St Simon Swimming Squad District Result - 2nd Overall

What an amazing outcome for our students and St Simon at the Wantirna District Swimming Carnival

Overall our school was Runners Up in the Wantirna District points, a back to back performance from last year. It was great to see many of our students coming either first, second or third in the A and B swimming events.

A great start to interschool sport for St Simon and wish our advancing competitors much success at the Division Championships on Monday 17th March!

Our stand out performances are listed below:

St Simon the Apostle

House Twilight Sports Carnival

Our St Simon House Twilight Sports Carnival is coming up! We look forward to a great ‘buzz’ and atmosphere on Thursday 27th March. This great carnival full of activities will be from 2:30pm to 5:00pm. It will involve all students from Prep to Year 6 who will be participating in a range of fun sport carnival races to earn points for their House and to ultimately be House Champions for 2025.

If undesirable weather conditions are expected during the event, an announcement to the school community will be made the day before regarding a postponement to the event

This will take place on the oval of the school. We invite all parents to come to this event to cheer on their child/ren.

All students will dress up in their House colours for the event to get in the spirit of the carnival.

Below you can read an outline of the event the students will be competing in for their House Colour.

SSV Interschool Sport News & Key dates 2025

It is with great pleasure that I have been given the opportunity to step into the Sporting School Victoria District Coordinator position for 2025 for both the Wantirna and Scoresby Districts. My hope is to ensure all students competing in SSV events enjoy the experience and display their passion for sport. I wish all students come away from events proud of their achievements and effort and happy they “gave it a go”!

Karl Camerino

SSV Wantirna & Scoresby District Coordinator

St Simon the Apostle Interschool Sport Coordinator

Dates of key SSV events are outlined below for Year 3 to 6 (some events are catered particularly for our senior students).

SSV Codes of Conduct

SSV Events aims to ensure that the school sport experience conducted by SSV is an enjoyable, positive, and educative experience.

The Codes of Conduct apply to all people involved in SSV activities including all the SSV Advisory Committee members, SSV staff, volunteers, agents, contractors, member schools, life members, ambassadors, teachers, coaches, sporting officials, parents, spectators, administrators and all other persons who are involved in supervising school sport.

For all sporting events, all competitors and person’s present from St Simon the Apostle Primary must follow the codes of conduct to ensure a safe and enjoyable sporting experience. These are outlined below in which our St Simon students, staff, parent spectators, volunteers are bound to follow:

https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/Downloads%20Library/SSVPolicyCodesofConductSSVEvents.pdf

Year 4 Camp : Camp Wyuna, Queenscliff 2025

This year, our Year 4 students will have their camp at Camp Wyuna, Queenscliff. Camp Wyuna is an adventure based camp that provides students with opportunities for personal growth, building the community spirit of the student cohort and immersing students in the natural world. We look forward to a fun filled camp with our Year 4 students and St Simon staff.

We ask all Year 4 parents to please make sure your child/rens Operoo profile is up to date with emergency contact details, dietary requirements, allergies, medical conditions such as sleep walking, travel sickness and other information that may be required while they're away on camp.

Please view the details below regarding the camp and refer to the Operoo permission form for more information.

Venue: Camp Wyuna, Queenscliff

Address: 71 Flinders Street, Queenscliff

Website: https://www.geelong.ymca.org.au/camp-wyuna

Departure by bus: MONDAY 31ST MARCH with the bus departing at 8:50am. The transportation arranges include one large bus and one mini 12 seater bus transporting 10 Year 4 students.

Your child must be at school by 8:15am to ensure a timely departure. On arrival, students will check in with a teacher outside the atrium to mark them present for the camp. Your child will leave their main luggage on the steps of the basketball court. After dropping off their main luggage, your child with their packed backpacks containing their lunch, snack and drink bottle will be meet with their classroom teacher on the school soccer pitch.

Arrival back at school: TUESDAY 1ST APRIL at approximately between 3:45pm (dependent on traffic). Updates on arrival times will be notified via the Skoolbag app.

Camp Activities: The camp activities includes the following offered for our student

A visit to the Marine Discovery Centre
Boogie Boarding
Nature Pizza Cooking
Beach Games
Campfire
Movie night
Camp games including gaga ball, table tennis, visit the chickens and so much more.

Harmony Day