Melville Intermediate - Enviro Overview by Carlton

This Monday evening at Melville Intermediate School we are having our 2013 Information evening.  As part of this Carlton from Room Thirteen produced this video which discussed some of the aspects of the Enviro Schools program that takes place at Melville Intermediate School.  The film crew that assisted him were from Room Five and consisted of Owen and Manish.  Filmed at Melville Intermediate School on Friday 9th February 2013. Enviro Schools 2013 Montage from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - The Shallow Jump

The Shallow Jump

On Monday 27^th of January 2013 my aunty asked all of the family if we wanted to go to a water hole near Mount Pirongia we said yes of course so did the other families so of we went. When we arrived there were a lot of people there, first me and my cousin’s Josh, Hannah and Sam swam in the water then we decided to go around the bridge. For about ten minutes we were saying to each other “You go first, no you go first”. And we were complaining for ages then finally I decided to jump as I standard on the hand railing, I thought to myself I have to do a bomb to not hurt my feet, so I jumped and forgot to do a bomb so I just landed on a sharp rock. After the jump I felt better because I jumped before my cousins even though I had a sore foot, when I got home I looked at my foot and it was bruised but I didn’t care, now my foot is in great condition which is good.   

I want to go again. 

Melville Intermediate - School Gardens

The year sevens looked at the tomatoes and ate one and said that was so nice.  Our Y7 students had an opportunity to have a look at the Melville Intermediate School gardens.

We looked at the silverbeet and said it looks delicious to eat.  Jackie from Room Five took these photographs. The gardens are located between the computer room and the art room.

The year sevens went and saw the water tank and in the gardens  there was lots of vegetables like tomatoes, lettuec, cucumber and all sorts of stuff to see.  The water tank is for water for our toilets to flush that we recycle.
   

Melville Intermediate - Technology 2013

This slideshow show the different Technology classes that we started at Melville Intermediate School on Tuesday.  The slideshow was created by Owen and Elizabeth from Room Five.
Technology on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - A Hot Sunny Day

                           …A HOT SUNNY DAY…

It was a hot sunny day my sister and I decided to go to Raglan beach for a swim with some of her friends we  left Raglan after lunch, but on the way we stopped at the shop to buy some water, we arrived at Raglan township it was buzzing with people shopping for local hand crafted goods. At the beach it was so hot and the beach was packed with people sunbathing and family playing, games and most of all there were heaps of people cooling off in the ocean surf from the weltering heat of the sun. Me my sister and her friends jumped into the water, it was warm and we splashed around, it was so great, we all stayed in for a long time in the ocean

                                         By Jackie

Melville Intermediate - Mr Yardley Welcomes in 2013

School started for Melville Intermediate School this past Wednesday when we welcomed the students who will be part of our school for 2013.  As part of the Powhiri to welcome new students Mr Yardley, our Woodwork teacher, welcomed students by recognizing the contribution of the first European settlers to our area from Scotland, where the name Melville comes from.   Mr Yardley in addition to being a teacher at Melville Intermediate is also special as he was a foundation pupil at Melville Intermediate School from nearly fifty years ago.  Levi and Liam from Room Five went and filmed his performance on the school fields.

  Mr Yardley - Bagpipe Welcome 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

day 1 2013 - slide show
On Wednesday the 30th January Jackie, Nicole and Bianca went around the school and took some random photos. We took turns at taking photos. We did this so then people around the world can see what parts of our school look like. It was the first day of school for 2013. 

Melville Intermediate - Ireland Collaboration

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As part of our school holidays Mr Webb was busy keeping our class page up-to-date and making sure that he was looking for lots of interesting class pages for us to visit.  One of these pages that was discovered was in Ireland.  If Only the Best Birds Sang is the 2nd Year Room Six Blog.  While the students might be a bit younger than those at Melville Intermediate the work that they are producing is fantastic! We've heard already from their teacher and we received this comment from them.

'Thank you for your message. We are fascinated by the Maori Mihi. We suppose every culture must have their own way of greeting one another and introducing one’s self. We thought the Maori way was very special.

After hearing about the Maori Mihi we talked about how Irish people greet one another and tell people about themselves. Like the Maori people the Irish people try to speak their own language (Irish/Gaeilge/Gaelic) as well as English.

We are doing a little work on this that we will send your way. It will have been somewhat influenced by your lovely Maori custom.'

Today in class in preparation for this collaboration we held a collective brainstorm session to see what the class knew about Ireland. None of the students in Room Five have ever been to Ireland, although Levi's Nan has been there on holiday and brought a t-shirt.

We discovered that we knew the following information about Ireland
1. Dublin is the capital of Ireland.
2. You can kiss the Blarney stone in Ireland and it gives you good luck.
3. Glenview Primary School last year for their school production had dances from around the world and one of the dancing acts that was Irish and the performers danced an Irish jig.  Damien was in the audience and said that the dancers moved their legs from side to side.
4.We think that they have lots of pubs
5. Potatoes has something to do with Ireland
6. The Titanic was built in Ireland, Levi's Nan went to Ireland for a holiday and as a result of that trip she brought a t-shirt that had that fact upon it.
7. Fairies and Leprechauns are creatures from Ireland.

 Our Room Five Ireland Brainstorm Wednesday 30th January 2013.

Melville Intermediate - Room 5 2013

2013 - free slideshows

Melville Intermediate - Jamies Activity Week Girls Stuff

Jamie from Room Five's Recount About the start of Activity Week 2012: Thanks for your visit, we will be returning to School later this week (Wednesday is the first day of school for 2013) and we will be fully available from there.
Activity week was on the 14th of November to the 16th of November. There were ten different groups you got to choose which one you most wanted to go to then the second then the third. I was in girls stuff. We had a great time! Here are some things we did.  Day 1: Wednesday was really fun; we made one thing each block. In the first block we made bath bombs. Bianca and I paired up and we made our bath bombs orange. They were meant to be yellow, but I guess we put too much colour in. we had to cut two tea bags open and sprinkle the tea in. we picked cranberry and strawberry tea. Mrs. de waard told us to put essence in as well so Bianca picked lemon essence. After we mixed it together, we got a paua shell that had glad wrap all around it as well as an egg carton each. Both of us sprinkled our mix into our paua shells and egg cartons and left them to set over night. In second block everyone made a friendship bracelet each. I TOOK AGES TO GET OUR COLOURS and to cut them the right length. I made a friendship bracelet called swirl as I go. Everyone wanted to do them at morning tea time but we couldn’t because we had to go outside. In third block we made icing sculptures for our muffins the next day. We picked our colour of icing and first we made a rose. It was tricky but we managed to make a really good one. There were cutters, shapes and knifes we could use to make our icing sculptures. We made heaps and had fun that day.

Melville Intermediate - Acitivity Week Recont Douglas

On Wednesday the 14^th was the start of activity week. On Wednesday morning I first went to the science room so we can start the day. Wednesday morning I had amazing race. The 1^st activity on amazing race was I had to go to the other side of the tech courts on stilts. For some reason I got the broken pair of stilts. The 2^nd activity was we had to eat and swallow dried weetbix it was very hard to swallow. The 3^rd activity of amazing race was we had to build a pyramid out of cards it was hard because I kept on blowing on it. And the last activity (bonus) was we had to walk across the tech courts as we are on news paper if we touched the ground with our feet we have to run back to the start. In the middle block I had to do some experiments. The first experiment was to pure in milk into a bowl and then put food coloring in and then get a ear bud then dip it into some dishwashing liquid then I had to put the ear bud into the center of the bowl and then it did some cool patterns. The 2^nd experiment was we had to put mint into coke. It was very cool and yum. When we finished the experiment I got to drink the minty coke and get to eat the mint. The 3^rd experiment was we had to make a traffic light made out of liquid. It was weird and fun and smelly it smelt like corn. In the after noon I went to the cooking room and made some hokey pokey it was super yum and I just figured out how to make hokey pokey.

On Thursday I went to my activity week class and we first had free time we went to the computer lab and I was allowed to played games or watched funny videos. In the middle block I made salt dough (play dough) and my salt dough was a pizza. It felt icky and sticky and it was fun making a pizza. First I mad the base of the pizza then I made the pepperoni, mushroom and the bacon strips. In the afternoon we went to the pools and it was very fun and wet.

On Friday morning we had to make a yummy breakfast. Before we made the breakfast we had to go to the art room and get our salt dough. When we got the salt dough we went to the cooking room and put the salt dough in the oven and wait for it to heat up. The food we got was 2 sausages 2 hash browns 1 small egg and a half a can of spaghetti it was super duper yum. In the middle block we got our salt dough and it was very hard then we started to paint it. I painted my pizza base yellowy red my bacon strips was pink my mushroom was light gray and my pepperoni was red. After a while the paint dried when the lunch bell rang. In the afternoon we had a movie and it was diary of a wimp kid.         

Melville Intermediate - Activity Week Sarah 2012

 Our final written task of 2012 was for students to complete recounts about school activity week and the highlights of the year.  This is an activity week recount written by Sarah from room Five.

On Wednesday the 14^th of November our school had activity week. I was in Wax Water Wings with my friends Gemma and Kylie. It was called Wax Water Wings because Wax was candle making, Water was swimming and Wings was kite flying but we didn’t do it.

  

On the first day, we came to school in mufti which was good. We made some candles out of bees wax and wick. Wick is the string thing that goes inside the candle so it can be lit. The candles smelt like honey so that was good, after lunch we went to Gallagher pools where we got to swim and have free time. I liked swimming, and it was a really quick walk. 

It was really fun on that day because we got to play at school so we could play by the music room. On the second day we got to swim for most of that day so that was really awesome. We still made candles and played. At the pools Kylie, Gemma and I were swimming around having so much fun it was really cool.

 On the last day it was my birthday so that was cool it was like I was having a birthday party at the pools. When we were at the pools we were in the changing rooms and we saw something really gross so we all screamed and we got in big trouble, so that was bad. It was still a really awesome activity and I really enjoyed it. When it was the end of the day we got to take home some wick and a big sheet of wax which was cool. At home I still make lots of candles and I used some for my birthday candles. It was really fun and I would like to do it again!!