Good morning all,

We were scheduled to attend our first carnival today, but due to the temperature it has been modified and postponed to next Tuesday morning (8am-9:15am).

This was the SAPSASA swimming carnival at Salisbury Pool. We have 17 students representing the school from Years 4-6. These students will be swimming a range of individual events attempting to swim a time that will qualify them for Metro Day and represent Para Districts at Marion Pool.

We wish the following students the best of luck and will keep you updated on how they go next week.

Evie , Nicky-Rose , Shyla , Georgiana , Kristina , Celine , Hannah , Lily , Cam , Ethan , Liam , Ryan , Damian , Eric , Gowtham , Luka  and Mathewos.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS SWIMMING CARNIVAL

On Wednesday of Week 7 some of the above students plus some others will represent the school at the catholic schools swimming carnival at Magill. This carnival will be team based and students will swim in year level teams to collect points for the school. As well as indivdual events their are also team relays. We will post the students that are attending next week.

SWIMMING TRAINING

The final swimming training will be Tuesday (7:30-8:30am) Week 7. This is the day after the Monday public holiday. We will have a meeting with the students that are involved next week and send a note home for the catholic carnival.

We are off to a fast start in 2019 with a lot of changes and exciting opportunities ahead. Myself and Leanne are excited for the opportunity to share our classes on Tuesdays and work together to provide new opportunities for the students.

We have also joined the northern cluster which will allow us to take more students to carnivals from Years 3-6.

With Sports Day fast approaching (Friday, Week 10) our focus with the junior years is to work on the skills that will be required on the day. Our focus has been fundamental movement skills; catching, throwing, running and movement through congested areas. It is clearly evident that all the R-2 classes are having so much fun using some of the new equipment and the rebound nets are hit!!

With our middle school group Years 3-4 have been focusing on teamwork and playing numerous games that require high levels of resilience, collaboration and communication. We love that the learning powers we focus on in the classroom can be supported through PE. We have also timed the first 50 meter sprint to gather times for the sports day relays.

With our senior group Years 5-6 we have focused on cricket. We have a T20 blast carnival (cricket) coming up in week 9 and have had over 50 students express their interest. Leanne and myself wanted to provide the students with the best possible experience at the carnival and have focused on the skills required to compete on the day. We have learnt bowling, batting, catching and fielding skills through a variety of skill rotations that the students enjoyed and really started to excel at in the second week. Although halted by the soaring temperatures this week, we are currently working on modified games of cricket (which are set up the same as the carnival) so students can put their skills into practice but also learn game sense and how the scoring system works.

All in all a fantastic start to the year

Daniel & Leanne