Sport News
Thank you to all of our SCEGGS community for the support that you have shown the PDHPE Department over the past two weeks as we navigate our way through this difficult time. We have had wonderful attendance and participation by our students in our various activities that have been able to go ahead. Thank you for your patience and understanding while we have had to cancel numerous activities or reschedule events and sports trials. A special thank you to all of the PDHPE staff and coaches who have been very flexible and adaptable under extraordinary circumstances.
We were blessed with a final morning of primary sporting activities last Saturday with the Year 3 Basketball and Years 4-6 Football teams having a fun training session and mini games to complete the term.
Please be advised that all interschool sport for Term 2 has been cancelled. This includes all IGSSA, IPSHA, NSWCIS and St Catherine’s Netball Competitions. We will re-assess what the current situation looks like when all return to school.
We have plans to conduct some of our own SCEGGS v SCEGGS competitions and training. We also hope to continue with some of our regular activities such as yoga, fitness, Pilates, gymnastics and tennis squads. This situation is evolving all the time so we really don’t know what things will look like next term or what will be possible. Watch this space!
In the meantime, we will be looking at options that you can do from within your own home to exercise and maintain your fitness. We will continue to email and place on Cognito various activities.
On Tuesday I emailed a link to all secondary students from Netfit who are conducting online live fitness sessions for six weeks. These sessions are available on You Tube for 24 hrs if you miss a session. This initiative is free and sponsored by Netball Australia.
We encourage everyone to do some exercise or strength and conditioning whilst self-isolating. You can go for walk or run, play with the family dog, do some stretching, turn on some music and dance like no one is watching, do an online yoga class or get a skipping rope and do a workout. It is important for your health and wellbeing that you continue to do some physical activity each day. There will be an activity log shared with all students to encourage this process.
If you have any exercise ideas that you have been doing at home that you would like to share within our community, please feel free to email me. We wish everyone well as you continue to maintain good health, hygiene and social distancing.
Alison Gowan
Director of Sport
