Life education

Our class has been lucky enough to take part in the Life Education Trust program. We have been learning about climbing the ladder from childhood to adulthood. We have also been learning about differnt drugs and how they affect your brain.

We learned that you should delay your decision to try drugs. We also learned about the web of addiction. It tells you about people that got hooked on drugs at age 13-15 ( High School). People sometimes get peer pressured into doing drugs and alcohol.

Melville vs Maeroa Inline Hockey

Inline Hockey Melville vs Maeroa from Luke Willis on Vimeo.

Melville vs Fairfield Inline Hockey

Yesterday I was part of the Inter Intermediate team that went to the Inline Hockey competition.  Our first game was against Fairfield Intermediate. It was a hard game even though it was our first game we did pretty good. I had never played inline hockey before so had to get use to skating and playing all at the same time.  Everyone was falling over during the first half but we slowly got use to it.  It was a lot of fun and the video is below.



Inline Hockey Melville vs Fairfield from Luke Willis on Vimeo.

Inter-Intermediate Hockey

Tomorrow, 2nd July is the Inter-Intermediate Inline Hockey competition at Dey Street. There are two students from Room 6 who will be competing. Good luck to everyone involved and we look forward to the pictures and video that will follow.

Draw for Waikato Intermediate In-Line Hockey Tournament

	HOME TEAM                      AWAY TEAM
	Rink will be open from 8am
9:00am	Melville v Fairfield
9:20am	Maeroa v Berkley
9:40am	Melville v Peachgrove
10:00am	Morrinsville v Fairfield
10:20am	Maeroa v Melville
10:40am	Berkley v Peachgrove
11:00am	Fairfield v Maeroa
11:20am	Berkley v Morrinsville
11:40am	Peachgrove v Fairfield
12:00pm	Morrinsville v Maeroa
12:20pm	Melville v Berkley
12:40pm	Peachgrove v Morrinsville
1:00pm	Berkley v Fairfield
1:20pm	Maeroa v Peachgrove
1:40pm	Melville v Morrinsville
2:10pm	Final- 1st  v 2nd
	Prize Giving Clean Up Depart by 2:45pm

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

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.

Asb financial literacy

Today we had a visitor from ASB bank. He came to talk with us about saving money. 

He said we should all have CAT goals. 

A CAT goal is

Clear

Action

Time

We need to know clearly what we are saving for. We need to put into action a savings plan. We need to know how long it will take to save. 

Your Skin

A couple of weeks ago we read a class blog from Australia that spoke about bullying. The class asked the question, If every word you said appeared on your skin, would you be more careful with what you said?

We were challenged to think off all the things we would want to say to our friends and about ourselves and that we would be proud to have on our skin.

This is what we came up with

Room 6 Skin on PhotoPeach

   

Arbor Day

17 children went to Arbor Day from Melville Intermediate with three adults to help.

We left at 9:15am to go to Arbor Day.

We all were excited when we got to Waiwhakareke Natural Heritage Park. Their were lots of kids and adults, thats all we could see.

We had got told that we could get off the bus.'Ohh man it was cold outside', it felt like we were turning itto an ice-block.

It was a long walk by the time we got to the place were everyone was. 20 minutes came by and every-one was waiting paciently while there was a lady showing us how to plant the trees as well as she was planting the first tree of the day (kauri tree).

It was time to get started planting. Bria was the first person out of Melville Intermedaite to plant the first tree, it was a very large baby tree. The time went so fast it was lunch time, every-one was heading up to the saugage sizzle. We all asked Miss De Ward if we could go up to get a saugage sizzle. "YES" of course. Miss De Ward walked into the tent to get a box and a bag full of Just Juice.

There was 1 hour left to plant the rest of the trees by the time we were getting on the bus to head back to school. We started to head over to the otherside of the farm to plant the plants that had not been planted.

Melville Intermediate Students planted 100 odd plants in the last hour. All the girls from Melville Intermediate were colecting the black conaners from the plants and putting them on the long black snake that the little kids made.

It was time to go back on the bus to go back to school. We all had a fantasic day, thanks to the perents.

Excitment during the Planting



 



How to Plant a Plant:



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As we went to the beautiful lake the THE BIRDS SWOOPED DOWN AND landed on me, I took out some of my bread and fed them. They looked very happy after I fed them. It looked like they were hungry before that is why they swooped down and landed on me, I kept feeding them until they flew away, then I went to the other birds and feed them. After a while my Mum called me and asked me if I wanted to walk. “Yes” I replied. Once we were half way my Mum stopped because she was really tired.                                           

Inter - Intermediate Football

Soccer Tournament

Melville Intermediate boys football team was lead on to the field by Te Auripo Manguatu, and James Nove, on the 30th of May 2013.

Melville played a great first game, but having to play straight away had them a bit shaky out of the starting gates, losing to Fairfeild 1-0.

The boys lost there second game 2-0 against T.A, which had the boys spirits at an all time low, knowing that they win their last two games made them start thinking what do they have to do to win?

SMASH! a surperb strike by oue captain Te Auripo left us 1-0 at the half of game 3. The second half started and a great break away from Tane left the defence scrambleing back to goal as Tane crossed the ball into Brooklyn for our seconded goal, the finaly score 2-0 to Melville.

The forth game our last chance of getting into the semi's, but we had to go against the hardest team there... Cambrigde. As always the Cambrigde boys back up their words as they said they'll smash us, a whooping 3-0 lost for Melville canceling any hopes of makeing it into the semi's.

Melville had one more game, 7th - 8th play off. At half time the score was nill all, and it was the same in the second half, but right in the dieing seconds of the game Tane scored a great goal for a 1-0 win to Melville.

Overall Place: 7th

Term 1 Tramp to Tirohanga

Last term room 6 went on a tramp to Tirohanga. It was decided that we would go on thursday but due to the weather it was changed to friday.On friday still raining but only lightly, the buss pulled up everyone lined up the entered the bus, apart from the late kids, the excitment has begun.


"Finally were here" apart for the occasional stop it was a nice trip.We all get out of the bus and get set for the long tramp. Mr Willis quickly calls the roll then we get started. Its started, the sound of birds singing and water trickling fills your ear.



When we got deeper and deeper the views got better and better,we stopped for a lunch then continued. We struggled a little on the chained section but only  a few. Once we got to Ruapane we stopped again to eat and enjoy the view.When we were done eating we went off again. Mostly running through the bush we finally got to Tirohanga, the last climb was awaiting us. Mr Willis goes up first to make sure it is safe,then we followed hin group by group,then we all got to the top. It was an amazing experience you could see what it took us to get here.

Watch the clip below to see some photos ftom our experience.

Girls Basketball - Koromatua vs Melville

Every Tuesday night the Melville Intermediate girls basketball team play's against other team and school's. On Tuesday night the 28th of May 2013  the Melville Intermediate girls basketball team play against Koromatua at 5:30pm. Playing Koromatua was a hard game at the start Koromatua was a head of us only by a few points, but we got through it and won.

The score's were 48-42, Nichola got  14 points, Lonita got 10, Davy got 6, Anathalia got 16, and last but not least I got 2. At half time the scores were 22-16 in the 3rd quarter the scores were a draw 32-32 then finally on  the  last few  minutes the scores were 48-42.

Last term the girls basketball team was in the C grade and now since we have won all of our games we are in the B grade.  There were injuries, Nichola had broken her finger, Anathalia sprained her fingers. Some players of Koromatua were tall and some were short, lots of us could defend them easily but they were tricky and fast.

The team felt good when we won but at the start I was a bit nervous then when Anathalia jumped for the ball I got in to it. !!! Hooray for the team!!!

Lesieli