variety of performances from Kapa Haka to Orchestra. There were OUTSTANDING soloists and they did a fantabulous job! The children were all quite tired after performing for TWO nights, luckily the holidays are coming! Well done everyone, even the audience!

Reporter Selena, Rachel

support your team day/ banndanna day

2011-10-07T12:21:00.005+13:00

On the 7 of september (last day of term 3) almost everone came in black and whiteand a few people came in some other colours to support their team for the rugby world cup. a lot of people also came all dressed up in bandanas. It is amazing seeing everone supporting the cancer society. this year the cancer society has also put out some cool wristbands that turn blue when you are exposed to uv rays.I seriously recomend suppporting the cancer society as they are in it for a good cause.

Rachel's Scholarship

2011-09-16T12:04:00.001+12:00

Today at assembly Mr Holstein came to give out a Peerswick scholarship to Rachel W, a Year 8. The scholarship is for two new Year 9 entrances, a boy and a girl. Rachel has been rewarded 1,000 dollars to spend at her leisure and will be going to Riccarton High.

Reporter: Helena

Icas

2011-09-16T11:42:00.001+12:00

Kaelan and Max

2011-09-09T12:21:00.001+12:00

Art Extension News

2011-09-09T11:51:00.003+12:00

The Art Extension group have started to work with crayoning. In the last lesson, the whole group went out to the wildscape to study and draw bushes and trees.

Unfortunately, with the tight schedule that the Year 7s and 8s have, Art Extension may have to be moved to a more suitable time for students.

Reporter: Helena

iPADS IN THE LIBRARY!

2011-09-09T11:36:00.004+12:00

The school has purchased 2 new iPads to use in the library.They have Q-Book, which is for reading in a variety of languages including Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Te reo Maori, French and many more. Some of the books on there now are well known favourites such as Hairy Maclary& Wonky Donkey. If you have a personal favourite you can ask Mrs Junovich to download it for you. These are avaliable in the library at morning tea and lunch. These are brand new so when you use them please make sure you treat them with care, as they are very expensive!

Reporter: Selena & Rachel & Rebecca

Maths Extension

2011-09-02T12:17:00.002+12:00

ON THE STAIRCASE
How many different ways are there to walk up 10 stairs if you can walk up 1 or 2 stairs at a time?

Hint: Use the Fibonacci Sequence.

We Protest !!!

2011-09-02T12:14:00.000+12:00

Reporter Rachel

Market Day

2011-09-02T12:08:00.002+12:00

MARKET DAY! MARKET DAY! MARKET DAY! MARKET DAY
WHEN: 30TH SEPTEMBER 3:00-6:00
WHERE: WESTBURN SCHOOL
WHAT: THE SENIOR CHILDREN ARE PREPARING THINGS TO SELL. THE MARKET IS TO CONCLUDE OUR 'OPEN FOR BUSINESS' TOPIC OF TERM 3. PRODUCTS INCLUDE FOOD, DRINKS, GAMES, CRAFTS.

COME ALONG! BRING SOME MONEY!

Endangered Words!!

2011-09-02T11:53:00.003+12:00

Here are some endangered words that could become extinct!! Learn them before they disappear forever!

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ICAS Spelling and Science Results

2011-09-02T11:48:00.005+12:00

The results of the spelling and science competitions of ICAS have been announced at the full school assembly this morning.

ICAS Science:

Distinction
Year 5 - Andrew
Year 6 - Han Young, Jem, Gabe
Year 7 - Julia, Jasmine, Chloe
Year 8 - Selena

Credit
Year 4 - Isaac
Year 5 - Wasiq, Felix
Year 6 - Edward, Ryan, Yang Kun, Eleanor
Year 7 - Julia, Kaelan, Isobel
Year 8 - Rebecca, Lucky, Jonathan, George, Eloise

ICAS Spelling

High Distinction
Year 8 - Lucky

Distinction
Year 4 - Maya, Madaleine
Year 5 - Felix
Year 6 - Michael, Eleanor
Year 7 - Helena, Lauryn
Year 8 - Rebecca

Credit
Year 4 - Isaac, Abby, Jacob
Year 5 - Shiyul, Andrew, Rose
Year 6 - Ruby, Hanna
Year 7 - Justine, Isobel, Kaelan
Year 8 - Rachel, Emily, Lauren, Max

Congratulations!

Reporter: Helena

Senior SMP Auditions

2011-08-26T12:06:00.003+12:00

On the 25th of August, 21 students auditioned for Senior SMP, and 14 have been accepted.

Well done to all of those people who are getting accepted, you will be informed later on in the year. You'll have great fun next year :)

Cantamath Displays 2011

2011-08-26T11:47:00.002+12:00

Well done to all the people whose entries went through to the Cantamaths judging. Congratulations to the entries which either won Excellence or Highly commended.
Special congratulations to Connor who received an Outstanding for his written work 'Tennis and Maths'.

Cantamath 2011!

2011-08-26T11:28:00.003+12:00

On Wednesday, the year 7 & 8 Cantamath teams went to CBS Arena to compete against 100+ schools all over Canterbury. Cantamath is a problem solving competition with 20 questions. All teams have 30 minutes to finish. Both teams did exceptionaly well and Ms Lennon lost $20 over a bet against Merrin. Haha. The Year 7s came 6th. Anyways, the people in the team were:
Year 7s: Justine , Edward , Gabriel & Han-young
Year 8s: Rachel, Selena,Rebecca & Matthew
We all had great fun!

2011-08-19T11:46:00.002+12:00

Maths Extension

2011-08-12T11:43:00.003+12:00

Today, in maths extension, we learnt about about particians. Particians work like this.

The particians of 4 1+1+1+1
1+1+2
2+2
1+3
4

There are 5 particians for the number 4. Particians are the ways that numbers can add to a certain number. You can use as many numbers as you want but you can only add.

Now find out how many particians 9 has.

Maths Extension

2011-08-05T12:26:00.002+12:00

Reporter: Justine

What animal is this?

2011-07-15T12:22:00.003+12:00

_ _ _ _ _ _ _

Can you guess what animal this is? Here is a clue: it starts with 'a', ends with 'l' and has 7 letters.

Comment your guess, remember to include your name and your house. If you guess right you will receive five house points.

Rachel and Selena

Little Puzzle

2011-07-15T12:11:00.004+12:00

Here is a little puzzle. Can you solve it?

CDC?

Post your first name and your house and if you answer correctly you will recieve a houspoint.

Reporter: Selena

Poll!

2011-07-15T12:07:00.001+12:00

Maths Extension

2011-07-08T12:14:00.003+12:00

This is the year 6 maths extension group.

ICAS Poll

2011-07-08T11:50:00.000+12:00

Reporter: Rebecca

Media Team Wordle

2011-07-01T12:19:00.002+12:00

Junior Singing

2011-07-01T12:00:00.006+12:00

Every week the juniors get together with Mrs Pritchard and have a singing session.

They get together and learn new songs. Here they are singing the song 'milkshake'

They look like their having lots of fun!!!

Reporter: Jasmine

New Programme!!

2011-07-01T11:47:00.003+12:00

The Orchestra and Senior Choir have just finished Northwest Music Festival and now we have a new programme! The orchestra are preparing to play with the Burnside High School Orchestra in the Showcase 3 concert held in October. They are going to play the well-known Romeo & Juliet by Serge Prokofiev.
The Senior Choir have have started practising for the Christchurch Schools' Festival held later in the year. Some of the songs we are singing are Dansi-na Kuim-ba & The Frim Fram Sauce & Transports of Delight- words by Magaret Mahy.
We are very excited and are working very hard!

Reporter: Selena

Maths Extension

2011-07-01T11:35:00.002+12:00

Today, it was the year 6's turn to learn about Pythagorus's Theorem.

The year 7 and 8s got a riddle made by Mr Ellwood.
The riddle was....
"How old are your three sons?"
"The product of their age is 72 and the add to your sons age,"
"That is still not enough information,"
"My oldest son plays soccer,"
"Now I get it!"

All of us found it very difficult but in the end a few of us got the answer.
If you know the answer please comment!
Reporter: Justine

Cantamaths Competitions

2011-07-01T11:29:00.004+12:00

The infamous Cantamaths competition is coming up near the end of the year. We are in training mode at the moment There are 2 teams (one year 8 team and one year 7 team) that compete from every school who hope to be the first schools to finish, and get 100 points. The top 3 schooszls each recieve a medal. You can also enter posters or models, and if you recieve an exellence you get a badge!

Reporter: Rebecca

Maths Extension

2011-06-24T12:22:00.002+12:00

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

2011-06-24T12:00:00.004+12:00

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

2011-06-24T11:52:00.006+12:00

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

2011-06-17T12:16:00.004+12:00

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

2011-06-17T12:11:00.005+12:00

Tug of war House Assembly

2011-06-17T12:03:00.003+12:00

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

2011-06-17T12:02:00.002+12:00

Reporter-Rachel W

Maths Extension

2011-06-17T11:55:00.006+12:00

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

2011-06-17T11:55:00.005+12:00

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!

2011-06-17T11:23:00.005+12:00

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!

2011-06-17T11:00:00.000+12:00

Media Team for 2011 is finally here!

June 13 Earthquake

2011-06-13T17:22:00.004+12:00

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.

Season Greetings!

2010-12-25T11:11:00.002+13:00

Merry Christmas

and

Season Greetings

From the Westburn School Media Team and all the students and staff at Westburn.

We hope you have a safe and happy holiday!

2010 Senior Prizegiving

2010-12-10T18:39:00.003+13:00

Today (Friday 10th December) Years 5-8 gathered to the hall for the end of year prize giving. Throughout the afternoon the school choir and orchestra performed as well as all students at the event singing two Christmas carols (Come all Ye Faithful and Mary's Boy Child) as well as a song to say farewell to the year eights called - Hymn to freedom.
In each of the senior classes an award was given to a student who showed overall excellence throughout the year. As well as this, there were the Year 8 Presentation cups.
Sport Cup: Libby V
Academic : Nicholas L and Liam F
Art cup : Nadia B
Performing Arts Cup : Cassie A
Citizenship Cup : Rosa E and Patrick M
Music Cup : Daniella B
Specialist Music Programme Cup: Harry G

Congratulations to every student that received an award and also for those who performed.

Year Eight- Wellington Trip

2010-12-10T10:07:00.003+13:00

Year 8 Trip to Wellington! on PhotoPeach

On the 6th of December, all the Westburn Year eights made their way to Wellington! We had a questionare on the waterfront, a bus tour, visited Te Papa and Parliament! We even got to see John Key's car! This was so much fun and we thank everyone involved with organising it!

Reporters: Rosa and Daniella

Christmas Mince Pie Recipe

2010-12-03T11:45:00.002+13:00

Christmas is JUST around the corner, keep looking at our blog to find some wicked gift ideas, activites, recipes and more to keep you busy these holidays.

Mince Pie Recipe:

Ingridents:
300 g sweet shortcut pastry
250 g mincemeat
1 Egg, beaten
icing sugar

1. Roll our pastry to a thickness of about 1/8 inch
2. Using a cutter approximately 6cm, cut out around 24 circles for mince pie bases.
3. Using a smaller cutter, cut out about 24 circles for the mince pie tops.
4. Grease a cupcake tin/cake tin. Place a mince pie in each base. In each cake whole fill with mincemeat. Brush the tops with beaten egg.
5. Bake in the oven at 200.C for ten to fifteen minutes. Once cool, sprinkle on icing sugar.

Hope you enjoy our recipe, feel free to comment on how the baking went!

Music Programme Assessment Concert

2010-12-03T11:23:00.000+13:00

Debates in Room 3!

2010-11-27T16:03:00.003+13:00

Recently, the top senior English class (Room Three) have been having a go at debating! Once organised into teams, the class practice their rebuttals and persuasive points at several different topics. All students have been adoring this last unit before the end of term.

Where in the Westburn World am I:Results.

2010-11-26T11:58:00.004+13:00

Here is the results for last weeks Where am I in the Westburn world am I?

Rutherford 1

Hillary 4

Tekanawa 2

Sheppard 3

Reporters: Laura and Selena

Library books due

2010-11-26T11:52:00.001+13:00

On the 2nd of December all library books are due back to the library. Please take note of this and do your best to return your library books as soon as possible.'

Westburn Orchestra & Band Concert

2010-11-26T11:21:00.003+13:00

Reporter: Selena

The Lincoln University Trip

2010-11-19T11:35:00.006+13:00

Last week the lucky year seven and eights got the oppurtunity to go to Lincoln University and do some fitness testing. These tests involved crunches, planks, press ups, the much hated Beep Test, the Agility sprints and many other tricky and tiring tests! All the students worked really hard and pushed themselves to the limit, many of the students woke up with aching bodies the next day! Well done everyone! These people did especially well:

Farid
Emma
Lucas.P
Jake
Ben
Liam
Dennim
Han Gil
Georiga
Abbas
Max
Clize
Libby
Matthew
Charlotte
Lewis
Mandy
Meg
Beth
Tylah

Reporters: Rosa and Jess

2010-11-19T11:18:00.003+13:00

The Westburn Blog now has 5,000 visitors!!!
Reporter: Daniel.

Summer Sport Tournmament

2010-11-19T11:13:00.002+13:00

Wednesday the 17th of November, four sport teams from Westburn went to two different venues, to compete against schools across Christchurch. There were two tennis teams and two touch rugby teams.

All teams had a great day, playing many games and having plenty of fun! Sounds like a great day!

A taste of House Assemblies

2010-11-09T14:07:00.007+13:00

Approximately once a month, students from each house group (Shephard, Tekanawa, Hillary and Rutherford) in class Years 5-8 gather for fun and games, and a chance to earn house points. Here are some photos of one in progess, about two weeks ago...

Reporter: Daniella

Fitness Course, Underway!

2010-11-09T13:50:00.004+13:00

The school fitness course is well underway, situated along the fencing on the big field. There are eight different courses, all which require skill and ability. This is a great way for the pupils to excerise and to have fun in fitness time. This is what it looks like so far...

Reporter: Daniella

Orchestras Combine

2010-11-05T18:14:00.002+13:00

The Westburn School Orchestra were lucky enough to play with one of New Zealand's best school orchestras- Burnside High School.
This afternoon (5Th November) was a primary schools showcase concert- Pupils from various local schools came to the Auroa Centre (Performing Arts Centre at Burnside High School) to hear us and Burnside Highs orchestra play. Westburn performed Capriaio Italiien, written by Tschaikowsky, with the High School Orchestra under the Baton of Mrs Helen Renaud (Head of music at the high school).
Pupils from the several schools definitely enjoyed the one piece the orchestras played together, and performers certainly enjoyed performing it!

(Look out for the video of the performance soon!)

Reporter: Daniella

Athletics Quiz

2010-11-05T12:06:00.002+13:00

athletics_quiz

Reporter: Daniel

Canterbury aftershocks map

2010-11-05T11:57:00.005+13:00

Here is a video of all of the aftershocks that have hit canterbury since september the 4th:

Repoter: Matt B

How much do you know about the earthquake?

2010-11-05T11:45:00.004+13:00

earthquake!!!

Reporter: Rosa

Where in the Westburn world am I?

2010-11-05T11:20:00.001+13:00

Where am I now? Please help me.

Leave a comment with your first name and house so I can award you a housepoint.

Get your outfits ready and dance moves complete!

2010-10-25T10:29:00.008+13:00

(Click the image to enlarge)

Get your wacky outfits together, and practicing your groovy dance moves, for the School Disco! This friday (29th of October) the year groups 1-4 will begin dancing away at 5pm, and year groups 5-8 will have their disco at 7pm, both in the school hall! Its $2 an entry and be sure to buy some glowsticks and food while you're there!

We'll see you there!

Reporter: Daniella

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One day art, the next day... Calendars!

2010-10-24T21:34:00.002+13:00

Most years as part of a school fundraiser, Westburn School give children and families the chance for their artwork to become a calendar or greeting cards! Once again, this year, students in each class are working hard to see their art work soon become something ideal for gifts or for the family!
Calendars this year have a new illustrated style!

Support our school buy purchases your childs calendar or an eight pack of cards.

Calendars- $10 each
Pack of cards (8 Cards) - $12

Visit the office staff for more information!

Reporter: Daniella

Don't Forget Your Bandannas!

2010-10-24T19:40:00.006+13:00

Did you know every two days a young New Zealander is diagnosed with Cancer?

Canteen (A New Zealand Cancer Society) are as always hosting 'bandanna week' to raise funds for children with cancer. Bandannas will be sold throughout the country at many shops and participating schools. Westburn is once again selling bandannas this week ( Tuesday 26th October to Friday 29th October) outside the senior block of classrooms. There are many wacky and cool styles, but be sure to buy them as soon as possible, as they may sell out quickly! Bandannas are $4 each and all the proceeds go to Canteen.

On the Friday (29th of October) you can wear all your bandannas too at the mufti day! But remember, if you come in mufti you must please bring a gold coin donation, all proceeds of this money will also go to Canteen.

Reporter: Daniella

What competition do YOU want?

2010-10-23T10:19:00.004+13:00

The Media Team were amazed at the superb writing standard in our previous writing competition. We thank you all for participating in our competition.

We have had two competitions this year - a colouring competition and a writing competition.

Leave us a comment on what competition you'd like us to host next!

Reporter: Daniella

Where in the Westburn World am I in now???

2010-10-22T12:03:00.003+13:00

Well, on my awesome planet we lack the knowledge of how to construct plastic containers but when I came in here the first thing that caught my organ of vision was this plastic box.

Can you tell me where this is?

Plese tell me by commenting and leaving your FIRST NAME and HOUSE so I can tell give you a Housepoint.

Reporter: Selena & Laura

We want to see your super writing!

2010-10-18T08:00:00.000+13:00

A reminder to all Westburn School Students that the Media Team Writing Competition closes This Friday (22nd October)

The catergories are :
1.Creative short story
2. Report/article
3. Poetry

Remember to bring your stories into the 'Media Team Box' in the school library and don't forget to put your Name and Room Number with your story.

The winners recieve two wicked prizes each !

Comment on this post if you have any questions.

Remember To Wear Hats!

2010-10-15T12:49:00.000+13:00

No Hats. No Play. on PhotoPeach

Reporters: Emma and Rosa

Don't forget your hats!

2010-10-10T18:16:00.002+13:00

A reminder for all students, that the green wide brim hats (Similar to the one in the photo) are to be worn all throughout this Term. (Term Four)

Reason being to prevent sun-burn and dehydration.

This can be purchased from the School's Uniform Shop and other uniform shops.

Ideas these Holidays!

2010-09-27T11:20:00.000+13:00

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!

2010-09-27T08:00:00.008+13:00

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

2010-09-24T12:28:00.001+12:00

Get a Voki now!

Reporter:Matt B

4,000 visitors

2010-09-24T12:09:00.003+12:00

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

Help Us Reach Our Goal!

2010-09-24T11:43:00.004+12:00

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

2010-09-24T11:35:00.002+12:00

Free Word Search Puzzles 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!

2010-09-24T11:20:00.011+12:00

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!

2010-09-22T09:00:00.001+12:00

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

2010-09-22T08:30:00.000+12:00

Westburn School Room 12 Kiwiana on PhotoPeach

Reporter: Kaelan

School Production Postponded

2010-09-18T06:00:00.001+12:00

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

2010-09-17T12:25:00.005+12:00

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

Where in the Westburn World am I now??

2010-09-17T11:51:00.007+12:00

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!

2010-09-17T11:40:00.008+12:00

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!)

2010-09-17T11:39:00.004+12:00

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!

2010-09-17T11:27:00.004+12:00

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

2010-09-10T16:28:00.016+12:00

Earthquake

Look at the damage...

Reporter: Laura

Westburn School Wordle

2010-09-07T08:30:00.002+12:00

Reporter: Helena

Weekly books released

2010-09-06T12:04:00.001+12:00

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

2010-09-04T10:02:00.006+12:00

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.

2010-09-03T12:26:00.006+12:00

Daffodil Day Chalk Squares on PhotoPeach

Well done everyone!

Reporter: Rosa

Where in the Westburn World am I now?

2010-09-03T11:55:00.006+12:00

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

2010-09-03T08:30:00.004+12:00

Reporter: Chloe

Weekly books released

2010-08-30T12:08:00.004+12:00

Every week, we will share with you the new books coming into our School Library. New this week are:

Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Natural Hazards
Waste management
The first three books of the series 'Car Mad Jack'
Dark Solstice

Reporters: Daniella and Emma

Westburn School Wordle

2010-08-30T08:30:00.001+12:00

Reporter: Kaelan

Basketball Zones

2010-08-29T08:30:00.002+12:00

Basketball zones on PhotoPeach

Here are some photos of the games Westburn played.
Reporter: Daniel

Flower Power

2010-08-28T13:23:00.004+12:00

Flower Power on PhotoPeach

On Friday 27 August, the School Council ran a mufti day to raise money for the Cancer Society. Everyone went to a lot of trouble and dressed up in yellow and green. Have a look at some of the contenders in the "Best Dressed" competition, judged by a representative of the National Bank.

Mr Ward's interview

2010-08-27T14:55:00.016+12:00

The 2010 Westburn School Daffodil Day fund raising event was an extremely successful event, raising over $1,000! Here's Mr Ward's opinion.

Mr Ward's interview:
How happy are you about this event?

Extremely happy and delighted by how willing our students were to give to this worthwhile event.

How happy are with this year's results compared to last year's?

Very pleased with the outcome. I think we as a school achieve great results almost every year, but I'm still very pleased with the final outcome of over one thousand dollars.

Was is a worthwhile event in your eyes?

Most definitely and I'd like to thank the student council for putting so much effort and time into this fantastic event.

Do you think giving all the money to the Cancer Society encourages the children to give more?

Personally, yes, but I guess that's a question you would have to ask the kids to get the real answer.

Are you considering doing the daffodil hunt again next year?

Maybe but I'm always open to new ideas.

Have you got any ideas for next year's Daffodil Day? If so please post a comment and tell us what you would like to have included. Remember, just leave your first name, what class you're in and, of course, your idea.

Reporters: Matthew and Laura

Where in the Westburn World am I?

2010-08-27T11:31:00.009+12:00

Hello. Again I am lost in the Westburn World. Please help me by telling me where am I and I will award you a housepoint. Just leave your first name, your answer and what house you are in!

Reporters: Laura & Selena