Welcome to Term 4 BPS PE, Sport and Movement!

Hello to all of our BPS Community and welcome to our last 11 weeks for the year. I hope this finds you and your families ready for the final chapter for 2025's school year.

BPS Important Sporting Dates - Term 4

Term 4 - Term 4 – 6th October – 19th December

F-2 Big Bash Schools Cricket at home challenge starts - 4 weeks of cricket practise challenges
Whitehorse Division Athletics – Tuesday 14th October – Doncaster Athletics Track
Eastern Regional Athletics – Thursday 23rd October – Doncaster Athletics Track
BPS F-2 KABOOM House Movement Celebration - Wednesday 29th October 2025 – 9am – 10.40am
Victorian State Athletics Championships – Friday 6th November 2025

We're changing our BPS House Names!!!

We are excited to announce that our school will be updating the names of our current Houses! We want our new House names to better reflect the values, history, and spirit of our school community now and in the future. Historically, Cook, Sturt, Tasman, and Dampier have been the names of our houses. However, being four male, white, European explorers, we no longer feel that these names best represent our vibrant and evolving school community.

BPS Student Voice: Choice: Action

At BPS we believe our students should have voice and choice and be actively involved in enacting change. We invite students to begin sharing their suggestions via our new "HOUSE NAME CHANGE" Showbie class with the code NW433, or through the suggestion box which will be located in the Gym foyer over the next few weeks!

We're asking for suggestions that reflect our school and community and ones that will stand the test of time.

Suggestions should be categories. We’d like to avoid using peoples names to keep things neutral and inclusive. Some possible ideas include:

Local landmarks or street names (ie. Maple, Larch, Fir, Elm)
Flora, fauna or animals (ie. Kangaroos, Koalas, Emus, Wombats)
Natural elements or colours (ie. Lighting, Flame, Wave, Stone)
Values (ie. Respect, Courage, Kindness, Determination)
Indigenous Wurundjeri words

So when will we have our new house names?

This process will take some time to discuss and consider properly BUT... with the help of the Junior School Council, our BPS current and future House Captains and F-2 students, our goal is to have finalised our new house names by the end of Term 1 2026.

BPS Division Track & Field Champions

Congratulations to our 17 BPS athletes in grades 3 - 6 for being selection in both individual and relay events for Division. Our team will compete at the Championships on Tuesday 14th October. We wish them all the best for their events and are really proud of their hard work and achievement to reach this level.

Thank you to all our families for transporting and supervising our athletes are the event.

A big thank you to Fiona and Belinda for being our BPS Team Managers on the day and looking out for our BPS team. We appreciate you all!

High fives to our Division BPS Team below

10 year athletes

Owen – 100m, hurdles, 4 x 100m relay

Ryder – 4 x 100m relay

Charlie – Long Jump, 800m, 4 x 100m relay

Zoe – Long Jump

Radin – Discus

Aston – 4 x 100m relay

11 year athletes

Connor – Triple Jump, Discus

Max – 800m, 1500m

Chelsea – Long Jump, Triple Jump, 4 x 100m relay

Valerie – 4 x 100m relay

Charlie – High Jump, 800m, 4 x 100m relay

Arielle – 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay

Charlie – Long Jump

12/13 year athletes

Macy – 100m, 200m, 4 x 100m relay

Emily – hurdles, triple jump, 4 x 100m relay

Jessie – 4 x 100m relay

Olive – 4 x 100m relay

BPS Record Breakers - Connor and Charlie!

Our student athletes at BPS love to jump far and high and recently two of our Grade 5 athletes broke long standing BPS field event records! We want to celebrate Connor and Charlie's outstanding achievements and acknowledge the effort and hard work it takes to break a record!

Congrats to our triple jump specialist Connor, who jumped a new personal best jump and 11 year males record of 8.79m at District Athletics. Connor broke the 11 year males BPS record by 3cm which was set way back in 2017!! Connor is known for his excellent all round capabilities across many track and field events!!! Outstanding effort Connor!!

Congratulations to Charlie who broke her own personal best jump of 1.25m in high jump, soaring higher and higher over the bar with a new 10cm PB of 1.35m!!!! It was special to watch this record breaking achievement take place during Charlie's high jump training for Division last Friday in our BPS gym. Charlie had lots of supporters with her dad in attendance and the whole Symphonic band clapping her run up and celebrating with Charlie as she soared over the bar and set the new record!!! The look of excitement on Charlie's face afterwards was brilliant!!!! Charlie broke the 2018 BPS 11 year females record by a whopping 10 cm!!!! Congrats Charlie!!!

BPS Before school Running Club!

Let's get moving Team BPS!

Lace up your runners and have some fun at our Before School Running Club every Friday at 8.10am - 8.45am on our BPS athletics track! It’s free and fun, plus it gets you moving before school so you’re ready to learn!!!

Something fresh and new!

For our final term of 2025, we're gearing up for some new personal best challenge events over including a sprint challenge over 100m and two longer distance challenges including our 2 lapper and 3 lapper of our athletic track (one lap of our athletics track is 280m) !!

Plus our training wouldn't be complete without a fun game at the end!!

House Points reward!

As an incentive to join us at training, we’ll be giving every student that attends 100 house points per training (e.g. 5 trainings attended - 500 house points). All our students' house points will be passed on to Mrs P and go towards your house's final tally for our House Cup Trophy at the end of the year!

What are you waiting for!!!!

Join us!! If you're in Grade 1 - 6 and want to have some fun, please collect a permission form at the front office and bring it signed by a family member to your first training session.

A BIG BPS Thank you!!!

Thank you to our team of amazing parent volunteers for making our trainings possible every Friday. Thank you Jen, Shona, Will and Stuart! We appreciate you all!!!

BPS F-2 Big Bash School Challenge - Cricket

Big Bash School Cricket Challenge 2025

We have a fun and exciting challenge that our BPS F-2 classes are invited to take on over the next 4 weeks. In Physical Education our focus will be on skills used in the sport of cricket. The Big Bash School Challenge is a program that uses basic cricket skills of throwing and catching to support your child's fundamental motor skills development. By registering your child online you have access to the fun at-home component which encourages you and your child to keep practising these skills in a fun, gamified way. When you register, our students can choose a Big Bash mascot as their avatar which powers up by earning points for completing short activities you could do in the lounge room or the backyard.

Practise leads to progress and progress gives us confidence to be the best we can be!

It's amazing how even 5-10 mins of additional activities at home a couple of times a week can fast track our student's skill development. There's also a cool, personalised certificate you can download at the end of the program. Think of it as the Reading Eggs or Mathletics for physical literacy.

At home - we can all get involved!!!

All you need is a small ball, or even a rolled up pair of socks will work, and your mobile phone or tablet. By signing up your child and completing the at-home activities, you also earn points for the school which will help us unlock additional benefits like free equipment and maybe even a visit from one of the stars of the Big Bash!

To get started and enrol your child, click on the specific BPS class link below to get started.

Have fun learning at home together and thanks for being part of your child's development in Physical Education at school and at home!

P.S. - There may even be a special prize for our student who earns the most points for our at home activities!!

Join your class to practise your skills and challenge yourself!

FT - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-MEP-06768

FC - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-FOR-13556

FS – https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-XFN-58580

FG - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-EUI-1647

1R - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-ONJ-39677

1C - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-HBO-71900

1M - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-HFF-53218

2W - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-WOI-10041

2FM - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-DGG-15764

2S - https://schoolschallenge.cricket.com.au/onboarding/join/CLA-MKS-19682

BPS F-2 Kaboom House Movement Celebration

We love moving at BPS! It's fun, it brings us together and it's amazing for our bodies!!!

To celebrate our amazing F-2 students we have our BPS Kaboom House Movement Celebration on Wednesday 29th October from 9am - 10.40am on our BPS oval.

All our F-2 students and 12 Grade 6 Captains, along with our staff, will take part in a fun session of movement including a whole team dance warm-up and 12 cool activities focusing on fundamental movement skills and teamwork!!!

Important information

Date: Wednesday 29th October

Time: 9am - 10.40am

Venue: BPS oval (if wet BPS gym)

What to dress up in: House Colours, runners, BPS hat!

What to bring: Your drink bottle, asthma medication and all your enthusiasm!!

Sunsmart: Families please make sure your child is wearing suncream for this event and clothes they can comfortable move in!

Permission and payment via Compass: Please make sure you have paid and given permission for your child to take part in our special event.

Families are welcome to attend and spectate!!!

Have a great run home to Christmas BPS!

Remember stay sun-smart and have fun moving together!!

"If we want our children to move mountains, we first have to let them get out of their chairs.” - Nicolette Sowder

High fives, Mrs P:)

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