Melville Intermediate - Mr Lamsheds Haka

Mr Lamsheds Class in Adelaide, Australia is one of our favourite class blogs. The students at the moment are preparing for the Adelaide Arts Festival where they will be performing the Maori Haka 'Ka Mate'. We've been giving the Boys feedback as they prepare and helping as many different ways as they can. Cleveland and Kalem decided to film themselves discussing some tips for the video, which was filmed by Arahia this afternoon on Tuesday 12th May. If you haven't visited Mr Lamsheds site you must do so!

Melville Intermediate - ANZAC Day Poems

This is the second Poem from our Y8 Students from Room Five that was entered in the competition on ANZAC Day for the Poetry reading. This is by Yasmin.







We Will Remember Them

We wake up at 5:30am,
Shake the dust from our eyes,
Going to hear a tragic story,
Where not many survived.

The ANZACs reached the shores,
in their destination - Turkey,
As they walked along the sandy cove.
They were in Gallipoli.

Look at those boys at war in thier teens,
They used to think it was fun,
If they'd have known what it was like,
They'd never use that toy as a gun.

Sitting down in a trench,
With stubby pencil in hand,
Writing letters of hate and sorrow,
To be sent across the land.

As mother Elizabeth stands by the door hearing the telegram boy,
So many things go through her head,
As the tears well up in her eyes,
Whispering "please dont Johnnnie be dead"

She hears the knock on Mrs Parkison's door,
And breates a sigh of relief,
There's a mournful cry "not my Eddie"
She goes over to share their grief.

Much heartache later,
These boys get off a train,
They went to war without a care,
However their life won't be the same.

Mothers waiting no one to greet
They try to show their gladness
Their smile is pure but the eyes don't shine
They are windows to their sadness.

Another mother waiting
She set the table for four
But there will only be three dining tonight
As darling Alfie is no more.

Many years have passed now,
With tales of loss and regret
So we gather together on Anzac day,
least we forget, least we forget.

Melville Intermediate - Y7 Options

Twice a week students at Melville Intermediate School have Y7 Options. In these options students have a choice of further extension lessons to take. During Mr Webb's creative computing class on Monday afternoon Chase R14, Arahia R8 and Sadera (R14) went around with a camera to give you a taste of what some of the students at Melville Intermediate School are up to at this time. The following questions were put to the students that we interviewed:
- What are you doing? - What are your goals/what do you want to achieve? - What is your favourite part about this option?

Melville Intermediate - ANZAC Day Poetry

The following Poem by Rebekah, a Y8 Student from Room Five was entered in the Waikato Museum's ANZAC Day Poetry Competition, it was read by Rebekah at the Museum on April 25th.












ANZAC DAY
This A is for the Australians that fought for me
This N and Z is for New Zealanders that made us free
This A is for the anguish as they marched to their death
This C is for their cry as they took their last breath.

This D is for the danger they did face
This A is for the anger from our race
And this Y is a question
Why did it have to be?
I hope your ANZAC DAY is stunning,
But remember why we're free.

I hope your Anzac Day us brilliant but as you drink your cup of tea
I ask a little favour please - remember why we're free.
Remember what happened on those gray and dusty nights
Remember all those soldiers dirt and blood stained sights
Remember all the wives at home in bed
Remember all the worries as they sat and read.
Remember all the tears that fell like rain.
Remember all the wishes that got washed down the drain.
Remember all the lives it did cost.
Remember all the arms and legs that were lost.
But remember also something happy
Don't just get sad and sappy.
Remember all the survivors with tales to share
Remember all the soldiers - how they did care.
Remember how they fought for you and me
Remember how they fought so we could be free.
So next time you are sad or down in the dumps,
Just remember these things - it will give you sad and happy goose bumps.

Melville Intermediate - ANZAC Day Poetry

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Melville Intermediate - Y7 Singing

Twice a week at School the Y7 Syndicate has Singing Assembly. At these Mr Bell the music teacher has his electric guitar set up and the microphone for two students to sing. This footage is part of our 'Around Melville Intermediate Series' and was filmed by Rachana from Room Eight.

Melville Intermediate - New Zealand National Anthem

As part of their current unit of work the Y8 students in R7 are looking at things that make New Zealand Unique. Following a brainstorming session earlier in the week a team decided to research the New Zealand National Anthem and research information about it. As a link to this the students decided to film our students at full School Assembly singing the National Anthem. This is footage shot in our school hall on Thursday 7th May 2009. This was filmed by Hemi, presented by Andrew and written by Souem. You can find out more information about the song by clicking here.

Melville Intermediate - Woodwork Projects

Students from Room 8 have just completed their two weeks of work for Woodwork. THIS is the finished product - WHAT is it? Well that's not something that we're prepared to say at this point, What we'd like you to do is study the photographs carefully and we'll send something special to the first person who can identify what it is that our students created! International friends included!

Melville Intermediate - Colin Meads

At our school we have a very special evening coming up - we have a fund raising supper for Sports at Melville Intermediate School. On May 22nd we are having a supper at the Marist Club Rooms in Hamilton East. The guest speaker for the evening is Colin Meads.

Colin Meads is one of New Zealand s most famous ever rugby players, and in fact was named as All Black of the Century. He played for the All Blacks between 1957-1971 and was capped 55 times for the All Blacks.

We also have a singer named Ben Lummis, who won the first ever New Zealand Idol Competition performing as well as auctioning items such as Chiefs signed jerseys and Rugby Balls, All Black jerseys and tickets, and a whole lot of other prizes. It will be a huge night for the school and all the money raised will be going towards our School Sports Equipment and Tournaments.

There are still some tickets for this event available. If you are interested you need to leave a comment on this site and Mr Webb will pass on the information to you. We are still looking for donations too if you are able to help out in any way leave us a comment.

Melville Intermediate - Count to 100 in Maori

This is the second lesson in the series. In the first Arahia and Bailey show you how to count from 1 to 10. In this short video Arahia and Vitolina show you how to use that knowledge to count from 11 to 99. In the Maori language their are no 'teen' numbers so 11 is literally ten and one (Tekau Ma Tahi). Twenty Five is Rua Ma Rima etc. The Girls will go through some examples to help you with this, but once you get the idea its easy! Just as your learning this online its something that Room 8 is doing for our Te Reo Maori Language Work. Filmed at Melville Intermediate on 4th May.

Melville Intermediate - Samoan Dance: CPA

Our Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA) are preparing for their trip to Australia later in the year. At the moment all the different cultural groups are preparing by practising and putting in a huge amount of time into training. This footage was filmed on Friday the 1st of May at Melville Intermediate and is highlights of Fridays Samoan Group rehearsal. Filmed by Nick and Dylan from Room 8.

Melville Intermediate - Tour of Woodwork Room

This is Destyn's Guide to the Woodwork Room at Melville Intermediate. It includes an interview with Mr Yardley, and was filmed by Kalib H. This is both students first online work and the purpose of this video was to demonstrate some of the different opportunities available to students of Melville Intermediate School.

Melville Intermediate - Introducing Room 7

These images were created by students from Room 7 at Melville Intermediate School. Room Seven are just taking their first online steps over the next few weeks and the students will be working on some introductory online projects. We're looking for an international school to network with, if your interested drop us a line in the form of a comment and we'll set something up.

Melville Intermediate - R7 Montage

This Montage was created by two students of Melville Intermediate School from Room Seven - Jennifer and Gella.

They were sent around the school with a brief to capture the essence of Melville Intermediate for our audience. We them used shape collage to put the photographs into an interesting and different display.

Shape Collage is a utility for the display of photographs and you can locate the resource by clicking here.