Physical Education 

Welcome back to another year of Physical Education at Saltwater College. We hope everyone had a relaxing and safe holiday and spent lots of fun time with family and friends. This year, Ms. Evans and Mr. Symmons will be joined by Mr. Reardon to deliver the school’s P.E. classes. 

During our first two weeks of P.E. in Term One, students from Prep to Year Six have been working on the Essential Agreements to establish class expectations, which will help to guide our collaboration and teamwork throughout 2022. The Essential Agreements are based on the the IB curriculum, and these will be displayed in the gym and available on the School Box year level pages in the coming weeks. The pictures below show the children developing these agreements together. 

This fortnight, year levels have enjoyed warm up activities and a variety of games. Our new Prep students are all settling in well and have done a great job learning how to move safely around the gym.

This week some students on Monday and Tuesday had the opportunity to try field hockey. Nick from Altona Hockey Club along with other coaches came out to Saltwater and ran skill sessions and minor games. Everyone involved had a great time and learnt new skills and extended their knowledge on a two handed strike, dribbling and trapping.

The P.E. team would like to congratulate the following 28 students (14 girls and 14 boys) who have been selected to represent Saltwater P-9 College at the District Swimming Sports this term. 

Nieke de Wet, Max Walsh , Polina Strigevsky, Harrison Penny, Ruby Raudino, Lincoln Norgate, Mikayla McBroom, Riley Huntly, Caat Steeman, Marcus Ng, Xinyan Guo, Heston Clark, Ari Costigan, Arian Ray, Roxana Mocko, William Lopez, Medha Pai, Dima Kurian, Maya Niven , Dylan Martin, Kaycee Huntly, Nicholas Lopez, Anna Le, Royce Clark, Sarisha Thapa, Jenson Snell, Esabella Cong, and Arush Kumar.

Congratulations to Branson Botha (Six C) on his  athletics achievements at the Regional Track and Field Championships this past Saturday and Sunday. He competed in the 800m and 200m on Saturday and came first in the 800m and third in the 200m. He also competed in the 1500m and 80m hurdles on Sunday and came first in both. So three gold medals and a bronze. We are extremely proud of him for all the hard work he is putting in. The next step is State Championships on 12th and 13th March.

We have some exciting sporting events/activities this term for our students to look forward to: 

Beach program 

Year Five- Tuesday 22nd February,  1st and 8th  March

Year Six- Tuesday 22nd and  28th February, and 7th  March 

District Swimming Sports 

Friday 4th March

Athletics 

Year Three and Four 15th  March (back up 17th March) 

Year Five and Six 10th May (back up 12th May)

Cross Country

-dates to be confirmed

Year Three/ Four 4th April

Year five / Six 5th April

District Summer Sports (Year Six)

30th March

From the PE Team