2026 Sport News
St Simon District Athletics Team 2026
Congratulations to all students who have been selected to represent St Simon’s in the District Athletics Team! This is a fantastic achievement, and we are incredibly proud of your effort and determination that made it possible for you to be selected in the team!
Our team has been carefully selected based not only on outstanding performances at the Year 3–6 Athletics Day, but also on students’ demonstrated skills, technique, and progress throughout the Physical Education program. Previous District Athletics results have also been taken into consideration, ensuring a strong and competitive team.
We wish our athletes the very best of luck as they compete on Friday 8th May at Knox Athletics Track—we know you’ll do us proud. Go St Simon’s!
🏃♂️ Training InformationTraining sessions for specific track and field events will be held on selected days, weather permitting. Should there be any changes due to weather conditions, families will be notified via an Nforma message. In the case of poor weather, sessions may be relocated to the school hall.
A special training session to prepare students at Knox Athletics Track will be held on Wednesday 13th May providing students with the main track/field setting to train on.
We hope your child is able to participate in the training sessions. Further training will be provided during school time.
Year 5 & 6 District Winter Sport
Our Year 5 and 6 District Winter Sport teams have been shared with our students. Team selection is based on their interests, their skill displayed within the Physical Education program and other factors including their involvement at the community and club level sports outside of school.
Please see below the team list and the required support of parent helpers for each team. Thank you to those parents who have already put their hand up to coach and/or umpire a team.
We are still in need of parent helpers for the following teams:
Soccer Boys/Mixed B team
Netball A and B girls team
Teeball Boys and Girls team
We greatly need more parent support of our teams to ensure our staff are available to supervise and attend to students as necessary with injuries etc.
If you are available to coach a team please contact Mr Karl Camerino. Our days of competition are on Friday 29th May and Tuesday 9th June. Parent coaches are welcome to the train session to train their nominated teams.
We greatly appreciate the help on the day!
We ask Year 5 and 6 parents to keep an eye out for the permission form coming shortly with information regarding the Winter Sport competition.
Winter Sport Training sessions
We hope your child is able to attend the following morning training sessions to support their teamwork, gameplay and skill. Volleystar teams and other teams will be trained during the school day as well.
Interschool Sport Training Times - Term 1
Please see the interschool sport training times led by Mr Karl Camerino. These sessions are designed to help students build confidence, develop their skills, strengthen teamwork, and improve their understanding of the game.
We strongly encourage all students selected in their respective teams to attend these valuable training sessions.
St Simon the Apostle Cross Country Team
Please see below for our St Simon Cross Country team.
Congratulations to all students selected for the team! Being chosen to represent St Simon in the SSV Cross Country is a wonderful achievement and a proud opportunity to compete for our school. 🏃♀️🏃♂️
We encourage students to continue building their endurance and stamina by practising their running over the 2km and 3km distances, ideally with the support of their families.
Team selection was based not only on House Cross Country results, but also on performances and times recorded during Physical Education classes, as well as previous representation of our school cross country and athletics teams in long distance events.
A permission form will be sent home later this week for all competitors, including emergency runners. Please ensure this form is signed and returned as soon as possible.
District Cross Country Details:
📅 Friday 15th May
📍 Kings Park Reserve, Upper Ferntree Gully
We look forward to seeing our team represent St Simon with pride and determination!
St Simon Interschool Sport Key Dates 2026
Please note the following date for our SSV Wantirna District and Knox Division for the 2025 calendar year.
These dates are subject to change according to the discretion of the District and Division Coordinator. We wish to provide parents of our school the opportunity to acknowledge when upcoming sporting events are occurring.
We particularly call out to all future Year 5 and 6 parents to note the dates and to be potentially available to support our Interschool Sport teams as parent involvement not only supports our students in many ways as coaches and umpires but helps our staff with assistance with supervision. We thank all parents for their great help in making Interschool Sport a success for St Simon!
TERM 1
Eastern Regional Swimming Championships - Tuesday 31st March (Term 1 Week 10)
TERM 2
Wantirna District Cross Country - Wednesday 29th April (Term 2 Week 2)
Wantirna District Athletics - Friday 15th May (Term 2 Week 4)
Knox Division AFL Girls Competition - Thursday 21st May (Term 2 Week 5)
Knox Division Cross Country Championships - Wednesday 27th May (Term 2 Week 6)
Wantirna District Winter Sports (Year 5 & 6) - Day 1 - Friday 29th May (Term 2 Week 6)
Wantirna District Winter Sports (Year 5 & 6) - Day 2 - Tuesday 9th June (Term 2 Week 8) ***Note this is the day immediately after the Kings Birthday holiday long weekend***
Eastern Regional Cross Country - Thursday 11th June (Term 2 Week 8)
Wantirna District Winter Sports (Year 5 & 6) - BACK UP DATE if required - Friday 19th June (Term 2 Week 9)
TERM 3
Knox Division Winter Sports (if teams advance from the District competition)
Monday 27th July - Netball Championships
Tuesday 28th July - Soccer Championships
Wednesday 29th July- Teeball Championships
Thursday 30th July - AFL Boys/Mixed Championships
Wantirna District Summer Sports (Year 5 & 6) - Day 1 - Friday 14th August (Term 3 Week 5)
Wantirna District Summer Sports (Year 5 & 6) - Day 2 - Tuesday 1st September (Term 3 Week 8)
Wantirna District Summer Sports (Year 5 & 6) - BACK UP DATE if required- Friday 4th September (Term 3 Week 8)
Knox Division Cross Country Championships - Wednesday 16th September (Term 3 Week 10)
Regional Interschool Sport events will be advertised as per the SSV Eastern Regional Metropolitan website.
https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/eastern-metropolitan-primary
SSV Team Victoria Selection and Trials
The School Sport Victoria (SSV) Team Vic representative program provides an opportunity for Victoria’s emerging and elite student athletes to challenge themselves against Australia’s best school aged athletes across numerous sports at the annual School Sport Australia (SSA) Championships.
Trials are open for a number of sport to try out for students who have been deemed suitable by the school to compete and try out at such a high level of competition.
Signing up for Team Vic trials by parents must be endorsed by the school. The school can’t endorse any students who have not contacted us about potentially trying out. '
Therefore if you are interested please see Mr Karl Camerino for further details.
Link details of the selection process and trial readiness guide are below from the SSV website
https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/team-vic/Documents/TeamVicStudentEndorsementProcess.pdf
https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/team-vic/Documents/2026TeamVicTrialReadinessGuide.pdf