Senior School Sport 

& Co-curricular

Cocurricular

The diversity of the KWS Co-curricular program has truly been on display throughout Term 2. The school has been a busy place with winter sport, The Addams Family musical, Cadets, Debating, Chess and the Camerata concert. It has been fantastic to see students immersing themselves in the opportunities that are available outside of the classroom.

To date our winter sports have been a little spoilt for the most part with only one weekend of genuine Orange winter to contend with. 

Rugby have now finished off their trials with a fixture at Shore last weekend and are looking forward to hosting St Greg’s this week in the first round of ISA competition. The game against St Greg’s is the annual Indigenous Round where the two blues will attempt to regain the Indigenous Shield from the current holders, St Greg’s. Congratulations to the following students who have been selected into the ISA representative teams; James Kildey, Alex Brown, Pat Hickman and Nick Brown were selected in the Opens squad and Carter Kirby, Pat Haydon and Luke Dominello were selected in the U16’s squad. Special mention must go to the 14B’s who are currently the only undefeated rugby team this year.

Netball 1st and 2nd played an entertaining game in front of the boarding community last Friday. Well done to all students and staff. Special mention to Mrs Fardell as the 1st & 2nd managed to raise $700 for the Batyr foundation. Batyr are a youth mental health organization that are attempting to raise awareness and encourage young people to start conversations about their mental health. The upgrade of the outside courts has been completed which has been appreciated by the netball players who have trained on them so far. They look fantastic and are a welcome addition to the school’s sport facilities.

Football have made an excellent start to the year with our 1st’s, 2nd’s, 16’s & 15’s all recording wins early in the season. Congratulations to Marnie McCormack, Ruby Leigo, Polly Adams, Chloe McGilvray, Oliver Spora and Ryan Turnbull who travelled down to Sydney to represent the school in the AICES football trials. The standard was exceptionally high with students gaining experience in representative level football. 

This year there are excellent numbers in the local junior hockey competitions. The U14’s is a ten-team competition that has provided some quality games of hockey so far. Well done to the KWS Raptors who have won their first five competition games this year. In the U16 Competition the Cavaliers are setting the pace and are yet to be beaten. The KWS Thunder have started strongly in the U18s and have not been beaten. Congratulations to Brooke Barrett, Taylah Hobbs, Taylah Larking, Phoebe Litchfield, Georgie Poole, Phoebe Poole, Harry Priest, Katie Tink and Anna Westcott who have represented AICES at the CIS 16’s & Opens trials this term. Congratulations and good luck to Taylah Hobbs who is in the U16 NSWCIS team and Phoebe Litchfield who is in the Open NSWCIS team in the upcoming tournaments against CHS & CCC. 

Students have also been busy in the Performing Arts this term. The school musical is well under way with rehearsals really ramping up this term. The Addams Family musical students will be attending intensive rehearsals during the last week of the upcoming holidays. Please save the date/s Friday 16th & Saturday 17th July. The dates mentioned will be the performance nights that are open to parents and the public.

On Friday 21st May the students involved in the Camerata competition performed for parents and staff in the DPA. It was an intimate evening with some excellent talent on display. The variety of performances is testament to the diverse music program offered here at the school. The performance from, the Camerata competition winner, Elizabeth Kwa was outstanding. Congratulations to all students involved and thank you to the music staff who made this a special evening. 

Cadets have been busy at lunch times and Wednesday afternoons preparing themselves for the upcoming Year 12 Farewell Parade that will be held on Wednesday the 2nd June. Cadets will also hold the annual year 12 Farewell Dinner this Friday 28th June. After missing many of these milestones last year it is nice to be able to appropriately farewell our Year 12 students who have led the Cadet program over the last 12 months. 

Students have also been actively involved in the intellectual pursuits this term. We had four debating teams travel to debate against Blue Mountains Grammar School. The debating teams performed exceptionally on the day winning all four debates. We wish the debating teams good luck as they travel to Scots All Saints College next week for round 3 of the HICES debating. Our chess team also competed against Orange High winning three boards to one. They are also now through to round 3 where they will face James Sheahan High School. Good luck to the Chess team. 

Upcoming events

Thursday 27th May – Boys 1500m at lunch time on the Main oval

Friday 28th May – NSW All Schools Swimming Championships

Friday 28th May – Year 12 Cadet Farewell Dinner

Tuesday 1st June – Round 3 HICES Debating

Wednesday 2nd June – Year 12 Cadet Farewell Parade

Wednesday 2nd June – AICES Cross Country 

Friday 4th – Tuesday 8th June – Northwest Equestrian Expo 

Wednesday 9th June – NSWCIS Cross Country

Thursday 10th June – Music Festival

Rugby Match Reports

1st XV

On Saturday, the Kinross 1st XV travelled to Northbridge to take on Shore. After a weekend off, the playing group was fresh and, having had a great week of training, were looking to put in a solid performance on the pitch. Unfortunately, a slow warmup was carried onto the field, with Shore running in two quick tries off the back of some relaxed defence. After this wake-up call and some good involvements, the two blues found themselves back in the game. An excellent set-piece play saw Mac Webster cross over in the corner, and shortly after, a fantastic rolling maul put us within reach. It wasn't to be, though, as simple errors and missed opportunities halted any momentum. A skilful Shore side capitalised on our mistakes where we were unable to convert on theirs. A 38-10 score line is not a true reflection of the team's improvement over the past couple of weeks. We regroup now ahead of the first ISA round game at home against St Greg's.

Best Forward - Harry Houghton

Best Back - Patrick Hickman

2nd XV

Kinross got the game off to a flying start with a rolling maul try in the first 3 minutes from 20 metres out. KWS controlled the match with beautiful kicking for field position and made Shore pay for their mistakes with good line speed and aggressive defence. The halftime score was 19-5. KWS continued with similar dominance in attack, despite a lopsided penalty count, to score some great tries out wide in the 2nd half. The 2nd XV ran out dominant winners 40-5. Tries were scored by Nick Lyne, Arnie Tancred, Nelson Shepherd, Harry Gutterson, Jin Luechai and James Ferguson. Nelson Shepherd kicked 5/6 conversions.

Best Forward - Nick Lyne

Best Back - Nelson Shepherd

3rd XV

We started the game very poorly giving away many penalties in the first half, leading to 2 yellow cards. In the 2nd half, once we had the ball, we were able to have good go forward, resulting in two late tries through pick and drives. Tries were scored by Angus Quigley and Jamie Griffin. Final score was 17 – 10 to Shore.

Best Forward – Ziggy Jackson Le Couteur

Best Back – Remy Niven

16A's

The 16A`s played an outstanding match against Shore. They defended strongly and the score was 10 – 7 with only 5 minutes to go. Unfortunately we conceded some late points. Final score was 22 – 7 to Shore. Try scorer was Charlie Condon and the conversion was kicked by Dudley Shepherd.

Best Forward – Harry Nuttall

Best Back – Dudley Shepherd

16B`s  

Great all round team effort with 13 tries scored by seven different KWS players and defensively, keeping Shore to one lonely try.  Thanks very much to the 16A players who backed up and played ½ a game for us!

Best Forward – Fletcher Smith

Best Back – Charlie Hall

15A`s

The 15A’s then rolled into the next game after supporting the B’s team. An exciting first half saw both teams get close to the try line a number of times and KWS couldn’t quite cross for a try. Shore worked hard and had several chances within KWS territory which they couldn’t convert. Several strong runs from Shores outside backs were stopped by Hugh Chudleigh and Blake Dwyer. The first half ended with a try to shore. The second half saw some exciting play and Abra made an explosive run for a kick chase only to miss it due to the short in-goal area. With 10 minutes left the game was still within a try. A few injuries and fatigue set in which shore took advantage of, giving them a few late tries to blow the score out to 20 -7 loss.                            

Best Forward – Elijah Thaiday                                                                                                  

Best Back – Sam Fabar

15B`s 

The 15 B’s started the games for KWS at Trinity on Saturday and after a very shaky start the boys got themselves into game mode with a cheeky across field kick from Sam Fabar which saw Shep Taylor regather and score. It was a tough game in which both sides crossed the line. Some great performances were from Jack Tink who made a number of strong runs and ball turnovers as well as slotting two conversions. Sam Hannaford played well at the ruck and took some heavy shots from the opposition showing his toughness in staying in the game. Jack Pursell played well in defence and was supported strongly by Elijah.                         

Best Forward - Jack Tink                                                                                                            

Best Back - Sam Hannaford

14A`s

14A’s had a strong 42 – 12 win over Shore B’s. It was a pleasing team performance with all players contributing in different areas of the game. The focus on the breakdown at training during the week paid dividends as Shore were will drilled over the ball and our clean outs had to be direct and effective. This allowed our backs to find regular space in the backfield. It was great to see the boys continue to develop and enjoy their rugby and grow into a cohesive team. Tries were scored by Ben Maslin, Lach Devries, Toby Dowling while Ollie Smith and Dom Segger both bagged two tries each. Hayden Ferguson kick three conversions.

Best Forward Ollie Smith

Best Back Hayden Ferguson

U14B`s

The 14Bs continued their strong season with a 5 try to 3 win over Shore. It was very pleasing to see the team starting to apply in the game some of the key skills we have been working at training, particularly around fight in contact, clean out support, identifying space, and running through people over and over until they can’t take it anymore. Applying these skills more consistently under game pressure, and for longer periods of time is the focus of the group moving forward. 

Best Forward Thomas Balcomb

Best Back Harry Dymock

U13A`s

The game was very quick with shore moving the ball from side to side. Eventually Shore scored through a penalty try for foul play. KWS scored immediately after a series of good runs close to the shore try line. After this Shore continued to use width in attack with KWS doing a lot of cover tackling. What ball KWS were able to get was unfortunately turned over quickly and Shore was able to score a further 4 tries.

The score reflected the dominance Shore had throughout the match. Final score was 25 – 7 to Shore with KWS try being scored by Ollie Wilson.

Best Forward Will Dennison

Best Back Charlie Miller

U13B`s 

The KWS 13B’s played their best game to date in the two blues. A massive effort all across the park wasn’t quite enough to secure the win but some hard hits and darts up the sideline made sure that it wouldn't be a game that Shore thought they won easily. The new look flanker combination of Johnny Gee and Hugh Shannon kept Shore’s big boys on their toes all game. Sid Thompson and Austin Schvaapelle combined well as 9/10 to organise the game and score a few tries of their own. Final score was 12 – 10 to Shore.

Best Forward - Hugh Shannon

Best Back - Sid Thompson

Hockey Report

U14 Spurs vs Raptors

Last Friday evening the mighty Spurs took on the current leaders of the comp, the KWS Raptors. The girls have been improving every week and were determined to give it everything they had from the starting whistle. Some brilliance in passing and making space saw the Spurs move the ball up the field time and time again, even as the Raptors scored 3 goals. Just before half time Lucy R slotted her first career goal after some brilliant support from Mckenzie, Daisy and Siannabel. The girls came off the field at half time excited about their goal and ready to continue; the best qualities that every girl in our team has is support for their peers, enthusiasm for the game and fantastic sportsmanship. As a coach I could not ask for better!! 

The second half began and the Raptors quickly scored their 4th goal. Never to be defeated the Spurs came back in a whirlwind of magnificent plays, this time the combined midfield of Eva, Claudia, Ava, Poppy, Alloway and Lily proving too strong for the Raptors defence and after 3 goals the score was tied at 4 all. The last 30 seconds of the game saw Raptors score their 5th goal and Spurs raced back to the half way, making a run at the goal, only just missing out on a brilliant through-pass to our strikers. Congratulations to our strength of defence led by Maisy in the goals, Lucy and Claire as backs. The girls worked hard all game, stopping numerous goal attempts and feeding the ball back to the midfield for another attack. This was the best game the girls have played so far and I look forward to seeing what they can achieve next week!!

KWS Lakers vs Molong Killer Whales – Lost 2-1

KWS Lakers played an excellent game of hockey on Friday night against a strong team from Molong. Jessica Taylor did an excellent job in the goals and Kymarni Astill and Jemima Scammell marked well in the first half. 0-0 at half time had the Lakers well in the game.

In the second half the Lakers were focused on marking tighter across the field and trying to spread the ball wide in attack. Despite this Molong took an early lead. Tessa Wong, Bianca Wong and Lucy Reidy combined with some excellent passing and hit back with an excellent goal from Lucy to have the scores level at 1-1. Lakers continued to mark well and really kept themselves in the game. Towards the end of the second half Molong scored a second goal. Despite the best efforts of the Lakers they were unable to level the scores again. Overall an excellent game of hockey.

Cavaliers vs Heat - 3-0 Cavs

Clash of the KWS titans. The mighty Cavaliers took to the field in typical buccaneering fashion on Monday night to face their good friends and mighty foes Auntie Deb's Heat. As expected, the centre field clash was an arm wrestle however the steady heads of Phoebe Poole and Taylah Hobbs eventually laid the platform for some quality attack up front. Tara had another very strong game plundering a goal for herself and helping Alice and Taylah to pillage two more. Other performances of note include the aggression of Lolli and the uber improvement of Ava. Maka also did not make a mistake all evening. The crew are looking forward to their next battle hoping that their undefeated run can continue a little longer.

KWS Bulls vs KWS Hornets

The Bulls have had a mid-season reshuffle to even up the two boys U18 teams. Despite this the team was ready to play on Monday night. James Crisp started well up front and was able to show his pace chasing down a couple of through balls to put himself in some excellent positions to score. James Glasson and Charlie Williams worked tirelessly in the midfield creating a lot of positive play. Going into the half time break with the lead the Bulls were focused on spreading the ball wide to play a better brand of hockey. Riley Hall positioned himself well to aid a couple of transfers. Hornets also came out determined and really put the defensive players under pressure. A great piece of play from Josie Clarke saw the Bulls defence crack. The Bulls come away with the win but have a few things to work on at training next week.