Students in Year 3 and 4 are invited to represent St Joseph’s Primary School at the 2021 Todd Woodbridge Cup which is to be held on Friday 23rd July, at Wood Street, West Port Macquarie Tennis Club, Port Macquarie. Students do not need previous experience playing tennis - the event encourages participation, teamwork and a positive experience in physical activity. If your child would like to participate please see the note and complete the online nomination form via the link below by Monday 24th May. 

Athletics Carnival

Our annual whole school Athletics Carnival will take place on Friday 4th June and this year it will be held at St Joseph’s Regional College, College Drive, Port Macquarie. 

Kindergarten and Year 1 will run 100m races and enjoy Novelty games during the morning, while Years 2 to 6 will compete in Athletic activities for the day. House points are awarded for each event. 

All students in Year 2 to 6 will be competing in 100m and 200m sprints along with novelty games.  100m and 200m sprints will be straight finals with times determining places. 100m sprints are conducted in individual age groups whilst all other events are run as Juniors (8, 9 and 10 years), 11 years and 12 years.

800m, 1500m and Discus events will be optional and you must nominate your child via the link in the note. The 1500m will be run between 9:00 - 9:30am on the day of the carnival. Any child wishing to compete in this event will need to be dropped to St Joseph’s Regional College by private transport by 8:50am.

Successful competitors from the carnival will be invited to attend the Hastings Zone Carnival to be held at St Joseph’s Regional College on Monday 19th July (Week 2 Term 3). 

As the carnival is offsite we require your permission for your child to be able to attend. Please complete the online permission and nomination form via the link in the note by Tuesday 25th May.

Lunchtime Sporting Skills

Last week’s soccer training was a hit! Thank you to this brilliant group of students for our first soccer training session.

Leah Toole and David Lynch
Sports Coordinator and Assistant Sports Coordinator