St Mary’s Athletics Carnival
It was such a wonderful day at our school Athletics Carnival last Wednesday. A change of venue this year, to Captain Oldrey Park at Broulee, took away that layer of worry of closed fields etc that seemingly always surrounds our carnivals and we were greeted with a beautiful winter's day. Although a little brisk to begin, the St Mary’s staff all banded together bright and early to start the pre carnival set up. This year, we introduced the High Jump event to the rotations - a fantastic addition which the students all thoroughly enjoyed and certainly a crowd pleaser. A special thanks to Jon Brady at Carroll College for arranging and delivering the high jump mats to the ovals for us to use. We also thank the six Carroll College Sports Coaching Students, Matilda, Harry, Seb, Kobi, Dylan and Gabbi who were an incredible help with all track and field events.

The students who made it into the finals of discus and shotput were able to showcase their strength in the throwing events while on the track, we were excitedly cheering for the runners as they did their very best in the 800m, 200m and 100m sprints, with some very close finishes.

Our K and Year One students all had a great time at the novelty events. A mixture of javelin (foam) throwing, team games like ‘Rob the Nest’, sack races and parachute games were all thoroughly enjoyed by the students with lots of smiles and giggles travelling across the oval.

A special thanks to Mr Bernie Beatty who provided the delicious BBQ for our hungry athletes and again to our Carroll College staff who assisted with line marking in readiness for a big week of carnivals.

We also thank Mr Hill for preparing the students so well prior to the carnival. Mr Hill was tirelessly working his way through field events so we had finalists ready to go. Mr Hill has also continued the Wednesday morning run club this term to help those interested in running to keep up their fitness, speed and agility. This has been a wonderful addition to the school sports program and we look forward to seeing our students put their running skills into practice again next term at the Southern Region Athletics Carnival. The SR carnival will be held in Bega on Monday 28 July and the Bega athletics Grounds from 9.30 am. The St Mary’s Athletics team travelling to Bega will receive a COMPASS notification in the next few days which will require consent and payment to secure your child’s place. If your child is unable to attend the next level, please be in touch at your earliest convenience so that the next child in line can be invited to attend. Additionally, if you will need assistance with travel arrangements to Bega, please be in contact with me so that we can try to accommodate extra passengers with families etc.

Congratulations to the following students that will be representing St Mary’s at the Southern Region Athletics Carnival:

St Mary’s Athletics Team

Next Tuesday at 2pm, all parents and families are invited to attend the Athletics presentations in the PAC. Classes from Year 2 - 6 will be eagerly awaiting results and receive a ribbon if they placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in the overall timed events. We will also be naming the Athletics Age Champions as well as announcing the winning house. We look forward to seeing you there.

It has been a huge term for sport - the children have all shown such a wonderful attitude towards participation and engagement in both team and individual sports. For a small regional school, we certainly have some very talented and dedicated sports stars among us. I am looking forward to sharing more outstanding sports news in term 3.

I hope all families have the opportunity to rest and rejuvenate over the holidays.

Wishing you a wonderful week ahead.

Mrs Megan Grant
Sports Coordinator