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Room 5 @ Melville Intermediate School: Melville Intermediate - Melvilles Got Talent Audit...

Room 5 @ Melville Intermediate School: Melville Intermediate - Melvilles Got Talent Audit...: On the last Wednesday of Term Two we're having our bi-annual Melville Intermediate School Talent Show, 'Melvilles Got Talent'.  ...

Stage Challenge Recount

Last Tuesday I competed with some of the girls and boys that came mostly from Melville high school and some from Melville intermediate. We competed against 13 other schools around Hamilton. We had trained for 8 weeks but it was worth it anyway because we got to see their practices in the morning when we got there.

Around 5:30 all the schools were practicing one school at time on stage, they got to practice  3 times until 1 of the members that were in charge came out and he said “ it’s time to get this party started so clap those hands and party like you never did before”. So we danced around for 4 songs and then another member came on stage and she said “don’t waste your energy yet cause there are more things that I got to say. Like there is a finding hunt, dancing competitions, stack the elephants on top of each other, stack a pyramid of elephants and do the hula in a hula-hoop”.

When the time was around 6:00 pm it was time for all the leaders to run onto a white star that had a number at the back of the other side. When our leader picked up her star, she got the last number 13. The first member came out again and he said “leaders do you want to know why you got that number?”. We said  “that is the number you are in so if your number 1 your first on stage and perform in front of thousands of people and if you have the number 13 you are last".  So Melville was performing last on stage which was a good thing cause we had heaps of time to get a rest, we could also go and watch them practice over and over and they were pretty cool.

   

When it was around 6:30, all the parents were coming to watch the performance so all the schools had to leave the stage and go to their group and get ready to perform on stage at 7:00. Melville didn’t need to worry cause we were last.  We all started to prepare except me because I had a fast blood rush coming out of my nose because I had stage fright. Mary who was in the war group took me to Saint Johns that was only around the corner. When we got to Saint Johns, they gave me some medication to take whenever I get stage fright. If my nose starts to bleed even faster I had to take my medication before I went on stage.

Now it was our turn to go on stage. As we were going everybody said that they will give their best and have a great time. We did and we never made a mistake. When we were finished all of the schools had to leave again so the judges could make their decisions to see what school gets the golden CD. All the schools came out and sat on the seats in front of the stage. We sat in front of all the schools. When they pronounced all their certificates, we had got 13 out of 14 certificates( because backstage made one little mistake). When the last lady came up with the golden CD inside a frame she was about to announce the winning school. We saw her mouth form into a M and we knew it was us and we were right and we won. Melville was yelling and screaming and happy crying saying that we won.

When it was finished 6 different schools came up to us and did the Haka and all the boys and girls from our group joined and did the Haka in front of nick our sound boy and Cian our leader and MS Christen plus MS Bleaken and our helpers. When everything was picked up and the rubbish was in the bin I got dropped off from a lady named Mareta who was Marcae’s mum which he was in the war group aswell. As I got home around 12:00, I crashed right on the couch.

Stage Challenge Results

The official results are in. Melville High 1st Place in the Open Divisions.
Also winning: Excellence in Performance Skills, Choreography, Excellence for Stage Use, Excellence for Concept, Excellence for Drama,  Excellence for Soundtrack, Excellence for Set, Design and Function, Excellence for Costuming Character, Excellence for Visual Enhancement, Excellence for Lighting Design, and the Spirit of Stage Challenge® Award.

Not a bad hall for the night. Congratulations to all the students involved.

Paki is away today recovering from all the excitement. When she returns to school she will write a recount for the night.

Stage Challenge

 Yesterday morning, Monday 24th, at about 10a.m Rooms 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7 from Melville intermediate went up to the high school to watch the stage challenge performance. When we were lining up it was freezing, it was like 1 degree.






The dance was about Rangi, the sky father and Papatuanuku, the land mother. It was based on their love and how they got split apart.

The high school and our school were combined together in the performance.  The students have been working hard on designing the performance since Term 1. They had to come up with the ideas, dance, music and costumes.

Their costumes were really cool I had never seen anything like it before.
The dances were amazing to watch they told us most of the story without even talking to us.

The props were creative and they almost looked like real ones.
Most of our class liked it. It was probably a new experience for most of us year 7s.

The music matched the dances in every way and they really looked like they were enjoying performing for us.

Over all it was a great performance and it was awesome to watch.

100 WC

It was a very hot summer day. We were swimming at the water-hole. I was about to jump off the top rock. I took a deep breath and… jump. It felt like I was flying. I hit the water it was black and I couldn’t see. Then I saw something white swimming towards me. I swam away as fast as I could. I got to the rocks and yelled up to Jaykib “I think there’s a polar bear in the water”.                                                                                                    There isn’t a polar bear in there it’s just an expensive looking towel” Jaykib said.                                                                                          “Oh” I said. Then I leaped off the rocks                                                                                   

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On a normal day there was a flying polar bear going over a sky scarper, once it hit the sun every-thing went pitch black, people screaming, shouting and most people bumping into posts, other people and things they shouldn’t touch.

On the second day tornados and heaps of wind, people trying to going.

The light was so expensive so people had to service in the dark without light most time people sleep all day.

On the third day lightning started and thunder, my neighbor she went outside and she had to fight for her life.

This is what happened and it is called black summer.