Melville Intermediate - New Town Kapai Kiwis

Miss Lologa has been a big supporter of our class pages over the past few years.  She originally made contact with our class when she was still working in Wellington.  Now she is working in the United States of America. 

Her class have a wonderful class page here and have recently published a wonderful series of videos about inventions and innovations in North Carolina (where she teaches in the USA) and New Zealand.   You can click on this link to view the work.

To show you a wonderful example of their work, this some examples of their work.  This is only the second time in four years that we've embedded another teacher/classrooms work on this site - but it so deserves it.  If you have a spare moment please go and comment and view their wonderful work.

If you are a student from Room Five, Melville Intermediate School, and you are on the holidays if you go and leave a comment before the end of the school holidays at Miss Lologa class page, you qualify yourself for a special prize that can be redeemed once school starts in 2013.  Don't forget the regular Room Five commenting rules - it maybe the school holidays but the rules still apply.

Melville Intermediate - A Stitch in Time...

Currently we have been experiencing some technical posting difficulties with posts to the blog, involving five stiches, a plate of glass and garage. There have been many exciting events occuring in the past week or so. Room 8 won the Melville Intermediate Inter Class Touch Competition defeated Room 13 2-0 in the final. (Congratulations to Room 12 who won the Y8 competition). Today the teachers take on the All Star Students at Lunchtime, although Mr Webb cannot play due to the hand injury he has. We also farewell our Thai students Cartoon and Nair who have been with us for the past two weeks.  This is our second Slideshow comparing Thailand and New Zealand.

New Zealand Compared to Thailand

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Melville Intermediate - Thailand Compared to New Zealand

New Zealand Compared to Thailand

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Melville Intermediate - No We're not Australian

Mr C's Classroom have done an AWESOME job we're they've answered our "Blogging Around the World" questions online on their fantastic website. Mr C is someone that I have enjoyed networking with over the last year, and someone whose online work has to be seen to be believed. In a fantastic response to our questions Mr C has posted online six or seven videos online to answer our questions, he has however made a slight mistake in identifying ourselves in Room Eight as Australian's.

Our class is most definatly from New Zealand (no offence to our friends across the ditch) and identifying us as Australian is akin to describing say someone from the USA as Canadian or some from Scotland as English! As always we appreciate the support from our friends around the world. If you have to visit one blog today around the world to see a model of how it should be done (online learning, blogging etc) make sure that you visit Mr C's Classroom.

Melville Intermediate - Waitangi Day

Today in New Zealand, Friday February 6th is Waitangi Day. Waitangi Day is a National Public Holiday for everyone to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed in Waitangi, Bay of Islands on February 6th 1840. It was signed by the then Governor of New Zealand, on behalf of the Queen of England.

James Cook had been the first European to land on New Zealand in 1769, following Abel Tasmans discovery (but not landing on). of New Zealand. Captain Cook in his boat the Endeavour landed and claimed New Zealand for the British Crown.

The different Maori tribes of New Zealand signed the Treaty, which is viewed as the founding document of New Zealand. The agreement was made to shape the future of the country.

In Room Eight we have been learning about aspects of the Treaty of Waitangi in preparation for signing of a classroom treaty next week. If you wish to research more about the treaty of Waitangi and the history of New Zealand we would suggest that you have a look at NZ History Online the wikipedia information about it or the Christchurch Library Site.