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.

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Melville Intermediate - Mould Experiment

Today Keegan and Leigh started their mould experiments. We are researching the growth of mould on food. To that end we prepared sandwiches in the classroom. The following report is written by Keegan about the experiment.

Today on February 26th Me and Leigh, Scott, Rachana, Raukawa, Kalib G, Arahia and Dylan made sandwiches. Leigh and Keegan took the photo's. The ingredients that we used are jam, marmite, peanut butter, margarine and tomato sauce.

We have made predictions about what will happen, what will go mouldy first. We are leaving them in a special place for the rest of the year or until we can't stand the smell anymore. We will keep everyone as the mould develops with regular updates on this blog.

Melville Intermediate - Web Check.

The following listed blog is by Piers. Piers is an eight year old New Zealand student who has just started blogging. He's just put on an impressive post about adjectives. It's impressive work from someone whose just starting out in the ICT world. We will be running through this slideshare tomorrow in class, viewing it, carrying out an activity and then giving Piers some feedback.

If you'd like to visit his wonderful site (it would be great for our friends from overseas and I just know he'd be blown away by comments) then click here.

Melville Intermediate - Meet the Teacher Night

This evening we had our 2009 Meet the Teacher Night at Melville Intermediate. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet many of the parents of students of Room 8. We also carried out a little photographic activity the results of which will go online tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who came in and saw the classroom, played with the plasma ball or the water glitter ball, had their photograph taken or brought their dog!

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Melville Intermediate - International Blogging Challenge

One of the exciting events that is coming up soon (next week I believe) for our students is the international blogging challenge. There's a link to it here.

You can read all about it through the site but there are hundreds of students taking part and its going to really be a positive for the students of Room 8!

It will mean a lot of work but our students will be thrilled to be involved!

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 - Worm Farm Photostory

This is a PhotoStory about the Melville Intermediate Worm Farm. It was created by Caitlyn assisted by Leigh. The photographs were taken by the group of students working on the Worm Farm Presentation, part of our online work, when the Worm's were shifted to their new bath's at the start of the year.

Melville Intermediate - CPA Group

CPA stands for Cultral Performance Arts. CPA is a dance like when I started CPA I had to do four Island dances, they were Cook Island, Samoa, Maori and another Island dance. I joined CPA because I wanted to know more about other cultures.

CPA is only for people that are really sure that they could think about dancing and always come to practice every Mondays and Thursday afterschool but sometimes Fridays as well.

In CPA if you have stuff thats important you can only have three excuses only if you have important stuff to do as to why you can't attend the practise. We have practices during the holiays as well.

CPA is a dance competition between other schools. It is a cultral dance. It is a dance to represent cultures from other countries around the world. There is a school trip later in the year to Australia to Sydney for competition.

Vitolina, Room 8, Melville Intermediate.

Melville Intermediate - Worm Farm Slideshow

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Melville Intermediate - Worm Farm

Arahia, Caitlyn, Rachana and Janice went to see the Worm Farm at Melville Intermediate School. The worms that we have like to eat paper and fruit skins but not orange skins because they have cirtrus in the skin. The worms live in big bath tubs in the Biology Gardens. The worms have to be moved from tub to tub depending on their size. The worms have to fed everyday.

In the worm farms there are earth worms and tiger worms, We had to move the worms and this allowed us to get better pictures and see the worms. We found some information on the worms by looking on the internet. Tiger worms can live to between 4 and a 1/2 and five years. At our school are fed apples, carrots, bread, paper, banana's, vegetables, tea bags and coffee grounds. We learnt that tiger worms cannot compost egg shells.

At our school each classroom has a worm bucket and after lunch the monitors come around to each class to collect the worm food then take it away and feed the worms.

Melville Intermediate - 500 Milestone

Students will be thrilled on Monday that this site has reached 500 visitors, in the three weeks that it has been running. We have a number of special events taking place at school this week.

On Tuesday we have the Inter-Inter School Sports Competition. This is the 11 Waikato Intermediate's competing with Melville Intermediate having a squad of 120 students. Also on Tuesday our Touch teams have their second games of the year in the after school competition. Our Boys Team takes on Morrinsville Intermediate in a rematch of last weeks second game.

Wednesday night we have our 2009 Meet the Teacher Evening. Those parents who are attending will meet first in the hall at 7pm before moving to the classrooms. Next week all of our online projects that students have been working on over the last week will be filmed and then published online.

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.


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Melville Intermediate - Help An Australian

Mr Lamshed's class are in need of help New Zealand. As part of his work in his classroom this term (studying New Zealand and Maori) he has student's studying the Treaty of Waitangi and they've put a request for help with research, information and ideas! Just click on the link and leave them a comment on their wonderful blog.

Make sure you take the time and follow the link to their blog as its an opportunity for students to help another school across the Tasman Sea!

We're also preparing some additional work on this topic, as its been our topic for the start of the term as well!

Melville Intermediate - Video Examples to Consider

As we're about to move 'full steam' into video productions there are a view videos that I would like you to consider when thinking about your filming.

Most are from an Auckland site called 'Tamaki Today' that was from Tamaki Intermediate in Auckland that ran in 2008.

Have a look at the footage and then we will brainstorm in class about the positivies/negatives of each.
'Girls Rugby Tackles' is a video showing the School teams playing Rugby. We could consider this for sports related tasks. What do we like/don't like about this video? How could it be improved?

'Learn to Speak Samoan 2' two students teach you some Samoan words that you could use. Again things to consider are - what do we like/what do we think that the students could have changed in the video? 'Learn to Speak Tongan 1' Is similar to the last video but involves one student instead of two. Which do you prefer? Why? In 'Virtual School Tour' watch what the presenter is doing carefully... how is she talking, what else is she doing well? What areas of our school could we do the same sort of thing in? What would we need to show? In 'Camp Video' one of the student gives you a tour of the schools Camp from 2008. What does he do well? Is there anything that you would have differently if you had been the person presenting the video?

Finally for your final challenge you are to locate the schools "Learn to Sasa Video" a Sasa is a Samoan Slap Dance. How can you find the schools video? Was it easy to find? Watch the video... what information did you learn as a student? What would you have done differently?