Melville Intermediate - LOL Drinks make it to MIS thanks to R5 and our learning Network!

Today was the first official day that LOL drinks were sold from the Canteen at Melville Intermediate School.  Those of you who have been following this blog for a while will know that earlier in the year we used our learning network of friends to locate and find all of the menus and canteen lists that we could find from around New Zealand and also around the world.  We want to take this opportunity again to thank everyone that contrinuted towards our gathering of information and data.  We haven't finished yet.  The first two new items have appeared on the MIS Canteen menu - LOL drinks were

sold today and on Friday American Hotdogs will be be sold from our Canteen.

While Damien and Wattana are two of the classroom representatives from Room Five we couldnt have made the changes and improvements to our menu for our students without the help of those people who gave us, and the entire school options. 

Melville Intermediate - Blogging Can Change things!

On Friday at our School Assembly our Principal, Mr Cooke, mentioned changes that were being made to the Melville Intermediate School Tuck Shop/Canteen as a result of students research and preparation.  This is the first time in the last few years that the menu has been changed and one of the key reasons for the change is this site and those people who contributed to it.  Earlier in the year we put a series of posts online asking for school menus to compare to ours.  We had a great response from so many of you from New Zealand and overseas.  We then became involved in a process of filtering, selecting and choosing improvements that could make to our menu.  Its taken some time but we were excited to hear on Friday that our menu will now include the first new item Lol Drinks.  Its just a small step and there's more to follow but its come as a direct result of our visitors, those who contributed to our asking and the students.  A great result all around.

New Canteen Menu 2013 - slideshows

In Room Five we have two School representatives Damien and Wattana.  This is what Damien wrote about the process of getting the drinks added to the menu:

My new canteen list is made out of other canteens around the world I asked schools if they had canteens and the results were huge. The Melville Intermediate student councillors needed ideas for more food and drinks that appeal to other students. So I and Wattana added some new foods to our Canteen list from other schools of the world. On Friday the 17^th May we went to our student council meeting in the school library and we presented our work of the proposal of our Canteen list Mrs Patterson agreed to some of it but overall it was actually pretty good. But the Lol drink was overall the best item on the list by far and the best school canteen list was from BALMORAL school.