Melville Intermediate - Inline Hockey Vs. Fairfield Intermediate

This post is from the class next door to Room Five, Room Six and their wonderful page that is coming along really, really well.  The post is by Abbie from Room Six and is about 2013 Inter Intermediate Inline Hockey Competition which occurred this Tuesday. 

Yesterday I was part of the Inter Intermediate team that went to the Inline Hockey competition.  Our first game was against Fairfield Intermediate. It was a hard game even though it was our first game we did pretty good. I had never played inline hockey before so had to get use to skating and playing all at the same time.  Everyone was falling over during the first half but we slowly got use to it.  It was a lot of fun and the video is below.

Melville Intermediate - Bianca's Stage Challenge!

As I arrived at Claudelands Event Centre at 7:00am I walked through the doors and I saw all of my friends. We all headed into our changing room with our bags. The first school we saw was Hamilton Girls High School. We all put our bags under a table and we went into the Auditorium to watch the rehearsals. Girls High was up for their rehearsal first and we were up second. We all were in our t-shirts the we were given from Miss Kristen. We had to wear the shirts all day. For our rehearsal we weren't in costumes we were just in our t-shirts and pants, but there was lighting. We had three run through. After our run through we got to either go watch the other schools or go back into the changing room. There were 13 schools at the event. There was Stage Challenge and JRock. Once every school had done their rehearsals the teachers got up and danced around for a while. The teachers stood on a star to know when our school was going up on stage. We ended up last. All of the kids went back to their changing rooms where we just hung out and we met up with other kids or we could lie down and have a sleep. The show started at 7:00pm. Once our performance had finished everyone went out into the auditorium for the awards to be handed out. At the end we found out who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Huntly College came 3rd, Girls High came 2nd and we came 1st!!! It was a long day from 7:ooam - 11:30pm but we survived it all.
By Bianca!

Melville Intermediate- Bollywood Dance Group Rehearsal 2nd July

In a week and a half Melville Intermediate School have their bi-annual talent quest, 'Melvilles Got Talent'.  This is taking place in our school hall, will have a number of acts from different classes throughout the school and will include some special performances.   One of those is Mrs Wilsons Bollywood group who will be performing.   The group has been busy with rehearsals and this footage was shot today in the hall of the group.
Bollywood MIS Dance Group Rehearsal 2nd July 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Tawa Intermediate: Individual Students Pages

One of our buddies from Quadblogging Aotearoa, Tawa Intermediate has a fantastic class page, but also the students have wonderful pages of work too.  We are looking at questioning and interviews this term for writing so the task is straightforward.  

• View several individual blogs from Tawa Intermediate, choose one piece of work that you enjoyed.  
• Leave a comment to the author of the piece of work.   

The criteria for the comment is that it is constuctive, reflects on the piece of work and you will need to ask three open questions about that piece of work from reading it.   You will need to draft these questions prior to publishing and have a second student from Room Five to check the questions before you publish.

Remember to use the correct format for leaving the comments that we have agreed upon.  You are going to be required to do a follow up post for your portfolion on this activity so make sure that you take a screen shot of the post.

Melville Intermediate - Kahurangi Dance Theatre Recount

On the 24th of June 2013 the Kahurangi Dance group came to our school.  They performed in the school hall.  The performance was called 'People of the Pacific' and we had to play four dollars to get in and one hundred and something kids at our school attended.  The people in my class who went were Kristal, Chloe, Nichola, Levi, Liam and I.  

On our way over the hall we went in with the kids from Room Two.   When we got to outside of the hall we were waiting for the other classes to get there.  While we were waiting Matua Peter asked a question to us, what year were women allowed ot vote.  No-one answered the question by the time that we had to go into the hall.

 When we were all seated three of the men walked out on stage.  The first island that they told us about was Tahiti they showed us the long drum and then the conch shell and three of the ladies came out and they sung songs from Taihiti.

The second island was Hawaii they did the Hula and sung some songs.  The third island that they told us about was Rarotonga.   They told us that Rarotonga has heaps of similarities to Maori.   The last island they told us about was New Zealand.  They told us about the Taiaha.   After that they choose three people to go up on stage.    Those people were Katipa, Wiremu, and Quayne.   They had to copy one of the performers doing the

 Taiaha.   It was really fun.

Overall I think they were really cool and funny and I really enjoyed the performance and we were lucky that they came to perform at Melville Intermediate School.

Recount written by Reitu from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Melvilles Got Talent Auditions 2013

On the last Wednesday of Term Two we're having our bi-annual Melville Intermediate School Talent Show, 'Melvilles Got Talent'.   On Friday we had a round of auditions for the finals and Jackie and Chloe from Room Five were present, the finalists haven't been officially announced but you can view at least two of them here...
Melvilles Got Talent 2013 - Auditions from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Quadblogging Teaches Levi a Lesson

We've been thrilled with the response that we've had and the connections that have been made with our Quadblogging buddies.  One of the tasks that we've set ourselves was to learn more about the towns and schools that we've been working with.  We searched for a program and settled on Quiz Revoultion.  We loved the features of it.  When the students of Room Five were creating the Quiz about different places we spoke about reliable information and details, and making sure our information was correct.   We've had huge success with our Tawa Intermediate/Wellington Quiz - according to our stats we've had over 500 people sit the Quiz since we first posted it online last Friday.

But there was a problem.    It turned itself into a teaching point and lesson in class on Friday.  Levi and Nathan H's Quiz Revoultion stated that there was a swimming pool at Tawa Intermediate School. We received feedback from students of Tawa Intermediate pretty  

quickly and realised that an error had been made.

Firstly we asked Levi permission to discuss his mistake in class.  We then looked at what process he had undertaken.  Firstly Levi said that he'd used a Google search to determine that Tawa Intermediate had a pool.  We asked if it could be re-created and Levi said no.   We had a positive discussion about this and what we could infer from Levi's statement. 

Levi responded by saying that he read online that Tawa Intermediate had a swimming competition, as they had posted the results online on their webpage, he inferred that this had meant that the had a swimming pool onsite, and Levi to his credit admitted that he hadn't confirmed this, he had made an assumption.

Its been a great lesson for our class - we need to ensure always that we are checking information that we gather online so that we can justify what we say, and if there is any doubt then we should be able to back it up.   When Josh and Harry went live with their Quiz Revoultion Christchurch/Selywn House School there was a question about the School Pig (that has even been made an enviro agent!) some of the students who answered the quiz said that there wasn't a pig at the school! But Josh had done his homework and had the link to back it up! Another great Quadblogging Aotearoa Experience

Melville Intermediate - Waikato Inter Intermediate Dance Day 2013

At Peachgrove Intermediate there was a dance day called "Work it Out".  

There were two girls that were instructing us.  Marcus, Carlos and Ngarama and I went from our school.  At first the girls were just introducing themselves and what we were going to do.  Then we got up and learnt a new dance in just one hour.   It was really tough to memorise it was really tough to memorise but after it looked awesome.

Later on we got divided into six groups.  Ngarama and I were together with four other girls.  Marcus and Carlos were with some others.   Firstly our job was to add on to the dance we had already learned and we all then got to know each other better.   We then performed our dance.

Next we got some music and a theme we had to make our own dance.  It was really hard because we got a slow song.   We performed our dance in front of everyone else.   Then it was lunch time.  Mrs Wilson took our school to the nearby bakery - we got pies and a drink with something nice and sweet.

We went back to Peachgrove and then we had a huge challenge.  The challenge was that we had to join our groups together and mix the dances we had learned.   The instructor gave us some help and then it looked really good.  Some parents came and watched our performances.   My favourite one was Carlos and Marcus dance - they had the best music 'turn the lights on'.   We went to the carpark and took some pictures and then we talked all the way back to school.

Report by Romanjot Singh.

Melville Intermediate - Selwyn House and Christchurch Quiz

Melville Intermediate - Good Luck to R5 students in tomorrows Challenge

Tomorrow see's five students from Room Five start their day at 7:00am in the morning - the students are meeting tomorrow at the Claudelands Area - their day will finish a 10:00pm with the Waikato Stage Challenge Finals for 2013.  Melville Intermediate has never been involved in the Stage Challenge before but this year our students have combined with Melville High School.
Its been a huge amount of work for the students with rehearsals every week since the start of the year, and recently rehearsals have been three or four times a week.  It all comes down to tomorrows performance.  Today we go to see the final dress rehearsal at Melville High School - we of course can't post that video until tomorrow, but we want to wish Elizabeth, Bianca, Jamie, Damien and Deighton the very best of luck - see you all Wednesday. 

Stage Challenge 2013 on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Maggi Kitchen Showdown 2013

This Friday students from Melville Intermediate traveled to Auckland for the Maggi Kitchen Showdown.  The students were competing for a place in the finals to be shown on TV on the Erin Simpson Show.   These photographs are some from that trip.   The details of the competition can be found by clicking on this link.

Maggi Showdown 2013 - slideshow

Melville Intermediate - Maggi Kitchen Showdown 2013

Today four students went to the maggi intermediate kitchen showdown. We have been practicing for 10 weeks. we drove up to Auckland Papakura High Shool for the showdown, we left at 7.30 am and got back at 1.30 we had 50 minutes to cook our meal wich was chicken wrap, polenta bread, roasted veges and balsamic jus. Erin Simpson was there and her camera crue. they realy liked our meal and we are proud of what we done and plated up.

Melville Intermediate - Tawa Intermediate Quiz

This week in class as part of our Quadblogging we looked at questions for the other classes in our Quad. We decided to turn it on its head a little bit, in that we researched questions about Mt Pleasant School, Selwyn House School and Tawa Intermediate. We then researched the answers for the questions about the school and found if it applied. We also did the same thing but applied it to the cities that our Quadblogging buddies are from - Christchurch and Wellington. This meant that we were learning about our buddies, 'relating to others' and we finally looked online for a tool to publish our quiz questions with. Thanks to Stephen from the Ins and Outs who recommended Quiz Revolution. This quiz is about Tawa Intermediate and the city of Wellington.

Thanks to the students of Tawa Intermediate who pointed out the two questions that had mistakes in them, we thought that our information from the Internet was a hundred percent correct! We have fixed the original questions so that the Pool question is correct.

Melville Intermediate - Tawa Intermediate Student Posts to Visit

One of our Quadblogging Buddies - Tawa Intermediate School from Wellingont have posted about the individual student blogs that people from their class have, and recommended some posts.  The orginal post is from this site here.  You can also click on the link below to the individual students work.  Choose one that you like the sound of, go to the students site, look at the work, thnik about leaving a quality comment to the student.

This is the original post from Tawa Intermediate School.

Quadblogging - Sharing the love

One of the students in Room 15 suggested that we use this week to showcase some of students amazing work from their individual blogs.

Lets showcase some fabulous Room 15 bloggers.

Quintin spent a lot of time editing his cross country post. He took a so-so piece of writing and turned it into a personal best!

Ram wrote a fantastic writing sample this term. Read until the end of his story and have a giggle. Twisted endings a speciality of Ram's!

Helen uses some fantastic vocabulary in her writing. Find out more in her story Karma.

Josh W had 100 words to build a story about the night zookeeper.

Commenting is a way we can share our enjoyment of other's work. Be sure to stop by these individual blogs and share some the love!

Melville Intermediate - LOL Drinks make it to MIS thanks to R5 and our learning Network!

Today was the first official day that LOL drinks were sold from the Canteen at Melville Intermediate School.  Those of you who have been following this blog for a while will know that earlier in the year we used our learning network of friends to locate and find all of the menus and canteen lists that we could find from around New Zealand and also around the world.  We want to take this opportunity again to thank everyone that contrinuted towards our gathering of information and data.  We haven't finished yet.  The first two new items have appeared on the MIS Canteen menu - LOL drinks were

sold today and on Friday American Hotdogs will be be sold from our Canteen.

While Damien and Wattana are two of the classroom representatives from Room Five we couldnt have made the changes and improvements to our menu for our students without the help of those people who gave us, and the entire school options.