BBPS Life

Prep

Preps have been loving PMP! What is PMP, you ask? It is a Perceptual Motor Skills program, which involves lots of fun activities with balls, hoops, obstacle courses, spinning tops, bowling, weaving and puzzles. 

Back in the classroom, our youngest students have been focused on the word of the week (Dog). For reading, they are practicing using their tracking tiger and then retelling the story to show understanding. 

Grades 1 and 2

Grades 1’s have also been having a great time at PMP – check out the photos!

In the classroom Grades 1 and 2 have been looking at the features of non-fiction texts (glossaries, indexes, flow-chart, heading and sub-headings, maps, diagrams etc.). Free writing has allowed them to explore their own ideas, while being careful with word choice. The Maths focus has been on addition (next week we will be looking at the vertical algorithm). Inquiry has been looking at the environment, examining ways to reduce waste and how we can try to make our lives plastic free. And for RRRR (Resilience, rights, respectful relationships) we have been learning strategies for solving problems.

Next week will see the start of the Breaking News activity, which will give our students a platform for developing their speaking and presentation skills.  

Tess (2V) We are doing flow-charts about the water cycle.”

Evie (2V) “We can draw what happens to the water at each stage of the cycle”

Indi (2V) “We have been learning about evaporation, condensation and precipitation.”

Grades 3 and 4

Highlights for grades 3 and 4 have been:

• Narrative and persuasive writing
• Debating
• Junior Elementary Maths Mastery ( a scripted program of Maths challenges which allows students to identify difficulties and develops Maths fluency and automaticity

Ethan (3S) “We’ve been doing times-tables. We have been taking our times tables home to practice and then we come into school and we have... a Big test”. 

Giles (3S) “We have been learning narrative writing. We had multiple choices for topics to write a story about. Some of the topics were ‘the middle of the night’, ‘the year 2050’ and ‘in the corridor’. We’re writing our stories now.”

Grades 5 and 6

Grade 5 students have been preparing for NAPLAN tests. They also continue to enjoy seeing their buddies in prep, including escorting their young friends to our mothers day stall. Sport has been a highlight over the last 2 weeks with students participating in Cross Country and Inter-School Sports (Netball, Soccer, T-Ball, Football and Hockey). 

Deveron and Ash from grade 6 spoke to us about their highlights:

Deveron " I enjoyed Maths - we learned about Prime Factors and how to find them"

Ash "Debating was the highlight for me. We prepared 5 different debating topics and then our teams went to Brighton Secondary College to complete against other schools"

Both "We are also building a leadership website, and have been working on blogs for this"

Aflie (5G) “We’re playing basketball. We’re partnered up and taking turns playing defence and attack”

Mia (5G) “Chops from McKinnon has been giving us tactics we can use to trick our opponents”

Dear Mummies

I love every inch of your delicious

Pasta,

Roast,

Pizza,

 and sausages.

I also love that you are the most

Nuggely

And narm

Goddess.

A one, a two… a one, two, three, four

You are my mumshine

My only mumshine

You make me happy when I feel down

You never know mum

How much I love you

So…free hugs for YOU for Life!

By: Flynn 2V

Swimming with the Turtles - Flynn 

Over the school holidays our family went away to New South Wales. When we were there, we went on a special Sea Life Tour, to swim with giant turtles in the open ocean. We put on wetsuits and life jackets, and went in a big rubber speedboat down the Tweed River to the sea. 

It was very fast and bumpy and we had to hold on very tightly. 

We went to the Cook Island Marine life Sanctuary, off the coast of Kingscliff. Then we jumped off the boat with our snorkels and masks. It was very deep, and I had a noodle to keep me safe.

I saw lots of coral that was dying. We also some colourful fish and I saw a rare one. Then a giant turtle swam past and we all swam alongside it as a family. 

When we were getting back into the boat, we swam through a big school of Silver Moonys. It was all so beautiful, I forgot to be scared.