Melville Intermediate - Inter-Inter Results

Yesterday saw Cambridge host the first Inter-Intermediate Competition of 2009 - Swimming.

Melville Intermediate's final placing was 4th place - tied with Cambridge Intermediate. Amongst the stand out performers for Melville Intermediate was Summer who came first in the 100m Freestyle and 2nd in the 50m Butterfly. Caitlin managed 4th in the 50m freestyle, 3rd in the 50m breaststroke. Mira came 3rd in the 50m backstroke. The best of our Boys was Thomas (who was a Y7) who came 3rd in 50m breaststroke and Mitchell who managed 7th in the same event.

We also performed well in the Female Championship Relay with Mira, Keeley, Summer Annabel and Caitlin managing 3rd. In the Non-Championship relay 6x50m Mira, Thomas, Mitchell, Blair, Liam and Annabel managed 4th.

Everyone swam really well and produced really strong performances in the relays. There was excellet support from the parents and grandparents and the event was an exciting and fun filled day.

Melville Intermediate - Swimming Sports

On Tuesday 23rd of February 2009 Melville Intermediate held their School Swimming sports to select our school team for the Inter-Interzone competition on Monday in Cambridge. We had a film crew there who filmed the event, and also added a little impromptu commentary during some of the events! Presented and filmed by Bailey at the University of Waikato Swimming Pools. This is our first major event online in video form for 2009. We're going to be reviewing this in class next week so if you'd like to give us feedback that we could include in the class discussion then please leave a comment.

Melville Intermediate - Sports Update

Today our School Swimming Sports were held to select the School team for next weeks Inter-Intermediate Competition. This morning there was significant rainfall which led to the competition still going ahead, although it was in a slightly reduced format. We were there with our camera and Bailey from Room 8 will be presenting a video of the event soon. Those students who meet the qualifying times will be travelling to Cambridge on Monday for the competition.

Tuesday night Touch saw Melville Intermediate's teams still searching for their first wins of the competition. The Girls were defeated by Peachgrove Intermediates Mixed team, although the score couldn't have been closer at 0-1. The Boys had a rematch against Morrinsville and although last weeks game was close Morrinsville Intermediate really showed their class tonight with a 2-8 win. This game was filmed and the highlights will be available later in the week. Some of the tries have to be seen to be believed!

Melville Intermediate - Swimming Try Outs

When we went to the pools for our try outs. We were really nervous, after our try outs, all of us were puffed. Were waiting for the teacher to tell us who made the team and who didn't.

The Melville Intermediate school swimming team is being selected next Tuesday for the Waikato Inter-Intermediate Competition.

When we have a sports event that's part of the Inter-Intermediate Competititon we will be competing against Berkley Intermediate, Cambridge Intermediate, Fairfeld Intermediate, Maeroa Intermediate, Matamata Intermediate, Morinsville Intermediate, Peachgrove Intermediate, St Andrews Middle School, Te Awamutu Intermediate and Tokoroa Intermediate.

We will be swimming at the Univesity of Waikato Swimming Pool for our school Swimming Sports on Tuesday and the winners and those with the best times will be competing in Cambridge the following Monday.


By Janice

Melville Intermediate - Melbourne Storm

On Friday 13th February 2009 Room 8 and Room 2 went to the Gallagher Pool at Melville College for our swimming lesson. The Melbourne Storm players were there. We were able to get some photo's of ourselves with some of the players. Description by Vika, Photographs taken by Kaiya.

The Melbourne Storm NRL side were in New Zealand as part of their pre-season build up. They'd played in Hamilton the night before against the Warriors.

All students at Melville Intermediate School have the option of taking part in swimming. Our school is in the process of selecting the team for the Inter Intermediate Sports competition. This competition involves all of the major schools in the Waikato area competing against each other throughout the year in a variety of sports.

The first school event of 2009 is the School Swimming Sports. Melville Intermediate will be taking a team of around 120 students to this major event. We also next week have the start of our afterschool sports teams with both the Boys and Girls Touch teams starting on Tuesday night and Saturday morning Softball's first games taking place this weekend.