Sport
Junior School students can compete in a wide range of team and skills-based sporting events throughout the year. House-based Gala Days for athletics and swimming are special highlights. Both summer and winter sports programmes and games are held on Thursday afternoons. Students are taken by buses to individual venues under staff supervision and return to School by 3.15pm to go home. Over the years many students have gained inter-school representative honours in swimming and athletics.
The Junior School programme consists of the following:
Term 1
- Swimming - Girls and Boys
- St Andrew’s Swimming Carnival
- ASISSA Swimming Carnival
Term 2
- Inter School Netball - Girls
- Inter School Soccer - Boys
- SACS Sport - Football
- Alternative Sport (Stage 3 only)
- Kindergarten to Year 2 Gross Motor, Field games
- St Andrew’s Cross Country
- ASISSA Cross Country
- St Andrew’s Gala Day
Term 3
- Inter School Oz-Tag - Girls
- Inter School Oz-Tag - Boys
- SACS Sport - Oz Tag
- Alternative Sport (Stage 3 only)
- Kindergarten to Year 2 Team Sports, Fitness
- Year 6 Rugby training
- St Andrew’s Athletics
- ASISSA Athletics
Term 4
- Inter School Cricket - Boys
- Inter School T-Ball - Girls
- SACS Sport T-Ball
- Alternative Sport (Stage 3 only)
- Kindergarten to Year 2 Team Sports
- Tennis Boys and Girls - Year 6 squad
Cocurricular Training: There are weekly sessions for training appropriate to the interschool sporting and carnival sport programme throughout the year.
Physical Education: Weekly classes which provide a comprehensive gross motor, games, dance and skills programme for students Kindergarten to Year 6.
Fitness: There are weekly sessions relating to the aim of improving or maintaining a high level of fitness for students.
