Melville Intermediate - Food Technology 6th August 2013

On the 6th of August 2013 Viliame and I (Cody) made Steamed Pudding with golden syrup in food technoligy. 

Food Tech on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Rugby League Vs. Te Awamutu A

Haivng defeated Te Awamutu Intermediate B boys team in their final pool game Melville Intermediate qualified for the 2013 Waikato Intermediate Boys Rugby League Semi-Finals, against the Te Awamutu Intermediate 'A' team.   Melvilles two win and one loss record was about to come up against the sternest test of the tournament as both teams were desperate to make the final.   Melville Intermediate are in the green with the red collars.  Te Awamutu Intermediate are in the green with the black.   The highlights were filmed by Cody from Room Five on site in Te Awamutu on July 10th.
Semi Final Vs. Te Awamutu Intermediate 'A' from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Boys League Vs. Rakaumanga School

On Wednesday 10th of July Melville Intermediate travelled to Te Awamutu to compete in the Waikato Rugby League Nines tournament. Melville Intermediate had their first game against Crawshaw School and were able to comprehensively defeat them 24-0. In the second game Melville came up against the eventual tournament winners Rakaumanga School. It was an unbelievably close game before sustained pressure from Rakaumanga saw them run away with the game 24-0 handing Melville their first defeate of the tournament. The quality of some of the tries scored by Rakaumanga was stunning. This game was filmed by Cody from Room Five.

Vs.Rakaumanga School Boys League from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - MGT 2013: Cody Performing Loose Yourself

This is another of the highlights from Melvilles Got Talent our annual school talent quest that was held this week on Wednesday 10th July during the evening.  This video is of Cody from Room Five performing 'Loose Yourself'.   Filmed on the night by Manish from Room Five, edited and produced by Cody.
MGT @ MIS - Cody 'Loose Yourself' from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - League Vs. Crawshaw School

On Wednesday 10th of July the Melville Boys Rugby League team travelled to Te Awamutu to compete in the Waikato Inter-Intermediate Boys Rugby League competition.   The teams first game was against Crawshaw School.  It was a great start for Melville who were able to come away from the game with a 24-0 win, setting them up very positively for the rest of the tournament.  The action here was filmed by Cody and edited by  Nathan H and Josh from Room Five.
Int Intermediate League Vs. Crawshaw 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 - Manish tour of the Library

For the final weeks of school for term one, 2013, which concludes this coming week, the students of Room Five are completing video tours and documentaries of Melville Intermediate School.  We've been involved in the planning for several days with our students, refined their work by having it shared and edited with their peers, and begun the publishing process.  They haven't finished yet because the intention is for the students to look at the feedback they receive from their publishing and their peers, refine their work further and look at re-shooting and re-editing for the final week of school,  Filmed on Friday April 12th 2013 by Cody from Room Five, presented by Manish from Room Five this is a tour and explanation of the school Library at Melville Intermediate School.
Manish Library Tour April 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Camp Recount Writing

This is the recount of Harry from Room Five about his time at the 2013 Melville Intermediate School Camp at the Narrows Camp, Cambridge.

On the fifth of March Rooms 1,2,5 and 6 went to the Narrows Park for our school Camp.  First thing we did before anything else was we had to unpack our bags and make our beds.  Then we got to settle into our activity groups and then we headed to what activities that we were doing first.  I was on the Go Karts, then the swimming pool.  After 45 minutes we had lunch and then we went to our next activity, mine was the water slide.  The bell rang and our next activity was the Bivoic making - ours wasn't water proof.  After that we had a bit of free time.

As soon as the bell rang again our group was the next to go on the Burma trail.  Mr Willis lead us to the Burma Trail and he said "follow the rope to make your way back to the camp".  After this Burma Trail we went back to have our dinner and dessert.  We brushed our teeth and had a shower, about half an hour later we went to sleep.

This footage is of the Water Slide at Narrows Camp filmed by Elizabeth and Jamie and edited and created into a movie by Cody and Nathan H.  Filmed from 4th March to 6th March at Narrows Camp.

Water Slide - Camp MIS 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Go Karts at Camp by Jozarn

Shaun taught me how drift and he taught me how to do a donut.  It felt cool when I started to drift on the track.  I made it into the finals (of the Camp Go Kart competition) where I had to race against Mr Willis.  He made me eat his dust.  Tane (from Room Six) he made the fastest time and his time was 47 seconds.  Nathan M, he was the man at drifting, Liam he also ate Mr Willis dust.

This is Jozarns recount about the Go Karting at the Narrows Camp last week, Jozarn brainstormed and planned his writing, edited it, and this is the published  version.  The video that features the Go Kart racing was created by footage shot by Jamie and Elizabeth and was edited and put together by Cody, Owen with Nathan H overseeing it.  Filmed on location at the Narrows Camp, 4th to the 6th March 2013.  

  carracing11marchcodyandnathan from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Enviro Agents 2013

Today Deighton and I (Cody) took some photographs of our school garden.  First we took pictures of
our Suger Snap Peas then the kale.  We took pics of various plants around the garden including Zucceni, Pumpkin, Chilly, Lettuce, Spinich and a whole lot more.  We also took pics of the greenhouse and the entrance to the garden.We are also Enviro agents we get together every second Friday and talk  about saving the enviroment.  Cody and Deighton signing out.

Cody and Deighton - School Gardens 2013 - slideshow

Melville Intermediate School Gardens are a feature of our school. Students are able to grow their own vegetables, each class is able to have a patch and its the location of the school water tank, which collects water from the roof of nearby buildings and is used to flush school toilets and bathrooms, the aim of which is to save the school money with the water rates that we have to pay the city council.

Melville Intermediate - Carlton Interview Mr Cooke

Today in class we continued to practise our video making, editing and producing.  Carlton who is a student whose in Room Thirteen has been researching the school water tank, and the benefits of recycling the water for Melville Intermediate.  Carlton spoke to our school principal Mr Cooke.  Mannish from Room Five acted as camera  man, Levi, Cody and Nathan H produced the video which was shot on February 14th 2013.

Melville Intermediate is an inviro school and as part of that we have a 25000 liter water tank. This water tank was installed last year and has been working great so far .room 5 has being doing work on the water tank and we have worked out that over three years Melville Intermediate will save $3,000 -$6,000 dollars.  Over ten years we will save $17,000-$20,000 dollars and over twenty years we will save $34,000-$54,000. We hope you enjoy the video.


Mr Cooke Interview by Carlton 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.the