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From Health and Physical Education - Outdoor Education
From the Head of Health and Physical Education
Ms Jodie Scheele
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It’s hard to know where to start this newsletter as there has been a lot going on in the Physical, Health and Outdoor Education Department!
Swimming has been a focus in Term One so I will begin by reporting about two of our talented sportspeople, Year 10 Milla Howard and Year 11 Harrison Maude, who both participated in the Rottnest Channel Swim. Milla swam in a quad and Harrison completed it in a duo in fine form placing an amazing 3rd Place for his age group. This is a fantastic achievement for Harrison’s first channel swim. He claimed it was a very tough swim where he battled stingers, currents and swell. I would also like to mention Year 10, Bonnie Baugh who completed the Busselton Jetty swim in the school holidays. Congratulations to these three students, and their families on their achievements.
All Year 7-10 classes have been travelling to UWA Aquatics Centre for swimming lessons. We are very fortunate to have the coaching expertise of Mrs Courtney Ivatts who has been working with our school for the past four years. I have seen the development and improvements made by our students with their swimming skills and Courtney has been instrumental in their skill progression. Swimming will continue in the double PE lessons until the end of this term. Well done to all students for your adjustment and organisation to the newly timetabled PE classes. The ACC Swimming Team has been training hard at Trinity College’s swimming pool and are progressing well in their preparation for
the up-and-coming ACC F-Division Swimming Carnival at HBF Stadium on 19 March. We wish all swimmers the best of luck and look forward to watching you back at school oN the live stream.
2021 ACC Swim Team
Congratulations to Gandhi House for winning the 2021 Inter-House Swimming Shield and to Mandela for taking out the “Sync Swim” Trophy. St George’s excel at carnivals thanks to all the students. The Guild is always there for bumping in and out and their support is greatly appreciated. Student participation and involvement is just outstanding and credit to each one of you for making the most of opportunities and coming together with incredible House spirit. Well done to our individual medal winners! This week we had two ACC Championship
Basketball Carnivals. The Junior Boys competed at Lords Recreation Centre. We have strength across the year groups in Basketball and the future looks promising for Basketball at St George’s. Both teams were outstanding ambassadors for the school. I received multiple comments from people about their skill level and the standard of their play. The Senior Boys just missed out on going through to the Championship competition losing to Seton 36-46. Many thanks to our past students, Alex Maude and Sebastian Millington, who were fantastic mentors and played significant coaching roles at the events. Also, to Mr Peter Quan for his on-going support and time in developing our basketball teams.
The North Western Associated Schools (NWAS) Inter-School sporting fixtures are up and running. We have Indoor Beach Volleyball playing at Malaga every week and thanks to Ms Charlotte Donovan for her ongoing support with our volleyball teams. We have girls and boys basketball teams and a cricket team along with a new AFLX Team battling it out each week.
JUNIOR BOYS: Nathan Mitchell, Harry Joyner, Kalan Tran, Harry Stubbs-Denny, Rory Bingham, Jasper Bridgeman, Blake Hutton, Erik Beltz, Hamish Maude, Brayden Tan, Henry Beck, Dylan Herbert, Nathan Mitchell. SENIOR BOYS: Casey Harris, Luke Di Lallo, Charles Beck, Harrison Flower, Nicholas Millington, Sam Beck, Coach: Seb Millington, Taj Racey, Alan Leung, Sebastian Knubley, Harrison Maude,
Week 7 JOHN SEPTIMUS ROE
