2025 St Simon the Apostle Swimming Squad

We congratulate all swimmers who have made the St Simon the Apostle Swimming squad for this year.

Only competitors only in the A event who come either 1st or 2nd progress through to Knox Division competition on Friday 8th March. Girls are permitted to compete in the Boys/Mixed event if their swimming trial times are competitive within this gender.

All details will be sent via an Operoo permission form this week. Details of the Wantirna District Swimming Carnival and training times are outlined below. We hope our team members can make the sessions so they are confident and capable of swimming their events.

Date: Friday 21st February

Morning Departing Time: 8:45am. All competitors including emergency swimmers arrive in the school atrium by 8:30am.

Arrival back to school: 1:00pm

Venue: Monash Aquatic and Rec Centre, 625 Waverley Road, Glen Waverley

Transportation: Students in the team will be transported to the venue by bus.

Swimming Squad Training: We encourage all competitors including our back up swimmers as emergency swimmers to attend the training session on offer so they are prepared for their selected strokes in the competition. The sessions will take place on the following dates and times:

Date

Venue for Swimming Training

Time

Swimming Focus

Thursday 20th February

Dandenong Oasis Swimming Pool

Heatherton Rd &, Cleeland St, Dandenong

7:30am – 8:15am

Individual event technique and timing.

Students will need to bring their bathers, goggles, and a towel to these training sessions. A St Simon staff member will be present to support the students in their training.

Students will need to be collected from the pool no later than 8:30am so that you have ample time to transport your child to school. We ask parents to be present at the pool during the training sessions.

Payment for this event:

For this event, the school is doing its best to reduce the cost for parents. Therefore there will only be one payment for the District Swimming competition. Please ensure you log onto CDFpay to pay if you child is participating in the District Swimming competition

https://ssrowville.cdfpay.org.au/MonitorOnline/app/#!/login

St Simon the Apostle

Year 3 - 6 Athletics Day

Once again, we look forward to our students engaging in our annual Year 3-6 athletics day. This year we will still be at Bill Sewart Athletics Track. The Year 3-6 Athletics Day will take place on Monday 3rd March.

Our aim of this excursion is to evaluate and measure the students fundamental motor skills with running, throwing and jumping in track and field events. We also wish to celebrate your student’s achievements displayed in various track and field events which they have learnt through the Physical Education program.

All students will wear their full sport uniform for the day and arrive at school between 8:30am and 8:40am. This is so classes can organise themselves quickly in the morning before departing on a bus at 9:00am for Bill Sewart Athletics Track.

If the weather or venue conditions are deemed undesirable, the event will be postponed to a later date in the term. This will be announced the day before the event through the SkoolBag app and through an Operoo message.

PARENT HELPERS:

Parents feel free to volunteer and join in the day to help the smooth running of events. Assistance is important for the day to run successfully.

If you are able to help on the day, please tick the event you are able to support us in. We ask that if you wish to help, this will be for the full day.

You will be contacted by Karl Camerino regarding helping on the day. Your support is greatly appreciated!

St Simon the Apostle House Cross Country and House Twilight Sports

Our House Cross Country and Twilight Sports day are great traditions at St Simon that bring our community together and allow students to have a bit of fun while competing for their House.

Please save the dates for the two spectacular events:

House Cross Country : Friday 7th March

House Twilight Sport Carnival : Thursday 27th March (2:30pm -5:00pm)

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

SSV Team Victoria Trials

The School Sport Victoria (SSV) Team Vic representative program provides a development platform for Victoria’s emerging elite student athletes to participate in the annual School Sport Australia (SSA) Championships for various sports such as AFL, Soccer, Netball, Basketball, Track and Field, Cross Country and many more sports.

It needs to be emphasised that these trials form part of School Sport Victoria’s Gifted and Talented program and are not ‘come and try’ opportunities.

Therefore, students who have been identified as suitable candidates to participate in the trials will receive a letter from Mr Karl Camerino to be taken home to their parents with information about the SSV Team Vic trials and registration to try out.

Endorsement is required from the school if selected for the trials. If your child has received a letter, it is up to parents to decide if they wish to register their child to try out. Endorsement will not be provided if your child has been registered without the school letter.

Further information can be found on the SSV Team Vic website.

https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/team-vic

Please contact Mr Karl Camerino if you have any questions or wish to know more about the trial process.

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