Melville Intermediate - Sativa's Explanation of Bone Carving

On Thursday afternoons we have Options at Melville Intermediate School (electives) during that time students have a wide range of activities that are available to them outside of the normal lessons. On Thursday 4th March, Kennedy from Room Eight went to Bone Carving and Sativa from Room Eight presented this video about what she was doing and toured the workshop.

Bone Carving 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Poetry Sites for Term One

These are some of the Poetry sites that Lana has located to help us with our Term One Poetry Unit.

•  Poetry for Kids
• Poetry.Com
• Find Poetry.Com
• Poetry Online
• Shadow Poetry
• Tooter for Kids
• Poem Hunter
• BBC
• Poems Only.Com
  

Melville Intermediate - Skyping with St Marys School

This morning students from Room Eight held a Skyping session with students from St Marys School in Mosgiel, in the South Island.   We covered the students Mihi who were reciting it to Hayze and Mackenzie and the students also talked about their schools, the similarities and the differences.  The students spoke for over half an hour and we here at Melville Intermediate really enjoyed the experience, judging by the posts on their page St Marys did too! You can click on their class page by clicking here.

Yesterday Mackenzie and I Skyped with St Marys School, Room Seven. They saw a link of Mackenzie and I in the CPA doing the Hawaiian dance for my Grandmothers Birthday. I was so surprised that they only had around two hundred students from Y1 to Y8 and we have nearly 300 students from Y7 and Y8. It was great talking to Room Seven and I really enjoyed it.

Melville Intermediate - Textile Art

Melville Intermediate - Extension Cooking and Music

On Monday 28th February, extension cooking and extension music was on. 2 groups of students will go to an extension tech, one group goes to Mrs Brown, our cooking teacher and the other will go with our music teacher Mr Bell. I talked with a few of the students in extension cooking, who explained to me that they were making pasta. Then I went to the music room, I filmed Mr Bell and some of his students in the drum room, working on a recording. More students were filled in the guitar room and the recording studio. Manson who is amazing on the guitar played something. A few of the girls were in the recording studio were recording a song played on ukulele and with vocals.

Extension Cooking 28th February 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

The video above was created by Lana, who also wrote the description and filmed the footage in the Cooking Room. The video below is of the Music Extension Room.

Music Extension 28th Februay from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Music Technology 24th Feb

This video is an example of the work and opportunities available to students of Melville Intermediate School during our Technology lessons.  During Technology our students have specialist lessons in a number of subjects.  For Y8 students its currently Cooking, Music, Woodwork, Textiles Arts and Enviro Studies.  This video shows students at work in Mr Bells music class, during the last week our students have been learning to play particular songs using a variety of instruments.   This is the music class playing 'Hey Soul Sister' being led by Maddy from Room Five.  Recorded at Melville Intermediate on Friday 24th February 2011.

Music Technology 24th February from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Melvilles Mystery Objects

Melvilles Mystery Objects on PhotoPeach

Melville Intermediate - Y8 Camp 2011

At the end of this term, Y8 students at Melville Intermediate have a very special event a week long camp at Finlay Park Adventure Camp. Our students who were Y8 went there at the end of 2010 for the Y8 Big Day Out so we've put together this collection of videos of some of the activities our students will be able to participate in at the end of this term, a few short weeks away! You can visit the official Finlay Park Website to look at the site and find out about the park by clicking here. You can view students from MIS in 2010on the Flying Fox and a water slide by clicking here.  You can see students on the gigantic rope swing and the flying fox by clicking here.  You can view footage of the infamous 'Blob' and our students on it and water slide by clicking on here or on this video here.

Melville Intermediate - Options Choices

Students at Melville Intermediate on Thursday afternoon have a choice of classes to choose from (electives).  Since we've got the ERO team visiting our school next week, we decided to send Kelly and Shania around with a camera to record all the different classes students of Melville Intermediate can take on Thursday afternoons - all in under two minutes!

Options at MIS 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Sports Update 2011

We've had some recent activity in our School as the sports teams have begun games in the 2011 season.  Firstly we're looking at representing Melville Intermediate at the 2011 AIMS National Sporting Championships in Tauraga in August.  For that preparation we've a Girls team currently competing in a Mixed/Boys league on Tuesday nights.   Sita whose in the squad wrote this report about the Girls efforts so far.

"For the past two weeks a squad of eight girls played two fantastic games of Basketball on Tuesday nights.  On the first week we played a team of nine Boys from Maeroa Intermediate School.  Each quarter we played we won scoring the highest in four ten minute quarters.  Some of the girls in the team have never played before but they were pretty good.  After that hard-working performance we won 32-16.  As the week went past we had to play another game, a mixed team from St Andrews Middle School.  But this time there was only four of us starting off against their five.  We had no subs and only four players! As we started the game Fauiki turned up.  Yay, we had five players.  Then in the second half Kaea showed up, Yes! We had a sub!.  Goal after goal.  We scored quite a lot.  Everyone was so tired, so was I.  5... 4... 3... I only had five seconds to shoot the ball... 2... 1... the ball was in the air... 1 (still travelling)... BUZZ! Goal! The final score was 71-28, we are still undefeated."
Sita Latu, Room 18.

On Wednesday 23rd of February 2011 11 students from Melville Intermediate School played Cricket against Maeroa Intermediate.  Maeroa choose to bat first and they scored 68 off 20 overs.  We got two wickets.  Our batting was great! We got 71 runs off 11 overs with only one wicket.  In the end the score was 71 for 1 off 11 and 68 for 2 off 20.  In the end it was a great game and we won.  The people who scored the runs for Melville Intermediate were Jovi and I (Luke).  You can see footage of the winning runs being score in this video.  Filmed by Kieran, presented by Gareth on Thursday 24th February.

Cricket Vs. Maeroa Intermediate from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Skyping wtih Appleby School

Yesterday we started our Maori Language program by using Skype to make contact with Appleby School in Nelson. They are learning about Maori Language and we had a group of students talk with them and Skype with them to help them with their pronunciation. The students really enjoyed the interaction in a creative way.

We'd like to thank Allanhk and her classroom of students at Appleby School for making us available for our first Skype contact of 2011.

We made a short video of our Skype call which you can watch by clicking on the link here. You can also make sure that you check out Appleby Schools wonderful classroom page by clicking on the link here.

Skyping with Appleby School 2011 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Woodwork Technology

Robert from 8MW created this tour of the Woodwork room so you can see what the students of Melville Intermediate who are in the Woodwork Technology are currently involved in. Filmed by Kieran on 18th February 2011.

Robert Tours Woodwork Room from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Sams Improvements Slideshow

Melville Intermediate - Technology 2011

On Fridays the students of Room Eight have Technology where they are taught in specialist classrooms in one of five subject areas. Currently we've got lessons in Music, Food Technology, Woodwork, Textile Arts and Environmental Studies. This video was created by students in the Food Technology Room, Mrs Browns famous Room, on Friday 18th February 2011. It is presented by Ben and filmed by Cullen.

Untitled from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - Mihi Example

This is Mackenzie's Mihi Example for 2011.

Mackenzie's Mihi from myles webb on Vimeo.