Melville Intermediate - Robert Explains Cooking

Yesterday in Technology Robert from Room Eight had his final cooking lesson. He was able to film the lesson with the help of a 'Bloggie' Flip Camera and record what he was doing and talk about it.

Robert's Cooking Video from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Room 8 Building in Progress

Melville Intermediate - Ritsumeikan Powhiri

Ritsumeikan Powhiri on PhotoPeach

These photos are from the Ritsumeikan Keisho Junior High School Powhiri which took place on Melville Intermediate School on Tuesday 18th October 2010.

Melville Intermediate - Skyping with Broadlands School

On Thursday students from Melville Intermediate School Skyped with students from Broadlands School near Taupo. They are having a Marae visit this week and wanted an opportunity to practice their Mihi (greeting/introduction) with other students before their stay. We set up Arahia and Alkana from Room One in the library and they spent nearly an hour online with the students! This video contains some of the highlights from the conversation.

Melville Intermediate - School Talent Quest 2010

Students at Melville Intermediate School are excited that it was announced last week that we would be again having 'Melville's Got Talent' talent quest for the school. This will take place in Week Six of the School Term on Thursday. Students will be able to perform a dance, song or as part of a group. Students are currently preparing their acts for the auditions and although you can't be there MIR8 will be, we will be recording all the auditions and of course on the big night we will be filming the show! We also thought that it would be a good time to show some of the highlights from our 2009 show, this is the winners of the group section: Jayda, Alyssa and Ashton.

MGT - Group Winners 2009 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Learning Russian in NZ

One of the blogs that our students have always enjoyed interacting with Lyudmilla Kansk and her students wonderful Friend Blog from Krasnoyarskiy kray, in Siberia, Russia. They've just started posting a series of 'Learn to Speak Russian' lessons on their class page from Krasnoyarskiy kray, Russia.

This is a really great idea, so we, here in New Zealand have started to learn Russian! We've only just started and the students are enjoying it. In class on Friday we started by learning some of the words in Russian, and students had to be able to say 'Goodbye' in Russian before they were able to go outside of the classroom at lunchtime. Using our connections with the classroom over the other side of the world has exposed our students to a language and culture that we know very little about.

If you have a chance to visit their wonderful blog then you really should do so.

Early in the year we created a series of Maori Mihi videos and her students responded by learning a Maori Mihi and they posted it online. This was a hugely powerful moment for our students and one they still talk about as a highlight of the year. One of
the difficulties that we discovered with learning Russian is that the words are not necessarily phonetic, which is why you can see the words sounded out from our whiteboard! We intend to carry on learning how to speak Russian for the remainder of the year using Friend blog as our inspiration! The video featured below is from March when students from Siberia learnt a Maori Mihi (Greeting/Introduction) from the work created by students in Hamilton, New Zealand. A great example of using the internet and classroom pages to connect with students around the world!



We were excited with this video also created in Siberia from students speaking Maori.

Melville Intermediate - R2 Team Assembly

Room Two hosted Y7 Team Assembly on Friday in the School Hall. They did a fantastic job opening with a beautiful Waiata and following that up with a tribute to Michael Jackson by presenting their version of 'Thriller'. The rest of the Y7 syndicate loved their performance which you can see below. Well done Room Two!

R2 Team Assembly 15th October 2010 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Skyping with Broadlands School

Maori Mihi Skype Connection on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Job Vacancy for 2011

In the last few days we've had a special task at Melville Intermediate. Mr Cooke our Principal has given us a task to create a video that advertises a teaching job vacancy that we have a Melville Intermediate School in 2011. We all worked on the plans for this in the classroom and three students were able to film sections yesterday, today Mr Cooke approved the final version which were proud to present for you here.

2011 Interview for School Position from myles webb on Vimeo.

The vacancy for the teaching position for Melville Intermediate School closes on October 29th. You can click on this link to see the job on the Education Gazette. The physical address of our school if you would like to visit is Mount View Road, Melville, Hamilton, Waikato.

Melville Intermediate - Student Blogging Challenge

This is our introduction to Melville Intermediate for Miss W and the Student Blogging Challenge it was filmed today by Kelly, Nathalie and Lana and talks a little about Melville Intermediate School for those of you who are visiting us for the first time, there was a little wind that you can hear on the microphone when the girls recorded the video but I still think they did a great job!

Blogging Challenge Tour of Melville from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Lunch for Miss Tyler Smiths Class

Lunch in NZ 12th October 2010 on PhotoPeach. Also the resources for Landforms are here.

Melville Intermediate - Mihi Tutorial

Last year we had a series of Skyping Tutorials available to students and classrooms around New Zealand, and the world teaching them Maori Language with our team of student tutors.

We're pleased to announce that Arahia has agreed to do this again for 2010 with a group of students available to help your classroom and your students. If you would like to be contacted about this learning opportunity then please leave a comment here, or email Mr Webb at myles.webb@gmail.com to arrange a time that best suits. We are able to cater for all levels and also if you have any particular needs for your classroom or your school (such as learning colours or numbers) then please let us know as soon as possible. This is an opportunity for specialised teaching from the students responsible for the #1 Google Search result in New Zealand for 'Mihi', 'Mihi Example' or 'Mihimihi Example'!

Melville Intermediate - Room 8 Building Update

Melville Intermediate - Further School Production Highlights

The second and final video from our school production highlights from 2010. Detailed written recounts of the students involved in this production are going to appear here next week as the students of Melville Intermediate School, and all of New Zealand are currently on their School Holidays. The production was called "The Egg Files" and was a parody of Star Wars (amongst other things!)

School Production Part Two from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - School Producton Highlights

Highlights of the Melville Intermediate School Production 2010 that was held in the School Hall at the end of last term. Students involved in the production are going to be writing recounts at the start of next term, which will go with the video. Our students in New Zealand are on their second and final week of the school holidays before term four starts.

School Production Highlights 2010 from myles webb on Vimeo.