Sport

EHS House Cross Country

The EHS Cross Country took place Monday 20 May. All Year 7 and Year 8 students along with a handful of Year 9 to 12 students completed the course around the Wingrove Park Loop. It was a typical cross country day with heavy rain falling on Sunday making the course a little wet under foot. It was great to see all students pushing themselves around the 2.5km and 5km course. Thank you to all the staff that assisted on the day to help supervise and encourage the students out on the course.

House Points were awarded for all top 8 runners as well as participation points for every runner.

TONER house have once again proved to be the dominate House when it comes to ‘Land Events’ taking out the Athletics and Cross Country double. Congratulations to TONER house.

1st place: TONER 304

2nd place: PAKANA 276

3rd place: EVERARD 260

4th place: SKIPPER 206

The top 15 competitors from each age group will progress to the Division Cross Country, which will be held on Tuesday 4 June at Lower Eltham Park. Good luck to all runners who qualified.

Below are the Cross Country Age Champions

13 Male – Yorke Murray (Year 7, Toner House)

13 Female – Zara Colbert (Year 7, Pakana House)

14 Male – Jack Beddoe (Year 8, Everard House)

14 Female – Zoe Davies (Year 8, Pakana House)

15 Male – Felix Morgan (Year 9, Toner House)

15 Female – Zara Andrews (Year 9, Everard House)

16 Male – Lachlan Brennan (Year 10, Toner House)

17 -20 Male – Rhodri Whelan (Year 10, Skipper House)

BREE PASCOE, Sports Teacher

Year 10 Skills For Life

Recently students in Year 10 Skills For Life began focusing on a Road and Driver Safety unit of work whereby they learnt key knowledge and theory concepts behind road safety principles and how to drive safely on roads.

Initially, students were introduced to a range of road rules and commonly misunderstood driving situations, as well as being introduced to road accident responses and the different forms of management that we have in place to respond to major incidents on our roads.

As part of this unit of work, students have been exposed to a range of valuable experiences delivered both on-site at Eltham High School and off-site at externally sourced venues and providers. As seen in the photos attached, a local police officer known as Leading Constable Brendan Dyer visited the class to present key information on road accidents and how emergency response units such as Victoria Police respond to such incidents, followed by presenting and taking the students through a real life highway patrol vehicle on-site at Eltham High School and how it is utilised by Victoria Police to both keep our roads safe and uphold driver law on our roads.

Following this, students then engaged in a visit to the local Eltham S.E.S unit nearby on Susan Street whereby the class learnt how a different emergency response unit such as the S.E.S respond to road accidents and emergency situations on our roads with the help of trained and experienced volunteers. This included being presented the range of emergency response equipment that they utilise as well as emergency situations that the S.E.S commonly see happening on our roads.

To conclude the students’ experiential learning as part of the Road and Driver Safety unit, the students then had the opportunity to visit the M.E.T.E.C Driver Training Centre for a full day whereby the class had the opportunity to learn a range of important theory concepts behind safe driving on our roads such as road law principles and decision making when driving, followed by getting a hands-on driving experience in a real life vehicle with a qualified and highly experienced driving instructor next to them in the vehicle in an enclosed and controlled driver training facility.

This unit of work has provided these students with important knowledge, skills and hands-on experience to set them up for safe driving and making informed and appropriate decisions when driving on our roads.

These are just some of the fantastic experiences which build life-long skills that students at Eltham High School can receive by electing to undertake Year 10 Skills For Life as part of their Year 10 studies.

DYLAN MEDDINGS, Skills for Life Teacher