Melvlle Intermediate - Is this 8C Selwyn House??

 We've been working on perspective and point of view for Mathematics and using 'Room with a View' from Figure it Out Mathematics Curriculum Level 3.   We've utilized our Quadblogging Aotearoa buddies for this task and we've spent a week asking and questioning about what we think that the classroom looks like.  This process has involved questioning, constructing a two dimensional model from the responses that we've received, constructing a three dimension model based on our two dimensional diagrams and we are in the process of refining/correcting the models.  This is the effort of Jamie and Elizabeth from Room Five.  Is this 8C Selwyn House?

Melville Intermediate - Winter 2013

Winter 2013 - slideshow

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.

Melvlle Intermediate - CPA at Te Pahu Primary

Our hands were sweating, our teeth were chattering, it was almost time to perform to Te Pahu Primary School. We were all standing on the stage in our Maori costumes, waiting to unleash our pukana. Simon bursted out the command that started our entire performance, and that's when it all begun!

  We all went from nervous to excited. From then on, we were all strong in our performance. When we finished our Maori section, we rushed off stage to zoom into our Samoan costumes. The girls performed their Siva and then the boys came on and we all performed the sasa. We finished our Samoan section, and had to once again zoom into our Hawaiian Costumes. During our short changing times, our Hawaiian teacher, performed a few dances of her own. It was time to go on stage again. Our first dance of the section, was a big hit, but the second was even bigger! We exited the stage with a round of applause from Te Pahu primary.

By Elizabeth and Rebekah

Melville Intermediate - Inter Intermediate Art Day

On Friday 30th March 2012 I went to Maeroa Intermediate for the Inter Intermediate Art Day.  The first activity I did was photographic Art.  What we had to do sounds easy but was actually quite hard.  We had to pose in odd positions while touching each other, and then someone else had to take the picture in an odd angle.  I took heaps of pictures and it was photographically fun.  Next we did environmental work.  We had to get a paper plate and make a symmetrical circle with a big flower/leaf in the middle.  When the teacher told us the instructions I smiled knowing I had a really cool idea in my head.   I immediately jumped up and ran to my bag to get out my ice cream container filled of environmental stuff to make my idea come to life! When I finished I looked down and smiled a big smile.  For in my mind I had made a masterpiece.  I hadn't actually finished that class yet because we had to get into three groups of four and make an even bigger circle.  The theme for our circle was 'Summer' so our group made our circle out of different shades of green and slight bits of colour to finish the touches to our Summer wonderland.  The third and final class was probably the coolest class that I had done all day because the teacher was called Runu and I knew Runu from Primary School, but it wasn't just that, that made the lesson fun.  It was also that we got to do ANY design we wanted to do.  I started to get a few ideas in my head and those few ideas turned into something really cool.  What I did first was normal because all I was doing was just drawing my designs on to my flag so then if I made a mistake I could easily fix it up.  After I had finished my pencil work I put my paint on top of the pencil then I dried it.   By then it was already 2:15pm and all we had to do was to crush the Environmental Art because there was no way it could get carried out of the Maeroa Intermediate Gym.  So as soon as they said that they were going to destroy it,  I immediately jumped up and grabbed my work because I didn't really want my work crushed.   After we had watched it being crushed we packed up our stuff and came back to school.   It was a really fun day and I was so glad that I was a part of it.  Report by Elizabeth, Room Five.