Melville Intermediate - Gardening Option

This short video is footage of the Y7 Option Class for Gardening. In this class students get to complete tasks related to the Melville Intermediate School Garden, and for the completion of the task, at the end of the five week block the students got to create their own Greenhouse! Filmed at Melville Intermediate on Thursday 24th September 2009.

Melville Intermediate - Wearable Arts

As part of the lessons available to students at Melville Intermediate students twice a week have options where they receive extra tution in a specialist topic. These range anywhere from languages, technology, sport to CO2 cars! Jamie from Room 8 is currently in the Wearable Arts/Recycled clothing option which is preparing for a show at the Hamilton Town Hall. She filed this report from her options class.

Melville Intermediate - Y7 Options

Melville Intermediate - Y7 Options

Twice a week students at Melville Intermediate School have Y7 Options. In these options students have a choice of further extension lessons to take. During Mr Webb's creative computing class on Monday afternoon Chase R14, Arahia R8 and Sadera (R14) went around with a camera to give you a taste of what some of the students at Melville Intermediate School are up to at this time. The following questions were put to the students that we interviewed:
- What are you doing? - What are your goals/what do you want to achieve? - What is your favourite part about this option?

Melville Intermediate - Prashants Term 1 Recount

The following gives you an idea of some of the extra activities that students from Melville Intermediate have the opportunity to be involved with at our school. Students have six hours a week of specialist instructions, three hours a week of specialist technology (Music and Sewing in Term One) and two further hour and half blocks of additional specialist teaching that could range from Rockets to French depending on the option the students choose.

Prashant from Room 8 wrote about the following highlights from Term One:
MUSIC - our first technology was music. Our teacher is Mr Bell. We all played everything. There were drums, keyboards and guitars. On the last day we made a band and played a song. In my group was me, Dylan, Bradyn, and Kaleb. I was playing drums and Dylan was playing guitars and Bradyn was playing guitars also. Kaleb sang a song.
SEWING - In our technology second option we were doing sewing. We had to make a pencil case. We not two pieces of nylon and a zip for our pencil case. We sew the zip onto the nylon to make our pencil case. When we finished making them we got to make cushions.
OPTIONS - In my option it was Cooking. We baked lots of things like sponge rolls and hokey pokey. We also made Louise Cakes and piklets. The last thing that we made was ginger gems.

Melville Intermediate - Rockets

This Thursday during our Y7 Option Classes (in addition to Technology students of Melville Intermediate have an 'Option' Class of a further 3 hours of specialist teaching one of the classes has been construction Rockets - Thursday is launch day, and they are expected to go 100 feet (that's an American reference for our friends) in the air! Of course we'll be there with Camera and Photographs to document! Stay tuned!