Sports News
Important Dates:
- Wednesday 28th of May: Division Crosscountry (Yrs 3-6)
District Cross Country:
A big congratulations to the 60 St Mark’s students who qualified for District Cross Country! We’re proud to share that St Mark’s placed 8th overall among all schools in the Mordialloc District.
WOW WEDNESDAYS -
St Mark's are proud to announce that we have joined Kingston in the WOW program.
What: WOW Kingston is the “Walk or Wheels Once a Week” program for primary schools in the City of Kingston held over 6 weeks during Term 2 of the school year. WOW Kingston is a travel behaviour change program that encourages primary school students to travel to school by more active modes such as walking and cycling and decrease car dependency. The program also improves road safety awareness and traffic conditions around the school.
When: Every Wednesday,starting the 7th of May!
Students will record their participation on a special class wall calendar provided by Council. At the conclusion of 6 weeks, the class that has walked and cycled the most will be awarded with Council’s special WOW Kingston Golden Boot to recognise their outstanding participation. Schools will receive materials and incentives as part of the program.
WALK2SCHOOL DAY
Equipment:
Please ensure that if your child is bringing their own sports equipment to school, it is clearly labeled with their name.
Interschool Sports - Term 2
Multiclass in District sports
I just wanted to let you know that SSV, School Sports Victoria who oversee our interschool sport and sporting carnivals are now accepting a new classification, ii3, Autism without intellectual disability.
This allows students who are formally classified to participate in multiclass events. There is a bit of a processing time of 6-8 weeks to finalise a classification so if your child is eligible and would like to participate in future District events such as swimming, Cross Country and Track & Field competitions please feel to apply or contact Miss Amerena at gamerena@smdingley.catholic.edu.au
We have had students at our school with classifications before which has made a huge difference to their confidence and sport ability.
Please see attached flyer.
Sports Uniform:
Over the next couple of years we will be phasing out the solid green sports polos and only having one sports top for all levels. The sports top that all students will wear is the polo top with the St Mark's lion on it, that the 5/6 students currently wear for interschool sport. We were finding that for some sporting events the 3/4 children also needed to wear the "interschool sport top" and they did not have it and it is also an additional expense for our Year 5/6 families that is not necessary - one sport top is plenty. Both the current green sports polos and the St Mark's lion sports polo are acceptable wear for PE days for all students. Year 5/6 students are still required to wear the St Mark's lion interschool sports top on interschool sport days. Once we are further underway with the roll out of the new sports top we will set a date where students can no longer wear the green polo - but that will be quite some time away so please do not worry.