Melville Intermediate - School Speech Finals

Last week Melville Intermediate had their School Speech Finals. We had four speakers and this speech is from Ashley a Y8 student. She was judged best speaker and won the competition and tomorrow competes at the Waikato Inter-Intermediate Speech Finals at Matamata, against the best speakers from the Waikato region!

Melville Intermediate - Manakailani Film Festival

This week in Auckland, the Manaiakalani Cluster of schools hold their second annual film festival. This event takes place on Thursday at Tamaki College in Auckland. It's relevant here because Melville Intermediate Room 8 were able to create an entry for this festival! About two weeks ago we started, by viewing the 2008 entries. We then started the brainstorming process looking at our ideas, what we thought the auidence would like (it goes in age from Y1 to Y13, plus adults and parents!)... we then had to shoot the movie... watch it, and then re shoot the parts of it that needed to be re-done.

We then had to correct it, and create a movie that was approximately 3 minutes long! The drama! However, in the end we did complete it, and have had it rushed off to Auckland for this week. Nearly the whole of the class was involved with starring roles going to Arahia and Bailey. We had to change tack a couple of times during shooting when our initial ideas couldn't work, and we needed to look at the whole process. This Monday we'll be having a special viewing session for the students involved at lunchtime in Room 8 (its the first time that they will see the whole project put together!) and as an audience you'll be able to see it on Thursday, when it's played at the festival, or Friday when we publish it online.

What a week! Now we can't show you the movie this early, as its not being premiered until Thursday but we can show you some of the out takes, things that we had to say, well this nearly works but it can't.... so sit back and enjoy and hopefully this will bring a smile to your face!

Melville Intermediate - Cook Island Boys Dance

This Sunday while most of us are relaxing and enjoying the weekend the CPA, Cultural Performing Arts Group from Melville Intermediate School are returning to New Zealand following their ten days in Australia. This is another highlight from their School Show to the Melville Intermediate School students before their departure, the Cook Island Boys section of the show.

Melville Intermediate - School Speech Finals

This is a very special post. There were four finalists in the 2009 Melville Intermediate School and Room 8 was lucky enough to have one of the two Y7 finalists in Bailey. Today in assembly Bailey gave his speech in front of the entire school! But of course not everyone could be there, but we were, Arahia filmed it and here in the entirety is Bailey's speech in the finals! Filmed on Thursday 5th November 2009.

Melville Intermediate - School Athletics Records

On Friday Melville Intermediate School has their Y7 Athletics Field Days. Students will be competing in seven events earning points for their classrooms in an attempt to be awarded best classroom for 2009. We thought this would be a good moment to go over some of the records for Melville Intermediate School Athletics. For our overseas audience a reminder that Year 7 (Y7) is the old Form One, between 10 and 11 and Year 8 (Y8) is 12-13 years of age - these are Melville Intermediate Schools Best Results Ever!

100m: Y7 Girls - J. Oswald-Marren 2006 [13.62]. Y7 Boys - E M'Carthy 2004 [12.75]
Year 8 Girls - C. May 2004 [13.58] Y8 Boys - E M'Carthy 2005 [12.38].

200m: Y7 Girls - C. Cheyne 2001 [29.30] Y7 Boys - E M'Carthy 2004 [28.15]
Year 8 Girls - J Oswald-Marren 2007 [29.50] Year 8 Boys - 2001 [26.2].

Shot Put: Y7 Girls - J Soloai 2006 [9.53m]. Y7 Boys - D Heu 2007 [9.1m].
Y8 Girls - J Fleming 2005 [10.48m] Year 8 Boys - A Fleming 2006 [12.9m].

Discus: Y7 Girls - J Fleming 2004 [20.64m]. Y7 Boys - R Mudaliar 2001 [24.37m].
Y8 Girls - J Flemming 2005 26.66m. Y8 Boys - A Fleming 2007 [33.95m].

Cricket Ball Throw: Y7 Girls - C Ashley 2004 [44.55m] Y7 Boys - S Whitehead 1996 [66m]
Y8 Girls - N Schmits-Tate 2002 [48.17m] Y8 Boys - R Cox 1967 [77.66m].

Long Jump: Y7 Girls - J Oswald-Marren 2006 [4.01m] Y7 Boys - D Cunnen 2005 [4.47m]
Y8 Girls - C Millar 2004 [4.23m] Y8 Boys - T Renata 2001 [5.42m].

High Jump: Y7 Girls - K Purcell 2006 [1.36m]. Y7 Boys - E M'Carthy 2004 [1.41m].
Y8 Girls - A Greening 1992 [1.56m]. Y8 Boys - E M'Carthy 2005 [1.50m].

Melville Intermediate - Inter-Intermediate Softball

Today we had the Waikato Inter-Intermediate Softball Tournament at Resthills Park. The Melville Intermediate School Boys team defeated Peachgrove Intermediate School in their first game before beating Morrinsville Intermediate School in their second. They qualified for the Semi-Finals against Tokoroa Intermediate, won that and had to take on Peachgrove Intermediate in the Finals again. Unfortunatly this time Peachgrove were able to win but the Boys can be well pleased with finishing runners up.

The Girls had a series of games against all the other teams in the competition. They defeated Peachgrove Intermediate in the first game 6-2. In the second they beat Morrinsville Intermediate just 6-5. They then accounted for Berkley School 10-7 before beating Te Awamutu Intermediate 9-3. There was a three way tie for first place as the result of the Girls final game against Matamata Intermediate, which Matamata won 4-8. The team had a great day and played exceptionally well! Ata from Room 1 ended up the leading run scorer with eight runs!

Melville Intermediate - Skyping with Appleby School 2

Melville Intermediate - Room 8 in Six Words

This activity came from a class when I was leaving comments for the latest instalment of comments4kids. I was visiting a class blog in the USA, All Things Preeteen and I thought, wow that's a clever idea, so I threw out the intended lesson and told the students to come up with six words to describe themselves. The students really enjoyed it (and it was a lot harder than they had thought!) and it got the day off to a really positive start! Thanks so much to 'Comments4kids' and

These are some of the results from our students:

Vitolina - talented, quick, funny, smart, nice, Vitolina.
Molinda - happy, important, quickly, funny, girl, Molinda.
Rachana - sporty, funny, nice, awesome, important, smart.
Liam - sporty, active, supreme, tall, fantastic, fighter.
Arahia - funny, important, cool, talented, smart, strong.
Nick - sporty, smart, fun, caring, skilled fair.
Nicole - active, funny, shopaholic, fast, smart, Nicole.
Keegan - happy, funny, kind, big, friendly.
Kalem - fun, exciting, happy, smart, active, awesome.
Raukawa - cool, funny, fast, caring, sporty, shy, fair, rich.
Kaleb - happy, smart, caring, healthy, kind, fast.
Bailey - happy, smart, biker, stubborn, reckless, awesome.
Jamie - funny, nice, helpful, happy, caring, fast, helpful.
Prashant - happy, cool, funny, caring, fast, helpful.
Caitlyn - fun, out there (!), different, crazy, shy, friendly.
Scott - sporty, stinky, freckly, skill, outdoors, ugly.
Dylan - dangerous, energetic, sporty, smart, smelly, artistic.
Kaiya - kind, fast, sporty, skilled, smelly, reckless, strong.
Bradyn - funny, cool, fast, rich, speedy, Gokarter.
Janice - sporty, funny, nice, awesome, important, Janice.
Meighan - important, nice, mean, funny, healthy.
Michael - musician, funny, distracting, human, independant, random

Thanks for Molinda for putting this list together!

Melville Intermediate - Comments4Kids

As most of you know the one site that influences me the most and one of my strongest online contacts has come in the shape of Mr Chamberlain from Noel Elementary School in Missouri, USA. I cannot say enough positive things about his wonderful blog and he is a huge influence on me and the work that we do. One of his great innovations has been the creation of a series of posts with the tag or link of "Comments4Kids". It's a link to a series of posts from a variety of sites, as an example our Schools winning of the 2009 AIMS National Tournament in New Zealand feature on Comments4Kids and received 42 comments for a single post. Amazing.

Mr Chamberlain is an innovative, creative teacher who excels at what he does. If you are not following his blog you are missing out, and you should make an effort to subscribe to Comment4Kids if you are not already doing so.

You can also follow latest developments for this on Twitter by searching for 'comments4kids' or you can visit the Wiki for Comments for Kids by clicking on the link for it here.

Melville Intermediate - CPA Haka

The final section of our Kapa Haka/Maori proportion of our Cultural Performing Arts (CPA) group. Filmed at Melville Intermediate School by Matthew on Thursday 22nd October 2009 for the evening show that was a fund-raiser for the CPA trip to Australia.

Melville Intermediate - Senior School Athletics

On Friday Melville Intermediate School held the first of our Athletics Field Days. At Melville Intermediate School all students compete in Athletics then we have a 'Elite' competition where we select the students to represent us at the Inter-Intermediate Schools Competition. Another innovative thing that Melville Intermediate does is that the students run each event. The teachers are in charge of their class and making sure everyone competes but the students themselves run the events at each station, and rotate around from place to place. We have a record back to 1967 of the best school results in competition, which we will post online for your school to compare yourselves against! We sent Molinda, Janice and Vitolina out with a Camera to record some of the action, filmed at Melville Intermediate on Friday 30th October 2009.

Melville Intermediate - Y7 Speech Finals

Congratulations to Bailey from Room 8, who despite filling in as something of a replacement was able to triumph in the Y7 Speech Finals today! He's one of Four finalists taking part in the School Speech Finals at School Assembly this Thursday the 5th of November! Well done to Dylan who was also a representative from Room 8. We'll be recording the finals for you all to view on Thursday.

Melville Intermediate - CPA: 2nd Night Show

This is footage is of the second CPA show at Melville Intermediate School last week, this is the Kapa Haka section of the show. Filmed by Matthew from Room 12.

Melville Intermediate - Good Luck to the CPA

Tomorrow morning at 4am the Melville Intermediate School Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA) leave Hamilton for Australia and performances in Sydney and the Gold Coast. We'll post an itinerary online tomorrow as we know we have students/teachers who follow this site online who will be watching some of the shows in Australia! All the students, tutors and teachers have put in a huge amount of work into the project and the performances will be wonderful. The hard work at school culminated last week in the night shows on Tuesday and Wednesday for supporters and parents in two shows at Melville Intermediate School. So many highlights but these are just some from the 'Maori' section of the show on the second night. Filmed by Matthew from Room 12 who did a superb job!

Melville Intermediate - Appleby School in Nelson.

In the coming days we're very excited about an opportunity to help and interact with Allanh K's Class from Appleby School near Nelson in New Zealand. They have a wonderful, wonderful blog full of great ideas and teaching resources which you can contact by clicking on the picture to your left. The students in the class have been learning a Mihi, a Maori greeting and our students are going to be listening to their Mihi and helping them (if required!) by Skyping with their class.

We've only just tried a few class to class link ups and this is something that the Room 8 students are really excited about. Its a great opportunity for our students to further their learning. We had a look on Google Maps and if we drove to the School it would take us 14 hours to get there!