Melville Intermediate - Options 2010 Part Two

This is part two of our options tour. All students of Melville Intermediate School have an elective each Thursday afternoon. They are able to choose from a wide variety of subject options. This video, created on Thursday 23rd September 2010, the second to last day of term was created by Samm and Kelly, touring around the Options classes so you could have an opportunity to see inside what our students get to experience.

Electives Tour Video from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Were #1 Finally!

A special occasion has occurred today, we've been tracking since early in the year the position of our Maori Mihi video, which the students create at the start of each year at Melville Intermediate School.

Maori Mihi Tutorial from myles webb on Vimeo.

A Maori Mihi is a greeting to introduce yourself. In March this was right from the start one of the most viewed videos on our page. Today the video finally reached the '#1' spot for Google searches in New Zealand. A very proud moment, but also on the same day Room Eight scored their second #1 success as Maori Mihi Template, a slide show that we created in 2009 also finally went to '#1' on the Google Search Engine.

Maori Mihi 2

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These are huge successes for Room Eight @ Melville Intermediate School and we will be sharing these with the students when we return to school next term, in little over a week.

Melville Intermediate - Student Blogging Challenge!

Its the School Holidays in New Zealand, we're currently nearing the end of our first week of a two week break. Our students will be back at school Monday 11th October. In the meantime, the Edublog Student Blogger Challenge is continuing. Now with our students on holidays you would think that we wouldn't be able to participate, but as it happens one of our classroom activities has been made as a suggestion and has been taken as a challenge for all the contribution classrooms!

You can click on the link to the week two challenge here. Our part that we contributed to is the video 'challenge'.

'3. Create a quick brief tour of your classroom or school (walking around showing the grounds/playgrounds/classroom) and then embed it or upload it to the classroom blog. You might use vimeo , a slideshow, photopeach, YouTube, Smile Box etc. Next week visit other classes who did the same activity and compare your schools or classrooms. Thanks Mr Webb for this suggestion.'

Firstly, have a look at 'Part Two of the Music Room from 2010' this was created by Shania, Kelly and Nathalie from Room 8 and is a tour showing people around the world what goes on in our School Music Room, it also features the school music teacher Mr Bell.

Music Room Tour 2010 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Classrooms around the world participating in the blog have to create a video of their school as an introduction. Students of Room Eight will remember this task from the start of the year back in February. It seems so long ago but then we had students create the following work.

This video was Samm tour of the confidence course and created back in March, Samm was too shy at this point to do the presentation so she handed the responsibilities over to Nathalie from Room Eight, as this was an introductory lesson the focus was on the school confidence course.

Samm Tour of Confidence Course from myles webb on Vimeo.

Also Room Eight Students don't forget that we have two classroom pages that we are regularly commenting on as part of the Edublog Challenge, the ones that are above and below us on the classroom link (you can click on that here). The first is Mr Ferreirae Class in the USA and the second is Mrs Theriault in Quebec, Canada.

Finally this last Tour of Melville Intermediate School video is a bit special this was created in 2009 by three students, Destyn, Kaiya and Cleveland, this was the very first video that they ever created and we used it (and still use it now!) as a test video to discuss before we publish work! Kaiya is now a member of Room Seven, Cleveland is now part of Room One but they are still fondly remembered.

Melville Intermediate - Tour of School from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - MIS Option Lessons

On Thursday afternoon all students of Melville Intermediate School have an elective, or an option of lessons that they can choose from. There is a huge amount of choices for the students to select, one of the most popular from Room 12 being the Jewellery making. This insight into Jewellery making was filmed on Thursday 23rd September 2010 by Samm and Kelly.

Melville Intermediate - Options 2010

Melville Intermediate - School Speech Finals 2010

This is Eric's speech from the 2010 Melville Intermediate School Speech Finals that took place on Wednesday 22nd September 2010 at our School Hall. It was filmed by Shania and Terrina from Room Eight. Eric was declared the runner up for the competition and did a fantastic job!

Eric School Speeches 2010 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Goodbye Room Eight

Today we said Goodbye to Room Eight for two reasons. Firstly its the school holidays in New Zealand, we have two weeks off school. Secondly we're having the rear wall of Room Eight demolished during the holidays and some of next term, we've had to move as a result into Room Nine. We're really excited about the move because it means that our new Room Eight will be rewired and able to work more consistently with our computers. So onwards and upwards for the future.

Melville Intermediate - Intermediate School Speeches

Yesterday at School we had the Melville Intermediate School Speech Finals for 2010. We had the six finalists (five of whose speeches have been posted online here over the last week or so) speaking for a chance to represent Melville Intermediate at the Waikato Inter-Intermediate Speech Finals 2010. It was an extremely close competition with the winners being announced at assembly this morning. The sixth and final speech in the competition belonged to Amos from Room 12, who was also a finalist last year. This is his school speech in its entirety, recorded by Fauiki and Terrina from Room Eight and filmed on Wednesday 22nd September 2010

School Speech Finals 2010 Amos from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - School Speech Finals 2010

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Melville Intermediate - School Speech Examples

Tomorrow we have the Melville Intermediate 2010 Speech Finals. Already in place to compete for the Y7 Syndicate are Shaylee, Eric and Eva. The Y8 Syndicate had their finals on Tuesday with three competitors making it through to the final stage, two of these were from our next door neighbours Room Seven. We'd like to congratulate Mrs Paterson and her students for their wonderful achievements, this is the speech from Rebecca in Room Seven:

Rebecca Y8 Room 7 2010 Speech from myles webb on Vimeo.

Also Room Seven had a second student who was adjudged to have had the best speech out of the 150 so students from the class. Hamish from Room Seven, we sent Robert and Jordan from Room 8 to the Hall to film their speeches so they could review them prior to the finals. We done again, Room Seven!

Hamish Room Seven, Speech 2010 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Eva's Y7 Syndicate Speech

The third and final speech selected for the School Finals next week was from Eva from Room Two. As with the others in the competition it took place on Friday 17th September 2010 at the Melville Intermediate School Hall. Recorded by Shania from Room Eight.

Eva Room Two Speech at Y7 Finals from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Erics Y7 Speech

On Friday 17th September 2010 the Y7 Syndicate had their School Speech Finals in the School Hall. Two speakers from each classroom took turns to perform their speech in front of an audience of 150 students with the goal being one of three students who would be selected to advance through to the school finals next week. In a tight competition Eric from Room 13 was one of the three selected students to go through to the finals. This is his speech. Filmed by Shania from Room 8.

Our students were in Mufti (non-uniform) as it was a fund-raiser for the Earthquake Relief efforts for Christchurch.

Classroom Speech Room 13 - Eric 2010 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Student Blogging Challenge

Melville Intermediate are very proud to be involved in the student blogging challenge that students all around the world take part in. Its based from Australia but it is a great way to connect with students, teachers and classrooms all around the world. Teachers who are interested in participating in this challenge can click on this link here. The challenge information and the information for the challenges can be found by clicking here. We've already taken part in the March Challenge, you can view that by clicking here. Also the September Challenges will soon be up here.

Melville Intermediate - Shaylee's Y7 Speech 2010

This is Shaylee's Speech for the Y7 Speech Competition 2010 which was held at School on Friday. Her topic was "One persons trash is another persons treasure". This was filmed by Shania from Room Eight on Friday 17th September 2010.

School Speech - Kaylee from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Good Luck Otis

On Saturday Otis from Room 8 is travelling to Serbia in Europe. Otis is traveling there with his brother to compete in the World Kick Boxing Championship. Otis is competing in the Under 47kg Under 12 Competition. In addition to training Otis and his family have done a huge amount of fund-raising.

On the way back from this event Otis will be travelling through Dubai and then Thailand, where he will be doing some Mai-Thai Kick Boxing training on the way back. We are hoping to be able to Skype with Otis from Serbia and also there's a Facebook Page set up for the Trip with results and footage from the event in Serbia. We will post a link to it on this site.

Otis is pictured above left, with his brother Don who is also attending the World Champs. We are excited for them to have such a wonderful opportunity and wish Otis and his brother the best of luck. (Credit: Photo is from Stuff.co.nz)