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Swimming Program

Our Swimming Program will be held during this term at the Peter Krenz Leisure Centre, Eaglehawk on the following dates:

GROUP 1           

GROUP 2

The students will complete five sessions with a fully qualified Austswim teacher from the Leisure Centre. Each session will be of 40 minutes duration. As this program forms part of the Health and Physical Education curriculum, it is important for all students to attend and take part in the lessons. 

Further information about our Swimming Program (including consent) has been placed on Compass. THERE IS NO COST for students to do swimming this year. The school has been able to secure a ‘Sporting Schools’ grant again this year and we have also received significant funding via the ‘Swimming In Schools’ program. Both of these Government initiatives have enabled us run this program free of charge. Please note that - with bus, pool hire and the cost of instruction, the swimming program would normally cost approx. $60 per student without this funding.

In order to place students in swimming groups appropriate to their level, all NEW students to Spring Gully PS in 2022 (including all Prep students) will receive a skill competence assessment checklist. We ask parents/carers to complete, as accurately as they can, this form and return it to school as soon as possible so that we can start to organise the groups. Students who completed the swimming program in 2021 do not need to complete this form as they have already been placed in a group based on last year’s results. All students will be assessed by the instructors during the first lesson and placed accordingly.

Emma A - State Athletics

Congratulations to Emma A who represented the school at the State Track and Field Championships last Wednesday (2nd Nov). Emma finished 5th in the 10 Years Girls Hurdles final at the Lakeside Stadium. Awesome effort Emma!

Music News

Uncle Paul Chapman visit

Prep Greer, Prep Floyd and 1/2 Murphy were lucky to participate in a musical story telling session with Wakka Wakka First Nations elder Uncle Paul Chapman .

The students had the opportunity to play instruments such as emu callers and clap sticks as part of a musical story telling session of “Tiddilick the Frog”.  They even learned some First Nations dance moves and body percussion. Uncle Paul also performed for us on the didgeridoo and spoke to us about the meaning of the art works on the instruments.