Year 4/5/6 Winter Sport

Dear Parents

After a couple of years of very interrupted interschool sport for our senior students we are looking forward to getting back into our regular weekly sports. Every year the Eltham District Primary School Sports Association (EDPSSA) conducts a weekly sporting exchange. There are 7 school that form the Eltham District. Eltham Nth PS, Eltham East PS, Eltham PS, Research PS, Eltham College, St. Thomas Nth Greensborough and of course us. 

As a District we conduct a number of senior school events including the District Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics. As well as these we also have a Weekly Winter Sports in 2nd term, consisting of Football, Soccer, Netball, Korfball and Bat Tennis. In the district we have 2 smaller schools, which use students from years 4 to 6 while the 4 bigger schools use mostly grade 6 only. As a result, our students get 3 years of participation in this while in many schools they only get 1 year. At times we can also include year 3’s!  The 3 smaller schools also drop 1 sport, which for us is soccer. As there are seven schools we get a six game season with a couple of weeks for practice and a week for a bye because of the uneven number of schools.

In 3rd term the district runs the Summer sports of Basketball, Volleyball, Rounders, Softball and Finska. I’ll give you more information about these later this term. As always the main aims of Primary School Sport are to give the students an experience of participating in a team environment, meeting and mixing students from the local community and developing important social skills. The Eltham District events are also a stepping stone toward School Sport Victoria’s State Championships. In many of the events, if teams or individuals are successful they progress, through the SSV levels of Division, Regional and State competitions.

The weekly competition has some impact on the rest of the school. The basic information is -

• Matches begin at 1.00pm
• For away matches in term 2, buses leave at 12.35pm, (seniors will eat lunch at 12.10.)
• For home matches lunch will be taken early for the whole school (12.10-1.00)
• Recess will be early at 10.30 – 11.10 on home match weeks (May 6th, June 3rd and June 10th.)
• For away matches all students will be back at school by 3.00pm
• In case of inclement weather, an email will be sent out by 12.00 pm to verify that the round will go ahead.
• The dates for the home and away games are on the school calendar.
• For most home matches, the venues are as follows;

School grounds – Netball, Korfball and Bat Tennis

Eltham Central - Football 

The coaches of the Winter Sport Teams are:

Bat Tennis - Amanda Kenny   

Football - Mark Pinkerton

Netball - Anne Askew               

Korfball - Emily Hammond

• For parents of the year 4-6’s an Operoo will be sent shortly with more details and a permission request.
• Spectators are welcome at all matches, as we love parental support to help encourage the children.

If you have any questions about Inter School Sport, feel free to contact me via email on catch me in the yard at some stage.

Thanks Mark Pinkerton