Congratulations on a Terrific Term BPS!

We have an action packed 10 weeks of learning across the board at BPS. We hope it's been a positive term for you all and that you can enjoy some rest over our school holidays. Thank you all for your ongoing support of our staff and students at BPS.

BPS District and Division Swimmers

Congratulations to all our amazing Grade 3 - 6 BPS swimmers who represented us at both District and Division Swimming. We are so proud of your efforts in and out of the pool supporting our team and swimming strongly! Thank you to our parents who volunteered their time to be our volunteer team on pool deck for both events.

Well done to our BPS District Swimming Team: Chloe, Amelia, Orange, James, Hamish, Aarna, Jessica, Zoe, Violet, Melanie, Amy, Isla and Max.

Congratulations to our BPS Division Swimming Team; Orange, James, Jessica, Melanie, Isla and Amy.

Outstanding efforts

We had many swimmers set new personal bests times for their events and our swimmers below placed in their events.

District

Orange - 10 and under females - 1st - 50m breast-stroke

James -10 and under males - 2nd - 50m freestyle

Melanie - 1st 50m breast-stroke, 2nd 50m freestyle

Amy - 1st 50m butterfly, 2nd 50m breaststroke

4 x 50m freestyle relay team - 12/13 females - Jessica, Amy, Isla and Melanie - 2nd

4 x 50m medley relay team - 12/13 mixed - Max, Amy, Melanie and Isla - 2nd

Division

4 x 50m medley relay team - 12/13 mixed - James, Isla, Amy and Melanie - 3rd

Congratulations on an outstanding effort to all our swimmers!

BPS SSV Team Vic. Representatives 2026

Thank you to all the following athletes who applied to represent BPS at the 2026 School Sport Victoria trials in their chosen sport. We wish all our students all the best for their trials in term 2.

Soccer

Jakob and Mac

Tennis

Frank

Basketball

Radin and Christian

Netball

Zoe

AFL

Charlie

Before School Running Club - Thank you!

Thank you to our BPS Running Club Volunteers, Jen, Stuart and William. We appreciate you all running our training sessions for our runners every Friday before school. With our focus this term being cross country, it was awesome to see so many of our runners from running club performing so well in our BPS House Cross Country.

Our Before School Running Club trainings will continue next term.

BPS House Cross Country

Congratulations to all our BPS student runners who represented their house at our BPS Whole School House Cross Country this term. It was our first big community event for 2026 and it was terrific to see the turnout from our community to support our students and school. A big thank you to our princiapl and AP, Mr Minetti and Miss Fusillo for their amazing support and to our wonderful BPS staff set-up team who helped me set up the event before school.

Thank you also to our amazing parent volunteer team on the course, at the finsh line and our runners out in front guiding our athletes. We appreciate you all for your time, support and encouragement of all our runners throughout the day.

Thank you to our awesome BPS House Captain Leaders. One of my favourite parts of sporting events and our leadership program is watching our Grade 6's support our younger students and role model our values of encouragement, teamwork and personal best. Thank you Charlie, Max, Jessica, Melanie, Connor, Arielle, Lachlan and Christian!

And to our amazing student runners...

We talk a lot about personal best in our BPS PE classes and it was so wonderful to see the number of BPS students giving their best on the day and running for their house, regardless of their placing. To me it's always about the effort and participation that a students shows in all they do so it makes me proud to see our students stepping up and being out there! Well done BPS students!

We would like to acknowledge our age group medallists below and their outstanding athletic efforts in placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in their respective age and gender group races. High fives to you all!

Age group medallists

10 and under females - 2km 10 and under males - 2km

Gold - Phoebe Gold - Charlie

Silver - Lizzie Silver - Nate

Bronze - Grace Bronze - Louis

11 year females - 3km 11 year males - 3km

Gold - Alex Gold - Mo

Silver - Zoe Silver - Ryder

Bronze - Jessica Bronze - Owen

12/13 year females - 3km 12/13 year males - 3km

Gold - Charlie Gold - Charlie

Silver - Arielle Silver - Max

Bronze - Valerie Bronze - Harry

Never Give Up - House Cross Country Awards

Congratulations to our "Never Give Up" Award winners, selected by our house captains for their courage and attitude at our house cross country day.

High fives to Marcus, Kethni, Rozetta, Brodie, Sylvan, Ryder, Chloe, Hunter, Holly, Grace and Aisha.

Green House Takes Top Honours for 2026!

Congratulations to our Green House Captains, Arielle and Connor, and your green team athletes for winning our 2026 BPS House Cross Country trophy!

2026 House Placings

Green
Red
Blue
Yellow

District Cross Country Team 2026

Congratulations to all our top 10 runners from Foundation, Grade 1 and 2 to our 2km and 3km age group Championship Races.

The following athletes have been selected to represent BPS on Friday 8th May at our District Cross Country event at Ruffey Lake.

10 and under age group - 2km

Phoebe, Lizzie, Grace, Hayley, Chloe, Poppy, Frankie, Eliza, Eliza, Serra, Charlie, Nate, Louis. Thomas, James, Leo, Lenny, Calvin, Nicholas and Bledi.

11 year age group - 3km

Alexa, Zoe, Jessica, Ruby, Violet, Lucinda, Asher, Aarna, Divleen, Olivia, Mo, Ryder, Owen, James, Max, Yazdan, Jason, Nicholas, Aston and Finn.

12/13 year age group - 3km

Charlie, Arielle, Valerie, Chelsea, Melanie, Lauren, Layla, Rose, Audrey, Aliya, Max, Max, Harry, Mac, Connor, Christian, Frank, Lachlan, Santino and Henry.

Tennis Ball Donation - Thank You

Thank you to the Davis family, Grandpa Ian and Val Kenndy for your ongoing support and donation of match quality tennis balls to our BPS sporting supplies. We appreciate the continous flow of donations to our program. Thank you all so much.

Important BPS Sporting Dates for 2026

Term 2

Blackburn District Cross Country – Friday 8th May – Ruffey Lake – 12 noon – 2.20pm

District Winter Sport Round Robin Day – Grade 5 and 6 – Friday 15th May

Netball, AFL 9's, Soccer, T-Ball.

Whitehorse Division Cross Country – Monday 1st June – Ruffey Lake Park, Doncaster

Eastern Regional Cross Country - Thursday 11th June - Yarra Glen race-course

BPS Whole School Swimming F- 6 - Monday 15th June – Friday 26th June (2 week program).

Term 3

BPS House Aths Grade 3 - 6 – Pre-event briefing for staff and volunteers – Tuesday 21st July - 3.55pm - 4.45pm.

BPS House Athletics (grade 3- 6) - Thursday 30th July (week 3) – Bill Sewart (all day event)

District Athletics – Tuesday 25th August 2026 – Bill Sewart Athletics Track

District Athletics Back-up Day – Thursday August 27th

District Summer Sport Grade 5/6 round robin day – Friday 4th September

Sofcrosse, Hooptime Basketball, Volleystars, Kanga cricket, Hot shots Tennis

Term 4

Whitehorse Division Track and Field Athletic Championships – Tuesday 13th October (Doncaster Athletics Track – 9am – 3pm - week 2).

Eastern Regional Athletic Championships – Thursday 22nd October (Doncaster Athletics Track – 9am – 3pm - week 3).

BPS F-2 KABOOM House Movement Celebration morning – (BPS oval) - Tuesday 27th October (week 4).

Victorian State Track and Field Championships – Thursday 5th November – Lakeside Stadium, Albert Park (week 5).

BPS Physical Activity Photo Gallery Term 1

Physical Activity Tip - Remember to Play!

Think of it as Play instead of “exercise” - dance to a tune, shoot hoops, play catch with your pet, have a family hide 'n seek game, sing your favourite song while you walk!"

A great resource for fun family games to keep you active and engaged is "The School of Play" app. Check out the "games" section!

Well that's all Team BPS! Have an awesome holiday BPS and stay health and safe. See you all in Term 2!

High fives, Mrs P:)

BPS Netball