Niuean Language Week - Goodbye and Thank you Monica!

Last week was Niuean Language Week. We celebrated this during our opening and closing assemblies through the Niuean language, listening to prayer, singing songs and watching performances by our amazing Niuean Culture group.

This year we had a special focus which was farewelling our Niuean treasure Monica who has been a special part of BMPS but who has sadly left. Luckily we still see Monica around school as she works at SKIDS.

The ‘challenge’ for each class was to create a farewell gift which was presented on Friday. Room 8 decided to bake cookies. Alongside this, we worked with a buddy to write recipes for Monica. This was a fun and creative activity. Some of the ingredients the we came up with were...

* 2 cups of cool Niuean dance moves

* A sprinkle of cheekiness 

* 4 heaped tablespoons of love

* 1 large loving heart

Baking the biscuits required careful reading, following step by step instructions, communication and teamwork as well as applying our maths skills in a real life situation. Take a look at the messy deliciousness!

Thank you Monica all that you’ve done for us. We will miss you!

BMPS Athletics Day

What a fantastic day we had on Friday! It is always great when our whole school gets together and athletics day is always a highlight.

There were a mixture of emotions...nerves...excitement but everyone did their absolute best and should be very proud of themselves.

Congratulations to those children who placed in the finals, particularly the Room 8 relay team which came first, even beating the parents team!