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Melville Intermediate - Cultural Diversity

This term our subject is cultural diversity.  We're looking at cultures around the world that we have a connection with to Room Five at Melville Intermediate School.  Each of our students are preparing interview questions for people from a different culture.  One of the students from our class who is doing this is Jamie, who is looking at Scottish/Celtic culture.

As our students are working on this procedure we've spent the last two weeks creating a set of interview questions. and then begun a process of conferencing, refining and thinking about our questions.  Our next task is to use a program to create audio files of our questions, and start conducting interview in person, using audio files and using Skype.

This is Jamie's introduction and a set of quesitons that she is looking to have answered.

Hi my name is Jamie. I go to Melville Intermediate. I am studying Celtic Culture. I have some questions that I would like someone who is Celtic to answer:

• What are the main celebrations in your country?
• What is the story behind your flag?
• Where did the Bagpipes come from?
• Do you eat animals?
• Do you speak English or Gaelic?
• What is your national animal?
• What are your two most famous foods?
• Do you have any traditional dances?
• Do you have a national plant?

 You can see examples of some of Jamie's work here.

Melville Intermediate - Incredibox and Room 8 at WIS

We're always looking for new and interesting sites related to learning and information.  Yesterday  Mr Webb discovered Room 8 and WIS.   They're an Intermediate located just outside of Nelson.  You can visit their wonderful classroom page here.  One of the programs that they've recently featured is Incredibox. 

We had a 'play' with that in class today and the students loved creating the music with the program.  It had the students captivated.  We had no problems starting and the slogan for the site is 'drag... drop and create' and that sums up the creation process perfectly.  Within no time the students were creating thier own compositions and have a fantastic experience.   You can click on the Incredibox site by clicking here.

Melville Intermediate - Revoultion Dance Crew Show May 10th

On the 10th of May 2013 Melville Intermediate were very lucky to have a performance from the Revoultion Dance Crew.  Our students loved the show which included a variety of singing, dancing and performance with a strong anti-bullying message.   These are some of the highlights from the show filmed by Kayla and Nichola and edited b Levi and Josh from Room Five.
Revolution Songs from Assembly 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.
Currently at the moment for literacy were looking at interviews and also speaking and presenting.  At the conclusion of the show Nichola spoke to some of the members of the group who had just performed.  We weren't sure that they would agree to be interview and it was an opportunity that just presented itself, having said that Nichola did a fantastic job.   Both these videos were filmed on Friday 10th of May and edited this week.
Nichola Interviews Revoultion from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - visits Maeroa Intermediate Room Nine

Maeroa Intermediate Room Nine is a class page that has been started by the students and the teachers just this year.  It's got a variety of material online and Maeroa Intermediate is a similar school to Melville Intermediatte in Hamilton.

Students of Room Five your task is to visit the Maeroa Intermediate Room Nine class page.  You need to select one piece of work or material that has been posted online and leave a comment about it.  Remember the success criteria that we have set for your commenting on other students work.  Ensure that you leave our URL in return.

This is a video of our Girls Rugby team playing Maeroa Intermediate in the Inter Intermediate Girls Rugby Competition last year at Memorial Park, Cambridge.  Maeroa are in the blue and red and Melville Intermediate are in the green with red trim.

This is what was written about last years game

This is the second to last video from our 2012 Girls Rugby Tournament.  It's highlights from our fourth pool game, against Maeroa Intermediate.  Melville were on a roll at this point having won three games in a row, one more would equal the total number of wins from last year.  Standing in Melville's way was a very dangerous Maeroa Intermediate School, who scored an extremely good try early into the match and managed to convert it to take an early lead.   Melville however by this point we really gelling well as a team including showing some strong defence, wait until you see Veronica's ankle tap just after the Maeroa try! Filmed by Veronica from Room Five at Memorial Park, Cambridge on Tuesday 8th May 2012.




We also have played Maeroa Intermediate in a variety of this year (Touch) and last year (Touch, Rugby, Netball, Basketball, Volleyball to name but a few!) Our 2012 Girls team had to play Maeroa Intermediate at Basketball and this is the highlights from a game that took place on Tuesday 7th March 2012 with Melville winning 49-5, for this game Melville are in the Green/Red and Maeroa are in the blue.

Melville Intermediate Vs. Peachgrove Intermediate

On Tuesday 14th May Melville Intermediate Girls Basketball team went to play at the YMCA in the Hamilton Tuesday night competition.  The team was scheduled to play against a Peachgrove Intermediate Girls team but discovered that we were playing their Boys 'B' team instead.  A close first quarter saw the score 8-8, Peachgrove took a lead into half time of four points, before the third quarter ended up tied again, this time at 22 all.  In the final quarter Melville Intermediate pulled away able to defeat Peachgrove Intermediate 30-24.  We had a couple of players sick, Leseili had a hurt hand so she could only play one handed! These highlights were filmed by Hayley Jade.  Melville Intermediate are in thier red and green top while Peachgrove are wearing the Maroon with gold
edging.

Baksetball Vs. Peachgrove 15th May 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Just this week Melville Intermediate has confimed that they are again entering the NZAIMS tournament.   Melville have entered this in Girls Basketball for the past four years.  It is the biggest Intermediate sports tournament in New Zealand - last year there were 160 schools present, including nearly 20 in Girls Basketball.  There were also schools from Australia attending.   Melville Intermediate has made the semi-finals each of the past four years and finished with medals on three of the four occassions, including winning in 2009.  

Melville Intermediate - Food Technology 14th May

On Tuesday Josh and I made some scones and our teacher Mr Webb brought the film camera so we can film the Video and here it is..... [Chloe].

This is a video created by Room Five students during Food Technology with Mrs Brown in the Food Tech.  Melville Intermediate students have Food Technology once a week from 11:30am to 12:50pm working with a specialist teacher on a specialised program.
Food Tech Scones May 14th 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Melville Intermediate - School Entrance Way for Cook Islands

Thanks to our Feedjit link we've been watching our traffic in the classroom regularly so we sometimes see visitors looking at particular posts or information.  We usually have it running our data projector/interactive whiteboard.  It means that we know what is popular and sometimes means that we can help our audience.  Overnight and this morning we saw that we were having visitors from the Cook Islands looking at the Melville Intermediate School entrance.  The main entrance to our school is very special and was designed by Matua Peter and Matua Gene.  We looked at the original post from when it was made and saw that the photo's are no longer available online.  We have students that are re-taking those photos now and we will post them shortly.  Hope that helps.
 Melville Intermediate entrance on PhotoPeach

Point England School: better than the News.

Last week there was quite a bit in the news about the visit of Will.I.Am from the Black Eyed Peas to New Zealand. While he was officially appearing here as part of clothing company promotion, he also visited Point England School and the Manaiakalani cluster in Auckland and made a donation of $100,000 to the cluster!  The students from our class were wishing that they lived in Auckland for this experience.   This video is from Point England School of the event and was embedded from their site.




Firstly we heard about it originally through our friends from Room Thirteen at Point England School. They've been one of our longest buddy blog sites and the students have always got wonderful work that is posted. We have their page on our side bar, so when the visit happened at thier school we heard about it quickly. From there we were able to look at other reports and see this wonderful video. Over the following days some of the students from Point England School wrote about their expereinces. You can see Darius recount here. Josephine is another student from PES, she's been featured during the holidays on this blog because she was posting so regularly and also because she was out posting our entire class earlier this year you can read her thoughts on the event by clicking here.



The other great thing apart from hearing and seeing this event so quick is that the students present have blogged about it in detail, much more so than we were able to see on the news later that evening.  There would have been students from our school who would have known more about the event than before it aired on the news later that evening. 

Melville Intermediate - New Lunch Orders/Canteen Menu

New Canteen Menu 2013 - slideshows

Melville Intermediate - Revoultion Tour

Today at Melville Intermediate School we had the Revoultion Tour come to school for a special performace in our school Hall. The show featured a special message, dancing, singing and some involvement from special guests.
Revoultion Dance Show @ MIS - Special Guest from myles webb on Vimeo. To day the Revolution crew performed at Melivlle Intermediate they were singing and doing a drama about bullying and they were teaching us about bullying. These words were written about the show by Reitu and Jackie from Room Five They were pretending that they were in a music class at thier school and they didnt like there teacher,they were very entertaining the student teacher from room 6 went up on stage and he had to do the harlem shake and we all had to join in and everyone was going crazy!! because that told us to. and all of Melivlle Intermediate was laughing for a longtime because Big Ryan kept pushing over Junior and because M.j kept on back chatting thier music teacher.

Melville Intermediate - Technology Term 2 2013

On the 7th of May 2013 in the Woodwork technolgy we were making boxes that can hold your valuables. We were nailing the tops and bottoms on and sanding them to give them a good finish. We are working on them for the next few weeks. We will be posting photos of them when they are completed.

Technology Term 2 2013 - slideshows

Melville Intermediate - Food Technology 7th May 2013

Today as part of our regular weekly program the students of Room Five had Technology. As part of our rotation of Drama, Art, Music, Food Technology and Hard Materials Josh and Chloe filmed their efforts during Food Technology with Mrs Brown.

Food Technology May 7th 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.

We were doing food tech today and we were expecting worksheets but Mrs Brown said that we were making stewed fruit. Chloe and I paired up and I recorded us making it. It was Really fun and it tasted great!

Melville Intermediate - Girls Rugby 2013

Tomorrow is the first day of School for Term Two, 2013.  One of the event that is taking place this term is the Waikato Intermediate Schools Inter-Intermediate Girls Rugby Competition.  Tomorrow in Room Five, we are having our first muster, however the tournament is next week in Cambridge.

To remind the players of whats required its time to look back at the highlights from last year... Melville Intermediate Girls had an amazing tournament losing only to once to Peachgrove Intermediate, which included wins against Morrinsville, Te Awamutu, Maeroa, Fairfield and Tokoroa Intermediate.  A narrow loss in the final saw Melville second best result of the year.  This video, shot by Kayla from Room Five, is the highlights of the tournament, Melville Intermediates Schools best tries of the 2012 season.

Melville Intermediate - Inside the School Canteen

This term, which starts tomorrow, we're putting together our Canteen/Tuck Shop material that we collated last term from around New Zealand and the world.  The aim of the student councillors who were working on it was to improve the options of students at Melville Intermediate School.  For our inspiration we used the classrooms that we are linked with, and Mr Webb used our PLN.  What we discovered was that not everyone knew what a 'Canteen' was - in the USA its a water bottle!  However we also filmed our own Tuck Shop/Canteen, which is available for our students to buy items for their lunch... and we sent Elizabeth, Jamie and Kristal to film inside.  Filmed at Melville Intermediate School at the end of term one.  Term two starts tomorrow.
Tuck Shop Serving Video 2013 from myles webb on Vimeo.