The Indigo Youth Ambassador Program runs for six weeks each Tuesday and is facilitated by Anthony Nicholson from The Mandala Project and the Indigo Shire. Our BPS Junior Ambassadors for 2022 are Violet Carr and Eli Tomlinson.  It is terrific that we have the opportunity to engage with other students from across the shire through this program to develop our students’ leadership skills. On Tuesday this week, the Junior Ambassadors from across the area presented speeches about what they learnt in the program, while putting into practice the public speaking training they received. The audience being Indigo Shire Councillors, council
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Anne Frank was an interesting experience. When we entered the Burke Museum we were all hit with giant boards full of writing and when we started to read them we all realised they were chapters from her diary. Tucked away in the far corner was a small TV with what looked to be a narrated story of Anne’s point of view. When we sat down on the chairs provided, we listened and watched why and where she hid during the war. Anne lived in her secret house behind her real house with her mum, dad, and sister, they all lived
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“Remembrance Day is a time to remember all the soldiers who fought in the war and died. You might have some great, great, great, great grandparents who fought in the war. Remembrance Day and ANZAC Day are related. The Remembrance Day symbol is a poppy. The wars stop on the 11the hour of the 11th day on the 11th month. The soldiers fought for their country. Every Remembrance Day we have 2 minutes of silence.” Luke – Foundation “Remembrance Day is a day to remember the people of our families that went to the war so we could be safe.
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It has been terrific to have our Junior Swimming program go ahead this week. We were a little worried that the flooding may have impacted our program, but fortunately all was well. The swimming program provides quality swimming and water safety education so all students have the opportunity to: • learn how to swim, • develop lifelong skills in water safety to reduce their risk of drowning and injury. Whilst at the swimming complex in Wangaratta the students also participate in a range of sports like basketball, badminton and volleyball. It really is a fabulous week to mix with the
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On last Friday the 1/2 classes were lucky enough to be asked to join Beechworth Honey for a Bee School experience. The students stayed inside the Bee School and worked their way around the station that explored bees, pollination, looking at bees under microscopes, analysing the bark of trees, the Queen Bee and more. Then the students worked through a honey tasting where they got to experience the different flavours and textures of varieties of honey that are created by different nectar. They finished by going for a walk to look at the famous apple blossom tree of Beechworth and
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Running the athletics carnival this year has been a huge logistical event to organise and we have been particularly challenged with the ongoing wet and miserable weather this year and as a result, the very wet state of the oval. It has been a day-to-day situation monitoring the oval to judge whether the carnival can in fact go ahead at all. So, the dots have finally aligned and we have been able to have our Athletics Carnival! We could not have asked for a better day. The students thoroughly enjoyed the day. I was impressed with both their efforts and
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This week our students engaged in the Healthy Harold sessions. Hayley, together with Harold the Giraffe puppet, worked with each class individually. The Year 5 and 6 classes work was focused around respect and maintaining healthy friendships. Cyber safety and how to keep ourselves safe online was the topic covered with the Year 3 and 4 students. The Junior students really enjoyed meeting Healthy Harold, learning about our bodies and healthy eating.
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Each year, across Australia, the CBCA brings children and books together for one week to celebrate Australian children’s literature. This year’s Book Week will take place in Week 7: August 22 – 26 and the theme is ‘Dreaming with my Eyes Open’. To celebrate Book Week, we will combine our Book Character Parade and Grandparents Day on Friday 26 August. Students and staff are invited come to school dressed as a character from a book! Parents, Grandparents and friends of the school community are invited to join in the fun commencing at 9.10am. Our Grandparents will then be invited to
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This morning we had wonderful celebration! It is great to return to our normal events after 2 COVID years of lockdowns and ‘shut outs’ and be able to hold our (Annual) Father’s Day Breakfast. These are wonderful community events which are so important to our school community. It is such a lovely morning catching up with friends over an egg and bacon roll and a cuppa. Thank you to everyone who came out to join us this morning. A massive thank you to our wonderful staff at BPS who spent last night setting up for the event and arrived early
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