Sport News

Commitment to SCEGGS Co-Curricular Sport

Regular physical activity is an essential part of promoting positive health and well-being. Building relationships, fostering sportsmanship and teamwork is another element to co-curricular sport. We expect full commitment to all co-curricular sporting activities at SCEGGS. Students should be respectful of the impact that any absence has on team sport: their teammates, the opposition, the coach, and the reputation of the school.

Students are expected to be fully committed and attend all scheduled training sessions and matches.

All absences must be communicated to the PDHPE Department using the following guidelines:

Parents and guardians are to request written permission for leave from Ms Allum (Secondary) or Mrs Dempsey (Primary) at least a week in advance from a sporting fixture e.g. Year 12 student attending a University Open Day
If a student is sick on a Saturday, a parent/guardian must email or message the relevant coach and Sport Co-ordinator, or Director of Sport, explaining the absence as soon as possible.
If a student is unable to attend a training session, the student, or a parent, is to notify the relevant Sports Co-ordinator.
In case of a clash with school co-curricular activities e.g. Musicale, Sports Training, Duke of Ed Hike, the student is to liaise with both Co-ordinators to negotiate an acceptable outcome.

Failure to adhere to the above guidelines in the secondary school will result in:

A detention for any unexplained absences from a competition match.
A penalty point for any unexplained absence from training.
A penalty point for late arrival to more than 2 training sessions or matches in the same term.

If a student’s attendance is deemed unsatisfactory, they will be ineligible for house points and recognition on reports.

Halloween – Thursday October 31

A reminder that it is compulsory to attend all sports training on the afternoon of Halloween. Going Trick or Treating is not a valid excuse to miss your sports training.

Students Driving to Sport

As more of our students are gaining their driver’s licences, it is timely to remind everyone that no student is to drive another student to or from school, sports training sessions or matches, or any other co-curricular event or activity.

Due to safety concerns, particularly those associated with inexperienced drivers, we strongly encourage all students to use the buses provided to and from sporting venues.

Please refer to page 18 of the SCEGGS School Diary.

Sailing at SCEGGS

The SCEGGS Sailing program is back up and running in Term 4. Students sail out of Woollahra Sailing Club on Monday afternoons. Images below are some of our students in Term 3 learning to Sailboard close to the shore due to the winds being too strong to head out in the boats on this day. In the event of heavy rain, lessons still go ahead as the club conducts dry land training in the Clubhouse.

SCEGGS at Play

Do you have any sporting news or photos to share in the Green Gate?

We love seeing our students being active and want to celebrate their passion and enjoyment amongst the SCEGGS community. Please send in any action shots from the weekend and any other interesting sporting highlights to Alison Gowan.

SCEGGS Training sessions before and after school plus Saturday Sport

Any cancellations or adjustments will be made in Clipboard and families will receive a notification or email when changes are made. Please ensure you have notifications enabled.

All Clipboard notifications will now come through the SCEGGS Mobile App too, so if you have been receiving notifications from Clipboard (eg when sport is cancelled due to wet weather), you will need to download the SCEGGS Mobile App to ensure that you continue to receive these push notifications.

IGSA Fixtures, Results and Wet Weather

The IGSA website and platform for accessing wet weather, and team results can be found here.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact myself on 9052 2721 or 0418 491 521.

Alison Gowan
Director of Sport