Melville Intermediate - CPA Tainui Haka

This is another highlight from last weeks Melville Primary School Matinee by our Cultural Performing Arts Group and Hip Hop Group. This is the Boys Haka. Filmed on Thursday 4th September 2009 at the Melville Intermediate School Hall by Meighan and Jamie from Room 8.

Melville Intermediate - AIMS Semi-Final Result

Today Melville Intermediate triumped in the 2009 AIMS Games Basketball Semi-Finals. They were up against Kura o te Moana Tauranga from Tauranga. The final score was 35-5 to Melville with the Kura being restricted to just four points in the first two minutes and then a single point for the remaining 38 minutes of the game. The students are thrilled with this win and will now take on the defending champions Hastings Intermediate School tomorrow in a final at 1:15pm

Melville Intermediate - LIVE from the 2009 AIMS Games!

Melville Intermediate are now down to the Semi-Finals of the 2009 AIMS National Finals in Basketball. After four straight wins Melville were looking for a strong showing against Bethlehem College in their final pool game before the Semi-Finals. In a strong team performance the team delivered scoring a win 71-41. The team is now nervously awaiting their Semi-final against Te Kura o Tauranga Moana this afternoon at 4pm. The Kura had their entired school there for the final pool game, so Melville will need to be on top of their game to qualify for tomorrows final.

Melville Intermediate - LIVE from the AIMS Games!

Today our Girls Basketball Team continued to set the pace in the 2009 AIMS Games. Following up from yesterday with wins against Murrays Bay Intermediate and Tauranga Intermediate today the Girls defeated Te Kura o te Koutu from Rotourua 42-18. In the second to last pool game for the team they also defeated Devon Intermediate from New Plymouth 54-14. The team now has a final pool game tomorrow against Bethlehem College before a Semi-Final show down with the Winners or Runner up in Pool A! (note photos and video will appear from this event shortly - thanks to the juice bar, Bayfair Shopping Center for the hire!)

Melville Intermediate - AIMS 2009 Photo's

Melville Intermediate - Live from the 2009 AIMS Games

Today our Girls Basketball team had their opening games of the 2009 AIMS tournament. A tricky draw saw us take on 2009 Semi-Finalist Murrays Bay Intermediate. They were beaten 41-21. The second game of the day saw the Melville Intermediate Girls take on one of the 2009 host schools - Tauranga Intermediate. Melville won this encounter 75-25 and are well placed for the semi-finals. We also had our Y7 Cross Country Runners in the event - Kalib managed a 41st in a very difficult race. Our Swimming team was also in action with several students scoring personal bests and Summer qualiftying for two finals tomorrow!. Stay tuned for photographs and footage from the event!

Melville Intermediate - Samoan Sasa

This is one of the highlights from the show last Thursday at Melville Intermediate School - its the full Samoan Sasa that you've seen in progress from earlier in the year. The costumes are amazing and the work that's gone into this effort is astounding. Well done to everyone involved as it was a performance that everyone can be truly proud of. Filmed by Meighan and Jamie from R8.

Melville Intermediate - 2009 AIMS Games Starts Today!

For this coming week or material will be produced from the 2009 AIMS Games (Association of Intermediate and Middle School) in New Zealand. Mr Webb will be leaving his beloved Room 8 and with the Melville Intermediate Girls Basketball Team, Swimming Team and Cross Country Runner. The schedule is very busy with the Swimming Team having heats on Monday from 5pm-10pm and finals from 5pm-10pm on Tuesday. The Cross Country Runner runs Monday at 9:30am. The Girls Basketball squad have a huge task - taking on Murrays Bay Intermediate first on Monday, then Tauranga Intermediate on Monday afternoon. Tuesday we do battle with Devon Intermediate and Kura o te Kotu. Wednesday we round off pool play with a game against Bethlehem College. Then follow play off's, semi-finals and a final game.

We will be posting photographs and results online as soon as is practically possible on this site. In the meantime throughout the week we will be also posting footage from our concern performances at Melville Intermediate School last week.

We will be replying to your emails and moderating your comments as quickly as we can - and who knows if your in Tauranga for the week why not come and support us!

Melville Intermediate - Hip Hop Melville Primary

All week both our Cultural Performing Arts Group and School Hip Hop Groups were entertaining local schools with Matinee performances. Tuesday was Deanwell School, Wednesday we were very lucky to have Glenview School come (Hello Mr Fawcett!) and on Thursday Melville Primary School came and saw our two groups perform! All shows were over an hour long and featured the students in the most amazing costumes and performances - only a small fraction of which we can show for you online. This is the second part of the Hip Hop group from the Thursday performances for Melville Primary School. Two of our Room 8 students guested in this act - Destin and Cleveland! Awesome stuff Boys!

Melville Intermediate - Hip Hop Performance

Melville Intermediate Hip Hop Performance. All this week we've had the local primary schools from the area as special guests of our Hip Hop group and also our Cultural Performing Arts Group. The shows were simply breath taking and these are just some of the highlights from a week of work! This is our School Hip Hop group showing off their talents. Filmed on Thursday 3rd September by Meighan and Jamie from Room 8.

Melville Intermediate - Students Market Day 2

This is the second part of our tour of the stalls for the Y8 students Prep Market Day. Filmed by Janice from Room 8. The students spent five weeks creating a produce to sell to the Y7 students. The Y7 students had half an hour to go around with thier MISMs (Melville Intermediate School Money) and purchase goods of their choice. Janice went around with a camera to view the stalls as they were set up, and also interview some of the participants.

Melville Intermediate - Enviro Survey

This is the link for the Enviro Survey for Melville Intermediate.


Click here to take our Online Survey

Melville Intermediate - Prep Economic Y8 Stalls Part 1

Janice from Room 8 went around with trusty camera in hand viewing the Y8 students from Melville Intermediate School stalls for our Prep Economic Day. The students were competing to create a stall and then sell to the Y7 students. The winning team which will be announced next week is the stall that made the most profit from there work and produce. The students from Y7 were thrilled to be the consumers and enjoyed it very much.

Melville Intermediate - Deanwell School CPA Show

We're not supposed to have done this so shhh! Today we had the first in our week of performances for outside schools in the area and Deanwell School came. Kaiya was there filming for our School and this site and these are just some of the highlights that he shot.

Melville Intermediate - Leo Club Knitting.