Physical Education
Sports Shorts
Term 1, Week 10
We made it across the Term 1 finish line BPS!
Well done to all our students, staff and community for getting through our first term of 2025. It's been a big one for BPS Sport! I wanted to start by thanking all our volunteers who have given up their time for events and trainings. Your presence and support goes a long way to helping us consistently run great events and keep our students engaged. Thank you!
Physical Education Term 1
We have 50 minutes of Physical Education every week for all our classes. This term we have been covering a range of units linked with the Victorian Curriculum.
Foundation
- Learning what the whistle and music means in PE.
- What is a boundary line in PE?
- How to take turns and play fairly with others.
- Locomotor skills, including practising our walking, running, jumping, skipping, sliding, galloping, jumping and hopping skills.
- Fundamental Movement skill development - throwing and catching with various objects including bean bags, soft toys and soft balls.
- Practising our house cross country running.
Grade 1 and 2
- Teamwork and fair play unit - how can we work together to achieve a goal together.
- Fundamental movement skills - throwing and catching focus
- House cross country
Grade 3 - 6
- Teamwork and fair play unit - What does a successful team sound like, look like and feel like?
- Health related fitness unit with a focus on Jump Rope for Heart, what are the benefits of daily "huff and puff" exercise to our overall physical and mental wellbeing.
- Developing our fitness and strategy for running our house cross country - 3 minute class run challenge.
District Swimming and Division Swimming
Thank you to all our District and Division swimmers for your amazing efforts this term.
Thank you also to Fiona Rezannah, Mark Harwood and Mike Billing for volunteering at our District Swimming event.
Congratulations to our swimmers; Jessica, Zoe, Alexa, Poppy, James, Mo, Melanie, Mac, Amy, Max, Olivia and Weining.
Congratulations to Melanie and Weining for qualifying and swimming at the Whitehorse Division Swimming Carnival!
SSV Sport
Congratulations to the following students who have qualified to trial for their chosen sport at the School Sport Victoria Trials throughout term 1 and 2. We wish all our athletes the best!
Amazing effort!
Soccer - Jake
Hockey - Ethan
Netball - Lillian, Macy and Amy
Basketball - Christian
Cricket - Max
Track & Field - Arielle
District Tennis - Lucas
AFL - Charlie and Max
BPS House Cross Country
What an awesome day we all had running, cheering and giving our absolute best for our House team! Congrats to all our F-6 students on your determination not to give up and finish your races across the day!!
Every single runner contributed special points to their house total for the end of the day trophy presentation!
Congratulations to all four house teams and Cook House for being crowned our 2025 BPS House Cross Country winners!
Thank you SO much!
A special thank you to our amazing sports team; Dani Fountain, Emily Tainsh and Daniel Liebrich.
Thank you to our superb volunteers for the day who supported our student runners and staff!
Jason, Fiona, Maurice, Mike, Susan, Kirsty, Lucy, Anna, Linda, Julies, Kate, John, Albert, Penny, Belinda, Ante, Natalie, Amy, Krissy, Soohyun, Lisa, Lin and Damien.
Age group BPS Championship Medallists
It's no easy feat running a cross country. Your lungs are hurting, your body feels exhausted, yet you find a way to keep going! A big congratulations to our medal winners for their age group Championship races!
2km
Gold - Alexa
Silver - Zoe
Bronze - Phoebe and Jessica
2km
Gold - Mo
Silver - Owen
Bronze - Nate
3km
Gold - Max
Silver - Charlie and Max
3km
Gold - Charlie
Silver - Chelsea
Bronze - Valerie
3km
Gold - Macy
Silver - Emily
Bronze - Jessie
3km
Gold - Matthias
Silver - Nathan
Bronze - Raphael
Thank you to our amazing House Captains who gave such a supportive effort all day to encourage all our runners, particularly our juniors!
Congratulations to all our "Never Give Up" award winners for their determination and effort in their races: Dylan, Fatima, Alexander, Lizzie, Lucinda, Annika, Herman, Valerie, Max, Olivia, Jack and Misha.
BPS District Cross Country Team selection!
High fives to all out District Cross Country Team! All runners who placed in the top 10 in their 2km and 3km Championship Race have automatically been selected for our BPS District Cross Country Team. This event will be on Monday 5th May at Ruffey Lake Park, Doncaster.
Winners are grinners!!!!
Winners are grinners!!!!
Term 2 Sporting Dates
Tuesday 22nd April – Friday 4th July
- District Cross Country - Monday 5th May – Ruffey Lake Park, Doncaster
- Division Cross Country – Monday 26th May – Ruffey Lake - 12.30pm – 2.30pm
- BPS whole school swimming (Surrey Park) F-6 – Monday 23rd June to Friday 4th July.
- District Winter sport - Friday 16th May
District Sport Venues
Netball – Sportlink, Vermont
T-ball – Jells Park, Glen Waverly
Soccer – Mahoney’s Reserve Forest Hill
AFL 9’s – Koonung ovals, Heppner Street, Blackburn
Have an awesome end to term BPS and thanks for being amazing through the ups and downs of life! We got this!
High fives, Mrs P!