Physical Education
Term 1
District Swimming Qualifying Times
Yesterday a Compass notice went out to all Grade 3-6 families, asking for expressions of interest in your child participating in the District Swimming event on Monday 26 February at Tintern Grammar, 12.15pm to approximately 2.45pm. . If your child is a very competent swimmer or swims in a swimming squad then you may be interested in sending through their 50m time for one or more of the following strokes - backstroke, breaststroke, freestyle, butterfly. Send these times through to me, fiona.pumpa@education.vic.gov.au by Friday16 February and I will ring you regarding the teams.
Parents/Guardians are required to transport and supervise their child at this event. Swimmers need to be proficient in their chosen stroke and swim 50m within the predetermined qualifying time.
The individual events are:
50m freestyle
50m backstroke
50m breaststroke
50m butterfly
Students do not need to swim all strokes. They are allowed to swim in two individual events plus relays at District.
To see if your child meets qualifying times, please take them to a 50m pool and time them in the chosen individual events from above. Then email (fiona.pumpa@education.vic.gov.au) or send a note to Fiona Pumpa with the times by Friday 16th February.
Please include the following information in your reply –
Child’s name: _________________________________________ Grade: ___________
DOB: ____________________________ Age now: _______________________
Stroke Times:
50m Freestyle: ______________________________
50m Backstroke: _____________________________
50m Breaststroke: ___________________________
50m Butterfly: _______________________________
Favourite strokes:
1st - _______________________________ 2nd - ________________________________
Parent/Guardian’s contact number: ____________________
Fiona Pumpa will contact you after times are submitted.
Grade 5/6 Summer Interschool Sport Gala Day
All Grade 5/6 students will be involved in our interschool Summer Sport Gala day on Friday 15th March with a back up day of Friday 22nd March. A notice detailing venues, cost, what to take, times, etc will be sent via Compass next week.
If you would like to manage, coach or umpire your child’s, or any team, please contact Fiona Pumpa (Fiona.pumpa@education.vic.gov.au).
Students began training last week. Parents are welcome to assist with training session after Assembly each Friday for an hour. The sports are basketball, sof-crosse, Kanga 8’s cricket, volleybounce and Hot Shots tennis.
Twilight Sports – Thursday 15th February
All families are invited to our Twilight Sports evening next week. Bring a picnic dinner and join in family games before our races.
Picnic dinner & family games – 6pm to 6.30pm
Races – 6.30pm to 7.15pm
A great chance to meet other families!
Hats
Marvellous to see all our students bringing their hats to school.
Well done Mullum!
2024 SPORT DATES
February
Monday 26 February - District Swim (for qualifying Grade 3 to 6 students)
March
Wednesday 6 March - Division Swim (for qualifying Grade 3 to 6 students)
Friday 8 March - District/Division Tennis (for qualifying Gr 5/6 students)
Friday 15 March - Summer Interschool Sport Gala Day (all Grade 5/6 students)
Friday 22 March - Summer Interschool Sport back up Gala Day (all Grade 5/6 students)
April
Monday 29 April - House Cross Country (whole school)
May
Tuesday 14 May - District Cross Country (qualifying Grade 3 to 6 students)
Wednesday 15 May back up date for District Cross Country
June
Tuesday 4 June - Division Cross Country (qualifying Grade 3 to 6 students)
Thursday 13 June - Region Cross Country (qualifying Grade 3 to 6 students)
July
Friday 26 July – Interschool Sport Winter finals - AFL, soccer, netball (qualifying Grade 5/6 teams)
Tuesday 23 July - House Athletics (whole school)
Tuesday 30 July - House Athletics back up date
September
Friday 2 Sept – Interschool Sport Winger finals – Teeball (qualifying Grade 5/6 teams)
Tuesday 10 Sept - District Athletics (qualifying Grade 3 to 6 students)
Thurs 12 Sept - back up date District Athletics (1)
Monday 16 Sept - back up date District Athletics (2)
Tuesday 17 Sept - back up date District Athletics (3)
October
Thursday 10 October - Division Athletics (qualifying Grade 3 to 6 students)
Monday 14 October – Interschool Sport Summer finals – basketball (qualifying Grade 5/6 teams)
Wednesday 16 October – Interschool Sport Summer finals - Hot Shots, softball (qualifying Grade 5/6 teams)
Friday 18 October – Interschool Sport Summer finals – volleyball (qualifying Grade 5/6 teams)
TBA - Region Athletics (qualifying Grade 4 to 6 students)
TBA - State Athletics (qualifying Grade 4 to 6 students)