Sports News

Health (P-2) Term One

This year I am very excited to be teaching Health in Prep to Year Two. Prep students will be learning about how their body parts work to help them move, what happens as they grow and how to look after their body by living a healthy and active lifestyle. Year One will be focusing on changes when they grow, what has changed since they were a baby, looking at difference and their identity, and how to live an active and healthy life. The learning focus for Year Two is a more in-depth insight into healthy eating, steps to increase physical activity at home and in the playground at school. Students will also look at keeping a healthy and safe classroom and how we can include others. I will be teaching health lessons to Prep to Year Two in Semester One and Health lessons to Year Three to Year Six in Semester Two.

PE (P-2) Term One

Students in Prep to Year Two are completing a modified game unit where they will learn how to throw, catch, and bounce balls and then use these skills to participate in modified games. Students will also be engaged in station activities where six stations are set up and they rotate between them throughout the lesson. These activities involve passing, catching, kicking, dribbling with feet, hands and hockey sticks, shooting hoops, scooter boards, skipping, goal shooting, ups and downs with tennis racquets, hopping, jumping, skipping, side stepping, animal crawling and balancing.

PE (3-6) Term One

Students in Year Three to Year Six will be engaged in a touch football unit. Students will learn to pass and catch a touch football, play the ball, defend, perform a dump and split, perform a wrap, three-person ruck and draw and pass. Students will then put these skills in to game-based situations playing in teams against members of their class.

Central Zone Swimming Carnival

On Wednesday the 16^th of February, five students from St Saviour’s competed in the Central Zone Swimming Carnival at Glennie Aquatic Centre. These students are to be commended for the way they represented their school in swimming and behaviour on the day. They competed against other schools to try and qualify for the Darling Downs carnival which will be held in Gatton on the 2^nd of March. All five students made it through to the next level and will be competing, representing the Central Zone Team in Gatton. These students are listed below (picture below).

Students competing at the Darling Downs Trials.

• Mia Casagrande
• Lucy Hardy
• Sophia Hooper
• Cooper Dunlop
• Taylor Wann

Swimming Star

Taylor Wann competed at the 2022 Queensland Sprint Championships over the weekend for swimming. He swam in three heats achieving personal bests in all three coming first in one and third in the other two. Congratulations Taylor on your mammoth effort (picture below).

Fitness Club

Fitness Club started up on Tuesday the 15^th of February with around 30 students attending. Fitness Club is a fun way for your child to work on their fitness with their peers in preparation for the SSPS Cross Country in the last week of Term One. These sessions are offered to students in Year Three to Year Six. Fitness Club will run every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 7:15am - 8am running till Thursday 24th of March 2022. If you would like your child to join Fitness Club, please grant permission via Parent Portal. Your child is welcome to attend all sessions, once a week or whatever suits your family schedule. These sessions are completely free and will be run by Mrs McHugh, Mrs Wagner, Mr Hannant and myself. If you have any questions, please email me at brendan.luck@twb.catholic.edu.au.

Club Connect

League Stars started this week with around 50 students participating. Feedback from the students is that they are having a lot of fun and learning lots of new skills. Rugby League Queensland has been organised through Club Connect which is a Queensland Government grant to try and get more students playing club sport (pictures attached).

Afterschool hockey sessions commenced this week with around 20 students attending. Hockey Queensland has been organised through Sporting Schools which is another grant offered by the Queensland Government to give students a go at new sports offered within the community (pictures attached).

Zone and Darling Downs Trials

All Zone and Darling Downs trials will be placed on Parent Portal. Please check Parent Portal regularly or set up notifications on your phone if you wish for your child to be eligible to trial for Zone and Darling Downs sporting teams as you will be required to obtain paperwork from myself. I am unable to nominate students after the closing date so please make sure you do keep an eye on Parent Portal. Any questions, please contact me at brendan.luck@twb.catholic.edu.au.

Upcoming Events

• Fitness Club (7:15am – 8:00am) - Tuesday and Thursday from 15^th February 2022 till 24^th March 2022 (SSPS Oval)
• Darling Downs Swimming Carnival – 2^nd March 2022 (Gatton Aquatics Centre)
• P - 6 Swimming Lessons – 15th – 17th March and 28th, 29th March 2022 (Glennie Aquatic Centre)
• SSPS Swimming Carnival (Year 3 – Year 6) 9am – 12pm - 30^th March 2022 (Glennie Aquatics Centre)
• SSPS Prep – Year 6 Cross Country - 1^st April 2022 (Primary School Oval)

Cheers

Brendan Luck

HPE Teacher