Melville Intermediate - 150 Word Recount Challenge

For our back to school energizer our students had 150 words to write about their holidays....

 On Thursday of the 2nd week of the school holidays, I was on a holiday program and we were going to lazar tag/ten-pin bowling. We had to meet at the Meville community house so we could catch the bus to town. We walked to the place and we went straight to ten-pin bowling. We had about 5 turns left but we had to go to lazar tag. I was on the red team and I fired 497 shots I was mostly shooting the blue teams base and I came 2nd out of 7 players. After that we came back and finished our game and I won with 107 points I was so proud so we all walked back to the bus and we all got on. On the way back, I sat at the back. It was so hot at the back and we had to let the public on first. [Chloe]

 

On the last weekend of the holidays at one pm Saturday afternoon. Me and my sister went to the movies and watched Smurf Two. In 3D at Hoyts theatres. After I bought a RC spy truck at the base. At the Warehouse for some headphones. During the movie I got a free xbox360 from my dad with his new phone he got for 49 dollars. Near the end of the movie I finished my seven drinks of lift plus exta. When it finished I found twenty dollars on the floor so I picked it up and took it to spend. Later I found my dad at the play ground with my little brother and sister on the rope tower. On the way back from the base I got some new nerf guns. But when we got home my sister lost almost all my darts with in ten minutes all so.        

Melville Intermediate - Ski Trip Recount Day Two

This recount was written by Chloe from Room Five and is about the Melville Intermediate School Ski Trip (Day Two) that took place in Week Six of Term Three.

We all woke up and we got told to get into our snow gear we were all in our snow gear we had some breakfast and I had bacon an eggs it was nice. We all brushed our teeth and we went to get our hired gear witch was our boots, pants (if need), snowboard and wrist guards and everybody had done all made it down we had to have a lesson we went for a run down the mountain we had a 2 hour lesson it was tiring we had finished our lesson and we got to go anywhere in Happy Valley.   We had some lunch it was chips, ham and chesses buns and biscuits. Then we got to go back out snowboarding we ended the day with having a last ride on the magic carpet. The magic carpet is like a little escalator but with NO steps. We went back up the chairs lifts and dropped off our hired gear and went back up the to the  top with our boots and snowboard and everyone got up the lodge we were locked out so Mr Keegan rang Jodi who was in her office so she ran down the steps and unlocked the door. We all went and ran to our rooms got dressed cause we were all wet from the snow everyone got change we hanged out for about half an hour then it was dinner time we had spaghetti bolognaise and like it we had about 10 minutes and most people played foosball and we had pudding we had fruit crumble and ice cream we all ate it we had half an hour till bed we were playing I dear you and taking pitchers and videos. Then it was time to go to bed that was the end of day 2.

Melville Intermediate - School Ski Trip 2013

This week nine students from Room Five, Melville Intermediate were lucky enough to participate in the School Ski Trip to the snow.  This is a recount written by Chloe from Room Five, about day one.

On Sunday we got to the school and there was one person there.   Then I got there and after about everyone started to get there.  Nearly everybody was there.  Mr Keegan told us to be at school at 1:30pm and he was seven minutes late.   We went into his room and he called out everyones name and everyone was there so we loaded up in our cars and said goodbye to everyone and off we went.

We stated to listen to some songs.  I was in Bianca's car her car was cool.  We went to sleep (not the driver) casuse we were in the car for three hours.  We woke up and were there "yaaa".  Everyone saw a little bit of snow and some people started to have a snowball fight.  Then we had to get our stuff and carry it up a big hill wil lots of rocks.   Everyone was like "are you for real?" and Mr Keegan was like yup and we were like owwwwww.  So we all hardened up and we carried it up.  It was so hard we got in and we unpacked and we were called for dinner.  We went up the steps and Mr Keegan have some instructions and then we had dinner.  It was butter chicken. Then when we were finished w
e had to go back to our rooms and we chilled out there for a while.  About ten minutes later we went and had pudding.   We had Ice Cream, Fruit Salad and Chocolate Moose.   We all had tweny minutes until bed time so we had a few games and then it was time to go to bed.

Melville Intermediate - Waikato Symphonic Band @ MIS

This is the theme to 'Mission: Impossible' as performed at Melville Intermediate School on Thursday 29th of August by the Waikato Schools Symphonic Band.  Filmed by Chloe from Room Five and edited by Josh from Room Five.
Symponic Band - Mission Impossible from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Classroom Lunch Orders

Melville Intermediate - Y8 Girls Self Defence

Thank you for your visit to our class page, our students are currently experiencing their end of term holidays as its the school break between term two and term three 2013 in New Zealand.  The students from Melville Intermediate School will be returning to class and back again on Monday 29th July 2013.

In the last week of term two the Year Eight Girls from Melville Intermediate School had the opportunity to be involved in their annual self defence training.  We sent a film crew consisting of Jackie and Chloe from Room Five to report on the activities that were taking place.  Filmed on Thursday 11th July 2013.

MIS Girls Self Defence 11/7/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Leo Club Assembly Presentation

Leo club meets every Wednesday at lunch time to discuss their fundraisers and money.We also have popcorn selling for $2.00 as well. We do lots of fundraising outside and inside school, such as collecting cantabs, cans, popcorn, phone batteries ect. This year we decided to donate $500 worth of pet food to the SPCA. All together it ended up weighing 190 kilos. The SPCA were very thankful and the little dog Stella seemed very excited to see all that food.

LeoClub2013 - slideshows

Melville Intermediate - Melvilles Got Talent Auditions 2013

On the last Wednesday of Term Two we're having our bi-annual Melville Intermediate School Talent Show, 'Melvilles Got Talent'.   On Friday we had a round of auditions for the finals and Jackie and Chloe from Room Five were present, the finalists haven't been officially announced but you can view at least two of them here...
Melvilles Got Talent 2013 - Auditions from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Sport Waikato Ki-o-Rahi

This morning we had special guests from Sport Waikato who taught us how to play Ki-o-Rahi which is a traditional Maori game.

Cody wrote 'we went out in the morning and played Ki o Rahi. They told us how to play and we were off.  The ball was going around like a speeding bullet.  Change over and its still flying around.  Reitu's team scored five and it was all over.  Overall it was a fun game'.  Codys top five tips for the game were 1. stay inside Te Roto until pass off 2.  Run around trying to get the ball 3. get the other teams tags off 4. give to the shooters to score by striking the bin.

Chloe wrote 'when I got to the turf and looked out at the field there were cones and a bucket and I was wondering what game we were playing.  Then they told us that it was called Ki-O-Rahi.  I thought that it was a weird name for a game.  They said that it is a Maori game with lots of instructions to the game.  We played it, there were all of these words that I can't remember and you had to grab the tags out of the players waists if they had the ball in their hands.  The top things to remember were 1. Only Taniwha can go into the water 2. the runners can't go into the water without the ball 3. you can leap to score 4. you have to have the ball to go in the water if you are not a taniwha.

Wattana wrote 'Ki-O-Rahi' was actually a new game to me and it was really fun and I hope to play it again.  When I started to play I was playing against Taniwha, my team was on offense and the other team was defending.   The offensive team had four main throwers to throw the ball at the bin.  The attacking team has to get the ball and touch the post then run and score a try inside the red cone.

We found these videos (from Youtube) that exmplained how to play the game further.  The first video was created by Sport Waitakere that explains how to play the game.


We also found this example of Ki-O-Rahi being played on horseback! Its been uploaded to Youtube By Sport Northland.

Melville Intermediate - Food Technology 14th May

On Tuesday Josh and I made some scones and our teacher Mr Webb brought the film camera so we can film the Video and here it is..... [Chloe].

This is a video created by Room Five students during Food Technology with Mrs Brown in the Food Tech.  Melville Intermediate students have Food Technology once a week from 11:30am to 12:50pm working with a specialist teacher on a specialised program.
Food Tech Scones May 14th 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - MIS Bollywood Dance Group

Melville Intermediate School in term one has had a number of options available to the students.  One of the new groups that has been formed is Mrs Wilson from Room Twelve who is the teacher in charge of the Melville Intermediate Bollywood Dance Group.  The group has been rehearsing once a week at school, during lunchtimes on Friday.  Chloe from Room Five went to talk to Mandy from Room Twelve about the group, and also filmed partial rehearsal for the group on Friday, the last day of school. Bollywood Dance Group 2013 MIS from myles webb on Vimeo.
This Monday the students of Melville Intermediate School return to school following the end of their term one holidays.  Thank you so much for your visit and we will be replying to everyone who has left comments on our page during the two week break.

Melville Intermediate - Chloe Reviews Term One

So... This we have done much display work there is only a little bit of wall space and leaving not much left.  So most of the stuff is stars... Camp was fun and we played the best things ever.  It would be one of the best camps I've ever been on so far the games we played were spotlight, archery, water slide, go 
Karts, Trolleys, Burma Trail and even the best dinner ever. As for the tests we have done: spelling, math and reading.   I don’t really like those tests they are hard. And for the, gym that is some cool games in there like Pirates, Non stop cricket and Rounders they were pretty good games. As pe that is the same as before and but we play out side and we played Longball. This was fun but I hope we do more in term 2.