Melville Intermediate - Melville:Survivor Episode Three

This is episode three of our weekly episodic TV show shot by the students of Room Eight at Melville Intermediate School and featuring the students competing against each other in two tribes in the manner of the TV show survivor.  Episode Three comes after the Y8 tribe has lost the first two challenges with Jeeta (Rm14) being eliminated in Episode One, followed by Bradley from Room Eight in the last episode.  Its fair to say that the Y8 team is desperate to avoid a third straight loss coming into this episode of the show.  Filmed at Melville Intermediate School on Friday 28th October 2011, filmed by Ben, Mitchell and Kris, presented by Kelly.

Melville Intermediate - Waterbass 'Millionaire'

Nearly completing our postings from Melville Intermediate Schools huge talent quest at the end of Term Three for 2011, this is the Y8 band of students collectively known as Waterbass and their rendition of the song 'Millionaire' as performed to the school assembly on Friday 7th October 2011.

Melville Intermediate - 2011 Interface Awards

This week we became aware that our students work had seem them nominated in the 2011 Interface Awards.  Interface is a New Zealand ICT magazine that's very popular in schools, so to have our work honoured with a nomination was a big thrill.  We've made the top five finalists in best use of a free ICT tool, for using Skype to teach Maori Language.  Voting now commences for the top five in each category, you can visit the Interface site here, click here to see the nomination in full or click here for our most recent example of using Skype.  Thanks to the students who created the work, Interface magazine for the nomination and we'll keep you posted as to how we do with the competition.

Melville Intermediate - Jade, Faith, Veronica 'Bubbly'

This is footage of the Y7 Girls Signing group comprising of Anna, Faith, Jade and Veronica at the School Variety Show, performing on Friday 7th October.  If you would like to purchase a DVD copy of this show, we are using it as fundraiser for Melville Intermediate Girls Basketball, you can order one through Mr Webb from Room Eight for $4.00.  Filmed by Mackenzie, Ben and Benita in the School Hall.

Melville Intermediate - 'Unknown' Moves Like Jagger

This is footage of the Y7 School band at last terms Variety Concert that closed the term performing 'Moves Like Jagger' which is by Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera, this performance was filmed in the Melville Intermediate School Hall on Friday 7th October 2011 by Mackenzie, Benita and Ben.

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Melville Intermediate - Ritsumeikan High School Powhiri

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Melville Intermediate - School Holidays 2011

Thanks for your visit to our class page, our students are currently on the second week of the 2011 term three school holidays.  They will return to school on Tuesday 26th October and will resume posting and commenting then.

Melville Intermediate: 'Unknown' Sun Goes Down

'Unknown' are the Y7 Melville Intermediate School Band, on the day of the School Variety Showcase Jakob whose one of the three main singers couldn't make it, but not to worry Alyssa from Room Thirteen stepped up and took over co-vocal duties, this is their version of the song 'Sun Goes Down'.  Filmed by Ben, Mackenzie and Benita at the school talent quest on Friday 7th October 2011

Melvile Intermediate - IDK at School Variety Show.

Featuring from Room Eight on guitar Lana, on bass guitar Shania, guest musician on drums Mr Bell the music teacher, and lead singer was Kelly from Room Eight.  Also filmed by Ben, Benita and Mackenzie from Room Eight at Melville Intermediate School Hall, Friday 7th October 2011.

Melville Intermediate - SSMA at the School Talent Quest

On Friday 7th October Melville Intermediate School concluded Term Three with our school variety show.  There were 12 different acts during the afternoon performing a variety of the arts from dancing to music and singing.   One of the group performances was SSMA (Sita, Mana, Annika and Shyniah) who performed 'Valerie'.  As with the other highlights from this show this was filmed by Mackenzie and Ben from Room Eight at the Melville Intermediate School Hall.

Melville Intermediate - Aldrich at School Talent Quest

On the final day of School for Term Three, a week ago on Friday 7th October we finished the term with the school talent quests.  One of the outstanding acts and surprise packages from the afternoon was the star turn of Aldrich from Room Eight.  Aldrich played violin first as part of the school violin group, which although he's not part of he was able to contribute too, but also performed accompanied by Mr Bell the Melville Intermediate School Music Teacher.  Aldrich has been playing violin for six years.

A lot of students from Melville Intermediate haven't heard the violin from a performance perspective before but Aldrich did such an amazing job by the end of the performance he had converted a number of students! These two videos were recorded by Ben, Mackenzie and Benita from the show and were recorded in our school hall on Friday 7th October.

Melville Intermediate students are currently on their term three holidays, with another week to go they will be back at school on Tuesday 25th October.  See you all then.

Melville Intermediate - Talent Quest 2011

On the last day of the school term for last term we held the annual Melville Intermediate School Talent Quest.   We had a huge range of acts on the afternoon at school this video is of Charisma (Alyssa, Leiana, Amythest and Jade) performing 'Price Tag'.  Filmed by Mackenzie, Ben and Benita on Friday 7th of October 2011 at the Melville Intermediate School Hall.

Melville Intermediate - Positive Draw Y8 T3

This is the corresponding draw for our Y8 students at the end of term three.  The prize draw is available to any student of Melville Intermediate School whose identified as upholding the key school values during the term, the box was nearly filled to capacity for this draw and one of the lucky students whose name was called out was able to walk to the front of assembly and claim their prize.  Room Eight not only had several winners in this draw they were able to document the event as recorded by Mackenzie, Ben and Bentia on Friday 7th October 2011.

Melville Intermediate - Y7 Positive Draw

As our major reward system at Melville Intermediate School students are able to receive a 'positive' for good behaviour.  These slips when filled out and signed by a teacher are then put into a large container and at the end of each ten week block or term a limited number are pulled and the student concerned is able to select a prize from the prize draw.  This took place on Wednesday during the final week of term three.   This video was filmed by Mitchell from Room Eight and is presented by Kelly from Room Eight.

Melville Intermediate - Otumoetai Intermediate Maths 2011

On Thursday 29th of September 2011three year seven students from Melville Intermediate School who were Jarom Bohm, Trey Dixion and Lee Farrar-Johnson went to Tauranga to Otumoetai Intermediate to compete in their annual Maths competition.  We were choosen to go for our amazing test scores and talents in Maths. When we arrived at the Intermediate at 5:30pm we saw many other schools there already.  There were approximatley 20 schools there which is a lot because there were both 'a' and 'b' teams for some schools.  When we went inside the hall at 6:00pm there were desks spread out all over the place, me and the other Year 7 students found our desk and sat down.  After a while the co-ordinator for Baymaths stood up and told us we would be doing an individual test that would take ten minutes.  After that we did a team challenge that lasted for twenty minutes and a timed challenge that had one question every three minutes.  When we were at the last question, I can't recall what it was but after thirty seconds we called out 195 which happened to be the answer.  At the prize giving Berkley took home the award for Y7s and Y8s among some other trophies and we came 15th out of about 30 teams but that's still pretty good.  At 8:30pm we left to drive back to Hamilton, on the way our parents stopped and brough us Wendy's but it was still a long trip and we didn't get back until 10:30pm

Melville Intermediate - Stonefields School Finn and Damien

Firstly have a look at this video of some dancing that was created by Finn and Damien from Stonefields School in Auckland. We found this on their class page today, and really enjoyed watching it as it made up smile and happy.

This would be about the second time ever in over 1050 posts that we've used someone else's work on this page, but nevermind. The original post talks about the dancing spreading, which led Mr Webb to think about getting some students from Melville Intermediate School to copy Damien and Finn's dance and reproduce it here at school.   Today we have Giovan in helping Mr Webb after lunch, we showed him Finn and Damiens video which he loved, and here's his take on that song and the dancing:

Melville Intermediate - Melville: Survivor Episode Two

This is our second week of classroom competition. The Y7 team won the first challenge last week, and the Y8 team decided to eliminate Jeeta from Room 14. This week the two teams met again in the second challenge - which you can view here.

Melville Intermediate - New Block of Options have started

At Melville Intermediate School we've a new block of school options that have started, which are our last for 2011, as shortly we will being our fourth and final school term of 2011. On Thursday Sativa and Sasha visited a number of classrooms at Melville Intermediate School so you would be able to view the electives that our students had the opportunity to take part in.