Intro
Introductions start from Monday 4 August 2008. During this part of the rap, rappers send a short class message of introduction. Please tell us:
* the name of your group and your school
* any information about your location or your class group that would interest other rappers
* any initial reactions to the texts
* what you would like to learn about and what technology, writing and other skills you would like to develop during the rap.
Don’t forget, you can also respond to comments made by other groups of rappers.
Why not check out locations of other schools in this rap with Google maps or whereis?
Back to Introductory rap point.
Click on the Comments link below to add your class introductory message.
August 1st, 2008 at 11:27 am
Hello Rappers!
Welcome to the Beijing Olympic Games & Book Week 2008 Rap! My name is Mrs Keane and I will be coordinating this book rap. I am the editor of Scan, which is a quarterly journal for teacher librarians and teachers. My office is at Ryde, a north western suburb of Sydney. I have a lovely view of native trees and birds through my window.
Work together with your class group to write a short introduction about your class and school. Please tell us a few details about your school. For example, you may wish to write about the size and location of your school, the uniform and emblem, the daily fitness program, or anything that makes your school special. Your teacher or teacher librarian will then post your introduction to the rap blog, under this Introductions tab. I am looking forward to reading about your school.
Remember to end each message with the name of your group and your school so that other rappers will know where you are from, for example, 3M Active from Palm Tree PS.
Happy rapping!
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 1st, 2008 at 11:29 am
Hi from Julie and Emily, teacher librarians at Nowra Public School.
We are going to be doing this Book rap with Years 3-6, which is 12 classes in total. Each class will post a message using the Nowrarappers username but they will include their classname in their post.
Happy rapping!
August 1st, 2008 at 12:00 pm
Welcome Julie and Emily. It will be wonderful to read the comments from 12 classes of Nowrarappers.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 4th, 2008 at 10:50 am
Hi we’re 5J. We are from Nowra Public School. There are about 600 students at this school – we rock! We do a lot of sporting activities eg. soccer, cricket, football, AFL, skipping, basketball, dodgeball, netball, softball, dancing, athletics and we will begin lawn bowls soon. Our school uniform is Maroon and White and our emblem is the Lyrebird. We have to wear our uniform every day, except mufti days.
Nowra is a small town near the coast of New South Wales. About 2 to 3 hours south of Sydney depending on traffic. Some special features of Nowra are; the mountains, Shoalhaven RIver, HMAS Albatross, and the ocean is approximately 20 kms away.
Recently, our town opened the new Shoalhaven Enterainment Centre – this is where there are performances, meetings and choir, dancing, orchestras etc.
We have 27 children in our class, our teacher’s name is Mr Jenkinson. He loves maths and that’s all we do! Some of the boys in the class are really badly behaved and the girls are favoured by our teacher. Our teacher takes us out to play, we also do art. Some of our desks are broken (not by us) and being replaced this week.
We have not participated in a book rap before and we don’t really know what to expect. We are looking forward to working together with our librarian to study the olympics and reading the Shaggy Gully Times.
Bye for now, 5J Nowra Public School
August 4th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hi this is 3W. Our teacher is called Mrs Westaway, Our location is at Nowra, NSW. We have a new Entertainment Centre. A famous racehorse bred in Nowra was called “Arwon” – Nowra spelt backwards. Also the central township used to be at Terrara but moved to Nowra because of flooding!
There are/were also some Special events occurring in are school:
#1-Boys u/a Football team going to Sydney!
#2-Our school is 146 years old!
#3-Our year 6 children have currently gone to Canberra.
#4 Year 3 recently visited Elizabeth farm and Olympic park!.
#5-Our school came 1st in the Dance eisteddfod!
To be continued…. from 3W Nowra Public School
August 4th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Hello we’re 4T from Nowra Public School. Our teacher is Mr Thompson. Our school is located in the heart of Nowra. It is in the south east of New South Wales. It is on the coast, 21/2 hours south of Sydney.
We have the Shoalhaven River flowing through our town, we have a helicopter on a stick located at the entrance of our town. We have mountains on one side of the town and the ocean on the other. We have an Anzac memorial at our showground. We have a very new Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, there is a navy base close to the town called HMAS Albatross, some people live on acreages on the outskirts of town.
Mr Robertson is our principal and runs the school. We have a big hall for assemblies. We have two separate sites – Infants and Primary. We have a quiet library. We have good teachers. We have 600 students. We have a choir. We have lots of school representatives. Our uniform is maroon and white and our emblem is the lyrebird.
Enjoy the opening ceremony. Talk to you next week.
4T Nowra Public School
August 4th, 2008 at 1:01 pm
Hello, we are a group of 13 children in Stage 3 from Woolgoolga Public School.
WPS is on a hill by the ocean. We have sea views from some of the library windows.
Woolgoolga is called Woopi for short. It is located 30kms north of Coffs Harbour and the town centre is just off the Pacific Highway. Woolgoolga is well known for its large Indian community and travellers on the highway will often notice one of our impressive Sikh temples.
We have a community language teacher in our school who teaches Punjabi to all the classes. Our school motto is Learning, Caring, Sharing and we feel this is what our school is all about. There are 357 students in our K-6 school.
We are taking part in this Book Rap every Wednesday in the school library with Mrs Molloy our teacher/librarian. Some of us will also help with the rap during lunch on other days.
Looking forward to rapping from Woopirappers13 at Woolgoolga PS.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Hi everyone,
We’re 4C from Manly Village Public School in Sydney. We’re celebrating 150 years of being a public school. This is called our sesquicentennary.
Our school is very close to Manly Beach. We can smell the salt and hear the surf from our classroom. We have about 480 students at our school and 29 students in our class, of which 20 are girls!! Mr Cogger is our teacher and Mrs Neill is our Teacher Librarian. This is our first book rap and we are feeling very excited about taking part.
We are a very fit and healthy school and since we live near the beach we can do sailing, kayaking, beach volleyball, surfing and we also play rugby league, soccer and netball.
One of the best things about living in Manly is the amazing sea life. We have little penguins, dolphins, sharks and sometimes we see whales passing by.
We are really looking forward to reading all your responses and locating your schools.
Stay healthy….adios, ciao…
4C Manly Village Public School
August 5th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hi we are 3R at Nowra Public School, our teacher is Mrs Rodden. Our school is on Plunkett Street, Nowra.
Interesting information about Nowra: Naval Air Base, Newly constructed Entertainment Centre, we’re close to Jervis Bay and beaches, we have some good bush walking tracks nearby.
Special events in our school community – book week, week 5. Year 3 went to Olympic Park and Elizabeth Farm, Year 6 went to Canberra.
We think Manly School is very lucky to be able to hear the waves of the beach and have surfing for sport. We would love to watch whales go by too.
Woolgoolga PS – send our love to Mr Carter (from Mrs Rodden and Mrs Williams)
Talk to you later.
3R Nowra Public School
August 5th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Welcome 5J, 3W, 4T and 3R Nowrarappers at Nowra Public School; Woopirappers13 at Woolgoolga PS and 4C manlyvillageolympians at Manly Village PS. It’s amazing that our first 6 rapping classes are from coastal areas of NSW. Having visited each of these places, I know that you are all lucky to have such wonderful local environments.
I hope you enjoy the rap and anjoy reading and responding to the comments of fellow rappers. The countdown is on. Hurry up 08/08/08 because we’re ready to rap.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde (which is not on the coast but is only 15 minutes away from the Parramatta River and the Lane Cove River)
August 5th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Hi everyone, we are 4/3B from Manly West PS in Balgowlah. Our teacher is Miss Barnard and she rocks! We have 24 children in our class and our school has about 650 children. Our principal is Mr Daley, he is very nice and takes good care of his school.
Manly West is just up the road from Manly Village PS! We have a large oval where we enjoy playing lots of sports like football, tag, soccer, tip, t-ball and lots more. We also have a few netball and basketball courts. 4/3B love our school’s handball courts where we play handball every recess, lunch, before and after school!
Our school has a motto, which is courtesy and cooperation. We always try to be polite, respect the rights of others, cooperate and play safely. Our school uniform is blue and gold and very bright in summer.
Like Manly Village, we are near the beach (not quite as close as them though!) so we enjoy lots of outdoor activities.
We are looking forward to the Beijing Olympics, reading The Shaggy Gully Times and rapping with you all.
From,
manlywestrap
Manly West PS
August 5th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Welcome 4/3B manlywestrappers. I’m glad you are looking forward to the Olympics and sharing the humorous book, The Shaggy Gully Times. Do you like the full title of this book? We’ll just use the short version for the rap or we’ll be typing all day!
You are lucky to have such a range of sporting activities at your school. All of the rappers, so far, seem to be busy playing sport and being really active!
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Good afternoon rappers!
We are Stage 2 students in 3DV Maths group at Penrith Public School. We get to do the rap while our friends stay in the room to do maths. They will swap with us at 12.30pm.
Penrith PS is a great school with great teachers. We are surrounded by nature, but we are very close to High Street which is a main road. There are about 400 students at our school.
We are looking forward to seeing the Opening Ceremony in Birdsnest Stadium on TV. Kallie says “The Shaggy Gully Times” is an amazing book because it looks like a newspaper. It is funny, too. Will likes how they change the letters to make new words.
Our special guest animal reporter, who will be writing our sports report, is called Phoenix the Flying Fox. He hangs upside down in a cage and he is wearing a school librarian’s badge. You will learn more about Phoenix very soon.
Best wishes,
Phoenix and 3DV Maths students
Penrith PS
August 5th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Hello rappers,
We are from Penrith Public School. We are the other 3DV Maths group. The first group are back in their room doing longs and shorts with Base Ten materials.
At our school we have “Across the Road”, which means that there’s a big patch of grass we can play on at Recess and Lunch. We have a small, portable library but it’s filled with knowledge! It is usually quiet for people to concentrate. We have a large play area and also the Passive Playground.
“The Shaggy Gully Times” is Naomi’s favourite shortlisted book because it is funny and has deliberate mistakes. The Olympic Games are being held in China on the 08/08/08. We are jealous of Binta because she is off to Beijing on Saturday for sixteen days!!! Binta will miss most of the book rap but she’s doing something almost better!
Mr McLean, our teacher-librarian, showed us how to use Google to find the rap blog! Now we can show our families at home each night as we do the rap.
Piplup the Penrith Puffin is our reporter mascot for our rap news articles. He has been in our library for many years and Mr McLean found him in a dusty corner. Piplup is glad to have found new friends who care about him.
See you next time!
Piplup and 3DV Maths students
Penrith PS
August 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Hi Fellow Rappers
We are the Westies Rappers. We are class 43H from Bega West PS. Bega is a small town on the far south coast of NSW. You might know that we are famous for our cheese.
We love sport here, especially soccer, rugby league and netball. This term all our primary classes are learning about China and the Olympics. We’re looking forward to rapping with you again,
43H Bega West PS
August 5th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Hi! This is 5/6D.
Our school is called Glenbrook Public School. We are located in the Lower Blue Mountains, 15 minutes away from Penrith in NSW. We are close to the National Park. Our teacher is Mr Down. We do sport activities such as: netball, Soccer, Tennis, Dancing, Softball, T-Ball, Neucomball and on Fridays is when we do sport. We also have athletics carnivals, Winmalee Cup, Swimming carnivals and cross country. Our canteen is open on Wednesday and Fridays. Scripture and our assemblies are also on Fridays.
We have 265 student from K-6 at our school. For our sports carnivals we have 3 houses; Evans(red), Parkes(blue) and Barton(Yellow). We used to have 4 but there wasn’t enough students so we had to take away a house which was called: Wentwoth. Our school uniform is Blue and Yellow. “Knowledge is power” is what it says on our jackets, hats and shirts. Our school is divided into 2 departments and at the infants it goes up from K-2 and in the primary it is 3-6. From our school windows we can see the native bush. We have water tanks to supply water. We learn a language which is Japanese. Our school has a veggie garden, it has lettuce, potatoes and fruit in it. We also have a compost bin.
Our Librarian is Mrs Kirk. She is really nice. We are a very lucky school to have laptops to go on in class. We are looking forward to learning about the Olympics.
Talk to you soon, From Glenbrook Public School, 5/6D.
August 5th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Gday Everyone
We are 3-6 M from Lord Howe Island Central School. We are the only school on Lord Howe and we have 2 Primary classes and 4 Secondary students.
There are 36 students altogether in the school and our class has 22 kids from years 3,4,5 and 6. Our teachers name is Mr Morris and he is OK because he loves sport and he surfs.
Lord Howe is a World Heritage Site and our school is across the road from the beach and a beautiful lagoon surrounded by coral reefs.
We are all very healthy here because we mostly ride bikes to school or walk, we play lots of different sports, we have fruit break everyday and we are always outside. The speed limit for cars on the island is 25km/h and there aren’t many cars so we don’t have to worry about traffic.
The best thing about our school is that we don’t have to wear shoes to school. Our uniform is green and grey for boys and green checked dresses for girls.
We are looking forward to following all the Aussie athletes during the Olympics and we are going to mark all the other rapping schools on Google Earth so we can have a look at where everyone else lives.
Bye for now
3-6M
Lord Howe Island Central School
August 5th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
G’day from 43M at Bega West PS
Desmond says hi to the Nowra rappers because he used to go to Nowra PS 2 years ago.
Mrs Keane, we reckon we might have a better view than you because we can see Mumbulla Mountain covered in a beautiful forest.
We had a great athletics carnival a couple of weeks ago and Waratah won.
43M Bega West PS
August 5th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Welcome new rappers from Penrith PS and Glenbrook PS which isn’t far away from Penrith. Hello 43H at Bega West PS and barrelriders from Lord Howe Island CS.
I did mention in an earlier post that all the rappers were on the coast. No longer…we now stretch from the Great Dividing Range, across the coast to an island, in the Pacific, which is still part of NSW. What an amazing state we live in!
Knowledge is power Glenbrook rappers and it is also a terrific school motto. Finding, discussing and sharing information will enable you to transform your learning into new knowledge that will stay with you forever.
Of course we know Bega cheese, it comes from contented Bega cows. Bega is a great place to buy a milkshake too.
Well, you have really stirred my curiosity 3DV Maths group X 2 from Penrith PS. You seem to have some animal reporters working for you. I’m now wondering if your editor is actually a wombat?
Enjoy the opening ceremony at Beijing.
Happy rapping,
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Hello Rappers
We are from Glenroi Heights P.S. in Orange about 3 and 1/2 hours drive west of Orange. Although we probably don’t have to tell you that because most people notice Orange on the weather map each night and say “wow…look how cold it is in Orange”. Today we are searching for a promised top temperature of 8 degrees. It may snow tonight it is so cold and icy. We love the snow and thought we were lucky to wake up to a big snowfall on the first day of our last school holidays.The land around here is high with Mt Canobolas. just outside of the city, being a tall and extinct volcano. Mt Canobolas is often covered in snow in winter.
To keep fit we run around our school grounds at least twice each day. We have a Breakfast Program to make sure we have lots of energy to run, play and learn. Our school won the local school gardening competition and we are going to have a worm farm so that we don’t waste our food scraps and it will help the garden grow well.
We are looking forward to rapping with you all. We wish we could be like the woopirappers and the Many Village School and live right near the ocean. But, here we are in Orange, it is a beautiful city with four very different season. By the way we do not grow oranges in Orange, but we do grow apples and cherries.
Our children are learning to speak Wiradjuri this year and we have an amazing Aboriginal dance group.
The Bindicoots of Orange
Glenroi Heights P.S.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hello to the Bindicoots of Orange from Glenroi Heights PS. You may not have a beach nearby but I’m sure that our coastal rappers would love to wake up to snow covered ground one or two days in winter. If the barrelriders from Lord Howe Island decide to visit your school in winter, please remind them to pack their shoes!
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 6th, 2008 at 10:00 am
Hello,
We are students from years 5 and 6 at Darcy Road Public School. Our school is in Wentworthville which is a suburb of Sydney. Our teacher is Mr Easton and our class is called 5/6E. Our Principal is Mr Berwick. We do lots of fun things at school such as PSSA sport, Sports in Schools, Kids Fairs, Peer Support and excursions. Our athletics carnival was yesterday. We are looking forward to rapping with you all.
5/6E
Darcy Rd PS
August 6th, 2008 at 10:03 am
Hi,
We are 4D and we are also from Darcy Road Public School. There are 325 students at our school. Our school has lots of space, grass and trees. Our teacher is Miss Dao. We are looking forward to doing our first Book Rap.
4D
Darcy Rd PS
August 6th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Welcome Darcy Road rappers from 5/6E and 4D. I hope you enjoyed your sports carnival yesterday. Did anyone take photographs or videos of the carnival that you would like to share with the other rappers? Your teachers may have some ideas for this.
I was watching a sports report about the Boomers being narrowly defeated by the team from USA. Do you know which sport this was about? Have you noticed that the names of many Australian teams are associated with the names of our native animals? I can think of seven already and realise that some of the animal attributes would come in handy for the teams participating in games that require speed, high springing jumps, fast acceleration, etc.
I look forward to reading more introductions from schools near and far.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 6th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Hey everybody!
We are the first group from 3H Maths at Penrith Public School. Penrith is at the foot of the Blue Mountains. We are halfway between Katoomba and Sydney.
The Beijing Olympics make us get excited about sport. Luckily, our school has a new sandpit, and new surfaces on the old basketball court and tennis court. We are looking forward to playing on them very soon.
Matthew says “The Shaggy Gully Times” is a very funny book. Hamish likes the recipe for Bum Leaves. Six of us think it might win the gold medal for Book of the Year. Five of us think it might win a silver “Honour” medal.
We will be using technology to tell other people about our school. We will learn how to use a blog for the rap.
Our guest animal reporter is Tammy the Tortoise from Shaggy Gully. She even still has her fan tied to her shell. (We think she might have cheated last time she raced Walter Wabbit – see page 28.) She has come to Penrith to show the other animals which live in our library how to write newspaper articles. We will take a photo of Tammy for the Rap Gallery, maybe doing long jumps in our new sandpit.
Bye for now,
Tammy and 3H Maths students,
Penrith PS
August 6th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Hello Fellow Rappers,
We are 3456E from John Palmer Public School (JPPS). JPPS is a brand new school which opened this year and at the moment our current enrolled students are 56! We are the senior class of the school with a total number of 15 students: five Year 3’s; five Year 4’s; three Year 5’s and two Year 6’s.
Our school is located in the suburb called The Ponds which is under the Blacktown Council. Our suburb use to be called Kellyville Ridge and is in the middle of Stanhope Gardens and Kellyville Ridge.
Our very first Athletics Carnival is on this Friday – which is also the first day of the Olympics! This term our class is learning about the different countries around the world: their cultures, food and lifestyle. This will also include China and The Beijing Olympics!
We looked at The Beijing Olympic Website and the saw the schedule and the events area. We thought they have a very large area for all the events to take place. Last term we learnt about Healthy Choices and the Digestive System and are excited about commenting on this Book Rap. It is the first one we have ever done.
JPPS 3456E
Mrs Xuereb, Mark, Selina, Kasey, Danielle, Roberta, Emerson, Chris, Bismark, Vincent, Roshan, Jessie, Sonya, Bahram, Dean and Keiasha.
August 6th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Hello schools around Australia and the world!
We are the second group from 3H Maths at Penrith Public School. We think Penrith PS is the best school in the world because we always go Forward with Pride. We encourage people to be friends with each other. We saw the NED Show last week and we like to say, “Never give up, Encourage others. Do your best”.
“The Shaggy Gully Times” is a funny book. We are looking forward to the Olympic Games starting on 08/08/08.
Harry the Hairy Bungee Spider is our guest animal reporter. He is good at bunjee jumping. Maybe he is also good at the Australian Crawl?
Thank you for reading our introduction,
From Harry and 3H Maths students
@ Penrith PS
August 6th, 2008 at 1:49 pm
Hello Lord Howe Island,
We love to think of you way out in the ocean off Australia. Until now we did not know much about the island except that some people go there for a holiday. We love the idea of it being so hot that you dont have to wear shoes to school and it must be so quiet and peaceful without noisy cars rushing around.
We’re not sure how you would survive in Orange in our winter after all your sunshine.
Looking forward to hearing more from you
The Bindicoots of Orange NSW
August 6th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hi,
I’m Oscar from Mowbray Public school at Lane Cove. I’m the rap rep for my class 3B. My classroom teacher is Ms Banzato and our teacher librarian is Mrs McCann.
Our school is surrounded by bushland and lots of greenery. We are extremely active and do lots of activities to keep ourselves fit and healthy. These our some of the things that we do at our school: athletics carnivals, swimming carnivals, competitions, fun raising and much more. We have some interactive white boards and do lots of fun things with them.
Bye for now.
Oscar – 3B
Mowbray Public School – Lane Cove
August 6th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Hello Aussies! Oi!Oi! Oi!
We are twelve brave students from 4W at Penrith Public School representing our class in the rap.
Penrith is a great place to live because it’s near the Blue Mountains, We are close to the public pool and Penrith Plaza. It’s fun.
We are looking forward to learning about the Olympics, books and technology. Our special reporter mascot is Selby the talking dog, the famous star of Duncan Ball’s novels.
See you later,
Selby and 4W rappers
Penrith PS
August 6th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
(Reposted by rap coordinator)
We are class 6G from Mowbray Public School in Lane Cove.
Our teacher is called Mrs Galati and our librarian is Mrs McCann. We are a small school with huge grounds and our school is situated near the Lane Cove river. We have many sporting carnivals such as the Athletics, Swimming and cross country. We also have weekly sporting activities like Gymnastics, PSSA, ball skills and lots of other activities.
Looking forward to do our first rap.
Bye for now but not for ever.
Samantha, Annie and Georgia
from 6G
Mowbray Public School
August 6th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Hi,
Our class consists of 11 Year 5 students and 17 Year 6 students. Our teacher is Mr Moore. There are 310 students in our school and the suburb of Lambton is located in Newcastle.
Our school has 5 frog ponds and students can receive “frog awards” for helping the environment. Our school uniform is based on the red-eyed green tree frog. We have a healthy canteen and are sponsored by Wests League Club.
Our teacher-librarian is Mrs Quinn and we are studying the Olympics and “Shaggy Gully” with her. We haven’t participated in a Book Wrap before and are very excited.
S3M frograppers
Lambton P.S.
August 6th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Hello fellow rappers
We are a class of 31 students with a fairly even split of Year 5 and Year 6 students. Ms Sullivan is our classroom teacher. Mrs Quinn is our librarian and we are studying the Olympics and the Book Week shortlisted books with her. This week we wrote a letter to the Olympian Jade Grant (football) to wish him luck during our library lesson.
Our school colours are red and green and our school motto is” Courtesy and Truth”. We are a very multicultural school and are proud to be so. Our school is in the Newcastle suburb of Lambton.
Last year we had the Pasha Bulker freighter stranded on Nobby’s Beach after the wild storm. It was a pretty awesome sight. We all went down to see it. We have fabulous beaches in Newcastle and our suburb has a great community spirit.
S3S sulliespeeps
Lambton P.S.
August 6th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Our school is Lambton Public School. We are a class of 29 students with an even mix of Year 5 and year 6. Our teacher is Mrs Wood. We have a lot of sport at our school, like rugby, soccer, touch footy and softball. Our school encourages us to be environmentally friendly and we have a mostly bully free school.
Our teacher-librarian is Mrs Quinn and she is teaching us about using this rap. We haven’t blogged before but are looking forward to the experience.
Newcastle is a city on the coast about one and a half hours drive north of Sydney. We think we have a good combination of city and country life in Newcastle. There are great shopping malls and facilities as well as magnificent beaches and bush.
S3W lambtowraps
Lambton P.S.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Hello,
We are Duranbah 5/6 from Duranbah Public School. There are about 40 children at our school and just 9 people in our 5/6 class. Our school is near to the NSW/Qld border, close to the sea and surrounded by bush and farmland. Our school emblem is a red ant.
We thought it was fun that the children from Lord Howe Island don’t have to wear shoes! There is a lot of red soil at our school which gets all over your shoes and clothes if you fall over, especially if it is wet. Our school has three interactive whiteboards so we think we are really lucky!
We have been recording many of the schools’ names on a rap sheet and look forward to writing a new rap point next week – we are going to take turns.
Duranbah 5/6
August 7th, 2008 at 9:52 am
Hello
We are 3/4M from Lord Howe. There are 10 of us in Stage 2. We all have written something to tell you about life on Lord Howe Island.
We all know each other really well because there are only 350 people that live on Lord Howe Island.
We love playing sports but we don’t get to play many team sports because there aren’t any other teams to verse except playing against each other. We do play touch footy after school on Wednesdays with anyone who shows up and we do junior golf once a fortnight on a Sunday. We also do lots of swimming and surfing and fishing and snorkelling and scuba diving and we have a new table tennis table at school.
There isn’t any pool so we do all our swimming in the lagoon, even our swimming carnival.
We have markets once a month at school and they are on this week.
We love climbing trees and our Banyan trees have big long vines that we swing on.
Our school motto is ‘today for tomorrow’ and our school emblem is a palm tree with our two big mountains behind it. They are called Lidgbird and Gower and our 2 sporting houses are named after them.
We are 550kms from Port Macquarie and you have to fly on a Qantas Link plane from Sydney or Brisbane to get here.
Bye for now
3/4M Lord Howe Island C.S.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:01 am
Hi,
We’re 4J from Normanhurst Public School. There are around 270 pupils in our small school. We are a very lucky school because we have many opportunities like band, choir, dance group, green-team and swimming lessons. Every year on the last day of school we get to go to Dee Why beach. Next week we will be having our Athletics Carnival at Waitara Oval. Everyone is very excited. Today we will be starting Peer Support groups.
Our school has lovely green areas like our rainforest and we also have a bird aviary with budgies. We also have a soccer field and a netball court.
This is our first book rap, we can’t wait to learn more about the Olympics and The Shaggy Gully Times.
Regards,
Npsrappers
(Normanhurst Public School 4J)
August 7th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Gday everyone we are 5/6M from Lord Howe. This is our first time blogging and we will all be typing something. This week most of our class has been sick and yesterday we only had 8 out of our 22 kids here in class.
Hi bindicoots, we thought we got a bit cold here but we moan when it gets lower than 16 degrees. We still don’t wear shoes though. Did you guys have fun in the snow? Any snowball fights? The best we can do here is sandball fights.
We will be following Alex Croak in the Olympics. She sent us a video interview of her answering all the questions our class asked her and it was on the BKzone website. She is on the Australian diving team and was a gymnast at the Sydney Olympics.
We got a new COLA this year and new basketball hoops. We have been playing basketball every recess and lunch and we have been playing a basketball round robin on Fridays for sport.
On Lord Howe we have a brown flightless bird called the Woodhen. It looks a bit like a Kiwi and it was almost extinct about 30 years ago. They are now found all over the island.
The island is about 12km long and 2.5km wide so it doesn’t take long to get anywhere even if youre walking or biking.
We have heaps of different birds on Lord Howe and tourists come here especially to see them and all the sea life around the coral reefs. Its really good fishing here too.
Our class is entering a comp where you have to guess who is going to win the gold medals at the Olympics. If you win you get a free trip to your nearest capital city and a boxing kangaroo flag signed by the Australian Olympic swimming team.
Catchya later
5/6M Lord Howe Island Central School (LHICS)
August 7th, 2008 at 11:37 am
Hello and Oi! Oi! Oi! to Duranbah 5/6 rappers. You are lucky to have interactive whiteboards (IWBs). Are you using them to share the messages from other rappers? How on earth can you find those red ants in the red soil? Enjoy the rap.
Hello 3/4M at Lord Howe. Do you realise that some NSW primary schools have twice as many students as there are residents on your island! You certainly love water sports.
Hello 4J Npsrappers from Normanhurst. Your school may be small but you are certainly lucky to have so many opportunities. I can almost hear your choir singing a rousing song to cheer on the Aussie Olympians.
Hello 5/6M barrelriders from Lord Howe. I was thrilled to read that you have written to an Aussie Olympian and received a reply! I hope you will share this down the track.
The link to BKzone is on the Beijing Olympic Games and Book Week 2008 rap site. Why not check it out?
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am
We are the 34M Rappers from Quakers Hill Public School, a large suburban school in Western Sydney. We have large play areas where we play lots of sports. We all enjoy coming to school.
34M Rappers are very keen to learn things about the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. We are looking forward to communicating with students from other schools and are enthusiastic about participating in this Book Rap.
3/4M Quakers Hill rappers
August 7th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Hello,
We are Saye Kaeo and Jillie from 5S in Mowbray Public School in Lane Cove, N.S.W, Australia. There are 27 students in our class. Our teacher is Miss Scroope and our school librarian is Mrs McCann.
We are vey lucky to have a full – sized soccer oval, tennis courts and basketball courts. We are a very active and fit school because we do school sport on Friday afternoons, Gross Motor for K-2 years, PSSA Netball and Soccer, Gymnastics programs and carnivals and we do much more.
Around our school there is a lot of beautiful bushland and rivers.
We are going to be taking turns to write the rap.
Look foward to writing more.
Bye for now,
5S Mowbray Public School
August 7th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Hello we are 6E coming to you from Nowra PS. Our teacher is Mrs Ebzery, we have 29 children in our class, 617 students in the whole school.
Our school is located in the heart of Nowra on Plunkett Street. Nowra is on the south coast of NSW, 2 hours drive south of Sydney, and 20 mins drive from Jervis Bay Marine Park – the whitest sand in the world.
We have a massive naval base, HMAS Albatross. A new Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre has been opened, a great spider web park at Huskisson, nearby. A new skate park is currently being built.
We are having a disco tonight – can’t wait to do the ’sprinkler dance’ that our teacher is famous for!
The school is a split site with infants a two minute walk up the hill. We have just been to Canberra for an excursion – it was absolutely freezing, but we guess Orange PS is used to that. We kept the teachers awake all night.
Our school has many sporting teams such as: NRL, AFL, swimming, cricket, running, netball, dancing, athletics, soccer and basketball.
We have been enjoying reading about all the other schools are your thoughts, we can’t wait for the Olympics to begin. We are looking forward to book rapping with you next week.
L8r 6E.
Nowra Public School
August 7th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Hello Fellow Rappers
We are from Our Lady of Lourdes in Tarro, NSW. There are 10 of us and we range in age from 9 – 12. Our school has about 250 students from Kindy to Year 6.
Our school is brand new and we have SMARTBoards in every classroom.
We are working on our book rap during lunch with our Teacher Librarian, Mrs. Graham.
Our school is near Newcastle in a country area.
We like playing sports like netball, dancing, swimming, football soccer, tennis and athletics. We are really looking forward to watching the swimming, gymnastics, shotput and running during the Olympics.
We can’t wait to see where everyone else is from and look forward to rapping with you!
Forever Rap
The Tarro Terrors
August 7th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Hi fellow rappers,
We are the senior students in SCHC at Penrith Public School. Our school is near the Nepean River at the foot of the Blue Mountains.
Our guest animal reporter, who will do our sports reports, is Phil the Frog. We hope he does a good job! You will learn more about him later.
In class we are talking about China and especially the Olympic Games in Beijing. We cannot wait until tomorrow night. We cannot wait for all the different sports to begin.
Our group is hearing impaired. We communicate by signing. We wear hearing aids and some of us have cochlear implants.
We did the Identity rap last term, but this is our very first book rap and we can’t wait to get started.
Phil the Frog and the students of SCHC at Penrith P.S.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
Hello rappers,
Our class is 43J at Bega West PS. We love to join in all kinds of sports and we think it’s important to try our best. Even when we don’t win, we still have fun.
At our school we are working on a new system called ” the Big 5″ and they are respect, responsibility, cooperation, personal best and fun. We hope it will make our school even better.
Thanks for reading our intro. Have fun at school!
43J Bega West PS
August 7th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
We are class 4/5E from Normanhurst Public School. Our teacher’s name is Mrs E and we are doing this with our awesome librarian Mrs S. Our school is a small school in our area with around 280 students. It is a good school and we are extremely proud of our school and ourselves.
Our school is located on Pennant Hills Rd and there is a lot of traffic. We are in Northern Sydney near Hornsby.
We have some of the best athletes in the Beecroft Zone and our school promotes a healthy and active lifestyle by being included in lots of sports such as swimming, running, cross-country, high-jump, long-jump, discuss, shot-put, Milo cricket, soccer, AFL footy, netball and dancing. We also have lots more academic activities in our school such as debating, public speaking, Math Olympiad, choir, band and education week (which is a concert where all the classes perform a dance for all the parents) and peer support.
In the Olympics we are looking forward to the opening ceremony and watching all the Aussie athletes swim, jump, run and throw to bring home gold.
Yours sincerely,
Normo Rappers @ Normanhurst P.S.
August 7th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Welcome to:
* 3H Maths students (X 2) at Penrith P.S. We are looking forward to seeing Tammy the Tortoise performing long jumps in your new sandpit. There must be quite a menagerie of Shaggy Gully residents visiting your library… and now Selby is dropping in as well!
* 3456E rappers at John Palmer P.S. What a memorable day for your first Athletics Carnival! Are you having a torch relay? By the way, I have visited your new school. You are lucky to have such lovely surroundings and it must be fantastic to know everyone in the school.
* 3B rappers at Mowbray P.S. You certainly sound like a fit and healthy lot of rappers.
* 4W rappers at Penrith P.S. keep a lookout for more Shaggy Gully visitors. Some may even have escaped from the z(p)oo.
* S3M frograppers; S3S sulliespeeps; S3W lambtowraps who are all from Lambton Public School. Thank goodness you have a healthy canteen at your school. You are lucky to be near the coast and the lovely beaches of Newcastle. it’s not every day that you can witness a ship running aground.
Only one more night and we can watch the opening ceremony in the bird’s nest! I hope you are as excited as I am.
Happy rapping.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 8th, 2008 at 8:52 am
Hello!
Name: Mrs Cruikshank
Class: 6C
Nowra: Nowra is the capital of the City of Shoalhaven. Nowra was originally inhabited by the Dharawal Aborigines. The word Nowra is said to be an Aboriginal word meaning Black Cockatoo or Camping Place. The winner of the first Melbourne Cup, Archer, was trained in Nowra.
Nowra Public School: Our school is a split site, with our infants school located on our “Top Site” and about 100 metres down the road is our primary, or “Bottom Site”. The school was originally established in 1862, and now has about 60 students attending the school. Our school colours are maroon and white, and we have four sport houses: Eagles: Yellow Uniform, Magpies: Black (and white), Robins: Red, and Kingfishers: Blue.
6C rappers at Nowra Public School
August 8th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Hello we are 4R.
Our teacher is Mrs Ramires. We have 30 children in our class.
Nowra Public School is big, we have a big ashphalt with 2 basketball courts, We have great amounts of time for each lesson. Our school has two sites, we have lots of things to do, like: lots of subjects, a canteen that sells healthy food, lots of swimming, athletics & cross country carnivals, skipping, hand ball, soccer, basketball, cricket, football, netball, newcombe ball and rugby league.
In Nowra we have an HMAS Albatross Aviation Museum – Australia’s Museum of Flight, We have former Australian Olympians living in our area – Mrs Karen Higgison, Paul Greene, Merv Bennett, and an Olyroo.
We have a river called the Shoalhaven River, it stretches into the Pacific Ocean – it is one of the main rivers of NSW. We have 3 swimming pools. We have a new Entertainment Centre, which has one of the biggest stages in the region.
4R is looking forward to the Olympics to watch the swimming and Australia win GOLD.
Thank you for all the messages, we have enjoyed reading about the different schools. Have fun rapping, talk to you next week.
4R rappers at Nowra Public School
August 8th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Welcome to:
*3/4M Quakers Hill rappers. I’m certain that the rappers are looking forward to communicating with you.
*5S rappers at Mowbray P.S. at Lane Cove. It’s great to learn that you are part of an active and fit school community.
*6E rappers from Nowra P.S. Sharing everyone’s introductions is enjoyable. Now our rappers will be wondering what a ’sprinkler dance’ is!
*The Tarro Terrors from Our Lady of Lourdes at Tarro. So far, Tarro and Duranbah are places that I haven’t visited. Finding them on Whereis added to my knowledge of places in NSW. Enjoy the rap Terrors.
*SCHC rappers from Penrith P.S. Thanks for the information about the ways in which you communicate. We hope to find out more about Phil the Frog.
*43J rappers at Bega West. What a great message for all of us. Do your best and have fun. BTW, your avatar is hypnotic.
*4/5E Normo rappers from Normanhurst P.S. It’s wonderful to read about your school and how proud you are of everyone’s efforts and achievements. It reminds me of the ‘Olympic spirit’.
08/08/08 has finally arrived! Have a great Athletics Carnival 3456E rappers at John Palmer P.S. Enjoy the festivities of the opening ceremony. It’s wonderful that ……. one of our long serving Olympic rowers is carrying the Australian flag at the opening ceremony. (yes – I deliberately left out the name to see if you know it.)
Happy viewing and cheering,
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 8th, 2008 at 11:11 am
Hi, we are class 6F from Kooringal Public School in Wagga Wagga. We have 34 students in our class which fills up every space in our classroom. Our teacher is Mrs Fitzpatrick and our librarian is Mrs Cox. We have a new IWB in our library which Mrs Cox loves playing with and has made it easy for us to enjoy all your messages.
Wagga Wagga is the largest inland city in NSW. Its Aboriginal meaning is ‘Place of many Crows’. It is also known as ‘The Place of Good Sports’.
We are keenly looking forward to our local triathlon star Brad Kahlefeldt competing in the Olympics. He won Gold at the Commonwealth Games. We posted off our letter links to the athletes this week.
Activities our students are involved in are debating, choir, concert band and many PSSA sports. Our class does the Beep fitness test twice a term to measure how fit we are getting. One of our boys made 12.4.
This is our first rap and are looking forward to sharing with you all.
Bye for now
6F Kooringal
August 8th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Hi rappers,
We are students from 4/5M at Penrith Public School.
Penrith is between the city of Sydney and Katoomba in the Blue Mountains. Penrith is a peaceful place with lots of green space. We are near Penrith Plaza, which is a huge shopping centre. The Penrith Public Library is part of the Plaza buildings and has just been renovated.
Our school library is much smaller than the public library, but it has lots of good books and some computers, games, photo albums and much more.
Laura says that “The Shaggy Gully Times” is a funny book/newspaper. Shehzil says the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony is on tonight and sounds like it will be FANTASTIC!
Our sporting mascot/reporter for this rap is a large Chinese Dragon named Nian. Mr McLean hung him on the wall of the library last year but he used to live in a classroom several years ago. He has led several Chinese New Year parades at our school. Nian is going to be making a guest appearance in 3DV’s assembly item during the time of the rap.
Happy rapping rappers
Nian and 4/5 M students at Penrith PS
August 8th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Greetings rappers! This is 4/5D Our Teacher is Mrs Kunz. We have 4 Year 5’s and 24 Year 4’s.
Historical information:
Meroogal House, Postman’s Tavern, Nowra Showground.
Natural Features:
Bushland, Shoalhaven River, Ben’s Walk.
Special events at our school:
NAIDOC week, Harmony Day, Book Week, Anzac Day, School Disco, Jeans for Genes Day.
We are very jealous of Lord Howe Island PS, we would like to go there very much and we would like to swim in the lagoon – it sounds great. We would also like to swing on vines too.
Talk to you later, 4/5D.
Nowra Public School
August 8th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
Hi Rappers, We are 3/4S from Thornleigh West Public School which is near Hornsby, in Sydney. Our class has 31 students. Our teacher is Ms Sander and our librarian is Miss Hoffman. Our school has many fun activities including French, PDHPE, Drama and Art. Many of our fellow students participate in the dancing and singing part of Wakakirri which is a major school production.
Thornleigh West is surrounded by a bushland environment including rare turpentine and iron bark trees. We have about 550 students, K to 6.
Our school keeps very active and healthy by doing lots of different activities such as gymnastics, dance, PE with Mr Gallie and Friday sport. Thornleigh West holds three sporting carnivals per year, they are Cross Country, Athletics and Swimming Carnivals.
Our class is very excited about the Olympic Games. Also, our school has an ex-student, Adam Rutter, who is participating in the 50km walk.
Hope to hear about other schools,
From 3/4S The Cool Rappers.
Thornleigh West Public School
August 8th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Hi everyone,
We are 5/6G, the Lollyrappers!!!!
Our teacher’s name is Mrs Gordon-Hall. 31 students – 10 Year 6, and 21 Year 5. We like art, reading, computers and not having fun with our teacher! Ha ha.
Our extra school activities are: homework, dance, tournament of the minds, choir, chess, and sporting representation.
We are looking forward to doing this rap with all these schools and can’t wait to hear more about each other.
Talk to you next week,
5/6G
August 8th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Ni hao (Hello) to:
* Nian and 4/5M at Penrith Public School. It’s fantastic to have a Chinese dragon participating in our rap. I’m sure Nian understood my Chinese greeting. If you are interested in learning a few Chinese words, with pronunciation guides and Chinese script, check out IPL KidSpace: say hello to the world.
*4/5D at Nowra Public School. I agree… swinging on vines is fun. I spent many hours pretending to be Tarzan when I was in Primary School. (This was a long time before Indiana Jones.)
*3/4S The Cool Rappers at Thornleigh West Public School. Wakakirri sounds entertaining. How excited you must be to have Adam Rutter as an Olympian.
*6F at Kooringal PS. The Beep test is a great way to check your fitness.
Counting down…
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 8th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Yo, rappers!
This is 5K from Nowra Public School.
Our favourite class is writing lines, and our favourite time of day is detention – JUST KIDDING! We DO love sport, especially soccer, also doing art, reading ‘The Iron Man’, and some of us love to do mentals (but some don’t).
We live in Nowra, and our school is a very friendly place. (And we all can do the Sprinkler Dance!) We are close to shopping, pools, beaches and farms.
All of us are looking forward to rapping more, so we’ll talk to you soon.
Peace out!
5K Nowra Public School
August 8th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Ni hao 5K rappers at Nowra P.S. It’s good to know that you have a sense of humour because that will make the reading of The Shaggy Gully Times a memorable experience.
Enjoy the rap.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 8th, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Hello Everyone,
We are the AllStars from Belmore South PS in Sydney. Our class is made up of students in Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, and Year 6. Belmore South kids LOVE technology and we use it every day
We are involved in lots of other activities as well including the Premier’s Reading Challenge, the Premier’s Sports Challenge, knockout sports comps, debating, SRC, school leadership, dance, athletics, science and The Green Team.
It’s been fun reading about everyone else who is taking part – we didn’t know that there were so many different schools around the place – we would love to have a lagoon to swim in like they do on Lord Howe Island, we think the frog ponds at Lambton sound like fun. It seems everyone loves their sports just like we do.
We can’t wait to get started on this rap and will watch the Olympics over the weekend to “get in the mood”.
AllStarsrappers @ Belmore South
August 10th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Hi, we are a Stage 3 class from Soldiers Point Public School.
This is our first book rap and we are the SPPSRAPPERS!! We are the only ones in our school doing this book rap. Our beautiful school is located on the border of Port Stephens. We are a sporty school, we even went surfing for sport last term. Next week Stage 3 are heading to camp at Dora Creek for 3 days. Year 6 have been on It’s Academic this year, and three of our class members got to go on.
Yo, this is our place,
The Soldiers Point base.
Red and black we wear,
The school colours, Yeah!
We’re 5/6E,
The coolest class you see,
And we’re learning ’bout the Olympics
We like eating our healthy Weet-bix.
SPPSrappers @ Soldiers Point
August 10th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Hello again everyone!
You’ve been reading about our animal mascot reporters, who will be helping our rap groups to write a sports report on the Olympics for Rap Point 3. Now it’s time to reveal them to the world!
You can see their photos over at our wiki page.
(If you are using a school computer, your teacher would have to sign in with a teachers’ username and password to view most pages on PB wiki.)
Best wishes,
Rappers of Penrith PS
August 10th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
G’day!
We are from the best small school in the world – Carrington!!!! Our school only has three classes and we are the 3/4/5/6 class. Our teacher is Mr Metcalf and he is way cool. He loves sport, tells really bad jokes and can do cool magic tricks. Once he even brought his own jumping castle to school and set it up in the classroom!
Our other teachers are really nice also. We only have 60 kids at the school, so it is sort of like one big family.
We are really keen to start rapping. We have a school blog at carrington.edublogs.org so jump on and say hello. We are just starting on our student pages, so there’s not much there yet.
Hello Lambton, great to see another Novocastrian school rapping.
Small school rock!
from class 3/4/5/6
Carrington
August 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Hi, we are the Cambo Lads and Lasses. We are in year 6 at Cambridge Park Public School.
Cambridge Park is near Penrith and the Nepean River, at the foot of the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales. We are in the western suburbs of Sydney. We like to think we are all rounders. We enjoy sport, art and maths.
We are studying China and the Olympics. We are looking forward to seeing the Olyroos play, let’s hope they play well. We really can’t wait to see the pole vaulting. Except for Tjaylen (aka Bear) who finds it boring. Our teacher is going to focus on the new sports such as BMX riding.
We are excited about the book rap. It will be fun.
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie!
Cambo Lads and Lasses
August 10th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Hello Fellow Rappers,
We are 3R and we proudly write to you from Annandale Public School, in the leafy suburb of Annandale, NSW. There are 22 of us in 3R and we are lucky enough to have two teachers this term, Mrs Ridings and Miss Roberts.
There are about 250 children in our school. The school is made up of thirteen classes altogether and the we have a lovely playground, a learning garden as well as a frog pond. On Thursday our class planted some vegetables in the learning garden.
This will be our first rap and we can’t wait to take part. We have been very excited for the start of the Olympics. In class we have been learning about the Ancient Olympic Games and about some of the Greek Gods. We will be keeping a medal tally in our class and we’re hoping the Australian athletes manage to win loads of medals. On Friday we had our athletics carnival in which we all took part. Some of us even ran the 800m race!!
Talk to you later fellow Rappers,
The 3R Olympians,
Annandale Public School.
August 11th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Our class is 5S and our School is Glenbrook Public School, situated in Woodville Street, Glenbrook, NSW. There are 29 students in our class. There are almost 300 students in our school but we are separated into an infants site and a primary site and primary is several streets away from infants.
We are surrounded by bush and country homes. We have a small shopping centre, a lagoon and the Great Western Highway runs through the middle of our town. We are at the entrance to the Blue Mountains National Park. The Three Sisters and Wentworth Falls are not far away. There is also plenty of great bushwalks around.
We are looking forward to the Beijing Olympic Games because we all like sport and we only see the Olympics every four years. We all want to see the pride of Australia winning many gold medals.
We have weekly sport at our school on Fridays. We do gymnastics for a term and we have had our swimming carnival, athletics carnival and our cross country carnival.
from 5S rappers
Glenbrook Public School
August 11th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Hello from our class 5/6H,
Our school is Charlestown East P.S. which is located in Newcastle, NSW and you may know Newcastle from the Pasha Bulker hitting Nobby’s Beach about a year back now.
Some of the features in Newcastle, Other wise known as ‘NEWY’, we have awesome beaches that have the best offshore winds and break perfect for surfing. We have Lake Macquarie which is 3-4 times bigger than Sydney Harbour. It is great for fishing and we specialize in bream, tailor and flathead. We also have many shark sightings in our lake because our lake is connected to the ocean. You can also tube, wakeboard, water ski or barefoot ski.
Our Class is made up of two years. We have 16 year sixes in our class and 11 year fives and you could say we are a “VERY SOCIAL” class. We also have a wonderful teacher called Mrs. Hones.
At our school we are very privileged because we have a HUGE grass covered playground, to play in. We are also very lucky to be able to participate in sport events and galas, debating, public speaking, dance and star struck, choir and the list goes on and on. So we can practise our cricket skills, we have two cricket nets in our playground, as well as a hitting wall, for handball and a basketball/netball court. In the school grounds we have lots of trees with 20 buildings and 10 classes. Our school colours are blue and white and our school motto is ‘Achieve With Honour.’
We have never participated in a book rap, so we are really looking forward to this.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
We are the Tingha rappers.
Ni hao. We are in year 5/6 which has seventeen kids. We have a teacher called Mrs Lennon who LOVES Diet Coke and hates spiders. Our classroom is very colourful. We are doing projects on China; we are also researching Olympic athletes. We have 8 computers in our classroom. This is the first time we have been involved in a book rap.
To celebrate our China unit we went to a Chinese restaurant in Inverell which is 25kms away. We had a great time trying to use chopsticks.
As part of our Olympics unit we have a learning matrix. We are also doing the ten-week healthy eating challenge called Kidz Bodz; it is sooo much fun. This week’s challenge is to eat two serves of seafood. We do P.E. every day. There are four pools in Tingha called Blue Lagoon, Tingha Pool, Vinnie’s Dam and Baby Dolls.
We also have two parks and lots of shops even though we live in a small town. We have a great theme park called Green Valley Farm which is about 9km out of Tingha. We live about 590km north of Sydney. We have a police station, RSL club, town hall and a lookout. We have a great community; all the kids get along.
from Tingharappers
August 11th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Hi! We’re eleven Year 4 students, who belong to Glenhaven PS, near Castle Hill, Sydney. Our school, with 350 students, is surrounded by beautiful bush with many native animals.
We stay healthy by participating in these PSSA sports – newcombe ball, netball, soccer and Aussie Rules. We have an Eisteddfod troupe, who perform at school events and in competitions. Our canteen serves great, fresh food.
Glenhavensprinters are interested in watching these Olympic sports – gymnastics, volleyball, horseriding, high jump, tennis, basketball and swimming.
Bye from,
Glenhavensprinters
August 11th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Sorry this is late we have had many technical problems registering!!!
Hi, we’re the scurvy Palmers Pirates from Palmers Island.
Palmers Island is on the east coast of Aust. , on the far north coast of NSW, right on the Clarence River. Palmers Island is one of the largest Islands on the Clarence River system, which has over 100 islands. We are 10 min from Yamba and our surrounding paddocks are full of sugar cane or cows.
Our 5/6 class consists of 27 students. We have never done a book rap and will be working with Ms Hardaker, our librarian and science teacher on Tuesdays. There are 80 students, five teachers and six classrooms at our school.
There are many reasons why our school is special! At the end of Term 1 this year, we received 28 new desktop computers. These are great but we do get frustrated because many sites are blocked.
Every Friday during Term 3 we have SMASH, a program aimed at developing the physical skills of co-ordination, balance, flexibility and strength. Everyone enjoys it.
Every Wednesday we have Peer Support, where we, the leaders, take small groups of children through activities that develop social skills.
Whenever we go to lunch or recess there will always be a game of sport happening and anyone can join in. Our playground is awesome because we have a rock wall, flying fox, monkey bars etc…. and a large flat field with a cricket pitch
Well cya l8r guys
Palmers Island PS
August 11th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Our Class is 4/5D . We come from Colyton Public School in Mount Druitt (Western Sydney). Our teacher is Mrs De Ronde. While she is overseas we have another teacher, Mrs Parker, who is helping us with the rap.
Our school is over 140 years old. We have an old school bell and two very old buildings: the principal’s residence and the Colonial Room.
We have just planted trees for National Tree Day. Our class looks forward to sport on Fridays. We have started reading “The Shaggy Gully Times”.
from Colyton Rappers, 4/5 D
August 11th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
HVGS Stage 2 rappers say:
We are a Stage 2 class (3A) at Hunter Valley Grammar School at Maitland, in the beautiful Hunter Valley area inland from Newcastle, NSW. Our teacher is Mrs Liz Atkins. Our school caters for pre-school to Year 12 and has lots of space to play sport and our own wetlands area. It is nearly 20 years old and has grown a lot since it began in 1989.
The local area relies on coal, wine producing and tourism for our local economy. We are only 30 km from the beaches in Newcastle and Port Stephens. Maitland is an old heritage area and we have lots of history here.
We are looking forward to joining in the rap as we have already enjoyed reading “The Shaggy Gully Times” and have been writing our own newletters to show during Book Week.
Back soon! 3A and Mrs Atkins
August 12th, 2008 at 12:11 pm
Hi. We’re 5/6H from Telopea Public School in Sydney.
There are about 100 students in our whole school, so we only have four classes. We don’t mind being a small school, because everyone knows everyone, so it’s like one BIG family! Our principal, Mrs George, always says “It is a small school but with a big heart”
We have a really big place, with a huge grass area, separate equipment for Juniors and Seniors, a COLA, or Covered Outdoor Learning Area, and lots of gardens, which are unusually beautiful. We even have a special sensory garden for the Year 6s. Our athletics carnival is coming up, and we have been doing practice. There will be long jump, high jump, shot put, running, captain ball, tee ball, etc.
We have school cats, and one’s named Oscar, Susan’s favourite. He’s a white cat with black spots.
When the day starts all you hear is laughter and see people smiling most of the time. Seniors usually play sports, which puts our huge grass area in use, or go into the garden with a lot of birds and insects. The most popular played sports at our school is soccer, which is also one of our rap leader, Metin’s, fav. Next to our basketball court we have a huge mural with different names of the countries. The meaning of the mural is that every one’s equal.
As we said before, we are ‘A small school with a big heart’
Happy rapping!
From Susan, Metin and Jessica.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
Hey Bookrappers,
This is 6M from Glenbrook Public School. Our teacher’s name is Mrs. Macky. Our Principal is Mr. D. Brown.
We live in the Blue Mountains, NSW. Our school was recently renewed and has new looks in classrooms. We all like to play Soccer, Basketball, Tennis, Football and Handball. We have sport every Friday the hour before recess if it’s not raining.
Our area has some wonderful National Parks. We also have a very historic bridge built by convicts and it’s called the Lennox Bridge. In our local area we have a public park, skatepark, three tennis courts, shops, an information centre and a beautiful lagoon. Our grade went on an awesome camp last year to a place called Broken Bay which is situated on the Hawkesbury River. Our school soccer team made it to the grand final of the State Knockout in Soccer.
Great to see so many school rappers.
From 6M of Glenbrook Public School.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Dear Fellow Rappers,
We are class 3W and we are looking forward to talking with you all about the rap points. Our class goes to the Hunter Valley Grammar School in Maitland. Our school is a Pre School to Year 12 school and we love learning and sharing together. Our friends in class 3A are also participating in the book raps.
We have started to learn about the Olympics and really enjoyed the jokes that were in “The Shaggy Gully Times”. Caitlin’s best joke is: How many eyes does a reindeer have?
Answer: No eye deer!!! ( very funny, Caitlin.)
Talk to you all soon,
Mr Wallace and 3W
August 13th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Hello Bookrappers
We are 3/4SG from Mowbray Public School – our rap reps are Emily and Rachel. Hello!!!! Our teacher is Ms Spartalis.
We have a lovely small community school with enormous leafy landscaped grounds.
We live next a lovely National Park at Lane Cove We have a class with big personalities. Our school loves music, sport, computers and art.
signing out for now
Rachel and Emily
August 14th, 2008 at 1:13 am
Welcome 5/6G Lollyrappers from Nowra – I remember that name from the Wilfrid Rap blog.
Hello technology loving AllStars Rappers from Belmore South and SPPS Rappers @ Soldiers Point. It’s great to have you on board.
Hi there Carrington rappers. Small schools do rock! I look forward to checking out your blog.
G’day Cambo Lads and Lasses from Cambridge Park P.S. and Tingharappers. KidzBodz sounds really interesting. I’m sure the other rappers will want to find out more.
Enjoy the Olympics and reading everyone’s comments. Now that the games are well and truly underway, it’s time to send your responses to Rap point 1.
Happy rapping,
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 14th, 2008 at 1:42 am
Welcome to the rap:
* Glenhavensprinters from Glenhaven PS. You are lucky to be surrounded by lush native bushland.
* It’s great to have you on board Palmers Pirates from Palmer Island PS. You had problems getting started but persevered just like the Olympians. Well done!
It’s lucky that you don’t have scurvy. Many pirates suffered with this owing to their poor diets at sea. BTW, I like the sound of SMASH.
* 3R Olympians from Annandale PS. Studying the ancient Olympics is close to my heart. I was lucky enough to visit Olympia earlier this year. Check out the Gallery. Your vegetable garden is a healthy idea.
* 5/6H from Charlestown East PS. So much land, so much room for exercise!
* 4/5D from Colyton PS. I’m sure that you are sharing some laughs while enjoying The Shaggy Gully Times.
* HGVS Stage 2 rappers at Hunter Valley Grammar School. You are already news reporters and editors, so Rap point 3 should be a breeze.
* 5/6H from Telopea Public School. Your school sounds so inviting. I’m so lucky to have already visited and I know your teacher librarian very well. Hi Mrs Imison.
* 6M of Glenbrook PS. Soccer stars and heritage sites – what a great environment.
* 3W from Hunter Valley Grammar School. I’m sure you are going to have fun reading The Shaggy Gully Times.
* 3/4SG from Mowbray PS. It seems that small schools have big hearts and big personalities. You have a lot in common with Telopea PS.
I’ve now lost count! There are so many rappers – IT’S FANTASTIC! Welcome everyone. As there are so many of you, please remember to sign off with your school name so that we know who is sharing marvellous moments and creative comments.
Continue rapping happily,
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 14th, 2008 at 8:02 am
St. Peters Kids welcome you from all over the world!
We come from St. Peters Public School and our group name is St Peters Kids.
In our school there are 1000 kids (we wish!). We only have 53 kids! In our class we have 18 kids! Seven Year 4s, five Year 5 and six Year 6s. Our school is in the inner city of Sydney, NSW.
We are looking forward to our athletics carnival tomorrow, with high jump, discus, shot put and javelin. Lots of schools don’t do javelin but our school is special because we use foam javelin. Most of our events are very Olympic like.
In our school we have lots of excursions and lots of them for free! Some like bus excursions for safety rules and some we go to the theatre. Soon we are going to a theatre in Parramatta to watch a show called “I am Jack”.
Our school is great at music. Every year we go to the Opera House to play the Recorder and this year we went to the Seymour Centre for Bin Bands Dance and Choir.
For book week we are reading a book called “The Shaggy Gully Times” Our class thought it was going to be a baby book but we were utterly wrong! Its g-g-g-reat!
Happy rapping
Mily, Kimbo, Zac, Nik, Matt, Harry, Chiara, Emelia, Sarah, Ilishia, Daniel, Darren, Anthony, Andrew, Julia, Susanna, Finn. Class AW, St Peters PS
August 14th, 2008 at 8:51 am
Hello Fellow Rappers,
We are class 5M from Kinross Wolaroi School in Orange which is in the Central West of NSW. Our school is a Pre-Prep to Year 12 school and this is our first Rap. 5D is also doing the Rap. We are really enjoying ‘The Shaggy Gully Times’ and watching and learning about the Olympic Games.
We are late posting out introduction as last Thursday during our library time we had a enormous snow fall with flakes as big as cotton balls. Mrs Deans our librarian and Mr May our teacher let us go outside to play in the falling snow. We were all so excited!!
We are looking forward to being part of the Rap,
Talk to you soon
5M and Mrs Deans
August 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hi Everyone,
Our school name is Darcy Road Public School. It is found on Darcy Road in Wentworthville. Our teachers name is Mrs Martin and our class is called 4-5-6M.
We do lots of activities such as PSSA sport, choir, dance, gardening club, knitting group plus many more fun activities. Our school colours are grey and yellow and we currently have 13 classes. We have a very large, grassy playground plus a primary and infants quadrangle.
Recently, we had Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (former Olympic athlete) come to our school. She talked to us about her exciting career and gave us some great running tips. We were all very overwhelmed by this amazing experience!
Thanks for reading our rap response!
4-5-6M
Darcy Road Public School
August 15th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
A huge welcome from everyone to:
* St Peters Kids from St Peters PS. You have chosen a day with fantastic weather for your athletics carnival. I hope you have some photos for us, especially with your foam javelins.
* 5M from Kinross Wolaroi PS. I’d rather be playing in the snow than using a computer indoors – you are lucky.
* 4-5-6M from Darcy Road Public School. Melinda Gainsford-Taylor has had a wonderful career in athletics and has been an excellent ambassador for Australian sport.
Fuel your mind! (as well as your body). Enjoy Book Week.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
Hey Everyone!
We are students from Stage 2 & 3 from Mitchells Island Public School.
It’s only small with 44 children and 2 teachers who are both female. One of the teachers is also our Principal. The teachers names are Mrs Wallis and Mrs Bevitt. We also have a librarian, Mrs Brown, and a Secretary, Mrs White.
Mitchells Island is on the Mid North Coast, close to Taree, at the mouth of the Manning River.
Our School has been involved in many sporting activities such as: soccer, swimming, athletics and many more. Every Monday and Tuesday afternoon we participate in a program called Active Afternoon School Care where we do various sports including Hockey and Soccer on Mondays and on Tuesdays we play Cricket on our cricket pitch and Tennis on our tennis court.
Our school is participating in an activity called Walk To Beijing. In order to do that on Mondays and Tuesdays the entire school has to wear a pedometer to measure our steps. At the end of Active Afternoon Care, the school leaders record everyone’s steps.
Our school colours are green and gold. Our motto is “Living and Growing Together” and our emblem is a tallowood that grows in our playground.
We are late joining the rap because our Iinternet has been down but we hope to continue from here on. We are looking forward to our first rap.
The kids from MIPS
August 15th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Hi
We live in Leeton and go to Parkview Public. Our school is next to a park. We have 180+ students at our school from K-6. We have 7 people in this rap group, both boys and girls.
From parkrappers2
August 18th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Welcome to the kids from MIPS (Mitchells Island Public School). Your Walk to Beijing sounds like a great idea. Did you watch the marathon at Beijing?
Hello to the parkrappers2 from Parkview Public School. I hope you are enjoying the coverage of the Beijing Olympic Games and have had a chance to read the introductions from the othe rappers.
Happy rapping
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 18th, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Hi fellow rappers,
We are 6R from Kooringal P.S in Wagga Wagga. Our teacher is Ms Robins and she is awesome. We are studying the Olympics with Ms Robins and rapping with our wonderful librarian, Mrs Cox.
We have a lot of keen sporting students in our class. One of our girls, Ashlea, is off to the Pacific School Games representing NSW in wheelchair basketball in the under 14’s team. 3 boys have competed at state carnivals representing Riverina.
Our debating team is going to finals for Riverina. Last week we celebrated NAIDOC and this week we are going to our local library as part of Book Week.
We look forward to enjoying our very first rap.
Cheers and goodbye for now
6R Kooringal P.S
August 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Yo Rappers!
We are the fully sick kids from Blaxcell Street Public School in South Granville, NSW. We are two Year 3 classes, 3M and 3H, and our teachers are Miss McKeowen and Miss Hyde, and our teacher librarian is Mr O’Connor. We think that we are the two best classes in the WHOLE school.
Most of the people in our classes can speak more than one language, such as French, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese), Vietnamese, Tagalog, Korean, Maori, Hindi, Afghani, Somali and Dari.
We are sorry that we did not introduce ourselves last week but we were at Homebush (home of the Sydney 2000 Olympic games) for our school athletics carnival. The sports that we like to play are high jump, running, soccer, swimming, touch football, shot put and long jump.
We are looking forward to watching the Olympics and cheering Australia on as they go for gold.
Peace Out!
3M & 3H @ Blaxcell Street PS
August 20th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Hey! We are 5/6L from Darcy Rd Public School in Wentworthville, a suburb of Sydney. Our teacher is Mr Leverett and he is the Assistant Principal. Our Principal is Mr Berwick. We have fun at our school.
5/6L
Darcy Rd PS
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
Our school Newbridge Heights is in Chipping Norton near Liverpool in Sydney. The school is near the Georges River. We have twenty two classes and approximately twenty five teachers with five hundred and fifty students in the school.
Our school has lots of sporting events and activities both in and out of school. Some of our sporting events include the Cross Country Carnival, the Swimming Carnival and the Athletics Carnival. For the Cross Country carnival we regularly practice long distance running. As the athletics carnival is being held very soon we are training regularly in long jump, high jump, shot put and discus.
We go to Newbridge Heights Public School and our class is 3E. Our class teacher is Mrs Elliot. Our library teacher is Mrs Tyrrell. There are 22 classes in our school with 555 children. Newbridge Heights School is located in Chipping Norton which is near Liverpool in Sydney.
Every Friday we do PSSA sport, Fit Kid and AFL to keep us fit. On Tuesday afternoons after school some of us do Hip Hop, Dance and Skipping. Every week, once a term all of us do dance and gymnastics with our class.
newbridgerappers
August 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Welcome new rappers:
* Blaxcell Street Public School – Yo to you fully sick kids. You must be really healthy.
*5/6L at Darcy Road PS. I’m glad you have fun at your school.
*3E at Newbridge Heights PS. Tuesdays sound like fun at your school with Hip Hop, dance and skipping on the fitness menu.
Enjoy reading and discussing all the responses.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde
August 25th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
We are a little late getting going but hope to catch up soon.
Stage 2 and 3 will be taking part in the rap lead by Mrs. Haller and Mrs. Afonso.
We are all looking forward it all!!
Canterbury PS
September 2nd, 2008 at 7:39 am
Hi everyone,
We are Stage 2 and 3 students from Forest Hill Public School. Our school is located near the RAAF Base in Wagga Wagga. We are a K-6 school and have 222 students in our school. Our school backs onto a farm that gives a feeling of being surrounded by nature.
Although we are a little late in joining, we are excited about joining our first Rap.
From the Foresthill Rappers
September 2nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Hi to our newest rappers from
Canterbury PS and Forest Hills PS. Thanks for joining – better late than never!
Enjoy the rap, especially reading and responding to the comments by other rappers.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator from Ryde
September 4th, 2008 at 10:52 am
Hi 6R at Kooringal PS. Sorry I missed your introduction earlier. You are lucky to have some sports stars at your school. Good luck to the debating team. Enjoy the rap.
Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde