Christmas Concert and Prizegiving Ceremony 2011

Last night was the night of our second annual... Christmas Concert and Prizegiving Ceremony 2011! Once again, the concert was held at WPIPS and we had many budding actors and actresses set to impress! We started the evening as normal before the came across a (planned) dilemma! None of the costumes were right! Some had been ruined and no one had any idea why! So instead of our "original performance" we had to watch a bit of TV (at least while we were trying to solve the dilemma). The TV programs were good though, they had a Christmas around the World theme and covered Mexico, France, England, India, Australia and Hollywood! Plus they were in 3D so that made it even better! 

Alivia wearing her 3D glasses

Kerrie looked stunning in her 3D glasses

Georgie loved her 3D glasses

And the Mexican cake!

Yohan found the "Jesus" figurine!
 

The Mexican dancing was great fun!

Then just at the end of the Mexican program, someone must have changed the channel (no idea who, but something tells me it was Brooke, because the remote was found under his chair) seeing as instead of the programmed French channel, an R-rated program turned on! Thankfully we found the remote just in time!

"The following program is classified R-rated, and contains strong violence, sexual scenes and coarse language"

In France, they chopped down and decorated a Christmas Tree (sapin de Noel)

 

And in England, the audience was treated to an interview with the Queen and Kate Middleton

For a while it all went OK, until someone (still no idea who!) unplugged the TV! Luckily, it was just the right time for a break so the audience took the chance to look around the Discovery Room whilst we fixed the TV.

In the Discovery Room during the break

Or for those who had already checked out the Discovery Room, Hugh and Santa (Jesse) gave an amusing show.

And just as we thought nothing else would happen, something went wrong with the 3D and while the 3D characters tried to interact with the audience, it didn't work and the TV screen smashed! I hope no one got too injured in the process. This latest dilemma meant no TV either to it was a good thing that we managed to get at least one part of our original performance ready. So we all sang "It's A Small World" before awarding the Prince & Princess Book Awards. This years recipients, Amelia and Hugh, really deserved the prizes. Then each staff member and student took the audience back to one of their most memorable parts of the year. A BBQ was a well deserved treat at the end!

Three beautiful Indian dancers

Singing "It's A Small World"

Hollywood Chat Session with Abby and Jo

We never found out who was fiddling around and causing all the dilemmas, but we did catch this elf sneaking past!

Sports Carnival Part 1

Yesterday was the perfect day for our first ever... drumroll... WPIPS Sports Carnival! The weather was great, a bit windy, but really sunny and lots of fun was had by all! The oval looked great with the bunting we made and some balloons in the colours of the 3 teams - gold, pearl and lilac. It was great that everyone could make it and join in on the fun, and it's only thanks to the awesome parent helpers that the day turned out as good as it was... After the long jump, beanbag throw, running races, skipping races, flag races and team games, everyone was pretty much exhausted so it was very inviting to sing Happy Birthday to WPIPS and enjoy a piece of delicious birthday cake (thanks Pat), despite the bird footprints (full story on that later). Presentations and speeches were made after we sang the school song and everyone took home a medal and certificate plus spectators and helpers were not left out because there was even an award from the person who cheered the most - Caro! And a small present was also given to each family who've helped throughout the year... and then it was time to pack up again! I suppose I should also mention the winning team?? Well, that was very close and Lilac ended up taking home the 1st place title after being in 3rd place before the team games. Gold also did exceptionally well and were in 1st place most of the way, and as for Pearl- their performance was too commendable, in fact, I think everyone were winners! And the most important thing, isn't the fact that a particular team lost or won, but that we all had lots of fun! Here are just some pictures, more pictures and info coming soon, so watch this space!

 Division 2 Long Jump, in 1st place (from Gold)... Brendon Gooding, 2nd (from Pearl)... Hugh Telfer, and Georgia Kelly (also from Pearl) took home 3rd place.

 This is the lovely birthday cake made by Pat, after someone turned their back for just a few seconds and the magpies made the most of the delightful treat and decided to leave their mark (perfect footprints, you think?) Another corner was slightly nibbled too...

 The Beanbag Throw!

Our fantastic helpers, Roger and Michelle. Michelle was chief recorder for the day and Roger was in charge of various different jobs including timing, measuring, raking and holding the ribbon for competitors to run through at the end of the race, not to mention, first aid volunteer. Fortunately, he was only needed once with a bee sting.

(Lots) more info and photos coming soon...