Well it's been a huge term for PE and school sport here at HRCS! With the hall unavailable we started the term heading to the Hobart Gymnastics Academy with our focus on fundamental movement skills. A great time was had by all with Jayella Banks breaking the rope climb record (6.5 seconds from top to bottom) and Scarlett Hughes bouncing around the tumble track like a young Nadia Comaneci! After our four week foray into the world of gymnastics we continued with our theme of fundamental movement skills at the Tolosa Hall with our Dance program. After a nervous start and learning how to adapt to the rotten acoustics all grades were tremendous and the dance performance this week will be the icing on the cake! Most (if not all) the credit must go to our fantastic dance teacher Abby McKeown, a relative unknown in the dance teaching world but I'm positive she'll be head choreographer at the Russian Imperial Ballet in no time!!
This term we also had grade 5/6 sport with our biggest group of teams ever with 3 footy teams and 6 netball teams, a logistical nightmare but we got it done! Highlights throughout the school sport term included our Holy Rosary White football team heading south to the lions den (Hutchins sports grounds) where we recorded our first victory over the lions on their home deck. Miss Wise had the troops playing at a frenetic pace all day and we held on for a 4 point victory after a late come back!
Our netball teams, week in week out, received great positive feedback from the public in regards to their support of each other both on and off the field. That's Holy Rosary spirit in action! At the end of school sport the PE dept was incredibly proud of all the efforts of our students involved and especially thankful for all the support from 5/6 staff and in particular Suzie Banks and Amanda Walker, super mums who took on the role of coaches for two of our teams, thank you!
We also had eight players selected to represent HRCS at the annual Franklin V Clarke representative Football and Netball games, congratulations go to the following:
Football Representatives |
Netball Representatives |
Millie Richardson |
Ellie Nandan |
Ben Kingston |
Jayella Banks |
Rhys Meredith |
Alex Goodwin |
Riley Davie |
Ashton Barr |
I would like to personally thank Mrs Di Bourke and Mrs Ludwig for their expert driving skills during the Dance program, it couldn't have happened without you, so a big thanks!
And finally the PE dept needs to give a special mention to our very own Mel Wise who last Saturday played an integral part in Clarence's TSLW premiership winning team. Congrats Mel! Hopefully she'll bring her skills to KGV next year??
Ben Johnson
PE Dept.