Infants Carnival

As the Lake Street Sporting Ground has now reopened, we look to reschedule the Infants Athletics Carnival. The Infants teachers as well as Year 6 are excited and determined to make this event happen. Watch this space for dates and details once confirmed! We may even see an appearance of our dedicated Mini Vinnies team and their ever-popular Cake Stall.

Regional Athletics

The date for the Regional Athletics Carnival is approaching and all the Manning school’s Sports Coordinators are working together to prepare for a great event. Prior to this, we will of course need to run the 800m which was rained out on the day of our school carnival. Interested students will be notified ASAP when and where this will occur within the next few weeks. Following this, notifications will go out regarding all track and field events, if students have qualified to progress to the Regional Athletics Carnival. The carnival is scheduled for Thursday 26th June at Tuncurry Oval, the Diocesan carnival is scheduled for Wednesday 6th August at Glendale.

New Look for Representative Sport

In other news, we have been working together with the P&F to design and purchase new athletics singlets and football jerseys! We are working on a consistent, cohesive Holy Name design that students and spectators alike can be proud of. These will be used whenever students represent the school or region at a sporting event or Gala Day. Thank you to some of our families for the suggestion and gentle push in this direction, keeping us looking sharp! It is a great idea, and we are grateful for the P&F for getting behind it too.

School Sport

As the fields continue to dry it has been wonderful to see classes begin to (carefully!) use the spaces again for school sport lessons. Never to be deterred, and ever-flexible educators, our teachers and LSA’s have been getting clever at utilizing the netball court, Infants COLA and Kirkangina in new ways too. Physical activity is so important and every teacher tries hard to incorporate engaging, challenging, age appropriate, skill-level appropriate lessons into the students' learning every week.

Yours in Sport

Michelle Quilter