Sport: Junior School, Term 1 Week 8

Summer Season – Term 1

All Term 1 Junior Sport concludes in Week 10. Training times, fixtures (once available) and other information can be found on the Parent Portal.

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 will be sent to families this Wednesday 20 March (Week 8). Any changes to these nominations need to be communicated to Ben Searle no later than Friday 5 April.

 Junior School Sports Day

The rescheduled Sports Day will be held on Thursday March 28. This is the day before Good Friday, presenting families with the same opportunity to get away for the long weekend, as was the case with original date. The event will be held in its usual format with a dismissal time once again of 12.30pm. Please indicate if your child will require care after 12.30pm at this link here

Please note that there will be no after school co-curricular sport on this day.

The schedule for the day can be found HERE

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.

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.

Please click here to consent for the swimming session, and also complete the form for ISWIM here by 22 March 2024.

 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). All interested Year 5 and 6 girls will take part in an internal trial this Wednesday at lunch time.

Swimming – Congratulations to Jamie Toh who has been selected to represent East Adelaide at the State Championships later this term. Jamie will compete in Freestyle, Backstroke and Butterfly as well as a 4 x 50m Freestyle relay. We wish her all the best for the meet.

12 years and under State Team trials 

If you child is interested in trialling for a 12 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 me.

Ben Searle
Head of Junior Sport