Term 1
West Country Swim Competition Super Six Swim Competition Junior and Middle School Beach Trip Whole school trips to Museum Senior's Badminton Training Senior classes trip to the Art Gallery Senior Students' First Aid "People Savers" Training day Y-One visit Term 2 Super Six Netball and Soccer Art Intensive Term 3 Super Six Softball School wide PrEP programme School and Inter School Cross Country: Aranui and Intermediate
School and Inter school Speech Competition
Term 4
School Camp at "Vertical Horizons"
Senior Sailing Programme
Form 2s Life Saving Training
SPECIAL EVENTS OF 2007
West Country School's Annual Speech Competition
On Wednesday 15 August 2007 the Annual West Country School's Speech Competition took place at Faith Academy. The Judges from Toastmasters were once again impressed with the high calibre of speeches especially amongst the juniors. The competition was divided into 2 sections Juniors (Years 4-6) and Seniors (Years 7-8.) Well done to all the students who participated. SPECIAL EVENTS OF 2006
Term 1:Room 5 has had an awesome time at Mangatepopo camp, read more about it below. Room 5 will also be going to the Science Roadshow at Girls' College and are doing badminton for 4 weeks. Seniors took part in the Tryathlon winning several medals! The Super Six Swimming competition was great too. The West Country Schools swimming competition went well even though the seniors weren't able to participate due to being on camp.
Term 2:
Art Intensive
Term 3:
Inter School Speech Competition, School Cross Country, West Country School's Cross Country, Intermediate Cross Country.
PrEP (Primary Enterprise Programme) Market Day ! September.
TVNZ Net Guide Web Challenge(Y7&8)
Year 5-6 camp at Vertical Horizons near Inglewood
Term 4:
Sailing at Pauri Lake(Y7&8),
Gymnastics at the Boys & Girls Gym Club,
Maths World Road Show,
Hangi,
Award Assembly
SPECIAL EVENTS OF 2005
Term 1: Room 5 has gone Sailing and the Junior Syndicate went on a trip to a "Goldminer's Hut", Inter-school swimming Competition.Term 2: Whole school trip to the Ward Observatory, Preparations for Musical, Cross Country, Gymnastics at the Boys & Girls Gym Club.
Term 3:Inter School Speech Competition, Room 4&5 trip to the Museum.
Term 4: The Musical; Award Assembly
Speeches
By Joseph.Promises, Promises, Promises
- that's all we're getting at the moment. Tax cuts, shorter hospital waiting lists, less student debt. - Step right up .. it's a circus out there! That's right ... it's election year.
Politicians - they need your vote and they're out to impress you. They do this in three main ways.
Method 1.
"We've got the best policies."
Here we get all the election promises, but do they keep them? Not many, if any.
Method 2.
"The others are the pits!"
Over the last few weeks, how many times have you heard the politicians criticising each other over every issue under the sun?
Method 3. What's happened in the past?
Parties are scoring over each other by saying what happened the last time their opposition was in government.
Now we have the T.V campaigning.
We've had little orange men leaping in and out of letterboxes. We have party political broadcasts; politicians racing around the country, cutting ribbons, helping to do up somebody's garden and kissing babies to make sure that they look good.
And because the public are so thick, they have to give us repeated in-depth explanations of how to put ticks in boxes.
So how would you vote?
Would it be Brash's Boys? Or perhaps Clark's Cluster?
Maybe Winston's Whiners? . ..or Jim's Jokers?
Nanda's Nutters or even Tariana's Toa? McGillicuddy's Madmen?
Hmmmmmm. .
Yes, it's a circus out there and it's going to continue for the next 29 days. Decisions, decisions, decisions. So, if you were 18, how would you vote?
Observatory Recount
On Thursday the 19th of March 2005 students from Faith Academy and their families went to the Ward Observatory to see Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon because we are studying space. 
Through the big telescope Jupiter looked white with two pale stripes across it. We could see four of its moons, Ganymede, Io, Callisto and Europa. From outside, Jupiter looked like a bright star near the moon.
It took a while for one of the astronomers to set up a telescope to point at Saturn. While we were waiting, he talked to us quite a bit about the telescope and light pollution at the observatory and about Saturn. Through the telescope Saturn looked very yellow. It had two bright rings, which were the same colour. It was really cool to be able to see it.
God gave us a really calm, clear, mild evening to visit the observatory. Everyone, including little children and the parents, were very patient, and we all enjoyed ourselves.
Y.1 Concert
We have a lot of people come to our school, but these people were a "Blast!"Y.1 2005 is a group made up of seven people, this year there were three girls and four boys. They were Vanessa, Penelope, Lorelle, Josh (afro man), Matt, Ben and Gareth. My favorite was Matt, he's cool. Anyway...... Y.1 is a group that travels around New Zealand and sings songs. They sing songs made up by other artists like, Solider, by Eminem and others.
They went to five different schools, mostly Intermediate schools, but that's only in Wanganui, they went to a lot more other schools in New Zealand.
After they've performed at all the schools in one city that they are supposed to perform at, they do one more performance somewhere else, where all the form 1's and 2's are allowed to go to, and it only costs $5.00. What they do there is perform songs and play games with the crowd, like guessing the song, and our mate won that game, she won a C.D
"I look forward to seeing Y.1 2006!"
By Esther.
SPECIAL EVENTS OF 2004
Term 1: Room 4 CampTerm 2: Art Intensive, Cross country.
Term 3: PrEP; Inter School Speech Competition.
Term 4: Room 5 Camp
Click on the PrEP bullet and see some of what we did this year. The "Camps" bullet will take you to some photos and articles of the room 4 camp in Term 3.
Some of the pages are still under construction. If you would like to make a contribution please speak to Mrs Jonker or E-mail us by clicking on the "Email Us" bullet on the Main Menu.
The Junior syndicate Traffic day was fantastic. The weather was good, the train ride terrific, the "beetles" great fun and we all crossed the road safetly. Photos will follow soon.