We were blessed with the weather on Tuesday for our swimming carnival, it wasn't too hot and it wasn't too cold, it was just right! The level of participation was great, children set their own expectations for participation. As you know, our carnival is run as a Year 3-6 carnival and we encourage everyone to have a go. For the lap swimmers there is a healthy level of competition, for the less capable or confident swimmers there are novelty events.

The novelties and cheering were won by MacKillop, well done!

The overall winning house on the day was Penola, congratulations!

Our age champions for 2023 are

Junior boy - Henry

Junior girl - Isabella

11 Yr boy - Tom

11 Yr girl - Arly

Senior boy - Drew

Senior girl - Eva

Congratulations to these students and to all our ribbon winners.

As you may know, in Week 2 of term, swimmers were able to nominate to compete in two lap events to ensure they are able to meet the requirement of 50m which is the Olympic pool distance. Over the years, St Pat’s have taken our swimmers who have won the 33m events at our Carnival only to have them discouraged at this next stage due to being unable to complete the full 50m distance in the Olympic sized pool. You may know that it has been extra work to run it this way, but it does ensure the students participating can successfully swim the distance. In Week 2, every student from Yr 3 to 6 was encouraged to give the qualifying a go, to record their time and demonstrate they can swim the distance.

Twenty-three students have been selected to compete in Narooma next Tuesday, congratulations to these students. This selection process includes verifying that the swim times are fast enough to complete the requirements for the regional carnival. A directive from Catholic Education last year, after covid restrictions were eased, says that we are to include any child for representative purposes, who has previously made that level but was unable to attend the school carnival, due to any factor. This same directive applies to every sport, whether it is for team or individual competition throughout the year. We hope to have as many St Pat’s kids as we can competing in the wide variety of sports that are available each year.

There are still some outstanding notes and money to be paid for competing in Narooma. Please return them ASAP.

If at any time you are unsure of why we do things the way we do regarding sport please contact me, Jannene Harnett, and I will be more than happy to have a chat.