Sport
Wantirna District Winter Sport Competition
This year, our Year 5 and 6 students will be part of Winter and Summer Interschool Sports. These sporting opportunities will consist of a 2 day competition against our Wantirna District Schools.
Date of competitions: Thursday 6th June and Friday 21st June
Teams of students representing St Simon will compete in the following sports at the following venues:
AFL Football Boys/Mixed : Lewis Park Oval, Wantirna South
Netball Girls and Boys/Mixed : Knox Regional Netball Centre, Knoxfield
Soccer Girls and Boys/Mixed : Knox Park, Knoxfield
Fully Loaded Tee Ball Girls and Boys/Mixed: Gilbert Park Softball Complex, Knoxfield
Volleystar Girls and Boys/Mixed : Karoo Primary School, Rowville
Winter Sports Training Sessions
Morning training sessions for all teams will be offered to prepare our teams for the Winter Sports competition. Some training sessions will also be during the school day.
These are the dates for the following teams training sessions:
Parent Helpers
Our school is in need of parents to volunteer with coaching or supporting a team for the Winter Sports competition. Our students in their teams always appreciate the expertise provided by our coaching parent volunteers and our teams have been even more successful with their support. In addition, parent support provides teachers with a stronger focus on supervising the students at each event.
We require the following parent volunteers to on BOTH or EITHER Thursday 6th June and Friday 21st June.
Without parent volunteers, there may be the possibility a team may not be able to compete.
Some knowledge of the rules of the sport would be beneficial but not required. Mainly a coaching role will involve instructing and encouraging the team while rotating the substitutions fairly. If you are able to support us in one of these volunteer roles, please select our interest in the Operoo permission form or email Mr Karl Camerino at karl.camerino@ssrowville.catholic.edu.au .
If you know of someone who has expressed an interest in supporting us, please also email Karl Camerino of their intention to volunteer in one of the above roles. A reminder that all volunteers need to have their Working with Children Check and sign the school’s volunteer documents at the school office.
Karl Camerino
Interschool Sports Leader
St Simon District Athletics Team
Congratulations to all students who have been selected to be part of the District Athletics team! We wish them all the very best as they compete on Wednesday 1st May at A.C Robertson Athletics Track. Go St Simons!
A list of our students representing our school in different events can be viewed here.
Selection within this team is based not only on the times and distances collected from our Year 3-6 Athletic Day but through tracks and field skills and measurements obtained within the Physical Education program. In addition, previous times and results from last year’s District Athletics competition will be taken into consideration during the selection.
TRAINING:
Training sessions for specific track and field events will be conducted in the following days (dependent on good weather). An Operoo email message will be sent to all parents if a session needs to be cancelled or relocated to the school hall due to poor weather conditions.
Please note which days and the venue for the training. Other short training sessions will be conducted during the school day as well.
A training session at Bill Sewart Athletics track has been booked to provide support for our students in 100m, 200m, discus, long jump and triple jump. This session will be able to provide our students the real life conditions and the environment they will experience on the day of the competition. We hope you can bring our child to this important training session.
Knox Division AFL Girls Championships
We are excited to once again send our 24 selected Year 5 and 6 girls to the Knox Division AFL Girls Championships. Congratulations to the following girls who will represent our school with pride on the AFL field.
The championships will take place on Thursday 23rd May in Term 2 at Kings Park Reserve, Upper Ferntree Gully. There will be training offered before school to prepare our team before the championships. We hope your child can make these sessions offered to support them with their kicking, marking, handball and game plays skills.
In the event of undesirable weather conditions, the training will take place in the school hall opposite the school soccer pitch.
Knox Rebel Sport Community Partnership with St Simon's
Knox Rebel Sport has been a wonderful sponsor of our school in the past and this year. All purchases at this store by parents of the St Simon’s school community provide our school with store credits. These credits are used to provide the school with sporting equipment for sporting activities.
We highly recommend that the next time you visit or purchase an item from Rebel Sport in Knox, ask how to earn credits for our school. Thank you all for your support of our school through our Knox Rebel Sport Community partnership.