Summer Festival 2009

The Choir, some musicians, the Jump Jam group and some Wearable art representatives
were proud to be able to go over to the Westfield Plaza in Pakuranga to present their items to parents and other shoppers there. They did an amazing job.

Wearable Arts

The Senior school paraded their wearable arts to the junior and middle school and parents this week. We had so much fun artistically creating works of art for our body, using recycled materials.
Don't we look amazing.
This is Room 16's effort.

Gymnastics.

We had teams from Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 competing at the local Eastern Zone competition. The Year 6 boys and the Year 6 Girls teams qualified to compete at the Auckland Champion of Champions competition. Also one boy in Year 4 and one boy in Year 5 qualified for the individual champions competition. The Year 6 boys team came 4th and we had some individual placings in Year 6 individual boys, Year 5 individual boys and Year 4 individual boys. We were really proud of our effort.

Senior School Wearable Arts

This week all of the senior students will display their amazing artworks on stage. Each student has created trash to fashion using a variety of recycled materials. They will be walking in time to music and posing as the audience will be thrilled with the detail and techniques. This was part of our art and technology units in Term 3.

Matariki Whanau Day

Jump Jam was in the hall.  We were able to watch the Jump Jam DVD and learn new Jump Jam routines as we followed the movements on the screen.

Our pavement art depicted the story of Matariki or some of the legends that we had been listening to.  Here the moon and the Seven Stars are being drawn.

A range of tabloid activities were included.  The students rotated around the activities.  Whanau leaders guided students in the activities.

Here the students are listening to Maori legends

We ended the second term with a Matariki Whanau Day.  Matariki is the Maori New Year.  We had been talking about Matariki and its significance to Maori in the past.  We have listened to stories and researched our information.  

June and July are the months of Matariki.  It begins when the Stars of the Seven Sisters rise into sight.  A number of Maori legends give different accounts of how it came into being.  If the stars were bright then it would be a good year for crops.  If they were dull then crops were left a little longer before they were planted.

Matariki traditionally was a time to remember those that were no longer with them.  It was a time of learning of culture.  It was a time to feast with family and friends.  The crops were harvested and the foods from hunting had been preserved.  It was a time to fly kites so that they would reach close to the skies.

We celebrated our Whanau afternoon by listening to Maori legends, producing pavement art about the stars and the legends that we listened to, taking part in tabloid sports and by doing Jump Jam.

  

Year 5 and 6 Hockey Field Day June 2009

On Thursday 18 June, Mr Ohms took two teams of Year 5 and 6 students to a hockey field day at Lloyd Elsmore Park.  They had a great day and played really well for BBPS!

Year 6 Camp

The Year 6s Went to Shakespear Lodge in Shakespear Regional Park for camp from the
11 to 14 of March.
Here are some photos from our trip.

This is the view from the top

of a hill when we went on the
Shakespear Expedition.

This cave was discovered on
Shakespear Expedition along
the shore of Pink Beach.

This is a picture of the Archery
hall where we did Archery and
at night played UNI-HOCK.

These are the pigs we had to
feed every evening with the
food scraps from the day.

These boys are navigating
there route on the
Shakespear Expedition.

This is Sean who managed
to climb the climbing
wall BLINDFOLDED!!

This is the climbing wall.

This is the beach with some
Peacocks along side it.

The Year 6s really enjoyed there trip to camp an it could not of happend without the
help and support of the parents and the teachers exspieally Mrs McKenzie who gave
up her own time to orginise the camp.
Year 5s when you go to camp we hope you all have a great time at camp because the
year 6s sure did.