Calrossy Sport

Secondary Sport

All sporting information and notifications will be done via the HUB. Please ensure that you join the specific sports your child or children are playing, as this will allow you to receive all of the published information.

Athletics Carnival

A huge Thank you to all of our Secondary students for helping make the Athletics Carnival run so smoothly. Despite the artic blast, it was fantastic to see high levels of participation and sportsmanship.

A full list of results will be published in the next newsletter and will also be available on the Hub as soon as they are finalised.

The Mega Photo Gallery of the Secondary Athletics Carnival day is now available on the Hub.

CIS U15’s Rugby League Trials

Congratulations to Year 9 students, Kurt Fisher and Tom Hands who participated in the CIS U15’s Rugby League trials in Sydney last week. Both boys trialled extremely well and showed great ability in attack and defence however, neither were selected into the CIS team. Thank you boys for your enthusiasm and for representing Calrossy in a positive manner.

Primary Sport

HRIS Cross Country 2019

All Calrossy singlets that were worn to run in at HRIS are now due back to the William Cowper Campus Reception.

Infants Gymnastics

All students from Prep to Year 2 will participate in a 6 week Gymnastics program starting this week on Thursday’s at school. This program is facilitated by Mr and Mrs McGinnity from the Tamworth Gymnastics Club and is designed to assist with the teaching of the Gymnastics strand of the syllabus. We thank them very much for sharing their time, experertise and knowledge with our students. Primary will participate in this program in Term 3.

Primary Athletics Carnival

The Primary Athletics Carnival will held on Friday, 21st June at the top oval at School. The carnival will involve students from Year 2 -6.

As part of the preparations for our Primary Athletics Carnival, students from Year 2-6 are participating in an Athletics program. This program allows students to develop their skills in all Athletics disciplines, Long Jump, High Jump, Shot Put, Discus, modified Javelin and Running. Mr Adam Joliffe from Tamworth Little Athletics is helping delivery this program and is giving students some wonderful advise and is passing on his expertise as an experienced Athletics coach. Thank you Mr Joliffe.

The 200m and 800m events will be held at school prior to the carnival day. This year NSWPSSA has also included the 1500m event. Therefore a 1500m race will be held prior to our carnival day and the top two students in the Junior 8-10yr, 11yr and 12/13yr division will be eligible to represent Calrossy at HRIS. Information regarding this will be published when a day and time is finalised.

If you have any further questions relating to Calrossy Sport, please feel free to contact me at sport@calrossy.nsw.edu.auor on 0409650856.

Kind Regards,

Tim O’Callaghan

Sports Department