SPEECHES 2010

Speeches, the word makes some people cringe and hide away whilst others thrive at the opportunity to speak amongst their peers. This term they are here, with some very interesting topics:

1. Is our climate really changing? Where's the evidence - how do we know?

2. "Show me don't tell me." Talk about air pollution and how to reduce it where you live.

3. One mans trash is another mans treasure - persuade us to recycle.

4. "Make today, better than yesterday, and tomorrow better than today." What are you doing for sustainability?

5. Science is simple common sense at its best.~ Thomas Huxley. In the name of science it is common sense to kill whales

PrEP 2010

We had an exciting PrEP Market Day! Room 1 students worked extremely hard to create interesting, high quality products to sell. It took 5 weeks to plan, produce and sell our goods to our community. Here are some signs created to advertise Room 1's business ventures:


We are confident that our class produced the best products overall, with teddy bears made out of recycled clothing, classy wooden coasters, pinatas with lollies inside them, a dart throwing competition with beautiful origami balls with lollies inside as prizes, poi for sale, and delicious home made baking!

MAGGI KITCHEN SHOWDOWN

On the 5th of August, four students travelled to Auckland to compete in the Maggi Kitchen Showdown. Room 1's Ashleigh Taiapa thoroughly enjoyed the experience! Here are some snapshots of their day...

Architecture Study

Wow, what a busy term!! Here are some examples of the work students have been doing in class.


Students learned about famous structures around the world, why are they famous and what do they think is magnificent about their chosen building/structure. They then created some 3D pop out art to accompany their information. It looks absolutely stunning!

FINLAY PARK Statistics

As part of our Statistics Unit this term, students did a statistical investigation on Year 8 Camp at Finlay Park.


They were told to think outside the "favourite activity" question and students chose more meaningful topics such as "how did you get up the hill?". Yes, it sounds rather random, but doing a 1.5km run up and down a hill 3 days in a row at 7am in the morning leaves an impression on our students.

KIDSLINE POSTER COMPETITION

Below is a link to the kidsline website to give you some ideas on what to put on your poster and so you can have at look at some of the cool PRIZES!

Click here for details on the kidsline poster competition

Here are some examples of past entries into the competition:

MAGGI KITCHEN SHOWDOWN

Congratulations to Ashleigh who made the group of Melville Intermediate representatives for the Maggi Kitchen Showdown. The TV crew came in and filmed our students, very exciting stuff!! Below is a link to the website, remember they only get to go to the nationals if we VOTE online so we need all your support!

VOTE for Melville Intermediate

See the some behind the scenes footage

WELCOME BACK - TERM 2

This term we have a lot of exciting things happening!

The Year 8 topic focus is on Architecture and Rm1 will be researching famous buildings around the world and even designing and creating a building of their own! But the big thing I'm looking forward to is CAMP!

So keep an eye on this blog for any information about what our students are doing this term

Values Poems

Here is another poem written by one of our students, I am extremely proud of the thinking our students are doing and the fantastic work they produce:

Pride
Pride wanders around looking for someone to help, leading people to success through encouragement. Pride supports anyone he sees, telling students daily to never give up and keep moving forward. Pride will always stand tall no matter what ever is in front of his path. Pride wears tidy clothes, that represents who he is and what he does. Pride well never let anyone down.

by Hendrix KP

VALUES POEMS

Imagine... Respect is actually a person.

• What does he look like?
  
• What kind of clothes does he wear? Are they clean and tidy? Or are they scruffy and covered in mud?
• What kind of person is he? Is he friendly or mean? Does he help others or does he push them around?
• What does he enjoy doing?

Students in Room 1 were given the task of describing what kind of person EXCELLENCE, PRIDE, RESPONSIBILITY, RESPECT, or INTEGRITY would be. They needed to use their knowledge of these values to decide how they would describe their person. Here are some examples of what our students came up with.

Excellence
Excellence is uses her happiness to her advantage. The quality of her style is perfect and spotless. She is a caring citizen, loyal to each person she meets. She takes responsibility for her learning and is part of the solution with problems at school. Her smile shows everyone her bubbly personality. She always climbs the mountain and reaches the top.

by Sasha

Respect
Respect walks around looking out for others in need of help, no matter where or when they are in need. She is not a selfish person that only cares about her self, she likes to encourage people. Respect looks up to people as well as being looked up to. She values others peoples opinions and ideas. She tries very hard to look sharp with clean appropriate clothes. She has long brown hair with hazel green eyes that twinkle as bright as the stars.

by Jayda