Sporting News 

It is a big week for sport news, please take the time read these notices thoroughly. 

DIOCESAN ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

The Armidale Diocesan Athletics Carnival will be held at The Tamworth Regional Athletics Centre on Friday the 9th of August (Week 3). Students who qualified have receive a permission form on COMPASS and information about the events they have qualified for in a separate note. Please ensure permission is given ASAP as I will need to officially withdraw students from their events if they are not able to attend. 

This carnival is a selection event for the Polding Athletics Carnival in Glendale on Friday 13th September, 2024. Our Diocesan Policy is that students who attend this carnival must be available to be selected for the Polding Carnival. The carnival is run following the Armidale Diocesan Sport Council Rules, which are a condensed version of the NSW PSSA Athletics Rules, which are the overarching rules for all Diocesan carnivals.

Carnival Details:

Event Date: Friday 9th August 2024

Event Venue: Tamworth Regional Athletics Centre Jack Smyth Drive, Tamworth

Event Start & Finish Time: 

8.00 am - Team Managers may collect programs from 8.00 am

8.15 am - TEAM MANAGERS MEETING 

8.30 am - Officials Meeting: Track Officials report to Craig Long. Field Officials report to Emma Elliott.

8.30 am - Welcome & Opening Ceremony. 

8.45 am - Junior 800m and the first round of Field Events marshalled

9.00 am - Events commence 

3.00 pm - Events conclude and Diocesan Team announced

Cost: All individuals must pay an $8 ADPSC levy to play. ADPSC will invoice schools for student participation after the event.

Uniform: Students are to wear their full school sports uniform with our representative school shirt. Students are advised to bring sunscreen and hats to wear at the trials. Please remember to bring adequate water for the day. 

Catering at the venue: The Parent Association of St Nicholas School will run the canteen on the day, selling a range of hot and cold food and drinks. There will be no Eftpos available, cash only. A copy of the canteen menu will be provided closer to the date. GoGo coffee van will also be available. 

Diocesan Athletics Training

Starts this week at Golland Fields!

As mentioned at the end of last Term, we have been very lucky to acquire the coaching skills of Kev Tayor. Kev has had a long and successful coaching career in athletics, coaching many junior athletes at state and national level. Kev is a friend of our school and as many of you know his wife Cate dedicated many of her teaching years to St Joey's. We thank both Kev and Cate for volunteering their time to assist our students in their preparation for our Diocesan Carnival. 

We will have 3 coaching sessions starting tomorrow (Wednesday 24th July) and continuing each Wednesday for 3 weeks in the lead up to the carnival. Training will commence at 4pm and conclude by 5pm. I will be in attendance at each training session as well. Training will include sprint practice, relay baton change practice and if time allows, field event practice. If there is anyone whose child wishes to participate in practices but has trouble getting them there, please let me know by email or phoning the school.  mbartholomew@arm.catholic.edu.au

All information about Diocesan sports events is well communicated on the Armidale Diocesan Primary Sports Council Facebook Page. This includes postponements and event photos. Please ensure you take the time to like this page, so you have access to the most up to date information on Diocesan sports events. 

SCHOOL SPORT TERM 3

School based sport sessions return to Wednesday's only this term. This means sports uniform will only need to be worn on Wednesdays. Students will build on skills used in net and court games (with a basketball and volleyball focus) such as ball control, game play and game tactics. 

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The Summer Olympic Games in Paris begin this friday! Here at St Joey's we are super excited as we will be hosting our very own St Joey's Mini Olympics right here at school. Our olympics will be held next Friday the 2nd of August. Parents are warmly invited to attend throughout the day if they are able. A rough plan for the day is attached below. Students have been split into their colour house/country groups and busy in there researching and preparing a presentation and war cry for their country as part of our celebrations on the day.  Students will participate in a range of fun, team based games including a modified version of Bubble Soccer, volleyball, gladiator and dress up relays. Invitations for our Olympics will be sent out today so keep an eye out!

Details for the day:

Our Olympics will start at 9am and conclude around 2pm with a presentation of the winning country. 

What to wear: Students can wear mufti (plain) clothes that match the colour of their country.