Stage 2 AFL Gala Day
On Monday, 19 May, we welcomed the South Coast AFL team to St Mary’s to run an in-school AFL Gala day. Our stage 2 students were very excited and couldn’t wait for the fun to begin. The children all participated in skills and drills, to assist with understanding the game of ‘tag, 1, 2, 3’ then moved into mini games, all on the luxury of our school oval. We thank the team from South Coast AFL for organising such a fun day and helping the children learn more about the great game of AFL.

CECG Cross Country: Mt Stromlo
We congratulate the 16 students who travelled to Canberra on Friday, 16 May to participate in the CECG Cross Country. With all the practice and training from Mr Hill's running club, the children headed off over the hill to run against other students from Southern, Western and Northern regions. They were greeted with sunny and warm-ish running conditions as well as some tough competition. Many of our students ran their fastest PB’s and some only seconds out of the top 6 runners which is a fantastic achievement. Following this event, we have 5 students competing at Sydney Equestrian Centre on Wednesday 11 June. We wish them all the very best of luck and congratulate them for reaching this level of achievement. 

Byron S, Calvin M, Rayne C, Declan T and Andre L

DECLAN T missing from photo

Weyman Cross Rugby League Gala Day
On Wednesday, Students in Stage 2 and Stage 3 participated in a Rugby League Gala Day at Ack Weyman oval. It was a great day for football and we had so many children keen to join in the league tag games, with many not having played this before. We also had our experienced contact (tackle) players ready to take on the teams from St Bernards and Broulee Primary. It was wonderful to see all students playing in the spirit of the game and demonstrating positive sportsmanship and just enjoying playing football with their friends. A special mention and thanks to Tim and Mick Weyman for coaching our tackle teams and fostering such a positive team environment. Our league tag players just got better and better as the day progressed, with many offering to step in and act as sub players for teams short a few players. A highlight was watching Koa R in Year 4 encouraging others and Beau McD in Year 5 checking on the St Bernard’s player who was injured during a tackle. Well done to both of these students on demonstrating such care and compassion towards others.

We are looking forward to having Mekinda Gleeson, NRL Development Officer, come into our school later in the year to conduct skill and drill sessions for our students.

NSWPSSA Rugby League
We wish Xavier E all the best as he travels to Blacktown in Sydney on Sunday for 3 days of football fun! Xave will be representing St Mary’s and Canberra Goulburn as part of the MacKillop Rugby League team at the NSWPSSA Championships. Congratulations Xave for reaching this level of achievement and we are very excited to hear all about it on your return to school. 

MacKillop Soccer
This Friday, Mackenzie H will be competing at Sydney Wanderers Football Park in Sydney as part of the Canberra Goulburn Girls Soccer Team. Mackenzie has had a very successful representative season recently, being awarded the Ray Tweedie medal for the ‘Player of the Tournament’ at the Far South Coast Soccer Tournament in Nowra. This representative event was against teams from the Shoalhaven, Tablelands, Highlands. As she moves into representing St Mary’s and the CECG Diocese, we wish Mackenzie lots of luck at the next level and look forward to hearing of her results in the next newsletter.

Mackenzie: ‘ A few weeks ago, I went to Nowra to play rep soccer for the Eurobodalla at the Branch Championships. This weekend, we had the chance to go into first place in the competition. We tied our first game and won the rest of the games. I scored 4 goals and we won the overall Branch Championships. I also won the Ray Tweedie medal for the best player in the 12 year olds competition. The comp was really hard versing all the other teams from the Shoalhaven, Tablelands, Highlands’

Tennis Clinics
Next Friday, we begin a 3 week Tennis program with Rob Frawley from the Batemans Bay Tennis Academy. All students from K-6 will be participating in the clinics and are to wear their sports each Friday for the duration of the program. We are so lucky to be holding the clinics here at school with Rob bringing portable nets for us to use. I am sure the children will have lots of fun and enjoy learning some new skills in the game of tennis.

Wishing you a wonderful week ahead.

Mrs Megan Grant
Sports Coordinator