Our annual GISS swimming carnivals took place on Wednesday, 20th February (Years 3-6) and on Wednesday, 27th February (Years 7-10) and both were a great successes.
All students had a wonderful time cheering on participants from their houses, and took enthusiasm from gaining points for victories in the pool as well as from participation in the variety of races and activities. The students competed in freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly and received ribbons for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each race.
The new novelty race with pool noodles and the diving ring race were one of the favourite events of the carnival giving students who didn’t feel comfortable to compete in the main stroke races the opportunity to succeed.
Another event which turned Terrey Hills Swim School’s 25 metre pool into a very noisy place was the House Relay. The students gave every last bit of their energy to win their race. I am sure next year’s races will be equally hard fought.
Here are the house points tallies from the various swimming carnivals:
Year Group / House
Fairness
Respect
Friendship
Year 3/4
69 points
130 points
74 points
Year 5/6
60 points
85 respect
198 points
Year 7/8
181 points
110 points
158 points
Year 9/10
130 points
178 points
154 points
Total
440 points
503 points
584 points
The Winning House of our GISS Swimming Carnival 2019 is FRIENDSHIP with a total of 584 points. Congratulations!
IPSHA Swimming Carnival
Students in Years 3-6 had the wonderful opportunity to qualify for the IPSHA Swimming Carnival (IPSHA = Independent Primary School Heads Australia) which took place this Tuesday, 5th March at Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. It was the exact same pool were the Olympics were held 19 years ago. How time flies!
The students who represented GISS at the IPSHA Swimming Carnival were:
Year 4: Aurelia Tramp and Claudia Keiser
Year 5: Jack Kennedy
Year 6: Juliana Braeuniger, Franziska Zierer and Toby Legge
At the IPSHA Carnival these six students raced against students from other Independent Schools from all over Sydney such as Scots College, Sceggs, Ravenswood, Knox Grammar, PLC and Abbotsleigh. I am very proud of our 6 students' achievements. They really did us proud with their performances. Although none of our students qualified for the next level called CIS (Combined Independent Schools) their results were amazing considering the size of our Year 3-6 cohort. Please find below a few examples of their best races and overall places.
Name
Age Group
Stroke
Overall Place
Aurelia Trampe
10-year-old girls
50-meter freestyle
33rd out of 111 girls
Aurelia Trampe
10-year-old girls
50-meter backstroke
27th out of 63 girls
Aurelia Trampe
10-year-old girls
50-meter breaststroke
29th out of 62 girls
Claudia Keiser
10-year-old girls
50-meter freestyle
74th out of 111 girls
Jack Kennedy
11-year-old boys
50-meter freestyle
68th out of 113 boys
Jack Kennedy
11-year-old boys
50-meter backstroke
33rd out of 54 boys
Franziska Zierer
11-year-old girls
50-meter freestyle
102nd out of 113 girls
Toby Legge
11-year-old boys
50-meter freestyle
90th out of 113 boys
Juliana Braeuniger
12-year-old girls
50-meter freestyle
90th out of 109 girls
Our next sports event is our first GISS Athletics Carnival (Years 3-10) which will be held on Friday, 24th May at the Sydney Academy of Sport and Recreation in Narrabeen. Please diarise this sports event. I will send out more information closer to the time. Students in Years 3-6 will have the amazing opportunity to qualify for the IPSHA Athletics Carnival. I will be in touch with more information closer to the time.
Anika Davey (Physical Education Teacher)