P.E. News

            CONGRATULATIONS FRASER on winning the OHR                   House Swimming Sports 2025

Over the past few weeks we have had swimming on Tuesdays and Thursdays where we practise for the annual Swimming Carnival which happened on the 5th of December. All the school houses faced off against each other for house points. The different strokes we did were freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly. When all the races were finished there were relay races… one free style and one with all the strokes (a medley). We also got to do some novelty events and jump or dive off the diving board. At the end they added up the scores of all the races and announced the winning house… Fraser! All houses competed with great team spirit and everyone’s swimming has improved!

By Thomas C and Sammy R

(Fraser House Captains)   

Goodbye and all the best Shelly

We wish Shelly H all the best on her retirement from PLC Aquatic. She has been a wonderful advocate for our swimming program and has helped us, as a school community,  in ensuring swimming is embedded into our HPE program.

Swimming and water safety

The Health and Physical Education curriculum includes four focus areas which have specific reference to swimming and water safety. These are:

• Fundamental movement skills (FMS) focus on the development of movement skills that provides the foundation for competent and confident participation in a range of physical activities. Floating and moving the body through water are fundamental movement skills.
• Safety (S) addresses safety issues that students may encounter in their daily lives. The content supports students to develop knowledge, understandings and skills to make safe decisions and behave in ways that protect their own safety and that of others, including safe practices when near water, sun safety, use of protective equipment, first aid and emergency care.
• Lifelong physical activities (LPA) focus on how participation can enhance health-related fitness and wellbeing across the lifespan. Swimming has been identified as a lifelong physical activity.
• Challenge and adventure activities (CA) focus on participation in physical activities designed to challenge the participant physiologically, behaviourally and socially in diverse contexts and environments and includes activities such as triathlon and swimming for performance with a focus on technique.

Development of knowledge and skills relating to survival swimming and basic water safety can significantly reduce a child’s drowning risk and enhance community safety.

Thank you Shelly from all of us at OHR. We will miss you.

COMING SOON........

The Winter Olympics is a major international event for snow and ice sports, held every four years, with the next games, Milano Cortina 2026, set for February 6-22 in Italy, featuring sports like skiing, skating, bobsleigh, and curling, and aiming for record female participation and new events like Ski Mountaineering. Australia competes, with young athletes like Indra Brown aiming for spots on the team.  

Key Details for 2026 Games:

• Hosts: Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy.
• Dates: February 6–22, 2026 (Opening/Closing Ceremonies).
• New Sport: Ski Mountaineering makes its Olympic debut.

• Events: 116 medal events across 16 disciplines, including new mixed-gender events.

   

Popular Winter Olympic Sports:

• Skiing: Alpine, Cross-Country, Freestyle, Ski Jumping, Snowboarding.
• Skating: Figure Skating, Speed Skating, Short Track Speed Skating.
• Sliding: Bobsleigh, Luge, Skeleton.
• Other: Biathlon, Curling, Ice Hockey, Nordic Combined

DISTRICT SWIMMING 2026 

The District Swimming Sports for 2026 is being held on Thursday 26th February at the Boroondara Sports Complex.

This competition is open to our Grade 3-6 students in the age groups 9/10 years, 11 years and 12/13 years. 

We DO NOT supervise or transport the students to and from the pool;  this is up to the parents/guardians to do so.

More details to follow on our school return in 2026.