Senior School Sport &
Co-curricular
Cadets
Cadets will start this term on Wednesday 8 February with a meeting for Rank only. Please keep yourself up to date by checking the news feed on the cadet’s page on The Hub.
Music
A reminder to all students interested in playing in an ensemble this year. The ensembles will commence in week two except for Orchestra and Choirs. Year 7 placements will take place on Tuesday 7 February. If you are unable to attend at this time, please contact Mrs Shields. This term the music department will also run a Year 7 Tryband session. This is aimed at beginner students. For more information on Tryband please contact Miss Howarth.
The schedule for all ensembles is available on The Hub in the Performing Arts page.
Australian Youth Polocrosse
Over the course of the break three of our students were selected into the Australian Youth Polocrosse team. This is an amazing achievement to have three players selected into the one Australian team. Congratulations must go to
Zoe Stevenson
Ryan Weston
Erica Stuart
We wish the three students all the best in their upcoming test series against South Africa at the end of April.
Inter-house Swimming Carnival
On Friday 3 February we held the annual inter-house swimming carnival. It was a great day of swimming with fantastic participation levels throughout the day. For the first time since 2007, Gordon house raced out to an early lead after the freestyle bracket. They were challenged throughout the day by Brown & Dean house, with the aforementioned closing Gordon’s lead to single digits. Despite this Gordon managed to hang on and lead the carnival from start to finish. The final placings were:
1st – Gordon house
2nd – Brown house
3rd – Dean house
4th – Williams house
5th – McLachlan house
6th – Richards house
7th – Douglas house
8th – Blackman house
Championship Swimming Carnival – Friday 10 February
This Friday 10 February we will host our annual championship swimming carnival from 4.00pm - 6.30pm at the school pool. Warmup will occur between 3.30pm - 4.00pm. Congratulations to all students who have qualified for the championship carnival. Start sheets have been placed in all tutor areas. Nominations for the additional events are available on the house hub pages or in the tutor areas. The available additional events are:
- 200m Freestyle
- 200m Individual Medley
- 50m Butterfly
WAS Basketball Trials
On Thursday 2 February we hosted the WAS basketball trials. Well done to both our 1st V boys and girls teams who were undefeated on the day. Congratulations to the following students who have been selected to represent WAS at the AICES basketball championships:
Boys – Oscar McLaughlin, James Noble, Oliver Colgan, Abra Wilson, Lincoln Robinson
Girls – Emily Turner, Phoebe Poole, Evie Hall, Olivia Martin, Jessie Tudor
ISA Touch Football
Division 1
What a fantastic game against BMGS. They were lucy enough to have Eden Hawker and young year 8, Rahni Jarick fill in for our superstar team. Heidi Ferguson, Bella Sinclair, Abbey Kiss, Molly Wilson, Brooke Rayner, Amaya Shipp, Annabelle Cooper, Eden Hawker & Rahni Jarick were outstanding as always. The girls worked hard and had to play out of position due to limited numbers with a 2-2 score at half time. The second half the girls came out firing, with a runaway try from Brooke Rayner, followed by Annabelle Cooper scoring 2, and speedy Amaya Shipp putting the ball on the line making the score 6-2.
Inter Bullfrogs
The inter bullfrogs played exceptionally well today but unfortunately BMGS came away with a 5-3 win. A huge effort for the girls as they applied the skills learnt in training and they were executed well! Our new recruits Oli, Grace and Caitlyn played amazing and we are fortunate enough to welcome them to our team for the remainder of the season! A big effort from Liv Warner who scored a hat trick!
Inter Alpacas
The inter alpacas started the years fixture again with a 8-1 loss against SPGS. However the score line wasn’t reflective of how the girls played as the tries they let in were from silly mistakes that are easily corrected. The middles including Kate, Lily B, Scarlett and Isobel played well as they played with intensity in defence. Lilly M, Lilly H, Jess, Bridget, Emma and Sarah all shared the responsibility of being link and wing without hesitation stepping up when asked to play multiple roles. Overall a great effort
Junior Butterflies
Despite the Western Sydney heat, we had a great win from the junior butterflies this week against St Paul's in Penrith. Congratulations to all the girls involved, with a finishing score of 11 to 1.
Junior Camels
The Camels faced a BMGS side who had beaten the Camels the last time they met.
The Camels played extremely well, working hard for each other, looking to spread the ball in attack and applying pressure in defence.
Rahni Jarick and May Kelly both had an outstanding first half with Rahni scoring 4 tries and May scoring 2, to put Kinross ahead 6 -1 at half time.
The second half saw the Camels run away with the game, with tries to Lily Smith, Neevy Graham, Millie Taylor, Lucy Atkinson, another try to May Kelly and a great run-away try to Sophie Staniforth. Ally Ward went agonisingly close to picking up two tries as well.
A great team effort to start the new year.
KWS7: 12 v BMGS: 1
ISA Tennis Report – Round 7
Kinross Wolaroi School welcomed Blue Mountains Grammar School (BMGS), St Stanislaus' College (SSC) and Scots All Saints College (SASC) back to Orange for our first weekend back in the competition for 2023. All the students who attended were enthusiastic and ready for some singles and doubles play after the summer holidays. KWS Odds were up against BMGS Evens and were convincing in their win of 16 sets to 3. KWS Evens played against BMGS Odds and were also successful in their campaign, winning 13 sets to 7.
Well done to Milli Mackay for her win in a tiring match against her opponent where she played 2 tiebreakers throughout the game.
Special mention to Rory Gulliver for his debut in the team this weekend where he won both his doubles and singles matches.
A big thank you also goes to our gap staff Charlize Trieloff and Ethan Phillipson for their help on Saturday- very much appreciated.
Starlight Foundation’s Super Swim
Kinross Wolaroi School’s Swim team is taking part in the Starlight Foundation’s Super Swim initiative this February, raising money for sick kids. The team is aiming to cover an impressive 2000 kilometres in the water collectively throughout the month, hoping to raise $10,000. Fantastic work team!
Get behind the KWS Swim Team here - https://superswim.org.au/t/kws-swimming