Sport News

Swimming Carnival 

Date:       Friday 28th November, 2025

Venue:    Caringbah Leisure Centre 

Registration is now CLOSED! No late entries will be accepted. 

Please note that Spectators must pay $3 on entry by eftpos (Leisure Centre is cashless). 

In the lead-up to the carnival, it can be helpful to remind your child of the key techniques covered during the week, especially if they’re entering competitive races.

To support fairness and help our students feel prepared, here are the core finish touch rules for each stroke:

• Freestyle: One-hand touch required at the finish.
• Butterfly: Must finish with a two-hand touch (hands together).
• Breaststroke: Also requires a two-hand touch at the finish.

• Backstroke: Swimmers must finish on their back.

   

⚖️ Fairness, Resilience and Respect in Sport

All sports have rules to ensure fairness for every participant. While every parent naturally wants to see their child succeed, it’s important that we all respect the officials’ and umpires’ decisions on the day. In sport, everyone will experience disappointment at times, even elite athletes. What matters most is how we respond.

Our students are still developing their resilience, confidence, and understanding of fairness. There are valuable lessons to be learned from both victories and setbacks, and we truly appreciate your support in modelling calm acceptance and helping your child learn from the officials’ judgments and from the experience as a whole.

We look forward to a fun, confident, and supportive Swimming Carnival where every child has the chance to participate, get house points, challenge themselves, and be part of the Fatima sporting spirit.

Go teams! 💙💛❤️💚

2026 Representative Pathway Sport Nominations

Pathway Sports are sporting trials that are held to enable a student to represent and participate at various levels. The 2026 Representative Pathway School Trials will commence in Term 4, 2025, as the official Conference 3 trials will take place in Term 1 Week 3, 2026.  Trials will be held for the following sports: 

• Football (Soccer) - Boys & Girls
• Rugby League - Boys
• Netball - Girls

Only students currently in YEAR 4 and 5 are eligible.  

Each school can only nominate a limited number of students for each trial. The process for selection is:

1. The student is to demonstrate a high level of skill development and talent in their chosen sport

2. The student is to have experience playing in regular competition outside of school

3. In the event of having more students than the allocated number to attend the trial, a school trial may be held to determine nominees.

    

Please note only one school trial will be held. 

Please fill in the following form if you wish to nominate your child. Further information will be provided closer to the trial dates. 

REGISTRATION HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY 21ST NOVEMBER 2025

MacKillop Cricket Trials

Well done to Cruz D and Matthew T for representing our school at the MacKillop Cricket Trial as part of the representative sport pathways. Students went all the way to Wagga Wagga for an intense 2 day trial process. Both students performed extremely well and we will find out results later on in the week. Well done boys!

Sports Award Ceremony 

Congratulations to Mia B, Alexis D and Anson V who will be receiving SCS Sport Awards on Friday 21st of November for their excellence and talent in sport throughout 2025. 

Alexis D will be receiving an award for her outstanding effort in Athletics, Cross Country, Netball and Touch Football.

Mia B and Anson V will be receiving an award for their outstanding talent in Athletics. 

Congratulations and well done to these 3 amazing and talented students!

Sydney Catholic Schools - Term 4 Holiday Camps

Looking for something fun, active, and memorable these school holidays?

SCS is running a Water Polo Camp.  The camp is a perfect way for kids to stay active, make new friends, and learn new skills in a safe and supportive environment.

This program is open to both boys and girls

• Water Polo: Year 5 - 11

• It is a requirement that camp participants can swim a minimum of 50m unaided and with confidence.

Registrations close Wednesday 10 December 2025

For detailed information and to register, visit the following link:  https://bit.ly/SCSHolidayCamps and select Water Polo

CSNSW Aquathon

Entries are now open for the Catholic Schools NSW Invitational Aquathon to be held on Wednesday, 26 November 2025 at the NEW VENUE of Des Renford Aquatic Centre, Maroubra.

• Date:    

  Wednesday 26 November 2025

• Time: 

  First race commences at 8:30am. Last race concludes at approximately 2:30pm

• Venue: 

  Des Renford Aquatic Centre, Maroubra

• Address: 

  Jersey Rd & Robey Street, Maroubra NSW 2035

• Entry: 

  $50.00 per athlete

This event is for 8 to 19 year olds, with students competing in combined age groups i.e. 8/9 yrs, 10/11 yrs, 12/13 yrs, 14/15 yrs, 16 - 19 yrs, as well as combined Multi Class age groups, including 8 - 12 years and 13 - 19 years.

See here for proposed order of events: 2025 CSNSW Aquathon - Order of Events

Students may compete in two events on the day - one in the morning for qualifying and one in the afternoon in seeded finals.

To register:

• Go to https://csnsw.sport/

• Click on "Create an account"

• Add your child's profile

• Add your child's school

• Non affiliated Catholic Schools, Independent Schools and Government Schools should enter "CSNSW Sport" as their school

• Click on the "Register For A Sport" button

• Select "CSNSW Sport Aquathon" under Available Sport Registration

Follow the prompts to complete registration

Entries close Wednesday 19 November 2025.

For further information, see:

https://csnsw.sport/sports/csnsw-sport-programmes/aquathon or contact sportresponses@csnsw.catholic.edu.au

Miss Belle Reid | Sports Teacher & Sports Co-ordinator