{"id":43806,"date":"2026-02-13T13:05:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/?post_type=article&#038;p=43806"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:05:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T02:05:57","slug":"winter-olympics-in-the-junior-school","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/article\/winter-olympics-in-the-junior-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Olympics in the Junior School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Junior School is delighted to be celebrating the Winter Olympics currently taking place in the Italian Alps. Australia\u2019s Olympic team comprises 53 athletes, including 33 women, with the youngest competitor being a 16\u2011year\u2011old student from Methodist Ladies&#8217; College in Kew, Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">At MLC School, we are proud to support a dedicated ski team that competes in the Inter\u2011Schools Snow Sports Championships, the Subaru Sydney Championships (14\u201317 July), and the Subaru State Championships (17\u201321 August), all held at Perisher.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Within the Junior School, we have four competitive snow sport athletes:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<li><strong>Marina Chen<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Alpine, SkierX<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elise Shen<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Alpine, Moguls, SkierX<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olivia Li<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Alpine, SkierX<\/li>\n<li><strong>Aisha Ashour<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Alpine, SkierX<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week, to further encourage students\u2019 engagement with the Winter Olympics, the Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE staff) \u2013 supported by the Art team \u2013 held a friendly Curling competition on the red carpet. The event saw Australia and Portugal go head\u2011to\u2011head in a tightly contested match, with both stones veering slightly left and the competition ultimately ending in a draw. It was a wonderful display of School Spirit and great fun for all involved.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em><strong>\u2013 <a href=\"mailto:mhiss@mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au\">Michelle Hiss <\/a><\/strong><\/em>and<em><strong><a href=\"mailto:atsioustas@mlcsyd.nsw.edu.au\"> Amanda Tsioustas<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em>Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) Teachers<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-43806 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'>\n<figure class='gallery-item link-'>\n<div class='gallery-icon'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/02\/Junior-School-Curling-3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightcase:1:slideshow\" title=\"\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/02\/Junior-School-Curling-3-640x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='gallery-item__overlay d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center'><span class='fal fa-plus fa-2x'><\/span><\/div><\/figure>\n<figure class='gallery-item link-'>\n<div class='gallery-icon'>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/02\/Junior-School-Curling-2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightcase:1:slideshow\" title=\"\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1dfwahqlx324v.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/38\/2026\/02\/Junior-School-Curling-2-640x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='gallery-item__overlay d-flex justify-content-center align-items-center'><span class='fal fa-plus fa-2x'><\/span><\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Junior School is delighted to be celebrating the Winter Olympics currently taking place in the Italian Alps. Australia\u2019s Olympic team comprises 53 athletes, including 33 women, with the youngest competitor being a 16\u2011year\u2011old student from Methodist Ladies&#8217; College in Kew, Melbourne. At MLC School, we are proud to support a dedicated ski team that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":43807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","article_category":[5],"article_tag":[],"class_list":["post-43806","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_category-junior-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/43806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"article_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_category?post=43806"},{"taxonomy":"article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/mlc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_tag?post=43806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}