The End of this Blog and the Moving Forward

Thank you for your visit. As regular visitors to this site will be aware this site is not actively posting as the teacher concerned has moved to a new school.  

The work on this page is the collective work of the students of Melville Intermediate School from 2009 to 2013 from various classrooms during this time (Room Five and Room Eight).

Since we stopped posting on this site a number of the media sources and programs that we used to post material either ended or changed their fee based structure to a pay model - our response has been to remove a number of these posts, however there are still some that are on the site but the media etc is not present - we will be removing these over time.

There will be no new material posted on this site and the site will remain as a archive.   

Melville Intermediate School Closed permanently in December 2023.   The school was replaced with an amalgamation of Melville Intermediate and Melville High School with the renamed Mangakotukututu College.

The teacher responsible has a new site which is located here which is concerned with 3D Printing, Laser Cutting etc.  You can access this site by clicking on the link here.

You can contact the teacher who was responsible for this blog by email at myles.webb@gmail.com

Melville Intermediate - 8C's Helpful Video.

Those of you following along as our 'Room with a View' task has developed will have seen us develop our two dimensional model of 8C Selwyn House, Christchurch.  The language of Geometry and the directional use of language have been key features in our developing our understanding of their classroom.  Today we were very pleased to be aware of a video response to our short movie that we posted earlier this week.   Even better than that, instead of simply walking around thier classroom, 8C from Selwyn House has responded with their own two dimensional model of thier classroom! Thanks so much to our friends!

Melville Intermediate - 4,000 Milestone

According to Google Analytics this site will shortly receive its 4,000 visitor. As it been running since February 2nd, when the school year started everyone at the site is very excited about this development. We have many programs and material to still post and we haven't even reached the halfway point in the New Zealand School year! (this will happen in another month and a half!)

This week at Melville Intermediate we have Basketball after school on Tuesday at the YMCA league with both our Boys and Girls teams looking to continue their winning ways following their 30 point victories last week. Our inline skating team will be looking for their third straight win on Wednesday evening. In Hockey we're likewise undefeated following two consecutive wins (and this according to coach Mrs Basset is two more than last year!). Also this Friday see our huge fundraising dinner with Colin Meads for the School on Friday... it goes without saying it will be another big week for the school.

Melville Intermediate - 1,000 Milestone

Today in classroom the students were very excited to see the Geo-Globe pass 1,000 visits. We started the blog on February 2nd of this year, so in five weeks and a bit according to the widget we've 'made' 1,000 visitors! We also have google analytics installed on the site too - that credits us with 1,400 visitors, and finally we have a cluster map - that tells us 905. I know that some of these figures represent 'unique' visitor's and some reflect returning visitors so working out the actual 1,000 visitor is nigh on impossible. What Room Eight would like to do is thank EVERYONE who has visited this site, EVERYONE who'se left a comment and EVERYONE who we've networked around the world. Most of the students are blogging this year for the first time and have been thrilled with the response we've had. It really means the 'world' to them.