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 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