GWS Giants Visit Stage 3! 

Last week on Friday year five and year six walked over to the Calwell oval to meet some of the GWS Giants! We met Harry Perryman, Finn Callaghan and Matt Flynn. 

To start, we warmed up by kicking and catching the AFL ball, then we played a game called ‘Collect the Coins’. To play this we split into ten teams and took turns kicking the ball from a cone and trying to get it in between the three posts. If you got it in between the middle pots you could pick up the cone you are standing on, it is your coin. If you get it in the outer posts, you get nothing. To win the game, all the cones must be gone, and the team with the most cones wins! 

Toward the end of our session with the Football team, the Giants handed out posters, and some people even got a footie. Everyone was overjoyed when they said we could get signatures! Some people even got body parts signed!! It was a fun day for everyone! 

By Rachel & Millie  

Swimming Carnival Reports: 

McCormack                 27.2.2023 

In McCormack, there was a lot of participation in chants, races and making sure our house was clean. Izzabella and Chloe, as house captains, were happy we could run McCormack at the swimming carnival due to us not having one for a while. We think and hope everyone enjoyed it and hopefully they look forward to other activities with us as captains. We are glad that everyone paid attention to us when we said bring everything you will need, and everything needs a name on it. We thank the teachers who organised for us to have a swimming carnival and we couldn’t have done it without the teachers. In regards Izzabella Comandari and Chloe heron the house captains of McCormack. 

 
Morrison

From the Morrison house captains Matilda Hyland and Shelby Kirby  

In Morrison on the 27th of February at the swimming carnival: 

Morrison students represented their house with a lot of enthusiastic support for the rest of our house group, including us. They were loud and proud to be included and involved in the swimming carnival, and the preparation leading up to the carnival. They were mostly responsible throughout the day by keeping their area clean and tidy. 

Sincerely your Morrison house captains of 2023. 

Cunningham  

Dear teachers and parents, this is Katalina and Amelia the Cunningham house captains! 

On February 27th we had our swimming carnival! 

We had so much fun being house captains and being able to perform with your kids in the Cunningham house! 

We are so extremely impressed with them and cannot wait for other carnivals that are coming up to do together. 

There were a bunch of kids from Cunningham who participated in the swimming races and went out of their comfort zone. We thank the teachers for providing the swimming carnival for us. 

We heard cheering from our team and the other teams. I want to congratulate Cunningham and all the other teams for being a good sport! 

I want to thank Cunningham for making our last year at St Francis with the best last carnival. 

 Sincerely, your winning Cunningham house captains! 

POLDING 

Polding had a great day at the pool filled with chants, swimming, and hot chips!! 

Not all of us did races but we all got our house colour points in some way like, cheering, cleaning, being sensible and more. 

There were less chants than we expected. They were cheering the most when it was the let’s go Polding let’s go chant.  

The canteen was packed! But mostly everyone was still satisfied with the glorious hot chips. 

At the end the scoreboard was: 

Cunningham #1 

McCormack #2 

Polding and Morrison #3 we tied. 

Yes, we came last, but we had a lot of fun and it was a great day for everybody, and we promise Polding will get them next time. 

GO POLDING! 

Sporting Opportunities: 
school Sport ACT team trials  

SSACT 12&U Cricket teams (Boys & Girls)  

Trial 1 – Tuesday, 28th February 4.30pm – 6pm – Cricket ACT  

Trial 2 – Friday, 10th March – 5.00pm – 6.30pm – Neil Bulger Oval, Queanbeyan  

SSACT 15&U Volleyball teams (Boys & Girls)  

Trial 1 – Wednesday, 1st March 4.00pm – 5pm – Lyneham Indoor Hockey Centre  

Trial 2 – Wednesday, 8th March – 4.00pm – 5pm – Lyneham Indoor Hockey Centre 

Laura Hay

Sports Coordinator