BBPS Life
Preps enthralled at the aquarium
BBPS Life
Preps enthralled at the aquarium
Cross Country
Well done Gordon House! And well done all the children who challenged themselves.
Mothers Day
Eady and Esme, Grade 1 - "We made love hearts so when we miss our mums we can press them. We loved having our mums visit"
Michi and Arya, Grade 2 - "We made poems with similes for Mother's Day - our goal was to make our mums cry with happiness!"
Isabel and Frankie, Grade 3 - "We made cards and flowers for our special person. My mum loved hers when I gave it to her"
Prep Aquarium Excursion
"We loved the aquarium. Our favourite animals were the penguins swimming and dipping in the water. We saw a stingray spit out a fish! And we got to pat a starfish. It was really good getting to go home on the bus, we were so tired".
Grade 1-2 highlights
Grade 1 and 2 are getting excited about their excursion to the zoo, happening this term.
Grade 1 have been reading lots of facts about land animals, including that when hippos go under way they close their nostrils and ears; hippopotamus means 'river horse', and hippos are born in the water. Baby giraffes learn to walk 1 hour after they are born, they grow in their mummy's tummies because they are mammals and all giraffes have different patterns on their skin.
Grade 1 made connections to their learning about patterns in Maths, where they learnt that a repeated sequence is known as a pattern's core - So many facts coming from Grade 1 and 2!
Grade 2 have also been busy preparing for Monday's assembly - they have the very important job of launching Reconciliation Week and teaching everyone in our school about this upcoming event.
Hub highlights
Clancy: Next week a real AFL player from Hawthorn is coming. Finn Maginness used to come to BBPS. We get to interview him, so we are busy thinking of lots of different questions.
Tate: I think i have really been improving my writing - we are practising using paragraphs, and I think I am remembering punctuation a lot more.
Annie: My highlight of the week is STEM workshops - its so fun getting to create our own Battle Bot. Last time we designed it, and today we get to start making it. Everyone in the Hub gets a turn.
Check out this week's vocab words in Grade 3, thanks to Olivia and Frankie:
Grade 5/6 highlights
Jake: Doing the daily review helps me with my learning - we get to revisit things that we are learning, and because we see it lots of times I find I am able to remember how to do it.
Pippa: We use our whiteboards a lot to show our thinking - when we hold it up Mrs White can tell us straight away if we can tick it or fix it so I know how I am going.
Josh: Our lessons have an I Do (teacher explains); We Do (we all practice); You Do (I do an extension on my own) structure - the explanations help me know what to do and give clear instructions to follow.
Rose: I have been enjoying writing - we get to reflect on all our learning about First Nations history and the impact of different people on Australia's history.