Sports News
St Mary's Catholic Primary School
Term 3 Athletics Carnival
Looking forward to Term 3, we are hoping to hold a school athletics carnival.
To ensure the carnival can go ahead regardless of changing community guidelines and in line with current health advice we will hold it at school without spectators. As outlined in a previous newsletter opportunities for further representation will not be available this year due to the cancellation of the Diocesan Carnival and higher level events. However, we will be using this carnival and results from the school swimming carnival held earlier in the year to determine the winners of school sports awards (Year 6) at the end of the year.
More information on a date etc. will be provided early next term.
Term 3 Sport
From 1 July updated health advice and changes to state and national restrictions on children’s sport and community competitions come into effect.
From Term 3, the following school sport and physical activity programs are able to recommence in schools:
· All contact sports, semi-contact and non-contact sports
· Inter-school sport competitions
· Locally organised knockouts, round robins, gala days
· School carnivals (swimming, cross country, athletics)
The Representative Sport Pathway, including state championships and knockouts for NSW PSSA are not proceeding in 2020. All School Sport Australia events were cancelled in March, therefore no pathway exists to national championships.
Where possible, the mixing of students from different schools when not participating in the activity should be minimised. Staff supervising sport and physical activities should continue to practise physical distancing between staff and other adults (for example, at recreational venues).
Please note that under the guidelines: Spectators, including parents and carers, are not permitted within school grounds or at sporting events held during school hours.