Sports Day Wrap Up

After hot weather forced us to postpone the event, we were greeted with perfect weather for last Friday’s rescheduled Sports Day. As usual, students were in full voice for the house march out, with creative costumes, hair styles and banners.

Students, staff and families were welcomed to the opening ceremony by College Captains Jessica P and Patrick B. Tyreece B and Jacssen F read the Acknowledgement of Country and the National Anthem was sung by Lille S and Arlee P.

Mr Disley introduced the House Captains and the athletes’ oath was read by representatives of last year’s winning house Rigney. After each house sang their team chants (very loudly), it was time to officially open the event. In a long-running tradition, our youngest and oldest students, Harper P and Noah C held the ribbon, which was cut by our new Governing Council Chairperson David Pillion.

Let the games begin – could Rigney make it a three-peat?

Primary students worked in class groups to move through different activities including the car wash relay. bulls eye, kangaroo and Odama Hakobi. They also ran sprints, hurdles, did long jump and threw the vortex.

Secondary students could sign up for traditional athletics events such as javelin, triple jump, 800 metres, shot put and high jump. Dodgeball was popular, as was the new event for 2024, e-sports.

A number of records were broken; congratulations to:

EVENT	RECORD BREAKER	NEW RECORD	PREVIOUS RECORD
Year 7 Boys Long Jump	Lenny C	4.53m	4.34m
Year 7 Boys Triple Jump	Lenny C	9.11m	8.64m
Year 7 Boys Shot Put	Kallam W	10.33m	7.55m
Year 7 Girls Relay	Bates (Isabelle C, Hope T, Aleara D, Amber P)	1.05.25	1.05.55
Year 8 Boys Shot Put	Dustin L	12.61m	12.39m
Year 8 Girls Triple Jump	Abbey M	9.13m	9.08m
Year 9 Boys Javelin	Julian B	34.33m	30.79m
Year 9 Boys Shot Put	Hinata Y	13.04m	11.93m
Year 10 Boys Shot Put	Tyler W	13.74m	11.93m
Year 10 Girls Shot Put	Shea H	10.06m	9.23m

 

After lunch, the whole school came together to watch the relays, before the scores were tallied and the results announced. We welcomed The Honourable Nat Cook MP, State Member for Hurtle Vale and Minister for Human Services, along with The Honourable Amanda Rishworth MP, Federal Member for Kingston and Minister for Social Services, who presented the winner’s trophy.

Congratulations to Bates, who steamed ahead to take the cup.

1. Bates 2558
2. Mawson 1999
3. Florey1986
4. Rigney 1904
5. Spence 1855

 

A huge thank you our our grounds crew, sports day committee and REC staff for setting up and running the day. Thanks to our families for coming to watch, helping us raise funds at the stalls and for the huge amount of delicious donations to the cake stall. Finally, well done to our students for their energy, effort and house spirit.