Hello everyone and welcome to the 2021 school year.  We are extremely hopeful that we gain many more opportunities for representative sport compared to last year!  As you are aware, sport makes a great addition to school life and builds on students skills and fitness. School representative sport enhances these elements of sport and provides practical experiences of competitiveness, teamwork and sportsmanship.  For these reasons St. Joseph’s will aim to provide many opportunities for school representative sport over the year. This Term we start sending representative teams in  the following sports: 

Term 1 Sports: Swimming, Athletics, Lawn Bowls and Tennis:  

In planning for these competitions, we ask children and parents to enter an expression of interest in representing the school in swimming and tennis events for planning and trialling purposes. 

Please be aware only children who will be turning 9 and above (by 31st December 2020) are allowed to register their interest for the swimming sports and children aged 11 and 12 can try out for the upcoming tennis tournament.   

Please also note that 9 year olds aiming to qualify for district sports are also competing against 10 year olds and are therefore strongly encouraged to wait until they are in this age group to attend trials. Only those who are exceptionally gifted in a sport should tryout as a nine year old.

District Athletics’ Trials

We will be holding some trials for the long distance running events to help alleviate the pressure of time restraints on the day of our Sports Carnival for Years 3 - 6 on Thursday 4th March.  Therefore any students who believe they might qualify for these events MUST be present and participate in the following events:

• Monday 8th February;  BOYS 9-12 yr olds 1500m at 11:00am.
• Wednesday 10th February; GIRLS 9 - 12 yr olds 1500m at 11:00am
• Monday 15th February; BOYS 9-12 yr olds 800m at 11:00am
• Wednesday 17th February; GIRLS 9-12 yr olds 800m at 11:00am

For any questions or concerns please email us at sport@sjwarrnambool.catholic.edu.au

Thank you. 

Regards, 

Mrs Emily Lloyd (Physical Education & Sport Co-ordinator).

 and Mr Matthew McMillan.