Melville Intermediate: Melville Survivor 2012

Starting soon is our 2012 Episodic Online TV show being created by the students in Room Five, we are filming pre-production at the moment, organising the filming, the props etc and should be releasing the first episode if everything runs according to plan next week, this is Sam's promo shot for the new series.


To put you in the mood for the show, this is one of the 2011 Episodes, entitled "water carry".  This was episode where the students had to balance a cup of water on the outside of their hand and race around a course quicker than the other students.  At this point 'Mia' was the only Y8 student left from her team, all the others had been eliminated, and she was desperate to gain immunity to stop herself from going home... Hosted by Kelly, filmed by Kris, Mitchell and Shania...

Melville Intermediate - AIMS Games Preparation

In September this year the NZAIMS (New Zealand Association of Intermediates and Middle School) games will take place in Tauranga. This year there are over 150 schools competing in 15 different events, with over 5500 Y7 and Y8 students competing. Melville Intermediate will be there to contest the Girls Basketball title for the fourth year in a row, this year against a record 18 other schools. The tournament is the show piece for Intermediate Age Sport in New Zealand, and there are schools fom Australia competing for the first time. Melville Intermediate are currently preparing by playing on Tuesday nights in a local basketball league. However we're preparing for the competition by playing against club sides and boys teams. Following wins against Te Awamutu Intermediate and St Pius School our girls looked to make it three in a row against the Flyers 'Heat' Basketball team this past Tuesday, 29th May from The YMCA on Pembroke Street. The video was filmed from the subs bench during the game!

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby Game Highlights

On May 18th around ten people from Melville Intermediate School went to Flagstff to play in the Waikato regional Rippa Rugby tournament. When we arrived we were very nervous but we decided that we were still not going to back down. Our first game occurred, the whistle went and we were on our way playing against Putaruru College. After a hard game we lost, but we still held our heads up high. All the games were hard on the day, there were no easy teams. In the final we had to play against Matamata Intermediate School, and although they defeated us, our 'B' team finished as runners up in the competition which means that we make it through to the next stage of the competition, the Tri-Nations finals which is three days after we get back from our Winter Olympics sports camp. This is highlights from the quarter finals. Report by Joey, filming by Veronica from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - New Options Cycle

On Friday Melville Intermediate School started our new option (elective/students choice about what subject they take for a particular block) cycle. There are over twenty different classes available to the students of Melville Intermediate School on Fridays in the Middle Block, went sent Lucy from Room Two around the school with a camera to film some of the actions in just a few of the classes.

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Vs. Matamata

Highlights of the quarter final between Melville Intermediate School (in Red and Green) and Matamata Intermediate School (in Yellow and Blue) from the Waikato Finals for Rippa Rugby held at Jansen Park, Hamilton on Friday 18th May 2012. Filmed by Veronica from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Hip Hop Royal Family Tour

On Thursday 17th May there was a hip hop crew called 'Royal Family' that came to our school. The show started at 9:00am. When the show started they did moves like the robot and douggie. They were going to Las Vegas to represent New Zealand at the world champs. Everyone had a fun time. People were asked to come up on stage and dance with them, Some of the performers were students from Melville Intermediate School (who had been but now went to High School). We hope that they come first in the world champs! Recount by Brent, Room Five, filming by Veronica, Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Levi Explains Cooking Technology

Melville Intermediate students have just completed week five of our second of four ten week term. That means that the students technology lessons (Art, Cooking, Music, Workshop and Science) are about to rotate around once again as the term progresses. Our students receive two ninety minute blocks of technology each week, and while you can't all come to our classrooms to be part of our lessons we can show you what we do. This is Levi from Room Five explaining cooking and what the class was up to...

Melville Intermediate - Rippa Rugby Waikato Finals 2012

On Friday the 19th May Melville Intermediate had two teams competing in the Waikato Rippa Rugby Finals. Melville Intermediate 'A' team started the day with a narrow loss 4-6 to Tainui Full Primary School, then defeated St Patricks 6-2, lost to Matamata Intermediate 'A' 4-6, beat Matamata 'B' 5-2, lost to Putaruru 6-7 before finishing with a loss to Cambridge 'A' 2-5. Melville Intermediate 'B' started with a 7-5 win against Putaruru, had a 3-3 draw with Tainui Full Primary, beat St Patricks 6-4, defeated Matamata 'A' 5-2 and defeated Matamata Intermediate 'B' 8-4. They then had a semi-final against Ngataihaua and beat them 6-3 before playing in the final against Matamata Intermediate 'A' where they lost 4-6. Rippa Rugby Waikato Finals 2012 on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Inline Hockey 2012

Melville Intermediate School have an Inline Hockey team that competes at a local arena on Wednesday afternoon/evening.   The team is coached by Mr Dawson from Room Six and its the first time since 2010 that Melville Intermediate has entered the competition.  In Hamilton, New Zealand we never get snow, and don't have any Ice Rinks, so for our students its an opportunity to play a sport that has some similarities to Ice Hockey.  Melville in this match, which took place on Wednesday 16th May, are wearing the Red T-Shirts.

Melville Intermediate - Best Tries of 2012!

This is our final Girls Rugby Video of 2012.  It's the best nine tries scored in 2012 by our Open Grade Girls Rugby Union team at the 2012 Waikato Inter Intermediate Competition on Tuesday 8th May 2012. 

Melville Intermediate - Bone Carving Explanation Part Two

This is part two of the explanation of Maori Bone Carving.  As explained in yesterdays video this is a gift that we've been preparing for our friends from Vonslid School in Denmark.   Filmed by Levi on Tuesday 15th May 2012 in the Melville Intermediate School Workshop.

Melville Intermediate - Bone Carving Explanation

Those of you who have been following our page will know that we have been preparing a very special present for the students from Vonslid School in Denmark.  They sent us a wonderful gift of T-Shirts that were related to Handball,  the national sport of Denmark.  In return we thought long and hard about what we could send them.  As Maori culture is very important to our school, Melville Intermediate employs Matua Peter, and one of his specialities is Bone Carving.  We've been working for a week and a half preparing the gift, working through the stages and this video explains the designs we've created and the process that's been gone through.  This is video one of two, filmed by Levi from Room Five on Tuesday 15th May 2012.

Melville Intermediate - Vs. Maeroa Intermediate

This is the second to last video from our 2012 Girls Rugby Tournament.  It's highlights from our fourth pool game, against Maeroa Intermediate.  Melville were on a roll at this point having won three games in a row, one more would equal the total number of wins from last year.  Standing in Melville's way was a very dangerous Maeroa Intermediate School, who scored an extremely good try early into the match and managed to convert it to take an early lead.   Melville however by this point we really gelling well as a team including showing some strong defence, wait until you see Veronica's ankle tap just after the Maeroa try! Filmed by Veronica from Room Five at Memorial Park, Cambridge on Tuesday 8th May 2012.

Melville Intermediate - Girls Rugby Vs. Tokoroa

The third game for Melville Intermediate at the 2012 Inter Intermediate Girls Rugby Competition was against the 2011 Champions, Tokoroa Intermediate School.  Melville were going into the game in a positive frame of mind with two wins from two, Tokoroa had a win and a loss.   The first half was extremely tight, with neither team able to score so the second half was crucial.  Tokoroa are in the Red, Melville Intermediate are in the Green, Veronica from Room Five is filming and this footage was shot on Tuesday 8th May 2012.

Melville Intermediate - Girls Rugby 2012

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