Melville Intermediate - Y8 Fundraiser

Later this term the Y8 students of Melville Intermediate are having a Camp for a week on the mighty Waikato River.

As part of a major fund-raiser the Y8 students prepared a breakfast for the School and held food stalls at lunchtime to raise money.

Thanks to Susie Vesper at Sharing the Addiction for a link to Collage Shape - I was able to use this to produce the picture to your left, in a very short space of time. If you want a link to her wonderful resource site you can click here.

Melville Intermediate - Makuhari Cultural Exchange

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Currently at Melville Intermediate School we are taking part in a cultural exchange with Makuhari School in Japan. Students arrived in New Zealand on Saturday and later in the year a school trip from Melville Intermediate will be venturing to Japan. Room 8 has two guests at the moment with our class Yuhi and Kazutoshi.
Today we had a powhiri to welcome them officially to our school.

Yuhi wrote this about his first impressions of Melville Intermediate:
"You gave me a good first impression that you are cheerful and friendly. No matter where I am in this school. Students speak to me about anything."

Kazutoshi wrote that "My first impression is this is a large school. I think I am very envious especially the large ground is very beautiful, the students can be very active. I think the students are very kind and friendly. Japanese students don't say "Hello!" if each of them haven't met"

Melville Intermediate - Science Experiment

Our fantastic Science Experiment in Room 8 continues with a Mould Update. It's now been two full weeks since we bagged our sandwiches and left them to 'develop'. The mould growth that's most evident is on the 'control' bread, without filling and on the bread where we just put margarine, although were hoping this might change as it ages. We're hoping to complete the experiment in December! Keegan was able to count 6 different moulds on the bread at the 14 day mark!

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Melville Intermediate - Blogging the World

As part of our "Getting to Know You" unit the students from Melville Intermediate each are studying a country from around the world and comparing it to New Zealand. During the last week in class the students brainstormed everything they knew about one of the countries that we have a blog link with - Australia, US, China, Canada, Scotland, England and Russia. In some cases it was quite a lot of information that we knew, in other cases there was much to learn! Students in the following week will be visiting a site with a series of questions for the international classes that we network with, and once we get the replies in start producing the project. If you are a networked class with us if you could help by please allowing a student to answer the questions or answer them yourselves as best you can. Melville Intermediate students will then be completing a comparison between our school and the school overseas. The first of these questions will arrive online tomorrow. If you want to be involved in this but are not a established contact from our sidebar please leave a comment and let us know!

Melville Intermediate - Ukulele Demo

Today in class we were very lucky to have two students come and play the Ukulele for us, they were Jayda and Ashton from Whaea Halley Class. This is a short video of their wonderful performance. One of the great things about Melville Intermediate is the Music Options available to students, these two students are in Mr Bell Ukulele group and are receiving extra tuition. What's even more amazing is that Jayda is left handed and is actually playing upside down!

Melville Intermediate - Touch Highlights 2

These are highlights from last Tuesday's Touch Game against Morrinsville Intermediate - if you haven't checked out their fantastic Room Ten site then you need to! This was filmed at Rifle Range Road Grounds. Melville Intermediate are about to host the Waikato Inter-Intermediate Competition in a few short weeks and we'll be looking for both our Boys and Girls teams to play with pride for Melville Intermediate. Melville Intermediate are in the Green and Morrinsville are in the dark blue/purple.

Melville Intermediate - Trash to Fashion 3

It was the first of March, 2009 and as usual plenty of people were giving each other 'a pinch and a punch for the first of the month'. But for many people from all around the Waikato region gathering at the Hamilton Museum it was no usual day, there were no punching scraps; in fact they were wearing the scrap! It was trash to fashion 2009!

The theme was Mud and Water, which was quite difficult but in the end the outcome was absolutely fantastic! Everyone came up with something extravagent and different.

Some people opted for a pretty, queen theme with puffy dresses, tinfoil and crowns. Ane's feathers and leathers were very cool as the African Mud Queen and for the trash to fashioners togs and cellophane were so in! Unfortunatly some of Maysells fell off and she had to hold it on.

Raiding Grandma's wardrobe was a very hand technique for me! Everybody was clearly happy to have their own tast of the limelight. Abbi as the model of their beautiful dress was treated like a queen by her teammates Assiyra and Ghia even having the trail of her dress held up for her! Lisa dressed as a beautiful 'flower of the deep' and really did look the part!

Finding enough disposable hospital wraps was really no problem for me, the hospital usally throws out about 8 times as many as on my dress per day!

Abbi the wonderful 'Muddy Water Cocktail' gave us a spin, and Lisa was determined to have her full three minutes of fame! Ayla was gracefully 'Trapped in a Net' with her friend. Kelly and Amy played it cool in their dress of old curtain material. Shanaya showed us her sparkly masquerade mask and her creative umbrella idea. The Muddy Maid had no need to clean up her act, Rebekah was an amazing model and Ranita and Shilta had just as much fun!

Some costumes were very different and creative like the one called 'Under the Mountain'. Little Chiefs surprise appearance was much to everyone's delight. Eventually the final judgements took place; everybody had their last chance to impress the judges and really flaunted it! When the judges wer ready with their winners everyone's stomachs were flopping about like fish, they had all come up with truly staggering outcome and had worked so hard.

Third was 'Under the Mountain' The judges were amazed by the creativity of this outfit. There was a big round of applause, but then everyone returned to being nervous - who would be second? Second prize went to... Polluted Monster! The judges were very impressed with the message that this group brought across. Finally it was the moment of truth, who had taken out first place? Everyone desperately wanted it to be them! First place goes to.... Up Right Drain Pipe! This outfit was both creative and re-cycled, Bike tyres, CDs, litter, it had it all! They got a big round of applause and a great prize! Overall it was about having fun and enjoying yourself and I'm sure everybody did that!

Melville Intermediate - Bluelight Challenge 2

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Melville Intermediate - Bluelight Competition

On Wednesday 25th of February two teams from Melville Intermediate went to the Police Bluelight competition at the Claudlands Showgrounds.

The two teams were the Eagles with Sunniva, Ashley, Travis and Lamayne. The Hawks were Luke, Elijah, Aria, and Kelsey.

As we arrived we saw how many other teams and we knew we had a high standard of competition. We had to work as a team completing obstacles such as jumping through windows, climbing walls and nets, balancing on beams and pushing trailers, and that's not all! We all walked away from the course tired and with awesome times of 2:45 adn 3:03. Yet not comparing to the times of the winners with 2:21 That day Im pretty sure that we all walked away with our heads held high. By Ashley, Room 18.

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Melville Intermediate - Inter-Inter Results

Yesterday saw Cambridge host the first Inter-Intermediate Competition of 2009 - Swimming.

Melville Intermediate's final placing was 4th place - tied with Cambridge Intermediate. Amongst the stand out performers for Melville Intermediate was Summer who came first in the 100m Freestyle and 2nd in the 50m Butterfly. Caitlin managed 4th in the 50m freestyle, 3rd in the 50m breaststroke. Mira came 3rd in the 50m backstroke. The best of our Boys was Thomas (who was a Y7) who came 3rd in 50m breaststroke and Mitchell who managed 7th in the same event.

We also performed well in the Female Championship Relay with Mira, Keeley, Summer Annabel and Caitlin managing 3rd. In the Non-Championship relay 6x50m Mira, Thomas, Mitchell, Blair, Liam and Annabel managed 4th.

Everyone swam really well and produced really strong performances in the relays. There was excellet support from the parents and grandparents and the event was an exciting and fun filled day.

Melville Intermediate - Blogging Challenge

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This slide show is an introduction to Melville Intermediate School (and New Zealand) for those of you taking part in the blogging challenge and wanting to know a little bit more about our school.

This post has been written on “Blog Challenge09 #1” as part of The Blogging Challenge 2009! Visit Mrs. Wyatt’s site http://wyatt67.edublogs.org/ or http://theedublogger.edublogs.org

Melville Intermediate - Wearable Arts Photostory

This photo story was created by Joe, Jesse and Te Mania from Room Five. It is a photo-story that shows footage from the Trash to Fashion Wearable Arts Show at Waikato Museum that was held on Sunday 1st March 2009. They created this in a very short time frame!

Melville Intermediate - Point England School

If you didn't catch the clip about Point England Primary School on TVNZ on Close Up on Friday evening, I have put a link to it here. Close Up is a national current affairs program that broadcasts every night at 7pm. If you watch carefully in the video you will see Mrs She from Little Voices, Little Scholars, one of my favourite other New Zealand blogs waving. It's a special little clip because Mr Webb used to teach at another school down the road from Point England and knows some of the teachers there very well! If you haven't seen the clip then you need to click here.

Melville Intermediate - Wearable Arts 09

It was the first of March at the Waikato Museum where we competed in the Trash to Fashion competition. The theme was Mud and Water and everyone looked like they had been rolling around in Muddy Water. The costumes were so cool. (After all we had been working on our magnificent costumes for two weeks!) We waited for the show to start, we all felt scared, nervous and very, very excited at the same time. An hour later the show finally started we had to line up in one big line with our numbers. We were holding them in order. We paraded around the Museum and then we had to stop, the judges were going to judge our dresses. We went down one by one and came back up the stairs again. When everyone was finished we paradeded around the Mueseum two more times. Then it was time to see who the winners were. The winners got a pack of goody bags and the other people got chocolate bars. For the rest of of the afternoon there were lots of games and heaps of fun stuff to do. We think everyone had a great day and we bet the year sevens will have a great time next year.
By Jade, Ayla and Nicole - Room 12.


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