Melville Intermediate - Inter Intermediate Athletics 2013

Int Int Athletics 2013 - slideshow

Today at Porritt Stadium in Hamilton the last calendar event of 2013 for the Waikato Intermediate Sports Competiiton was held - Athletics day.  All of the schools in the Waikato region competed in a variety of athletic events.  Melville Intermediate had a team for the day, the highlight of which results wise was Lonita from Room Seven (and Basketball Captain) who won the Cricket Ball Throw for the Y8 Girls.  We had a Room Five film crew there and will be process information and details from the event over the next few days.

Melville Intermediate - Bianca in Japan Part Two

Japan 2013 - slideshow

Melville Intermediate - Bianca in Japan

In Japan we went to many different sights like, disneysea disneyland, and schools. In this slideshow the photos are from week one. The 1 few photos are fromthe skytree tower, the next ones are from Makuhari school and the last ones are from the makuhari international school and the green tea ceremony that we went to. It was a very fun experience. There were 8 different schools that went, 30 kids in the tour group and 4 kids from my school. We stayed for 2 weeks. We each got a host family each. Hope you enjoy the slideshow. Bianca's Japan Trip 2013 on PhotoPeach

Bianca's Japan Trip 2013 on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Bianca's Japanese Blog

Bianca, one of our Room Five students is currently experiencing Japan as part of our school trip along with three other students from Melville Intermediate School and our Deputy Principal, Mrs Bleakin.  Bianca has created a blog to write from while she is Japan.  You can view it by clicking on the link here.

Melville Intermediate - Cross Country Highlights

Today Melville Intermediate held their 2013 Cross Country race at school.  Both year groups competed in Boys/Girls races looking to win house points for our team competition.   The races were held at 9:00am and 10:00am and Room Five had the first highlights online by 11:00am.  This video was recorded by a number of Room Five students on Thursday 5th September 2013.  Edited by Bianca and Kristal from Room Five.
CrossCountry2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

This is Harry from Room Five's recount about the School Cross Country.
It was the day of the Cross Country.  My legs were shaking like a dogs tail.   Mr Keegan blew the horn.  "Hang on, hang on - that was just a test".  "What?" I said.  Then the horn went for real everybody was pushing and nudging.  Someone pushed me over.  I got up and kept running then a few seconds later I stood on a giant thistle! Ouch! I stood in a spot picking the thistles out of my foot but I kept on running.    Suddendly I was approaching the giant Melville High School field, it was huge! As I was starting to get to the end I spewed in the bush but then I kept on running the last straight.  "Yus!" I said but someone was behind me so I sprinted my legs off then I crossed the finish line.   All the girls were squealing like babies, Katipa wrote my group down.   I was dissapointed in myself but after all that had happened I still finished the race.

Melville Intermediate Vs. Hamilton Junior High School

On Tuesday 27th of August 2013 a group of Melville Intermediate students went to Tokoroa for the Intermediate Schools Waikato tournament.  There were two groups of students from Melville Intermediate the Y7 team and the 8A team and some extras.   The Year Eights played five games and the Year Seven students played four games because they had a bye.   The Year Eights won two games and lost three games but didn't make it into the finals (it was only the top team).   The year seven team tried their best to win but unfortunatly they didn't.

This video is highlights are from the game between Melville Intermediate School and Hamilton Junior High School.  Filmed by Briar and Biancas Mum and edited by Briar and Bianca. 
Vs.Hamiltion Junor ghigh School 28/813 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Vs. Te Awamutu Netball 27/8/13

On Tuesday 27th August 2013 the Waikato Inter Intermediate Competititon took place in Tokoroa.  Melville Intermediate had a Y7 and Y8 team in the two competitions.  This is footage of our Y8 Girls playing in their first game against Te Awamutu Intermediate.  Melville are in their traditional Green/Red strip and Te Awamutu are in the Gold and Maroon.  Filmed by Bianca's Mum and edited by Bianca and Briar.

Melville Intermediates Y8 Girls team on Tuesday had wins against Hamilton Junior High School 8-5 and Morrinsville Intermediate 7-6.  They had close losses against Fairfield 5-10, Cambridge Middle School 3-8 and Te Awamutu Intermediate 4-9.   Well done to Maeroa Intermediate who dominated in the final against Cambridge Middle School and won 18-8.
Vs. Te Awamutu Int, Girls Y8 27/8/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Biancas Winter Olympic Recount

Winter Olympics!

Day 1:

On Monday the 12^th August 2013 36 students including me went to Totara Springs, Matamata to represent Melville Intermediate in our Winter Olympics Sports Camp.  We stayed there from Monday-Friday the 16^th August. When the bus got to camp everyone was so excited. When we hoped out of the bus there was a man with a video recording us getting out so then he could put it on the daily highlights of the week. After everyone got their bags we went to our cabins where we set up our beds. There were 2 rooms for the girls. In my room there was Bria, Aleesha, Alanis and I and everyone else was in the other room. In my room there were 2 beds and 1 bunk bed and in the other room there were 6 bunks. After everyone was set up the cross-country runners had to get ready for their run. After the cross-country the golfers, archery and shooters had to get ready. The cross-country track was long but only 1 kid from Melville got in the top 10. Both of the golfers came 2^nd. After all of that we had to go to the swimming pool for the swimmers. For swimming we came 2^nd in boys breaststroke.  Later that night after dinner we played Scramball. We got 1^st equal with Te Puke.

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 Day 2:

In the morning after we had breakfast all of the sports started. I was in about 3 sports for that day. We won our netball 12-8 we played Te Puke, we won our touch and we won 1 game of tennis and we lost 1 game but we made it to the semi finals. After lunch we had Boys and Girls basketball and soccer. We won boys basketball and we won girls basketball for that day and we won soccer for that day as well. After dinner we had indoor hockey Boys and Girls, Tennis semi finals, chess, draughts and Boys Table Tennis. Both Boys and Girls won their indoor hockey, We had to postpone our tennis game because it was poring down with rain even though the score was 4-2 to the other team and the boys in table tennis made it into the semi finals but didn’t win their game so we didn’t end up in the finals.

Day 3:

On Wednesday morning after breakfast I straight away had to go get ready for my tennis game that we had to finish. We ended up loosing the semi finals but we were happy that we made it that far. After my tennis game I had to get changed into my netball top so then I could play my games of netball that I had. My first game of netball that I had that morning we lost our game. After that game I had a second game that I had to play but we got thrashed. We also had rugby which we won, boys volleyball which we won, girls basketball which we won, Touch which we lost, soccer which we lost, girls volleyball which we won, boys basketball which we won. After lunch we had boy’s hockey, wallball, softball, boy’s basketball, croquet, girl’s hockey, softball, petanque, girl’s basketball, and soccer. We won boy’s basketball, wallball, softball, croquet and girl’s basketball. After dinner we had indoor soccer, Girls table tennis, and bowls.

Day 4:

On Thursday after breakfast and lunch we had all of the semis and the final games. So on that day there was Rugby, Touch, Netball, Wallball, Boys hockey, Girls volleyball, Boys basketball and Girls basketball. I was playing Touch and Netball. We won out touch so we got into the finals but then we lost the finals. We lost our netball because we weren’t even trying. After dinner we had the cheer teams, darts, girl’s basketball final, caged soccer, boys’ basketball final and girls’ volleyball final. We won the boys basketball, the cheer and we also won the girls volleyball. It was a long night in the end.

Day 5:

When I woke up I thought oh man it’s the last day of Winter Olympics. I get up and pack all of my bags up once I had finished that we went for breakfast after breakfast we went back to our rooms for the last clean up to make sure we had everything all packed in our bag. When that was finished we went and put our bags in the chapel where we meet before the athletics started. For athletics there was javelin, discus, jumping and shot-put. I did the jumping one because I wanted to do something. After athletics it was time for lunch. We had a good lunch break. After the break we had prize giving. We ended up winning 8 trophies and we won 7 certificates for runner-up. We made it into 12 semi finals and ended up in about 10 final. It was a really long tiring week but we made it through with a few injures including me but we still got through it all. I would love to do it again another time.

By Bianca.    

Melville Intermediate - Classroom Lunch Orders

Melville Intermediate - Bianca's Stage Challenge!

As I arrived at Claudelands Event Centre at 7:00am I walked through the doors and I saw all of my friends. We all headed into our changing room with our bags. The first school we saw was Hamilton Girls High School. We all put our bags under a table and we went into the Auditorium to watch the rehearsals. Girls High was up for their rehearsal first and we were up second. We all were in our t-shirts the we were given from Miss Kristen. We had to wear the shirts all day. For our rehearsal we weren't in costumes we were just in our t-shirts and pants, but there was lighting. We had three run through. After our run through we got to either go watch the other schools or go back into the changing room. There were 13 schools at the event. There was Stage Challenge and JRock. Once every school had done their rehearsals the teachers got up and danced around for a while. The teachers stood on a star to know when our school was going up on stage. We ended up last. All of the kids went back to their changing rooms where we just hung out and we met up with other kids or we could lie down and have a sleep. The show started at 7:00pm. Once our performance had finished everyone went out into the auditorium for the awards to be handed out. At the end we found out who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Huntly College came 3rd, Girls High came 2nd and we came 1st!!! It was a long day from 7:ooam - 11:30pm but we survived it all.
By Bianca!

Melville Intermediate - Cultural Diversity: Australia

Bianca's Australian Questions from Myles Webb

Melville Intermediate - Inter-Intermediate Hockey Tournament

On Thursday 30th May some Melville kids went to Innes Commen for the Inter-Intermediate Hockey tournament. The kids in the Melville team were chosen from our Winter Olympics team.

We left school at about quarter to 9 the morning. The school bus took us. In the Melville team there was Rebbeca, Alanis, Aleesha, Raven, Connor, Bunnarath, Ford, Dennis and I. We played 4 games. We lost all of our games, except for 1. We tied 1 game but we had to do penalty shoot out. Both of the teams had 5 people doing the shoot outs. Our team got 3 goals and the other team got 4 goals. Our goal shooters were Aleesha, Alanis, Ford, Raven and Bunnarath. Aleesha, Ford and Raven got our 3 goals for my team. After our last game we all watched some of the game untill Paul the school bus driver came to pick us up. After all of us were in the bus we went to pick up the soccer people from Jansen Park. Once the roll was done we headed back to school. At the end of the day I think Melville Hockey team went pretty well even though we lost all our games.

By Bianca!

Melville Intermediate - Bianca Holiday Recount

Fire, Hot Mount Manganui!!!

the van to get ready to go to the amazing, hot, sunny Mount manganui. “is that everything?” dad askes. “yes, now LET’S go!” I say. everyone piles into the van, dad at the wheel, me in the middle and mum as the passenger. once we got to the beach the first thing we did was unpack the van. once we finished i went to see my friends. we hung out for a bit. my friends and i were doing a shop. we do this shop every year. we did the shop for about 2 minutes, AND THEN we just hung out in my caravan. after about 2-3 minutes mum, dad and i had to go for a walk to get some tea. after tea mum, dad and i went to see our friends for a drink. after we had a drink we went back to our It was a hot, sunny summers day when my mum, dad and i were loading caravan to go to bed.

“who’s ready for a day of FUN?” i shout out to my friends Chantelleand ava. the very first thing we did was… play baseball on the beach. it was very, very hard to run on the sand. After we had finished playing baseball we did the shop with my ther friend Harper. we did the shop untill lunch time. afetr lunch mum, dad and i went far a walk up town. when we came back i rode around the camp-ground on my scooter untill tea.

it was a stormy, windy christmas day and we drove to omokoroa with my brother-Ethan, ethans girlfriend-melissa, mum, dad and i. once we got up to my nana and grandpas house we found out that everyone had allready opened their present ecxept the ones we gave them. after we had opened our presents the parents went and got tea ready while the kids played. after tea and desert mum, dad, ethan, melissa and i decided to go home with a truck load of presents in the boot.

“horay, IT’S new years eve!” i shout out. its freezing cold OUT-SIDE but whos to say that no-one can go out-side to play. chantelle and i mostley played on our scooters for that day. once the night came, the sun was emerging down and the moon was emerging up it became colder and colder. chantelles mum, chantelle, my mum and i sat snuggled up in blankets on the edge of the grasss and watched as the fireworks lite up the starry night. once they were done we started to walk back to our caravan to go to bed.

“happy new years day!” i shout out. it’s a sunny yet cold day. at 7am that morning mum and dad went down to the beach to see how many people were asleep down on the beach. there was a guy that had a wizard hat on, he rolled onto his side and his hat came off but he put it back on again in his sleep. today i just hung around mum and dad in the caravan because it was raining out-side.

By Bianca.

Melville Intermediate - Bianca Activity Week Recount Part Two

Thisi is the conclusion to Bianca's recount about activity week.

we made some more cards. I made a Christmas card for my niece, big brother, mother, father and big sister. I also made a congratulations card to my big sister and brother in-law, because they are having a baby next year. When I finished all of my cards I helped to clean up the floor. After we had finished cleaning up the floor it was lunch time. For lunch we ordered pizza. Jamie and I had ham and cheese with barbeque sauce on top. Lunch went so fast it was not funny, but Jamie and I were happy because after lunch we were doing something really cool. After lunch we went to the library to watch a movie. Jamie and I brought our beanbags, it was so comfy. The movie we watched was mirror, mirror. We didn’t have any sound for about half an hour. But when we got our sound we started to watch the movie. We only got to watch 3 quarters of the movie. When the bell went we had to go back to the sewing room to get all of our stuff.  Jamie and my hands were really full because we had to take our beanbags, jar, cards, bag and canvas. But we put our cards into our bag and so we only had to take our canvas, jar and beanbag. Once Jamie walked out-side she lost grip of her jar and it fell to the ground. I had put my jar into my bag so then it would be safe. When Jamie dropped her jar all I heard was a bang and I looked back and Jamie’s jar was on the ground. I power walked over to her and helped her to clean it up. Once the jar was cleaned up we went out to the front gate, Jamie hopped into her car and I was standing out-side waiting for my mum but she didn’t come so Jamie’s mum Gail offered a ride to her place.      

Melville Intermediate- Y6 2013

On the 4th the 5th and the 6th the year 6 kids from Deanwell Primary School , Melville Primary School and Glenview Primary School came to Melville Intermediate to get a tour of the school me and 3 other people were chosen to make cookies and tell them about the cooking room and the kind of food that we get to make.

Guests 2013 - slide show

Melville Intermediate - Survivor: Melville Episode 2

In the first episode of the 2012 season (full recap below) Parauri won the first challenge sending Whero to elimination. In the second episode Whero were looking to press home their advantage, Parauri to even the score.

In this episode the teams had to run a short course holding onto a rope and work as a team, but temptation was just on the horizon... Any player could leave their team at any time and make a dash for the immunity horse that was located a short distance away. Would anyone betray their team to guarantee themselves another round in the game? Who would win the race to the finish? Who would be eliminated?

To further complicate matters for Whero apart from losing the first challenge both Tara (CPA trip to Auckland) and Aublix (Moon boot) had to have last minute replacements filling in for them! How would Jayden and Shannon match up at short notice?

This season has only five weeks remaining, until the sole survivor remains! Filmed on location at Melville Intermediate by the production team of Veronica, Bianca and Jessie from Room Six.

 
Please note: this episode was filmed during rain and high winds and contains some distortion during the running of the challenge please take care with the volume levels!

Episode One - Full Recap.
The 2012 season started with an indoor challenge due to difficult weather outside. Both teams had to stack die on top of each other with the 'six' facing the top and put a small silver trophy on the top to signify victory. Both Whero (red) and Parauri (brown) started strongly. The break came in the seventh round when Adrian defeated Aublix to make the scores 4-3 to Parauri. In the next round to force sudden death Tyryn had to beat Woody, but he was unable to do so and Parauri won the first challenge, sending Whero to the elimination vote. In the vote for Whero, everyone was at risk. The first 'blind side' of the game took place, when Brent from Room Five thought he was voting with the others to eliminate Aublix, however everyone, including his best friend in the game, Bunnarath, voted to send Brent out instead and he was the first individual eliminated in 2012 and Room Five was the first classroom to be taken out of the game.