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Melville Intermediate - 13 in a row from Basketball.

Last night Melville Intermediate Girls played their first compeditive game of this terms Tuesday night Basketball competition.  They took on the KBC Korus in 'B' grade.  Melville were very excited as it was their first 'B' grade game of the year.   It was close at half time with Melville holding a six point lead, KBC drew level after an awesome third quarter with scores tied at 32-32.  In the firnal quarter Melville were able to outscore KBC sixteen points to ten meaning Melville took the win 48-42.   Anathaylia scored 16 points and was well supported by Nichola with 14 and Lonita with ten. This was an excellent win, the Girls thirteenth in a row and great preparation for the Kaitoa Middle School tournament taking place this Friday in Rotorua.  Highlights from the game filmed by the bench.
KBCMay28th2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Saturday Sport Warm Up Mathematics

Today in Mathematics for our warm up we were looking at sports that the students in Room Five of Melville Intermediate School played on Saturday, what the score was, and then looking at the points difference to see if the score was positive or negative.  

• MIS Girls Basketball beat Berkley Normal School Won 46-36 (+10) (Nichola)
• MIS Girls 8A Netball beat Peachgrove Intermediate C 41-8 (+33) (Bianca)
• MIS Girls 8B Netball lost to Fairfield Intermedaite 16-24 (-8) (Elizabeth)
• Melville 12th Grade Rugby lost to Frazer Tech 0-55 (-55) (Harry, Levi, Cody)
• Melville 13th Grade Rugby lost to Frankton 10-24 (-14) (Liam)
• Glenview Soccer lost to Humminbirds 2-4 (-2) (Wattana)
• Melville United Soccer lost to Whakatane 0-7 (-7) (Deighton)
• Huntly South Rugby League defeated the Hillcrest Hornets 48-8 (+40) (Nathan M)

We currently have 26 students in the classroom and 10 of them are involved in Saturday morning sports for clubs.

Melville Intermediate - Draw a Stick Man

Draw a Stickman.com

Some of you will be familar with this site, which has been around for the last couple of years, but you may not be aware that they have updated it with a 'Chapter Two', on Monday the ICT Module class road tested the game, and then were posed the question - what level (year level) of student would it suit and what is a lesson that could come from it.


The class decided that it would be most suitale for Y3/4 students.   They decided that it would encourage students to be creative, to use something that they themselves had created, that the quality of your drawing didn't matter it was still useful, if you want to visit the site click on the link here.

Melville Intermediate - Girls Rugby against Tokoroa Intermediate 2013

On Tuesday 21st of May 2013 Melville Intermediate fielded a team in the 2013 Inter Intermediate Girls Rugby Competition.  We had the hardest possible test this year up first, a dominating team who would in time become the eventual champions, defeating Peachgrove Intermediate School in the final, the Girls from Tokoroa Intermediate School.

They blew Melville away in the first half, dominating forward play backed up by strong attacking from thier backs.  Tokora continued this throughout the tournament, remaining undefeated and were worthy champions for 2013.   These highlights were filmed by Kayla from Room Five.  Melville Intermediate are in the green with red trim.  Tokoroa are in the red.

Girls Rugby Vs. Tokoroa 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Questions and Answers for Scotland

Those of you who are regular followers of our class page will know about the recent collaboration with students from Lochardil Primary School in Iverness, Scotland.  Jamie is researching Scottish culture for her cultural diversity work that we are doing next term.   P6/7 replied to us and replied in depth, and then they posted on their wonderful class page a series of questions for us to answer about New Zealand for them.   Their questions were:

What is your national anthem?
What are your traditional foods?
What is the weather like where you live?
What is the story behind your flag?
What time do you start and finish school?
What religions do people follow?
How big is your town?
What’s homework like in your school?
What’s the national plant?
What music do you listen to?
Do you have any traditional dances?
What sports do you do?
What languages do you speak?
Is your town, Hamilton, named after the town Hamilton in Scotland?
Has anyone in your class been to Scotland?

Well today in class Jamie, along with assistance from Kristal and Elizabeth sought some answers to these question from our new friends in Scotland.  We talked about an interested way to respond and it was decided to go class to class at Melville Intermeidate and ask different students from different classes (and one deputy principal, thank you Mrs Patterson!) to answer the questions.  This video was shot on Friday 25th May 2013.

QuestionsforScotland from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Girls Rugby vs Berkley

On Tuesday 21st of May Melville Intermediate competed in the 2013 Waikato Inter Intermediate Girls Rugby Competition.  The competition featured eight different teams from the Waikato Region competing against each other in a ten a side competition.  The Girls all wore bare feet and there was no pushing in the scrums or lifting in the line outs.  The game against Berkley School was Melville's second, the highlights were filmed by Kayla from Room Five.  Melville are in the green with red trim and Berkley are in the blue and green jerseys.
Girls Rugby vs. Berkley 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Jamie (and Melville) Famous in Scotland!

We've just started our work on Cultural Diversity which is our unit of work for this term.  Each of our students is researching a culture and as part of that culture is going to condcut an interview with someone from a different culture.  Jamie from Room Five is looking at Celtic/Scottish culture.  Earlier this week Jamie used google to locate some class pages from Scotland and left a comment asking for some assistance with her research questions.  The original post with the questions is here.  Its fair to say that she has been thrilled by the response and as a class we are very excited.  Jamie has recieved some wonderful feedback and we've discovered and made some wonderful connections with classes and students around the world. 

We'd like to thank everyone that has responded already to Jamie and in particular we'd like to thank the staff and pupils from P6/7 Lochardil Primary School in Scotland for their simply awesome response to Jamies Questions, which you can read by clicking here. 

Melville Intermediate - Inter Intermediate Girls Rugby 2013

On Tuesday 21st of May 2013 the Inter Intermediate Girls Rugby competition was held at Memorial Park in Cambridge.  Schools from through out the Waikato region competed in a field day.  Melville Intermediate fielded a girls team in the Open Grade (over 50kg competition).  After tough games against some top class opposition against Tokoroa Intermediate, Berkley Middle School and Morrinsville Intermediate Melville competed against Fairfield Intermediate for 7th and 8th place.  This was an incredibly close game, and these highlights were filmed by Kayla from Room Five.
Girls Rugby Vs. Fairfield 21/5/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.
Part two of the highlights and the recounts from the events will be arriving shortly.

Melville Intermediate - Divnesh uses Incredibox

This song was created by Divnesh from Room Two using the program Incredibox. He would like to dedicated it to his teacher, Whaea Guzzo who he said is the best teacher that he has ever had. You can here the composition created by Divenesh by clicking on the link here.

Melville Intermediate - Waikato Kids Lit Quiz 2013

‘WOOO, YEAH, AWESOME!!!!!!’ All the kids in the chapel at St Paul’s Collegiate cheered because they got the first question in the alieus section right. It was the night of Lit Quiz and 4-8 kids from schools all around the Waikato had joined together on the 16^th of May, to do the International Kids Lit Quiz. Kids Lit Quiz is a competition for kids all around the world who are really good at reading. It is a fun competition and kids and Adults both enjoy it because adults get to win prizes as well as the kids. So anyway we were sitting there with big toothy grins on our faces because we had finished hearing the answers for the alieus section and we had a pretty good score.

 The night went by fast but we got pretty good scores in alieus, constructions, authors, myths and legends and pop culture. We had 2 Melville Intermediate School groups there and my group, (group 2) bet the other team, we came 27^th out of 54 schools and our overall score was 52 out of 100.

You can find out more information about the Kids Lit Quiz from their website here.

Melville Intermediate - Cultural Diversity

This term our subject is cultural diversity.  We're looking at cultures around the world that we have a connection with to Room Five at Melville Intermediate School.  Each of our students are preparing interview questions for people from a different culture.  One of the students from our class who is doing this is Jamie, who is looking at Scottish/Celtic culture.

As our students are working on this procedure we've spent the last two weeks creating a set of interview questions. and then begun a process of conferencing, refining and thinking about our questions.  Our next task is to use a program to create audio files of our questions, and start conducting interview in person, using audio files and using Skype.

This is Jamie's introduction and a set of quesitons that she is looking to have answered.

Hi my name is Jamie. I go to Melville Intermediate. I am studying Celtic Culture. I have some questions that I would like someone who is Celtic to answer:

• What are the main celebrations in your country?
• What is the story behind your flag?
• Where did the Bagpipes come from?
• Do you eat animals?
• Do you speak English or Gaelic?
• What is your national animal?
• What are your two most famous foods?
• Do you have any traditional dances?
• Do you have a national plant?

 You can see examples of some of Jamie's work here.

Melville Intermediate - Incredibox and Room 8 at WIS

We're always looking for new and interesting sites related to learning and information.  Yesterday  Mr Webb discovered Room 8 and WIS.   They're an Intermediate located just outside of Nelson.  You can visit their wonderful classroom page here.  One of the programs that they've recently featured is Incredibox. 

We had a 'play' with that in class today and the students loved creating the music with the program.  It had the students captivated.  We had no problems starting and the slogan for the site is 'drag... drop and create' and that sums up the creation process perfectly.  Within no time the students were creating thier own compositions and have a fantastic experience.   You can click on the Incredibox site by clicking here.

Melville Intermediate - Revoultion Dance Crew Show May 10th

On the 10th of May 2013 Melville Intermediate were very lucky to have a performance from the Revoultion Dance Crew.  Our students loved the show which included a variety of singing, dancing and performance with a strong anti-bullying message.   These are some of the highlights from the show filmed by Kayla and Nichola and edited b Levi and Josh from Room Five.
Revolution Songs from Assembly 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.
Currently at the moment for literacy were looking at interviews and also speaking and presenting.  At the conclusion of the show Nichola spoke to some of the members of the group who had just performed.  We weren't sure that they would agree to be interview and it was an opportunity that just presented itself, having said that Nichola did a fantastic job.   Both these videos were filmed on Friday 10th of May and edited this week.
Nichola Interviews Revoultion from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - visits Maeroa Intermediate Room Nine

Maeroa Intermediate Room Nine is a class page that has been started by the students and the teachers just this year.  It's got a variety of material online and Maeroa Intermediate is a similar school to Melville Intermediatte in Hamilton.

Students of Room Five your task is to visit the Maeroa Intermediate Room Nine class page.  You need to select one piece of work or material that has been posted online and leave a comment about it.  Remember the success criteria that we have set for your commenting on other students work.  Ensure that you leave our URL in return.

This is a video of our Girls Rugby team playing Maeroa Intermediate in the Inter Intermediate Girls Rugby Competition last year at Memorial Park, Cambridge.  Maeroa are in the blue and red and Melville Intermediate are in the green with red trim.

This is what was written about last years game

This is the second to last video from our 2012 Girls Rugby Tournament.  It's highlights from our fourth pool game, against Maeroa Intermediate.  Melville were on a roll at this point having won three games in a row, one more would equal the total number of wins from last year.  Standing in Melville's way was a very dangerous Maeroa Intermediate School, who scored an extremely good try early into the match and managed to convert it to take an early lead.   Melville however by this point we really gelling well as a team including showing some strong defence, wait until you see Veronica's ankle tap just after the Maeroa try! Filmed by Veronica from Room Five at Memorial Park, Cambridge on Tuesday 8th May 2012.




We also have played Maeroa Intermediate in a variety of this year (Touch) and last year (Touch, Rugby, Netball, Basketball, Volleyball to name but a few!) Our 2012 Girls team had to play Maeroa Intermediate at Basketball and this is the highlights from a game that took place on Tuesday 7th March 2012 with Melville winning 49-5, for this game Melville are in the Green/Red and Maeroa are in the blue.