Melville Intermediate - Lets Learn Samoan

This is the first video in our new language series - Let's Learn Samoan! In these series of lessons students from Room 8 will be sharing their culture with our audience. The focus on this lesson is the numbers from one to ten in Samoan. The presenters, Arahia and Vitolina will be saying the numbers from 1 to 10 in English and Samoan, with the words on the screen as well! Filmed at Melville Intermediate on Wednesday 8th April 2009.

Melville Intermediate - Thailand Students Exchange 3

For the last two weeks we've been very lucky to have a group of students from Thailand in our classrooms visiting New Zealand. They are still at school this week (in the first week of our students holiday) and leave later in the week to return to Thailand. All the students were wonderful in their time at our school and especially Bell and Tae who were based in Room 8. Our students were better for having met them and had the experience to be involved in cultural exchanges!

Melville Intermediate - Thailand Students Graduation

Melville Intermediate - Learn to Speak Swahili

This coming term at Melville Intermediate we will be going full throttle into our video production and projects. At the end of term one we had selected students create various language videos for publishing as guides for the rest of the year. This is 'Learn to Speak Swahili'. We are incredibly fortunate to have a number of cultures at our school. This was produced by the students on Wednesday 8th April 2009.

Melville Intermediate - Final Day of Term One

Today is Thursday the 9th of April. This is the last day of term one in New Zealand. Students break from today for the Easter public holidays (starting with Good Friday tomorrow) and then return to school on Monday 27th April. We have been 'banking' work in the meantime which we will be publishing over the holidays and we will be constanly updating this site. Thank you for all of those who have been regulalrly leaving comments, promising to send us 'Peeps' (more on this later), those who have skyped with us this term, or just viewed the site! We really appreciate the 1,800 of you (according to cluster maps!) or the 2,500 of you (according to google analytics that have visited us. It has been a huge motivating factor in the working of Room 8. We will be getting into 'full gear' next term with our online publishing!

Melville Intermediate - Waka Ama Commands

The following commands are the commands called by the leader of the Melville Intermediate Wakak Ama crew in their competition at Ngaruwhaia.

Kia mau - Wait
Karite - Get Ready
Hoe - Go Fast
Pawa - Stop
Hoe ko mure - Go Back
Tokehi - Paddle and rest

Melville Intermediate - Rockets

This Thursday during our Y7 Option Classes (in addition to Technology students of Melville Intermediate have an 'Option' Class of a further 3 hours of specialist teaching one of the classes has been construction Rockets - Thursday is launch day, and they are expected to go 100 feet (that's an American reference for our friends) in the air! Of course we'll be there with Camera and Photographs to document! Stay tuned!

Melville Intermediate - Touch Vs, Morrinsville

This is the final game in our highlights series from the Inter-Intermediate Touch Competition on March 25th. Following Peachgrove Intermediate making the final against Maeroa Intermediate the teams who finished second in the semi-finals had to play against each other for third and fourth. This was Melville Intermediate and Morrinsville Intermediate. Jacob was on hand to film the highlights from the game. Filmed at Swarbrick Park (thanks Frankton Primary School for letting us charge up the camera!).

Melville Intermediate - Touch Vs. Peachgrove

On 25th March Melville Intermediate competed in the 2009 Girls Touch Finals. Wins against Matamata Intermediate, Te Awamutu Intermediate and Berkley saw Melville have a last game against the ten time winners of the competition Maeroa Intermediate. Maeroa won meaning that Melville Intermediate had to play Peachgrove Intermediate in the semi-final. Aria scored (before the cameras could even be set up!) to give Melville a 1-0 lead, these highlights are of the rest of the game!

Following this game Peachgrove advanced to the finals where they played Maeroa Intermediate, who have won the Girls Touch Titles for an incredible 10 years. To get there they'd had to defeat Morrinsville Intermediate. This other semi-final was an unbelieveable game. Both teams were tied after 20 minutes and then a drop off occurred where both teams lost three players taking the game to a 3 on 3. Even then Maeroa and Morrinsville could be barely seperated with Maeroa scoring near the end.

The final between Peachgrove and Maeroa was one way traffic with Peachgrove Girl's winning 5-1. To cap off an incredible day for the school they'd also won a nail biter earlier when their Boys had defeated Tokoroa Intermdiate 3-2 with the last play of the game! As for Melville Intermediate following this game they had a play off for 3rd/4th the highlights of that game will be posted online tomorrow!

Melville Intermediate - Thailand Students Exchange 2

Melville Intermediate - Thailand Students Exchange

At Melville Intermediate presently were one week through a two week exchange. We have students from Thailand staying with us in each of the Y7 Classrooms, learning about english and New Zealand.

Each Y7 Class has been carrying out a cultural exchange with the students, these are pictures from them!

Melville Intermediate - Skyping with Appleby School

This animation is a little special as its a result of a collaboration that took place last week between Melville Intermediate and students from Appleby School in Nelson. Their wonderful site can be contacted by clicking here. During the day we used Skype to contact their class and Nick received instructions of how to create a pivot animation. He'd never used the program before but as a result of the tutoring that he received he was able to create his own animation and then also scaffold (teach) Scott from our classroom! Our wonderful thanks again to Alanahk and her class!

Nick wrote the following about the Skype Chat:
"It was a great experience Skyping with a school in Nelson. I learnt to do animations on pivot. George was a great helper. I learnt some skills and will pass them onto other classmates, in my class. Pivot is Fun!"

Melville Intermediate - Inter-Intermediate Art

On Tuesday 31st March five students from Melville Intermediate School attended the Inter-Intermediate School Arts Day that was held at Maeroa Intermediate. Students took part in activities such as manu tuku tuku (Maori Kites), painting on canvas, and making a rubbish sculpture to name a few! Ms. Wilson who attended the day said Melville Intermediate students were "outstanding in their creativity, attitude and ability to co-operate and work with other." Amos, one of the Melville Intermediate students who attended said "the day was awesome - I learned (about) lots of different kinds of art." The completed art works are to be presented to the childrens ward at the Waikato Hospital. We look forward to being part of this event againt next year.

Melville Intermediate - Visit Chorlton Park!

If you have not done so already you really, really need to visit the Y2 Blog at Chorlton Park School, in Manchester, England. Y2 is not a level that you'd necessairly associate with blogging but you couldn't be more wrong. Mr Sloan and his class have a wonderful site and are always putting themselves out there with their presentations. If you are having a slighty "blah" teaching day then look no further than their Left and Right dance video - absolutely guarnteed to bring a smile to your face! A fantastic blog with lots of innovative and creative ideas! Well worth a look!

Melville Intermediate - Staff Vs. Pupil Touch Rugby

Today the annual Staff vs. Pupil Touch rugby game took place at Melville Intermediate. This might have been close in previous years but in 2009 it was all one way traffic. The staff took on the Boys in the first half of the 20 minute game smiting them 4-0. In the second the one way traffic continued with the staff racking up another 3 tries to take the game 7-0. A proud moment indeed.