Sport

Sports Taping Workshop

Recently students in Year 10 Skills For Life engaged in a Sports Taping Workshop where they learnt key knowledge and practical skills on how to tape a range of joints on the human body as a form of treatment and prevention for common sporting injuries. 

Over the past four weeks, students have focused on a sports injury management unit which has had a focus on a range of concepts linked to sporting injuries such as categories, common examples, treatment, prevention, and risk management/mitigation. This Sports Taping Workshop was summative practical experience to conclude this unit of work as part of this elective in order to give the students the opportunity to learn and develop key life skills in the area of sports injury management.

As seen in the photos attached, students had a fantastic day and enjoyed the opportunity to learn valuable theory and practical concepts delivered from externally sourced and highly experienced sports trainers from Sports Medicine Australia (SMA) delivered on-site at Eltham High School. Specifically, students engaged in a combination of two accredited courses run by SMA known as an ‘Introduction to Sports Taping’ course in the first half of the day where students learnt how to accurately and professionally tape fingers, thumb, and ankle. Following this, students engaged in an ‘Advanced Sports Taping’ course in the second half of the day which focused on taping more complex areas of the body that are commonly injured in sport such as the shoulder, elbow, knee, and achilles tendon.

Following completion of these two courses on the day, all participating students received two certificates of competency from Sports Medicine Australia for successfully completing the ‘Introduction to Sports Taping’ course and ‘Advanced Sports Taping’ course. These certificates and successfully completed courses can now be added to their life experiences and completed accreditations on their resume when seeking employment in the near future. This will be of particular value if seeking employment with sporting clubs and organisations

DYLAN MEDDINGS, PE/Health KLA Coordinator

Division Swimming

On Friday 1 March the Eltham High School District Swim Team headed to Doncaster Aquarena to take on the other seven schools in the Nillumbik / Banyule District Swimming Carnival. Our team consisted of 35 swimmers who competed in 47 individual races and 11 relays throughout the day producing some amazing individual results. Eltham High School finished third overall on 488 points behind Viewbank and Montmorency. 

Conor Hayes (Year 12, Everard House), competing at his last district swimming event, had another outstanding day with 5 individual medals: 3 golds and 2 silvers, 2 relay silvers, as well as taking 2 seconds off the 100m Freestyle record.

Matthew Brophy (Year 11, Pakana House) cruised through his 5 individual events collecting 4 golds, 1 bronze, and finishing off the day with silver in both the 4 x 50m medley and 4 x 50m freestyle relays.

Samuel Hartley (Year 9, Everard House) dominated his age group once again winning 4 golds and a silver and will now head to his 3rd consecutive regional final.

Olivia De Jonge (Year 9, Skipper House) showed her high level of consistency and competitiveness in her fourth district swimming carnival with another successful day taking home 2 golds, 2 bronze and a 4th place. 

Ben Van Dijk (Year 8, Skipper House) fought through injury to finish first in both his individual races; and won a gold and silver in the relays. 

It was great to see our year 7s competing in the pool at their first district swimming event. Coco Balkin (Year 7, Everard House), Dane Hamilton (Year 7, Everard House), Yorke Murray (Year 7, Toner House), Ben Nicholls (Year 7, Everard House), Zephyr Pawluk (Year 7, Pakana House) and Arizona Peel (Year 7, Skipper House) all tasted success throughout the day in both individual events and relays. 

The top 2 swimmers and relay teams from each race qualify to go through to the next round. The following 24 students will compete in the NMR Swim finals on Wednesday 27 March at WaterMarc.

A big congratulations to all swimmers that competed last Friday and good luck to those continuing to the NMR finals.

House Sport Carnival 

The  Athletics Carnival is on Friday 15 March at Doncaster Athletics Track. Put this date in your diaries!

This day is a normal school day and as such it is expected that all students attend. There is a strong history at Eltham High of students dressing up in House Colours and a Best Dressed Competition is held. Participation in the day’s events are not compulsory, and students can enter as many or as few events as they wish. 

The results are used to select students who advance to the District Sports. We also run a house Cross Country in Term 2 which all Year 7 and 8 students will participate in, however this event is not compulsory for students in Year 9 - 12. Year 9 - 12 students will have the opportunity to register their interest in competing in the Cross Country via a Microsoft Form prior to the day. 

Interschool Sport

Eltham High participates in the School Sport Victoria Sporting Program. We enter teams into a Round Robin competition with local schools in the Nillumbik District. Each year level of the school can participate in one Round Robin each term. Different sports are offered in each term and successful teams advance to Region Finals. 

Interschool sport is optional and students who wish to represent the school will have the opportunity to register their interest each term via a Microsoft Form. The links to these forms will be emailed to the students and will also be made available during Morning Involve / Tutorial sessions. 

Sports for Term 1 are as follows

Year 7 – Tuesday 26 March (Week 9A)

Baseball, Softball, Tennis and Volleyball 

Sports for Term 2 are as follows

Senior (Year 11 and 12) – Tuesday 7 May (Week 4A)

AFL, Soccer, Netball, Badminton, Hockey

Intermediate (Year 9 and 10) – Thursday 16 May (Week 5B)

AFL, Soccer, Netball, Badminton

Girls Footy Day – Tuesday 21 May (Week 6A)

Seniors, Intermediate, Juniors

Year 8 – Thursday 30 May (Week 7B)

AFL, Soccer, Netball, Badminton

Year 7 – Wednesday 19 June (Week 10A)

AFL, Soccer, Netball, Badminton

Timetabled Sport – Year 7 and 8

Students in Year 7 and 8 participate in a Sport session once per week. Students participate in a range of sports throughout the term. We aim to provide students with a small taste of a variety of sports, many of which are offered in the Inter-School Sports Program. Participation is the main goal of these sessions and students are encouraged to experience a range of games. 

There is an expectation the students change into their PE uniforms for this session – we would greatly appreciate your assistance in ensuring PE uniforms are brought to school for both PE and Sport sessions.

BREE PASCOE, Sports Coordinator