PE NEWS  

CROSS COUNTRY 2021  

What a great feeling it was to have our school community together again for our Cross Country last Friday!!! 

My first words are how impressed I was (as were all staff) at the resilience and team spirit of the students and how proud we were to see them dig deep and have fun! 

  Competitors displayed persistence when things got tough in the heat, they demonstrated resilience when they weren’t sure of the course or how long to go, and best of all they supported each other, no matter what team.  As a teacher or parent, you couldn’t ask for more than that! 

The Parents and Friends provided a sausage sizzle for the students and icy poles after their run.  Thankyou to Aimee, Jo, Hayden, Brian and Robbo for your support and organising all the food. 

Special thanks go to Nik Clegg and Kylie Argent for being our amazing running support for the students on the day. Particular mention to the Yr 6 students for really stepping up on the day for assisting younger students and doing whatever they were asked to do without question.  Their enthusiasm and desire to help was truly inspirational!  

To Brad, Brian, Matt and Chrissy and staff who helped set up in the morning. What a team! 

To everyone who helped pack up in such a short time after the event.  Thankyou. It was such a quick pack up and that was so much appreciated. 

To Parent Helpers on checkpoints: Paul, Kellie, Meedz, Hayden, Matt, Stacey and Mitchell.  You were there all morning encouraging each student and I know it made such a difference to them. 

To Dee Foy for being our First Aid Officer, your presence was very much appreciated.  

To Katrina Schofield for allowing us to borrow the blow up FINISH LINE.  How exciting was it for the kids to run over that as their final run! 

Presentation of Age Champions and the overall House Winner are to be presented on Friday 30th April at assembly. 

Age Champions – Cross Country  2021    
2009 Boys – Mitchell Jones 

2009 Girls – Lilly Hall 

2010 Boys – Levi Payne 

2010 Girls – Sharli Wallace 

2011 Boys – Luke Wright 

2011 Girls – Sophia Sorbello 

First  and 2nd Place  - Cross Country  

2012 Boys - Jack Potter                       Finn Alleyn 

2012 Girls - Emily Foy                           Kirra Butters 

2013 Boys - Dylan Spencer                  Grayson Girardi 

2013 Girls - Ella Mitton                        Charlotte Collins 

2014 Boys - Parker Rajan                     Isaac Agioritis 

2014 Girls - Airlie Wallace                   Katie Bienvenu 

2015 Boys - Logan Christie                  Harrison Lowe 

2015 Girls - Addison Lyon                   Tilly Agioritis 

2016 Boys - Parx Hall                           Beau Spencer 

2016 Girls - Lainey Spencer                Willow Gear 

Overall winning House for 2021 is  

Embley  103 

Pine  95 

Mission 76 

Scores were so close, a great indication of good competition and that those team spirit points make a difference! 

Thank you to all the P & F, Parent helpers, Teachers and School Officers for a very successful day.  

NORTHERN PRIDE VISIT 

On Tuesday we were fortunate to have the Pride team visit us and do some cool skills games with the students from Yr 3-6.  They will be back next term and are keen to be involved with our school for future community activities.  

Thanks to Cameron, Seamus, Paul and Tye for giving the kids some fun activities and lots of encouragement. 

AFL   AUSKICK 

This Friday all students will be involved in the Auskick Program for 4 weeks. Matt will take the students for skill lessons and games to introduce them to ways of playing AFL.  

A note was sent home regarding registration for this.  On Friday is it a “Come and Play Day” to see if your child would like to sign up.  Lots of fun and good exercise.   

P ED LESSONS    This term we will be focusing on skills for Athletics and refining movement skills.  This will involve ball skills, running disciplines and different types of actions for throwing and jumping.  Next newsletter will outline all the skills the students will be learning in during PE lessons.  

RUGBY LEAGUE REPS AT PENISULA TRIALS THIS WEEK 

Congratulations to Leon Smith, Aiden Clegg and Noah Lynch representing St Josephs on Wednesday at the Peninsular Rugby League trials.  They played hard and enjoyed the day, and what a great experience for them.   Well done boys! 

Leon was also named in the possible’s and probable’s squad. 

UPDATE : LEON HAS BEEN SELECTED IN THE PENINSULA SIDE !!

CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU LIAM.

Keep active and always be a good sport! 

Libby Lange