Melville Intermediate - Saitama City Cultural Exchange

This video is a result of the cultural exchange between students of Melville Intermediate School and Saitama City in Japan, filmed on Wednesday 24th March 2010.

Fauiki from Room Eight wrote this recount about the Cultural Exchange that she took part it:
"Yesterday with the Japanese students we did activities at 1:10pm. Some students went to the Gym with their buddies and some students went to the design room. We did all sorts of activites. I wore a Kimono! It looked so cool! Me and Kelly were trying them on. The Japanese teacher took photographs of me and Kelly. We then went to the juggling side and we juggled with three hackey sacks. It was hard. We went to the side where you did string activities, and had to do lots of tricks with your hands and it was fun!"

Melville Intermediate - Week 7 Photo Montage

Melville Intermediate - Raukau Sticks!

This is going to be our next cultural experience video. It involves Raukau Sticks which the full explanation of and how to use them will be given tomorrow. In the mean time this is a taste of what your going to need to be able to do:

Melville Intermediate - Week Eight Tasks

This week the Student Blogging Challenge is continuing! We've produced a guide to touring Hamilton last week, and this weeks' task can be accessed by clicking here. Who'd have thought that we'd be up to Week Four of the Challenge already? Well this weeks challenge ties in nicely with an event happening on Saturday (in New Zealand) Earth Hour.

We're also going to take a quick tour around the world. Firstly we're going to start in Australia at Mr Lamshed's Class in Adelaide. Visit their blog and leave a comment. We're now moving to Mr McKilops Class in Tanzania, Africa, leave a comment there as well. After that I would like you to visit Nabby Primary School in the UK. Finally I would like you to leave a comment in Argentina, in South America and visit Creative Readers, Writers and Thinkers.. You can locate that by clicking here,

When you have completed posting comments on all four sites see me please.

Melville Intermediate - Student Blogging Challenge #3

Cullens Tour of Hamilton

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Melville Intermediate - School Confidence Course Tour

As part of our introduction to blogging students from Room 8 all have the brief to create a movie that shows off part of our school. Students have to brainstorm, plan, prepare the script and prepare the shots before they venture outside. Students can choose to present the movie themselves or get someone else to present it and have a behind the scenes role. This movie was created by Samm from Room 8 and features Nathalie, Lana and Shania. Filmed at Melville Intermediate School on Thursday 17th March 2010.

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Melville Intermediate - Blog Challenge #3

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Melville Intermediate - Tour of School Library

This is a guided tour of our school library. Directed by Bradley and presented by Kieran and Cameron. It was filmed at Melville Intermediate School on Wednesday 17th March 2010. Our learning intention with this activity was for the students to produce a tour of part of the school. It fits into our unit of work because for English were looking at entertaining and socialising and our overall unit is 'Building a Sense of Belonging'. If you look very carefully you will see a quick cameo from one of lasts years students, the star of Bailey and the Magic Cowbell.

Melville Intermediate - Tour of Electronics

Twice a week students have a technology lesson at Melville Intemediate School. Students have one and half hours to have specialist instruction from a specialist teacher. Currently Room 8 are going to Music, Art, Electronics, Sewing and ICT on Mondays and Tuesdays. This tour is of the Electronics Room and is presented by Ridwan. It was filmed at Melville Intermediate School on Monday 15th March 2010 by Annalize.

Melville Intermediate - Edublogger Challenge #3

This year the students from Room Eight are thrilled to be part of the Edublogger Challenge. This challenge is an International Blogging Challenge for Classroom and Student Blogs and is being run by Miss W and the Edublogger (Sue Walters). The amount of classrooms involved, the number of students and the tasks are phenomenal and the students love it. This weeks task is about the place in which you live and sharing that information with others around the world, this ties in neatly with our writing in Room 8, so it's this weeks Literacy Writing Task.

We also have to leave comments on the two blogs either side of us again, Miss T's Classroom and Mr Millers Classroom. Finally once again I would like you all to select another blog from the list of those classrooms competing in the Blogging Challenge and Leave a Comment to their site, remember the commenting format and enjoy!

Melville Intermediate - Visit Tawa Intermediate!

One of the wonderful aspects to Blogging is being able to discover new sites that start, find out about wonderful work that's going on around the world. Over the last few weeks a blog has started at Tawa Intermediate in Wellington. There's a variety of posts that have gone up and students seem very keen - definatly worth a look if you are interested in visiting another great New Zealand Blog! You can click on the link by clicking on the picture to the left or you can click on the link here. Do visit and leave them a comment, I am sure we all know how important to students feedback is!

Melville Intermediate - In Autumn

To celebrate the changing of the season, and the fact that were moving into Autumn this afternoon we sent Fauiki and Samm into the school grounds to take some photographs of what they saw. They then created the slide show, uploaded it to Slide and then created the affects as well.

Melville Intermediate - Makuhari Junior High School

This is footage from our Powhiri for our Japanese students on Friday 12th March. This video was edited, published, filmed and completely put together by Shania, Kelly and Nathalie. Our students first full production for 2010.

Melville Intermediate - Makuhari School Powhiri

Currently we have students from Makuhari Junior High School in Hamilton for a student exchange, its been very exciting for our students to have the experience of meeting students from another country and learning about another culture. On Friday 12th March 2010 we had a Powhiri for the students in our School Hall.