News Articles and Archives

2008

Pie Day - 18/06/08

Wednesday was school pie day. The student's enjoyed eating their pies on a cold winters day.

"The pies were great and tasted like a true Aussie pie." Joey from 5/6 "Tasty, but I think they were a bit square." Nathan from 5/6

Thanks to the parents who donated their time and prepared the pies and sausage rolls.

Student Led Conferences- 18/06/08

A big congratulations to all students who presented their portfolio at the conferences on Monday & Tuesday. This was the first time the school has used this format. Thank you to parents who attended and supported their children's presentation.

5/5 Camp Lake Nillahcootie

Students from grades five and six recently returned from Camp Lake Nillahcootie. The camp is located on the banks of Lake Nillahcootie between the townships of Benalla and Mansfield. Students participated in a range of activities ranging from ropes initiatives to abseiling. Highlights included the Talent Quest Night and famous Nillahcootie Team Challenge. The 5/ 6 teachers would like to thank the wonderful group of children who attended for their enthusiasm and effort. Thanks also to Don, Mr. Watson and Claire for giving their time to help make the camp such a success.

World Maths Day - 05/03/08

Today is world maths day. Students from BSWPS have all received their registration details. This includes password and login details. Students are encouraged to join with students from over 150 countries around the world to answer as many questions as possible. Visit http://www.worldmathsday.com/ to participate.

For further information contact Shelley in room 4.

2007 ARCHIVE

Student to State Athletics Finals 23/10/07

Congratulations to Gronya from 5/6 Maurice who will be attending the Victorian Primary Schools State Athletics Finals. Gronya qualified for the long jump with a leap of 3.88 meters! The school community wish her well and congratulate all the students who represented BSWPS at the recent regional finals.

Idol Results 11/09/07

Students voted in classes after Monday’s IDOL final. One winner from each area in the school was voted for…. and the winners are….

From P/1/2 with 125 votes… JAMES from Kelly’s class

CONGRATULATIONS!

From 3/4 with 93 votes….. MEG and GRETTA from Kim’s class

WELL DONE!

From 5/6 with 100 votes….. GEORGINA from Cathy’s class

WOW!

Congratulations to the winners!

Idol Thanks - 10/09/07

Many thanks to ALL students who entered the IDOL competition! The final on Monday showed the huge audience what talented students we have here at BSWPS. Thanks for coming along and showing your support!
Well done to the finalists for performing at Mondays show:
James, Kiandra, Nathan, Alana, Natalie, Matilda, Celeste, Karyn, Jaclyn, James, Victoria, Jeremiah, Meg, Gretta, Grace, Georgina, Gronya, Chelsea, Madeleine, Catherine and Emma.
Without all the entries (97 students in total) IDOL wouldn’t have been what it was! So thanks to everyone who entered:
Charlie, Harry, Archie, Paige, Gracie, Beth, Angela, Anna, Estelle, Rachel, Emma, William, Megan, Namrata, Angus, Owen, Sofia, Chloe, Lucy, Matilda, Lilli, Taylor, Moussa, Eva, Grace, Isobel, Peter, Samuel, Daniel, Otilia, Hannah, Pheobe, Ananya, Lilly, Ned, Elizabeth, Loren, Ellie, Lily, Henry, Jacob, Isabelle, Will, Adam, Emily, Ruby, Natalie, Greta, Lola, Alana, Rita, David, Matthew, Patrick, Toby, Lachlan, Miles, Patterson, Mitchell, Joe, Felix, Nikki, Helena, Lucy, Joey, Nicky, Wilbur, George, Grace, Caitlin, Bridget, Mallory, Esther, Shaamal, Ricky, Holly and Eliza.

THE WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED SOON…

Chrissy

District Athletics - 07/09/07

Last Friday 37 of our grade 3-6 students competed in cold and windy conditions against the other Brunswick schools at Harold Steven’s Track in Coburg. We had a very successful day with 5 of our 6 relay teams winning and we also won in 14 individual events. About 27 of our students will compete in the next stage, Zone (October 17th).

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A Day At The Museum

One day, Tony and Angela decided to spend the day at the Museum. They caught the tram early in the morning. The tram was jam packed with people going to work. Because they were just eight and ten, they managed to squeeze in between a couple of people in suits.
When they arrived at the Museum, they discovered that they needed an adult to buy tickets for them. They crept into the cloak room and took a long black coat. Angela climbed carefully onto Tony’s shoulders and they put the coat on. Luckily there was some money in the coat pocket. One on top of the other Angela and Tony managed to bluff their way past the front desk and into the Museum.
They quickly dropped the coat, but a security guard stopped to speak to them. “Where are your parents?” he asked Angela and Tony.
They both pointed past him saying “Over there!”
As the guard turned to look, Angela and Tony ran through the nearest door…….

A win for B.W.S.P.S at the Calabria Club 20/08/07

On Wednesday the 15th of August a specially selected soccer team from B.S.W.P.S made the journey to the Calabria Club in Brunswick to play Spensley St. PS (Clifton Hill) in a game of soccer.
The Calabria Club had just had their soccer ground handed back after it was used for the Commonwealth games.
The kick-off  was 10:30; it went for two minutes then stopped because the media wanted to take some photos. After the interruption the game continued with B.S.W.P.S going on to win 7 – 2, a definitive win.
Afterwards there were chips, crisps, desserty things and soft drinks. By the time we got back to school I think we realised we had too many chips!

Congratulations to B.S.W.P.S. A great morning.

By Gronya 5/6 Maurice

See the Offical Team Photo here!

Il Campeggio Italiano – 2007

We are in the throng of getting organised for our annual Campeggio Italiano. 19 selected studenti from Grades 5/6 will be attending a three day campeggio at Creswick-Daylesford. We will be cooking, eating, speaking and playing in Italiano and we are all looking forward to all the organised activita`! We will be visiting The Macaroni Factory, the Lavandula Farm and the Tinetti Willow Bat Factory. We will be attending the campeggio with 5 other inner-city schools and in total 94 studenti and 9 insegnanti! Il campeggio will run from Tuesday 4.09.07 to Thursday 6.09.07 so stay tuned for a report back soon.
Grazie, signora Bruna

Annual Report

The schools 2006 Annual Report to the Community can now be downloaded and viewed. (File is in MS Word format)

Lights, Camera, Action!

Declan, Mallory, Nathan and Kushla went to Apollo Parkways P.S, near Eltham North for one day. They learned how to make movies, (including how the rule of thirds helps the shot look more interesting). They used Apple Mac’s with i-movie to edit and process movies.
 
They went back to school and made a movie with the school’s digital video camera. The subject was,  “The Red Ball”. They have to send it back to Apollo Parkways. It will be sent back with all the other schools’ movies on one DVD.

Weird Dress Day - 10/05/07

This week SRC held a Weird Dress Day to raise money for our sister school in East Timor. The students, (and some teachers), put in a huge effort with their crazy outfits, hair-dos, make up and mismatched shoes! Because of the effort, the school was able to raise $286.40 to help buy Namolesu School some much needed sports and music equipment. Well done everyone!

Zone Cross Country 30/05/07

On Wednesday 23rd May, 12 of the grade 3 to 6s went to the North Western Zone Cross Country Championships at Brimbank Park .
Shortly after we arrived Rita raced in the 9/10 year girls. She did very well and came 33rd . Then in the next race, the 9/10 year boys, Josh raced very well and came 33rd and David gave it everything and came 34th.
Shortly after Esther and Madeleine raced in the 11year old girls. Esther did very well and came 10th and Madeleine tried her best but had to pull out because of injury. Straight after that, Joey, Nathan and Dylan raced in the 11 year boys. They all did well. Nathan came 10th, Joey 18th and Dylan came 26th.
Then the second last race, the 12 /13 year girls, Isabella raced brilliantly and came 8th.
The last race of the day was the12/13 year boys. Wilbur, Oliver and Adam all raced well. Adam came 23rd,  Oliver 24th and Wilbur came 26th.
We look forward to seeing Victoria and Dinny, our 9 year old stars who were too young to make it into zone, racing next year.
 
BY WILBUR 5/6 Maurice

Cross Country Report - 23/05/07

On Friday the 18th May, grades 3-6 had the cross country district races. The races were held at Harold Stevens Reserve.
Despite the random showers, Brunswick South West had the most wins overall.
Unfortunately, even though Dinny (1st, 9-10 boys) and Victoria (2nd, 9-10 girls) made a huge effort finishing first, they were too young to get into cross country zone, the next step up. David, Josh and Rita did qualify in this age group.
Luckily we had lots of other competitors who got a place to cheer us up. In 11 yr old boys, Nathan took the lead coming in at 1st place, closely followed by Joey at 2nd, Dylan came in at 4th.
In 11 yr old girls, Esther came in at 1st place, and Madeline came 6th.
In 12-13 yr old boys, Wilbur came 2nd, followed by Ollie at 3rd and Adam at 4th.
In 12 yr old girls, Isabella came first with a fantastic sprint using up the last of her energy.

The cross country zone will be held on Wednesday 23rd May (today). Good luck to all our great runners.

By Esther - 5/6 Maurice

Polyglot Puppets Theater - 10/05/07

Twenty-eight grade 3/4 students were lucky enough to attend a Puppet Making Workshop at the Cromwell Theatre in South Yarra on Monday 7th May 2007. The students were provided with materials to create their own shadow puppets. Each of the groups got to perform their play to the rest of the group. Ideas such as: ghost town, flying carpet, circus and underwater treasure chest were included in their plays.
We were lucky enough to have been invited to attend, (Many thanks to Sandra Ayache), and it was another great opportunity to celebrate learning during Victoria’s Education Week celebrations!
Thanks to all the students participating with such enthusiasm, as well as Minnie, our parent helper on the day!

Chrissy Temple

CAMP GUNDIWINDI RECOUNT 2007

On the 26th February 2007, the Grade 5/6’s went by bus to Gundiwindi Lodge for 3 days for school camp.
We all had lollies on the bus even though we weren’t supposed to. On the bus there was a toilet but it was locked. We were all really tired once we got to Gundiwindi but it was still exciting. When we got there we met the camp coordinator, Tracy, and she gave us a speech. There was a dog called Maggie.

The activities were archery, ropes course, cubby building, flying fox, yabbying and sensory trail. My favourite was archery. I hit a balloon.

For dinner the first night we had fish and chips. After that I played rugby. It was really fun. Then we watched, Wayne’s World. It was funny but we were all too tired to enjoy it. We didn’t sleep much that night.

The next morning we had spaghetti on toast for breakfast. Then we had free time, then cubby building, followed by flying fox. Next was hamburgers for lunch.
After lunch I had yabbying, then sensory trail. After that it was free time and  I played rugby and tug-o-war. We had a night walk. I lost my torch. The next morning I had duty group. Tara held my nose to wake me up and then told me I had duty group in 5 minutes. We had scrambled eggs for breakfast. Rachael found my torch.

On the last day we went to Healesville Sanctuary. We patted a possum, a snake, a frog and then a Tawny Frogmouth. We also saw The Birds of Prey Show. Then we had lunch and left. On the bus home Gronya spilled chips and got in trouble. When we got back we were all really tired. It was a fun camp.

Written By Esther from 5/6 Maurice

3/4 Students Return from Camp Rumbug!

Children from the grade 3/ 4 area recently returned from a trip to Camp Rumbug. Students enjoyed a variety of activities including a giant swing, beach activities, initiative challenges, rock pooling and campfire stories! The weather was kind and apart from the city gridlock on the return, a wonderful time was had.