Melville Intermediate - Kyla at South H Town 2012

This is the second to last video in the series of highlights from Melville Intermediate School students who were performing in Glenview outside the community centre at the South H Town 2012 Talent Quest.  This video is of Kyla from Room Twelves performance as was filmed by Whaea Shervan at the even.
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Melville Intermediate - Girls Stuff Activity Week 2012

Girls Stuff - Activity Week 2012 on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - South H Town 2012 Tara and Leiana

This video is shot by Whaea Shervan at the 2012 South H Town Talent Quest and features 2012 Melville Intermediate School pupils Leiana and Tara.  Thank you for your visit and a reminder that students in New Zealand are currently on their summer holidays.  The 2013 school year starts in the first week of February and the students from Room Five will be back online then.  We hope that those of you in the Southern Hemisphere are enjoying your holidays and those of you in the North are not too cold.  See you all again soon.
Unknown - South H Town Talent Quest Part One from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Hamilton Extreme Activity Week 2012

Hamilton Extreme Activity Week 2012 on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - 2012 Highlights

Over the next few weeks we will be looking back at some of the highlights from 2012 selected by our students.  This recount is written about the NZAIMS tournament, which is the national sporting tournament (New Zealands largest) for Intermediate Students held each year in Tauranga.  Melville Intermediate has entered Girls Basketball for the past four years finishing in the top four spots for four consecutive years.  This is the recount about out 2012 efforts that was published in 'Reflections' the Melville Intermediate School Magazine

Our first Tauranga NZAIMS Game of 2012 was against the Knox School from Melbourne Australia.  It was the first time that any Australian Schools had been competing in the NZAIMS games and both teams were nervous before we played.  There was only one point in the game at half time and they led 15-16.  In the second half it was really close as well, and unfortunately they just beat us 32-34.  We knew we could still make the quarter finals but to do that we would have to win our other pool games.

On Monday afternoon we played Te Wharekura o Tauranga Moana, this was a much stronger game for us and we beat them 41-10.  On Tuesday we played Ross Intermediate who were unbeaten and defeated them 34-9 and then we played Bethlehem College in our last pool game and beat them 55-6.  This qualified us for the quarter finals which we were very pleased with.

Wednesday was quarter finals and semi-finals day.  We played against Tauranga Intermediate in the Quarter Finals.  They were unbeaten and are the largest Intermediate in New Zealand, as well as one of the tournament host schools.   The game was tied at 16-16 at half time and we were able to pull away in the second half winning 30-23.  This is the third time in four years that we’ve knocked Tauranga out of the competition.

That had qualified us for the semi-finals when we had to take on Kaitoa Middle School.  We’d lost to them by a point in a warm up tournament in Rotorua in June, however they were winning every game at the NZAIMS tournament by 60 to a 100 points and looked very strong.  The game was close until half way through the first half when they started to pull away.  We tried to get back into the game but they had too much of a lead and Kaitoa won 30-47.  They went onto win the final.

That left us playing for 3rd and 4th and because of the other results we had to play The Knox School from Melbourne again.  We were very excited for a chance of getting medals and also happy to have a chance to try and beat the Knox who had beaten us in the first game.  This time the result wasn’t close and we beat them 38-22 meaning that Melville Intermediate came 3rd in the tournament out of 18 teams.

Thank you to everyone who played in the team this year: Kobe, Amethyst, Praise, Tia, Jess, Lonita, Anna, Maia, Arahia and Te Mahine.  Special thank you to Chareena (Kobe’s Mum) for her awesome coaching.

Melville Intermediate - Raven at South H Town 2012

Thank you so much for your visit.  Students in New Zealand are currently on their Summer break and will be back at the end of January/start of February (Melville Intermediate School first day back is 30th of January).  If you require to contact our teacher (Mr Webb) you can do so through a comment, sending a Tweet if you are online (NZWaikato) or sending a message to myles.webb@gmail.com.

We are going to continue to post highlights from the end of the 2012 school year.  This video is of Raven from Room Twelve at Melville Intermediate School (2012) performing as part of the South H-Town Talent Quest in November 2012.  Filmed by Whaea Shervan from Melville Intermediate.
RavenSouthHtown2021 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Can you help Qawiyya?

Although its the holdiays, I received this wonderful comment on a recent post from Mrs Nickersons Class, who are part of a global Christmas Project.  Mrs Nickerson and her class are relativley new to blogging but I thought that our audience might be able to help.  Here is Qawiyya's original comment:

Dear Mr. Webb, 

I'm a a fifth grade student from Princeton NJ, USA. My class is participating in a global project called Christmas Around The World. We are gathering information about the traditions from other parts of the world and the USA. I would appreciate it if you would ask your students to respond to our questions.

They can contact me through my blog on five alive or email my teacher, Mrs. Nickerson. Five Alive.

 

Questions:

Do you celebrate christmas? if not, what other winter holiday do you celebrate?

What are some specific traditions that your family has for this holiday?

What are some holiday traditions you have at your school?

Do you have a favorite holiday song?

Thank you for your participation. 

Sincerely, Qawiyya ( pronounced kuh-wee-ah)

Melville Intermediate - Goodbye and Farewell.

To the thousands of visitors who have come onto our class page this year, to everyone that has left a comment, to all the classrooms around the world that we have networked with, to everyone that's viewed a piece of our work, and to everyone that we've had the priveldge to meet, today is the last day of our 2012 school year and we finish at 12:30pm today.  

Thank you, goodbye and farewell.

Melville Intermediate - Y8 Ball 2012

This video shows some of the drama and excitment for students of Melville Intermediate School who were attending the Y8 Ball at Melville Intermediate on Thursday 13th December.  The School Ball was a formal dance that went from 7:00pm to 10:00pm and included supper and a formal photograph of those who attended.   These highlights were filmed by Mr Willis and Mr Webb as the students entered the venue.
SchoolBallEntrancePart2 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - School Ball 2012 Part Four

The final instalment of our highlights from the Melville Intermediate School Y8 Ball held at our school on the evening of Thursday 13th December 2012.  This footage was filmed by Rebecca from Room Twelve.
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Melville Intermediate - MIS School Ball 2012

Footage from the second to last major event at Melville Intermediate School for 2012, the other of course being our end of year prize giving taking place this Tuesday.  This is footage from the formal dance to celebrate the Y8 students time at Melville Intermediate School, and the end of their time.  Filmed by Rebecca from Room Twelve on the night, Thursday 13th December 2012.
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Melville Intermediate - School Ball 2012

One of the highlights of the year is the Melville Intermediate School Ball, held each year as a formal dance for the Y8 students, usually the second to last week of the year.  This year on arrival the students were serenaded by Y7 students, this video is footage of Makere singing, accompained by Mr Bell, the Melville Intermediate School Music Teacher.  Filmed outside the MIS gates on Thursday 13th December 2012.
MakeDec13Ball from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - School Ball Preparation 2012

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Last night one of the highlights of the 2012 School Year was the Y8 Melville Intermediate School Ball, the theme was 'A Night with the Stars' and the hall was decorated to an amazing level by Mrs Bleakin and the Teachers.   Room Five as well as having a number of students who attended also had others who were helping as servers and food prepares. 

Melville Intermediate - School Ball 2012

M.I.S School Ball on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Bianca Activity Week Recount Part Two

Thisi is the conclusion to Bianca's recount about activity week.

we made some more cards. I made a Christmas card for my niece, big brother, mother, father and big sister. I also made a congratulations card to my big sister and brother in-law, because they are having a baby next year. When I finished all of my cards I helped to clean up the floor. After we had finished cleaning up the floor it was lunch time. For lunch we ordered pizza. Jamie and I had ham and cheese with barbeque sauce on top. Lunch went so fast it was not funny, but Jamie and I were happy because after lunch we were doing something really cool. After lunch we went to the library to watch a movie. Jamie and I brought our beanbags, it was so comfy. The movie we watched was mirror, mirror. We didn’t have any sound for about half an hour. But when we got our sound we started to watch the movie. We only got to watch 3 quarters of the movie. When the bell went we had to go back to the sewing room to get all of our stuff.  Jamie and my hands were really full because we had to take our beanbags, jar, cards, bag and canvas. But we put our cards into our bag and so we only had to take our canvas, jar and beanbag. Once Jamie walked out-side she lost grip of her jar and it fell to the ground. I had put my jar into my bag so then it would be safe. When Jamie dropped her jar all I heard was a bang and I looked back and Jamie’s jar was on the ground. I power walked over to her and helped her to clean it up. Once the jar was cleaned up we went out to the front gate, Jamie hopped into her car and I was standing out-side waiting for my mum but she didn’t come so Jamie’s mum Gail offered a ride to her place.