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Semester 1 Review from our students:

Kindergarten

"I love it when we get to run on the tracks on the green playground and playing duck, duck goose with Miss Claffey. I loved running over the hurdles at the Athletics Carnival. I love playing rugby!" - Huey

"I loved winning the 70 metres at the Athletics Carnival and getting a medal.  I love getting to see Miss Claffey every Monday for sport. I love playing Netball!" - Lara

Year 1 

"We like Sport because it makes us strong and fit. We do different activities and we get to have fun playing with our friends. Miss Claffey is the best Sport Teacher.  The Athletics Carnival was very fun and it is a great place to get fit!" - Bronte & Harley

Year 2 

"At the start of the year I made it into the Cross Country Championships. It was for Years 2-6 and I had to run 2 kilometres . I made it in to the next round of the Athletics Championships at Homebush with Mitchell . I get to do Sport on Monday and Friday. I also have the best sport teacher ever! She organised some of the Rabbitohs players to come in and talk to us. I do soccer and league outside of school." - Luca B

Year 3 

"Sport at St Anthony's is brilliant! There is a range of sports & competitions for Athletics including Zone, Mackillop and State . Louis and I made it to Cross Country and that was a great experience for all of us that made it from Years 2-6.

I made it to Mackillop Swimming Championships and that was fun. In Term 2 we had our Athletics Carnival and we had lots of incredible parents that volunteered for timing and measuring. We are looking forward too doing Rugby League next semester. Some of us qualified to compete at the Conference 1 Athletics Championships. Our school registered people from age 8-12 to represent St Anthony's in many events including relay, shotput,100m, 200m, 800m, high jump and long jump. 

In our Sport lessons at school we have been developing skills for Netball. We have a Sport lesson on Monday every week. We all enjoy it we love Miss Claffey being our sport teacher, she has guided us through all our events and helps us keep calm when we are nervous." - Louis & James

Year 4 

"At Cross County Years 2-4 had to run 2km and Year 5-6 had to run 3km. We had to run against other Catholic schools. Miss Claffey organised an Athletics Carnival  in Term 2 Week 4. Nagle, Padua and Mackillop all were competing to get the Athletics trophy.

For Sport  we do different activities on Friday with our teaches and on Mondays, Miss Claffey teaches us. She teaches us Netball, Football, Soccer and Oztag skills. When a sport event is coming up Miss Claffey get us ready for it. 

The Rabbitohs came to our school to teach us about cyber bullying and gratitude, we learned a lot." - Cody

"At the start of the year I got to go to the third round of the Sydney Catholic Schools NSW swimming. I competed in the 50 backstroke, 50 breaststroke,  freestyle and 200 medley. In the middle of the year I made it into the 2nd level of cross country with my friends Charli, Mirabel, Scarlett, Cody, Harry and Ethan. We also get to have sport every Monday and Friday! Miss Claffey also organised the Rabbitohs to come in. On Monday she teaches us stuff like soccer, NRL, Netball, Oztag and more." - Chloe 

Year 5 

"In school one of the things I particularly liked is my Sport lessons. We have them every Monday and Friday with our incredible teacher Miss Claffey. Every week we learn something new and fun. Miss Claffey has organised many tutors to come in and teach the class about all the sports all over the world. One of my favourite events is the Athletics Carnival. We hold it every year and this year Miss Claffey has assigned me to five events in the zone level along with some other students. Every week I learn so much and I always look forward to every sporting event." - Luke

"Over the past semester, I have been given the opportunity to participate in many extra curricular sports activities such as: going to Zone (second round) and Mackillop (third round) for swimming, being chosen for the netball team and Zone (second round) for shotput and the relay team. Alongside me throughout all of these journeys has been one of our wonderful teachers Miss Claffey (the year 6 teacher and sports teacher). Miss Claffey is our sports teacher and she has made our sports lessons so enjoyable." - Bianca

Year 6 

"I have had many amazing opportunities to represent St Anthony's Clovelly in many sporting events like the Conference 1 swimming championships, advanced netball gala days, Netball trials for the SCS netball team, Cross Country, but sadly sprained my ankle and couldn't do it, all in just half a year. I'm lucky enough to be going to the next round of the Athletics Carnival, as I had a qualifying time for 100m in the school Athletics Carnival. I was so happy when I found out that my sports team was the winning house as I am the captain of Mackillop! Miss Claffey is always trying to help out and motivate me to do my best. I am so grateful for all the opportunities that she has given me." - Ella 

"This year I participated a the Netball Trial. If we made it to the next round then we’d be representing the Sydney Catholic Netball Team. Ella, Sienna, Freya and I went to Heffron Centre and had to play 4 half games of netball. We had so much fun! Me and some girls from year five and six were selected to be a part of the St Anthony's Netball team. We got in a taxi to Heffron Park and played quite a few games. My positions were GA and GS. I love playing netball and I loved playing it even more with my friends from school. The whole of Stage 3 were invited to play against other Sydney catholic schools in netball. We took a bus to Heffron park and played quite a few games. My teammates were exceptional! We won almost every game.  We had a blast and I look forward to keep playing Netball in high school. Recently, all of Stage 3 were invited to a Soccer Gala Day. We may not have won that many games but we had such a good time.  Every Monday and Friday we do sport up in the Green Playground. I always look forward to doing sport with Miss Claffey because it’s always fun and I get to play fun games with my friends." - Emily

Sydney Catholic Schools Representative Sports Pathway

Sydney Catholic Schools (SCS) Sport coordinates the organisation and implementation of the representative sports pathway in SCS Primary & Secondary schools across the Archdiocese. 

Sydney Catholic Schools is responsible for the provision of representative sport pathway trials for students in Years 5 and 6 in the following sports: Diving, Softball, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Rugby 7s (GIRLS ONLY), Soccer, Hockey and Netball. Representative sport pathway trials for students in Years 4 and 5 are offered for the following sports in Term 4: AFL, Basketball, Golf (Years 3-6), Cricket, Touch Football and Tennis. 

The school-run Athletics Carnival, Swimming Carnival and Cross Country Trials are held for the purposes of selecting students to represent our school in the SCS representative sport pathway. Children must be turning 8-years-old or are older in the year of competition e.g. if a child is born in 2011-2016 for the 2024 competition they are eligible to be selected. This policy is according to Catholic Schools New South Wales who oversees Sydney Catholic Schools Sports. 

For more information and updates about SCS Sport, please visit this website.

Upcoming Events

Conference 1 Athletics Carnival - Monday 5th August (Term 3 Week 3) -  This is for selected students only - The Carnival will be held at Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre, Homebush commencing at 8:00am and should conclude by 3pm. More information to follow.

Netball Coaching

The children in Years k - 6 will take part in 6 weeks (2 weeks in Term 2 & 4 weeks in Term 3) of Netball Coaching from Netball NSW in their Monday sport lessons. Netball NSW School Clinics have been developed to provide NSW students with a fun and safe introduction to Netball. Participants will experience personal achievement, skill development and increase physical health through skill activities, minor games and netball matches.

NRL

On Monday 12th August children in Years K - 6 will take part in a Rugby League introduction clinic at our school. It will be delivered by our professionally trained Game Development Officers.

Soccer

On Monday 2nd of September the children will be taking part in a soccer clinic delivered by UEFA-A qualified coach.

GALA DAYS for Term 3:

• Stage 3 (Years 5 & 6) Oztag Gala Day: Tuesday, 30 July (Term 3, Week 2), all Year 5 & 6 students
• Stage 3 (Years 5 & 6) Oztag Gala Day - Tuesday 10 September  (Week 8)
• Olympic Fun Day:  Friday, 2 August (Term 3 Week 2) Whole School