Melville Intermediate - School Lunches 2012

This is the school lunch orders for Friday 10th February 2012 and shows the lunches that students at Melville Intermediate School can order, which they do from Mrs Brown the Cooking Teacher, before School.

Melville Intermediate - National Anthem

Melville Intermediate - School Assembly.  On Friday 10th February 2012 Melville Intermediate School hosted its first formal assembly of 2012.  The New Zealand Anthem is sung in Maori first (one of three official languages of New Zealand with English and Sign Language being the others) and then in English.

Melville Intermediate - Kylie's Mihi Draft 2012

Kylies Trial Mihi 2012

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Melville Intermediate - Draft Mihi 2012

Veronica Mihi

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Melville Intermediate - Looking at the Key Competencies

The New Zealand Curriculum Five Key Competencies

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Today in class we looked at the Key Competencies - this slideshow we located on Slideshare and was created by Dan Hrstich to explain what they are.

Melville Intermediate - CPA Promo at Activities Night

Today on Wednesday 8th February 2012 Melville Intermediate School had a Meet the Teacher/Activities Information Evening.  Student and there families were able to come to Melville Intermediate and look at some of the activities they could be involved in for 2012.  One of these is the Cultural Performing Arts Group at MIS (CPA) which performs each year in Samoan, Maori, Hawaiian and Cook Island Culture.  Whaea Guzzo who is in charge of the group filmed this introduction, helped by Tara and Leliana.  Filmed at Melville Intermediate School on Wednesday 8th February by Jamie and Sam from Room Five.

Melville Intermediate - Cooking Technology 2012

This is our very first in class video for 2012! Students at Melville Intermediate School rotate around a series of Technology classes twice a week for ninety minutes sessions in a five week block.  Currently the students in Room Five are involved in Cooking, Music, Art, Woodwork and Science.  Today in Cooking Class Deighton from Room Five presented this short video about what the students were up to today, and Ryan filmed it.  Filmed in the Cooking room on Tuesday 7th February 2012.

Melville Intermediate - Skyping in 2012

Today the new students from our class Skyped for the second time, the first time with another class.  We were lucky enough to be able to Skype with students from St Clair's School in Dunedin.  Before we made the connection we talked about who had been to Dunedin (three of us) and what we knew about Dunedin (which was not very much, only that it was in the South Island and it was cold).  We looked on google maps and found out there was nearly 1,000km between our schools!  You can visit their wonderful blog by clicking on the link here.

We had to go to a PE session in the middle block but Brae (filmed), Sam (technical expert), Sarah, Damien and Veronica were able to talk to the class and as World Ukulele Day is coming up we were lucky enough to have the students from St Clairs play and sing to us! We then answered some questions as you can see in the video!



Following this we tried our first call to the United States of America! We spoke to Mr Miller whose a teacher in California - there weren't any students in his class but he was able to talk about his class, and we were surprised to find out although it was Thursday morning in New Zealand it was only Wednesday afternoon in the USA!  You can visit Mr Millers wonderful blog by clicking on the link here.

Melville Intermediate - The Class of 2012 is Here!

We're back at School for 2012 - and what a better way to introduce the class then by showing these digital camera self portraits of some of our 2012 Melville Intermediate School students...

Class of 2012 - create free slideshows

Melville Intermediate - Melville Survivor: Grand Final

It all came down to this, after twelve weeks of competition the two remaining competitors were Alyssa from Room 12 and Brandon from Room Nine.  They'd each had a part in elimination ten other students representing each of the classrooms of Melville Intermediate School.  Their final task was to successfully remember in order from first to last each of the eliminated students.   Both students were very nervous because there could be only one winner and the runner up would receive nothing... so the final episode was the most important ever.


Melville Survivor: Episode 11 from myles webb on Vimeo.



This now concludes all our 2011 posting.  The students will start posting again next Wednesday which will be their first day back in the new classroom.  We look forward to re connecting with the friends and acquanticies that we've made online over the past few years as well as those of you who are out there that were still to meet! Stay tuned to this site!

Melville Intermediate - We're back soon...

Thank you for your visit.  At this time all students in New Zealand are still on their 2011/2 Summer School holidays.   The students of Melville Intermediate School are no different and they will be back in class (a completely new class at that) in the first week of February 2012.

This is the final 2011 School Ball video, a very successful and formal occasion to mark the end of the school year of 2011.  Filmed on Thursday 8th December 2011.

Melville Intermediate - School Ball Part Four from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - School Choir 2011

This is footage from Melville Intermediate Schools end of year 2011 prize giving - a performance by the School Choir. Thanks for your visit to this site to view the students of Melville Intermediate Schools work. All students in New Zealand are currently on their Summer holidays and the new school year will begin in the first week of February 2012.

Melville Intermediate - Choir 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - 4x100m Y7 Boys Relay

This is video footage shot by Annika from Room 18 (in 2011) of our Y7 Boys 4x100m Relay Team at Porrit Stadium in November 2011, competing against seven other schools in the finals of the Inter Intermediate Athletics Y7 Boys 4x100m Relays.

Education Exemplars from New Zealand

Allanh King, is an ICT Co-ordinator in Nelson New Zealand and a teacher.  She has for some time been responsible for exceptional work in the ICT field.  One of the things that she's recently complied is a list of excellence in education in New Zealand, linked with examples of each.  There's some wonderful work from educators all over New Zealand from 2011, at different levels of schooling.  The link to the collective work is here.

There's examples of work to inspire, work to encourage and some fantastic ideas for online work. She is also responsible for the fantastic work at Appleby School and the wonderful class blog Moturoa - if you haven't checked that out you can do so by clicking here.  She also has a professional blog that you can view by clicking here.

Melville Intermediate - Prize Giving Highlights

Thank you for your visit - our video today is one of the absolute highlights of 2011 - Aldrich from Room Eight playing Violin during the 2011 Melville Intermediate School Prize Giving on the last day of the School Year, December 8th 2011.  Aldrich is a student from Melville Intermediate whose playing Violin to Grade Six and been playing for about eight years - this is his performance from prize giving accompanied by the Melville Intermediate School Music Teacher, Mr Bell.