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Our High Achieving Athletic Stars

Over the past two terms several of our students have been working hard training for cross country and track running events. Juniper qualified at the 2000m district cross country for not only division, when she came12th, but went on to state where she achieved 48th place out of 90. What a fantastic achievement Juniper!

Congratulations to Eddie, who also qualified for division in the 2000m cross country and ran a great race. More congratulations to Jaxson and Juniper, who both qualified for division in the1500m athletics track event, when they attended district athletics in Bendigo. Ms Fullard interviewed both Jaxson and Juniper about how they prepared and trained for these events.

How often do you train?

Juniper: Saturdays I would do an easy run and on Sunday I would go to the oval and do different things every time, like a minute to run the oval. On Wednesdays, I would just run up and down our road.

Jaxson: I do football (on and off season) and basketball training every week. When other family train at Lancefield, I'll often do two or three laps of the football oval.

How does this training prepare for track and cross country?

Juniper: It keeps me fit but doesn't overwork me, and on different days, I would do like a hill sprint, which would teach me how to run up a hill without stopping. I'd do longer runs like 2km or 1.5km so I'd get used to it.

Jaxson: It makes me pumped, like my body functions properly.

How fit do you think you are?

Juniper: I'm pretty fit.

Jaxson: I'm pretty fit.

What message would you give other students who want to achieve in running?

Juniper: Train but don't overwork yourself to win the race.

Jaxson: Do running around your home or at a local oval as much as you're able, when you can fit it in. Do some stretches, push ups and sit ups. Eat healthy food.

How do you feel achieving in athletics?

Juniper: Proud and happy.

Jaxson: It makes me feel good and tired

Eddie also trained hard for his achievements in cross country. Training shows that it improves fitness and skill level.

Cobaw District Athletics

On Friday 15 August eleven Newham PS students went to the Cobaw district athletics event in Bendigo. Congratulations to all the students who attended and tried their best. They were selected for district on their place getting from our NPS athletics event. It was the first time attending Bendigo for some of our students who all received ribbons, including Jacob, Marluka, Jai, Jaxson and Juniper (not pictured).

Thank you to the parents who supported us, Erin on triple jump and Bec and Rachel who supported our students. Big thank you to Narelle for attending with Tim.

Book Week

Book week is about having friends and family come together. I dressed up as a minecraft creeper. Tanner dressed up like a creeper too. There was some Harry Potter, Draco, Willow from Puddle Hunters, astronauts and lots of other things. We did a parade and read The Truck Cat. It won the book week award.

-George

Super Science Circus

On Tuesday we had the circus come to us and people got to go there and an evil scientist made an invention to make clean water. She used a pump. She drank to not safe to drink water and it came out of Jaxson arm! They had spinning plates and there's about 3 ways to make them spin. You just spin them with the stick and the plate on top and then you can spin it with your hand, or you can blow it to make it spin. She put the plates on a doll and a party hat and on a stick. She was pretending there was a hoola hoop around her. She put a ball over a blower and it blew the ball in the air. It was fun!

-Miles