Sport

Sport Dates for 2024

Polding Summer Trials Tennis and Basketball:  Friday 9th February, 2024

School Swimming Carnival:   Friday 16th February, 2024

ADPSC Swimming Carnival:  Friday 1st March, 2024

School Cross Country:  Friday 12th April, 2024.

ADPSC Cross Country:  Friday 17th May, 2024

School Trial Athletics Carnival:  Friday 21st June, 2024

School Athletics Carnival: Thursday 25th July, 2024

ADPSC Athletics Carnival:  Friday 9th August, 2024

2024 Swimming Carnival

Our 2024 Swimming Carnival is being held on Friday 16th February, 2024. This event requires online consent/permission to be completed by Friday 9th February, 2024

It will be a daytime Swimming Carnival at Tamworth Swimming Pool (Kable Avenue, Cnr Bridge St) commencing at approximately 9:30am and finishing at approximately 2:00pm. 

The Swimming Carnival is part of our school sports program and ALL Primary aged children, along with Infants students who are turning 8 years old in 2024 and can COMPETITIVELY swim 50m, are expected to be there. (Infants children should be turning 8 years old in 2024 and must be able to swim 50m COMPETITIVELY). If your child is in year 2 and not competing at the carnival, they will attend school as usual. 

All Primary children will travel to the carnival by bus and arrive at the pool at 9:15am under the supervision of teachers. At the conclusion of the carnival, all students will travel back to school for their regular way of transport home. Parents of Infants children who are attending the Carnival are asked to organise transport to and from the pool or alternatively to and from the primary school campus to allow 8yr old infants swimmers to be bussed with Year 3 classes.

Please note the St Ed’s School Canteen WILL ONLY be operating on Friday 16th February, 2024  for INFANTS STUDENTS ONLY.

On Friday 16th February children will need to:

*Wear their full sports uniform including school hat

*Bring enough food and water to last through the Swimming Carnival

*Bring their swimming bag to school with swimmers, sunscreen, towel, goggles etc. Children will change at school.

Online Permission and Swimming Assessment 

*No child will be allowed access to the pool at the Swimming Carnival without a completed evaluation of their swimming ability and submitted by his/her Parent/Carer. This will allow the children to go in the corresponding events at the carnival. 

There will be limited non swimming events at the carnival this year due to the town’s pool not having a large “little” pool. I strongly encourage you to put your child in the 25m events if they are capable of doing so to avoid sitting around and watching all day. This will also allow your child to cool off and gain house points for their house. 

Diocesan Basketball Team

Good luck to the following students who will be travelling to Lismore to play for the Armidale Diocese at the Polding Summer Trials.  

2024 Basketball Competition

Primary aged students only. Aussie Hoops will be available for Infants students. Keep an eye out in the coming weeks for this information.

By now you should have received an email in regards to registration for our St Edward's teams. Please remember that you will also need to register with NSW Basketball (this is an additional registration that lasts for 12 months).

 If you haven't received an email yet, please check the spam/junk folder in your email.

If you are able to assist with coaching a team, please email Mrs Gippel. 

St Edward's Representative Shirts

Please keep a lookout for these in your cupboards, school bags, dirty clothes baskets, even under beds. We are still missing a considerable amount of shirts which will be required to be handed back in this term.

Netball and Basketball Uniforms

You are able to order both the St Edward's Netball and St Edward's Basketball uniform by using the Compass app.

HOW TO ORDER:

1.Click on the compass app

2. Select more (bottom right corner)

3. Select canteen

4. Select child

5. Select day (tomorrow's date)

6. Select uniform menu

Simply select size and the uniform will be handed to your child at school the day selected. Please keep all tags on until you are happy with the size after trying on to allow a simple exchange at the primary canteen. 

If your child is in Year 6 and does not have a sibling to hand their netball/basketball uniform to, could you consider donating or selling your uniform through the school? We are always looking for second hand uniforms for our new families and new students to the sport.  Please see Mrs Bridge in the Canteen for more information around this.

Netball

St Edward’s Netball Registrations are now OPEN. 

Registrations close 1st March, 2024.

For all children wishing to play netball, who are turning 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10 in 2024 use this link: 

https://www.playhq.com/netball-australia/register/858647

For all children wishing to play netball, who are turning 11 and 12 (or 10 year playing in the 11/12 comp) in 2024 use this link: 

https://www.playhq.com/netball-australia/register/ef14d8

All new netball uniforms can be found on the Compass app in the Canteen menu. 

There are a small number of second hand uniforms available from the primary canteen for $20. 

Training is decided by coaches. All training is at St Edward’s Primary School straight after school, infants’ children can catch the bus.

Games will start in early May. 

All games are played inside, or on the outside courts at the Tamworth Sports Dome. 

Games for children aged 10 and under are usually played at 12pm.*

Games for children aged 11 and over are usually at 1pm.*

*times are subject to change.

Athletics

Over the weekend these four athletes competed at the Little Athletics Regional Carnival. They ran, jumped and threw to try and secure a spot at State Athletics. The competition was tough, with being one of the biggest regions and the weather was tougher.

All four athletes broke personal bests.

Pyper Lace placed 6th in Shot Put, 13th in 100m, 7th in Triple Jump and 9th in Discus.

Emily O'Connell placed 6th in High Jump, 5th in Javelin, 8th in Discus and 13th in 400m.

Sienna Erich placed 3rd in Discus, 7th 60m hurdles, 7th 100m sprint and 4th jr relay.

Isaac Heywood placed 4th in Javelin, 9th in Discus, 6th in 100m and 2nd in 80m Hurdles.

Isaac will now compete at Sydney in March for the Hurdles.

AFL 

PLEASE SCAN AND REGISTER if you would like to play.

Tamworth FC Football

Moore Creek Mountain Goats

Touch Football

Hockey

Oz Tag 

(information sourced from Tamworth OzTag page)

Physie Dance Classes

Sport Stories

We would love to share information about your child’s special achievements across all sporting areas, please email detailed information and a photograph if available to the Sports Coordinator, Mrs Gippel, at: nmcculloch@arm.catholic.edu.au

Armidale Diocesan Primary Sports Council

The Armidale Diocesan Primary Sports Council is a body representative of the Catholic Education Office, Principals and Sports Coordinators from all Diocesan Primary Schools. The ADPSC offers a pathway for Armidale Diocesan students in most sports. If you would like to be kept up to date with all the Diocesan sport news, cancellations and updated last minute information, please like the ADPSC page on Facebook.

https://www.facebook.com/ArmidaleDiocesanPSC/