Health/PE

Active Schools Lunchtime Program

This term saw several students involved in lunchtime activities, including yoga, soccer, golf and weights. Thanks to Nick, Greg, Mary and Mr Marie-Jeanne for taking these sessions – the students have greatly appreciated it!

Next term we have more great activities on offer including soccer, weights, boxing and more. Please sign up at the stadium to participate. In addition to these activities, an emerging athletes program will be running Friday lunchtimes. We look forward to seeing as many students involved in next term’s lunchtime activities as possible. 

Carolyn Gray

Active Schools Lunchtime 

Active Schools - Inspiring Active Travel to School

Earlier in the term we were excited to introduce ‘Tag On’ to support healthier and happier journeys to our school. Just as exciting was the arrival of our new bike shelters in Week 8 where students will store their bikes and scooters. They are located outside the Junior School Co-ordinators office. All students need to be locking up their bikes with a chain lock of some sort.  If any student requires an ‘On Guard’ lock to borrow for the year please see Mr Petkaris in the Stadium office. I will be happy to distribute this to you and collect it at the end of the year.

Tag On is a sign-in system that registers how and when students arrive at school every day. Each day your child will be able to use their tag to ‘tag on’ and select how they travelled to school via a touch screen kiosk. They will earn house points every time they tag on, and an extra point towards their personal active travel tally if they walk, ride, scoot or catch public transport. Through collecting points, students are motivated to travel in healthier, happier ways by participating in friendly house and class competitions.

We understand that some families are not able to walk, ride or scoot to school regularly. The Tag On program allows all students the opportunity to participate by rewarding everyone that tags on with a house point. Remember Part Way is OK – to create a safer environment for children directly outside the school gates, try to park in the surrounding streets and walk or ride the rest of the way. You can be sure your child has arrived by receiving the email notification, and your child can gain both house and active travel points.

We were thrilled to introduce the Tag On program and are blown away by the amount of students tagging on every day. Through initiatives such as this, we are hoping to create a safer environment for students outside the school gates by motivating children to walk, ride or scoot to school and providing parents peace of mind when allowing their child to travel actively and independently. 

Theo Petkaris

Health and Physical Education Subject Leader