Primary Sport News
IPSHA Athletics Carnival
The IPSHA Athletics Carnival took place on Wednesday 27 August at Sydney Olympic Park Athletics Centre. 1730 students participated in total across 56 schools and 24 SCEGGS students attended from Years 3 to 6. There were some outstanding performances on the day in both track and field events, and many students achieved personal best results in their respective events. A big thank you to Ms Axford for her efforts in organising such a successful event and for supporting the girls at training sessions. Some of the students even attended an Athletics Invitational Meet on Saturday 23 August in preparation for the IPSHA competition. The following girls achieved a top 5 place overall and will now go on to represent IPSHA at the CIS Athletics Championships being held on Friday 5th September at SOPAC.
We wish you the best of luck!
| Stasia Serafin (Year 6) | 11 Years 100m – 1st Place |
| 11 Years 200m – 1st Place | |
| 11 Years Long Jump – 3rd Place |
| Beatrice Emanuel (Year 6) | 12-13 Years 800m – 2nd Place |
| 12-13 Years 1500m – 2nd Place |
| Amelie Officer (Year 6) | 12-13 Years High Jump – 3rd Place |
| Ines Allen (Year 4) | 8-10 Years High Jump – 5th Place |
Saturday Sport
It was fantastic to see another round of IPSHA sport take place last Saturday. The IPSHA Touch Football teams showed great improvements from their first games. Special mention to both Year 4 teams, who had close games against St Catherine’s, with both teams coming away with a draw. Ms Thompson’s Year 5 team put up a strong fight against Kambala but just couldn’t find the try line going down 2–5 in a tight affair. There were some close games at Year 3 Netball and special mention to Billie Evans (Year 3) against Ascham, managing to score two goals against a strong Ascham side. The score finished 2–4 to Ascham.
Students Achievements
Ali Buchanan, Klemintine Chylek and Eliza Wilcsek (Year 6) recently trialled for the Sydney Swans AFL Academy. The girls should be incredibly proud of their efforts against a talented pool of players. Below is a photo of the girls at the trials.
Emily Snow, Alice Beaumont and Klemintine Chylek (Year 6) played in the Grand Final for their club last weekend and were part of the Under 13 Girls Division 1 Premiership winning team. The Moore Park Tigers were victorious against the Maroubra Saints in an epic 50–19 victory. The girls all represented SCEGGS with pride and showed great sportsmanship on and off the field. Congratulations to the girls on an incredible achievement.
Moore Park Tigers AFL Club is looking for enrolments for next year. If your daughter is in Years 3-6 and interested in playing club AFL, then please get in touch with Adrian Hammond.
Procedures for After School Sport Changes
If a Primary sport is scheduled for the afternoon, however needs to be cancelled (due to wet weather/poor air quality/extreme heat etc), then we update the location of the activity on Clipboard to
“Activity Cancelled – Read notes section”
and the finish time is changed to 4.30pm. We then write the following message in the notes section:
“… cancelled. Call … (by 2.30pm) for …”
We also post a notice on the SCEGGS App that is accompanied by a push notification, with the same message as above.
We appreciate families are expecting students to be at sport until 4.50-5.20pm on a usual afternoon for sport. Therefore, we provide supervision (not sports activities) until 4:30pm to give families time to organise alternative arrangements for an earlier collection.
If you are unable to organise your child to be redirected to go to the 3.10pm carline, or collected by 4.30pm at the Sports Hall, we ask that you contact the Primary Office (by 2.30pm) to arrange for your child to attend After School Care so you can collect them at a time that suits you best.
We endeavour to update Clipboard and the SCEGSS App of sport cancellations or changes by 1.30pm each day. It is important for families to enable push notifications on their moblie devices to receive these updates.
If you are running late to collect your child from Forbes St after sport, then please note that coaches are instructed to wait 10 minutes and then students will be redirected to wait at the Primary office. For specific information on pick up and drop off times, please refer to the information here.
If you have any questions regarding this matter, please don’t hesitate to reach out.
Important Sports Dates:
| Friday 5 September | NSWCIS Athletics Championships (selected students only) |
| Saturday 6 September | Round 7 IPSHA AFL and Touch Football |
| Saturday 6 September | Year 3 Netball and Minkey (Hockey) competitions |
Have a wonderful week!
Mr Adrian Hammond
Primary Sports Coordinator
