Sports Corner

Year 9 PDHPE - Movement Composition unit

On Thursday 25 November, the Year 9 Movement Compositon unit culminated in a performance in front of the whole year group. All students were required to choreograph and perform a group dance based around the elements of dance. What was impressive was the way students overcame their fear and anxiety of performing and had a wonderful time sharing their creations with the year group. As a bonus, the students had the opportunity to put our theory unit for Term 4 into practice - Overcoming Adversity! Many laughs were had on the day and the dance floor will never be the same. Congratulations to all students, they were simply amazing!

Year 9 PDHPE Dance

Downie Shield Cricket

The SJPC Open Boys Cricket team played St John’s Woodlawn in the Quarter Final of the Downie Shield Cricket Competition last Monday.

After winning the toss and sending the opposition in on a ‘green top’, SJPC managed to bowl out the opposition in constant light rain for 316 runs. Ashton Herbert was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3/71, ably supported by Riley ‘the skipper’ Dagger with 2/34 and Campbell Forster 2/42.

Brodhi Francis also chipped in with a wicket with some dangerous swing bowling late in the innings.

In reply, after losing two quick wickets, Pat Rose and Riley Dagger steadied the ship in the middle overs. When these two fell shortly after drinks, there was a procession of wickets that left the team chasing upwards of 10 runs per over to win the match. This was too big a hill to climb even after some late hitting from Ashton Herbert (34 n.o.) and Xavier Hartley. SJPC finished on 158.

I’d like to thank the team for their spirit and enthusiasm this year and also Kurt Marle and Charles Hibberd for their assistance with the team. The team looks forward to another successful campaign next year.

3 x 3 Basketball

On Wednesday 7 December, 45 students from Years 7 - 10 represented the College as players, managers and referees at the inaugural 3 x 3 Coffs Region Schools Challenge at Sportz Central. It was wondrful to see ex-student Isla Jufferman’s (Australian and NSW Representative) at the tournament, encouraging our students to be their best selves. The theme for the tournament was inclusion and fun and our students had both in spades. Their sportsmanship, willingness to help out and general behaviour on the day was outstanding and every student walked away with a smile. It was a pleasure to take a group of such pleasant and determined students to what is hoped to be the first of many such tournaments.

SJPC Sports People of the Year

Each year a male and female from each year group is crowned Sportsperson of the year. This year, the following people were announced at the recent College Awards Ceremonies:

Laila McDonald

Harrison Colyer

Lily Betland

Rhys Mulholland

Isla Anderson

Loki Marchant

Jade Newton

Riley Woods

Cooper Andrews

Jaxon White

Matilda Newton

Blake Carter

Of the above people, one male and female are crowned College Sportsperson of the Year. Congratulations to Jaxon White who is our 2022 College Sportsman of the Year and to Matilda Newton, our 2022 College Sportwoman of the Year.

College Sportswoman of the Year Matilda Newton - Year 7

College Sportsman of the Year Jaxon White - Year 8

School Sport Term 1 2023 

• Year 9 and 10 sport allocations have now been finalised. No changes can be made.
• Information regarding Year 7 and 8 sport allocations were published last newsletter. Students can also locate this information via the Sport Classroom and on the Palace noticeboard.

Diocesan and CCC Representative sports 2023

A reminder that students who would like to represent the Diocese or NSWCCC at a chosen sport, can now sign up for many of these trials. See the attachment for more information.

CSNSW Sign Up

Coming Up in 2023 (some dates may change)

Thank you

As always, sport in our school is a massive machine and would not be possible without the staff who put their hand up to take sporting teams away. Thank you to all the coaches and managers who generously donated their free time, voluntarily travelled away from their families overnight and shared their passion of sport in order to give our students so many amazing opportunities this year.

Danielle McAra
Sport Co-ordinator