Sports Carnival Part 2

Kirsty in spirit!

Yes... a long time waiting, but we finally have more pictures and details from the Sports Carnival back in October! And it turns out we had the pictures all along... if you would like to read the first post about the day, go here.

We had a really nice set-up on the day in a small shaded area with chairs for spectators, an energy station for competitors and a scoring station (thanks for keeping score, Caro!)

Very nice set-up with beautiful bunting and balloons to get in the spirit!

We made bunting especially for the day and it looked great strung up along with some balloons in the colours of the factions (it was a birthday celebration too after all!)


We had a really sweet "Energy Bay" set up to keep competitors (and spectators) going throughout the day. Our Energy Bay had a water dispenser with cups (don't you love them? They were a really cheap steal from IKEA and so colourful and convenient!)

The IKEA cups (we just recently used them again at the Quiz Night - definitely worth it!)

We wrote everyone's names on a cup too so that no-one got mixed up! (Though after over 6 months of wear and tear, now it's about time we re-write the names). Behind the water there was a whole lot of "energy" food ranging from fruit to biscuits and lollies that we could all pick on during the day. It was really easy because each family brought a plate or two to share so there was nothing to worry about! If we have another carnival this will definitely be something we will set up again... it really encourages everyone to stay hydrated and energised during the day!

Front view of the energy bay (water dispenser/cups in front, snacks behind, oh yes, and our logo!)

We got lots of pictures of the long jump...

Amelia gives it all she's got

Kirsty leaps with hope

Sophie flys herself into it

And Georgia does a good jump too!

Roger worked hard too, being our chief measuring man

If you remember the story about who we shared the birthday cake with, here is a before pic... (so pretty, not to mention yummy!)

Before

And after...

We've still got one more post before we wrap up the Sports Carnival 2011, and that's with the team games. There's no guarantee as to when that post will be, but we're hoping as soon as possible! In the mean time a big thank-you to the following people as it couldn't have been possible without your help! To Miss Hooper/Mrs Mottershead and DPS for the use of their school oval, to staff and students at WPIPS for all the hours put in preparing and practising in the weeks before the event (and of course their efforts on the day) and to all the parents who helped out with jobs and with cheering on the day!

Quiz Night

In true 80's style...

After many long weeks of preparation, last night we hosted our 2nd annual Quiz Night at WPIPS!

This year, the Quiz Night was bigger and better than ever before, with around 27 people rocking up for a real good time. The theme was the awesome years of the 1980's and we were very impressed to see so many people dressed up! The night started at around 6pm with 6 rounds and lots of novelty games to follow. Our fantastic Quiz Masters were Miss Lucila Kelly and Miss Amelia Gooding, who did a great job in the weeks leading up to the night, writing and preparing questions as well as saying questions on the night and working hard to mark answer sheets and keep the scoreboard up-to-date.

The judges - Amelia and Lucila

Amelia whilst announcing a question

There were 5 teams of hard-working question answerers. In fifth place, Team 1 (aka. 3JBS ) was made up of Jack, Bec, Stuart, Joseph and Jesse.

Team 1 had a great time

Team 3 (aka. Punk Rockers), came in 4th, and was made up of Vic, Alice, Sophie, Elijah and Georgia.

Team 3, without Sophie or Georgia

Pat, Roger, Bonnie, Kirsty and Les together made up Team 5 (aka. the Sods), who came in 3rd.

Team 5 working hard

In 2nd place from Team 4 (aka. Wham!) were Mrs Riley, Wendy, Caro, Geoff and Odette.

Team 4

And the winning team of the night, receiving a trophy passed on from last years champions, Amelia, Caro, Jesse and Jake, was .... Team 2 (aka. MWC), made up of Anne, Michelle, Matthew and Hugh!

Michelle and Anne hard at work

The winning team (without Anne)

The final scoreboard

Lucila about to award the trophy

The novelty games though were a huge hit, in particular the Sing-off in which Roger from Team 5 was crowned champion singer (some may wish to argue that point).  We also had a best dressed competition, with judges Vicki and Caro having a very difficult job, to decide who dressed up in the theme of the 80's the best! The winner in the end, was Alice, who was wearing authentic 80's clothes once worn by her mother! Alice received a chocolate bar for her great style!

Mrs Riley looked great too!

Sophie enjoying herself

We also had a chocolate raffle as we did last year raising funds for our events through the year and year books. Taking home first prize (big chocolate hamper) was Matthew Riley and second prize ($10 Rarebits voucher) went to Eli.


Another of many fun jokes and games through out the night we had a lucky seat winner. In this game one person from each table had unknowingly chosen a lucky seat at the start of the night. These lucky winners were Pat Kelly, Vicki Kelly, Averil Riley, Jack Riley and Matthew Riley (again).

Jack was stoked to have won a prize!

After an exhausting amount of games, there was still yet another one to come - the treasure hunt. In this game we had to find 10 items in less then 60 seconds. Each team was assigned a classroom and we had to find our objects in those rooms. As well as all of the games there was nibbles and drinks available through out the night.

Daddy/daughter ♥

It was all so much fun and we did not finish till 10 pm by which time everyone was very tired but very pleased with how the night went.

Proof of how tiring the night was

Now to start the clean up...


Love from the WPIPS Crew 

Photo Shoot

Guess who was caught by the camera just a few weeks ago? Why, the WPIPS Community of course! It was definitely time for some new photos since our previous photoshoot dated back to November 2010, just after we were formed... To fill you in, here are some "before" shots, taken by our fabulous Caroline Telfer of Anita Jean Photography, from what seems like yonks ago...


We wanted to catch the fun, vibrant spirit of the school and the passion kids there have for learning, so here are a few that we think perfectly captured just that...

Then we also wanted some shots to show the classrooms, so here is an example of that... 

 

It looked great at the time, but now since the school has changed so much and all, these pictures could not longer do justice, so after many months of trying to get a date when everyone could get together for a big photo bash, the opportunity arose... Tuesday 24th April. This time we still wanted similar photos, especially with so many new spaces and faces since late 2010. But we also wanted so individual portrait type pics and of course a whole school photo.

So our amazing Caro, armed with her camera got snapping, and the WPIPS Community got posing...

First we started off in the Early Childhood Classroom, and got several like this one, which is simply showing the classroom:

Then we got several snaps of storytime. Don't you love the expression on Miss T's face, and also how interested the kids look? Just what we were searching for...

Miss Gooding's classroom was next on the agenda. The classroom is so tricky to work with because of the dark walls and very small size. We managed to make it look a lot better by putting up a whole lot of colourful posters and garlands though.


Here is Miss Gooding explaining a task to Jesse...

 

And a shot of the whiteboard (see the horrible wall colour?)

Following that, was Miss Alligator's classroom, where some painting was going on:

And of course no one can resist a teacher in very high heels wiping the blackboard...

We stopped at the library and had lots of great snaps taken, such as this one of Georgia reading (to her dolls):

And of Miss Kelly and Miss Gooding trying to solve a puzzle:

We are glad to have these photos to represent what the library is used for and how much fun we all have in there.
 After that, we all headed into the Admin, which is a fun, happy entry place to our school and a hang-out for staff as there is no operating staffroom at the moment.


Miss P and Miss T checked out some maths resources:

 

And Miss Kelly showed off her new desk for her role as deputy principal:

Outside we went (thankfully it was a really beautiful day), and had a whole lot of fun blowing bubbles, popping bubbles, jumping for the sake of it and playing with our sports equipment.


This photos has to be a favourite, maybe because it is isn't posed, but it's just having fun naturally, and also there are 7 of the 10 WPIPS people in there (missing Bonnie, Eli and Jesse, because Sophie and Georgia are in the photo, they're just very good at hiding)..

 

This shot of Amelia blowing bubbles is so great, it's just so simple and as Guillaume would say - amazing!

 

There's tough competition though, because this one of Jesse and Georgia is too very adorable.

 

Meanwhile, Miss Putland and Miss Kelly were having a ball ...

  

Individual shots were on our checklist and it was a perfect opportunity. We were thinking of the Admin, but ended up getting the shots done outside, Each person sat on the ledge and posed doing something they loved or just something significant to them.


Miss Kelly was marking work, Miss Alligator (being our Admin guru) was talking on the phone, Miss Putland was searching through the reading box, Miss Gooding wanted to have a pic with Pompon, but being a dog, he didn't like the idea, so we got great one of her by herself, Miss Jean wanted to have a pic giving Georgia a sticker, but this one was equally as beautiful, Georgia is close up in this pic, but she was playing with her dolls and reading a book, Hugh was being impatient so was just being himself, Jesse was posing with a letter "J" for Jesse and Miss T was holding up a heart, to show how much love she has in her.

The boys had gone off at this point, but we still went ahead and took some pictures without our giant WPIPS lettering. It might have been perfect because there was just enough for each person to have one letter. The lettering is now displaying in the Admin.

When the boys got back, we took our whole school picture. Well as whole as it could be without Eli and Georgia. This was the more serious one, and yet it is hardly very serious at all.

Then for an even more fun take on things - what's more fun than jumping down steps whilst still trying to keep a smile and not land on anyone else? Nothing of course! So we had a good time jumping as high as possible while Caro snapped away.

 

On our way out, Miss Gooding and Miss Kelly (principal and deputy), got a picture with the school sign at the front of the school yard. 

 

It was just after that when we realised Miss Jean was away when we were taking photos in the classrooms so we didn't get any pictures in her classroom. That, of course, wasn't good enough so we went back in and got some really great pictures in there.

Here's Miss Jean doing what she does best, helping people:

 

And one of Jesse and Hugh hard at work...

It was all over after that, but not without many memories of the really fun day it was.

Oh, and there are so many more pics that we couldn't put in this post, but you can get a DVD filled to the brim with photos and photos from WPIPS if you would like.