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 “Look up! Can you see it?” Lana tugged at Emily’s shoulder. The feathery beasts flying from tree to tree as they sang their musical songs. Even the fantails and tui’s flew down to the ground sometimes. The sunshine breaking in-between the tree tops as a little patch of sunlight peering down on mother earth. Lana skipped along the damp swamp sinking in as the shape of her new sneakers. Funguses grew on old broken wood which fascinated Emily since it was her project for school. Step by step, silence awakened. Where were the feathery beasts? Where were their musical songs? 

Shared Morning Tea

On Wednesday the 11th of March 2014 at Melville Intermediate School, Room 6 prepared a morning tea for our parents.

There were 6 groups in the food technology class.
We had 1 hour to make 3 things. My group made Jam Tarts, club sandwiches and cheesy snacks. The first thing we did was wash our hands to keep hygienic. After making the food we CAREFULLY took the food to our class and at first sight it felt and looked like a Royal Morning Tea as the food kept coming in through the door the smell was delightfully peaceful. people were not talking at all until about half way thought everyone was all of a sudden people started talking and students started showing of there work and parents started laughing and talking with Mr Willis. whaea Chelsea came with there 1 month baby named Emily after all the adults had eaten as kids took our turn at the master piece cooking. after everyone had eaten the parents started leaving and we all started washing the dishes and returning the class back to its natural position then getting our lunch and getting back to a normal day.          

Makuhari Powhiri

Yesterday Melville Intermediate welcomed our guests from Makuhari Junior High. We gave them a traditional Maori welcome, a Powhiri. It was their first time experiencing this and we have put together some of the highlights.



Powhiri Highlights from Luke Willis on Vimeo.

Ripper Rugby Slideshow

Ripper Rugby 2014 from Luke Willis on Vimeo.

Our Garden

On week 4 we started to develop our garden in the Biotech area. The garden was full of weeds and a dusty brown coloured soil, When you touched the dirt plumes of dust exploded into the air. Broden added some    rich and golden compost into the garden. He hat to dig deep to find all the good soil. we spread at dug it in. 

 Mr Willis brought a range of  new plants 

for the new garden  and we planted them into its new home.

Keep an eye on our blog as our plants grow   

rippa rugby tournament

Just as March started Melville's rippa team got together and begun practising.  For a week and a half we did drills during our lunch time getting ready for our tournament that was on Thursday the 6th of March.

It was the day. The day that we had to play our best. Our first game was against St Joseph's Red. We lost that game because we were practising the wrong rules but it was only our first game so we all held our head up high and hoped for the best for the rest of the games.

Our next game was against Gordenton B. Finally we won our first game. We all worked well together as a team even the boys shared the ball to the girls a lot in the game. A lot of us got a try. Me, Luke, Chilo, Jackson and Drasan all got a run away try.

The next games were against Gordenton A, Te Kowhai B, Te Kowhai A and St Joseph's Black and guess what, we won those games as-well. Because of that we made it to the finals where we versed St Joseps Red again. We all were tired but we sucked it up. Sadly we lost the finals but we still made it to Regional's.

Here comes some more practise's for our runners up rippa team bring on regional's.

Claymation

The last two weeks during modules we have be creating claymation. We had to start by looking at different examples and finding what worked well. It was best to keep the characters simple and the stories short.

I created a storyboard so that I knew what my characters were going to do. I then painted the background and created my two characters. I then worked hard taking lots of photos so that it looked like my cat was moving.

This is my video I hope you enjoy it.