Melville Intermediate - Playground Tour 2012

Deighton, Nathan and myself filmed the playground highlights and what you do and what you don't at Melville Intermediate School.  We filmed it on Tuesday 5th of March 2012.  It was filmed by Damien.   We filmed to show how safe our playground is.

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby Vs. Cambridge

On Friday 3rd of March 2012 Melville Intermediate School participated in the Waikato Rippa Rugby Competition at Swarbrick Park, Frankton.  Up for grabs was the opportunity to play the final the same day as a curtain raiser for the Blues Vs. Chiefs game at Waikato Stadium! Melville Intermediate qualified with Team Two defeating Morrinsville Intermediate (5-2)and had a unique opportunity - if Team One could defeat Cambridge Middle School in their Semi-Final then both Melville teams would be in the final.  Filmed on Friday the 3rd of March 2012 by Levi and Nathan H from Room Five.   Melville are in the Green and Red and Cambridge are in the Blue.

Melville Intermediate - Carter, Search for the Stars

More footage filmed by Sarah at our 'Search for the Stars' Talent Quest on Thursday.  This is of Carter from Room One performing.

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby 2012

Rippa Rugby 2012 on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Talent Search 2012

Yesterday as part of our leadership program we held a talent search at school at lunchtime when seven acts were able to perform in the Hall.  One of these acts were sisters Leiana and Tara who were singing 'Ave Maria' filmed on Thursday 1st March 2012 by Sarah from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Girls Basketball 2012

Our Girls Basketball team played again this Tuesday night.  As Room Five is hosting the School Assembly on Friday we filmed the game so that we could show it.  Our Girls team started playing in Week 1 of Term Four last year and didn't win at all, this year they've started really well with two wins in a row, although they were up against a very tough team in the X Factor, who are a club team who have Boys playing for them.  Filmed at YMCA on Pembroke Street on Tuesday 28th February 2012.  Watch to see how we did!

Melville Intermediate - School Garden Tour

This tour of the School Gardens was conducted by Rose and Kylie and was filmed by Asinate at Melville Intermediate School. 

Melville Intermediate - Waikato Int. Swiming Sports 2012

Inter Intermediate Swimming 2012 on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Our Mihi for 2012

We're back into the swing of things with our work at Melville Intermediate School and one of the things that were famous for, one of the things that we're world famous for, is our Maori Language Work (check out some of the videos on our pages to the side).  This year we've got some of the students from some of the other classes helping, so we started with this question to students in Room One - what's a Mihi and can you give us an example.  Filmed by Bianca and Jamie on Monday 26th February 2012.

Melville Intermediate - Singing in Room Five

At the moment we're very lucky to have Mr Bell going through the classrooms teaching singing to the Melville Intermediate School students.   Room Five are lucky enough to have in come in every Monday morning for half an hour.  Students are really enjoying the singing, and today Mr Webb recorded the session, this video are some of the highlights, including a touching rendition of 'I found a peanut' which is a song that remains popular with students at MIS.

Melville Intermediate - Woodwork Explanation

Its nearly the half way point of Term One for Melville Intermediate 2012.   Our students all start new technology classes next week on Monday (they have technology Monday and Tuesday, two ninety minute sessions, three hours in total).   Today Sam from Room Five spoke about the Woodwork Room and showed this footage of a project he's been working on in the last few weeks.

Melville Intermediate - AIMS Games 2012

Although September might seem like a very long way away, our Melville Intermediate School Girls Basketball team has started preparing for the 2012 AIMS Tournament.  There's such a long way to go, and while we won't know until later in the year if we're defiantly going to be there the team has started by playing their best on Tuesday nights at the local Hamilton competition.  The Girls are playing against club teams and Boys teams and have had two wins, against the Golden Dragons (28-14) and KBC Korus (37-18).
 

Melville Intermediate - Art Technology Slideshow

photos by Nathan and Douglas on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Mr Cooke Interview.

This video was created by Kayla and Icis from Room Five and features an interview with Mr Cooke, the Melville Intermediate School Principal about of School Canteen (Tuck Shop) what money is raised by selling food to the students and what that money is used for.  This is the students first video for 2012 and we will be watching it and assessing it in class tomorrow.  Filmed by Icis on Friday 17th February 2012.

Melville Intermediate - Commenting Challenge#1

Today's commenting challenge is as follows.  You need to select one of the three class pages from this list and description.  You need to travel to the blog that's hyper linked and leave a quality comment to the class and the students.  You will only have until today to complete the challenge and you have Technology after lunch so that only gives you block one or block two.

Remember the features of a quality comment: that its positive, that it asks at least one question and is left in a way that lets the person find us through our class page.  I will be checking these comments online later today and I expect them all to be completed.

Hamilton East Primary School - The teacher started blogging with last years class only last year but did a fantastic job.   She has a new class of New Entrant students but they are producing some fantastic work like this excellent post about the School Garden, think about what the students at Hamilton East are producing from their garden and it could be inspiration to us.

School 72 is from Russia.  We looked at picture of the student in the snow.  They lead a very different life to us in New Zealand but it is incredibly interesting to watch and learn from.  Click on this wonderful link here, find a great post and leave a comment.  They may be even sending their class mascot to us on the other side of the world!

St Barnabus in England.  This is the second of the classrooms that we're paired up with for Quad Blogging, just like with Mr Listers Class! So follow the link to their class page if you choose and leave a comment.  Remember as we said right at the start to think about the question and make sure that you check and proof read for grammatical and punctuation errors.

If you manage to leave three quality comments on all three pages that are then published by the teachers I will reward you with a special prize - but you must have all comments left by this afternoon, Tuesday, before lunch!