Melville Intermediate - Nathan H's 2013 Reflections

As part of our review of 2013 students from Room Five are reuired to write a recount that features a 'First Impressions' introduction and a 'Last Impressions' conclusion.  Intermediate School in New Zealand is a Middle School that runs from Y7 to Y8 (usually 11 to 13 years).  This is Nathan H's recount of his two years at Melville Intermediate and two years in Room Five.

Last year we had a thing called activity week where students had a choice to do an activity for 3 days but you must pay. I choose film making with a couple of my friends it cost $20.00. In this activity you had to make a movie we all decided on zombies. In the end our movie failed.  

Finally all this preparation has come down to this Melville Intermediate Schools Prep 2013! Our groups name was Sizzling Hot and our main product was sausages. The following people helped contribute in our group Nathan.G, Kane, Damien, Levi and me. Over all we made the most MISMS in the school but we didn’t win anything because we were in a separate competition.  

My favourite tech from last year was Wood Work. We made bird houses the reason it is my favourite tech is because I had my friends with me they would help me if I needed help. Plus the machines were fun to use. Also I learnt a lot about different types of wood.

At the start of the year Melville Intermediate had a Syndicate Camp. The first impression I had of the camp it was a bit dirty but then I got used to it; the downside was the Burma trail wasn’t scary! My favourite experience at camp was the canoe ride down the Waikato River.

Last year we had an awesome group of activities called options. Options were like modules but you got to choose what option you were in. I choose ICT which was computer work MR. Webb was the teacher he taught us how to use widgets. Widgets are little mini game on sites I done mine about Pac man and we had a tournament to see who could get the most points I came a close 2^nd Levi came 1^st.

In the end I hope this school has as much to offer as it can because in 2 years time my little brother will be attending this school so I hope he will get the full experience of Melville Intermediate.

Melville Intermediate - Choir perform @ Forrest Lake

We were geting ready for our performance at Forrest Lake School.  I  saw some of my friends there and Cody went up and said the choir perform now.  I was too scared to go up because I saw some of teachers smiling at me.   I saw some of the faces that I knew from when I was at the school.   I felt good performing infront of my old school and after that we finished and there were many performances but the performances that I enjoyed was two boys that sang, Liam and Raven.

After that one of the teachers came up and spoke and said thanking us for coming.  The school sang us a Waiata to us. 

This is footage of the Choir singing Hine E Hine from Forrest Lake School.  Recount by Viliame from Room Five.

School Choir @ Forest Lake 2/12/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Commenting

This weeks commenting tasks is to comment 'home and away'.   Firstly please ensure that you have completed the commenting on a least one of (set of two) videos from the New Town Second Grade Superstars and their videos about New Zealand.

Then you need to choose a New Zealand class linked through our website.  You might want to check out Miss T Classroom, Open the Door to B4, Point England School, Room Six from Melville Intermediate or our Aotearoa Quadblogging Buddies - Room Fifteen at Tawa Intermediate or 8C @ Selwyn House.   Choose a piece of work created by students at this site and leave a comment that is appropirate once you have looked at the work.  Don't forget to complete the URL and identify yourself with our address.

You also need to choose an 'away' site, that is a class page that is linked to us thats located somewhere around the world.  You could choose to go to the United Kingdom are look at A Room with a View Class Two, South Africa and Miss Tyler Smiths Class, Mrs Yollis Classroom in the USA, our friends in Grade Two in Ireland, If Only the Best Birds Sang or Mr Millers Class in Califorina and see what they've been up to in Minecraft.

Melville Intermediate - Samoan Sasa 2013

This is the final highlight from our show at Melville Intermediate on Wednesday 27th November.  Its the Samoan Sasa from the students of the Melville Intermediate School Cultural Performing Arts Group, including something never seen before from the Boys near the two minute mark! Filmed by Nichola from Room Five.  Drumming is by Mrs Stewart. 
  Samoan Sasa @ MIS 27/11/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Gay Gordon

Its the second to last week of school with two huge events for Melville Intermediate School students, our Big Day Out Trip to Rainbows End on Wednesday and our Y8 School Ball this Thursday night at school.  Our students have been practising a variety of formal dances for Physical Education this term in preparation for the ball, this is footage shot today of the 'Gay Gordon'.  Filmed and edited by Josh and Drustan fom Room Five.
Gay Gordon @ MIS 2/12/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - CPA Performance @ MIS

On Wednesday afternoon at school we had a very special afternoon concert.  Our Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA) held a show in the school hall inviting the general public and students from our school.  We had the school choir, selected soloists and of course the CPA.  This song, also involving Whaea Dianne from Melville Intermediate is Wairua o te puna aroha.

CPA @ MIS 27/11/13 Introduction Maori Section from myles webb on Vimeo.
The CPA performed each of the four main cultural sections.  These videos were filmed by Nichola from Room Five and edited by Drustan and Dalanar.  Filmed on Wednesday 27th November 2013.  The following video is a performance of Wahine Ma.
CAPMaori271113 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Edublog Nominations 2013

This year we'd like to make some nominations for the 2013 Edublog Awards.  

Best New Blog: There's been some class pages that we've been following closely this year, however the best class page according to the Room Five students is 8C at Selwyn House, Christchurch.  We've been thrilled with the collaboration that this year has allowed us - but more than that its just a wonderful class page, a huge amount of quality work and wonderful posts and a great class site.

Best Class Blog: Mrs Yollis Classroom Page.  Consistently the best classroom page in the world.  Completly inspirational.

Best Student Blog: Miriams Magical Moments
This is one individual student blog that you can keep going back to.  The quality of the work that on show, the presentation, the writing is amazing.  An examples for everyone to how a wonderful site can be run.

Best Twitter Hashtag: #comments4kids Its always a great source of connections and potential collaborators.  Its been a #hashtag that we've used too infrequently this year.   

Best Free Web Tool: Vimeo - invaluable to this site and most class pages.

Best Educational Use of a Social Network   Stephen Baker and Pascal Dresse and the team at Kidsedchatnz.  Innovative and a great use of Twitter.

Melville Intermediate - The School Ball 2013

Melville Intermediate School and the School Year are drawing to a close, with only two weeks left until the end of 2013.  There are several major events still to come, including the School Big Day Out trip to Rainbows End next week.  The other major event is the Melville Intermediate School Ball.  This is taking place next Thursday and is a formal dance for our students.   Most of our students have been practising the formal dancing for the past two weeks.  
Circle Waltz @ MIS 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.
Room Five has also been collating videos of the formal dancing this year to ensure that we leave a resource of the dancing for the school for the future.   These videos were recorded by Jackie, Nathan H, Josh and Drustan.  Edited by Josh and Drustan, from Room Five.
Three Step @ MIS 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - School Haka

Yesterday Melville Intermediates Cultural Performing Arts Group (CPA) held at show at school in the afternoon for students and the community.  During this show the CPA there were performances in Maori (Kapa Haka), Hawaiian, Tahitian, Samoan and Tongan. 

One of the highlights was the Boys Haka.  This Haka was created for the school by Constable Niwha, who is our local community constable.

CPA Boys Haka 27/11/13 @ MIS from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - 2nd Grade Superstards NZ Projects

While we are approaching the end of the school year here in New Zealand (this site is closing on December 13th) our friends around the world are continuing to post and learn as they are getting to be nearly half way through the year.  One of our favourite sites has always been the New Town Grade Two Superstars.  Their students are currently completing non ficiton projects about New Zealand! You can view the wonderful videos from the students here.  Room Five you need to listen to the facts contained in one of the videos and comment to the student who left it.

Melville Intermediate - Inter Intermediate Athletics 2013

This is the first highlight video from yesterdays Inter Intermediate Athletics day which was held at Poritt Stadium, Fairfield, Hamilton.   Hosted by Peachgrove Intermediate it was the final event of the 2013 Inter Intermediate Sports events.   There were twelve Intermediate Schools present from throughout the Waikato region.  Video highlights were filmed on the day by Bianca and Nichola.  Edited in class by Dalanar and Drustan from Room Five.
AthleticsPart1 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Inter Intermediate Athletics 2013

Int Int Athletics 2013 - slideshow

Today at Porritt Stadium in Hamilton the last calendar event of 2013 for the Waikato Intermediate Sports Competiiton was held - Athletics day.  All of the schools in the Waikato region competed in a variety of athletic events.  Melville Intermediate had a team for the day, the highlight of which results wise was Lonita from Room Seven (and Basketball Captain) who won the Cricket Ball Throw for the Y8 Girls.  We had a Room Five film crew there and will be process information and details from the event over the next few days.

Melville Intermediate - Makere and Kyla @ Assembly

Today during school assembly we had two students singing as part of the promotion for tonights South H Town Talent Quest at the Glenview Community Centre.  This is a local talent quest which students are invited to audition for.  Melville Intermediate were thrilled that six of our students were selected for tonights finals.  We are hoping to have footage from those finals to put online later in the week.  In the meantime this is Makere and Kyla, who are both performing tonight with 'Wake Up'.  Edited and produced by Drustan and Dalanar.
Makere and Kyla @ Assembly 22/11/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - League Tag Highlights

Wednesday League Tag saw Melville Intermediate triumph in the regional League Tag Tournament.  The team went undefeated on the day beating schools from as far away as Taupo.  The final was won 5-2 against Putararu, the Semi-Final saw Melville Intermediate take on a dangerous Te Awamutu Intermediate 'A' side.  Footage filmed by Matua Taua.  Melville Intermediate are in their traditional red/green uniforms and Te Awamutu are in their Maroon and gold.
League Tag Vs. Te Awamutu 1 21/11/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.
In pool play one of the teams that Melville had to take on was Huntly.  This video is highlights of that game.  Huntly are in the bright yellow and Melville Intermediate are in Green and Red.
MIS Vs. Huntly League Tag 21/11/13 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - League Tag

On Tuesday 12th of November a group of highly skilled rippa rugby league teams got togeather to complete against a variety f schools, we were all going or one reason to win because the top two schools go to the rippa league regionals competion which is held in Te Awamutu.

The fact that we had no training we did quite well.
 
The a team first game was against Wales (Toku Mapihi) we were very nervouse but we managed to pull though with a win beating them 9-0 it was a very hard game.

In our second came we played France (Raumanga) they had a lot of skill and first players but eventually we got around them and scored a number of tries we ended the game with a fantastic 5-3 win.  We were so tired but we pulled through and gained enough energy to play the next few games.

We won our next three game and ended up at the top of the ladder and went on to face  Toku Mapihi again in the semi finals and because we are so skilled we won the game 10-3.  We then move on to the finals against the France (Raumanga) team once again. We had a quick break before the tiring game against France started. The first point was scored by the team France but we managed to score a point shortly after that. at half time the score was 2 all and we were all tired, the scoring went back and forth and soon enough the game was over. after an amazing game the score was 4-3 to them the boys gave it everything and it was a good game everyone clapped and cheered.