Sport: Junior School, Term 1 Week 10

Summer Season – Term 1

All Term 1 Junior Sport concludes this week. Training times, fixtures and other information can be found on the Parent Portal.

Please note that all students are to return with coaches to the designated collection point listed below at the end of each training session. This is to ensure students are all safely accounted for and collected from the same place each week.

Heat Policy

‘Midweek training and games will be cancelled for the day if the predicted temperature is 35 degrees or more at 8.30am on the Bureau of Meteorology website’. This does not include indoor activities or matches such as basketball at Wayville Stadium (determined on the day by Basketball SA). All cancellations due to extreme weather will be notified as early as possible by text message from the Head of Junior Sport.

Winter Season – Term 2 & 3

Confirmation of nominations for the upcoming Winter season were sent to families on Wednesday 20 March. Any changes to these nominations need to be communicated to Ben Searle (Head of Junior Sport) no later than Friday 5 April.

Sports Day 2024

The weather couldn’t have been more perfect last Thursday for the Junior School Sports day, and we want to extend a huge thank you to everyone who came out to support our young athletes. Your encouragement means the world to them!

Congratulations to Moore-Sunter for securing the overall win! But let’s not forget the incredible efforts of all our participants.

Here are the official results for the 2024 Junior School Sports Day Championship:

1st place – Moore-Sunter
2nd place – Kennion-Miller
3rd place – Bleby-Howard
4th place – Cawthorne-Nicholls

And a special shoutout goes to Bleby-Howard for winning the House Spirit (Bill Davis) Cup!

Junior School Swimming (Years 1-4)

As part of the Junior School Physical Education program, children in Years 1 to Year 4 will participate in four 1-hour swimming sessions from Monday 8 April through to Thursday 11 April (Week 11) at the indoor heated swimming complex at Immanuel College, Novar Gardens. Children will travel to and from Immanuel by bus accompanied by Pulteney teaching staff.

A friendly reminder for parents and caregivers of children in Years 1-4, to complete the Immanuel College iswim form by clicking here, in addition to the parent portal consent.

Click HERE to view the swimming schedule.

On the days your child has swimming, they will need to:

• Wear bathers underneath sports uniform
• Bring a swimming bag with towel, goggles, drink bottle and underwear.
• Bring school bag as normal with recess and lunch.

SAPSASA

Boys Football – Trials are now underway. Best of luck to those boys participating.

Girls Netball – East Adelaide netball trials will be held towards the end of this term (date tbc). Internal trials have now been held and families of the girls selected will receive further information as soon as it is available.

12 Years and under State Team trials

If your child is interested in trialling for a 12 Years and Under State Team in their chosen sport, please click here to find more information. Nominations and trials are done externally and are not school based activities.

If you have any questions regarding the Junior Sport program, please don’t hesitate to get in contact with Ben Searle, Head of Junior Sport.

Ben Seale
Head of Junior Sport