Melville Intermediate School - CPA @ Hild Ross 12/11/13

Melville Intermediate Schools Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA) yesterday had their second out of school performance for 2013.   The Melville Intermediate School CPA went to the Hilda Ross Retirement Home and performed for the residents.  These videos are some of the highlights of  the performance filmed by Jamie and Elizabeth from Room Five.
CPA @ Hildra Ross 12/11/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.
The group also performed with the school Choir.   An explanation of the performances from the students will follow shortly.
CPA @ Hilda Ross 12/11/13 Part Two from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - CPA at Pacifika Part Five

This is the final highlights from the CPA trip to Auckland. We are doing our Poi and we look amazing, at least thats what we think. :)

Melville Intermediate - CPA Performance 31st October

The Melville Intermediate School Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA) are very excited to be heading to Auckland next week for shows. As part of the rehearsal the students have performed across Hamilton this week. This is the final part of our 31st October shows. The show also featured Carter from Room Two and Tara from Room One Filmed by Joey from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Pepe Pacifika 2011

Last Thursday Melville Intermediate CPA - Cultural Performing Art Group performed at the 2011 Pepe Pacifika festival in Hamilton. There were many other schools there including Frankton, Deanwell School and our friends from Hamilton East School. It was a windy day but the Melville Intermediate students looked stunning in their costumes and put on a great performance, complete with three costume changes. This is the Maori section on the day. Filmed by Mr Webb on Thursday 24th November 2011.

Melville Intermediate - CPA Auckland 2011

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Melville Intermediate - Hawaiian CPA Dance

This footage is from the Schools Cultural Performing Arts Group. This group is made up of a variety of students who learn cultural dance and performance in Samoan, Maori, Cook Island and Hawaiian throughout the year. The group performed during 2010 at a variety of locations and events starting with the Founders Theatre in Hamilton for a New Zealand swearing in ceremony and finishing in the last week in December with a special performance for Hayze's Nana's 70th birthday party. This is part of that performance being the Hawaiian section of the show.

CPA - Final Show for 2010. from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - FInal Show for CPA of 2010

This is footage from our final CPA show of 2010, the CPA performed a final, very special show for one of the students Grandmother. Next week we're releasing a compilation DVD of the years show which you can order from the office at Melville Intermediate School. This will help our students raise money for 2011.

CPA - Final Show of 2009 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - CPA at Alphacare

Melville Intermediate CPA and Choir Groups performed at two retirement villages, Hilda Ross and Alpha Care. CPA's part of the show consisted of Kapahaka, Hawaiian, Cook Island and Samoan Dancing. As CPA dancers changed into their fantastic costuming the Choir group sang songs such as The Rose, Ba Ba and Getting Stronger. We also had Karlene who danced with different Hawaiian implements.

For our final number we ended on a Christmas note by singing 'Silent Night'. We saw lots of smiles and tears from our elderly audience. That made us feel really proud and happy that our school took time to go and spread some Christmas Cheer by sharing our talents with them.

CPA 6th December 2010 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate- Cook Islands Wintec

This is the final section of our 2010 Wintec Show, the Cook Islands Group from Melville Intermediate Schools CPA (Cultural Performing Arts). Due to a technical issue the recording of the entire act was not possible, but it is still very much worth a view. Filmed by Annalize from Room Eight., filmed on Thursday 21st October 2010.

CPA at Wintec Cook Islands from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - CPA at Wintec 2010

On Thursday 21st of October 2010 Melville Intermediate students were able to perform during the Wintec graduation for the end of the year. Our CPA (Cultural Performing Arts) group put on a full show for the audience (nearly 2,000 people graduated) for those people. Filmed by Annalize from Room Eight.

School CPA at Wintec Graduation from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Cook Island Group 2010

This is footage from the Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA). During our 2010 School Production the CPA had several performance spots. This was filmed on the Wednesday night performance from the audience by Mr Webb on Wednesday 16th September 2010.

Cook Island Cultural Group at School Production from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Melville Primary

Yesterday we had the first dress rehearsal of our School Production for 2010. The audience was a special group of people, the students from Melville Primary School! They got to see the production in full as it was performed for the first time. There are two big nights of performances tonight and tomorrow, and all of the students involved have put a huge amount of work into it. We've taken a small section of highlights from the show, the performance of our School CPA (Cultural Performing Arts Group) and are publishing that here. We hope to see many of you at the show tonight and tomorrow. Filmed by Otis and Robert, Tuesday 14th September 2010.

CPA at School Production 2010 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - CPA at Rukuhia School Part 3

This is the final highlights from our school Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA) and their performance at the Waikato RTLB Conference at Rukuhia School. Filmed by Benita and Terrina from Room 8.

Melville Intermediate - Saitama Students Exchange

Footage of the Cultural Activities our students and those from Saitama City, Japan were involved in yesterday. This is combination of activities from Samoan Sasa that our CPA taught the Saitama City students. There's also the cultural activities that our students learnt from the wonderful Saitama students.

Melville Intermediate - CPA at Rukuhia School

Melville Intermediate - Maori Language Week

As were continuing to look back on highlights from Te Reo Maori for Maori Language Week there's three examples that spring to mind. The first is Room Fourteen's Matariki take on 'Boy' this video was made by the students of Room 14 with Whaea Faith earlier this year. It was filmed by Tyler and inspired by the movie "Boy".

Room 14 Matariki Video: Poi E from myles webb on Vimeo.

The next is our collaboration last year with Hackham East Boys School in Adelaide Australia. The students there performed a Haka at the Adelaide Students Choir Festival, they performed with assistance from their tutor but we were able to help in a series of videos that gave some tips and some help with their performance. This video created by Destin and Cleveland was one from the series!



Finally at Melville Intermediate our Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA) are currently preparing very hard for shows later this term. Our school had a series of shows last year culminating in a trip to Australia, just before they left they performed at our school, one of the highlights of that show was the Kapahaka section you can view this video below:

Melville Intermediate - Cook Islands at Glenview

This is footage is from the Glenview show on June 10th at Glenview Primary School. Melville Intermediate had a full music and cultural show at the school demonstrating some of the wonderful opportunities that are available to students at Melville Intermediate.

Melville Intermediate - Glenview Primary School Show

This is the introduction to the Glenview Primary School Show from the 18th of June.  The video features Cleveland from Room 8 in 2009 during the introduction and then members of the Melville Intermediate School CPA group who were performing at the local primary school.  Mr Fawcett from Glenview is in the background!

Melville Intermediate - CPA Boys Highlights

The final series of highlights from our Y7 CPA show at the Founders Theatre in Hamilton, these highlights are of the Boys performance that closed the show including a Samoan Slap Dance. 

CPA at Founders Theatre - The Boys Finale from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Where were you in 2004?

During these school holidays one of the tasks that has been done is to go through some of our Cultural Performing Arts Shows form the past and convert them to DVD. One of the biggest surprises is that for the first time ever we managed to find the very first CPA show from 2004!   The whole show is over an hour long and is going to be made available from School if anyone wants a copy of it (as a DVD).  We believe its the first time that it has been released, and there's some brief highlights from it here!  If you would like to order a copy of this show we will be putting details of this in the first school newsletter of Term 2.