Introductions
During this part of the rap, rappers send a short class message of introduction. Tell us:
- *the name of your school
- *your town or city
- *any information about your location or your class group that would interest other rappers
- *any initial reactions to the text.
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?
Click on the Comments link below to add your class introductory message.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Hello Rappers!
Welcome to the “Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge” Book Rap! My name is Mr McLean, teacher librarian at Penrith Public School. Together with Mrs Scheffers, teacher librarian at Caddies Creek PS, I will be coordinating this book rap.
We hope you enjoy taking part in this exciting online discussion about the wonderful picture book, “Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge”. It’s one of my favourite books! Mrs Scheffers and I are looking forward to reading your interesting and clever ideas about this book!
The Book Rap pages are live for viewing and subscribing (at no cost) the week of 18 February 2008. The Rap itself starts 25 February 2008.
Meanwhile, each group participating in the rap needs to work together 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, 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.
Then you can enjoy reading all the other introductions as they begin to appear here on the Rap Blog. Your class may wish to plot the locations of other rapping schools on a Rap Map (templates are available on the book rap site) or try using Google Maps or Whereis.com
Your teachers and teacher librarians are encouraged to visit the Teachers section regularly (see the Teachers tab along the top of this web page.
We look forward to rapping with you all! Mrs Scheffers will be along very soon to introduce herself.
Mr McLean,
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge Book Rap Coordinator
PS.Logging in to Edublogs
When teachers and teacher librarians first log in to the “Edublogs” site, they should be aware that the user name they choose for themselves will appear each time they post a blog message. For example, my “Edublogs” user name is “ianmclean”, but I could have chosen “mrmclean” or “class2z” or “penrithbloggers” instead.
“Edublogs” is a free blogging service from “Wordpress” for legitimate educational purposes. “Edublogs” suggests caution if using a school-related email address, because you’ll need to acknowledge receipt of your welcome message before your first post; sometimes that email may be blocked by a firewall. School email addresses have been unblocked for NSW DET schools; in those schools, if your receipt goes to a free email address, such as “”Hotmail”, that mail service may well be blocked by the firewall.
Please let us know if you have any difficulties.
February 17th, 2008 at 5:57 pm
Hello from the Penrith PS Rappers!
We are eight students in SCLB at Penrith Public School. Some of us are in Early Stage One and some are in Stage 1. Our teacher is Mrs Brady and our teacher-librarian is Mr McLean. We come to the library every Thursday and Friday.
Penrith is on the edge of western Sydney, on the way to the Blue Mountains. Our school has 397 students from K-6.
We love book rapping. Some of us did the “Possum Magic” book rap last year. We can’t wait to rap about Wilfrid. (Did you see the hen hiding under the chair on the cover?)
From the students in SCLB.
February 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Hello to all Wilfrid rappers.
We are a Year 1 group at St Luke’s Grammar School, Dee Why which is on the beautiful northern beaches of Sydney. We are an Independent Anglican school and we have students from Preschool to Year 12 all in the one school. There are over 800 students at our school.
Our Teacher Librarian, Mrs Gough, is working with us and our class teachers on the Wilfrid Rap and we are so excited about learning about Book Raps and blogs. We have never done either before. We are learning about all sorts of other Australian authors in our library times and we all love Mem Fox’s stories!
We can’t wait to get going.
Year 1
February 17th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Hello from Year 2 at St Michael’s College in Caboolture Queensland. Caboolture is one hours drive north of Brisbane on the road to beautiful Bribie Island.
We are an independent primary school of 300 students. Mrs Gardiner is our Teacher Librarian and we will be doing this Book Rap in our Library class each week. We come to the Library to borrow and work with Mrs Gardiner. we also like coming to the Library at lunch tome to use the computers and listen to stories.
We are looking forward to reading the book and sending in our responses as well as reading the others that are posted. this will be out first Book Rap.
Mrs Gardiner read us lots of Mem Fox’s books last year so we already know some of her stories.
From the Year 2 students.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
We are in year 2 at Churchie in East Brisbane and will be putting our introductions up next week in our library lessons. We are looking forward to learning more about other rappers and discussing the book.
Mrs Bastow, Teacher Librarian
February 18th, 2008 at 5:00 pm
Welcome aboard St Luke’s Grammar (Dee Why, NSW) and the East Brisbane Churchies! We hope this book rap and blogging experience will be an exciting time.
Well done to St Luke’s who even worked out how to make an avatar of their school emblem – an extra challenge, which left me feeling very pleased when I learned how to do it with my class.
Best wishes from Mr McLean, Penrith PS.
February 17th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Congratulations to St Michael’s College and Mrs Gardiner for being one of our first groups of rappers, and our first school from interstate! Welcome aboard!
Mr McLean,
“Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge” Book Rap Coordinator
February 18th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Hello to all rappers, we are looking forward to doing a bigger introduction next week in our library lessons and getting to know more about you all and the Book.
Mrs Bastow, Teacher Librarian
February 19th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Hello to all the Wilfrid rappers.
Our teacher Mrs Walker and our Teacher/librarian Mrs Atkins and all of year 2W are looking forward to our first rap. We are putting together our introduction and we are already enjoying other intros.
We’re excited!!!
Regards from Miranda North PS rappers
February 20th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
Well done to the gang at Miranda North PS! Blogs are very exciting, especially when someone replies to your message!
Best wishes from Mr McLean.
February 20th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Hi fellow rapper students and teachers
My name is Mrs Scheffers and I’m coordinating this very exciting book rap with my friend Mr McLean. I am the teacher librarian at Caddies Creek Public School which is in western Sydney.
I am so looking forward to sharing your wonderful, creative ideas and feelings about Wilfrid Gordon! It will be fun to find out how many schools from across Australia take part. I can’t wait to read your rap intoductions next week and learn a little bit about your class and your schools.
Happy rapping everyone!
Mrs Scheffers (Rap Coordinator)
February 21st, 2008 at 9:28 pm
Hi everyone!
We’ll be doing a proper introduction next week in Library with Mrs McKay!
Kemblawarra Kids
February 21st, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Yahoo, we made it!
We’ll be doing a proper introduction in library with Mrs McKay.
Warilla North PS Rappers
February 22nd, 2008 at 9:53 am
Hi,
Our class is 2/3C and we come from Biraban Public School. Our school is in Toronto. Toronto is a suburb of Lake Macquarie. Our teacher is Mrs Campbell and she will be working with Mrs Tweedale our librarian on the Wilfrid Blog. We are looking forward to rapping with everyone.
2/3C Biraban Rappers
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Hi fellow rappers
What an exciting book rap adventure we are all going to share over the next few weeks!
For this week’s introductory activitiy, rappers are asked to send a short introductory class message about their class and provide information about their school and its location. It wil be so interesting to learn how our schools are similar and also different!
Post your class introduction to the rap blog once your teacher has approved the final message. Your class might wish to respond to the introductions from other rappers via the rap blog.
After reading other schools’ introductions, you may like to locate schools on a Rap map.
Well done to the clever rappers from Penrith PS, Miranda North PS, St Michaels, St Lukes, the Kemblawarra Kids and the Churchie rappers from East Brisbane who have already posted their introductions! It’s great to have schools from all across Australia taking part!
I look foward to reading other classes’ introductions.
Happy rapping everyone!
Mrs Scheffers
Rap Co-ordinator
Teacher Librarian @ Caddies Creek PS, western Sydney
February 22nd, 2008 at 11:56 am
Welcome aboard Mrs Scheffers, Caddies Creek PS, Mrs McKay, the Kids at Kemblawarra PS, the Rappers at Warilla North PS, Mrs Campbell, Mrs Tweedale and 2/3C at Biraban PS. We are glad to have you all with us on our Wilfrid rapping adventure.
Our library has two copies of “Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge”. One of them is an old, original hardcover from 1984 and, inside the front cover, it has beautiful pink endpapers that match Miss Nancy’s socks on the cover!
Regards, Mr McLean, Penrith PS
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Dear Bookrappers,
We are 7 students in 2K and our teacher is Ms Jo Kirk and our teacher librarian is Ms Kimbra Weeks. Our school is the International School Ho Chi Minh City and it is in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We like to read books and we are looking forward to talking with other rappers. This is the first time we have participated in a book rap.
Regards,
Kimbra Weeks
Teacher Librarian
February 22nd, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Hello friends from other schools,
We are a group of mainly Year 2 students at Penrith Public School, plus a few Year 1 students. Going west, Penrith is halfway between Sydney city and Katoomba in the Blue Mountains.
Our school uniform is blue, white and red. We have nearly 400 students in our school.
We are very excited to do this book rap on the Rap Blog. Our teacher librarian, Mr McLean, told us that ‘blog’ was short for ‘web log’. The blog sounds like it will be a bit like S1I’s class diary called ‘The Adventures of Cranky the Crocodile’ because each entry will have a different time or date.
Penrith goes forward with pride!
February 22nd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Hi,
Our class is 12G and we are from Biraban Public School. Biraban is in Toronto a suburb of Lake Macquarie. We are a small school of 150 students. We love Biraban and look forward to rapping,
12G
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:15 am
Hello Everyone,
How are you? We are from classes K/1B, 1/2P and Satelite 2 at Warilla North Public School. Our teachers are Mrs Brassil, Mrs Piana and Mrs Brungs. Our Teacher Librarian is Mrs Mad. Our school is in Warilla in Shellharbour, near Wollongong in NSW. We have a pelican on our school logo because we live near Lake Illawarra where there are lots of pelicans. Pelicans are the best at catching fish. We’re ALL first time rappers.
February 24th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
HI,
We will post our introduction this week.
Julie Grazotis
Teacher Librarian
Werrington P.S
February 24th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Hello from the blakehurstpsrappers.
We are class 2K from Blakehurst Public School. There are 9 girls and 15 boys in our class and our school has about 390 students.
We are located in a southern suburb of Sydney, on a hill high above the Princes Highway, near the Georges River and Botany Bay.
Our teacher is Mrs Harris and our teacher librarian Ms Duncan. This is our first book rap and we are very excited to be part of this rap and learning about blogs. We enjoyed reading the first few introductions from other schools are are looking forward to posting our own.
2K
February 25th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Hi Rappers,
We are class 1H from Thirroul PS. We have hilly playgrounds and can see the ocean from our room. We have 9 girls and 12 boys in our class and we love to play our ‘Zap’ numbers game. For most of us, this is our first rap…a few did ‘Possum Magic’ last year and loved it!
We look forward to ‘rapping’ with you all!
February 25th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Hi Rappers. We are the Girl Rappers and our school is Evanston Gardens Primary School. We have 130 students from reception to year 7. Our nearest town is Gawler and we are about an hour away from the city centre of Adelaide,SA. We are all in the age group of 11 to 13 years old girls and there are 7 of us in our group. This is our first book rap and we are excited. Our school is turning 100 this year. We are all excited about that too. We are all good readers and we are anxious to get started on our book rap.
February 25th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Hello Wilfrid rappers,
We are 2A from Caddies Creek Public School. Our school is located in Glenwood near Parklea Markets. Our school has a basketball court, a canteen, a big oval, a COLA area, a big hall and a great computer room. There are 750 children who come to our school.
Class 2A works in a demountable classroom at the back of our oval. We have a book corner, 3 goldfish and 3 computers. Our class enjoys going to the hall for our weekly assemblies and playing sport with Mr Hynes.
Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is a wonderful book with beautiful illustrations by Julie Vivas. We are feeling very excited about taking part in our second book rap after last year’s rap about Possum Magic.
We look forward to reading your introductions.
From the 2A Awesome Rappers @ CCPS
February 25th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
We are 2N Churchie rappers and we are excited about joining the rap. We are at a boys’ school and we have some unique things here. We have a very large bat colony at our school near the creek . The bats are noisy and smelly at times. Our library is fun as it has a large cow and a boat in it. We like to use the boat to sit and read in at times.
Our school has a Viking passion and is quite old,, it will be 100 years old in 2012. Our classroom was once a boarding room. We love the Billy Cart race that we have to raise money for World Vision each year.
We are doing the rap with Mr Nicholas our class teacher and Mrs Bastow, our Teacher Librarian.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Hi everyone,
This is a joint introduction from 1E, 1/2C and 2H at Eastern Creek Public School. We will be doing this rap during our Library time each week with our Teacher Librarian, Mrs Mead.
Our school has 10 classes and a preschool. We are near the interchange for the Great Western Highway and the M7. We are also near the Eastern Creek Raceway so we zoom along with our learning.
Some of us participated in the Possum Magic Book Rap last year and are looking forward to rapping again. It was so much fun.
Happy Reading
1E, 1/2C and 2H at ECPS
February 25th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Dear Wilfrid Rappers,
We are class 1/2L from Caddies Creek Public School in Glenwood. Our school is only 6 years old.
We have ten Year 1 students and fourteen Year 2 students in our class and our teacher’s name is Miss Lark. We are doing this book rap with our teacher librarian Mrs Scheffers. Year 2 did the Possum Magic book rap last year but this is the first rap for Year 1.
Our demountable classroom is in the far corner of the school and we are a long way away from the main part of the school.
We have a collection of toy turtles in our room because they are Miss Lark’s favourites! Art is the lesson we enjoy the most and we always work well together as a team.
Everyone is very excited about taking part in this book rap because the story has ‘divine’ pictures!
We are enjoying reading your messages and even found where Ho Chi Minh is on the world globe.
Bye for now,
From the 1/2LuckyRappers@CCPS
February 25th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Hi Rappers,
We are 2P students – 12 boys and 12 girls – at Arncliffe Public School. Our school has 400 students. Our school is near Sydney Airport. We can see Centrepoint Tower from our playground.
We are doing the Wilfrid blog with our teachers,Mrs Pavlovski and Mr Khamis, and our teacher-librarian, Mrs Edwards.
February 25th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
Wow! What a lot of rappers signing up today – and so many of you are first time book rappers. We welcome you all. (If Mrs Keane’s Wilfrid avatar had a mouth he’d be smiling!)
Hello to the International School in Vietnam (you made it!), Werrington PS, Blakehurst PS, Thirroul PS, Evanston Gardens PS.
Awesome Rappers at Caddies Creek PS: your introduction was… awesome!
Happy rapping, everyone!
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS
February 25th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Hi fellow rappers,
We are the blue sea rappers from Manly Village Public School in Sydney, New South Wales. Our class is a composite extension class with 26 students in years 2 and 1. We have 11 girls and 15 boys. Our teacher’s name is Ms Bailey and we are doing this book rap with our Teacher Librarian, Mrs Neill.
From our classroom windows we can see the ocean which is only 100 metres away. Our school is between the ocean and Sydney harbour.
The beach is used a lot for student activities such as: the K-2 beach carnival where we have lots of races and games; the 3-6 cross country carnival; and the primary students have surfing, kayaking, sailing and beach volleyball.
As Manly is a famous tourist destination, we have lots of tourists standing at the fences watching
the children play. Manly also has lots of restaurants, cafes and outdoor eating areas, so many families eat out regularly.
There is a regular ferry service to the city which is used by working parents and classes going on excursions.
This year is a very special year for our school as we are celebrating the sesquicentenary – we will be 150 years old in September.
We are looking forward to reading your introductions and hope you enjoy ours.
Blue Sea Rappers.
February 25th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
Hi rappers,
We’re the jindybats. We are in year 2. We have 21 people in our class and we are lucky because we have two teachers Miss Baktin and Miss Diacono.
We go to Jindabyne Central and our school goes up to year 12.
We live in NSW close to the highest mountain in Australia, Mt Kosciuszko. We enjoy going skiing on the lake in summer and the snow in winter.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:24 am
Hi Rappers!
There are 7 boys and 5 girls in Year 1 and Mrs Laurie (librarian) rapping at our school. We have a lot of bush around our school. Many birds, reptiles and insects visit out playground. We were surprised Miss Nancy got some memories back!
Glenhavenrappers,
Glenhaven PS
(NW Sydney,near Castle Hill)
February 26th, 2008 at 10:28 am
G’day this is 1J from Nowra Public School. We have 22 children in our class, there are 14 boys and 8 girls. Our teacher is Mrs Jones. Today Mrs Jones bought a 1936 Buick street rod to school – this is an olden day car. We are learning about transport.
We have a playground, with a park and equipment. We have a cricket pitch at our school and two sandpits.
Nowra is a town on the coast of New South Wales between the mountains and the sea. We have a big river passing through our town.
We have just read ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ in our classroom and we just loved it! It’s our favourite book, but we are looking forward to reading Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Patridge with everyone. Love 1J.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:45 am
Hello Wilfrid rappers,
How are you?
We are class 2T from Caddies Creek Public School (CCPS). There are 14 boys and 10 girls in our class. Mr Tudberry is our perfect teacher. Everyone enjoys reading, playing sport with Mr Hynes, going to the computer lab, coming to the library and having special visitors to our school.
Our class really likes the character Wilfrid because he has four names like two of us. We like the part where Wilfrid collects some of his special things to show Miss Nancy to help her find her memory.
Class 2T is feeling very excited and happy to be taking part in the book rap. We are enjoying writing and reading the introductions and feel a bit jealous about those schools that are near the beach.
We are going to wrap it up now and we’ll rap with you later.
From the 2T Too Terrific Rappers @ CCPS.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:13 am
Hello everyone, we are 1H from Nowra Public School. Our classroom is on the infants site of our school – we have to walk down the road to get to our library, which is on the primary site!
We have a lot of fun at school and love reading books. We can’t wait to rap with everyone and get to know you all on the computer.
Talk soon! !H.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Hi from the Nowra Public School rappers.
We are class 2Q at Nowra Public School. There are 24 students in our class and over 620 in our school. Our teacher’s name is Mr Quinell, and our librarian is Ms Gardner.
The school is split up into two parts. We are on the infants site and because of this we can only visit the library one day a week.
In our classroom, we have a ’stamp dragon’. Everytime we are all good we put a stamp on the dragon. We have 17 stamps already! We need 20, 40 or 60 stamps to get a reward.
We have 4 computers, and an empty tank – ready to put some Axolotols in. We have lots of books, we enjoy reading. We have signs in our class which label things to help us read and write.
Our school is 2 and a half hours south of Sydney. We are in the Shoalhaven, which is near the beach and near the mountains. We have a salt water river running between Nowra and Bomaderry, the river is called Shoalhaven River.
Our class thinks Wilfrid Gorden is a sad book with a happy ending. We are looking forward to this book rap, because we have never talked to children all over Australia and this will be a great opportunity.
2Q Aims to Achieve.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Hello,
We are 3T and 3B from Werrington P.S. Our school is friendly. We are kind and try to cooperate with others. Werrington P.S is in N.S W. Our school uniform is blue and yellow. 3T has 21 girls and 7 boys. Our teachers are Mrs Tucker and Mrs Buchan. 3B has 4 girls and 1 boy. 3B’s teacher is Mrs Bailey. Our library teacher, Mrs Grazotis, is helping us with our book rap.
We are looking forward to doing the book rap.
From Werrington Rappers
February 26th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
We are from Churchie in East Brisbane, Australia. Our school is old. It is having a centenary in 2012. We have a beautiful oval that we love to play on. When we walk to the oval, we pass the creek and the bat colony. We love our Library time and we enjoy the cow and the boat in the Library. We enjoy playing Lego at choice time and computers too. Our classroom is a really old room. It looks like a church and it used to be a boarding house. Our Library teacher, Mrs Bastow is organising the Bookrap at Churchie. We feel very excited, but a little nervous. We also feel proud of ourselves! We are looking forward to chatting to other people.
February 26th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Hi everyone,
We are children from Belmont Public School, Lake Macquarie. This is the first time our school has joined in a book rap and we are very excited.
Our school has about 300 students. We have lots of room to run around and beautiful classrooms for learning. We have a bush tucker garden and 2 playing areas. Our library is big with lots of computers.
The stage 1 classes are studying ‘Our Families’ and Wilfrid Gordon was the first book we read. We loved this book and have tried to recall our own memories.
We will be joining in the rap with our class teachers and out teacher librarian, Mrs Williamson.
2H and 2/3K
February 26th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
Hi everyone,
We are in grade 4/5 at Shalom Christian College in Townsville, Queensland. Our school is a small Christian School, with students from Prep all the way to grade 12. Our principal is Mrs McClure, and most of our students are either Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander decent.
We are excited to be involved with the program, with our lovely librarian Miss Annette, supporting us all the way!!! This is our first Bookrap and the first time we’ve tried blogging.
Grade 4/5
And Miss Gray
February 26th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Hello fellow Rappers.
We are classes 1T and 1M from Caddies Creek Public School. Our school is growing so we have two new demountable classrooms and our trees are growing to give us all more shade. A new outdoor learning area has recently been built but the roof still needs to be added.
Caddies Creek is a very multicultural school with over 70 nationalities represented. We love learning about all our different cultures.
Our classes enjoy drawing, playing on our large oval, using the many computers at our school and learning to read. 1T and 1M’s demountable classrooms are next to each other at the back of the school.
We are feeling very excited but a little bit nervous because this is our very first book rap.
Rap with you later from the Mighty Terrific Rappers @ CCPS
February 26th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Our school is Adaminaby Public School. We are in the South-East corner of Australia in the Snowy Mountains.
We have 29 students in the school, two full-time teachers and one part-time teacher and a school assistant manager. In our class we have kindergarten, year one and year two. Altogether in our class we have 12 students.
The library has:a special reading corner, two sofas, lots of cushions and a red mat. There is also a computer area and a writing section. Our classroom teacher is Ms Gravel.
Outside we have a big oval, climbing equipment, a soccer area, a basketball court and lots of trees for shade.
We are very nervous because we have never done a book rap before. Only three of us will be part of it (all of year two).
It will be good to read Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge again and talk about it with other schools.
We are looking forward to see what other schools like about it
The troutrap
February 26th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
We are class 3G and we are really looking forward to being in the rap. We think it is cool and exciting to be part of this. It is something unexpected and we are glad that our teacher, Ms Grayson and our Teacher Libarian Mrs Bastow are giving us this opportunity.
We really like our school and think the bats and the creek are great, if a little smelly at times! We also love our library with the cow and the boat.
We look forward to getting to know more of you on the rap.
February 26th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Hello everyone!
This is a story about a computer which lost its memory and made us log in on two different computers to send you this message! Maybe the computer is called Miss Nancy.
Most of us writing this introduction are in Year 1 at Penrith Public School. We love looking after our environment, having fun, and doing school work.
We look forward to rapping with you all.
Penrith PS Rappers.
February 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
We are pleased to be on the rap and we are excited about participating in it. We think it will be fun to share ideas with other schools, Our school has many boys and the houses are named after the Vikings.We have great books in the library and a cow and a boat as well. Our teacher is Ms Campbell and she is very neat and we love her. We have two wombats called Crikey and CJ. We take them home and write stories every night.
February 26th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Here we are with another batch of welcomes to the enthusiastic rappers from Belmont, Nowra, Glenhaven, Jindabyne, Manly village, Eastern Creek and Arncliffe Public Schools. I hope I haven’t left anyone out. Sometimes older messages arrive onscreen in batches while I’m typing.
I’m especially excited to see Arncliffe join the rap, as I used to go to Arncliffe Public School as a student way back when Apollo 11 landed on the moon! When I first went to Arncliffe, the library was upstairs in the building alongside Princess Highway, and then when I used to visit as a teacher it had moved to a room that was the old assembly hall.
I have lots of happy memories about your school; I hope I never forget them like poor Miss Nancy. (Do you still have a little leather-bound book of students’ poetry in the library called “Just One More”? I have a poem in there.)
There are lots of schools doing a book rap for the first time. We hope you have a great time rapping about “Wilfrid” and Miss Nancy.
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS
February 26th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
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February 26th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Goodness me! I’m not known as MRS MAD, but MRS MAC! I must have been mad not to be wearing my reading glasses before sending off our introduction! It just goes to show how carefully you need to check before you send!
Hello especially to rappers from Thirroul PS and Nowra PS – we’re in between you both.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Dear Rappers,
We have 4 classes and 86 children in our school. We’re across the road from where some of the Wadi Wadi people live. They are the tradtional owners of our area. Some of them come to our school. The school is in Port Kembla which is in Wollongong in NSW. Down the road is Warrawong shops and Lake Illawarra. (The northern side of the lake – Warilla North are on the southern side)
We are mainly in 1/2/3W. We liked the story, especially when Wilfrid Gordon helped Miss Nancy remember. And the pictures.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:25 am
A big welcome to Shalom Christian College in Townsville, Qld. Also to Adaminaby PS. (Please say hello to the Big Trout for me!)
Regards, Mr McLean
Penrith PS
February 27th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Hello,
Our school is Kinross Wolaroi School. The school is in Orange in the Central West of NSW.
We are in the class 1/2W. Our teacher’s name is Mrs Whiteley and she is very nice.
We go to our huge wonderful library every Tuesday to visit Mrs Deans.
We like to read lots of interesting books about all sorts of things. We like to borrow books from the library. We will be doing this rap in the library with Mrs Deans and Mrs Whiteley.
February 27th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Welcome to the rap everyone.
It’s wonderful to have so many rappers from schools in all parts of NSW, Queensland and even Vietnam.
A special welcome to Mrs Mad (oops! Mrs Mac) and the warillanorthrappers. I thought Mrs Mad was a fantastic name for a teacher librarian.
I enjoy reading everyone’s comments and I’m looking forward to your responses to Rap point 1 next week.
If you have read the responses and then come back to the blog to leave a reply, just press the Ctrl and End keys at the same time for a fast way to get to the bottom of the page.
Happy rapping everyone,
Mrs Keane Rapcoordinator at Ryde which is a leafy, residential north western suburb in Sydney
February 27th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Hello, we are Carlton South rappers from the the area of St George Illawara where the St George players play. This is our first time on a rap. We have over five hundred students. We have mostly stage two students and some stage one students in our class. Our teacher is Mrs Ferlazzo. We are very excited because it is the first time we are are going on the rap. With the help of our librarian, Mrs Leneghan, we are writing about the rap, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.
February 27th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
Hello to all the other rappers.
We are in class 1G and come from Epping heights Public School which is in Sydney, NSW. This is our first rap and we are very excited!!!
Our class has children from Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Canada, America and of course Australia.
Our class teacher’s name is Miss Gerard but our technology teacher, Mrs Jarvis is rapping with us!!!
February 27th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Hi from Class 1/2H at Thirroul Public School. Our teacher is Mrs Hardaker and our teacher librarian is Mrs McGuinness. We have 15 girls and 9 boys in our class. Two of our students have 4 names just like Wilfrid Gordon (Jack and Eliza).
We enjoy having mini swims in our classroom!
Rap soon!
February 27th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Hello students, teachers and teacher-librarians at Kemblawarra PS, Kinross Wolaroi School at Orange, Calton South PS and Epping Heights PS.
Our NSW, Australian and world rap maps are being covered with dots spread far and wide!
Regards, Mr McLean
Penrith PS
February 27th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Hi Wilfrid Rappers
How exciting to be reading all of your wonderful introductions! We have so many schools participating in this very special book rap; schools from throughout NSW, Queensland and even our Year 2 friends in Vietnam! It’s wonderful to have those “experienced” rappers and our “first time” rappers” working together on this project.
Have you been keeping a list of all of the schools? Have you found them on a map of Sydney, Australia or a world globe?
Keep up the great work everyone!
Mrs Scheffers
February 27th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Hello happy rappers,
We are class 2M at Caddies Creek Public School. Our teacher is Miss McSeveny and there are 25 students in our class. We like to do art, borrowing books from the library, doing homework, handwriting and maths. Our classroom is neat and tidy and we always try to do our best work.
Class 2M likes “Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge” because Wilfrid is kind and smart. We like the part where Wilfrid helped give Miss Nancy her memory back. We think the book has marvellous illustrations by Julie Vivas and is well written by Mem Fox.
For most of us, this is our second book rap. We are feeling great and fantastic about taking part in this book rap.
Rap again soon,
From the 2M Mature Rappers @ CCPS
February 27th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
We are a year 2 class in country Victoria. Our teacher is Mrs.Milich and our Teacher Librarian is Mrs.Kelvy. We are finally on the air! Have had a bit of trouble with the school filters, but this works now! Be in touch with a proper introduction soon.
Regards, from The Hamilton and Alexandra College Rappers
February 28th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Hello everyone!
We are 2R at Sherwood Grange Public School.
Our school is in Merrylands NSW in the western suburbs of Sydney near Parramatta.
We have 8 girls and 15 boys in our class and are all 7 or 8 years old.
We read Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge and thought it was a great story.
We’re looking forward to being in the bookrap with our teachers Miss Reinhard and Mrs Parnis.
Some of us have never been in a bookrap before. Others enjoyed the Possum Magic rap last year.
Bye for now,
2R
February 28th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Hi from Class 2BH at Thirroul Public School. There are 7 boys and 9 girls in our composite class ( we share Mrs Bostock & Mrs Hopson with 8 Year 3’s).
In our class, we enjoy playing ‘Bang’ (a game that uses past tense!)
We all like going to the beach and especially reading Captain Underpants books!!
Rap soon!
February 28th, 2008 at 11:01 am
There is a garden outside out classroom.
Our principal is Mr McDonald.
There are a lot of classrooms.
Our library teacher’s name is Miss McCaw.
We like going down the back to play and eat.
We have boys’ toilets and girls’ toilets.
This school is beautiful.
From the Rainbow Rappers of 1K5
February 28th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Greetings Fellow Bloggers,
We are the Year 1 Jindyseahorses. We are in 1S – seahorses at Jindabyne Central School in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales. We have classes from K to 12 and there are over 400 students at our school.
In our class we have 9 boys and 12 girls. Our lovely teacher is Miss Smith. We are lucky to have our wonderful Teacher Librarian Mrs Ware helping us with this Wilfrid project.
Our class is very excited about rapping with others. We will be coming to the library on Thursdays to rap.
This is our first rapping experience.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Hi from Class 1V at Thirroul Public School!
This is our first book rap and we are looking forward to talking to other students, especially those from other states and Vietnam!
We have 10 boys and 11 girls in our class and we all enjoy living near the beach and the escarpment, where there is a lot of bush.
We like painting, drawing, colouring, maths, homework, singing and especially borrowing books.
Rap soon!
February 28th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Hi Rappers,
We are class 1H from Caddies Creek Public School. Our teacher’s name is Mrs Hurst. There are 9 girls and 12 boys in our class. (Just like 1H from Thirroul Public School). Mrs Scheffers, our teacher/librarian, is helping us. Our class enjoys doing art work, reading books and Maths. We have a big oval and a big hall. Our school has after school care in the hall.
Everyone is feeling very happy and smart, to be taking part in the book rap. There are 11 other classes from our school, joining us in the rap.
We hope you enjoy reading our introduction.
The Happy, Heavenly Rappers from 1H, @ C.C.P.S.
February 28th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Hello Rappers!
We are class 1S from Caddies Creek Public School which is near Blacktown in Sydney. There are 13 boys and 9 girls in our class and our teacher is Mrs. Silvino. In our demountable classroom we have an activity corner, book corner, computer area with three computers and 2 special rugs where we sit altogether.
In our school we have 27 classes and three support classes. We also have lots of plants and trees surrounding our school. There is a new covered outdoor learning area outside of our Library.
Class 1S is very happy and excited about doing the rap with all of you. We especially like the beautiful water colour illustrations of Wilfrid Gordon MacDonald Partridge.
We hope you enjoyed reading our introductory message as we enjoyed reading yours.
From the 1S Superstar Rappers @ CCPS
February 29th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Hello Wilfrid rappers
We are Year 1 at SCEGGS Darlinghurst. Our school is near the city of Sydney. We can see Centrepoint Tower. Our school is all girls. There are 25 girls in our class. Our teacher is Miss Keys and our teacher librarian is Mrs Cluff. We are very excited to read the book and rap about it with all the other schools.
February 29th, 2008 at 10:50 am
A big welcome to classes 1V and 2BH from Thirroul, the Year 1 Jindyseahorses, the Rainbow Rappers, the Hamilton and Alexandra College Rappers in Victoria, SCEGGS Darlinghurst and the rappers from Caddies Creek PS (2M Mature Rappers, 1H Happy Heavenly Rappers and the 1S Superstar Rappers). What interesting rap nicknames you have created for your classes!
Hello also to Class 2R at Sherwood Grange PS – I use to teach at nearby Merrylands East PS so I know exactly where your school is!
Mr McLean and I are SO IMPRESSED with all of your wonderful introductions. It’s so exciting to have so many schools taking part in a rap for the very first time! It’s also pleasing to have some of the more “experienced” rapping schools such as Manly Village PS, Arncliffe PS and Eastern Creek joining us.
If you still haven’t posted your class rap introduction, please still do so. We’d love to read and learn all about you.
I can’t wait to start our Rap Point 1 activities next week.
Bye for now and happy rapping,
Mrs Scheffers (Rap Co-ordinator)
Teacher Librarian @ Caddies Creek PS
February 29th, 2008 at 11:25 am
Hello fellow rappers
This is our formal introduction.
We are 23 students in 2W at Miranda North PS. Our school has 250 pupils and a very large grassy playground. It is right in the middle of the Sutherland Shire. At one end of the Shire is the Royal National Park( mmm – fresh air!!) and at the other end of the Shire are the beautiful sandy beaches of Cronulla. We are located about 35 minutes drive from the city of Sydney.
We think Wilfrid Gordon Mcdonald Partridge is special and meaningful and look forward to sharing our ideas with you.
Could you help us put our school logo in the little box as we don’t know how?
Bye for now.
2wmnpsrappers
February 29th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Hello everyone!
Thank you for all the great introductions!
“Edublogs” seems to have been revamping the main site this week. I noticed today that instead of the “Click to change your avatar…” link, it said “Grab your own edublog to have an avatar”. Maybe they are restricting the number of users having avatars?
Nowra rappers: I’m glad you solved yesterday’s problem with logging in. Your lyrebird avatar is working! Some avatars are still showing up here as a solid black square. Maybe some schools aren’t using the right kind of jpeg or gif? (There’s a warning on the avatar page that animated graphics don’t work. Neither do many graphics designed to use in word processing documents.)
Also, sometimes you may need to refresh a page to see all the new messages. Just now, my browser was showing only up to yesterday’s messages, but when I finished logging in and “refreshed” (ie. hold down the “Shift” key on your keyboard while pressing “Enter”), all the new messages appeared down the bottom of the page. If you can’t see the rectangle to write your message in, you’re not logged in properly.
Don’t forget to click on the tab called “Rap Point 1″ at the top of the web page to start entering your responses to Rap Point 1.
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS
February 29th, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Hello Rappers
We are the Tilly Rappers, a Year 2 class from Tanilba Bay PS. This is our first rap.
Tanilba Bay is located on the Tilligerry Peninsula of Port Stephens. We are about 40 minutes north of Newcastle.
Our school has around 400 students from K to 6 and is set in beautiful natural bush land (unfortunately the surrounding area is being built out). We frequently get furry (koalas) and scaly (lizards) visitors in our playgrounds.
We are just one bushy block back from the beautiful waterfront. This bushland area is home to the wonderful Tilligerry Habitat Visitor Centre.
We look forward to rapping with you all
HB9 and Ms Miller
February 29th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
Hi, we are class 2B from Cambewarra Public School (on the NSW South Coast).
We like the story about Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge. We think Wilfrid is kind and caring. We also have 4 children in our class that have 4 names.
From the Cambe-rappers.
February 29th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Reposted for nowrarappers:
G’day book rappers!
We are 2B our teacher is Mr Buchan, we have 24 students in our class, 12 boys and 12 girls. Nowra public school is a split site school with K-2 on the top infant site and 3-6 on the bottom primary site. However, our classroom is down on the primary site, we have been kicked out of the infants site, because there is too many kinders! Each day we go back up to infants to have lunch and play with our mates.
The best things about being on Primary site, is there is a canteen, the library is close, the school hall and we get to see our older brothers and sisters.
Our favourite things to do in class are maths, colouring in, arts and craft, playing inside and spelling.
The best thing about Nowra is our swimming pools, the ocean, all the shops, the Australian animals, the good schools and the good doctors.
Talk to you next week, Adios! 2B
February 29th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Reposted for nowrarappers
Hello book rappers!
We are 1/2L, our teacher is Miss Williams we have 24 students, 12 year 1s and 12 year 2s.
We have lots of books in our library, and lots of teachers at our school.
We have been waiting for 5 weeks for a new classroom. But meantime, we are living in the multi-purpose room on the infants site. We don’t have a blackboard, we have a white board. Our room is bigger than normal classrooms. When it is wet our room turns into a wet-weather room for all the infants.
We like doing arts, maths, reading groups and handwriting. We make lots of friends and play with each other a lot, we believe in being friendly with everyone.
Our school has 24 classes altogether. The new classroom has arrived and we should be moving in on Monday – next time we talk to you we should be in our new room!
Love 1/2L
February 29th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
Reposted for 2pbookrappers
Howdy rappers,
We are class 2P from Caddies Creek Public School. Our school is in Western Sydney very close to the Indian Sikh temple. There are 25 students in our class (11girls and 14 boys) and our teacher is the most gorgeous Mrs Plummer. For most of us this is our 2nd book rap. In our classroom we have a Thomas Train set, 3 computers, Lego box and connector straws.
Our school emblem is of a creek with the year 2003 because that is when our school opened. We have a large selection of uniforms to buy including dresses, shorts, skirts, clothes, t-shirts and skorts (shorts that look like a skirt). At our Friday assemblies special awards are given and parents are always invited to attend.
We are excited and proud to be participating in the book rap about Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge. We practically like the characters in the story especially Mr Tippett who is crazy about cricket and Wilfrid. After researching the book we found out that Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge is named after Mem Fox’s father and grandfather.
Goodbye for now from the 2P Perfect Rappers @ CCPS
February 29th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Reposted for sjppslibrary:
St Johns Park Public School is in the south west of Sydney near Fairfield and Liverpool. There are around 780 students at our school. Our class, 2M, has 24 students. Our Teacher librarian is Mrs Ennis and our class teacher is Miss Saliba. This is the first time that we have joined a reading rap and we are really looking forward to joining in.
February 29th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
Every time I come back to the “Introductions” page there are more schools to welcome, which is very exciting! Wilfrid would be amazed that so many people are interested in rapping about him.
Welcome to Tanilba Bay PS, Cambrewarra PS and St John’s Park PS. We hope you have a great time rapping and blogging with us.
Don’t forget, everyone, that your group responses to Rap Point 1 are to be uploaded on this page:
http://rapblog.edublogs.org/wilfrid-2008/
or simply click on the tab called “Rap Point 1“.
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS
February 29th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Hi Rappers
We live in Sydney and go to Caddies Creek Public School. We are in 2/6S and Mrs Seymour is our teacher and Yvonne is our helper. There are 2 girls and 3 boys in our class. Our classroom is fantastic with computers, games, books and toys. We have a special playground with lots of slides, monkey bars and a corkscrew. Sometimes we can ride a bike or scooter at lunch time. We go to the library with Mrs Walmsley’s class. We love listening to stories and think Wilfrid is such a kind boy to help Miss Nancy.
Happy rapping.
2/6S@CCPS
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:16 pm
Hello fellow rappers,
Our school, Llandilo P.S. is near Penrith and the Blue Mountains. All 3 Year 1-2 classes, boys and girls, are involved with the Wilfrid Book Rap. We visit the library once a week with Mr. Darlington. Our class teachers are 1-2C: Mrs Hoffmann, 1-2H: Mrs Holliday and 1-2F Mr. Fox. We have all read Wilfrid and look forward to reading other schools comments.
Happy Reading,
Years 1-2 Llandilo rappers
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Hi All,
We are class 2M from Seven Hills North Public School. Our teacher is Mr McLoughlin. Our school is in Western sydney near Blacktown. Our librarian is Mr. Darlington. We have read Wilfrid and look forward to reading your comments.
from 2M rappers
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:02 am
Howdy everyone!
We are 1/2W rappers from Newtown Public School in Sydney, New South Wales. We have 10 classes in our school. There are 22 of us in our class. Our school has a beautiful playground with lots of trees.
Our school is near the city, just behind the school of Performing Arts on King Street. There are 5 other schools close by. King Street has to 2 sushi shops and lots of Asian restaurants and cafes, even one called ‘Chocolate Dog’.
We like to share our ideas and comments and are looking forward to rapping with you soon.
Goodbye for now, Newtownrappers.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm
Hello! Our class is called 2S and we go to Parramatta East Public School (PEPS). Our teacher is Mrs Smith and our librarian, Mrs Gee, is helping us to blog. It is rather a small school with 11 classes. We have a very big playground with lots of play equipment and lovely grass to run and play on. Our library is enormous with lots of good books to read and many computers for us to use. In our class, we have 11 boys and 14 girls from many different countries. We love to read books, paint pictures and go out to fitness. We had a sneak look at “Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge” and we just loved the pictures. Hope you are enjoying them too.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Hi from 1/2M4 at Cambridge Park Public School!
Our school has over 500 students.
We like our school. It has a big playground with lots of grass and lots of asphalt. There is a fort (climbing equipment) and many trees. We play football, soccer, tips, handball, cricket and basketball.
Our class teacher is Mrs MacKinnon and Mrs Belcher teaches us sometimes. Mrs Belcher is sharing this book rap with us. We like our teachers.
At the moment we are experimenting with how things move. Today we used straws to blow objects to find out if they would slide or roll.
Today we have enjoyed looking at the maps and reading other rappers introductions.
Back soon,
Ciao 1/2m rappers
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Dear Mr McLean,
We are very excited to hear that you came to our school. Our library is now downstairs in the building on the Princes Highway and the Librarian’s office is where the Principal’s office used to be. We will look for the poetry book you remember and hope to read your poem.
2Pbloggers
Arncliffe PS
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
Hello everyone,
We are 1/2T. Our school is Newtown Public School and we live in the inner city suburbs of Sydney. We have lots of trees in our playground. There are 22 students in our class. Twelve students are in Year 2 and ten are in Year 1. There is another class in our school joining the Book Rap.
We feel really excited about joining the Book Rap. We all liked the different characters in the book.
from 1/2TNewtownpsrappers
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:21 pm
Hello to 2B in Nowra. We live near you and have the same class name- 2B. Our teacher is Mrs Bailey and we have 25 children in our class. We also have some students here who used to go to your school.
Remember 2B RULES.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Hello, we are 1/2O from Vardy’s Road Public School. We are in the suburb of Kings Langley near Blacktown in western Sydney. Our teacher is Mr Oppliger and our Librarian is Mrs Brown. Most of us like the story about Wilfrid and Miss Nancy. The story makes some of us sad because Miss Nancy had lost her memory. Some of us are happy because Wilfrid helped Miss Nancy to remember. During our computer time we all looked at the Wilrid rap blog and read some of your messages. There are so many!!!
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Hello Book Rappers,
We are Room 1 from Ss Peter and Paul’s Catholic Primary School in East Doncaster in Melbourne. We are from Grades 1 and 2 and are 6 and 7 years old. One of us will be turning 8 tomorrow. We love reading heaps of books and are very excited about this Book Rap. Our Library teacher, Mrs Hole, is doing the Rap with us.
March 3rd, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Hi Book Rappers!
We are from Ss Peter and Paul’s Catholic Primary School East Doncaster a north eastern suburb of Melbourne. We are in Room 2 and there are 20 students in our class of Grade 1 and 2. There are 194 students at our school
We have never done a book rap before and are very excited to be doing this one. We are doing this in our Library lesson with Mrs Hole.
March 3rd, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Hi everyone
We are a group of Year 1 and 2 students from Niagara Park PS which is near Gosford on the beautiful Central Coast. Our school has about 530 students. We will be doing this book rap as part of our extra library lesson we have each week with our Teacher Librarian, Mrs Bishop. This is the first time we have ever done a Book Rap and we are looking forward to joining in.
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:04 pm
Hi Rappers,
We are classes 1W, 2/4 G and 2/6S from Caddies Creek Public School, which is near Blacktown. Our group is very SPECIAL because we are smart and from lots of different classes. We have a system at school when students do the right thing, they get Caddies Credits. Our uniforms are blue and maroon. At our school we have beautiful gardens. Throughout the year we have special visitors to our school. This year for Book Week we have the author Lisa Shanahan and illustrator Kim Gamble.
We are very glad to be joining you all on this Book Rap. We think that Wilfrid is kind and cares for Miss Nancy.
We are excited to learn about your school.
Bye Rappers
from the Wise, Good Looking and Super Rappers (WGLSR) @ CCPS
March 3rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Hi everyone!
Welcome to our new arrivals: Llandilo PS, Seven Hills North PS, Cambridge Park PS, Newtown PS, Vardy’s Road PS, Saints Peter & Paul’s Catholic PS at East Doncaster, Niagara Park PS – and even more students from Caddies Creek PS.
This week, most of us will be ready to start preparing our Rap Responses to Rap Point 1. Don’t forget to use the tabs along the top of this page to enter the Rap Point 1 section and post your new blog entry there. (It’s not too late to add an Introductory message here, though.)
We have added a wiki page as an additional activity. Here’s the link to Wilfrid’s Wonderful Wiki. When you have voted to select your group’s favourite memory object, you can also add it to Wilfrid’s basket of memories on the wiki page. The special “invite key” (or secret password) is wilfridwiki – make sure to spell Wilfrid’s name correctly when typing in the password.
Best wishes,
Mr McLean
Penrith PS
March 4th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Hi everyone, we are a combined group of Year 1 and 2 students from Xavier Catholic College in Hervey Bay, Queensland. Hervey Bay is about 3 and 1/2 hours north of Brisbane and is famous for whale watching. Our school is a new Prep to year 12 school. We have lots of fun going to the library and having our high school buddies come to read and play sport with us.
We really liked the story but thought it was a little sad. We are looking forward to doing the rap points. BTW our year 3 classes are making memory boxes after reading about Wilfrid.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
Hi everyone, we are year 2 at The Hamilton and Alexandra College, Hamilton in Victoria. We are 4 hours west of Melbourne. This area is famous for wool. We liked Wilfrid Gordon MacDonald Partridge , but we also liked Miss Nancy because she got her memory back with help from Wilfrid.
There are 9 girls and 9 boys in our class, we are all 7 or 8. We think we have very good teachers.
March 6th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Hello and welcome to Parramatta East PS (in Sydney, NSW), Xavier Catholic College in Hervey Bay (Qld) and Hamilton & Alexandra College in Hamilton (Vic.)
We are glad to have you all on board. Happy blogging and rapping.
Regards,
Mr McLean,
Penrith PS
March 6th, 2008 at 9:48 am
Welcome to 1W. We are a bit late joining the rap due to all the wet weather. We can’t walk to the library when it is wet because it is on another site.
We have a quiet worker’s club in our classroom. People who work hard and quietly together at their table get an award. The award is a pack made up of 5 minute early mark, merits, free play and name in the chance box. A chance box is a lucky dip box drawn on Fridays. Five children are drawn each week.
Since 2B and Mr Buchan have left our site it is a lot quieter and we get more time on the equipment
March 7th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
There are 18 students in the K,1,2, class at Yerong Creek. We enjoy reading books and are taking part in the book rap with our teacher Mrs Pinn. Our school has two classes and is in a small town close to Wagga Wagga. Some of us live in town and some of us live on farms.
We are enjoying reading Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge!
March 8th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
A belated welcome to 1W at Nowra PS and K/1?2 at Yerong Creek PS. I’m glad you could make it.
Many schools are up to Rap Point 2 this week, but you are welcome to keep posting to Rap Point 1, and to visit the Wilfrid Wiki page for that rap point, to check out the colourful display of items which represent our class memories? It looks great.
Just remember to post all your Rap Responses under the matching horizontal tabs.
Happy rapping!
Mr McLean
Penrith PS
March 12th, 2008 at 9:38 am
We are joining late although we have been following the rap closely and doing the activities. We are a year two class from St John Vianney’s School which is a bay side school in Brisbane. There are 28 children in our clase and an even mixture of boys and girls. We are doing the rap with our librarian, Mrs Boddington and our class teacher, Mrs Bednall. One of the lovely ladies that help in our school made a beautiful basket of all the things that Wilfrid Gordon collected.
We love the story of Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge.
March 12th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Hello Rappers at St John Vianney’s School. It’s great to hear from you.
Can you take a photograph of your basket filled with Wilfrid’s memories collection and post it on the blog or the wiki? We’d love to see it.
Happy rapping,
Mrs Keane
Rapcoordinator
March 12th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Hi Wilfrid Rappers,
We are classes K/6A and 2D at Caddies Creek Public School.
Our awesome school has a large library with lots of books, Mrs Scheffers (Happy 21st Birthday Mrs S!!!) and a data projector with a SmartBoard. Miss Denzel is the lovely teacher of 2D and Mrs Alekna is the sensational teacher for K/6A. K/6A has a lovely playground which we have been lucky enough to share with them. It has slides, climbing equipment and lots of monkey bars. We also enjoy using the computers around the school in both our classes and in a computer lab. Later this year, we are looking forward to having some special visitors during Book Week.
Last year, we participated in the Possum Magic rap and we enjoyed it so much we want to have fun participating in the Wilfrid Gordon Rap this year. Last week, we watched the DVD of Wilfrid Gordon which features Mem Fox telling the story to us. We also did an author study on Mem Fox and found out lots of interesting things about her.
Everyone is feeling very excited about doing the Rap with you. We are looking forward to reading our fellow Rappers’ points of view.
Rap with you soon,
From the 2D-elightful Rappers and K/6 A-dorable Rappers @ C.C.P.S.
March 13th, 2008 at 10:14 am
Hello everyone,
We are Year 3 students from Winthrop Primary School in Perth, Western Australia. We have the best Library teacher. We are seven and eight years old. Some of us are already nine years old. We like all sorts of books and are really good readers. Our class is very excited to do this rap, we have never done one before.
March 13th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Hello fellow rappers,
We are a 1/2 composite class located in the Hornsby area. We have a lovely school that is located near a large national park. Our Library is a large, fun place to be and filled with lots of technology with more to come. We are excited to participate in a rap with our wonderful class teacher Mrs Batson and our library teacher Miss Hoffman.
Thornie rappers
March 14th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Dear Rappers,
Hello, we are Grade 1-2 KS from Manorvale Primary School. We have 23 children, 13 girls and 10 boys, in our class. Manorvale is in Werribee, Victoria. We have 532 students in our school. Our class teacher is Ms Saleh and our teacher-librarian is Mr Giblin. Our school uniform colours are blue and yellow. We are writing our school introduction but all Grade 1/2s will be helping with the rap.
Last Tuesday (26/2) we held the launch for the Olympic BKZone (Boxing Kangaroo) website. We had the Deputy Prime Minister and Olympic athletes at our school. We were on the news.
We are all new to book raps and blogs. We are excited to share ideas about Wilfrid with other children around Australia and the world.
March 14th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Welcome to all our latest rapping schools! Hello to St John Vianney’s of Brisbane, more classes from Caddies Creek PS, Winthrop PS of Perth, the Thornie rappers near Hornsby and Manor Vale PS of Werribee.
We hope you enjoy rapping with us.
It would have been an exciting time at Manor Vale PS recently. What fun to have such a great Olympic preview!
I was at Punchbowl PS (in Sydney) when our school helped in the campaign to have Sydney made a contender to host the Sydney Olympic Games for 2000, and we had a gala sports day with Olympic visitors who were making the secret vote. The highlight of the day was when our Principal, who had a real English accent, dressed up as Queen Elizabeth II and was driven around the oval in a Combi van, doing a royal wave out of the window! Some students thought the Queen had really come to Punchbowl! That was a special memory our students and teachers will remember forever.
Best wishes, Mr McLean
now at Penrith PS
May 20th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
We are in Stage 3 at Penrith PS. In Term 2 we will be rappers for the first time over on the Identity rap. We are looking at all the wonderful introductions for the Term 1 Rap to get some ideas.