HOLY TRINITY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

SPORT NEWS 

Secondary Sport

School sport for this week will be swimming practice and novelty events at the pool. Students are reminded to bring $3.40 for entry, swimmers, towel, sunscreen and a water bottle. Students not swimming will be walking.

Time changes for school sport this week. Sport will begin after recess at 11:40AM and finish at 1:20PM.

 

Term 1 Sports Dates (subject to change)

• School swimming Carnival 15 February

• Diocesan U15's Rugby League Trials Lismore 7 March

• Diocesan Swimming Trials Gunnedah 9 March

• Diocesan U15’s Touch Trials Inverell 2 March

• U15's Northern Country Rugby League South West Rocks 28-29 March

• NSWCCC Swimming Homebush 31 March

Primary Sport 

Year 3-6 Sport

There will be no sports rotations for Primary students this week due to the swimming carnival on Wednesday 15 February. The sports rotations will continue again next week.

 

Year 3-10 Swimming carnival

On Wednesday, 15 February children from Year 3-10 will be participating in the annual School Swimming Carnival at the Inverell Town Pool. The students will be transported down by bus at approximately 9:15am and sit in stage groups for the day. 

Cost is $3.40 per child or season passes may be used. Children are asked to bring sunscreen, protective clothing (hats, swim shirt and goggles), towel and a water bottle. All items need to be labelled with their names, including socks and underwear. Children need to come to school ready to swim and should wear full sports uniform over the top of their swimmers. House colours and zinc may be worn, but no coloured hairspray or streamers (Johns – yellow, Marks – red, Paul’s – blue, Leos – Green). Students are not permitted in the baby pool at any time.

On the swimming carnival day students should bring lunch and snack foods. They may order their lunch from the school canteen and these will be delivered to the pool around 12:00pm. The pool will also have a canteen operating during the day for snacks, however, students will only have limited access. Parents are welcome to spectate on the day, but students need to sit in their House groups.

At the carnival the children can participate in 25m or 50m strokes and 100m events (freestyle only). Students can only enter in either a 25m or 50m race in the same stroke/event. The 25m races are non-competitive and students are not eligible to progress to the next level if they compete in 25m events. It is hoped that every child will enter in at least 2 events. All permission notes and entry forms were due back last Wednesday. 

 

Diocesan Swimming Carnival

The Diocesan swimming Carnival will be held on Friday 24 February at Gunnedah Memorial Swimming Pool, Anzac Parade, Gunnedah. The carnival will start at 9:30am sharp. Timekeepers will be provided by St Mary’s Gunnedah this year therefore family assistance will not be required. A warm up will be available from 8:15-8:45am. The student entry for Diocesan Swimming Carnival is $8.00 per child – to be paid with the returned permission note on Compass. Pool entry to be paid on the day is $3.50 for children and $1.50 for adult spectators. There will be a canteen operating on the day as well as a BBQ. If your child has qualified, they will receive notes from Mrs Dal Santo after our school carnival. In order to qualify, students need to come in the first 3 places overall and meet qualifying times set down by the Diocesan Sports Committee. 

 

Diocesan Summer Trials

Congratulations to Julian Collins for being selected for the 2023 Polding cricket team. He will attend the NSWPSSA Cricket Championships from the 6 March until the 9 March. We wish him all the best for the next level of competition.

 

Winter Trials

Year 5 and 6 students have been given the opportunity to trial for the upcoming Winter Trials. We will hold 3 training sessions this week in which 2 staff members will select a maximum of 6 students to go away and try to make the Diocesan teams in hockey, soccer, netball and rugby league. The successful students in our school trials will travel to Tamworth on Friday 3 March. It will be the family's responsibility to get their child to the Winter Trials in Armidale. 

 

Upcoming Year 3-6 Sports Dates

Term 1 Primary Sporting Dates

  • Year 3-10 School Swimming Carnival 15 February
  • Diocesan Swimming Carnival 24 February, Gunnedah
  • Diocesan Winter Trials 3 March, Tamworth
  • Year 2-6 Cross Country 28 March, Inverell Complex
  • Polding Swimming 30 March, Homebush
  • Polding Touch Football Trials 31 March, Parkes
  • PSSA Swimming 5/6 April, Homebush