Physical Education

Sports Shorts

Hello and welcome to our end of term Sports Shorts. There's been a lot happening in Physical Education and Sport at BPS throughout term 2 including F-2 swimming, grade 3- 6 winter sport and trainings, before school running club and representative cross country.

Our program for Physical Education this term for our grades has included:

F-2: Throwing and catching, locomotor movements and basketball bouncing, passing and shooting activities.

Grade 3 - 6; Track and Field Athletics and chasing and fleeing games.

BPS shines at District Cross Country

In tough, wet conditions, our 60 athletes ran with such courage and determination in our 2023 District Cross Country. The event was held on Wednesday 10th May at Ruffey Lake in Doncaster. If you know Ruffey Lake, it’s not a walk in the park as far as hills go! It’s an undulating course with a range of challenges underfoot. I was so proud of the way our athletes navigated the course, some for the very first time and some for their fourth time.

At the conclusion of the event our school was presented with the Aggregate Shield, which means we were the overall wining school for the day. We were also awarded the most improved school. Both shields were a terrific reward for such a hardworking group of runners and the community that supports them! Well done BPS!

Congratulations to our runners who placed in the top 10 and those that achieved new personal bests for the day. We had 12 athletes selected to run at our Division Cross Country event on Monday 29th May. Three of these runners are in grade 3 which is a tremendous effort for their first year! Well done Charlie, Max and Max!

District Cross Country Medalists

How incredible that we had a BPS trifecta in our 10 and under boys 2km race with Ben (gold), Max (silver) and Max (bronze) placing 1st, 2nd and 3rd in the race! Well done Super Champs!

Congratulations to our bronze medalist in the 12/13 girls 3km race, Ayla, for your outstanding run!

Top ten runners - High fives

Charlie, Macy, Olive, Ben, Max, Max, Oli, Alfie, Amelia, Ayla, Max and Harrison!

Thank you to our amazing parents who volunteered to be course marshals: Kirsty, Susan, Mel and Amy! We really appreciate your support. 

Thank you also to Mrs Fountain, Youqi and Miss Wood for your management of our team on the day! 

Division Cross Country athletes super brave!

With 12 athletes running at the Whitehorse Division Cross Country from BPS, our school was represented in every race. This is a huge achievement for our school and our runners.

Running at Ruffey Lake again, your runners again had wet and muddy conditions to contend with. 

Congratulations to all our runners for their outstanding efforts and running a grueling course.

10 and under - 2km

Macy - 24th

Olive - 27th 

Charlie - 28th

Max - 8th

Max - 14th

Oli - 20th

Ben - 25th

11 years - 3km

Amelia - 20th

Alfie - 28th

12/13 years - 3km

Ayla - 15th

Max - 7th

Harrison - 10th 

Eastern Region Cross Country Champs!

Congratulations to our three runners who have been selected to run at the Eastern Region Cross Country event on Monday 12th June at the Yarra Glen Race-course. We are so proud of your efforts and for making it this far. Two of our athletes are in grade 6 and one in his first year representing BPS at cross country in grade 3.

Outstanding efforts, Max, Max and Harrison!

F-2 swimming

Our grade F-2 students enjoyed a five day swimming program in the early part of this term. Thank you to all the F-2 teachers and families that supported the program and our students water development. Thanks to Wendy Bennett for doing our timetables for the two weeks and to Mrs Fountain and Miss Wood for your efforts with administration.

Winter Sport Grade 5/6 

For the last 5 weeks, our grade 5 and 6 students have been training in their chosen winter sports every Thursday and throughout the week at lunchtime. On Friday 16th June, our selected grade 5 and 6 students will be representing BPS in our District Winter Sport Round Robin. Our teams will be playing AFL, Soccer, T-ball and Netball. Thank you to our wonderful staff and parent volunteers for your help.

Mrs Fountain, Mrs Sage, Mrs D'Amelio, Miss Wood Miss King and Mrs Arthur.

Thank you our AFL parent drivers, Ash, Adele, Bec, Matthew and Martine and Paul for transporting our AFL to and from the venue.

Thank you also to Michael Xia, for attending our soccer training sessions and supporting our staff to train our players.

We wish all our teams the very best for their round robin next and hope that you all have fun representing BPS!

TERM 3 Sporting Dates for your diary

BPS House Athletics – Bill Sewart Athletics Track - Tuesday 25th July (week 3, term 3)

District Athletics – Bill Sewart Athletics Track - Friday 1st September 2023

Grade 3 – 5 swimming – 10 day program – Grade 3 – 5

**Monday 4th September-Friday 15th September.

We hope you you all have a terrific holiday and get some time to rest and recharge.

Thank you for your ongoing support of our BPS Sporting and Physical Education program. Our big sporting event of term 3 will be our Grade 3-6 House Athletics event on Tuesday 25th July at the Bill Sewart!

Have fun and stay active!

Mrs P:)