Blackburn Primary School in Blackburn, Victoria, Australia | Primary School

Blackburn Primary School

Locality: Blackburn, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9878 1483

Address: 185 Surrey Rd 3130 Blackburn, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.blackburnps.vic.edu.au

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23.01.2022 Welcome back to on-site learning! Mr C's favourite word today is how everyone is feeling - excited!

23.01.2022 This week our Grade 6 students have experienced their on-site camp. Due to restrictions and the cancellation of their normal school camp, the Grade 6 teachers and helpers wanted to ensure all students still had a special time together before they head off to high school next year. The three days of events included many rotational activities and games, special meals and fun events such as a movie night, colour run, and BPS Talent Show. We have included just a snippet of the festivities in a short video. A big thank you to Miss Ellis and all the Grade 6 teachers and helpers to make the days a huge success!

23.01.2022 Welcome back for Term 4! We hope your holidays were used to rest and recharge as we prepare for a busy term back on-site. This week remote learning continues for all of our students from Foundation to Year 6 via Showbie and Webex. Stay tuned for information via Compass about how our return to the school grounds looks next week and beyond. ... We can’t wait to see you all!

22.01.2022 What a better way to celebrate the end of the 2020 school year with the video of our @Music Count Us In day. Thanks to Mrs Shacklock and Mrs Sutcliffe for pulling this amazing video together.

20.01.2022 Fantastic to see this post celebrating two of our wonderful students and the way they have shown gratitude, entrepreneurship and amazing community mindedness - Well done Bella and Zara!

20.01.2022 This term's last Tuesday Storytime comes to you from Mrs Pattison in the Patch program. This is a great story by Australian author Graeme Base 'My Grandma lived in Gooligulch'. Enjoy!

20.01.2022 Welcome back to Term 4

19.01.2022 BAND UPDATE FROM MR CAMPBELL On show from our BPS musicians today is the amazing improvement that our training band members made prior to remote learning in the first few months of the year. A huge congratulations to all the fantastic instrumental teachers we have here in our School Band program who have continued their lessons remotely all term. Our first performance in the video is Isla from 3HS - "My favourite song to play on my saxophone is Bingo. I think it has a fun tun...e." The second performance is from the Training Band, conducted by Erin Stoddart and introduced by Louis from 3H. Third, make sure to check out AFL themed performances from Danni in 5G, Kallum in 5B, Emilie in 5B, Sophie in 4B, Tom in 6A, Nicholas in 4A, Davida in 6A and Erin our woodwind teacher at https://safeYouTube.net/w/mPFcb

18.01.2022 Today marked a very special occasion as we said goodbye (for now!) to our amazing school chaplain Phil. We were so excited to celebrate with him and show him what he means to our community. We look forward to him being involved in BPS in different ways next year.

18.01.2022 THE WEEKLY WRAP UP This week across the school we acknowledged Remembrance Day (Wednesday 11th November) and NAIDOC Week (8th - 15th November) through events, activities and reflections. We also welcomed our 2021 Foundation students for their first transition session at BPS. Photo collages this week include:... - Remembrance Day displays across the school - NAIDOC Week activities from Year 1 students connecting to the land and painting their favourite place using natural things. - NAIDOC Week activities from Year 2 students learning about art culture and respecting that they always was, always will be. - Year 3 learning the rhythms to play on untuned percussion instruments for the MCUI performance. - 'The Great Barrier Reef' artwork by Mary Jane in Year 4 - Year 5B students learning to sign their name using Auslan (as part of their learning to sign the Music Count Us In song ‘You Won’t Bring Us Down’ ). - Year 6 students working hard on reflections of their primary school years in preparation for Graduation. Have a fantastic weekend everyone!

16.01.2022 Special messages of support for the last week of Term 3! Thanks to @Karl Stefanovic and Ally from The Today Show!

16.01.2022 Fantastic news that our community has been waiting for!

14.01.2022 Special messages of support for the last week of Term 3! Thanks to Hawthorn Football Club superstar Tom Mitchell as we celebrate Footy Colours Day today!

14.01.2022 Our weekly wrap up focus for the last few weeks has been on our specialist programs. To end the term today, we share the marvellous investigations and journaling that have been happening through The Patch program with Mrs Pattison.

14.01.2022 Colouring Competition Reminder! Grab your coloured pencils, there is still a chance to enter our #NationalRecyclingWeek colouring competition. Entries close 11...pm 15 November, with prizes to be won for children aged 13 and under. To access the colouring sheet, terms and conditions, as well as tips on how to submit your entry, please visit our website https://bit.ly/3kkcpw3

14.01.2022 As we finish off the week and the year we wish all of our families and students a wonderful Christmas break and enjoy every moment of the Summer. We look forward to seeing you all back on the 29th January 2021. Here's some of our year 3 students building some special bark based Christmas trees this week

14.01.2022 See the latest issue of Blackburn Primary School Weekly here

13.01.2022 Special messages of support for the last week of Term 3! Thanks to Terry Denton of the Story Treehouse series for this amazing message and a sneak peek into the next book! https://www.terrydenton.com.au/

13.01.2022 THE WEEKLY WRAP UP It’s been a busy week for our Grade 1/2 students. - In Maths they have been creating survey questions to ask their class. They have tallied and graphed their results and wrote statements about the data and the class. - In Writing, students have been writing persuasive texts. They have been focusing on including voice in their writing and even some rhetorical questions! Today the students have been publishing this writing for their Writer’s Gifts. ... - In the Patch they were watering the gardening and learning about capacity at the same time! - Grade 2 students listened to the band during their lunch eating time. It was great to hear the band playing to an audience again! Today, Grade 5 students had their on-site camp experience. Although camp was different due to restrictions and being unable to travel, they were able to have a bungy run, sports rotations, build straw towers, a fish and chip lunch and finally a colour run! A big shout out to the Grade 5 teachers and helpers for putting together a special day for our happy ‘campers’.

12.01.2022 Special messages of support for the last week of Term 3! Thanks to our local member of parliament Paul Hamer MP

11.01.2022 Week 10 remote learning Message and Birdthday messages from our Captain Jonathan. - Special thanks to Plate of Origin's Matt Preston and Melbourne Storm's Ryan Papenhuyzen

11.01.2022 THE WEEKLY WRAP UP What a first week back of term! Our last week of remote learning was filled with many fun activities. Watch our video to find out what has been happening. A special shout out to all our Year 3/4 students who have had a virtual camp! We can’t wait to see you all back at school on Monday!

10.01.2022 As always December becomes a busy month for all of us, a good reminder about always acting with kindness. Action for Happiness Kindness calendar is a great way to open these conversations with our children.

10.01.2022 JOKE OF THE WEEK It’s the final joke of the week with Miss P and Kermit. We hope you have enjoyed your Friday smiles all term. A very big thank you to the amazing Miss P and her guest stars. See you for the final assembly at 2.15pm

09.01.2022 Thanks to the support of our school council, Department of Education & Training, Victoria, Paul Hamer MP & Tim Richardson we're pleased to share with you the fantastic upgrades around our school that we have been able to do over the last few months - a fabulous new entrance to the school, great terraced seating space outside the music room and additional drainage to the oval. (Lots of new grass to grow too!)

09.01.2022 NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Due to COVID-19, NAIDOC week is being celebrated in 2020 from the 8th to the 15th of November. NAIDOC is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life. This week students will be participating in activities focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.

09.01.2022 Celebrating #WorldKindnessDay. Who can you be kind to today?

08.01.2022 GUESS THE SONG We're almost finished with remote learning 2.0, so what better way to energise ourselves back for on-site learning than to sing along to Sarah from 5/6P playing the trumpet! Sarah is part of our Symphonic band at BPS. Can you guess the songs in her medley? Share your guesses in the comments.

08.01.2022 BAND UPDATE FROM MR CAMPBELL While we were unable to have our sensational Evening of Music this year, the music teachers are turning a negative into a positive. They have been busy filming the Band students playing their favourite piece for the Virtual Evening of Music. The link to the online concert will be made available via Compass around the 4th of December. The two images placed here are photos of the senior guitar ensemble performing last week to the Grade 2 students, d...emonstrating another aspect of the band program. Their performance of ‘House of the Rising Sun’ will be recorded for the Virtual Evening of Music. In a couple of weeks the Band Handbook will be available to students from Grade 2 to Grade 5. Our Band Recruitment Night will take place Term1, Week 3 in 2021. This will give interested students the opportunity to consider their options and notify parents of the costs involved in joining this excellent program.

08.01.2022 THE WEEKLY WRAP UP - The Grade 1/2 students have had an author study of Aaron Blabey. This week they did some partner reading of all the Aaron Blabey books theyhave looked at so far. - The Grade 3/4 students are starting a new maths unit called geocities where they build different city precincts using nets and 3D shape. These photos are from the planning stage.... Have a good weekend BPS community!

08.01.2022 Special messages of support for the last week of Term 3! Thanks to musician Taylor Henderson. Check out his music here - https://taylorhendersonmusic.com/

07.01.2022 Today we celebrated our wonderful Miss Parsons who will be marrying her fiancé Brenton during the January holidays. Wishing Clare and Brenton a super special day! We can't wait to see your wedding pics!

07.01.2022 We would like to thank Bar Doh for supporting our school through the Cup Eve Pizza day fundraiser. Big thanks also to the BPS families who bought pizzas that day. As a result of the one day event, we received a generous donation from Bar Doh of $550 towards funding our new playgrounds. Thank you Bar Doh!

06.01.2022 Special messages of support for the last week of Term 3! Thanks to Luke Darcy and the Friday Huddle team! Don't believe everything Luke says but remember that we do finish at 2.30pm today!

06.01.2022 Have you heard the news? Next week is the last week of term and lots of special things happening around BPS - Footy Maths day and lots of other great things happening in every level throughout the week - make sure you have checked out the message on Compass. A couple of special messages of support here and remember that we do finish at 2.30pm next Friday! A huge thanks to Mike Larkan and Peter Hitchener

06.01.2022 Today we hear from our Dampier House Captains Binuk and Oscar as they share some sports trivia and basketball skills you can try at home. There is also an update from Alex, our Tasman House Captain, about how he has been progressing with his bike challenge this term.

04.01.2022 Our joke of the week is here with Miss P and Kermit! Just what we need to keep us positive and take us into the weekend. Enjoy everyone! Stay safe BPS community

04.01.2022 That's a wrap! What a huge term of learning for our students, with many successes and challenges. A very big thank you to the amazing BPS community made up of our staff, students, families and community supports. We hope you all have a restful holiday break, and take the time to recharge for Term 4. We are looking forward to welcoming you back to the school grounds very soon.

04.01.2022 Special messages of support for the last week of Term 3! Thanks to Eddie Mcguire for kicking off the last week of Term3!

03.01.2022 It's Wellbeing Wednesday which means another edition of Phil's tips to stay happy and healthy. Enjoy!

03.01.2022 A reminder that all student iPads and chargers are to be returned to school tomorrow, Monday the 30th of November for the end of lease collection. If you have any questions, please see Compass for more details or contact the school office. Thank you!

02.01.2022 THROWBACK THURSDAY We were proud to be part of the Umbrella Dementia Cafe, and can't wait to be involved again soon. Check out this video posted by Dan Andrews with our own BPS students sharing why they are excited to be part of the initiative. To find out more, visit Umbrella Dementia Cafes

02.01.2022 This morning we celebrated our departing year six students with the cheers and tears assembly. Congratulations to our award winners and our new 2021 school captains - Bridget, Kate, Lara and Isabella.

01.01.2022 We were so lucky to receive some amazing special messages of support throughout Term 3 - if you haven't checked them out you can see them all here and share them with your family and friends! https://www.facebook.com/watch/590746664395851/2756696837943169/

01.01.2022 2020 Footy Maths brought out some of the amazing talents of students at BPS