Leadership at BBPS

Gordon House Captains - Cross Country Report - Omri, Esther & Charlotte

Two weeks ago Cross Country was held at Dendy Park. The track was up to three kilometres long. If you don’t know, Gordon won!

Everyone did an amazing job!

Thank you to all the parents who helped out and made it possible.

Congratulations to all the year three’s who ran their first ever cross country. We hope you enjoyed it. 

Thank you to all the Gordon kids who participated. You guys did amazing. 

Thank you Mr A for hosting and organising Cross Country.

Good luck to all students competing at Districts next week. 

Lunchtime club timetable - well done grade 6 leaders for offering these playground options to our students this week, linked to the Department theme for Education Week this year.

Japanese Children’s Day - a report from our Student Agency captains Jono, Archie and Beau

Kodomo no Hi (Children’s Day) happened on May 5th last week. It became a national holiday in 1948. It happens on the final day of golden week and actually “ Tango no Sekku “ was a celebration for boys and fathers before Children’s Day came along.

It’s also a day to respect children’s personalities and celebrate their happiness. We celebrated this day in different with many fun activities such as Japanese games, eating delicious

Japanese food and making beautiful artworks surrounding the koi fish, because it symbolises strength, perseverance, love, bravery, dedication and transformation.

If you search up “ Japanese Children’s Day “ tit immediately shows pictures of these eye catching fish.

In 1948, this day was changed to recognise all unique children and all their different abilities. The streamers on the paper koi fish celebrate the perseverance, vitality and health.

In Japan, in their homes, Japanese families also display kabuto, samurai helmets, and or other gogatsu ningyo, samurai dolls and their ornaments. The samurai dolls often represent traditional folktale characters such as kintaro momotaro who symbolise courage and strength. Children eat kashiwa mochi, or rice cakes stuffed with bean paste or chimaki, or dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves.

We will begin our formal Japanese language learning instruction in Term 3. 

St Peter's Kindergarten Smoking Ceremony - reflections from our Community Captains, Nuno and Levi.

We really enjoyed the smoking ceremony and loved how we were invited to watch it. We got a chance to represent our school in our community and see other schools there as well. We both loved meeting the kindergarten teachers and students from other schools.

The smoking ceremony was really nice and relaxing. We loved the opportunity to be there with other people. We loved how the smoking ceremony was on the beach, it was super calm to be there in the sand, connecting with land. We got to walk a full circle around the fire as part of the Welcome to Country. Lots of other kids from BBPS were there too because of their little brothers and sisters.

Thank you for inviting us St Peter's Kindergarten, and for taking a lot of effort to sort the smoking ceremony and invite us to be there.