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Term 3-4 News
St John's Skipathon-Whole School
This year we are looking forward to our annual skipathon. Mr B will send out information related to fundraising for the event.
Children will need their own rope for sports sessions.
The children will be participating in a skip-a-thon on:
Friday, 15th of August.
Venue- St John’s -Nunan Hall
The timetable will be as follows:
Middle 9:30-10:30,
Senior 11:25-12:25,
Junior 2:15pm- 3:10pm.
Teacher eliminator at 12:35.
The prizes are: One bike for the Juniors, one for the Middle School and one for the Senior School. Prizes will be randomly drawn from those who have contributed to the fundraiser as per the Trybooking page details.
District Basketball Championships
On Friday, the 29th, August, one boys and one girls team from Grade 5/6 will have the chance to compete in the Bayside District Basketball Championships to be held at Frankston Basketball Stadium. There has been a series of selection trials held to select teams. We are very lucky to have Mel Cotta and Mr Caine available to coach these teams on the day.
Footy Day - Whole School
On Thursday, 11th September, Footy Day will be held on the school grounds. It will be a fantastic day with a parade at 9:00 am to kick off events. We will be holding games and also have the AFL roadshow running, which will be great fun for all.
Division Athletics
Division Athletics will be held for those who qualified on Wednesday, 9th October. This is the first week of Term 4 - Wednesday, October 8th. Parents are required to organise transport and supervision on this day.
Athletics qualifiers
Bobby 200m and 100m- Cooper Long jump and Hurdles- Tori Hurdles and 200m Oscar H 800m
Gemma High jump and 100m Henry S Hurdles 100m and 200m Lucy W 100m
Roxy P Long jump and 200m.
Shot put - Nathan O and April S
Discus - Mahala, Finn, Ziggy, Freja and Jimmy L
11 yo girls relay - Eve, Bella, Tori, Lucy
12 yo boys relay - Cooper, Bobby, Phoenix, Chad
Boys Netball Day
A team of Grade 5/6 boys will be attending the District Netball Lightning Premiership on Thursday, November 6th at Jubilee Park.
Girls AFL
Some of our Grade 5/6 Girls will be attending the District AFL Lightning Premiership on Thursday, November 6th at Ballam Park.
Before School Jogging/Cross Country
Congratulations to all the adults, students and preschoolers who participated in the before-school jogging this year. Certificates have been awarded. Some of our high achievers are listed below.
Prep- Harper Souter 143, Kiara Basil 8 and Florence Halewood 65
Grade1/2 Brodie Fawkner 394, Lewis Wilson 123, River Finn-Parsons 169, Alice Paton 98, Sadie Smith 116 and Phoenix Nuttall-Green 237, Adelaide Andrews 135
Grade 3/4 Oscar Nuttall-Green 266, Hunter Smith 264, Billie Tahu 130, Jack Van Deur 105, Nikita Brown 161, Hayden Ellis 140, Yosef Paraiso 192, James Smith 245 and Oscar Wilson 298
Gr 4/5 Gemma Griffin 105, Oscar Halewood 264, Eva Karamitsios 115, Jimmy Lehmann 100, Max Lucy 159, Nathan Oldham 167, Aiden Smith 301, Henry Souter 394 and Laurence Maniatis-Ropata 525.
Grade 5/6 Leon Maniatis-Ropata 219, Bella Nuttall-Green 174, Kent Basil 157, Victor Au 112, Liam Garbutt 202, Maddie Klopper 114 and Sadie Wilson 305.
Parents and friends- Simon 345, Hani 92 and Mel 69.
District Cross Country results
St John’s recently competed in the District Cross Country.
Our team finished 4th overall with our Seniors 4th and our Juniors 1st.
Congratulations to the students who qualified for the division cross country. These children needed to place in the top 10 to qualify.
9 yo boys - Louis Haley 1st, Zac Pollard 3rd, Oscar Nuttal Green 4th, Fred Duscher 9th
9 yo girls - Freija Burns 9th
10 yo boys - Oscar Halewood 1st, Henry Souter 4th, Laurence Maniatis-Ropata 5th, Lucas Tamplin 7th
10 yo girls - Bella Nuttall-Green 4th, Lucy Wood 5th
12 yo girls - Roxie Pollard 2nd
12 yo boys - Bobby Gayfer 1st, Cooper Van Dyke 6th, Liam Garbutt 7th, Chad Barrett-10th
A big congratulations to all who competed!
Cricket Day
Our District Cricket Day will be held on Friday, 21st November. We will be taking one boys and one girls' team from Grade 5/6 to the event.
Any questions, please feel free to ask.
Mr O'Sullivan