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SPORT
Hampton Boys Soccer Team Progresses through to Regional Championships
The Hampton Primary School boys’ soccer team endured some tough games at the Kingston Divisional Round on Thursday July 13, at Aspendale Gardens sporting precinct. After having played an 11 V 11 format during district competition, the official state format of 9 V 9 commenced at Division level. This meant a whole new array of tactics and game understanding for the boys. Scores were going to be harder to come by and defenses were going to be harder to break down.
The first game took place against Patterson Lakes Primary School who had bus issues and the first half was slightly shortened. The wind was menacing and almost gale force and Hampton were given the wind assist in the first half. Our time with the wind was 15 minutes, but the better football in the first 8 minutes was played by Patterson Lakes. They had some extraordinary talent and we witnessed an incredible strike by one of their players who put our opponents 1-0 up. They held that scoreline at the half. We had a very tough battle ahead – one down and kicking into a strong wind. We wanted to focus on simply playing team football, keeping the ball on the ground and using diagonal passing to maintain possession and create scoring chances. Regardless of the situation – this is how we wanted to play, and so the boys went out knowing that they had a huge challenge.
The opponents seemed to want to utilise the wind – that they had for 20 minutes – by raining long shot after long shot in towards our keeper – who had sure hands and caught everything sent his way. Eventually we moved the ball up the field, got through their final defensive line with quick diagonal passes and scored to make it 1-1.
The opponents seemed to panic and even more they launched long ball after long ball, but that tactic only allowed us to regain possession and work it up the field. About 7 minutes from time, we were able to score another to move to 2-1. We had more near misses but the longer the game went the more confidence was displayed by the boys – who were so proud to run out eventual winners! Truly, resilience was shown by this group!
Our second game was against Stella Maris Cheltenham. It was also a tough start, and they had a couple of players who really gave us a tough time. We managed to score deep into the first half and hung on to a 1-0 lead. We still were not firing on all cylinders, but we went back in, and again – against the wind – started to pass better and this resulted in two more nice goals. They had a great keeper, so scoring was tough, but we were relentless in attack and ran out eventual winners 4-0. Winning both put us directly into the finals against a very good outfit from Valkstone Primary School.
The first few minutes could have gone either way. We struggled to score, just missing on a couple of occasions and they had two nice shots that just managed to miss our goals.
Eventually we put one past their very good keeper and had a 1-0 lead. This gave us confidence and before long we had a 3-0 lead. The half finished at 3-0 and the boys were buoyant about their chances. We had to kick into an ever-increasing wind strength, but we kept passing it around using all the space of our field to run out winners 4-0. We had made it through to the regional stage – where the class will be much higher. Rest assured, even though we have a 50% split of grade five and six, we will focus on doing our best in representing our school.
LOTE
Hampton Foundation children have received their brand new My Language Journey Passport!
My Languages Journey Passport is a free resource targeted at Foundation to Year 3 students in Victorian government primary schools, their teachers, and their families to support a positive and engaging language and literacy learning experience and a record of students’ developing language skills, in their first years of schooling.
Foundation students will learn the most commonly used Mandarin words, sentences and conversation in LOTE class and use the Passport to record their success!
Club News
Cultural Club and Friendship Club
On Tuesdays our Cultural Club and Friendship Club were run in the Rotunda by our Culture and Friendship Captain Willow, Grace and Jimmy.
This week Jimmy and Grace have run a reconciliation activity instructing our younger students to use chalks to decorate Rotunda grounds.
MUSIC
Congratulations to the String ensemble who performed at the final assembly for term 2. They played ‘DAY-O’ and ‘Playin’ on the old banjo’. The students worked hard rehearsing every Thursday lunchtime with their conductor Lana Zaidenberg.
What’s coming up in the music department:
This term we will hold auditions for the Australian Girls Choir so please watch out for these flyers for girls from year 2-5.
Our year 5/6s will be doing African Drumming this term as part of the music program. We will provide the DJEMBE drums to all students.
We are currently seeking another guitar teacher. Paul will remain on for 2 days.
ART
Good afternoon everyone,
Last week was NAIDOC week. It is a very important time for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders to celebrate the vast achievements of their Peoples in many aspects of life.
As part of the NAIDOC week celebrations, we invited all students to enter the art competition with a poster on their favourite First Nations Person and how they have excelled in their field.
We would like to recognise the following students for their efforts
Baron BROWN 1A (Joseph Jurra Tjapaltjarri – Artist)
Murphy KENT 1A (Ash Barty Tennis & cricket player)
Isla BOSTON 1D (Jimmy Pike - Artist)
Amelie MILNES-JAMES 1D (Dorothy Napangardi – Artist)
Henry FOSTER 2A (Anthony McDonald Tipungwuit – Football Player)
Frances KENT 3A (Cathy Freeman – Athlete)
Jonah GLOSS 3B (Cyril Rioli – Football player)
Archie SWEENY 3C (Ian “Bobby” Hill – Football player)
Ella DUMAYNE 4B (Cathy Freeman – Athlete)
Abbey CLARKE 6A (Amelia Telford – Activist & Environmentalist)
Xavier DOWLING 6C (Archie Roach – Singer-songwriter & Activist)