Junior School
It was a very festive atmosphere last Monday as BMGS hosted the HICES Cross Country carnival on our school grounds that are a perfect fit for cross country running.
Coorah hill proved quite the challenge for many a runner. Our runners performed extremely well and utilised their home ground advantage to great effect. While there were some outstanding individual performances, the team as a whole should be very proud of itself for competing so well for a school of our size. We did so well in fact that we won the Division 2 Percentage Shield for the third time in a row! Great work team.
Well done also to the many staff and parents who helped contribute to a very smoothly run carnival. Thank you to our P & F for running a very popular coffee stand, canteen and sausage sizzle and to the crew from Maintenance, Mr Jones and Mr Dann, for setting up a terrific course. Most significantly we need to thank Mrs Megan Harris, Head of Sport, for convening the Carnival. It was a great day. Mrs Harris now goes on to manage the HICES team at the Combined Independent Schools (CIS) Carnival in a couple of weeks’ time. Mrs Harris is joined by the following runners from BMGS who were selected in the team thanks to their superb finishes in their own age division races. Well done to Tasman Harrison (1st in 8/9 Years Boys), Hunter Costigan (10th in 11 Years Boys) and Keeden Harrison (1st in 12/13 Years boys). Good luck at the CIS Carnival.
We are all looking forward to the opening of Matilda Jr next week. Opening night is next Wednesday, 2nd June followed by three more performances over Friday and Saturday. If you haven’t yet purchased tickets for a show then follow this link to secure seats at what promises to be an singing, all dancing extravaganza!
Tickets may be purchased online via this link: https://www.trybooking.com/BRBVT
Student Awards
At Assembly this week the following award was presented:
Bronze: Nelson Lovett of S2 Geebungs
Mr. Nigel Cockington
Head of Junior School
Reconciliation Week
The Springwood Campus participated in a wide variety of activities on the theme of ‘Sorry Day’ as part of Reconciliation Week.
The Geebungs completed a KWL chart based on Sorry Day and looked at the day from an Aboriginal people’s perspective. The students had a lot of questions about the day and after watching clips, reading the poem ‘I am Sorry’, by Stephanie Mulrooney and discussing the material, they now have a better understanding of the importance of Sorry Day and why it is important to remember the stolen generations.
The Coconuts began their ‘Sorry Day’ activity by talking about what the word acknowledgement means and then the students recorded their interpretations on their own hands and the hands were glued onto some beautiful Aboriginal artworks they had created.
The Fruit Salads and Mangoes read the book ‘Sorry Day’ and talked about what happened to the Aboriginal children who were taken away from their parents. Both classes produced powerful artworks that help to reinforce the importance for us to acknowledge what happened in the past and to all work towards reconciling our beautiful country.
Nana Magic
All of the students’ work will be on display in our Central Learning Area. On Thursday, The Springwood Campus had a zoom visit from Nana Magic and her puppet snake friend Tilly.
Together they both took us on a deadly adventure around Australia. We visited Western Australia, Ceduna, Uluru and the Murray Darling River. At all of these places the children had to do something to help our country. They cleaned up the water, ate healthy food, were kind to each other and looked after the environment. Nana Magic also talked about Sorry Day and Reconciliation and the importance of making sure we all have love and empathy in our hearts and show that to everyone.
Class Teachers
Junior School Springwood