Physical Education

Sports Shorts 

A blessed Christmas! We did it BPS!

Congratulations on making it to the end of a big year and term BPS!!

In finishing the year I'd like to say a BIG thank you to every BPS volunteer who has given their time in the many sporting events throughout the year from House Cross Country, BPS representative events including swimming, cross country, athletics, House Athletics, Grade 5/6 Sport, our BPS Girls Cricket Program and Before School Running Club.

Thank you SO much for your support and enthusiasm to make these events and activities such great experiences for our students and community. 

BPS House Captains Thank you!

A huge thank you to our AMAZING BPS House Captains for 2025. I am so grateful and privileged to have been able to work alongside some amazing student leaders. I've seen such growth, initiative and leadership in all of our House Captains in the various roles they've participated in this year from lunchtime sports borrowing, Captains Corner filming and production, BPS House Sports, Stars of the week, Grade 5/6 Sport set-up and leadership.

Thank you to the following Grade 6 House Captain leaders who have inspired and supportive me and our school all year.

Thank you BPS House Captains

Sturt - Lily and Amy

Dampier - Holly and Soraya

Cook - Zoe and Korin

Tasman - Macy and Kai

BPS House Cup Dodgeball 2025

Congratulations to Tasman's Mango Minions and Cook's The Red Hot Flaming Cookaburras who made the BPS Dodgeball House Cup Grand Final last Tuesday. Our Mango Minions won the Grand Final convincingly 11 - 0. 

Congratulations to Xavier (The Red Hot Flaming Cookaburras) and Macy (Mango Minions) who won The Most Valuable Team Players for their respective teams.

Thank you to all our amazing House Captains, Music Captains and Miss Tainsh who helped us run such a terrific tournament.

Final series - top four teams

Mango Minions 

The Red Hot Flaming Cookaburras

Radioactive Cucumbers

Blue Jets

BPS Female Cricket program

Thank you to all our females in F-6 who participated in our four week after school Cricket Victoria program on our BPS oval. We had around 35 budding cricketers out on our oval every Tuesday being guided by our Cricket Victoria and Blackburn Cricket Club coaches. Thank you to all our families for supporting our cricket players to be involved and to Sharon Lynas at Cricket Victoria for organising the program with us.

Before School Running Club Thank you!

Thank you to Jen, Shona, Stuart and Will for your outstanding efforts running our BPS running club every Friday. Our final session will be this Friday 12th December at the track where certificates of effort and participation will be given out as well as a thank you to our volunteers and fun games. I know our core group of student athletes have appreciated our volunteer coaches running this program for this year. 

BPS Netball Grand Final Teams

Congratulations to our three BPS Netball Teams, the Griffins, Centaurs and Krakens. Congratulations to our BPS Centaurs who won their grand final and the Griffins and Krakens were Runners Up. Well done to all our players, coaches and families and their outstanding efforts to support our teams both at training and games every week. We appreciate you all.

BPS House Cup - Congratulations STURT!

Congratulations to Sturt House who have taken out our overall BPS House Cup Trophy for 2025. Our House Cup is awarded to the house with the most accumulated house points across our school for all of 2025. Thank you to all our BPS House Captains who have collected and tallied our house points from every specialist class and classroom throughout the year. Well done to Sturt House Captains, Amy and Lily, and all our Sturt House Team for their outstanding efforts to win this year's overall House Cup trophy!

1st - Sturt – 423,084 points

2nd - Dampier – 376,405

3rd - Cook – 370,998

4th - Tasman – 368,007

Amy represents Australia at International "In-line" Skating event in Singapore

Congratulations to Grade 5 in-line skater Amy, who was selected to represent Australia in Singapore last week. Amy competed in the "Inline Freestyle Roller Skating" category, where Australia is still a relatively young team on the international stage. Amy competed in two disciplines - "Speed Slalom" and "Freestyle Slide". 

Jessica, Amy's Mum said, "We are very proud that Amy achieved the best result among the Australian junior women athletes in the "Speed Slalom" event. The experience has been very valuable for Amy, giving her the chance to compete at an international level. We sincerely appreciate the school's support in recognizing her achievements and sharing her experience with the school community."

Wow, Amy, what an outstanding achievement to represent Australia in this growing sport amongst our youth. We are incredibly proud of you and your amazing achievement!!!

Thank you BPS for an outstanding year in Physical Education and Sport. On behalf of our staff and school I'd like to wish everyone a safe and joyful Christmas, New Year period and summer holidays. Please rest, spend time together and enjoy the simple things.

High fives, Mrs P:)