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Music Assembly



On Friday the 27th of August B.B.I held their annual Music assembly. Some of the performers included the school orchestra, Sing-up, the Percussion Ensemble and some soloist’s including myself. It was an exciting assembly with some interesting pieces of music played on instruments including piano, saxophone, clarinet, marimba, xylophone, drum, bongo, triangle, french horn and many more. It was also a Music Mufti day with a gold coin donation, the money raised is going towards buying the school a brand new, high class piano. Along with the Music Mufti there was a best dressed competition. Each class chose their top 2 or 3 and at the end of the assembly the selected students came up on stage. The judge Miss Patterson then made her decision with the teacher winners being Miss Bell and Mr Guyan and the student winner being Ian as Bob Marley (dreadlocks and all). I went to see Miss Scurr who dressed up on the day as Mozart's Wife to see how she thought the day went. “Musical Mufti day was great success. The new hall piano is going to be an asset for the school for many years to come. We have so many talented students at our school and it was great to have them performing at an assembly celebrating music.” Overall it was a great day and every one enjoyed the musical talent that was on offer. I’d like to say a big thanks to everyone who performed and everyone involved with the set-up and pack-up with all the equipment in the assembly.

By Fletcher Howell

=**Mr Dickinson - How Much He Really Does For The School!**=



===The Mr Dickinson that you think you know, just sits in his office on his computer, running assemblies or is sitting in a meeting. But what he really does may make you respect his job at this amazing school of ours just a little bit more. We personally went to him to ask him some questions …===

===Mr D : I like children and I like working with children because they make life interesting and there is never a dull moment. I love working with the amazing teachers and supporting people weather it is teacher of children I like to help them develop to become great learners because teachers learn every day just like the students.===

===Mr D : Believe it or not I actually teach every day. I run Year 8 Mathex every day and I also teach in Room 3 every week in the afternoon and Room 6 every week for Te Reo. The next biggest amount of time that I spend is giving guidance and advice to students who come to me for help.===

===I need to be an expert with our IB journey and taking the time to prepare for lessons and help the teachers with providing help. One part of my job is Leadership - Help people to understand things by teaching and helping. The other is Management - Managing paperwork and sending e-mails for the IB part of the school.===

===Then there is giving the school a good profile by - Entering Competition’s and Getting Newspapers and more view time for the school. Also if anyone has seen a competition they want to enter just bring them up to me and I will see what I can do.===

===Some extra little things I do are : Yesterday I went to Owiroa to judge the speech finals and that always make me happy. I also make the staff meetings happen and work out what is going to be learnt. And a lot of fun is that I’m in charge of the Radio and the Media Crews. It’s a varied job and I there are a lot of just little jobs after every body has gone home just to make the school a better place.===

===Mr D : If you imagine BBI is on a journey and we have to keep moving forward with learning and not doing what was done 10 years ago and it’s Mrs Parkinson’s job to move our school forward. Mrs Shearing and I help take pressure of her by dealing with behavior issues and what she plans it’s our job to fit it into the school and anything thats wrong with the school to pass that on to her. So we are the connection between Mrs Parkinson and the School.===

By Fletcher Howell and Morgan Blackmore