Melville Intermediate - Leo Club Knitting.

Melville Intermediate - Hip Hop Group Perform

This is our Melville Intermediate Hip Hop Group, performing with their new outfits at the Hamilton East Hilda Ross Retirement Village. Filmed last Thursday by Bradyn and Prashant. Filmed on Thursday 26th August 2009.

Melville Intermediate - 2009 AIMS Games now one week away!

The tournament for 2009 is now only one week away! The biggest Intermediate School sports tournament in New Zealand, over 80 schools participating with over 3,000 students. Melville Intermediate has not been to this tournament since 2006 and its our first time enetering Basketball. In addition to Basketball we are also entering Cross Country running (Kalib from Room 12) and Swimming with four competitiors. You will be able to watch our progress in this tournament online here as we'll be posting from Tauranga for the week.

Melville Intermediate - Edublogger Blog Challenge

Earlier this year our students participated for the first time in Miss W's Edublogger Blog Challenge. We're thrilled to be participating in this again and its about to start with the first challenge later this week!

If your interested in registering for this challenge for your classroom (which we'd highly recommend) you can do so by clicking on the list here).

Melville Intermediate - Blogging Around the World with Mr Piper!

Mr Pipers class in the USA have just come back from their school holidays and have started a new year. They're about to start the unit of work looking at our two countries and have asked us for assistance in helping them with collaborating and answering their questions. We're really thrilled about it (or we will be when I tell Room 8 tomorrow morning!) but in the meantime you can click on this link here to check or Mr Piper's wonderful site, and if you're able to help his class (particularly our friends in Australia!) drop him a comment and let Mr Piper and his students know!

Melville Intermediate - 27th August CPA Photo's

Melville Intermediate - Inter-Intermediate Basketball

These highlights are from the Inter-Intermediate Boys Basketball final held on Tuesday at Te Awamutu Events Center. Melville in the Red and Green uniform were able to defeat Maerora Intermediate 22-16 in the final. Well done to Hyrum and the team!

Melville Intermediate - Waikato University

On Thursday 26th August the Cultural Performing Arts Group from Melville Intermediate School had two special shows. The second was of course the Hilda Ross Retirement Show. The first was a special performance at Waikato University. This was for a International Conference of special guests! The students performed a variety of Waiata (Maori Songs) and action songs. Bradyn and Prashant from Room 8 were there and captured this footage.

Melville Intermediate - Prep Day 2009

Melville Intermediate - Y8 Prep

Yesterday the Y8 students had their 'Prep' market day. There were 50 stalls from the students selling all variety of products - we've taken a huge amount of footage that will be going online later today. Students were raising the money for the Y8 trip at the end of the year. The Y7 students spent over $800 on products for the very successful day.

This is Scott's recount on the day:
'Today was prep, prep is a day for the Y8's to sell stuff and make a lot of money for the school. There was a lot of stuff that you could buy. The thing is that I brought was sherbert - it was pretty nice but not nice enough! The MISM's were a good idea - what they were is fake money. There were 50 stores in the school. Some were fizzy drinks and some were games and lollies - everyone was really excited. I was to, also my friends. There was a really hard one, you had to throw a water balloon into a basketball hoop. Also there was a game, there was a boy that got water balloons thrown at him. One person who was throwing the ballons at the boy was a teacher! Mr Day!'

Melville Intermediate - School Singing Group

This is a medley of Beach Boys Songs performed by the Melville Intermediate School singing group. The students were at the local Methodist Church where they took time out from their regular classroom program to entertain some of the locals. Filmed on Monday 10th August by Mr Bell our Schools music teacher!

This report about the visit was written by Ilene and Ane.
"On the 10th August Melville Intermediate School singing went to the Methodist Church. Our numbers were really low but we had a lot of faith in ourselves. It all started when we first hopped on the bus. Minutes later we were in the Church waiting to sing to the auidence. We sang a range of songs from country to pop such as 'Lean on Me', 'Country Roads' and 'Amazing Grace'. In the end the Probus Senior Club was really impressed with our school group. Finally it was over and we felt proud of ourselves."

Melville Intermediate - Inter-Intermediate Basketball

Today in Te Awamutu at the Events Centre we had the Inter-Intermediate Waikato Basketball Competition. The day was a special day for Melville Intermediate as the Girls went through the tournament unbeaten and won seven games on the day.

They defeated Morrinsville Intermediate 22-10 in the first game, Maeroa Intermediate 22-6 in the second, Berkley School was defeated 22-6, Te Awamutu the hosts 22-6 before in the final pool game Fairfield was beaten 15-6. In the Semi-Final Melville's girls played against fourth qualifier Morrinsville Intermediate and beat them 41-2. They then played Fairfield again in the final winning 26-12. Awesome preparation for the National AIMS finals taking place in two short weeks!

Not to be outdone the Boys also won the competition as well. Morrinsville were beaten in the first game 21-6. Maeroa were beaten in the second 21-4. The boys also beat Berkley School 20-6, had a 12-12 draw with Te Awamutu before defeating Fairfield Intermediate 13-4 in the final pool game. The Semi-Final saw the Boys beating Berkley School 24-18 before taking on Maeroa and beating them in the Boys final 22-16.

There's a mountain of footage and material from this event that we're currently making our way through and will be posting this online over the coming days. Well done Melville Intermediate.

Melville Intermediate - Inter-Intermediate Basketball Photos

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Melville Intermediate - Prep Preview

This is Vitolina's explanation of what Prep is:

'Prep is Market day for Y8 students. It is a competition to see which group wins. What we mean is that teh Year 7's pay real money to buy MISM's and they can spend it on whatever they like and the group that gets the most MISM's wins. (MISM is Melville Intermediate School Money).

There is going to be things infront of every classroom. There is going to be around 48 stalls all over the school selling yum stuff like candy floss, fizzy drinks, food, lollies, slushies. You pay to go and play and take part in some activities. Like you can play a Playstation 2 game and all sorts of other stuff.

For $1 you can buy 4 MISMs. The market day is on Wednesday 26th of August at Melville Intermediate Schol and I can't wait.