Melville Intermediate - Stephen Tours the School Garden

This is Stephens first video for Room Eight and his first attempt at presenting. He's touring the School Garden at Melville Intermediate so that he can explain what we have available.

Stephen Garden Tour 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Cooking Options on Thursday

During Options (or electives, student choices for what they learn) on Thursdays at Melville Intermediate School all of the Technology Rooms are used so students can have greater opportunity rather than working in a regular classroom. This video was filmed by Kennedy last Thursday and shows what students from Melville Intermediate School can involve themselves in on Thursdays in the Cooking Room!

Kennedy Options - Cooking from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - NZAIMS 2011 Here we come!

Melville Intermediate are preparing to compete again at the NZAIMS Tournament.  This tournament is the premiere sports competition for Y7 and Y8 students in New Zealand.  Last year there were over 100 schools and 4,000 competitors, with over 800 officials in Tauranga for the week of competition.  In 2010 Melville Intermediate entered Boys Soccer, where the team came 14th, Hip Hop where our team finished 4th by 0.5 of a percent and Girls Basketball.

Our Basketball teams over the last two years have a proud record of success, last year our Girls made the semi finals before being defeated by Kura O Te Koutu from Rotorua and finishing 4th.  Our 2009 team was undefeated for the entire tournament and crowned national champions at the conclusion of the games! This years team has started preparation by playing at the YMCA on Tuesday night.   The team is in a Boys/Mixed competition and has already defeated Maeroa Intermediate and St Andrews Middle School.   Last week the Girls were defeated 35-45 by the Flyers Lakers, although they were dissapointed to lose they managed to play a forty minute game with five players and no reserves! Today Melville Intermediate played against the KBC Sting and defeated them 43-33.   Kobe managed to score 17 points, in her first game for the year, Mata scored an impressive 16 and Sita contributed well with 10.   The team has three more games in the 'A' pool against top opposition before the play offs.   This footage is from Melville Intermediates game against the Sting tonight, the AIMS Games might be six months away but its approaching fast.


Basketball 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Pottery Options 2011

Kennedy from Room Eight currently has a broken arm, not that its stopped her from working. She spent last Thursday afternoon going around the various options classes at Melville Intermediate filming what students were up to and came up with some amazing results. This video is of her in the Pottery Option.

Pottery 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Room Eight 2011

Melville Intermediate - Sativa's Explanation of Bone Carving

On Thursday afternoons we have Options at Melville Intermediate School (electives) during that time students have a wide range of activities that are available to them outside of the normal lessons. On Thursday 4th March, Kennedy from Room Eight went to Bone Carving and Sativa from Room Eight presented this video about what she was doing and toured the workshop.

Bone Carving 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Poetry Sites for Term One

These are some of the Poetry sites that Lana has located to help us with our Term One Poetry Unit.

•  Poetry for Kids
• Poetry.Com
• Find Poetry.Com
• Poetry Online
• Shadow Poetry
• Tooter for Kids
• Poem Hunter
• BBC
• Poems Only.Com
  

Melville Intermediate - Skyping with St Marys School

This morning students from Room Eight held a Skyping session with students from St Marys School in Mosgiel, in the South Island.   We covered the students Mihi who were reciting it to Hayze and Mackenzie and the students also talked about their schools, the similarities and the differences.  The students spoke for over half an hour and we here at Melville Intermediate really enjoyed the experience, judging by the posts on their page St Marys did too! You can click on their class page by clicking here.

Yesterday Mackenzie and I Skyped with St Marys School, Room Seven. They saw a link of Mackenzie and I in the CPA doing the Hawaiian dance for my Grandmothers Birthday. I was so surprised that they only had around two hundred students from Y1 to Y8 and we have nearly 300 students from Y7 and Y8. It was great talking to Room Seven and I really enjoyed it.

Melville Intermediate - Textile Art

Melville Intermediate - Extension Cooking and Music

On Monday 28th February, extension cooking and extension music was on. 2 groups of students will go to an extension tech, one group goes to Mrs Brown, our cooking teacher and the other will go with our music teacher Mr Bell. I talked with a few of the students in extension cooking, who explained to me that they were making pasta. Then I went to the music room, I filmed Mr Bell and some of his students in the drum room, working on a recording. More students were filled in the guitar room and the recording studio. Manson who is amazing on the guitar played something. A few of the girls were in the recording studio were recording a song played on ukulele and with vocals.

Extension Cooking 28th February 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

The video above was created by Lana, who also wrote the description and filmed the footage in the Cooking Room. The video below is of the Music Extension Room.

Music Extension 28th Februay from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Music Technology 24th Feb

This video is an example of the work and opportunities available to students of Melville Intermediate School during our Technology lessons.  During Technology our students have specialist lessons in a number of subjects.  For Y8 students its currently Cooking, Music, Woodwork, Textiles Arts and Enviro Studies.  This video shows students at work in Mr Bells music class, during the last week our students have been learning to play particular songs using a variety of instruments.   This is the music class playing 'Hey Soul Sister' being led by Maddy from Room Five.  Recorded at Melville Intermediate on Friday 24th February 2011.

Music Technology 24th February from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Melvilles Mystery Objects

Melvilles Mystery Objects on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Y8 Camp 2011

At the end of this term, Y8 students at Melville Intermediate have a very special event a week long camp at Finlay Park Adventure Camp. Our students who were Y8 went there at the end of 2010 for the Y8 Big Day Out so we've put together this collection of videos of some of the activities our students will be able to participate in at the end of this term, a few short weeks away! You can visit the official Finlay Park Website to look at the site and find out about the park by clicking here. You can view students from MIS in 2010on the Flying Fox and a water slide by clicking here.  You can see students on the gigantic rope swing and the flying fox by clicking here.  You can view footage of the infamous 'Blob' and our students on it and water slide by clicking on here or on this video here.

Melville Intermediate - Options Choices

Students at Melville Intermediate on Thursday afternoon have a choice of classes to choose from (electives).  Since we've got the ERO team visiting our school next week, we decided to send Kelly and Shania around with a camera to record all the different classes students of Melville Intermediate can take on Thursday afternoons - all in under two minutes!

Options at MIS 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Sports Update 2011

We've had some recent activity in our School as the sports teams have begun games in the 2011 season.  Firstly we're looking at representing Melville Intermediate at the 2011 AIMS National Sporting Championships in Tauraga in August.  For that preparation we've a Girls team currently competing in a Mixed/Boys league on Tuesday nights.   Sita whose in the squad wrote this report about the Girls efforts so far.

"For the past two weeks a squad of eight girls played two fantastic games of Basketball on Tuesday nights.  On the first week we played a team of nine Boys from Maeroa Intermediate School.  Each quarter we played we won scoring the highest in four ten minute quarters.  Some of the girls in the team have never played before but they were pretty good.  After that hard-working performance we won 32-16.  As the week went past we had to play another game, a mixed team from St Andrews Middle School.  But this time there was only four of us starting off against their five.  We had no subs and only four players! As we started the game Fauiki turned up.  Yay, we had five players.  Then in the second half Kaea showed up, Yes! We had a sub!.  Goal after goal.  We scored quite a lot.  Everyone was so tired, so was I.  5... 4... 3... I only had five seconds to shoot the ball... 2... 1... the ball was in the air... 1 (still travelling)... BUZZ! Goal! The final score was 71-28, we are still undefeated."
Sita Latu, Room 18.

On Wednesday 23rd of February 2011 11 students from Melville Intermediate School played Cricket against Maeroa Intermediate.  Maeroa choose to bat first and they scored 68 off 20 overs.  We got two wickets.  Our batting was great! We got 71 runs off 11 overs with only one wicket.  In the end the score was 71 for 1 off 11 and 68 for 2 off 20.  In the end it was a great game and we won.  The people who scored the runs for Melville Intermediate were Jovi and I (Luke).  You can see footage of the winning runs being score in this video.  Filmed by Kieran, presented by Gareth on Thursday 24th February.

Cricket Vs. Maeroa Intermediate from myles webb on Vimeo.