SPORT

SWIMMING CARNIVAL

A huge thank you to all those parents and teachers for your assistance at our swimming carnival last Friday. The day would not have run so smoothly without you volunteering your time so generously. COVID restrictions made it another carnival with a difference. Fingers crossed that next year we will back on deck for our normal carnival. A video and photographs from the day will be coming soon!  

Well done to Mackillop on the first house win for the year. Congratulations to the House Captains on their first challenge of the year. I think you will all agree that Darcy, Emma, Mitchell, Emily, Harry, Ella, Charlie and Stella did an awesome job leading their teams.

The final points score was as follows

Ozanam – 117

Edmund Rice – 155

Dominic – 224

Mackillop – 285

Junior Girl Champion – Klara Bunnemeyer - Dominic

Junior Girl Runner up – Matilda Considine - Edmund Rice

Junior Boy Champion – Xavier Parris – Mackillop

Junior Boy Runner up – Edward McCann - Mackillop

11yr Girl Champion – Emily Brown - Dominic

11yr Girl Runner up – Adelle Barnes - Dominic

11yr Boy Champion – Hugh Mitchell – Mackillop

11yr Boy Runner up – Mason Hill - Mackillop

Senior Girl Champion – Ella Gallagher - Mackillop

Senior Girl Runner up – Molly Klasen - Ozanam

Senior Boy Champion – Otto Atkinson – Edmund Rice

Senior Boy Runner up – Darcy Williams – Edmund Rice

Congratulations to the following children who will compete at the Diocesan Carnival in Tamworth tomorrow, 26th February 2021. Emily Brown, Ella Gallagher, Adelle Barnes, Hugh Mitchell, Otto Atkinson, Darcy Williams, Isabella Harding-Brown, Willow Bird, Georgia King, Klara Bunnemeyer, Matilda Klasen, Lucy Evans, Thomas McDougall, Campbell Judd, Declan Wilson, Lyla Davidson, Amelia Taylor, Audrey Bird, Xavier Parris, Edward McCann, Oliver Riley, Stella O’Shea, Mason Hill, Blake Judd, Molly Klasen, Isabella Wheatley, Nathaniel Stimson, Myles Manning, Lily Belfield and Jock Parris.

Congratulations to Xavier Parris who broke the Junior boys 50m backstroke record set in 2013 with a time of 44.90 and Hugh Mitchell who broke the 11 year boys 50m backstroke set in 1997 with a time of 41.41, the 11 year boys 50m butterfly set in 2014 with a time of 40.25 and the 11 year boys 200m individual medley set in 2019 with a time of 3.13.54.

WINTER TRIALS

This year the Winter Trials will be held in Inverell on Friday March 12th. This will be for mostly children in Year 6 with maybe some Year 5 children if there are slots available. The day is to try out for selection in the Armidale Diocesan teams for Netball, Rugby League (Opens and 11 year old) Hockey and Soccer. Notes were handed out yesterday to players who have shown an interest in trying out for these sports.

SPORTING SCHOOLS

Each term the school applies for sporting grants from the Australian Government. The money is then put towards improving children's skill levels in a particular sport and increasing their participation in sport as well as purchasing equipment for the children to play this sport at school. It is helping them to gain a healthier lifestyle and giving them the tools to hopefully maintain this throughout their lives. It is also giving them a taster for different sports in the hope that some may take up the sport outside of school.

This term we were lucky enough to gain a grant for basketball. Children in Years 2, 4 and 6 will be given the opportunity to participate in basketball clinics lead by coaches from Tamworth Basketball Association over the next five weeks. Keep an eye out for photos of this. 

PARENTS RESPONSIBILITIES

Please make sure that if your child is representing St Nicholas School at a sporting event outside of school hours that you drop off and collect your children at the required times. It has been brought to my attention that some children are being dropped off early and collected late from training and matches which means that the coaches are having to remain behind or children are being left unsupervised. Coaches have already given up their valuable time to take on this responsibility and it is not fair to them to have to wait for late pick ups. 

BASKETBALL

Basketball starts TONIGHT Thursday 25th February. The first game will be a trial game. 

NETBALL

Welcome back to another season of netball! Students received the netball note below on the first day back. 

A gentle reminder to hand in your netball note to Mrs Elliott and register online using the links below.  Registrations close TOMORROW Friday 26th February.

Junior Year 5 & 6 (turning 11 & 12 yrs) & Senior players link 

Net, Set, Go! Kinder- Year 4 (ages turning 5-10) players link 

Years 5 & 6 will need to rent a uniform ($15) and Years 3 & 4 will need to buy the new netball uniform dress ($40). Please see Mrs Eliott if you require one.

TOUCH FOOTBALL

Welcome to a new year of touch football.

Teams have been communicated and we enjoyed our first game on Monday afternoon. It was wonderful to see so many excited, red, faces running around.

All players were given a note on Monday requiring them to create a MySideline account before registering. If a player is involved with Rugby league or league tag they would already have an account for that.

This link for players to use to register is:

https://profile.mysideline.com.au/register/

SOCCER

RUGBY

HOCKEY