BGS Open Day

2014 BGS Open Day

Chris and Dan both had duties at open day.
10:30am ish we left Bestbrook and drove to Brisbane.  First port of call was home.  Showered and looked at the list of stuff that we had been texed.

Mattresses from the sofa bed.
fire wood.
socks & walking pants for Megan.
More coffee pods.
AA batteries
Dog.
Toaster
White cardboard.
Shoes for Jemma.
Flour, eggs -> makes pancakes.
Bacon & Eggs.

With the kids in uniform we proceeded to BGS.

First up was Dan.  Singing in the un-auditioned un-changed voices choir.  He is front row right hand side.

After Dan had finished singing, we bought hamburgers from the Rowing Support Group then on to the Centenary Hall.  There were a number of extra curricular activities  on display - Sailing & Rowing among them.  The rowers had 8 ergos set up and connected to a video projector.  Kids were doing 100m races.  Every now and then one of the rowing students would join in and whip the pants off them.

Then they set up a challenge between the grade 10, grade 11 and grade 12 students.  A 2k race run like a relay.  Each participant would row 250m.  To facilitate fast changeovers the kids did not use the shoes.  Rather they had two students who would grab the rowers feet and hold them onto the foot stretcher.  When a rower got to the end of their stage, they would roll off onto the floor and the next rower would jump on.  The foot holders would grab their feet, they would grab the handle and pull for all they were worth.

It was a worthy competition.  The grade 10 students were in front for quite a while.  The grade 12's were only 4 to 6 seconds behind.  The grade 11 students 16seconds behind.  Then in the final 500, the grade 10's faded.  The grade 12's powered ahead and won by a healthy margin and the grade 10 and 11 were pretty much a dead heat.

After rowing we went to the art show.  Very impressive.  Pieces were all $2500 plus.  The art was very impressive.

On the way out we walked past the infamous lab 13.  It now has a new number PH101.  I guess the evidence of a bloated over paid middle management department of change management for the sake of change.